The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-02 00:00:00

DUBJ: i AY. „,,, 0.'1(.0M OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. Though .k, ” This C :0110 of four pages, happy work."—Cowrza. 'no public vote of thanks has been, to my know ledgele' l '" 19 year passed to the Proprietors of The Sun, for the g E.ce an d gratification so frequently brought by the ,jPREr,s Editions of your exce ll ent journal to the rats' peo pleof 'is e'ountry, y e t I can safely say that the surprise and admi ori excited here yesterday, on reading, for the first time, in The Sun of Thursday, a full account of the reception and en ftertainment given to O'Connell in Liverpool on Wednesday, ery much resembled a feeling of congratulation and gratitude to the authors of enterprize so univemally agreeable. It is indeed a fact, not less deserving of 'notice than creditable to those who aid in the diffusion of useful knowledge, that this important manifestation of Enr,;iish sympathy, for the improve ment of Ireland, has been m'dde known to the most remote parts oR this country, as early 1 "-'y your journal as by any of the other anodes of communicatirn from England, so anxiously looked for within the last few days, or by the Dublin journals them rselves. The Lkerpoo/packet did not arrive here time enough Tay flied., to enable the Morning Papers of yesterday ° g iv e the arcount mentioned. But in the course of yester dayd the Holyhead packet got in, bringing The Sun of Thurs- 1 & a y' Co ntaining a more ample report of the reception and Liner th•an was elsewhere to be found. Consequently the %pies 0..1 The Sun transmitted by the mails of last night ireaehe'a the most distant parts of this country as soon as our Own liewspapers, or other means of commwdicating the infor ioymation. This circumstance, associated with the recollection :thinthe numerous occasions on which your journal has been the ,reks'ger of good news and g•ood advice, entitles you to the of all those Irishmr.zn, who at this moment feel more *‘44'.l ordinary interest in passing events. The means, how .er, of diffusilig this important knowledge are secondary to rale c onsideration of the knowledge itself ; for it never before appeared so evidently to the people of Ireland, that they have an interest common with Englishmen, as on the present occa sion. Your reco nizin O'Connell's efforts, in the same light that the majority gof hisgcountrymen recognize them, amounts t ° a demonstration that the faction in this country are in the bel • T hat faction ar e struggling all they can to make it ,t e r "Y , . ieved that hi s o bj ect is Popish domination. They corn -11.21e and meet f or this rurpose, and subsc r ib e money to pay ess. e/i ng fthe m nos rn alists and o r ators for imposing a similar belief on of on But foremanthoug the sympathies and 'timed him ipr.ejudiees of honest John Bull have y years past in to be duped such impositions, by thanks to the r Z erti ens of a liberal Press he is now undeceived ; he sees at the differ ences in p r i nc i p l e b etween honest men, Papist !lor Prote stant, are small and incomprehensible when compared .) the broad distinctions between philanthropists and corrup tnouists---between those who, in charity with all mankind, :rid sh are equally the bounties of Providence, and those .` n ,,. ° Would monopolize every thing, and make slaves of the reatft portion of their fellow -creatures. These times are, arteWeter, gone by; the virtuous and intelligent of all parties * re tuginn,ing to see matters in their true light; and though 8 t the ggle 0 result. may be prolonged, not a shadow of doubt exists .of e vA „._ Those who still oppose the natural progress y a - ,.7 , ar e guilty of all the evils attendant on, or which t 4l o a • -se "pm, a determination to bear down all the obstacles factaioritus;nal and universally called- for amelioration. The s eea „ 4 is every day becoming less in Ireland ; and if those pre;'' re s of Reform contemplated as the work of the ap 7;i_4.iching Session be accomplished—eighteen months will not r`eeatPassed this part;atii.ntre y away before an amalgamation of parties, and the . east political change ever witnessed will be perfected in the in - • If, on the other hand, the Orange and Tory strong enough to retard these necessary reforms, insteziv:able lii,: ° nsequenc e of such delay will be licentiousness i ngi r i f i " Th r tY---not only here, but throughout the United diately°,i;,„" the Tithe system of Ireland be not imme o - f aroMiti ""ged, or totally abolished, it will be productive ; rights gated !a3ste ealaMities. The authority of the laws and the of the landlord will be confounded with that detested the land and narchy and desolation must prevail throughout meat nni,,,,onould the Conservatives not agree to the settle tions, -,i.`"ls question, as well as that of the Irish Corpora victim they will snake th emse l ves the authors, and perhaps the deprecate. s, of that demoralizati on w hi c h t h ey forbode and justly " Be wise in time," &c. THEATRES. s i A n ST. JAMES' S. %li e d 7 ,2 W and original burletta," as the playbills have it, st ye ti T he Mendicant, was produced at this theatre for the ct s. last night, and its success was decisive. It is in two thi n The dialogue of the piece was very well, though any baerg but Witty in the main. The only points which excited tot tl rrient were a few flings at the senility and scurviness of a s acts, and th ese were greatly applauded by the audience. Tu ri t l r of Anes Sor ces el, M performed.onsieur Jaques, and H un t ing a l e, We re the o ther pie iKr• Elt on QUEEIV' S. last night made his appearance at the Queen's viv.e r e i n A th e character of Sir Bernard Harleiyh, in the re %%yin ',NIA of The Delusion. There was nothing new in the at►d °, the performance of Mr. Elton. He was composed, initk."easionally vigorous, as is usual with him, sometimes lett ib mg. 4 half point, but mostly deficient in grace. Mrs. Istis tires r t. 's Mordaunt, and Mr. Oxberry, played their respective xhe,, ll the Tnanner for which they are generally distinguished. rie ce was announced for repetition by Mr. Elton. —_____ STRAND. Itllrohibited from .reprosenting the . drama_ in any shape, Mr. v nor re -opened this theatre last night as an " Exhibition of rci et Y•" When the curtrain drew up, he came forward, evi ,eatly labouring under strong feeling, and his appearance drew iritth from the audience the usual indication s of sympathy and applause, 1e began by expressin g his fears that the task Which he ',lad imposed on himself was one that he should sink tinder, - end then, though frequently obliged to pause from strong emot!ion, delivered the following address :-- N. Ladies and Gentlemen ,—From my heart I thank you for Rh is kind, this cordial reception to my own beautiful but ill ifided little temple of the muses. Accept a victim's gratitude -4t persecuted, prosecuted victim ; the victim of an unceasing cruelty —a man brought to the very verge of ruin by tyranny Dressed in a little brief authorit , '—( Hear, hear.) Nor, / ' grieve to say, does the ruin stop 3. here, but stalks into the bosom of my family, laying waste and desolating the Freasoning faculties of one of the tenderest and most affectionate s that ever Providence linked with the destinies of man. iner s bib , the unjust proceedings against this little property made hexvi-liJiePiloor wife a stranger to reason produced a broken spirit, he rt olf fear no skill or length of time can heal. Can t th is man endure all this and not complain? Blistered be sp ; t°°gue that could be silent. lam one who when I feel I of l wronged will speak my wrongs, and scorn, by the tyranny trittnortal power, to be taught silence when my swelling heart iej se j out, ' oppression.' This theatre, now possessing pre pay 1 te e same license as the Surrey, the Victoria, Astley s, ill avilion, the Garrick, Sadler's Wells, and the Queen's ies t r t ,tre, and which license was petitioned for by all the influ sat inhabitants of theparish in which it is situated—a theatre zantthicisa.ttvvehaiicuhrtzt the shado w of a complaint was ever heard, has ever dared to breath upon, hath yet buil t e l ' favour in the Chamberlain's Office, though now offic e . ~1 11. Years, while the protecting mantle of that impartia built four ;,,' tXtended to one who had not a stone laid, or even . L e i th' - ;. °l. ,! r he ground whereon to rear his fabric. No injustice "r4il t t s ; "0 partiality in refusing bread to a starving man, kne s4 B h J e tt feed an over -pampered stomach even to nausea! I teei l srl. disParagement to the talented individual who has Prodtt—_,'avolared but I allude to the circumstance as having U lm id e l eu a very strong sensation on the public mind—as one with 8 OUid disarm all prejudice to me. I have been told, an . .°Po degree of seriousness, that the Strand Theatre is it i s a Mom- with the King. I cannot credit this assertion: kt i ,, 1 el Or the very name of Majesty. Were Ito hazard . eitistgeltl, I should say the King is unaware even of its Poqr.che; nor will I believe that such a King as William the r et N.h s lis---a Monarch so proverbial in his anxiety his I,4bject;itkied justice being dealt out alike to all _ oees "would countenance the measures that _ have m at taken to oppress and destroy me. But I act olive credence to an assertion so absurd ; it is not w the irt power e king ; it is the dirty work of some underling, retained hos eltt their by a Liberal Government, and sitting, like an incubus, i eav e ~t . Progress to popularity. Whilst all the . other t cape 'etinierated act plays of every description, from Shat_ke hatleirro to taco under the 25th of Georg b e e the thee°,', t mean nfine myself as closely as po a ss t i l of 1 , -el .lns of my license, by making the Strand . theatre totllartety. at the Mn, Matthews performed his entertainments, ltOy Le Lyceum and the Adelphi,. for years, without ICoissvense at all, and so his evidence is recorded before _a tak e it tee of the House of Commons. Mr. Yates annually lim a s ° ll i . the same license as myself, which he uses for all gas cease of entertainments. When the Chamberlain's license li ven d, have not he and the late Mr. Mathews under such tikk,ose Performed double monopololognes ? And has he not tit% 8 scenes from his most popular pieces, acting under s4ci same license, introducing Mr. John Reeves, Mrs. Honey, beetle. Whole chorus of Ladies ? Yet have no prosecutions torsobeen instituted against him. But, " One man may steal a. t:whilst another may not look over a hedge." No mat qet :1 1 te will conquer many things. If lam not allowed to and „wing' peaceably as others do—if lamto be annihilated sikree'", little Property destroyed —I stand precisely in the s ake sfittlation as ll minor theatres ; the law is precisely the tnitliner all--estroy one they destroy the whole ; and my a r efor g Will be lessened, if they be made the stepping-stone for oil a p r . l e in our Star Chamber -like dramatic law, even thou, as p r. be insulting doom, a law as disgraceful to the statute-book is Of th_g and degrading to the admirers and professors ndu kr. a lmos t a errt. ,, Rayner's peculiar circumstances it would be ;i ce . efair to exercise anything like criticism on perform •,,,,_ ; got 11 - qmnabp so hastily and under such disadvantages. He le to get through the monopologue written for him st ory rof. Attoncrieff, and, as a substitute, recited the well-known in chit ' M ary, the Maid of the Inn." The other enterta - liceo„ 'were strictly within the terms of the Magistrates' Qe• The house was poorly attended. It illW be seen by the letter of our Dublin corre 4015,0ndent, that a requisition has been signed by a majority re the the electors of Clonmel, calling upon Mr. Stephen Rice, Zand4le eldest son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to for the representation of that borough. Mr. Bag el' ha s declined to come forward, and it is generally sup- Posed that Mr. Rice will be returned without opposition._ 4 rning Paper. Viscount Howick has appointed C. C. Raper, i tt . :q.,_t o be .first clerk in the War-office, in the Private Seere tY to his Lordship. O'CONNELL AT BIRMINGHAM. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING. (Abridged from the Morning Adertiser.) BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY, FEB. I.—A meeting of the Anti- Slavery Society was held this morning, pursuant to advertise ment, at Zion Chapel, which is about two miles distant from Birmingham. A deputation had waited on Mr. O'Connell on Friday, requesting his attendance, and ho having assented the chapel was quite full before the proceedings commenced. Captain C. R. MooßsoN, R. N., took the chair. Mr. O'CONNELL here entered the chapel, and was received with loud applause. The petition was then read by the CHAIRMAN praying the total abolition of slavery and the duty on East India sugar, which was a great aid to the continuance of slavery, after which he observed that the recital of the miseries of the slaves was in deed mortifying ; and although twenty millions had been paid for their enfranchisement, were still in a state of as grinding thraldom as before.—( Hear. ) Mr. STURGE (one of the Society of Friends) read letters from several of the colonies—from the Mauritius, and from the Cape of Good Hope—stating that the slaves were still shock ingly treated, and that the new Magistrates behaved in a man ner most tyrannical ; from Dominica, stating similar circum stances; and that the new Magistrates seemed to have come there but to punish the slaves. A number of instances of arbitrary and severe punishment were also mentioned as having taken place there. He then read a letter from Grenada, stating that the negroes were shockingly overworked—they were kept at work till a late hour at night, and on Sabbaths. In a letter from Demerara it was stated that unless the blacks were taken out of the power of filch masters, the mortality amongst them would be treater under the new than the old system.