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conspirators were persons who bound themselves by oath to do an illegal - act—who bound themselves together to tyranise over others—to undertake malicious enterprises. Such (continued Mr. Fitzgibbon) was the definition given of this early statute, for the purpose of making a final definition of conspiracy. He was quite free to admit that, in the same hook, there were passages which might be Considered unfavourable to his case, but he (Mr. Fitz ,. gibbon) would not keep out of the view of the jury that which the leading member of the Irish bar had done. He would not suppress from their view one single pas sage that inight tend to explain the passage which he should cite, .and he would not say whether this course was right or wrong— The - CHIEI J MlER—Where is that? fr. FITMIBBON—On page 446. He then read a , pastNge respecting the kind of conspiracies which should be prtisecuted by indictment, and proceeded to say, that when society began to emerge from a state of barbarism, that confederacies of the most criminal and dangerous • character were formed, and it seemed to be only a ra tional thing, to have a law to punish such villains. He then cited the case of the King v. Edwards, which was an indictment for conspirncy, arising out of an attempt on the part of the officers of a parish in England to ob tain possession of the money raised upon it for the bene fit of the poor. t fne of the party - charged married a cripple, not for the purpose of matrimony at all, but to make her chargeable to another parish. There was an . other instance of an indictment for conspiracy. A card ,. maker conspired with the members of his family to bribe the apprentice of another card maker to injure the paste used by him, - by putting grease into it, and thereby .destroying the reputation he had gained in his trade. They were indicted for a conspiracy, and this case was a fair illustration of the meaning of a Con.; :piracy-. No one knew of the conspiracy . but the villains themselves ; no one could actually prove that there was a conspiracy but by what appeared to be done at various times by the several individuals. They gave money to the apprentice. The. father gave money one day—the wife gave money another—on the third day one of the servants—another servant on the following day. Evi dence of theseovert acts were offered, and the Court allowed them to ,he given to the jury, because the accused par: ies were all members of the same family--all in • eluded in the same practice—all influenced by the same • design—that of ruining the rival card-maker by these means. The acts of each separately could not he ac counted for, but it was left to the jury to consider whe ther the acts of all were not the result of a previous conspiracy. This he conceived to be a fair illustration. Mr. Justice BURToN—Where is that case ? Mr. FITZGUHION—It was reported in Strange, and well known as the card-maker's case. He would now call the attention of the jury to the definition given by, . the Attorney-General. Ile (Mr. F.) took it down from his own lips. He told them that conspiracy was a crime that consisted either of a combination to do same illegal act, or to effect a legal purpose by illegal means, and. in support of his view, he cited two cases--one the King v. Rose, in 4th Barnewall and Adolphus, pages 349-350. The defendants were indicted for combining to conceal the effects of a bankrupt. In this case there • was a conviction, and the jury found a verdict of guilty. .There teas a . motion for an arrest. Of judgment, and, in • giving judgment against the indictment, Lord Denman said that the indictment ought to have charged that the parties combined to do an unlawful, or a lawful, act, by unlawful means. This was -a mere dictum, or saying, and not the decision of a Court; and no judge should pay much attenti o n to th ese , th e mere " i pae dixit.;," he might. use the word. These dicta were well des cribed by Sir Anthony Hart, when he said they were used to mislead one judge by misrepresenting another. • lie (MrsFittgibben) heard a judge of equal ability— the present Baron Pennefather—repudiate the principle . or practice of citing in one case what a judge had said in another : for this reason, what was said in a par tieular case was said with reference to the facts proved, and net said as laying clown a general law, to effect cases that might be composed of very different facts. In the ease of the King v. Seymour, there was an in dictment against the officers of one parish for conspiring to throw paupers upon another, and after a verdict there was a motion for arrest of judgment, as in the former case. The motion was granted—the judgment arrested. Lord Penman spoke again, and supported his former dictum in the case of the King v. Jones. This was going a great way to establish the correctness of the point—the same high authority, speaking and acting similarly on two occasions. It so happened that in 1839 there was another case before the very same Chief JuStice, of an indictment for ,conspiring against a set of persons who opened splendid shops and induced tradesmen to give them goods on credit They were convicted, but there was a motion for an arrest ofjudgment, because it was declared not to be a case properly Within the law of indictment. Lord Den- Man had his own dictum cited, but he would not receive it, and decided against it ; and so far as the authority of laird Demean in this case went, there was no weight. elms' JUSTICE—Where is that case reported ? Mr. Ferzcinnox- s -lt was the case of the King e. Keck, 2d Adolphus and Ellis. There was also a dictum . of the late Lord Chief Justice Bushe in the case of the . King v. Forbes, cited by the Attorney-;General. That very able man did lay clown the law pretty much in the same way. Tit his charge to the jury he said— The CHIEF JUSTICE inquired where this case was to • be found., • • Mr. FITZGIBBON—It was at page 347 in Mr. Green's report of the trial of Forbes and others, charged with conspiracy in Dublin in 1823. In that charge it was laid down that when two or more persons confederated . together for e&cting an illegal purpose- by legal means, it constituted the crime of conspiracy ; also, that they were guilty should the object never be effected. He (Mr. Fi!za ° ibbon) cautioned the jury aga i nst a d opt i ng . text-books of law, which he compares! to' map-making —the writers of text-books generally adopting those which they already found in existence. The Learned Gentleman next adverted to the case of the King v Edwards, in East's Pleas of the Crown, in which it was reported that the Court said the bare conspiracy to do a lawful act to an unlawful end was a crime. This was the bare dictum of the Court, describing an offence. In vain would they look for such a definition in the old • books, or in the common law. No doubt it was to he seen in Mr. East's book—a man almost of the present day, hut no authority. He was not a judge, but a re paler, of the dicta o'fjudges. In the case of the King v. Ede areas, he made a commentary on the decision before him. th, would now proceed to the second proposition of the Attorney-General,who told them if the defendants had been engaged in a common design to obtain the and sought, they were all equally responsible, and the acts of one -were to be held as the acts of all. What was the common design ? To obtain the repeal of the union, . One million, at least, of their countrymen had been engaged in that common design. If there be guilt in that design, then are the million guilty, and they are involved in one of the most serious crimes that could he charged-against a subject of the realm. Nothing could he inure monstrous or more unconstitutional than this. According to the Attorney-General, the act of every one of that million is to be taken as evidence against the entire. The conversation with a person totally unknown to Capt. Despard, behind a hedge, should, ae , cording to the dictum of the Attorney-Genera', he taken • as evidence . tot only against the trasersers here, but against all who had been at the meeting, or who mixed . in, the repeal movement. Could the jury, as men of . common sense, or as honest men, give their sanction to a do trine so utterly monstrous? That declaration of the unknown man behind the ditch, is adduced here as an overt act against the traversers: The jury were not there strictly to try whether any of the meetings were illegal—whether sedition was uttered at those meets lags. The meetings were in evidence to show that the repeal of the union was sought by illegal means. It was only in that wa y th at t h e quest i on of illgality could arise. The meeting was brought in to show, that without pre vious coacert amongst the defendants it could not have taken place. Could any rational being believe the story told by Captain Despard—that 2,000 able-bodied men had marched all the way from Shilmalier to Tara ? Did they travel in a balloon, so high in the air that they could not lie seen ? Did they travel under-ground ? Did any human being. see them on the way ? Where is the man, of all the police at the Tara meeting-, to say he saw a single Wexford man at the meeting. ? Cap tain Despard did not see one — nor did any b ody else. Captain Da.pard is a handsome-looking fellow, flippant, clever—a very ready witness, who came here to tell not , a very prithable story. If he (Mr. Fitzgibbon) had been a witness to such a fact, he confessed he would be very anxious to receive some corroboration of so startling a. statement, that there were 2,000 able men—strong, fight ing men—al, Tara, who had come all the way from Shil nudier. And it should be recollected, too, that this Shil mailer man volunteered this statement of the fighting men--men of bone and sinew, such as O'Connell wanted—to the Stipendiary Magistrate, the very indivi dual to whom it would be dangerous to communicate it, - if it were a feet at all. The Superintendent of Po lice was standing in immediate contact with Cap tain Despard, and must have heard this story ; but he is not produced, aid yet the jury were called to believe that such a conversation took plate. Why was not'Major Westenra produced? He was there —the pretended Wexford man was there—they were all in a group, yet the . Major was not produced. Ile thought he would be able to show them, in the progress or this case, a little of management. They ware now in the year 1844, and should do things now a days in something of a more civilised style than in former days. It would not, do that a man who had been the auggester of the matters charged should be produced as evidence for the, prosecution. In reference to the devices ou the Repeal card, if Mr. llidbrooke had been a noisy bustling person —a forward Repealer, a wearer of the-repe a l cap, it would not do to produce him, for.testimony of that kind would not for a jury heliad two y oung men in his employment whose character had lint been - impe ac h e d , and who had n o 1 -- connection with the movement, anti they were produced. Hvibrouke had been employed by the Association —h e is now. working for the Government —and the facts re- • garding him had appeared, there would have been a cry of indignation. IVas not there in that evidence of • management, subtlety, and craft? Combine this with holding of Holbrooke with the story of the IVex ford man, an-i was it too much to ask the jury to be lieve, that there was here some signs of contrivance on the past, of the Crown ? The Attorney-General had tittot,..d Mr. JuAice Coleridge in upport of his monstrous prevpOsiiion—he Merely u-ed the scissor,. and cot out ' the itiettan,of that judge. It was, however, only fair to the man to give the entire of his judgment. (The Learned Gentleman here read from thz‘ judgment, to show that, althoueil the - common design was the root ot the charge of conspiracy, yet there shotild be evidence that !hei e b:en a pre( ious combin: t:on to use the same means for a ceminvu end.) The prepusit:on of the Attorney-General was a fiat, monstrous, and absurd version of the law of conspiracy. He concurred with the view of Mr. Justice ColeriJge, taken as a %). hole. jn the eta:: eiteted,,he had spoke to the jury of act:, prov- --l iikerP . 