The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-03 00:00:00

tart' Governors who have directed the transportation would probably not have much respect for legal forms or objections. The question, however, of the legality of the proceedings may be raised here ; and it is a satisfaction to know that there can be no danger in this country if the decision of the Judge or Court should be in favour of the prisoners. By the arrival of the packet-ship Virginian at Liverpool, yesterday, in 18 days, from New York, we have received the Journals of that city to the 12th ult. inclusive, with advices from the Canadas to the 10th, from which interesting extracts will be found in another part of The Sun. As they consist chiefly of rumours of another sympathetic invasion of our fron tier, and of the progress of party dissensions in Penn sylvania, where " war to the knife" is actually threat ened, we shall leave them to speak for themselves. One thing is clear. The American authorities are not so anxious to maintain a strict neutrality as we were led to believe from the tenor of the PRESIDENT'S Proclamation. The trial of the prisoners by the Court-martial sitting at Montreal was proceeding without interruption. Several of the ac cused had confessed their guilt, and others were found guilty on the testimony of witnesses, but up to the 10th the Court had not recorded any sentence upon them. Most of them protested against the competency of the Court, but in no instance was such a plea admitted. The whole of the Paris Journals of Tuesday have been received. Being a close holiday no business was done on the Bourse, and nearly all the public functionaries, from his MAJESTY downwards, were engaged in receiving congratulations upon the auspi cious commencement of the new year. The Moniteur contains the following despatch from Africa : " ALGIERS, DEC. 22. "MARSHAL VALES TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. " The division from Constantine established itself on the 15th at Setif, without striking a blow; it was everywhere well received by the natives, and no hostility was committed against it. General Galbois, after having caused the autho rity of the Kalifat of the Mejana to be recognised, returned to Milah." The Ministerial Journals have again rallied, and pronounce the Cabinet crisis to be completely over. The Debats in particular, ridicules the idea of per mitting THIERS, GUIZOT, and their friends to hustle the present Cabinet out of office, by an intrigue un connected with a change of system. This is sheer nonsense, and the Debats knows it, although it hopes by such blustering to terrify the waverers who now range themselves under the banner of the Opposition. The trial of " GISQUET V. the Messager News paper," was rot concluded on Monday, although it bad then occupied the Court four days. As we before stated, when it is over we shall give the whole of it at once, accompanied with such observations as we shall judge it likely to elicit from an English public. We understand that a petition for the expulsion of M. GISQUET, from the Legislature, is in the course of signature by his constituents. By a reference to extracts from South American Papers, received to-day, it will be seen that the Bra zilian Government has consented to the right of search claimed by Great Britain of all vessels suspected of being engaged in the slave trade. This is a very im portant step towards the total suppression of this infamous traffic. (From the CorreioOfficial.) ... . _ __ _ RIO JANEIRO, OCT. 31.—This day are published several communications from the Minister of her Britannic Majesty to the Brazilian Government, and in consequence of them a Portaria, ordering that the members of the mixed Brazi lian and English Commission shall take cognizance of all vessels which shall be captured, with slaves on board, from the coast of Africa, though they bear the Portuguese flag. Among the motives which the Regent, in the name of the Em pe,-or, assigns for the publication of this Portaria, he men tions the desire of giving an additional proof of his efforts to put dom so odious and inhuman a traffic. The illicit trade in negros, which has eluded all the vigi lance, not only of the Government of Brazil, but of all the most civilized countries, such as England and France, pro tected as it by the prejudices of the people, who for many years have taken from Africa the hands which they used for the most laboriou,s or degrading occupations of life—this il licit traffic, we say. will elude the new obstacle which the Government of Brazil,in concert with the English Government, has raised up against it ; but the new measure will, however, byte an infallible consequence, that of putting an end to the scandalous manner in which base traffickers disgrace the flag of a nation, by making use of it to cover their crimes against huznanity. The speculator -will not be able to shelter himself like the bat in the fable, alleging that he is a mouse now—that he is a bird, as suits his own convenience ; and we shall no longer see a vessel which 'as Brazillian yesetrday become Portuguese today. The Portuguese Crown, which is doubtless the most inte resved in this matter, since it is the protection that is in ques tion, .and which neither England will respect when it shall corer so criminal a traffic,will:assuredly have no right to complain since this resolution not only does not hurt its dignity, but even defends it against the injury which is daily done to it by the barbarity and inhuman calculations of individuals who do not belong to any nation. If there is any thing to excite our sur prise in the matter, it is that the Portuguese nation, though aware of the scandalous abuse made of its flag, was not the first to solicit t;ie adoption of the measure which has just been taken. H eaven qrant that it may produce the good that many persons doubtless . ex pect from it I Heaven grant that the in terest of the mugeer may not elude this Ivy obstacle, as it has eluded all preceditZg ones MANCHESTER. (FROM OUR OWN CORESPONDENT. ) The following is the speech of M.;".• Richard Oastler at the melting of the Council of the Manchester Politie3l Union on Tuesday night Mr. assreta—l speak now in the presence of the Council of the Political Union of Manchester, and I believe that every one of you represents at least 1,000 of his fellow-workmen.— (" Hear," and cries of " More, more.") I heard that the Political Union was about to meet to night, and after having done all I could to serve your friend and my friend, Mr. Stephens, I thought I would come down into the Committee room, which I had expected to have been composed of sixteen or eighteen persons, but I find it consisting of upwards of 100. I am glad to let the Government know that the meeting in this room to-night does represont something like 60 or 100,000 human beings.—( Cheers.) I know; not whether they will be lieve that fact or not, but that is their concern, not mine. What your deliberations have been about I ci,".'n't know, except that portion I heard relative to the meeting to-*sorrow and the appointment of a Committee to assist Mr. StephOs in the persecution to which he is now subjected, instituted not so ;such by the Government of this country as by our own friends, the l=t;- litical Council of Birmingham, and the infernal Union in Ireland. You have adopted what you conceive to be the best plans, and I have no doubt they are the best. It did, however, occur to me, as an old Tory, Oat the best way would be to leave Stephens in the hands of the lavr, and the people, during the proper operation of the law, s h o ok; remain quiescent. You have ruled other wise, and I hope it vr;2l be for the best. I can only say that if my presence can be e . onsidered in any way advantageous, you shall have it.—( Cheers. ) At the present moment all my political feelings, and every s ensation of my hea r t beats only towards the safety of my friend Me, Stephens, and I would net wish to depend on my own suggestions in such a case, but will willingly obey your dictates ; and Lem I am, an old Tory mind you, willing to do any thing the Rac:jeals think to be best to save Mr. Stephens from the fangs o f the Bir aniogham Council and O'Connell, for I believe these ts s -o par ties are his prosecutors , and not the Whi g s of Manche: ter or the. Government of England .