— ( Hear.) All these circumstances were borne out by concur rent circumstances stated by individuals unconnected with each other. The Rev. Mr. JAMES proposed that the petition be adopted, and trusted to the borough Members for presentation, and that Mr. O'Connell be requested to support it. The Rev. Mr. NIORGAN seconded the resolution, which was passed unanimously. Mr. O'CONNELL then rose, and was received with immense applause. They had paid down 20,000,0001., the planters had received the money, but had given them nothing in return, not even thanks, for the villains said they were robbed.—( A laugh.) Yes, they received 20,000,000/. for nothing, and said they were robbed into the bargain. It was only necessary to make the people understand that they had gained but a barren victory; that they had got the laurel but no fruit; that they had the stalk but no potatoes, and they need not fear the result.—(Laughter, and loud cheers.) That a man should have property, in goods, chattels, cattle, and land, he could understand, but he could almost as soon fancy that a pig could have property in man, as that one man should treat another as he would treat his pig.—( Hear, hear.) He had no idea of paying the men who had been robbing the negroes so long, a compensation for ceasing to rob them.—( Cheers.) It was outrageous to give the money, but, after all, it was more outrageous to give them money, and not receive its value in return.—( Hear.) Let every man understand this, that the planters of the Mauritius were in possession of 50,000 slaves, to whom they could show no legal title. This case was laid before Sir George Murray, and here (for he would do justice to every man of every party) let him do justice to that gentle man.—( Hear, hear.) When this case was laid before Sir George Murray, it was highly to his credit that he gave im mediate directions that every man thus kept in slavery in defi ance of the law should be set at liberty, unless the master proved a legal title to him—( Hear, and cheers)—the proof in this case being thrown upon the master. He was sorry to say that the present Ministry had changed this plan much for the worse, for they had ordered that every slave who could prove that he was illegally kept in slavery should be set free, thus throwing the burden of the proof upon the shoulders of the slave instead of the shoulders of the master. Now, in the first place, the slave was a poor man ; he had no pro perty ; and what business had a man of no property to go to law, for what could he hope to get by it ? Next, the slave was illiterate, and where was he to draw his proofs from ? Before he left that part of the case, let him again repeat that 50,000 men, women and children, in the Mauritius, were un justly held in slavery. He said so because it was vain to tell him that they were not unjustly and illegally held in slavery, when they could be bought.—( Hear, hear.) They were call ing for the people of England's money. They were calling for two millions of money in order to purchase slaves from those who had no right to sell them, and offering to give them a title which they had not before, of becoming the slaves of the purchasers for six years. Was there a man—oh, he would not say woman--who could endure—was it possible for human na ture to endure the injustice of having such a plan as this car ried into effect ? Would it not be laughed at all over the world if they did ? Would not the Americans, who were so fond of slavery ? But there was one thing he was glad of with respect to the Americans ; they were abusing him nearly as much as the Tories—( Cheers and laughter)—for which at that distance he humbly thanked them.—( Renewed laughter.) Would not the shrewd Jonathan laugh at them ? Would they not, from South Carolina to the source of Mississippi, cry out what a good joke it was, that they had borrowed this system from Britain, and that they were extending it in regions where Britain would never have dared to carry it? Would not the shrewd cigar smokers, in the midst of their slaves, laugh at silly England, if she gave them two millions for their liberty, when, instead of which, they would be slaves in the shape of apprentices. It would really make dogs laugh.— ( Laughter.) It bore absurdity upon the very face of it. The next topic was one which England had not maturely con sidered as yet, but he hoped shortly would. It was this—that in order to increase the slave trade in the West Indies there was a tax upon sugar of Bs. in the cwt. ; and there was a greater tax upon the East India than upon the West India sugar. Every body knew that the cheaper any article was brought to market, the more of it was purchased. If the duty, therefore, on East India sugar were to be taken off, the con sequence would be a greater quantity would be brought to market ; and then this other result would also follow to the Government, without any disparagement to their revenue, it would lessen the duty to all. The West Indians had the choice between the English or foreign markets, and they would of course send wherever they could get the highest price, and they would not sell a cask here unless it brought them home as high a price as they got on the Continent, and by this drawback the sugar was made dearer to the people of England. It was for this purpose that the flogging of negroes was to be continued ; and this was the value which they were to receive for their twenty millions. Thus, the dearer the sugar, the less value they re ceived for their money. He now came to the third point—the subject of apprenticeships all over the colonies. It has been said that the measure was brought in in a most extraordinary shape, and evincing no statesmanlike qualities. He was not the eulogist of Lord Stanley—( Hear)—but he was ready to do him justice. The delicacy of political enmity—and, thank God, he knew no other—should not prevent him from doing justice to the negroes and the people of England ; and he would say, he never saw a more atrociously absurd Bill than the Negroes' Bill. There was certainly this satisfaction in it, that fifteen millions of the money was to be repaid, but the negroes on being taken from slavery were to be made appren tices by it. For how long think you ?—forl2 years !—(Laugh ter)—and there were certain old ladies' slaves, some of them were 70 years of age—and when, he wondered, would they be out of their time ? Why, when they would be 82.—( Laughter. ) And when were they out of their apprenticeship ? why when they had lived to the merry age of 82--( Cheers and laughter) —then they were no longer apprentices ; they could turn out to do for themselves when they were 82.—Laughter.) This was a splendid idea to be sure. No person had ever attempted to make 800,000 apprentices before Lord Stanley. But this was nothing to him. Eight hundred thousand 1 There was manufacturing apprentices for them.