7coultiuiri been no 'mistake as to his •- • • Attt.ll2c,:y. ~'~ N. II 1 General was totally unsupported by the judgment of that Judge. Counsel next referred to the case of the ; King v. Watson, a case of treason, and quOtted from Mr. Justice Bailey, who, in his charge to th e gran d j ur y, held thidthere must be previous consultation and design to establish conspiracy. The jury should believe than the parties actually did consult for a criminal design, before they could hold them guilty of con ,' spiracy. He came next to the third proposition of the Attorney-General, and entreated the attention of • the jury. Ihe Attorney-General said that, provided a man subsequently came into the common design, he was equally responsible as if he had been associated from the beginning, as a criminal conspirator. Perhaps, by-and bye, the Solicitor-General would endeavour to explain, and get the Atturney-General out of this absurdity, by contending that the parties subsequently coming in would become responsible by seditious and illegal acts —by calling large multitudes, and uttering seditious speeches. The Attorney-General, -in support of his propisition, had quoted Mr. Justice Bayley. (Counsel read from the opinion of that judge, to show that the cases were not at all analogous.) He would now deal with another proposition of law of the Attormy-General, who had referred to the case of Redford and Birnie,. which arose out of a far-famed transaction in Manches ter, in 1820. They had all heardof the meeting on the 16th of August, 1819, at Peterloo, in Manchester.. Mr. Hunt, who vj'as in the chair, was arrested, and several persons ; were killed. Hunt was prosecuted, and the indictment charged him with a conspiracy. There were three counts. He was ch urged with con spiracy,con federacy, &c., with the other persons indicted. The Attorney-General of that day did not think it safe to ge to trial m ere ly on t h ree counts for a conspiracy. He knew it would be a novelty to an English jury, and, therefore, added a tburth count, for attending an unlawful assembly. They were tried at York, and the case occupied ten days. The Crown, strove, by every means, to establish a, conspiracy, which., was the very question for trial. before the jury—it not being competent to any judge to declare any man a conspirator until twelve men on their oaths, who are not judges, had found him to be so. That tribunal, the Jury, decided that Hunt was not guilty o f con spiracy. They gave that verdict, not because they were political partisans, or men of one-sided views in politics; but they gave their verdict as ,honest Englishmen on their oaths. _Redford, who had been wounded at the meeting, brought his action against the man w h o wounded him with a sabre. That case was tried. There was a plea of not guilty, which is as much as to say the act was not done; but that plea was not always safe, and there were other pleas, to the effect that the meet ing was illegal and the plaintiff, being there illegally, the defendant only did his duty as a yeoman by assisting to disperse it. Conspiracy being illegal, it became ne- I cessary to prove it, and a witness was produced who had been ill-used by a party engaged in drilling pre vious to the meeting. That very evidence must have been given on Hunt's trial; who, was acquitted of the conspiracy ;. but when the evidence was tendered on the civil action, it was admitted by the judge, and the jury found a general verdict- for the defendant. A motion was made to set that verdict aside, on the ground of the admission of illegal evidence. The judges refused to - set the verdict aside, and the Attorney-General referred to the dicta of the judges in support of his view of the conspiracy and illegal meeting. The judges in that swap only referred to the admission of evidence, as to the drilling, to go before .•• the jury in a civil action.- 7 - And it was in such a c ase as t hi s t h at the Attorney- General sought a precedent and authority to prove a conspiracy and illegal meeting here. Hunt had been acquitted of conspiracy, and the judges had not, in . fact, the question of conspiracy before them. The dicta of the judges about the admission of evidence of drilling in Manchester, had been urged by the At tornev -General in refrence to the Repeaters, who had no drilling at all. The Attorney-General had only read a snrill extract from Lord Wynford; he (Mr. F.) would read the entire of it, with note and comment. Lord Wynford referred to the parties engaged in drilling in Manchester- being armed, in rank and file, and firing at the word.of command, being ordered to advance at the sound of trumpet. Such were- the drillings Lord Wyn ford spoke of. Was it fair to read the extract the At torney-General had read, without bringing under the notice of the jury the sort of drillings that Lord Wyn , lord had spoken of ? A lawyer was bound to state the law fairly and candidly—a Love all, he was bound to do so in a State s prosecution, where a man of his:own rank, in his own profession, who had been nearly half a century • distinguished in his profession, was concerned. The Ai - torncy-General, in such a case, was more especially bound to state the law. fairly, when a man was concerned who hatrbeen so long his admitted superior ,in the profes sion, and. who was charged with a crime for which, if he were found- guilty, he would be .conveyed to a dun • neon in the closing period of his life. - Hever there wa, a case when it became the duty of a barrister in th,- , discharge of his public duty to prosecute a brother barrister, he ought to do it fairly, justly, honourably ; but if in the discharge of that public duty, as Attorney- General or Crown prosecutor, he aims below the mark— • if he cites the law for own particular purposes, and omits passages which he ought no t to have omitt e d—if he seek a conviction , no matt er by what means it is to be obtained, he is no longer deserving of public respect or of public confidence. He (Mr. Fitzgibbon) if he had stooped to act in the manner he had described, would cease to enjoy his own self-respect. He could not consent to earn the guilty wages of professional suc cess ; he would feel that he had been guilty of an uct of turpitude, which would for ever disable him from raising his head in society. The jury,.. he was quite certain, could not be totally ignorant of the history of their coun try, or of the great events which took place in their hemisphere. They were not ignorant that when Wil liam the Conqueror landed in England, the greater por tion of the population of the island were bond slaves. This was an indictment charging the defendants with the exhibition of great physical force. It did not charge them with seeking to attain their obj ec t by t h e use of physical force—the use of it was not; at all con templated. An immense mass :of the community were dissatisfied with a law, and they came forward in large masses, to express their determination never to cease their . - constitutional efforts until that law shall have been repealed. And the Attorney-General calls that a crime. Was there a crime in the attainment of Magna Charta ? Was there no exhibition of physical force at Runnymede, with the Barons in full at mour, requiring their Sovereign to sign . a charter they had bought ready made ! That is a charter which no At torney-General, no Judge, no King would dare to say, that, because it had been procured in that way, it was, therefore, v o id. B u t t h ere were other instances in 1 English history of great changes produced by the very same mcani. Was there, in fact, any great change produced without them? Was there no ex hibition of physical force at the Clare election ? The people were discontented with the state of the law, and they sought, peaceably and in large masses, to effect a reformation. Why was this a monstrous case? Because the Ministry of the day sought to get into their hands a scourge to prevent and repress the expression of popular discontent. He next referred to the period of the French revolution, when an indictment had been pryferred . .against a great man, Borne Tooke. As in this case, a chaos of. papers had been. thrown on the table, and the jury were left to spell their way throngh them.. That prosecution had been counte nanced by the King—it was pressed with all the energy of the Attorney General and • Solicitor-General of the day ; but the common sense and honesty of the jury prevailed—they Anind' -a: verdict of not guilty. lie (Mr. Fitzgibbon) felt .a . great responsibility in this case, from a• knowledge of his own deficiency. In the case of Hardy, publics liberty had for its champion Mr. Erskine; Hardy was acquitted. They then brought forward Tooke, and he was acquitted. The Crown still persevered, but each successive jury defeated their at= tempts to establish constructive treason, and that was the last attempt in England. .At this moment (ta o o'clock) the Court retired for refreshment. ' During the absence of the judges and jury for re freshments, a scene of the most singular, remarkable, and truly unprecedented character took place in Court which perhaps it ever fell to the lot of a journalist to record. It was observed that some hasty observations, and in a very excited. tone and manner, passed between Mr. Fitzgibbon and the Attorney-General, and there was, to use the language of Mr. Sheil, "a hush of public expectancy and almost breathless silence ;" when, after a much more protracted absence than usual, their Lord ships resumed their seats upon the Bench. Mr. FITZGIBBON ruse and raid—My Lords, as I was coming into-Court after having, from the effects of ill ness, endeavoured to take a short respite in the library, after an exertion not very seasonable, . having regard to the state of any health, a note was put into my hand, signed by .the Attorney-General, which I ask him now to read to your Lord.hips. A short pause ensued, and the Attorney-General having made no reply, Mr. FLTZGIBDON continued—My Lords, I hope that in opening the case. I did very clearly and very plainly express any sense of the position in which I had been professionally placed. I think I did very clearly and plainly express what my opinions and what my feelings were in respect to the gentlemen who here represent the Croivn. I very clearly separated any reference in What I said of my private feelings from what I consi dered my duty required of me to express, not in refer ence. to themselves personally, but to their conduct in this prosecution, and I do not think that I travelled out of the line of my duty in making those observations. I observed upon no act or thought of 'a single one of them, except an act done or a thought ex pressed in the course of this prosecution. I said very plainly and distinctly that I would despise myself if I. left unobserved any point upon which my client might observe if he were in my position, and defending him self • as his own counsel, or I in his, as a ' traverser at the bar, and defending myself. I pursued what I considered to be the course and which my duty indicated, I don't thi n k I went beyond it. Now, my LordF, I ask the Attorney -Ge neral to hand up that note ; and if he will not, I will tell your Lordships the substance of it. lie tells me in that note that I have given him a personal offence, and he calls upon me, if I do not apologise•for it, to name a friend.