—( Hear, hear.) Whil e I am upon my legs allow me, as I understand there are some Repor ters from the London Press present, and as they may think fit to report something of what the old King says, to give you an anecdote whieh w; 1 1 explain the character of the two men now at car together—Daniel O'Connell and the Rev. John R. Ste phens, Daniel O'Coni2ell asserts, and all the papers report his malignant sayings, and that proves what a degenerate state the nation is in—Whig, Tory, and sham-Radical, all publish every word—Mr. O'Connell says, and he tells the world, that Joseph Rayner Stephens a blood -thirsty monster -- i that he deserves the execration of manki nd, and that it is tthe business of every man before he obtains the assistance of Daniel O'C o nnell, and his Precursors to deno unce him as th e cnemy of mankind. These words were re .echoed by every Nowspaper in the kingdom, and the people o f England, und.. the impression that they were true, imprisone d in a felon's cell, at: the bidding of that damnable monster O'Connell, the nnin with whose alleged atrocity all England rung the other night. - W I° is he ? I will tell you. The very day before Mr. Ste pheos' apprehension, I was his guest, at Dukinfield—the day hofore he was lodged in a felon's bed, and in a felon's 'cell, at the New Bailey in this town, while O'Connell the traitor was lying on down and feeding on dainties ot the expense of the Irish paupers. There came a tap at the door, and the servant said " a poor Irishman wants' to see you, Mr. Stephens." We were busy, exceedingly busy, but not too busy to prevent the benevolent philanthropist to lend a moment to the sighs of a poor Irish pauper. The man was adntitted f he had no shoes, no hat, and he was very ill, and he trembled with cold and weak ness. He came to thank Mr. Stephens—to thank " the exe crable blood-thirsty monster" for what? For having taken over i de c en efac- ,hire. lokeo ay by been 'e re- other' ne OL se,- `it the Is di bright Y, we There whole said• latterr takev laNed they' dente roads , ' - dui/ orptis raced► letter ry to wren% )ersist ttna 1. Laws he en' HENS , they ts 011 ,fishe d f last high° inn f° t n, 8 0 ' said' 'flake !,onse' recede but ea' ig Ole lemon; P l y icreas' old 1# w h i cil ke to Cana ' The' rabea s. be 15 mdol v f rail"' n g eno traxs laheil s were w oo ye fig ° ?,r talk 01 if tb 6 soner' 3-ta r a's g i qv° hs ye i n sur: will. care of his sick wife, and his sick children, and his sick self, and for having, out of his poor kitchen, sent what was need ful to keep them all alive.—( Hear, hear.) When the poor man had vented his feelings of gratitude, he saw me, and he asked me how I was? I said, How do you know me ? He said he was one of my boys ; that he had worked at Hud dersfield, and that he had been a long time without work, and if it had not been for the kindness and humanity of Mr. Ste phens in keeping them alive for upwards of a month they must have all died This is a fact. The very day before Mr. O'Connell's warrant was issued against poor Stephens did an Irish pauper in my hearing proclaim his state of misery and Mr. ilkophens' benevolence. Stephens wrote a note with the ear ii to a friend of his, a shopkeeper, at Ashton, re questing him if he had an old hat or a pair of shoes to give them to she poor man. The poor fellow said," God bless you," Mr. Ste phens, you are the best man that ever lived." I asked Stephens when the man was gone if he were one of his congregation ? He replied, "No ; he is a Roman Catholic." I said, " I think it would better beseem O'Connell or his priest to do some thing for him." " Oh," said Stephens—the atrocious in cendiary, who wishes to fire the mills of Manchester—" there are scores of them in this neighbourhood. I have helped to keep them alive, for I cannot bear to see them starve." Now, gentlemen of the press, let England—let the whole empire know the character of the two groat agitators—Stephens in England and O'Connell in Ireland. That poor Irishman would never have gone to Derrinane to get fed. No ;if he made his appearance there, it would be to present, not the owner but the occupier with half his coat or half his potatoe, to enable that artful, infamous monster to proclaim Stephens a hater of mankind, and himself the most benevolent of the human race. I was so struck with the circumstance, after hearing of the apprehension of Stephens at the instance of O'Connell, that I was determined to stamp the character of the man, en the first opportunity, with the brand which it me rited ; and, if such were possible in this degenerate age, to rescue the character of Mr. Stephens from the infamy which the hand of O'Connell has inflicted upon him.—( Hear, and cheers.) My opinion is, that there does not live a man so benevolent, so feeling, so kind, so willing at all times to admi . _ 'lister to the relief of his fellow-creatures, as our dear perse cuted friend Mr. Stephens.—( Vehement cheering.) lam not in that position in society to aid him by my pockets, be cause they are empty ; but if they were full, all should be poured out for his service. lam surrounded by many difficul ties—my friend Mr. Cobbett will tell you that I am at war with a man who has declared that he will spend the sum of 100,0001. rather than be beaten by me.—(Hear, hear.) My one sole object at present is to endeavour to save Stephens—to save him, and in him the working classes; and if we cannot save him, then, Mr. Chairman, I am the man to lead the people forward to revenge his fall— ( Bursts of applause)—for by Heavens, if they transport Ste phens--( Cries of " Never," " they dare not l")—there shall be a bloody reckoning.- 7 -(Enthusiastic cheering. ) MANCHESTER—WEDNESDAY. Now that a few days have elapsed, and the public have been allowed to reflect a little upon the nature of the proceedings instituted against the Rev. Mr. Stephens, a very strong feel ing in his favour has been manifesting itself, not alone among his immediate followers and adherents, but among many of the middle and mercantile classes whose political opinions are at direct variance with those of the Rev. Gentleman and his party. The nature of the evidence brought forward on Friday last, and the extraordinary proceedings which the Magistrates adopted on such unsupported and contradictory statements, have been the theme of general disapproval in many quarters here. The very enemies of Mr. Stephens declsre that the au thorities should have taken care to get up a substantial case against him, for which they allege abundant materials could have been readily procured from among his many ad dresses to the working classes, instead of having made them selves the laughing-stock of the public. In justice to Mr. Stephens, however, it must be said that most of the reports of his speeches which have appeared in print have been gar bled and unsatisfactory outlines, furnished by parties who were not immediately connected with that department of the public press ; and no one will deny the importance—nay, the neces sity—of having a correct version of every word that falls from the lips of a speaker, when legal proceedings and penal en actments are about to be enforced against him. On the other hand, the friends of Mr. Stephens assert that if an opportunity had been afforded them of consulting with him, and making proper arrangements for his defence, he would have been at once discharged from custody. All com munication with the prisoner having been denied to his friends, no steps could be taken for that purpose, and all parties were left in a state of uncertainty as to the course to be pursued, until the proceedings had actually commenced. As I mentioned in my letter last night, at a meeting of his friends it was agreed that Mr. Charles Phillips should be sent for, and a special messenger started by the evening train for London for that purpose. During the deliberations which preceded