--( Laughter. ) The next step that was proposed was to give the slave-own ers a loan of 15,000,0001.; but the cry was " Oh, no : the English are a generous nation, and they might as well give them 20,000,000/. out and out, instead of 15,000,000!." Now they gave the money, but they bought with it an apprenticeship. This was said to be a preparation for emancipation : it was so, but, alas, it was but a preparation for the emancipation of the grave. The apprentice system then was worse than the the old one, for it gave no inducement to the master to treat his unfortunate slaves properly. And then as to the stipen diary magistrates, with their 300/. a-year each, can the negro invite him to a dinner or a jollification, could he invite them to a ball or a dance ? If he could or if he did, they could not go; but the turtle-soup is excellent there, and the fresh mutton and the turkeys—which I understand is a principal article of food—were all good there ; and there was plenty , of Madeira to be had at the table of the planter, and the spe cial Magistrates took special care of themselves, with their tiffin and Madeira, and thus they were all rallied round the planters, and were his friends and his allies.—( Hear and cheers.) Let them understand, then, these points. Let them understand the Mauritius robbery and the bounty sys tem, and that in the West Indies, slavery was now in a more unmitigated shape than it had been even before the late Bill had been passed. And let the people of England band them selves in the cause of humanity and charity.—( Hear.) Let the people of Scotland follow their example and on the score of humanity he himself would venture to answer for Ireland—(Loud cheers)—that was no vain boast—he would show them that it was not for the Irish Members, however they differed upon political or religious subjects—however strong were the animosities between the 66 or 68 Members who voted on the one side, and the 36 who voted on the other, and they were strong ; but on the subject of negro emancipation, they had but one opinion as to the freedom of the slave. He would support their petition, and stand just in the presence of God, having fear for no man.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. O'Connell then alluded to his support of the Dissenters' claims. He was then one of the " pressure from without," and he would again be one of the pressure from without, in giving a gentle tap at the door of the Lords.—( Cheers.) There he was " pressure from without."—( Laughter and cheers.) He called on Englishmen to assist him in carrying into full effect justice to all the chil dren of human nature, who, however they differed in colour from them, stood equal with them in the eye of God. He concluded by saying, they should all remember that if faith was good, and hope was cheering, that the greatest of all was cha rity.—( Continued cheers.) The petition was then agreed to, and after some othel speeches, the meeting broke up. DINNER AT BIRMINGHAM TO MR. O'CONNELL BY THE UNREPRESENTED. (Abridged from the Morning Advertiser.) The dinner of the Unrepresented to Mr. O'Connell took place shortly after that gentleman left the meeting at Zion Chapel. It was given in the Town Hall, which was orna mented in the same way as at the dinner on Thursday, an d w as completely filled by the Unrepresented. The gallery was also thronged by ladies. Mr. O'Connell, on his entrance, was greeted with loud cheers. GEORGE EDMONDS, Esq., tcok the Chair, and proposed, in an appropriate speech, " The King—his just prerogative."— ( Loud aprslause.) The CHAIIMAN next gave, " The People—their inalienable rights."—( Immense applause.) Mr. HADLEY in returning thanks said—The Hon. Member for Dublin, on Thursday last, said that the men then before him carried the Reform Bill. I admit their share of assistance in that great measure ; but, Sir, the men now before us are unquestionably entitled to a much larger share of honour on that occasion. We tell him that that spirit and determination which animated us then still ani mates us, and with increased intensity from the success which has attended our exertions. We acknowledge the debt of gratitude due to the Hon. Gentleman for his great services, and are resolved to pay it in full. lam convinced that the Re formers of this town and neighbourhood are prepared to make a solemn league and covenant with him to assist him in esta blishing justice for his unhappy country.—( The whole corn. pany here rose and gave three such terrific cheers as shook the very building.) He concluded by saying that wherever Tory domination reared his hydra head, it would be crushed, and that they would never cease labouring till liberty and justice was alike the inheritance of every man in Great Britain and Ireland.—( Loud and continued applause.) The CHAIRMAN would now give " Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers, and may they not forget that we are non electors."—( Loud and general cheering.) The CHAIRMAN next gave, after an appropriate preface, " The Army and Navy."—(Loud cheers.) Captain ACKERLEY, R. N., returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN gave " The Members for the Borough, the patriotic friends of the people."—( Loud cheers.) Mr. SCHOLEFIELIIO rose to return thanks amidst loud cheers. In Birmingham at present they were running a very painful race in politics, and he regretted that some of the other sex had interfered in it, going about and telling shopkeepers they would not deal with them unless they were Tories ; he was ashamed of them, and of their husbands who permitted it— they were called the unwashed and unshaved by the Tories; but this charge came very badly from the Grand Master of the Orangemen. It was said that Sir R. Peel was gone to London for the purpose of turning out the present Govern ment.—( A person from the gallery, " We'll turn them in again.") He believed they would.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. ATTWOOD then came forward amidst the most immense cheering. Their franchise was confined to 101., but it should not be three shillings, and he trusted they would soon have the rights held by their fathers—that of household suffrage. He was the friend of universal suffrage, but he was the great friend of household suffrage, because it was their constitutional right. Ile was the friend also of annual Parliaments, but was anxious to get triennial Parliaments with household suffrage, because he preferred demanding indisputable to disputable rights.— ( Hear, hear, and loud applause.) Mr. Attwood then reviewed the conduct of the Tories, evidencing what their conduct would be if they again obtained power.—( Cheers.) There had been a cry raised, that the Church was in danger ; but it was not the Church, but the loaves and fishes that were in danger.-- ( Mean) Mr. Attwood concluded by proposing " Daniel O'Connell, the talented advocate of the rights of his unhappy country."--( Loud and long-continued cheers, with waving of hats and handkerchiefs from upwards of 2,000 people ; the scene indeed, animated as it was, completely baffles description.) Mr. O'CONNELL then rose, and was received with the most tremendous and continued cheering. The Tories accused them of being never satisfied, whatever instalments of liberty might be given to them. Why ; they were not satisfied with instalments—they wish for entire liberty; and no blame to them either.