—(Sensation throughout the Court.) I need no t advert f ut th er to hi s position or to mine on the present c •asion, nor is it nece,3sary fir me to refer to my pecu liar ps: , sitit.it at titi tnotm.nt, while defending one of the •::' 11 4 . "' • '' • '.. Vbi ! w a 4 ,i'...llS, shall ,%! to oU:hi 'll conduct. 111 , ATT. ,,, N+A-1 t.:, ER AI. 1 . 6 , e ant said, in rather an r. FitzglbOn has any applic a ti on to eat'. e .11 rourt, let ra.de in the usual form. 1..1 fr.. , !,1 the faxt s. 1 ti:et. Lve to state ' thilt he attributed to toe in this Court —and it wa, so taken down in w r i t i ng b y some ofmy f ends—that my public cond uc t i n t h e conducting and carrying on of these prosecutions was influenced by private and dishonourable motives. By the effect ..• 1 .!- 1 . tt Ic-40., of its failure or • • iHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1844. otherwise, might have upon myself or my personal inte rests. Ido not think any counsel is justified, even in his public capacity, in attributing such unworthy and unwarrantable motives to me, as that I could be influ awl in this case by any interests with respect to the political party to which I belong. I did then, and Ido st'll, feel very much offended at it —very much irritated at such an allusiOn—andl consider that nu observation which could be used could more strongly tend to excite such a feeling. Certainly, if language of the kind was not intended to convey a personal imputation on myself, I cannot conceive anything easier than for a gentleman to state that he had been misunderstood by myself and my friends. These arc the circumstances, and if there is any question to be properly brought before the Court, whatever its rule may be, I perfectly cer tam it will not sanction 'any personal imputations on the counsel who are engaged in conducting it. MooriE Was about to make . some observation, when Mr. FITZGIBBON again rose and said—l beg your pardon ; allow me to address the Court. My Lords, I could very well understand the good sense and pro priety on the part of the Attorney-General of calling my attention-to anything which I said that might have offended him, and- I could equally understand the pro priety of my acting in 'accordance with the - feelings and principles of a gentleman, had he permitted me the op portunity of taking . that course which propriety would dictate. I will not now :say what I might have done under the circumstances, for that was not the way he acted ; but, with a pistol in his hand, he says to me, " I'll pistol you unless you make an apology ;" and I cannot help telling him now, that such a course won't draw an apology from me. • Smite minutes elapsed without any further observation having been made on either side, the Cotirt having been engacred during the interval in consultation. CHIEF f USTICE—Mr. Moore you were going to make some observations awhile ago. Mr. • MoortE—Really my Lord, I am afraid, after what has lately occurred, of making any observaton at all in the matter. What I was going to take the liberty of suggesting to the Court, in reference to an occur rence which I am sure every individual member of the bar, and the public, will equally regret, in a case like the present, wher e the feelings of every person engaged on the one side or on the other, are necessarily very much excited, and in which I should hope every indulgence might be extended to anything irregular that may have occurred—what I was going to take the liberty of suggesting was, that as there appears to exist a very warm feeling im one side and on the other, an opportu tunity should be afforded of allowing that to subside, and of removing on both sides any misconception that may have previously existed. That was the proposition I was going to to take the liberty of making. I cannot attempt to justify what has taken place, nor am I au thorised to interfere in it; but from the position which I have the honour to hold. and the sincere personal regard I ,entertain fo r both gentlemen, I think it might be desirable for their own sake, for. the interests of the profession, and the sake of the public at large, that the Court should allow some interval to elapse, in order that those feelings may subside, and this most unpleasant affair may be satisfactorily arranged. CHIEF JUSTICE—The C6urt are very much indebted, and very much obliged to you, Mr. Moore, for the part you have taken, and the short explanation you have given. The Court feel themselves placed in a very em barrassing and perplexing situation. They feel unwil ling to give any intimation of their opinion as to the propriety orAmpropriety of what has taken place in Court, being-willing to make allowance for the excited feelings of the gentlemen concerned in a ease of this na ture, which may carry them beyond what their cool judg ment would approve of. They, therefore, give no sort of intimation at present of what their opinion is in regard to the conduct of the gentlemen at either side pending the trial of this case. They feel it to be a very em b arrass i ng case to be required to pronounce any sort of opinion while a case of this nature, in which the public is so much interested, is depending before the Court, the jury, and the public at large ; and they also feel that of all men in the profession, the Attorney-General is the last man who ought to have allowed himself to be betrayed into such an expression of Teeling as has been stated to the Court as having taken place during our absence, for although we were not personally present, it ,yet oc curred while the Court was sitting in the discharge of its judicial functions. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL 7 -I have to state, and my friends tell me so, that the note was written very hastily; but considering the position I was placed in, and the strongly irritated feeling I was under, I concur in what has been suggested to me, and I have no objection to withdraw that letter, but I shall make no further turns about. I feel that I was very badly dealt with, and I leave it to the Court to consider what course the gentle man who used that language ought to adopt in regard to what is clue to ine. The CHIEF JUSTICE—The Court are bound to consi der what took pl ace as if it occurre d during the business of the Court, and we cant by any possibility allow it to go further. It must be put a stop to.; Mr. Moore—l know liow very difficult a position lam placed in ; but I would take the liberty of suggesting to Mr. Fitzgibbon, after what has been said by the At torney-General, that he should admit that he 'has fallen into an error, which any man may fall into ; and I only suggest to hint what I would do myself if I were placed in the same unpleasant situation. Mr. FITZGIBB JN-Your Lordships have heard—and all who are now present have heard—what fell from me in the course of my, address to the jury. The-Attorney- General has repeated what he sacs was taken down as my language, and he says that I V imputed to him dis honourable motives—of being influenced in his public conduct, in regard to these prosecutions, by the love of place, or desire of place, or personal advantage to himself. My Lords, that language did not come from me—l - Carefully avoided it. I spoke of Lord Coke and others being influenced by those feelings which every public prosecutor was more'or' less influenced by in those days, and which might appear to influence public justice ; but I appeal to your Lordship? recollection whether I ascribed to the Attorney -General one single feeling dishonourable to him more than what I suggested was thecause of unusual warmth in a public 'prosecutor in all cases of this kind. I regret extremely that the Attorney-General 'before he took the course lie did, did not address me, for I stand here uncon scious of having either said anything or done any act with the 'intent ion of W oun di ng t he felings of another. I never imputed personal motives of a dishonourable nature to the Attorney-General. What I have done, my Lords, in this case, and what I have said, I have said and done in the discharge of what I conscientiously felt to be the dutyl owed to my client. I did not speak of him except in the opening of my address to the jury. and in what terms did I speak of him then ? I spoke of him as a gentleman in the best sense of the word_ I spoke of him as a lawyer in the best and most dig nified sense of the word. Such is the character and extent of the language which I applied to him personally. Did I not say all that in his behalf ; and did I not add that my personal experience of him fully warranted me in saying thus much? This was the extent of my personal allesions to the Attorney-General, and if in the subsequent part of my address I made any reference to him, I did so in the discharge of the duty which, as an advocate, I owe my client, and my remarks were meant to apply to Ids conduct in the present case and to nothing else. lam not disposed to claim as a right the privilege of canvassing the conduct of the Attorney- General. If it be a right it is to me a most painful one; but when I a m d e f en di ng a gentleman who has done m C the honour of confiding. to me his defence, where he is accused of an atrocious ofience, I feel it to be my impera tive duty to analyse the official conduct of the first law officer ef the Crown in the present case; but out of the present easel will not travel. I spoke of the Attorney- General as a public man, and as such only, in reference to the present prosecution. I spoke of his-conduct in the present case ; but out of the present case I did not for a moment travel, nor did I allude to one solitary act of his life unconnected with this trial ; and am I to be told that I am to make an apology -to a gentleman who-,-- The CHIEF JUSTICE—You may have misunderstood the Attorney-General, Mr. Fitzgibbon. Mr. FITZGIBBON—My Lord, it is totally impossible that I could have misunderstood him. The CHIEF JUSTICE—Yes, but, Mr. Fitzgibbon, we are all liable to fall - into error, and it is possible that there may be misconceptions on both sides. , Mr. FITZGIBBON—My Lords, 'the first emotion of my mind, when