that determination Mr. Stephens himself was pre sent, and appeared quite unconcerned. He left the matter entirely in the hands of his friends, and consented to be guided by them in all things with reference to the coming investiga tion. He appears to me to be quite indifferent as to the result. A meeting took place to-day at Eccles, at which there were nearly 1,000 persons present, with a band of music, flags, banners, &c. ; one of the flags represented a Dragoon with a bloody sabre cutting down the women and children. Several speeches were made, and strong resolutions adopted ; among the speakers were the celebrated Dr. Fletcher, of Bury, Mr. Richardson, &c. I have just been informed that at a Petty Sessions, held this day at the King's Head, Chowbent, five warrants were issued for the apprehension of some others of the leaders of the Radi cal party. Mr. Richardson, Mr. Oastler, and Mr. F'eargus O'Connor are among the persons mentioned as being named in the warrants. It is further stated that additional evidence, for the purpose of substantiating the charge against the Rev. Mr. Stephens, has been obtained, and will be tendered to morrow before the Magistrates. MANC HEsTER. BY EXPRESS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) GREAT RADICAL MEETING. A meeting of the Radicals of Manchester took place yesterday evening in the Carpenters'-hall, which was attended by large numbers of persons from the sur rounding districts. The meeting was convened for the purpose of expressing the confidence of the Radical party in Mr. Stephens, and to get up a subscription, and take such other steps as might be deemed advisable for his defence. At eight o'clock, the hour appointed for the commencement of the proceedings, the galleries and hall were crowded in every part, and I understand at least three thousand persons who could not obtain admit tance were obliged to go away. The hall, which has been recently erected, is calculated to contain from six to seven thousand persons. On the platform were Mr. Feargus O'Connor, Mr. Richard Oastler, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Willis, Mr. Wheeler, and all the Members of the Council of the Manchester Political Union. At eight o'clock precisely, Mr. J. RICHARDSON was called to the Chair amidst loud and g eneral cheering. He observed that it was un neci.s.ssaryfor him to tell them what was known all over the empii - e, that Mr. Stephens had been arrested, and all parts of the country, north, south, east, and west, were in a state of excitement when the announcement had reached them. The London Sun of last night had treated the sub ject as it ought to be treated. It attached a great deal of importance to the arrest, and, he would repeat, that it was of the highest importance. It stated that it was a blow struck at the cause of liberty.—(Loud cheers.) The Whig Journals on the contrary—those, he meant, more immediately connected with the Govern ment—had observed a cautious silence on the subject ; and why ? Because they wished to see what turn the affair would take before they committed themselves, and be laughed at for their pains. If Mr. Stephens was commit ted, they would be sure to crow louder than ever. In the London Sun it was stated that the whole of Lancashire WAS in a state of excitement. Their Correspondent in in Manchester, whoever he was, had stated that all the towns And villages in the adjoining district had become alarmed when they heard of the arrest of Mr. Stephens. Their correspondent was right.—(Loud cheers.) The Political Couneil,had acquainted the people with itiin three lines, and his (Mr. Richardson's) house had been literally besieged by the postmen with letters, and by delegates in person from all parts of the country, inquiring what steps ought to be taken. He would read to them an extract from a letter in the same paper (The Sun) which accurately described the state of the people's minds upon the subject :—" Sir—We have received your letter, announc ing the arrest of Mr. Stephens, and a meeting was held in consequence last night. There is only one feeling—one opinion—one determination—one spirit, which animates z ls. We are determined to support Air. Stephens, be cauo he is the able advocate of the Chartists—with our money, with our bones, with our sinews—aye, with our s i new s, if necessary. We will not be sacrificed by either Whigs o ; Tories, nor by both united. Unite, unite, we say to alt ,zood Radicals. Persevere ! per severe! persevere ! Be n; m' and of good courage !" Many persons when they heard Mr. Stephens was in th e New Bailey, had come to him, and amongthem were a great num b er of delegates, who had said, tnat if it was requisite, they would go and take him out.—(Vehement cheering.) He had advised the delegates not to bring their forces into the field yet to support their friend Stephens ; but he did tell the men of Bradford, on Monday night, that on Thursday next if they did not liberate Mr. Stephens, they would answer for it seriously.—(Hear , 2nd cheers.) He had told them that 100,000 men wou“d march into Manchester with Magna Charts in their hands, and they would have him given up to them under any circumsances.—(Loud and vehement applause.) He could not see what charge they had against Mr. Ste phens. The Morning Herald, a Tory paper, had said that the Government had made a bungling job of the affair, that the said Government had let Mr. O'Connell scot free who had organised and advocated physical force, while they ar rested Mr. Stephens, who, they said, bad advised it. [Mr. Richardson read the article from the Her ald o fjM on d ay l as t.] One contemptible fellow 114 d asserted that from circum sttaatinoenes he had no hesi tation had instigated his fol inwt:atcyiiinhif atelh;otsi.o his knowledge, lowers to set fire to Jowett's mill.—(Cries of " Taylor and much groaning and hissing.) That man, like th e pelican, was thirsting for the blood of Mr. Stephens, and seeing the turn matters were likely to take, had of late bee r silent. On Saturday his paper had stated that it would refer to the subject again next week ; but Wednesday had passed over, and nothing had appeared. He was almost inclined to think that even that dirty creature was ashamed of the affair. Mr. Richardson concluded by calling on the meeting to give a patient hearing to the gentlemen wh( should address them. Mr. FEARGUS O'CoNNoR was called upon to move the first resolution, and was received with the most astounding cheers and waving of hats, which interrupted the meeting for some time. He said—Mr. Chairman and working men, I have always said that you were a people worth living for and worth dying for.—(Cheers.) Your attendance, your thousands here to-night, prove that I did not make s wrong estimate. My business, according to ordinary routine, would be to propose a resolution, but your pre sence here affirms it—it is a vote of confidence in Stephens. You are the moral and physical force:of the country—(Cheers)—and the presence of so many thou sands and your lusty cheers have carried the resolution before it is put.—(Cheers.) Men of Manchester, as I am a bar rister, and accustomed to the mystification of the law, it is my duty to tell you how to protect your captive friend.— (Cheers.) Fully partaking of your excitement, it is my duty to curb my own ; I look to my duty to the captive, and that only.—(Cheers.) This is called aWbig prosecution, I don't care whether it is or not. If a Whig prosecution, it shows their malice and malignity ; if a Magistrates' pro secution, backed by the Whigs, it shows their subser viency—(Cheers)—but in the excitement of the moment it is my duty to take care that Stephens is not made a Tory tool of—(Cheers) —and that that portion of the Tory Press which would support him now and gain power to crush us, shall not receive support from us. If the Whigs have done it, the Tories are jealous that they had not the power to do it.—(Cries of " Well done Feargus.") The Whigs are the devils, but the Tories are the devils in hell.