—( Cheers.) Such was the good sense of the majority of the English people, and so great a dislike had they natu rally to agitation, that the fault was rather the other way, as was proved by the general cessation of agitation when the Re form Bill was carried. Was Toryism to prevail, or was it not ? The system of Toryism was essentially a system of monopoly. The Tories wanted power in order that they might quarter their sons, their daughters' husbands, their nephews, and their cousins, on the Church, the Army, the Navy, the Excise, and the Customs. It was even said by one of themselves that he looked upon the Irish Church as a fine milch cow for the chil dren of the Aristocracy. Toryism was the assumption of the powers of the State for the benefit of particular classes to the exclusion of the people. It gives the people leave to work in order that the Tories might receive the pay. It put its spoon into every poor man's dish, and it took a spoonful in taxes out of the tea-cup of every infant. It took a quarter of every slice of bread from every poor man's child; for the Tories had a corn tax of 25 per cent.—( Loud cheers.) Now was Toryism to prosper, or was it not?—( Shouts of No.) There was a battle between two great principles now goinc , on, be tween the principle of Toryism on the one INAnd, and prin ciple of democratic liberty on the other—democratic liberty, which gave to every man his own, and to some, though not to every knave, a halter—(Cheers)—democratic liberty, which would make law cheap and not dear—which would make reli gion a matter only between man's own conscience and his God —which would make representation and taxation consistent with each other, and extend throughout the empire the influ ence of truth, justice, and common sense.—( Applause.) But what was it they would look for in the coming session ? First then, with relation to the Protestant Dissenters—he had read with great pleasure the declarations put forth by the Com mittee of the Protestant Dissenters in London.—( Hear.) They had condensed their claims into eleven propositions, of which he would take two as the chief :---Ist, That no clergy man should interfere in any spiritual function, such as mar riage, baptism, &c., except for the people who confided in that clergyman, and believed in his opinions. This was com mon sense. The next was, that Protestant Dissenters should not be compelled to pay church-rates or any other contribu tions to any church, in the faith of which they did not believe. The only thing was the shorter duration of Parliaments. Short accounts made long friends. Mr. Attwood said three years ; and as it was so settled in the time of the revolution; he did not object, for he believed old things, provided they were good, though he would certainly take any thing spick and span new, if it were better, and small blame to him for it. But he would have the three years certain, and not three years subject to the caprice of any Minister who might wish to dis solve the Parliament before that period. Mr. O'Connell next referred to the vote by ballot. Vote by ballot was essentially necessary, in order that the sentiments of the people might be recorded by their Representatives in Parliament. They had invited him there as to a dinner of the unrepresented portion of the inhabitants of Birmingham ; and he would ask them why they were so ? or were they content ?—( Cries of " No, no.") Let them look at it in this point of view. Here was a class who voted—here a class who did not. Were those who did vote framed by nature of higher or better materials than those who did not ?—( Hear, hear.) If not, don't consent to be without the franchise. Were they more honest ? Oh ! they were not, nor half as honest.—(Loud cheers.) On the ground of taxation and property every man had a right to vote, and justice would never be done until every man did vote.—(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. 0' Connell) would take it from them by degrees.—( Much laughter.) He was not at all an unrea. sonable creditor. He would take some portion of suffrage from them first ; and when he had quietly gotten that, he would look for the rest—( Hear, hear) —and not cease until every man would be on a footing of equality, as every man ought to be.--(Cheers.) Let legitimate distinctions exist in point of property and title, if they chose—and Heaven knew he did not envy them their title—but " a man was a man for a' that"—(Loud cheers)—and if any man claimed to be more, in his (Mr. O'Connell's) opinion he was less. There were only two two natural distinctions—men and beasts--(Great laughter)—and those who claimed to be more than the former might take their situation in the category of the latter.— (Cheers.) If the Tories came in had they any chance of effecting this?—(" No, no.") Would they make the unrepre sented represented ?—(" No, no.") He would tell them what —it would be better that they should die to the last man, than not be represented.—(Great cheering.) The Tories might break their oaths—the Lords might violate their pledges of of honour ; but he was sure the men of Birmingham would never violate their words—they were pledged to do justice to Ireland, but that pledge was of no use unless they determined upon the means. That means would not be obtained except through a reform of the House of Lords. He recommended them to pursue a course of peaceful and constitutional agita tion ; and for his part he was contented to take the smallest share of lordly reform that would let in the democratic prin ciple of popular control. He would not change one atom of the frame of the constitution in doing so, unless, indeed, that part of it which was so rotten as to endanger the in terior of the building. He addressed this to them because Ireland was now embodied with them. There was now no Ireland. She was no longer a province, but a part of Eng land.—( Enthusiastic cheering.) They had determined with him to do away with this abominable tithe system. They had expressed their determination that Ireland should have corpo rate reform as well as England, for she wanted it as much— this was all he asked, all the rest was common cause between the nations ; but give Ireland these and they would be doubly strong.—(Loud cheers.) He was now strong in the aid of the conjugated millions of Ireland, and doubly strong in the aid of the hundreds of thousands of English.—( Cheers.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then alluded to the gradually increasing prosperity of Ireland within the last year, since the government of Lord Mulgrave, and passed a high eulogium upon that Nobleman and Lord Morpeth.—( Loud and continued cheers.) After Mr. O'Connell several other toasts were given, and speeches were made, which we shall give to-morrow. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1836. present. In the last eleven years, successive Administrations had taken off seven millions of taxes. Surely they could, if they had liked, have included the half million of taxes on knowledge, acknowledged by themselves to be most hateful and bad, among the reductions.—( Hear, hear.) All the crimes and excesses which misery had driven a starving people to commit, had been attributed to the bad passions engendered and fostered by ignorance. Yet, had the Administration stoutly refused to take off the taxes on that knowledge, the free diffusion of which would have removed that ignorance and softened those passions.—( Hear, hear.) It remained for the people, by steady and undivided perseverance in legal means to enforce the total abolition of those taxes. Nothing but union and perseverance would effect this ; and nothing but the unhappy course fallen into by Reformers of dividing among themselves upon half-a-dozen different points, each party refusing, as to a deadly foe, to give the slightest way to the other, instead of forming into an united body immoveably fixed on the attainment of each great reforming measure in succession. Nothing but this un happy division among themselves could so long have retarded the abolition of this obnoxious impost. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to suggest that such eligible clippings might be made in the various departments of the Army, the Pension List, the half-pay, and dead weight, &c., as would very speedily mount up to the sum required by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer in lieu of the newspaper stamps. It had been said that the forcible resistance to this law was a moral duty. Fully admitting that it was conscientiously and honourably upon this principle that Messrs. Cleave, Hetherington, and many others had proceeded, he could not himself express a feeling that the violation of the law, however bad, was a moral duty__( Hear, hear)—and he had been a witness to too much of the misery which the imprisonment of many of the venders of the un stamped newspapers brought upon their wives and families to give encouragement to the course which brought it about. The most effectual way of removing this disgraceful tax was for the Reformers to persevere in their united efforts, and to take care that they had no men for Representatives who would not do a'way with the nuisance. It was useless, as well as ab surd, for them to talk about reforming the Lords, while in a House of Commons of their own choosing there were not fewer than 300 Tories out of a body of 658 Members. Let them send into that House 500 stanch Reforming Representa tives, and the tax upon newspapers, and every other nuisance, would speedily be removed. The Hon. Member proceeded to express his belief in the honest intentions of the present Mi nistry, and cited several of their measures of the last Session in justification of his opinion. Mr. WARDEN, in moving the first resolution, took occasion to objurgate Air. Bulwer for what he described as his treachery to the people, on the occasion of his motion about stamps on newspapers. The first resolution was as follows : " 1. Resolved, that this meeting consider it the duty of Government to afford the easiest and cheapest facilities for promoting instruction amongst the mass of the people; and that, consequently, all taxes or imposts which restrict the cir culation of knowledge are tyrannical, odious, and unjust ; and that any Executive Government which could attempt to enforce bad laws, by the seizure and imprisonment of men, women, and children, would not be entitled to any portion of public confidence." Mr. WATSON seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. NoaTunousE, of Lincoln, attempted to address the meeting from the other end of the room, after the attack on Mr. Bulwer, but was induced by the Chairman to come to the platform, and wait till the resolution was carried. He avowed himself to be a decided friend to the untaxed and unlicensed spread of knowledge. The proceedings of that night were sufficient to convince him of the necessity of educating the people, when the best and the brighest of the benefactors of mankind were allowed to be assailed by the petty strife of little minds—when they whose luminous lives had brightened the whole path of freedom, kindled it with their energy, and gilded it with their beauty—when such men as Bulwer and Brougham—( Loud cheers and partial hisses)—when the long continued services of such men were forgotten, and for an act —possibly a misrepresented, probably a mistaken, but cer tainly a solitary act—they could be branded as traitors, and denounced as enemies to the people, it was indeed an unan swerable argument in favour of the object of the meeting. He had that day been with Mr. Bulwer, and could bear tes timony to the anxious desire of that gentleman to carry this great question. Let them consider for a moment the cir ncoutmgstraanteefens of lly, the ,t case, a justly, and then with ith severesay whether justice, y —no, a h t e e y f u n l o l y n — l d n o o r , ought to listen to those attacks upon him. It was said he might have carried his motion—perhaps he might—what then? Would the tax be nearer its repeal? Could not the next night the supporters of Government, if so disposed, as in the case of the Malt Tax, have joined with the Tories in a full house, or even absented themselves altogether ; and then what could have been the gain of a solitary vote in a thin house obtained by accident ? Mr. Bulwer got that which was of vastly more importance than a mere triumph—he got the solemn pledge of the Government that the tax should be repealed.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Bulwer a traitor, indeed I If lie were a traitor, he was a strange one, for lie accompanied his treachery with a speech so powerful, so luminous, so unanswerable, in favour of the very cause which you are told he betrayed, that the page of parliamentary debate, studded as it is with the brightest coruscations of genius, has none to surpass it in either argu ment or eloquence.—( Cheers.) Such, however, has been the fate of all men who struggle and waste their lives away in toiling for an uneducated, a thoughtless, and a thankless people. They, whose lives will in after history be— " Like dials, which the wizard Time Hath raised to count his ages by," must expect in this life ingratitude, envy, and suspicion. He ( Mr. N.) considered the repeal of the tax on knowledge to be absolutely necessary from the great democratic power which the Reform Bill gave. The law had been lifted up to the wishes of the people, and it now became necessary to lift the people up to the law. Only about one-sixteenth of the adult population enjoyed the franchise, yet he dared to assert, that not one in twenty of that small proportion understood the nature of the franchise he possessed, or believed that he held it, for any other purpose than his own advantage : they know not that it is a sacred trust which they hold for the remainder of their countrymen, who are yet shut out from the temple of the British Constitution—a trust which they hold for the hundred millions of men who are subjected to the British laws—a trust for the whole family of man.