I got his note was —no, I will not say what it was—mv second was to let him out of the difficulty in which he had placed, himself. [Here Mr. Fitzgibbon was handed in a piece of paper, in shape not unlike that on which the alleged challenge was written ; but he tore it across, and flung the frag ments under the table. The CHIEF JUSTICE—I was going to say that the whole matter had Lew been under the consideration of the Court, and that there was no necessity to go any fur ther into a statement of the circumstances. Mr. FITZGIBBON—I have been misunderstood, my Lord. I do— , CHIEF JUSTICE—The Attorney-General has with drawn the note he has addressed to you, Mr. Fitzgibbon. He has expressed his regret that it was written, and wishes it to be regarded as if it had never been written He misunderstood you. Mr. Fuzdinnorl—My Lords, any man must have grossly misunderstood me who imputes to me the intention of attributing base motives to any one in the discharge of my professional duty. If I could for a moment imagine that any man could conscientiously suppose me capable of such gross conduct as that of imputing to the Attorney-General. base motives—l having nothing nn earth to say to his motives—l can only say that such a man has grossly misinterpreted me. Were I, indeed, capable of acting such a part I could never again esteem or respect myself, and the direst punishment that could befal me would be the self-reproach which would follow me in every scene of my life. I only spoke of the Attorney-General in his official character .as the law adviser of the Crown ; and my remarks had only refer ence, I again repeat, to his conduct in the present case. Mr. MooeE rose and said that the gentlemen at both sides having given every explanation that could be ex pected from them, of whatever was disagreeable in this distressing occurrence, he hoped that the matter might now be fairly considered as :et at rest. He trusted that' it would be passed over in silence and consigned to obli vion for ever. The CIIIEr JUSTICE (after consulting with his bre thren) said that the Court felt exceedingly obliged to Mr. Mo. A-e fur the part he haul .ftken 6n this perp'exing and di-trrssing occasion. • The maul- was now at rest, and the Court most earne-tly trusted that it would not be necesstury hereafter to advert in any manner whatso prat' what Iluid ttuken plate. lie slim:id-hop,' it was not _ _ - neessary to ,say any More 'on tue matter than had been already staled. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--I of course acquiesce in every thing that has fallen from the Court. I have with drawn the note, and, inasmuch as I understood Mr. Fitzgibbon to repudiate the idea, of imputing any un worthy or personal motives to me, I can only say I am 31tUied. The CHIEF JUSTICE—That this unpleasant matter may at once be set at rest, the Court think that may call upon each gentivinan to declare that he is satisfied to abide by what has just fallen from.Alr. DlOore, Mr. FITZGIBBON-1 can only say that I did not mean to attribute any unworthy motive to the Attorney- General, and I have no other feeling towards him at the pre-ent moment different from what I felt this morning. Thus the matter dropped. • Mr. F'ITZGIBBON then resumed, and continued his ad dress until a quarter to five IVclock, When the C o u r t rose, the Learned Gentleinan being still in possession of their Lordships' attvntion. When the Judges were about to leave the bench, Dr. Gray said, my Lord, I beg leave to know if I can oiler a few words to your Lordships with respect to what occurred to day in Cuurt. The CI:IMF JUSTICE—We cannot hear you now, Sir, address the Court. Have you n o t C ounse l , and have you not been heard through your Counsel ? Dr. Gray—lf your Lordships hear me for a feW , mo ments, I will not trespass long upon the attention of the Court. CHIEF JUSTICE—The Court will not hear any gentle men when they have Counsel. - Judge PERRIN—And during the speech of their Cotmsel. CHIEF JUSTICE—And during the speech of Counsel. The Court then adjourned until ten o'clock to-morrow morning. • REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, MONDAY. The usual weekly meeting of this Assoc:ation took place to day, in the Conciliation-hall, which was densely crowded be fore two o'clock, the hour fixed for the meeting. The chair Li was tak c en by Caleb Powell, Esq , M.P. f or t h e county of merik. About twenty minutes past two Mr. O'Connell entered, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheering. After the ordinary routine business was gone through, Mr. O'CONNELL arise amidst loud cheering. He said he hail to hand in money from a lady, Miss Ellen Dodd, of Brownstown, and moved that she should be adtnitted.—(Car vied. ) Mr. O'Connell handed in various other subscriptions, including Mr. Edward Francis Murray, son of Sir James Mur ray, whose letter was dated from Genoa, and expressed regret that the present Ministers made no attempt to remove or dimi nish the mountain of injustice in Ireland. Mr. O'CoeNeLL again rose, and said he wished to allude to a matter that occurred at the sitting of the Court this morning. Mr. John O'Connell sought permission o f t h e C ourt to explain, in reference to what had falle n f rom his distinguished counse l on Saturday, that nothing on earth could induce him to become in any manner a party to any compromise of repeal. He said he felt it a personal duty to prevent any misunderstanding on this point, as he never would consent to anything which could, in the least degree, compromise the inalienable right of Ireland to domestic and national legislation.—( Cheers. ) Mr. SMITH O'flatEts rose, amidst loud cheering and waving of hats, to address the meeting. He said, as no notice of his resolutions had been given, he deemed it necessary to put the meeting in possession of them, especially as the Tipperary elec tion was so near at hand; The resolutions were then read by the Hon. Gentleman, as follows : " Resolved, that inasmuch as it will greatly ,conduce to the snoops of our national cause, if tandidates favourable to a Re peal of the Union be relieved from all expenses connected with their elections, and as, in the present state of the law rela.ive to bribery, the choice of the electors may be defeated by the smallest expenditure on the part of the candidates in provid ing refreshment for voters, or in conveying th em t o t h e po ll ; it is earnestly recommended by the Repeal Association that, in the event of a contest for any county, city, or town, the several parishes should send their voters to the poll free of all charge, direct or indirect, to the candidate chosen by the people, to uphold the cau'c of our country. • " That the thanks of this Association he tendered to those professional agents who shall volunteer their gratuitous services in behalf of candidates favourable to a Repeat of the Union. " That in case any intimidation be used by landlords or others, to prevent electors from voting for such candidates, - it is desirable that all the circumstances connected with such in timidation should be made known to the Repeal Association." The Hon. Gentleman raid he congratulated the meeting on the State prosecutions, which afforded the Irish people the op portunity of putting on record the wrongs which caused the repeal movement. Those prosecutions had rallied around them the true friends of freedom of discussion. He would not comment on the conduct of the Government, or say whether that conduct was calculated to excite respect or contempt. He should not comment on the defence, so far as it bad proceeded, or the magnificent speech of the distinguished advocate who had addressed the Court on Saturday, aed who insisted that it was not the Protestant nor the Catholic, not the aristocracy nor the democracy, but the union of both, that was required to give peace, freedom, and prosperity to Ireland.—(Cheers.) He should not refer to the result of the trial now p en di ng , but this he would say, that either result, a conviction or an acquittal, would be equally disastrous to the Government, for it was, in reality, the Government that were upon their trial. As to Mr. O'Connell, his position was that of a man who must be elevated even still higher in public opinion, and in the confidence and affeation of his conntrymen.—(Ch eers . ) The Hon. and L earne d Gentleman then proceeded to refer to his resolutions in detail, showing their advantage-in rendering elections more pure and independent. Resolutions exactly similar ;sere passed by the people of Limerick, and it was by such exertions that the people of Ireland would obtain a triumph. Very little coercion had, he should say, been made by the people of Ireland, if indeed any coercion at all, to compel their repre sentatives to support a repeal of the union ; but be should say that at the next general election such would not be the case. The resolutions he had submitted to their consideration had received the approval of him to whom they all looked for advice and assistance, and of the committee of that Association. The lion. Gentleman concluded by moving the adoption of the resolutions. Mr. O'CONNELL rose, he said, to second the resolutions proposed by his talented and patriotic friend, and if they were to be adopted because he (Mr. O'Connell) approved of them, he would most unfeignedly say, their being brought forward by his friend . ought to ensure them the. respect and admiration of the people. Mr. O'Brien came amongst them at a moment of peril, and whatever might be the result o the impending state trials, the people of Ireland would ne want for leaders.—( Hear, hear.) He was proud to say, the utmost tranquillity existed in the country, and should he be sent to prison, his chief consolation would be, that they continued quiet, and that the reward of their peaceful con dact would be a repeal of the union.—( Hear, hear.) He was proud the resolutions were proposed by Mr. O'Brien, parti- Aegyh theyo never consent to the would obey th e l aw as i cularly at a time when his valu e d f r i en d , M r. Maher, was a candidate for Tipperary, wher e h e wou l d be returned in spite of every epposition. Ile (M r O' Connell) did not know exactly what legal mode w ou ld b e necessary for him to would adopt after the trials; but he would requ i re of the people of Ireland, whatever that should be, t o g i ve i t their perfect ac quiescence.—(Cheers.) down iesce nee union ; and should it be said that the Att orney -General ' s pro secutions would frighten the Irish p eop l e 2 —( Cheers. ) One thing gave him much pain, and th a t was the diminished amount of the repeal rent. He had rece i ved several commu nications, saying that remittances would be made after the pro secutions were over, and he could not help expressing his en tire disapproval of such a plan. Whatever they sent would o f course be placed to their credit, and they must be aware that any diminution in the rent and patriotism of the people, would be a triumph to their enemies. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then referred to the natural advantages which Ireland possessed; and concluded by saying that peace and perseverance was their eaotto—peace and perseverance the safety valve of the State, and that peace and perseverance would finally obtain for them a repeal of the union. Ihe resolutions were then put, seriatim, and adopted by acclamation. Several sums of money were then handed in, amounting to upwards of 20/. Mr. DONNE handed in a petition to be presented by Mr. O'Connell to Parliament, signed by 9,500 conspirators, for a repeal of the union. Mr. O'CONNELL..—liurra for repeal. Mr. Jonas O'Coee ELL alluded in terms of admiration to the splendid specimen of eloquence which Mr. Shell had given on Saturday last in his behalf, in the Court of Queen's Bench. Whatever became of the prosecutions, whatever was th e d oom to which he (Mr. J. O'Connell) might be subjected, he never would cease his exertions for the attainment of the legislative independence of their native land... a ( ( sheers. ) The Rev. T. O'MALLEY then addressed the meeting. He alluded to some observations made by an Hon. and Gallant Member of the Association in disparagement of federalism ;" but he would not then enter into a discussion on the subject, as he intended to reserve himself to ans wer the common enemy. Federalism was, in some mea sure, a child of his own. He had made many sacrifices, as his Hon. Friend Mr. O'Brien could testify, in coming for ward to advocate it; yet he was not blindly wedded to any opinions on the subject. The Rev. Ge n tl eman t h en a ll u d e d to the Government of the United States, from which he drew the model of his plan, and where he resided during some of the happiest days of his life. So far was federalism from being opposed to the repeal of the Legislative Union, it was di rect l y contrary; for they held that the Act of Union should be vir tually repealed before the principle of federalism could come into play. In military parlance, the Federalists were a corps of the grand army of Repealers ; and their proposition re duced the controversy with England to this--was she satis fied with a union of equality—a union which, instead of weak ening her political condition, would strengthen it far beyond what it was at present 1—( Hear, hear.) The Whigs, it ap peared, were not willing to give the people their own Parlia ment : but they were ready to have a Parliament assemble here once in every three years—a plan which he had no hesita tion in denouncing as a clumsy mode of satisfying the wants and wishes of the Mall people. He could not see that a passage from one country to the ether would make gentlemen change their places from one side to the other ; and what ad vantages could, therefore, be derived from such a plan ? There was no salvation for Ireland out of the pale and protection of an Irish Parliament ; for, let the two great parties of the State battle as they might, it was only by such a Parliament the country could be redeemed from the evils which pressed upon her energies and destroyed her resources.—( Hear.) The Rev. Gentleman concluded amidst loud cheers. Mr. WILLIAMS, an American gentleman, addressed the meeting, but was called to order by Mr. O'Connell, in conse quence of strong language which he had made use of. Mr. S. O'B RIEN gave not i ce o f a "lotion for the appoint ment of a committee to watch over the proceedings of Members of Parliament. Mr. O'CONNELL observed that some persons were going about the city, as they had done before, to entrap persons, col. lecting money to finish the Conciliation-hall. Now he wished to inform the public that such persons were guilty of a gross fraud— that no money was required for such a purpose —and he hoped those who were duped would take every measure to bring the perpetrators of the fraud before the magistrates. The CHAIRMA N handed in a pound, as the subscriPliOn -for the year 1844 of the Rev. Mr. Meara, P.P., of Toomevera, in the county of Tipperary. Mr. O'CONNELL had great pleasure in proposing the thanks of the Association to the Rev. Mr. Meara, one of the oldest and best friends of Leland. He was mainly instrumental in putting an end to those factions comically termed "Black Hens and Magpies," in the county of Tipperary, and had actually succeeded in making the black hens marry the magpies. The repeal rent was then announced to he 372/. 145. I Id., after which Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M. P., took the chair, and the meeting adjourned to Mouday next. some extensive iu the Wing ap . - Buckingham P a la ce i s undergoing 1 alterations and i m p rovemen t s , par ticularly proriated for the use o f th e R oya l nursery. ADVER CISEMENT.]—REMAEKABLE , CURE OF A Poor: TAILOR BY HOCLOWAY . S Ptll.s.--- 4 . o bn Green, a tailor, - ea t any - animal food ; if h e residing i'l Chap man - street, Commerc i a l-road; had not b een able for twel ve mont h s past to he would not li ve l ong; however, a fter taking a , course of did.he brought it un immediately.. His friends thought th a t this wonderful medicine for about six :weeks, he was enabled will derive alm os t new ,n to eat anythi ng as we ll as ever he cou ld i n hi s lif e . P ersons by the use f of o t weakt heseoso wonderful stomachs, p b i il il i s o , u e s v habits, then ts,•oroNwother means h ave nervous temperament s , life strength, and'vigour, been tried in vain. —Sold at Professor Holloway's establish- 1 ment, 244, Strand) where advice may be had gratis); also by almost all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the civilized woad. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEE A" &11FINC Jait. 81. (Sittings in Banco.) - TILE (ORPORATIO.N OF XtIDENHEAD r. COMPANY. In this case a. rule RAILWAY nisi had been obtained, calling upon the defendants to show cause why they should not pay the costs of a mandamus which had been issued, directing them to pay 2,282/. to the corporation of -Maidenhead. They had paid the money, and a rule had been obtained calling on them to show cause why they should not pay the costs, which had been discharged on a technical point, and not on the A new rule had been obtained, and The Solicitor-General now showed cause against the rule, and contended that the application having been once refused, it was not competent to the plaintiffs to renew it. The Attorney-General, with whom was Mr. Hill, supported the rule. The Court decided that the general rule was, that where an application had been made to the Court and failed, such, application could not be renewed ; there were seine excep tions, but this case did not come within them, and the rule must therefore be discharged.—Rille discharged without costs. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 31. (Sittings, in Banc).) The attention of the Court this morning was devoted to hearing motions for new trials, and technical points of practice. The sittings at nisi prius, before Lord Abingcr and com mon juries, will commence to-morrow (Thursdai) morning, at ten o'clock. BAIL :COURT, Jan. 31. (Before Mr. Justice WHlLvms.) THE QUEEN r, THE POOR-LAW GUARDIANS OF TIIE WAKE FIELD UNION. Mr. Tomlinson moved for a rule to show cause why a writ or writ-4 of mandamus should not issue against the guardians of the Wakefield Union, commanding them to pay to the master of the workhouse two sums of 101. and 5/., portions of the - salary of himself and his wife, 'as officers of the union workhouse. The payment had been resisted on the ground that in consequence of increased charges falling upon the district, the salaries of the master and matron of the work house ought to be reduced.. A correspondence had taken place on the subject between the Poor4aw Guardians and the Poor-law Commis-loners, the latter stating that the increase of poverty addi ng t o the duties of the officers of the union, could not p,rm ground for reducing their salaries, and they ordered the salaries to be continued. A majority of guardians still resisted the payment, and that was the ground of the present application. The Court had often enforced the powers of the Poor-law Commissioners in similar cases. Mr. Justice Williams—The language of the Act is very ex tensive as to the power of making orders. Mr. Tomlinson-1t is, my Lord. The Learned Counsel then quoted the 46th section of the Act empowering the Commissioners, a mongs t ot h er a cts, to regulate, when they thought fit, the amount of salaries payable to poor-law officers. Mr. Justice Williams—Do the guardians resist their au thority ? Mr. Tomlinson—They respectfully resist it, putting it as a 'natter of duty on their part.—Rule granted. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 3 IN RE WILLIAM PEEL. The Learned Chief Commissioner gave judgment in this case, which has been already frequently before . the Court, and fully reported in The Sun. After entering at length into the details of the matter, he said, that although the manner in'which the - insolvent had contracted the debt with the op posing Creditor,'Could not. be strictly construed into a charge of fraud, according - to the statute; yet there was seldom -- a case came before the Court which was more strongly charac terised by ingratitude and - dishonesty, and, such being the case, he felt bound to inflict as severe a penalty as' possible on the second charge, which had been fully proved against him, namely, making away with his property, to the detriment of the body of his credi tors. The sentence of the Court, therefore, was, that he be iniprifsoned at the suit of one or more of his creditors for frau dulently making away with his property. • IN RE TOiVNLY. - The hearing of this case had. been adjourned from time to 'thee, in order to procure the attendance of a person named Salotnons, 'Wilo had got a 111 of sale on the insolvent's pro pertv, of which he now - retained a large quantity. The insolvent having shown to the satisfactionilthe Court that he had done every - thing in his power to subpoena Salo mons,- he was liberated provisionally, and Salmons not ap pearing in obedience to the order of the Court, au attachment was ordered to issue against him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) r T s, 4 l , t °7as orkin P iPa l t le a ' • a la i l t i d ut G in e g orf o e ffi l e ad in rens it t l w e oi ‘ j f o o ti or r - - GPILDfIALL. ne9yinneTnupesrd4altye fields, were charged 'before Sir Jollies. Duke with wantonly breaking two squares of glass, value four shillings each, in the warehouse of Mr. Pope, the tea-dealer, on thel'avement, Moorlields, • Mark Bull, 'a City policeman, stated that complaint was made to him last week that several windows had recently been broken in the evening at the rear of Mr. Pope's pre mises and those of uneighbotir. He desired them to endea vour to find and preserve the stones, and having obtained one with which a pane of glass was broken on Thursday night, he called at several houses on the opposite ,side of the street, and at the .printingLofiice the stone was recognised by the master, who said that on Thursday night there were only the apprentice and two journeymen np the premises. He asked for the boy, and told liim he should take him into cus tody. The boy begged him not to do that, anti said be would confess everything. In consequence of the statement made by the boy, he took the two_ prisoners into custody. - Arthur Brown, the apprentice, was sworn as a witness, and stated that he saw the prisoners each ding a stone host week, and heard the glass break. They did it for fun. Sir J. DUKE said it was a gross case of misconduct, and he should fine each of them V. under the Sewer Act, and in de fault of payment commit them to Bridewell for one month.