—(Loud cheers.) The name of the Manchester Guardian has been mentioned, and before 1 enter upon the law of the case, I will dispatch that trash and its triages, John Edward Taylor. (Cheers.) [Mr. Feargus O'Connor here made a very coarse personal at tack on Mr. Taylor, which we exclude.—En. Susi.] It was true that Stephens had been arrested—true he had been half tried, but he had not yet been convicted.—( Hear.) In my letter to the men of Wigan and Leith I told them that Stephens' defence was in their muscles, and not in the elements of the law—(Cheers) —was I not right ? —(Aye.) Now for the law. One witness minuted Stephens. He took out his watch, and said that for the first half-hour he spoke Scripture truth—(Hear, hear) — but much of the rest he lost. This informer said he spoke two hours and thirty-five minutes. Now, he must have had a motive in this exactness—(Cheers) —and yet he takes not a single note. He speaks of excitement being produced by Stephens' harangue, and yet he says that all the materials were possessed before ; for he says that guns or pistols were fired, and that Stephens stopped the " cracking."—(Cheers.) Stephens then subdued the excitement, and since then the excitement has not been increased.—(Cheers.) The witness had taken no precau tion to defend himself, because none was necesary—(Loud cheers) —though afraid of fire, no single pound had increased his insurance —(Loud cheers) —though alarmed for life, not an extra bar to the house—(Cheers) —but he was a constable, physical-force man, and was consequently believed —aye, and if we had arms we should be believed also.— (Loud cheers.) The other man, another constable, only heard part, and went off ; he was one of Stephens' former sect, but Stephens banished them all from him.— (Roars of laughter)—and this fellow comes to the charge with all the fervency of a renegade.—(Cheers.) Well this fellow knows nothing, and although it is a maxim in law that a whole speech or a whole letter shall be read in evidence, yet these hired villains just hear enough to suit the big villains, the middle-class and the money-monger ing Magistrates and their sapient clerk—(Cheers) ---and now I believe they would open the door and gladly let the cat walk out of the trap.—(Cheers.) Out of three thousand they can only bring two to swear. Against such testimony Stephens could not defend himself like a practised barrister, and evidence was let in which was not admissible, and upon it they might as well convict him of cow-stealing as of sedition.—(Cheers.) It had no more to do with it than the Canadian war had to do with them—no, not half as much, as they would have to pay all the taxes.—(Cheers and laughter.) Who were the Magistrates? An old worn out Whig, and a namby-pamby, half-fledged Justice. What a mockery (:(f . justice ! If you had Uni versa l Suffrage— (Long continued cheers)—aye, you like that, but all those Reporters, with the exception of The Sun, will burke every word I say that is not seviceable to the Tory blood hounds. The Sun is the only paper which has supported Stephens from principle, reserving to itself the right and poiverto deal with his defenders asitthinks proper; no truck ling of editorial principle, no pandering to individuals, but a straightforward, argumentative course—warning the Government of the consequences of rashness and folly.— ( Cheers for The Sun, and cries of " We will all support it.") Aye, do so. The Times, upon the other hand—the ruffian Times—comes here as a spy—(Hisses)— and if you were all slaughtered, the Times would laughs at your survivors, and only value you as a means of getting honour for its friends.—(Cheers.) Now, my friends, no Tory triumph shall be made of this; my duty is to watch the question ; your's is to watch me.—(Cheers.) A warrant, I am told, has been issued against me.—(Uproar and groans.) Oh, wait, it hasn't been executed. I have two faults, like the Con naught-man's horse—it's devilish hard to catch me, and when they catch me, the devil a good is in me—(Great laughter)—they could make nothing of me, not even the Globe, that antediluvian paper ; I wish it would call itself the " Old World," for it knows nothing of what is going on here—(Cheers) —it considers news of three days' old as a great god-send, and comes out fresh when short memories have forgotten it—(Roars of laughter)—this dirty sheet, the dearest thing you ever saw for 5d., puts in his prate as if he bad a voice, and there it is, twenty columns of soft and dirty paper] of the most rabid trash you ever saw. This Downing-street dessert, is read in the kitchen of the palace, while the cook is cracking her nuts, and then is sent second-hand with the shells to the scullery, —(Loud and long-continued laughter.) Never mind, there are only as many copies printed at night as are ordered in the morning.--(Renewed laughter.) Well, that thing is against us, but we will beat that too. Now Oastler last night said something about Stephens being transported. It is not a transportable offence ; but if it was, and if they convicted him, they should only take his fettered limbs over my lifeless body to the hulks.—(Great cheering.) Until the exhibitions in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Birmingham took place Stephens remained un touched.—(Hear.) He was aware that there were Tory-Radicals among them, but if the real Radicals were united, they would beat all their enemies. Mr. O'Con nor then proceeded to remark upon the manner in which Mr. Stephens had been arrested, and contended that if the Government had not directed, they had sanc tioned it. If the Tories had been in power, they would have shot Stephens first and tried him afterwards. If Mr. Stephens was committed, he would advise a simultaneous meeting of all the people in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and call upon them to pass resolutions to draw all their money from the Savings Bank—(Cheers) —then to obtain gold from all the hanks in the country—and then to observe a sullen silence towards their masters, and their master's men. So much for moral, now for physical. If their master struck them, let them knock him down—(Loud cheers) — aye, and kick him for falling.—(Renewed cheers.) If an overseer or an understrapper struck them, knock him down ; and if a policeman struck them in the execution of his duty knock him down.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) Univer sal Suffrage was his motto. Others may contend for points, but that he would have.—(Loud cheering.) If the Tories had the power they would make another Pe terloo massacre. He was about to make a tour through the Scoteh districts, if they did not previously arrest him, but if they did, his (Mr. O'Connor's) trial would be a short one, and he would be able to go the next week. He could assure them that in the progress of his tour Ste phens's name would not be forgotten.—(Loud cheers.) Their presence there to-night was a proof that they had no confidence in the law--(Hear. hear, hear) — They had no confidence in the House of Commons, but they would rely upon their own moral strength. If Mr. Stephens had given ground for his arrest, they would have had reason to be ashamed of him. When the Whigs were seeking office they burned Bristol—Nottingham, and New castle, and other places were on the eve of it. While they exhibited the figure of the King, in one town, (skit his head drooping from his shoulders, and a bloody axe suspended over him. If he (Mr. O'Connor) spoke Abut their Queen in that way, he would be said to have been guilty of treason. That which in the case of the Whigs was called " moral force," in the case of the Radicals would be called " physical force." After again denouncing the Manchester Guardian and its Miter, Mr. O'Connor proceeded to observe upon the display of mili tary which had taken place within the last week in Manchester. If the people did not now stand by their leaders, they would be cut off in detail, and then the peoph themselves would bec ome an eas y pr e y to their tyrants. Let never be abl e t o put them down. After epn, and Scotchmen unite, and Go eople to call for and insist upoi againUnivmeesneat°l Englishmen,mlv S o u ff iu ff el r dri a d g i e lnr , gl h st e hhme proceeded to point out the differences of opinion that existed among the Radicals and demonstrated t h e folly and a b s urdity of division at so i m portant a cr;sis. No man had been maligned so much as their friend, Mr. Stephens, for he had never recononendea physical force. Oastler was the first to recommend that the people should be armed, but he told them by all means not to use their arms, but to keep them as family pictures, and Lord John Russell would bow to these pictures when he would turn leis heel upon the individual himself.