—( Cheers.) At present the means of enlightening the people are confined to the stamped press, the price of which renders it unattainable to those to whom you have given power without intelligencet and the unstamped press conducted by men who canno, calmly reason, but who are rendered sore and savage by in justice and oppression—desperate from their position, reckless from their poverty, the very pirates and buccaneers of litera ture, and little fitted to consider quietly or justly practical measures of government, or organic changes of Constitutions ? —( Cheers, and hisses.) After some further observations, Mr. N. sat down, stating that he had not intended to take any part in the proceedings, and should not have done so, but for the gross and unfounded, ungrateful and unjust attack upon his friend, Mr. Bulwer. Mr. CLEAVE moved the second resolution, agreeing to a petition to Parliament for the repeal of the stamp-duties, and the release of all persons now in confinement for violations of the stamp-laws. The petition to be presented by Mr. Wakley. Mr. Cleave said the whole of the prosecutions on this point were forced on the Stamp-office by the proprietors of the stamped press, who, he added, were go ing to have a meeting to-morrow (this day) to consult how best to annihilate the unstamped. Mr. BELL seconded the resolution, which was carried una nimously, as was a vote of thanks to the Hon. Chairman. PARIS. INFERNAL MACHINE PLOT. COURT OF PEERS, SATURDAY, JAN. 30. TRIAL OF FIESCHI, PEPIN, MOREY, BOIEEAU, AND BESCHER, FOR THE CONSPIRACY TO TAKE AWAY THE KING'S LIFE BY MEANS OF THE INFERNAL MACHINE EMPLOYED ON THE 28TH JULY, 1835. The hour fixed for opening the proceedings in this extraor dinary case was twelve o'clock, but, strange to say, the ap proaches to the Luxembourg exhibited no signs of public cu riosity, and even at the entrance of the Court, there were not more than twenty or thirty persons, and only two police-offi cers. The square inside the entrance gate"was occupied by a strong body of the Municipal Guard, Soldiers of the Line, and National Guards. About twelve o'clock the Peers began to arrive in rapid succession. We also ob served several Ambassadors' equipages in the line of carriages. At the entrance to the vestibule was stationed a number of police-officers and Municipal Guards, the hall itself beinr , lined with Municipal Guards, as the prisoners were to be conducted into Court through that passage. Although a quarter past twelve was the hour appointed for calling over the names of the Peers, it was almost one o'clock before they took their seats. The interior of the Court had undergone hardly any alteration since the trial of the state prisoners of the April affair; the space allotted to the prisoners was merely contracted by means of two par titions, leaving only sufficient room for the five prisoners and the Municipal Guards. On the floor of the Court and to the right of the President was Owed the infernal machine, consisting of 25 gun-barrels mounted upon a solid oak stand, and arranged upon an inclined plane, in the same manner as upon the memorable occasion for vhich the infernal machine was invented. On a small table ye observed the cords pro vided by Fieschi for his escape, tie formidable martinet or cat and three tails, made of leathern thongs, having leaden bullets at the ends. Upon the desc of each noble peer lay a copy of the act of accusation, the roort of the Attorney-Ge neral, and othei voluminous papers 3onnected with this case. At half -past 12 o'clock the Gent was crowded to excess, every seat reserved for the public was occupied, and even standing room was eagerly sought ifter. At one o'clock the number o f P eers in attendance was greater than we recollect having s een on any former occas i on A mongst the number were Prin ce T alleyrand, the D u k e ce V a l entino i s (Pr i nce of Monaco), the Marquis de Dreux Brze, and Marshal Gerard. The greater portion of the Peers ately appointed were also present, but merely en amateurs, ant not to take part in the deliberative proceedings. At the above hour the five prisoners namely, Fiesehi, Pepin, Morey, Boireau, and Bescher, were led in by the Municipal Guarls, and placed upon the bench prepared for them, in the sane way as upon the trial of the April prisoners. Each prisomr sat between two Mu nicipal Guards. Colonel Feistamel, and several dicers of that corps, took their scats behind. The witnesses, tc the number of 155 in all -105 f or the prosecution, and 50 fo- the defence — occu p ie d three boxes immediately above the spec allotted to the pri soners; several female witnesses vere in attendance, and amongst the number Fieschi's three nistresses. On entering the court, Fiesehi walked forward witl a firm step, and with a tranquil and rather a gay countenance ; he even smiled on step ping over the bench, and looked about with an inquiring eye, but in an unaffected manner. All eyes of course were instantly turned towards him, but without producing any apparent em barrassment in the object of their curiosity. Fieschi is a man of short stature, stout and broad-shouldered, but somewhat al tered by his long illness. He looks 50 years of age, although only 41. This must also be attributed to the same cause. On his left temple is a large cicatrix, left by the wound inflicted by the bursting of one of the gun-barrels, from which acci dent he seems to have completely recovered, at least as far as the wound is concerned. He wore a suit of black, and black neckcloth. The prisoner Morey was helped into court. He appeared in a very feeble state. He wore a black silk nightcap, which formed a striking contrast with the extreme paleness of his countenance. Pepin walked quietly to his seat, but he seemed much de jected. He is a remarkably tall man, with dark hair, and rather a fierce expresskin of countenance. He had on a new suit of black clothes. The prisoner Boireau is a young man about five-and-twenty. He sat down With a careless air, and looked about to examine the arrangements of the Court. The prisoner Bescher had nothing particular in his appear ance. Shortly after the prisoners were led in, the crier announced the court. The President, Baron Pasquier, took his seat, and the Registrar proceeded to call over the list of Peers, 175 of whom answered to their names. The Procureur-General ( M. Martin du Nord), and the Advocate-General (M. Franck Carre), attired in their scarlet robes, were present on the part of the Crown. The counsel for the prisoners were MM. Parquin, Chaix d'Estange, Patorni, for Fieschi ; MM. Dupont, M. Philippe Dupin, Marie, and others, for the rest of the prisoners. The President having reminded the advocates to plead with all due decency and respect for the laws, proceeded to ask the prisoners their names, professions, addresses, &c. Fieschi, in a firm and audible voice, replied, " My name is Joseph