— They were removed to Bridewell. George Thomfis Adams, a Custom-house agent, residing in Jamaica-row, Commercial-road, East, was charged with pawning a gold brooch, hair guard-chain, and some silver lace. William Brown, clerk to Messrs.. Cockburn and Co., mer chants, Old Broad-street, stated that the prisoner was em ployed as a Custom-house agent to clear some goods from India, and some trinkets being missed he was questi one d about them, and co n f esse d, he had _pledged them. Ti e was given into the custody of Inspector nodgson, but on account of his confession Messrs. Cockburn begged to recoonnead him to mercy. - • Sir J. DUKE adjudged him to forfeit the value of the greeds, and to pay a tine of 21.—The prisoner paid the amount, and was liberated. Edward Jones, about 30 years of age, was brought before Mr. Alderman Johnson, charged with having a tt em pt e d to set fire to the house of Mr. Ridee No. 65, Dorset-street, Fleet-street. - Prom the evidence of several witnesses, it appeared that the prison er , w h o i s a most dissipated aracter, returned home to his lodgings, in the above house, between twelve and one.o'cloek.• He was let in by his sister, whom he threat ened to` throw out of the window,. unless she left the • house. He alsOtold his - moth er th a t if she did not go out, he would kick her down stairs. The 'mother and sister then left the house, and between two. and three o'clock_ Mr. Ridee was aroused by the police, who informed hint that. the house was on fire, flakes of burning rags coming out of the dow o f th e upper room. Mr.. Ridee immediately ran down stairs and admitted the police. On going. up stairs they discovered the bed and bedding on which the mother and sister slept on on Ere ; the door ot- the room also partly burnt through - When the fire Was first discovered the prisoner was at the window, but on their entering the room he was found on his bed 'pretending to be asleep, and the nig, which belonged to his mother's bed,•Sniouldering; the fire had obtained such a hold as to require a quantity of water to extinguish it. About three months ago the prisoner stabbed his mother, but she then took no notice of it : but for the discovery at the time, the house must have been de stroyed. • The prisoner, in his defence, said he was so intoxicated that he knew nothingabont the fire—he knew nothing of it; when the police came up he was fast asleep. Mr. Alderman Johnson said it was his duty to commit the prisoner for trial for the eapital charge. BOW-STREET. On Tuesday Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the General Poste office, attended before Mr. Jardine to prosecute one of the General Post letter-carrier, on a charge of stealing a letter, containing.a sovereign, and lk Scotch bank-note, which had been entrusted to him to deliver in the ordinary course of his duty. The prisoner, who was al..out thirty-five years of age, gale his name Frost, and his residence No. 26, Goswell-street, Goswell-road. The fact was clearly proved, and he was committed. A young man, named Thomas Howell, • was brought art charged with being found on the . premises of Mr. Poulton, soda-water manufacturer, Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-field,, supposed to be there for the- purpose of committing a felony. The prozecutor stated that he was alarmed by hearing a bell that was attached to . his bed-room doo r ring. . Ile immediately went to !the epot, 'and found the prisoner, who appeared very confused when he was confronted. A pollee:- man was called in, and the prisoner was given into custody. When searched; a ntnuber of skeleton keys were - found-upon him. The prisoner, in his defence, said he went to the ho u s e t o look for a young ma n , a friend of his. Mr. TWITOED sentenced him to be imprisoned for three months in the House of Correction. It appeared that about three years ago the prisoner re turned from transportation; and about twelve months ago he was committed from this office for picking the pocket of Mr. A'Becket, the barrister; he was, however, acquitted, owing to some technical informality. . . A boy named James Furntiby was charged kith stealing a quantity of th e February numbers of " Martin Chuzzlewit," and other books, the property of Mr. Clarke, bookieller, Char ing -cross. The prisoner went into the shop to try to sell some penny; almanacks, and while there he took the book s , co n s i st i ng . ~f numbers of " Martin Cl utzz l ew i t, " b oo k s of all sorts, &c. He was observed to take the hoOks,'and was immediately given into custody. The prisoner admitted having taken the books.—He was committed for trial. - CLERKENWELL. • On Tuesday Daniel Barry, the driver of the hackney ca sipuilinitgdilii:To),,nre-eNsi,,qeriueicaiiir;gefre,.:‘n,ielethkth,hebaeevilil,nii grossly ibys assaulted tehri him. sfraat briolet, 996, was charged on a summons by Master Spencer George Walsh, the son of the Rev. George Walsh, of Wil (of e n g d r c e ° e s s i l h sh er , t t l e mt pr o o n: cure him a cab, he went to the stand near Coldbath-fields prison, and hailed the second vehicle in the rank, its cleanly appearance having engaged his preference; but the defend ant, who was the driver of the cab standing first in the rank, insisted that the complainant should have his vehicle, and after assailing him with abusive language, struck him a vio lent blow, and then knocked off his hat in the mud. Mr. COMBE sentenced him to pay a fine of ss. for the as sault, together with 4s. costs. Richard Willi am an d Eli za b e th Fume we i e c h arge d w i t h an assault of a very v i o l en t c h arac t er on • D an i e l Rhi or d an, constable of Regent-square, and a police-constable. It appeared from the evidence that, at four o'clock on the previous evening, the prisoners drove up in cart. to the Regent-n uare-6te, and. Rhiordan refused, as was his duty, to allow them to pass. They went away quietly, but William came back in a quarter of an hour after, and asked the com plainant if lie would accept of a glass of beer. Not knowing him, the complainant replied in the affirmative, and they went to the Prince Regent public-house, where the other two ptisoners were. ' They not only refused to give the constable any drink, but applied the . vilest language to him. He. remonstrated with. them, upon which the three prisoners fell upon him, A.nd were it not for the assistance of the landlord he would have been seriously injured. The woman bit the - constable's left thumb quite through, and it was greatly swollen and inflamed. The officer struck the prisoner William with his staff, hut not until he ' had received wine very severe blows himself. The prisoners were finally secured by sonic policemen from Hunter-street station-house. Mr. Wolff% who appeared for the nrieoner, attempted to exculpate him, but— Mr. COMAE said it was a very bad cave, he would fins them 3i. or three a:o4oa inlpriamea. MARLBOROUGWSTREET. ~On Tuesday jaxa Dembrichi assuming to be Cipint Dem brifki, and hi s wife., and a Mr. L-ais Sosnowski, were elarled. :•%iith-having- oommitted-an- annoyarrn - trv - tingirift - at 'the bell of the house of Lady Coatts Trotter, in Grosvenor-square. The defendants, who were extremely well dressed, and who call themselves Polish refugees, but who are disowned by the Asssciation, have been long known as persons in trudioglipon the nobility and gentry with begging petitions, containing, fabricated 'efaims to compassion. 'The eldest de fendant Dembricki, is reported to have no claim whatever to the title of Count. . William Best, butler to Lady Trotter, said some time ago he had, at the request of her Ladyship, come to this Court, and made known the fact of the two - defendants, man and wife, having . sent in a petitionfor money to her Ladyship, the statements in which petition there - was good reasonto be lieve were lubricated.. Since that period the defendants had' taken every means in their power of annoying him. Yester day morning they had rung the bell; w h en h e went to t h e door, they asked to see Lady Trotter, or Sir Dudley Coutts Lindsay. "Witness told them he knew they were impostors, and then Sosnowaki began swearing at him, upon Which he shut the door. On relating what had occurred, he was ad vised to pursue thein and give them into custody. .He went out for that purpose, but on being seen by Sosnowski, that person threatened him with his umbrella if he attempted to follow them. Witness, however, did follow, and, in Hyde Park, meeting with a policeman, he gave them into custody. Complainant believed that the parties rang the bell that morning to annoy - him, because of the part he had taken in exposing their impositions. - • Mr. MALTBY, atter some consideration, said the case was one which he could not deatwitli. with.. therefore, order the parties to be discharged, : • MAR YLEBONR. Tuesday William Harvwood is as placed at the _bar, befor e e Mr. Rawlineon, for final examination, upon the charge of having attempted to murder his son Arthur. aged 16, by striking him on the head with a fire-shoVel. The appearance of the poor lad excited the commissera th' and sympathy of all present; his head was bound round with a handkerchief, which concealed from view nu merous wounds, and upon his face fkeee several contusions; his eyes and nose were also much disfigured, and he was :so extremely weak as to be scarcely able to stand. The. Worthy Magistrate therefore ordered for him • a chair, in which he sat close to the Bench. The evidence now given, coupled with that before ad duced, went, to show. that on Stmday, the 14th instant, some words took place between the prisoner and his son Arthur; and that' in the afternoon of the same day • one took up the poker and the other the tongs, but no injury was inflicted, either by father or son, with the implements named. In the evening, Arthur, who had been out for a few hours, returned home, and, sitting en a stool, fell asleep, with his head resting upon a chair, when the prisoner, while he (Arthur) was thus lying, caught up the tire-shovel, and struck him with it repeatedly on the : head, with such force, that the shovel was - much bent by the blows. A scuffle had pre viously occurred, in the course of which Arthur struck the prisoner, who said he wou ld h ave re d ress for it. , The police were called in, •and on their arrival they found Arthur in a state of insensibility, and completely smothered in blood. All that could be gathered from what fell from him- prior to his being taken to the • hospital,. were the- words, "Father asleep." The prisoner stands committed for trial, but will be brought up.again this daY, when the whole of the depositions will Le read over. Ellen Turner. a very well-dressed young woman, was plaeed at the ,bar charged with having stolen property of different descriptions to a Considerable amount, belonging to her - iiiistre - si,Mre:' Harriet Bennet, 23, Portman-place, ledg- Wftre-road. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Bennett that the prisoner had been in her service about three months, and that having missed a cloak, she questioned her respecting it, when she at first denied all knowledge . as to where it was, but subsequently said that - She had lent it. Fier box was searched, and in it were found a pair of gold ear-ringe, - thir teen handkerchiefs, and other articles, all of whiCh Mrs. Bennett identified as her own. . The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next. A young man, named William Green, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlins on, for re-examination, charged on suspicion of having been concerned in plundering the shop of Mr. William Evans, a boot and shoo-maker, in an extensive way. of business, at 25, Paddington-street, near this court. The prisoner was .committed o n a c h arge of stealinga pair of lady's boots, but he will be, again brought up, when it i s expected the robbery of a large amount of property will be traced to him. Thomas Anskilly was charged with stealing from the shop . of Mr. Edward Grove, No. 114 and 115, Edgeware-road. IThe prisoner, who wa s engaged as cutter in the com plainant's tailoring establi s hment e was suspected of stealing cloth to the amount of 101.- or 121. a-week. One of the pieces was therefore measured, and found to contain twenty two yards and a-half. It .was then given to the prisoner to cut a coat off. He did . so, and entered into his book two yards as taken. On the piety being measured, it was ascer tained that four yards had been cut off, being two yards un accounted for. lie was given into custody, and on being searched at the station-housta the cloth was found concealed. upon his person, and about one yard and a-half of v e l ve t .i n his hat.' The constable corroborated the finding of the cloth, but at lire complainant's request the case. was remanded, •as he thought other charges could be brought against him. • Tuesday William Holde r , a - repectable-looking man, tra veller aria collector, in the eniploynient of Messrs. Flockton and Co., the tar and turpentine distillers of Bermondsey, Was brotiwlit before• Mr. Trail!, charged with embezzling various stuns. of money,, the property of the firm. Edward Symonds stated that he was cashier in the above firm, anal that, the prisoner had been in their employ for the but twelve months, as collector, and that it wae his duty. to have. paid over all sums of money he received for his em ployer on the day.following that on which he received them. The witneee added, that of late . it was discover e d th at t h e primer had collected - Various sums of money of the cus tomers, which he had not accounted for, and on subsequent inquiries, it was ascertained that he had converted them to his town puiposes. These facts were proved, and the prisoner, who said nothing inlis defence, was committed. Thomas. Sparkes, shopman to a pawnbroker in the New cut, Lambeth. was charged with stealing 401., the property of-his employer. It appeared that the prisoner had been discharged from his situation in the month of October, bat was still in the habit of .calling occasionally to see some of the inmat es . O n Monday evening, th e 22d instant, he called at the com-: plainant's hotree, - and shortly alter his departure it was 'found that a bag containing 401., in gold and silver, and deposited in a drawer up stairs, had been emptied of its contents. The prisoner being . su s p ec t e d, lie was - subsequently takefi" into custody at Folkestone, and a - portion of the stolen money • found in his possession, together with a Watch belonging to his employer.--He was committed. • Thomas Barnes, a native of Novia Scotia, was brought up chweeed with destroying his clothes in the workhouse. • Stevens, the gate-porter, stated that the defendant was admitted the preceding night, and that he tore up all his clothes, and they were compelled to furnish him with those he uow had on, namely, a coarse linen frock and a pair of duck trowsers. The defendant said that he belonged to Novia Scotia, was a sailor, and had- recently come from Alicant, in Spain, and .being discharged in the river he could not get another ship,' owing to the number of hands already wanting ships, and wan in great distress. He added that his clothes were in such a' state that he could not bear them any longer. • The magis trate discharged him. Thomas Frond, a mechanic, was charged with assaulting his wife, in such a dreadful manner that her Weis considered in danger, a certitieate e to which effect was produced. It ape peered that on the preceding night the prisoner, who is 'a bricklayer, at Camberwell, went home, and finding his supper hot ready, he began to quarrel with his wife, and at length seized the- poker, with which he struck her over the head, and cut her severely. The blows were given with Such force as to.break the poker, and the unfortunate woman was found lying senseless on the ground, covered with blood. She was obliged to be taken to the hospital, and she being pregnant it is believed that premature labour will arise. Mr. Cottingham said that he -should remand the prisoner, and that in:the:event of his wife dying, he should consider it his duty to commit him for trial for murder. • WORSHIP-STREET. On Tuesday George Walker, Joseph Hodes, Henry Turner, James Ayres,' John . Bush, and James Seabrooke, six well dressed boys whose ages varied from 13 to 16 years, were finally examined before Mr. Bingham, cha rge d with having: assaulted and wounded Mx. Charles Grills, a tea-dealer, living in Sherwood-place, Bethnal-green. Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon of Wed nesday, the 17th instant, as the brother of the prosecutor, a boy 14 years of age, was engaged in cleaning the outside of the shop windoW, he was suddenly surrounded and assailed by the prisoners, - one of whom snatched a handkerchief out of his hand and ran away with it. On observing their conduct the prosecutor came out of the shop, and endeavoured to re cover the handkerchief, upon which the prisohers emu.: taneously attacked him, and after striking him several tinier about e the head and face they dragged him to the ground, and continued beating him until he became insensible. II was rescved - from further violence by some of his neighbours; who found him . bleeding profusely from the ears, nose, and • mouth, and carried him frome apparently lifeless. • In their defence the prisoners, who displayed throughout the most unbecoming levity, admitted that they - were all present onthe occasion; but each of them endeavoured to exonerate himself at the expense of the others. • Mr. BrNons..lt said that it was far too serious - a case for summary adjudication, and he should therefore commit the: prisoners fur trial at the, ensuing Clerkenwell sessions. Cnanrrr.--The Magistrate announced the receipt of 21, as a donation to the poor-box, from L.N. LAMBETH-87REET. On Tuesday Alexander Deirlien, a herculean-built German, was brought before Mr. Henry, and charged with committing a desperate assault upon the person of William. Frederick Bathbone, a countryman of his. From the evidence it appeared that the parties were fellow workman, and that, having a dispute, the prisoner struck the complainant with a poker, and inflicted three severe wounds on his head Mr. HENRY, after remarking upon the violence .of tlte de fendant, convicted him in the full penalty of 51., or two mouths' imprisonment. The prisoner, having paid the money, was discharged. SUDDEN 'I3EATR OF MAJOR RUTIIERFORD.—On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Feathers, Duke-street, St. James's, before Mr. Higgs, on vie w o f th e b od y of Major Rutherford, aged 58, Major of the 88th Foot unattached, who was found dead ,in a closet in the Army and Navy Club house,St. James's-square, on the precedin g d ay. I t appeared from the evidence, that on Saturday last deceased called on his cousin, Dr. Rutherford, of Devonshire -street, Portland place, and complained of pain in his chest. Bleeding was recommended, but to this deceased objected, consenting, how ever to be bled -at the Army and Navy Club-house, on Monday, at half-past two, if it should still be deemed neces sary. On - Monday, at one o'clock, deceased went to the club-house, and desired th e h a ll -porter to send a gentleman, whom he expect e d t o ca ll on him, up stairs, He then went up stairs himself. At a qua r t er - past two Dr. Rutherford called, and was sent up sta i rs according to deceased's instruc tions. Not findin g hi m i n the room as he anticipated, he waited about th ree - quarters of an hour with some anxiety, and then went - to the hall-porter,' to ascertain whether the Major had left the h ouse. He was informedthat he had not, and further, that some one was in the closet, and had been there for some film; that the door had been knocked at se veral times, but that no answer had been obtained. - After some further delay, the do or o f th e c l oset was b roken open, and the deceased was found on his knees quite dead, and apparently having been dead for sometime, the limbs having become rigid. Au empty corked phial was • found henna of hiS pockets, 'whieh, upon being taken to Mr. Taylor, chemist, Pall-mall, was pronounced to hare been perfectly free from 1 everything of a poisonous nature. The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Died by the Visitation of pod." AN Lusa. DEFENCE.--A man named Jeremiah 1 O'Leary was charged at - Worship-street Police-court, on 1 Saturday with robbing his landlord of 19s. 64, and on being asked if he had anything to say in answer to the charge, lie replied, with a penitential shrug of the shoulders, " The divil a word, your honour; and it's my opinion a great dale tuv ',l2ucl 1,),a0 lband as it la :'' STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) --The advance in theTprice' of Cotton in 'LiVerpool, con sequent upon the latest advicea from the United States — amounting to fully id.—hashad its effect upon our mar ket here: As might be expected, as the result of this con tinued excitement in the Liverpool market, ours yes terday • was a littl e unsettled. There was no tack of orders offering, but the speculative rise in cotton Bp pears to some extent to have arrested their acceptance In yarns there was a little more disposition to purchase manifested by the shippers, and prices may be said to be from to id. per pound higher. Yarns for home consumption were also in good demand, and highe prices were obtained. In goods, a fair . builness.. Iva done at the highest pekes of last wee; ROCHDALE FLANAEL MARKET, MONDAY', JAN. There has been a rather busy market to-day, yet there have not been so many pieces sold as might • have been expected from the numerous. attendance of buyers. The manufacturers have stood out for an .advance of prices, and many have obtained a little more . for their goods, but nothing in proportion to the advance of wool, The demand for wool still Continues good, and prices firma MARKET NEWS .-(YES TERDA Y.) CORN—EXCHANGE. The Market exhibited a very scanty supply of English Wheat, 'yet the demand fur that article was inactive; at about previous rates. In Foreign Wheat a fair amount of business was passing, and Monday's prices were supported Making Barley sold firmly; other kind s slowly, at unvaried figures. The Malt trade was in a sluggish state, yet.the quotations were supported. Although the supply of 001 was extensive, that Grain was quite as dear. Beans, Peas , and Flour as last quoted. A RRIVALS. 