—(Cheers.) It was not until the people had been successful that they would he applauded by the men who were now opposing them. Mr. O'Connor concluded his address amidst loud and veneral cheering, by moving the resolution, which was as follows " Resolved—That this meeting has the highest con fidence in the Rev. Joseph Rayner Stephens, for his honest, manly, and unflinching defence of the rights of the labouring population of this country ; and that this meeting pledges itself to aid the Rev. Gentleman with money and service, to free him from his enemies." Mr. OASTLER said he cane forward with much pleasure to second the resolution. Would any man say, looking at that vast assemblage, that Mr. Stephens was not appreci ated ? What else, upon a notice of six or seven hours, had brought so many persons together ? When he was about to come to the meeting, he did not anticipate, upon such a notice, that the hall would have been one quarter filled ; but in the course of a few hours It had been satisfactorily proved to him that the hearts of the men of Manchester had responded to the sud den call by thousands, where he had thought that it was only possible for hundreds to have learned that the meeting was to take place. He was right glad to see such an assem blage upon such an occasion. Although Mr. Stephens had been dragged to the dock, and from thence taken and locked up in a felon's cell, his sleep was more sound upon his iron 'actistead than that of his persecutors, who by the power of physical force had lodged him there. For what,he would ask? Let them go to Ireland and the death's-head and cross bones O'Connell—(A person on the right hand side of the platform here cried " Question." The Chairman inter fered and said th a t a ll the speakers should have a fair hearing. Mr. Oastler resumed.) —The question was for what had Mr. Stephens been dragged to the dock ? and he was about to answer it from Mr. O'Connell's mouth, because he was a " blood-thirsty villain ;" so said the death's-head and cross-bones O'Connell.—(Cheers.) But O'Connell did not know Mr. Stephens. He knew nothing of him, because villains like O'Connell never came into the company of honest men. Let them go to Birmingham and ask the traitors in the Council there why Stephens had been apprehended, and they, reiterating the cry from their master's mouth, would tell them because Stephens was a blood-thirsty devil.—(Repeated groans and hisses.) Let them ask the pretended friends of the people of Scot land, with the Reverend Parson Brewster at their head, and they would tell them that Stephens was an incendiary who would fire the factories and cut the throats of their owners.—(Loud cries of " Never," " It's False.") He knew that very well. Let them ask the Go vernment why, and they would answer " because he bath troubled us—because he has taken the Bible and the Con stitution of the land, and from the Bible and the law books he has endeavoured to explain to the people their rights —to raise them up first in their own estimation, and then make them respected by their tyrants."—(Vehe ;tient cheering.) Therefore, it was, that O'Connell and he Birmingham Council, and the Scotch traitors, and the Whig Government had raised a hue and cry against Ste phens, in order that they might then dare to take him.— ( Hear, hear,) Let them ask him (Mr. Oastler), and he hought he knew him better than any of these parties, let them ask him why Stephens had been apprehended, and he would them the truth, that it was because when Stephens lived, felony died—that where he spoke liberty raised its head.—(Great applause.) When Stephens be held the human beings around him trampled on, and en slaved in fetters, and ground down to the earth by the cruel oppressions and exertions of their masters, he spoke in the word of God, in His holy name, he denounced the tyrants, and made them tremble. That was why he had been arrested.—(Hear, and cheers.) Was he indeed an incendiary—a monster? Did he thirst for the blood of any man ? Speak, men of Ashton !—(Loud Ind vehement cries of " No, no ; never.") If there ever was an Englishman whose heart was warmed by the pure blood of benevolence—if there ever was a man who breathed lie spirit of his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ—if there was any man living in England who would sacrifice anything and everything for the poor—it was the Reverend Joseph Stephens.--(Tremendous applause.) They perhaps did not know so well as he did, Mr. Stephens —they loved him for all they knew and heard of him. He was educated in their own town, in their own grammar- School, and was afterwards in the Methodist Society. No me in that Society could ever impute the smallest error or crime to him, his conduct had been most exemplary, and they should mark this, that he was not expelled, he had left the connexion. No poor man, poor woman or no poor child, ever entered that man's house without receiving what he ;tame for—relief.—(Hear, hear.) It was astonishing to chat an extent he gave relief to the indigent around him out of his little resources. He became a tea-totaller, not ,tronger and greater than other men, because he must feel from principle, not from believing that it was wrong to drink -ell its, but to save money for the purpose of advocating the cause of the poor factory children. He felt himself that the poor were always lifting up their prayers to God for him.—(Cheers.) Those who did not know him let them go to Ashton, and they would see his good works in the altered condition of the working people there. If there w as a true Christian or a real philanthropist, it was that man who had been arraigned in the felons' dock, and whose crime was, teaching the poor to know their rights, and to find them registered in the word of God.—(Cheers.) If these Magistrates had wanted Mr. Stephens,they would have known that by sending a message or note he would have at once attended them. But that did not suit them. He was dragged by constables to Manchester, without being allowed to take leave of his wife and family. Oh, shame on the ruthless tyrants!—(Strong and general marks of indignation.) It was intended to have had a midnight examination, and to have sent him off at once to Kirkdale Gaol ; but God prevented their designs being carried into effect. Lord Francis Egerton was so alarmed, that he did what he (Mr. Oastler) had been always recommending the people to do, namely, he armed his servants for his protection.—(Hear, hear.) The charge against Stephens was, that he advised the people to arm. He had done so, and so had ho (Mr. Oastler) and he now advised them again to arm themselves. Let there be no mistake about that. The perjured villain who had given evidence against him, had actually admitted that he had provided himself with arms before ever he had heard Stephens' advice. After alluding to the tyranny of demanding 1,0001. bail in a case of misdemeanour, Mr. Oastler alluded to the refusal of the bail, and exclaimed, "Oh ! that I were indeed king for a single day, how I would punish the wretehes."—(Great cheering and laughter.) Although Mr. Stephens had slept soundly in his felon's cell, Kenworthy had never slept a wink since his commital. Saunderson, the other Magis trate who had granted the warrant, and who had induced Kenworthy to back it, while the investigation was going on was hiding in a public-house in Manchester ; and when he was asked to assist upon the Bench, he said, " No, d--n it, I wont go to the New Bailey before a thousand people ; it should have been done at Worsley."— ( Tremendous cheering.) Such was the position in which O'Connell had placed the Government of that country. Although all the disposable force in England, Ireland, and Scotland was concentrated in the manufacturing districts around them, they could not spare two troops for Ashton---(Hear, hear.) The mall-owners were in a state of syncope, and it was recommended as the last means of recovering them, to send Col. Wemyss there to parade the bright helmets and glittering sabres of the Queen's Bays for a short time.—(Great laughter.) He believed in his heart that when the troops knew how mat ters really stood, they would be found on the side of the people.—(Cheers.) Let them, however, be pre? pared to resist all unlawful aggression on their I.berties, and above all to resist the contemplated intro duction of a rural police, and the attempt which was making by the Somerset House Devil -kings to tear asun der the marriage ties. He felt satisfied that the people, iY true to themselves, would ultimately triumph. lie would not recommend thorn to come into town to-morrow ; but if they did, let them keep the pea ce . If they had arms , and he hoped all the people had them—(Hear, hear) — let them leave them at home ; but above all, whatever they did, let them keep the peace. Mr, Oastle r conc l u d e d by seconding the resolution, Mr. JOHN DEaGAN then addressed the meeting. It was a great honour to him to speak to a resolution proposed by an ultra-Radical, and seconded by an ultra-Tory.— (Cheers.) He conj ured all Radicals to unite, and they rights.eu Mr. Steph ens , w h o h a d b een so infamouslyter a high e u l og i um u p on th e benevo lence would be certain to succeed . in their legitimate efforts to b ;a i n their ndvr tu t and persecuted, Mr. Deegan stated that the people of the 'Es tricts around Ashton, notwithstanding they h a d been listening to the harangues of a man who was termed (‘ a firebrand," were unequalled by any other on the face of the earth for their peaceful demeanour and conduct. They could not wonder when they knew what the character of Mr. Stephens was, at the thousands who attended his lectures, and who had come out to meet him and hail his return from bondage,—(Cheers.) The cir cumstance would, he was satisfied, advance the cause of Radical Reform more than the agitation of a century. — (Cheers.) Every day that man's house was besieged by the old, the poverty-stricken, and the oppressed, without respect of sect or party. Among them might be seen the beaten and the half-starved slaves of the factories, with the blood streaming from their emaciated limbs.— (Cheers.) It mattered not under what Government they lived--the doctrine nr . S tephens was, that the poor l ue fed.—(Loud cheers) He would not trespass further on them, as there wera others, he presumed, to ad- I dress them. He would conclude by stating that they would be unworthy the tame of men, if they did not, rather than Mr. Stephens should be dealt harshly with, lose the last drop of their blood.—(Great cheering.) Not only the men, but the women, were ready to come out in support of Mr, Stephens when called upon ; and no Government ever yet existed in England that could resist the maidens and matrons of England, when arrayed against them.—(Laughter and cheering.) The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution, observed that a meeting would take place to-morrow evening in that room, whether Mr. Stephens was liberated or not, to re• port progress. If he was liberated he would be amongst them.—(Great cheering.) Another meeting of the Na tional Convention was also announced for Monday evening, which would be attended by a great number of delegates from various parts of the country. The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried with acclamation. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was then passed, and the meeting broke up. LAST NIGHT (THURSDAY). I had merely time to state in my last letter, that five ad ditional warrants had been issued by the Magistrates at Petty Sessions at Chowbent, this day. It is probable, however, if such has been the case, that they will delay their execution till the proceedings with respect to Mr. Ste phens are terminated. The arrest of five more leaders of the movement party in the face of the immense assemblage, which is expected here to-morrow would be rather a hazardous experiment, and would, 1 apprehend, be attended with very serious results. It is generally believed that the Magistrates will commit ; in fact, that they have made up their minds to hold the Rev. Gentle man to bail, whatever the nature of the defenee may be. Colonel Wemyss has been busily engaged during the even ing in arranging the distribution of the military force under his command for to-morrow. Placards have.been exten sively distributed all over the town, announcing a meeting of the Radicals of Manchester to hear Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Oastler, and others, on the subject of the proceedings against Mr. Stephens. There is no appearance of excitement in the town, but parties are evidently preparing for the eventful morrow. Mr. Stephens still remains in town, but has not interfered in any of the " de monstration" that have taken place on his behalf. He has been in conference with his legal adviser, Mr. Law, for some hours to-day. I have been through several of the districts immediately around Manchester to-day,and there are groups of the working classes congregated in little knots here and there, with determination impressed upon their countenances. I have heard that in many places no work has been done by the men for the last two days, nor is there any expectation that the people will settle down into tranquillity till the case of Stephens is finally disposed of. I feel satisfied, whatever numerical display of the Radicals there may be in Manchester to morrow, no manifeestation of physical force is contem plated or even dreamt of, and I only trust the authorities bete will not by any injudicious proceeding on their parts, provoke the people who are already in a high state of excite ment. All'proper precautions for the preservation of the public peace and the safety of the persons and property of the inlhabitants, it is of course their duty to take, but if they go beyond this, and become the aggressors—if, as I have heard, an attempt be made to clear the streets by troops of dragoons, it is impossible to say what the result may be, or where the effusion of blood may stop. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fcr the Week ended Dec 28, MS, made up from the Returns of ths Inspectors in the different Cities and Tawns in Englansl and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 7.3s 2d. I Oats 8ar1ey........ 37s sd. Rye ...... 52s 6d. Pease 48s. Bd. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES Or THE r.X WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat 7tli. hi. Oats Baru Rye DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. 'Wheat Barley Is. ed. Oats Us. 4d.1 Rye ... Is. Od. Pease ...... ss. Od THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. About an average supply, and a fair business done. Tur bot, 7s. to 20s. and 255. ; Cod, 2s 6d. to ss. and 15s. each Lobsters, Is. to 4s. each ; Soles, ls. to 4s. per pair ; Meat— Reef, iid. to Sid. ; Mutton, 71d. to Sid. ; Veal, Bd. to 00. Pork, 70. to BAd. per lb. ; Vegetables in fair supply, bu prices high. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies not very good, trade dull, and prices higher. Turbot, 7s. to 10s., 155., 20s. 255., and 30s. each ; Cod, 2s, to 55., 10s., and 11 s. each ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair Lobsters, Is. to 4s. each ; Whiting, 4d. to Bd. each ; Had• dock, Bd. to 1 s. each. FRUIT MARKET. At public sale - chest French plums went at 605., Cartons 100. i. to 120 s. ; i and / cartons, 110 s. to 1425. the Prunes went at 265., and Figs at 425. per cwt. COLONIAL MARKET. Very little fresh business is transacting. B. P. Sugar sells steadily, at rates previously quoted. Coffee : —97 casks 165 bags and 6 barrels B. P. sold at much about their previous value. Cotton is firm, and for to-morrow the public sales are 1,013 bales of Surat, 100 bags Berbice Coffee, some \Vine, Ilemp, and Oil, and 142 casks Molasses. THE OLYMPIC THEATRE. This theatre was last night crammed to suffocation—to the ceiling. Every place had been engaged, the greater part for weeks previously ; and the appearance of the assemblage seemed to invite the returned favourite to retort the transat lantic question—" What yo you think of our country?" The Bengal Tiger was first dispatched, with many roars, and then came the Blue Beard and the Vestris. The greeting was enthusiastic. The audience rose, hats and handkerchiefs were waved, flowers were thrown on the stage, shouts of Welcome" reiterated, and the scone prolonged until it almost appeared to become oppressive and embarrassing to its object. The applause was renewed on eac h success i ve re appearance, and swelled toits original fervour when she came forward in compliance with the call of the audience at the close of the burletta. Unless, as seemed to our distant view, Madame Vestris he somewhat thinner than usual, no alteration is percep tible. Her voice has all its lusciousness, her movements their accustomed grace, and her acting all its fascinating archness. The Burletta of Blue Beard is a genuine Christmas drol lery, full of fun and frolic. It belongs to the most enjoyable species of' burlesque. The travestie grows naturally out of the pomposity of the original. It is the trumping of a grave exag geration by a comical exaggeration, and it wins the odd trick. The scene is carried (for which antiquarian authority is pleaded) back from the East to Britanny. Bluebeard becomes the Ba ron Abornelique, in the person of Mr. J. Bland, The loving trooper is a pleasant player on the horn, and new-named Joli Coeur (Mr. T. Greene). Shakabac slides very na turally into O'Shack O'Back (Mr. Brougham), the Baron's Irish valet and groom of the blue chamber ; Fleurette ( Ma dame Vestris) bears the same relation to Fatima that a French imitation generally does to an Oriental legend. The sce nery and incidents are arranged in the same felicitous style of adaptation. Two scenes were very effective ; one is, the joyous outbreak of Pleurette and the guests, a large party, when Abo inelique is suddenly called away to answer the charge of necro mancy. They rush off to explore the castle from top to bot tom, with the animated familiar chorus of " Goosey, goosey gander:" &o. 'l'hu other is the opening of the fatal chamber, ‘iliere the nineteen former wives of the Baron appear, all in white, carefully nursing their heads, and singing, " Nid' nid, noddle, each with her noddle underneath her arm.', Many capital hits were made in the dialogue, of which one of the best received was the apology for presenting Blue Beard without the beasts, as they now belong to Drury-lane, The catastrophe is made less tragical. Abomelique, of being run through the body, is only run through ) ';s wed ' ding clothes ; but the audience heartily eqralr--" Z P"!A the declared purpose of Fleurctte to " run hint tht.(;us, , ,l, the season." Nor will it be strange should itcu survive even that. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sheerness, Jan. 2, 1839. SlR,—Captain Charles Napier having stated, in his Letter to the Scotsman Newspaper (reprinted in The Sun. of yester day), that the Russell was commissioned at this port on the 13th of July, and sailed on the sth of August, 1835—being a period of TWENTY. FOUR days ; thus contradicting the asser tion of Admiral Fleming, in his speech at a public dinner at Stirling, that this ship was fitted out in SIXTEEN days : I think it highly necessary, in justice to the Admiral, to observe, that although the Russell was certainly put into commission on the day mentioned, no work was performed until the second day af terwards ; and that she was towed out of harbour, " ready for sea," to the Little Nore, on the 31st of July—being SIXTEEN days, exclusive of tll( day she left Sheerness. I a: - n, Sir, your obedient servant, BENJ. CHININIA, Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. The Manchester Times truly says :—Of all the outcries that have been raised against the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-law, that which attributes it to a desire to divert attention from Radical Reform, that Ministers may be allowed to assert the finality of the Reform Bill, is the most foolish. And yet there are men of thorough honesty, such is their distrust of Ministerial sincerity, and such their estimation of Minis terial cunning, who imagine that " Ministers are at the bottom of all this outcry, for no other purpose than to call the people off from greater matters, such as the Ballot, the duration of Parliaments, and the extension of the Suffrage !" Mr. J. Orr, of Belfast, banker, whilst driving in his carriage on Monday, was seized with a fit and suddenly ex piTQcl. The dead body of a mariner was cast ashore at Ouckinere last week. He is supposed to 1,1a,v0 been env of the crew of the French vessel wrecked * iSeP:liaven, in the late tremendous Kale, _._ ' ' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1839. t •-t\ ,Iffs L~ itzavaSJAZIJ SHERIFFS THIS DAY.) THE STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH-RATE CASE. HOMAN V. BEETHAM. Mr, MURPHY appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. WIRE for ;he defendant. . Mr. MURPHY said, the plaintiff in this case was a gentleman carrying on an extensive business in the city, and having a residence at St. Mary's, Stoke Newington ; the defendant was a magistrate, acting in that district. The facts of the case being admitted by the defendant having put no plea on the record, it would be the duty of the jury, after hearing the statement of the facts to assess the amount of compensation to which the plaintiff was entitled for the injury he had sustained. Incidentally this case involved a question which had been a good deal litigated of late years; namely, that of liability to Church-rates. The Jury, however, must not imagine that this was a disputed liability on the ground of conscientious scruples, in which any sect or party intruded itself ; it was merely a disputed liability on the ground that the rate in its exception was illegal. The Leaned Gentlemen then proceeded to state the facts of the case, which were detailed by several witnesses. Mr. WIRE addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant in mitigation of damages. He submitted that there was in the case a total absence of every thing which could make him liable beyond the amount of damage which the plaintiff had actually sustained. The Jury, after consulting a few minutes, returned a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages 101„ costs 20s. Mr. MURPHY would take the same amount in the other ems. Mr. WIRE had no objection, but wished that Mr. Beetham should be exonerated from any suspicion of having entertained vindictive feelings. The Jury said they did not consider his conduct in that light. A similar verdict was then taken on the other cases. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COUR7'. VIOLENT ASSAULT.