1 4 ,, ley t Oat*. i i•Tniir 1,750 qrs. l - :att. 17 5,109 Malt, 4,2:30 vs. English I Wheat. 1;770 qrs. MO) — Foreign ! 1,360 H WZT. . had about an average sup ECHAPEL ply of each kind of meat, while the trade Was heavy, on the following - terms :—Beef, from 2s 4(1 to :is 4.d ; _Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 4s to-5 0 ; and Pork, 2s 84 . to 4s per Blbs. by the carcase. • CAPTAIN PECHELL, R N:, M.P., ON THE CORN-LAWS., (Abridged from the Brighton Guardian.) On Saturday last Captaid•Pechell had his annual audit aril rent dinner at the Horse and Woom Inn,. Patching .1) o nd. After the cloth h a d b een removed, and the usual loyaltossts were disposed o f, Captain Pechell rose and said—lt now falls to my duty. presiding over this company, to propose to you what I con sider to be the t oas t o f the evening, which is The health of the.tenauts and friends of mine 'who have done me the ho _pour to be present on this occasion." Upon these occasions it has always bCen my custom either to congratulate you or to condole with you upon the result of your several under' takings. Last year we had a thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest; and this year it has been represented, .and by per sons who • really ought to know better, that - the. farmers wool be well re war d e d f or t h eir exertions by. the abundance and excellence of their crops. . Now, residing among you, as I do, I hate made it my business to inquire, and I caon °t Congratulate you- upon the result of tour labours last year. —(" Certainly not.") You are told flint your.distres-s, which means, that you-hale not remunerating .prices s is owing to certain causes ; and the first person who figures as haslet stated the causes of your not having remunerating prices the Prime Minister himself. I was preSent when he told'the Members of the House of Commons that be acknowledir, there was great dist ress i n th e agr i cultural districts, that t distress was in part-owing to his law and in part owistg to the abundance'of the harvest —(011.) So putting thesetWO things together, we see th a t the l aw o f S ir Hobert Peel, wq the abundance of the harvest, have br oug ht a b out the mill of the fanner.—(Hear.) There are other parties•who have; 4' cribed the distress to the present law and to the rents—AA' ties whom I call the intelligent portion of the commUnitY's - They state that with high rents and l ow p r i ces t h ey fi n d their capital dwindling away. These opinions have been stated by very eminent farmers in different parts of the country' who have declared that with declining prices and withont protection, they and their faihilies will soon be brought t ° ruin.—(" That is right, Sir.") Another party has declared the cause of the distress, for distress . is universally acknow . ledged—the landlords of the country Have declared, and they are now raising the country from one end to the other, der to perSuade you, the tenants, that your distress is owing to the proceeding s o f the Anti-Corn-law League. They'd° . dare that it is to the Anti-Oorn-law League that the present, distress in agriculture is attributable. Now it is all very we l to say that the landlord's and the tenant's interest are ink' parable. We have heard it said lately at all the agriculture' meetings, that we row in the name boat, and -that—how very affectionate—we are to sink or - swim together. But I OF" is nothonest, it is not fair, to say this is a t enant ' s ques tion' and that you are to be brought into collision with the .Anti-Corn-law League upon a subject with which, in Pi t opinion, you have nothing at all to do.—(H ear , hear.), _ s law- was passed, altering the duties on th e importation 0 . : in, which law w as supported ire the landlords. You fin thult with that law, you consider that you are injured by It' pill attribute the falling -stria your receipts and in your pre ) ; tits to the operation of that law, and you boldly say that tha t law has injured y ou . B ut t h e landlords tell you it is .11°' that law which has injured you ; . and they draw your atten: Lion - away entirely front the subject, and . ask you to go to • meeting to battle with the Anti-Corn-law League, when the question which is to be proposed there has no more to do with you than it has with the Archbishop of Canterbury, excel?' :Nolicrsis he is a landowner.—(Hear.) • Now, that is my-. 91 lion as to'one of the causes of the present distress. There are two antagonist principles. There arc some farmers whose names figure in the public p r i n t s as staving attributed 11l presentdistress to the new l aw ; th e landlords attribute it to the-Anti-Corn-law League. 4Now, it is very right that You should understand what that prote c ti on means. . Th ey 'also call out for protection. It does certainly appear to me that " pthtection to the tenant " is, in other words, " protection to the. rent of the landlord."—(Hear.) Though the interest of the tenant goes in 2. great degree along with that of the land lord, still it is not for you to fight the battle of the landlord for high prices, to keep up high rents. 'You have seen that these high prices, which have been pronta d 'to you bythe several Acts of Parliament, have not Made your fortunes. You cannot find a fanner in this country who has retired from business with a fortune and a provision for his family. Show me any other trade, a grocer or a miller, in which this is so. In every other business, except fanning, men have _ laid something by f or th e i r f am il y. H ere we have been sine! the close of the wa r , i n 1815 , w i t h the la n dlords always call ing out for protecti on , an d st ill there lies been agriculture' distress. Itlisyou ask for, or, ought to ask fur, is steady price $' you may know exactly, what you are about. At present no man know s h ow h e stands. 'Your interests have bee n most deeply affected and your landlords call upon you to join with them in calling for protection and for the annihilation of the Anti-Corn-law League. They say that theiisestat e S are no long er sa l ea ble , that property is depreciated, and that the stability of our in s tit ut i ons is affected by the machine: Lions of the Antis Com-law League. Nay, l am no t su re that they have n o t a tt r ib uted the blight and the smut anti the grub of Mr. Miter's wheat to it.—(Loud laughter.) I, ai r s sure I am add r e ss i ng h onest and intelligent men who will S' -'s that the call which has been made upon them for protectl°;; to the tena n t c l ear l y means " protection to the landlord an high rents for the tenant."--"-(Cheers.) THE STATE OF THE STREETS' The state of the City th oroug hf ares, and the offer of P,.'s, patentee of the new street sweeping -machine to cleanse on of the six divisions, came on for discussion before the Corn ' inissioners of Sewers at G u ildh a ll yesterday, Alderman Gi s b., u s in the chair. Th e quest i on stood adjourned from the '- instant, in order to allow Mr., Gore, the contractor, an 0.; portunity of coining to term s w ith t h e patentee. The pr9rl tion made by Mr. Whitworth, the inve n t or , was to relea s6 , Mr.-Gore from the p a y men t o f 8 00/. for the hire of mach ine' (which the latt er h a d ent i re l y thrown out of use). an d fOr f that amount. to take on himself the south-western district.% the' City, includin g L u d gate -hil l and Fleet -street, for the purpose of sho w i ng w h at m i g h t b e done with the machiwhen f when properly wo r k e d. Th us t h e matter stood th e parties were called before the Court yesterday. Mr. ur was attended by hi s l ega l advisersand in * answe r to t Chairman, said that he had considered the matter, And prepared to carryout his original tender, to cleanse the ere"; by manual labour f or I,2ooeless than the su m h e was receiving under the tender whi c h obliged him-to employ te e machines. The Chairman call e d M r. Gore's attention to ti e offer of Mr. Whitworth, and sugg es t e d th a t lsy ga‘ving south-west district to that gentleman lie would get rid or oni •frfth of his duty without suffering any pecuniary 1060. Gore expreseed his unwillingness to relinquish any portion, the contract. If th e Commissioners approved of it, he 1 1 ° A 7 no objecti on t o wor k the machines himself in the south-iv.,,e6 diStrict, - cliansing the other part of the City by manual 1811°1 '; ; R Mr. R. L. Jone s remar k ed on the absurdily of Mr. Ou r ' , " desiring to revert. to his original contract to cleanse the City for 3,400/ 1 when. the Commissioners were willing t ° pay' the full amount of 4,6001., if' he would allow the pa tentee to Work the machines in the south-west Mr. Gore repeated his determination not to allow the p r tentee to cleanse the district in question. His reputation as a contractor would suffer by doing so, and rather th an give up any portion he would work the whole at a sit cr o l flee. Mr. Prior thought, as Mr. Gore had refused reasonable a proposition, the Cotmuissioners ought to P_'; an end to his contract. He had no doubt of thL- 8 power to do so. on giving seven days' notice. 1 , - 1 1, should be glad to know the opinion of theii solicitor on !„, point. The" question was one of the highest importance z., s called for prompt interference. A messenger was then o b patched for Mr. Tyrrell, but that gentleman being from home! Deputy Pewtress moved that the opinion of the solicito:i district. as to the terms of Mr. Gore's agreement should lie taken 61 . 1 ,, reported next. Tuesday, preparatory to rescinding the eup. s . tract, in the event (,f that gentleman persisting in his prese t ; determination. At the close of the proceedings the pace l ,, i rec t remarked, that as the character of his machines had front the mannerin whi c h they had been worked in the c! r r , y he was most anx i ous that their capabilities should be fts tested. Several memb ers o f th e C ourt O b served, t hat tsis e had come to a d e te rm i na ti on to h ave the City better cleanseui and if Mr. Gore persiSted in his refusal to allow the prop o 7",, experiment by the patentee, the Commissioners would clean c ,, - the streets themselves, and debit Mr. Gore with the cwt. The Court, after'some other unimportant business, broke b r ; It should bementioned that Mr. Gore was accompallie n us : , - , several themedntraetors, and the most perfect understa a. appeared to exist between them. • GADD I!MY 'MURDER.—After another private. -- ce brief, examination this morn i ng , M r. M esseng er ica 3 . °Il more discharged.. The (minion gains ground thAt Time° (who is in gaol to tak e his trial for felony) "knows ewe' thing."—Leicester Mercury. A NOVEL CARPET.—Fox-hunting is the sport °f which the King of the Belgians is particularly fond, which he is the most expert. It is said that his MajestYP' hP ; serves the skins of all tne foxes that he kills . , and that now having a very handsome carpet adorned with foxes made at. the Palace of Lacken. BIRTHS'. On the 25th of January, at Bury St. Echnund'E., the lalf of John Gretrie, gag., of a.son. 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