—George Girling, described in the calendar as a carpenter, was indicted with feloniously strik ing Elizabeth Carey with a poker, in Greenwich Poor-house, on the 21st of December last, with intent to do her some bodily harm. From the evidence it appeared that both the prosecutrix and the prisoner were inmates of the Greenwich Poor-house. Upon the day in question the prisoner was poking the fire, and upon the prosecutrix asking him what he was doing, he said, " I'll do for you, and you'll not get your Christmas din ner ;" on which he struck the prosecutrix with the poker, which laid her senseless at his feet; and when she recovered the prisoner had left the room. The prosecutrix on reco. vering found that she was very much wounded on the head and arm. She then applied to the master of the workhouse, the subject was investigated, and in consequence of the ex cited state of the prisoner, the master was induced to think he was not right in his mind ; but upon the Surgeon seeing him, he said there was no ground for any such supposition. The prisoner in his defence said he was aggravated by th e prosecutor to commit the offence. Mr. Justice PATTISON summed up, and The Jury found the prisoner Gulty of an assault only. Mr. Justice PATTISON sentenced him to twelve months' im prisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Dennis Donnovan was indicted with feloniously and mali ciously cutting and wounding his wife, Catherine Donnovan, with intent to murder her. Catherine Donnovan stated that on the 21st of October last she and the prisoner lived together in Poland-street. On the night of that day the prisoner struck her with his fist, and knocked her down, and then ran up stairs, got a chopper, and began chopping at her. She put her arm up to save her head, when he struck her with the chopper and broke her arm in two places. Not satisfied with this he wounded her on th head in six places. They had had no words before this took place. James Williams—was a surgeon at Bartholomew Hospita and was in attendance there when the prosecutrix was brough t in ; she had received several wounds on the head, and a corn - pound fracture on the left arm. The wounds on the head ha all penetrated to the bone. The prosecutrix was still unde t his care. William Penny, an inspector of police, upon hearing cries of murder, proceeded to the premises, in Poland-street. Upon arriving there, he found the prosecutrix lying upon the ground in an insensible state, covered with blood. He sent a m. 40 for a stretcher, and had the prosecutrix taken to St. Bart'nolomew's Hospital. He afterwards searched the house and found a chopper completely covered with blood and hair. When he apprehended the prisoner he was perfectly sober. The prosecutrix upon being recalled, identified the chopper produced, as the same with which the prisoner struck her. William Christall, a prisoner in the new prison, deposed that the prisoner requested him to write a letter to his wife, which he did. The letter, which was read begged the prose cutrix to forgive him for the sake of their children. Mr. PHILLips addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty to the full extent charged in the indictment. Judgment of death was recorded against the prisoner, and Mr. Baron GURNEY told him flat if it should please her Majesty to remit the severe sentence of the law, it would only he upon the condition that he should spend the remainder of his days in a foreign land, subject to the severest punishment and the hardest labour. NEW COURT. Mary Hennessey, aged 22, was indicted for stealing a ma hogany table and a looking-glass. property of an uphol sterer, in Whitechapel. road, The Jury returned a veTitict of Guilty. There was another 'indictment, charging her with receiving a carpet of the vP,lue of 61. , well knowing it to have been stolen. The COMMON- SERGEANT told the prisoner that he believed she was a person who, in slang language, was termed " a fence." Such persons, although they encouraged servants and others to commit robberies, could very seldom be brought to justice. The judgment of the Court was that she be transported for the term of seven years beyond the seas. Mary Ann Taylor was indicted for stealing a purse con taining eight sovereigns, from a person named Zachariah White. A policeman stated that he saw the prosecutor and prisoner together, on the morning of the 21st of December. The prosecutor then said the prisoner had robbed him, whic:n she denied ; but the prisoner dropped something which tte prose cutor picked up, and which was the purse and money now produced. The prosecutor did not appear, he being, as was stated, at Hull upon some business connected with the Coal Trade. The Jury then acquitted her. THE STATE CANADIAN PRISONERS AT LIVERPOOL. (FURTHER AND LATEST PARTICULARS.) During the whole of yesterday numerous inquiries were made at the residences of the gentlemen interesting them selves in the behalf of these unfortunate men, and their legal advisers (appointed to conduct the proceedings which have been taken to try the validity of the process under which the prisoners had been condemned and transported from Canada to this country, on their route to one of the penal settlements in the southern hemisphere), relative to the accuracy of certain reports which had appeared in the Public Press, some of which were copied from Provincial Journals, setting forth that an habeas corpus had been moved for by Mr. Roebuck, and granted by one of the Judges at his Chambers, and likewise that the prisoners would be brought up to the metropolis, upon the authority of the writ, For examination. In the course of the day our reporter waited on a gentle man (the most authentic source) for information on the sub ject, and obtained from him the following particulars : In consequence of Mr. Joseph Hume, M. P,, having received a letter from one of the prisoners ( Parker), informing the Hon. Gentleman that so strict was the durance under which they were kept that they were clelnlved of the advantage of professional assistance, it was round necessary that a gentle man should immediately '::tart from London to Liverpool, and make an endemar have an audience with the prisoners. On the arrival the gentleman at the doors of the borough gaol ltl wt.; refused admission to them ; and it may here he w",.:ntioned that no one, with the exception of the authorities of that establishment have had intercourse with tho prisoners. Their legal advisers in London having also dis covered that the Meteor, a Government steam-vessel, was about to leave Portsmouth for Liverpool, to convey the pri soners for transportation to New South Wales, it was deemed expedient instantly to make an application on the subject to the Secretary of State for the Home Deprrtment. Lord John Russell not being in town, it was resolved that a writ of habeas corpus should be applied for. On Friday evening last Mr. Roebuck (with whom was Mr. Theobald), attended before Mr. Justice Littledale at the Judges' Chambers, Sergeants' Inn, Fleet-street, f 0 ..• that purpose. Mr. Roebuck having addressed his Lordship, stating the facts of the case, the affidavit of Mr. Hnme ( . 4nd it is under stood that Mr. Roebuck joined the Hon. (fentleman in tho same) was read. It in substance stated 'that the prisoners had never been arraigned before or conv;.Cted by a competent tri bunal, consequently their incarce:ation was illegal, and their sentence null and void. His Lordship, without,' hesitation, immediately granted the writ. A Judge's Orde r , staying the removal of the prisoners for transportation ',laving been made out, Mr. Ilr,elmek started for Liverpool, and arrived there on Saturi!,ay morning, with an order to enter the gaol, and, if de sirous, to hold communication with the prisoners. The Learned Gentleman also served the authorities with the Judges order not to deliver up the bodies of the prisoners until the writ of habeas corpus should arrive from London. The prisoners are described to be remarkably tine-looking men, with handsome features, and of Herculean caste. They state that, as far as their condition would permit, they have been most kindly treated by the officers of the gaol. Four of them are American citizens, and, in addition to the charges on which they have been condemned, are accused of felony for stealing some old muskets. They are extremely annoyed at the report which appeared in most of the newspapers, in which they were charged with having attempted an insurrectic, o on board the Captain Ross, which brought them here. To dis prove this fabrication they have applied for and ohtained a certificate as to their conduct while in confinement i'a that ves sel. It may be here mentioned that Parker w?„ - .1 one of the three who attempted an escape from Quebec, His companions, Dodge and Tiller, succeeded. This was after his 'conviction. The prisoners are expected to arrive in town this day, and lit is said will be confined in Ncwpte t to abide the result of these proceedings. I, iter der fa ons iter ms, oli- un and( ten: rms. the .ak the Ilse. n to, and and des, 3r a care ss to dge, rates. nt at: .rr. ; n i ation ions, I the have ;iasul