Fieschi, my age 41. lam a mechanician by profes sion, and my residence was at No. 50, Boulevard du Temple (the house whence the infernal machine was fired off). The place of my birth is Murato, in Corsica." The prisoner Morey said he was 62 years of age, was born at Chassaigne ( Cote d'Or), his trade was that of a sadler. He usually resided at No. 23, Rue St. Victoire, Paris. The prisoner Pepin gave his Christian names " Pierre Theo dore Florentine," 35 years of age, and carried on business as a grocer; was born at Remy ( Aisne). He lodged at No. 1, Rue Faubourg St. Antoine, Paris. The prisoner Boireau said he was 25 years of age, born at La Fleche ( Sarthe), worked at the lamp-trade, and resided at No. 77, Rue Quincampoix. The prisoner Bescher (Tell) said he was 41 years of age, was engaged as a bookbinder, born at Laval, in the depart. ment :of Mayenne ; he lived at No. 8, Rue de Bievre, Paris. The above formality having been gone through, The President directed the registrar to read the act of accu sation, at the same time recommending the prisoners to pay the utmost attention to the contents of this document. The Registrar then commenced reading the act of accusa tion, but he was interrupted at the end of the first page by a scream from the witness-box. It was immediately ascertained that the cry proceeded from one of the female witnesses, who had fainted; it was, in fact, one of Fieschi's mistresses (Nina Lasave) ; she was removed to the open air, and shortly reco vered, and came back to her seat. She is only eighteen years of age, and Ills an agreeable countenance, although deprived of the sight of one of her eyes. She was fashionably attired in a merino cloak, white silk hat, kid gloves, &c. She lent great attention to the act of accusation. During the reading of this document, which we gave at length a short time since, the prisoner Ficschi became occasionally restless, took snuff constantly, rose up from his place, folded his arms, listening carefully to the act of accusation, always resorting to his snuff box whenever anything seemed to annoy him in the document; in fact, the box was sometimes hardly in his pocket, when he hastily drew it out again, and took a large pinch of snuff in rather an affected manner. The reading of the act of accusation occupied the Ccurt until past three o'clock. During the whole of that time the prisoner Fieschi conducted himself with the same assurance and sang froid we described in yesterday's report. Occasion ally he assumed a disdainful smile, and shook his head when any of the National Guards, in a box to his left, stood up to take a view of his person, or when any passage in the act of accusation'excited his particular attention. He then had re course to his snuff-box, and also drew out a little memorandum book, upon which he took a hasty note of the objectionable point. If, however, any allusion was made to his supposed Republican opinions, he was observed to give an impatient nod of the head. The prisoner Morey appeared completely absorbed in thought, his head bent upon his chest, leaning with his back against the pillar behind him. Pepin maintained a sort of stupified And downcast look, and sometimes had his head in his hands. The appearance and conduct of the other prisoners pre sented nothing very remarkable. The Registrar having. concluded the readin g r , of the act of accusation, the list of the witnesses (in all 155) was called over. They were then ordered to retire, At half-past 3 o'clock the sitting was suspended for a short time, and the Court retired to the Council-Chamber, but se veral of the Noble Peers remained, and quitting their seats ap proached the bar, apparently with the view of conversing with some of the Counsel, but no doubt for the purpose of having a closer inspection of the prisoners, arid particularly of the chief actor, Fieschi ; the latter was by no means abashed at the cu riosity he excited, but maintained a quiet and even careless countenance ; from time to time he conversed familiarly with M. Patorni, his advocate, and seemed to be flattered with the general attention of which he was the object. It is said that he expresses great contempt for his accomplices, and accuses them of faint-heartedness and cowardice. The prisoners were removed for a few minutes, and on being brought back, the Court resumed the proceedings. The pri soner Fieschi was placed at the middle of the bench in order to undergo his interrogatory by the President, who ordered him to stand up. President—Was it not you, Fieschi, who, on the 28th of July last, you being then at the house No. 50, Boulevard du Temple, at the moment the King was reviewing the National Guards and troops of the Line, and was passing opposite to the Jardin Ture, on the Boulevard du Temple, applied a match to the machine now in Court, and the explosion of which had killed or wounded 40: persons, and had exposed to peril the lives of the King and Royal Princes by whom he was surrounded ? Fieschi—Yes, Sir. . . President—The machine in question consisted of a strong framework of oak, three feet and a half high, with iron fas tenings, surmounted by a certain number of gun-barrels, placed upon an inclined plane, and secured at the upper end by a bar of iron, extending from one side of the framework to the other? Fieschi—Yes, Sir. The prisoner continued to give a fur ther description of the infernal machine, in reply to the Pre sident. The framework and fastenings were so constructed that the gun-barrels could easily be raised or lowered, so as to give them a particular direction. The machine before the Court is the one I made use of in committing the crime with which I am charged ; there were 24 gun-barrels mounted upon the frame, each barrel was charged with two bullets, four small balls, and one bullet cut in four pieces ; in one of the barrels there were, in addition to the above, two screws about an inch long. The train of gunpowder was placed along the trans verse iron bar, and so arranged as to communicate with the touchholes of each barrel. It was by means of this train and of the firebrand found ignited in my chamber, that I set fire to the machine. It was I myself who applied the fire at the middle of the train. Some of the gun-barrels burst, and it was in that way that I received the severe wounds in my hand and head. They, however, did not prevent me from trying so escape by means of a rope suspended from the win dow. When apprehended in the inner yard of the house, I was taken by the police to the guard-room at the Chateau d'Eau, on the Boulevard, where I was searched. They took from me a martinet armed with three leather thongs and leaden bullets, a knife with several blades, and a small quantity of gunpowder. Subsequently they found a poniard at the same guard-house ; it belonged to me, and I had sufficient cause to make use of it upon that occasion, for whilst in the guard-room one of the National Guards came behind me and gave me a blow with his fist. I was enraged at this treatment, not being accustomed to suffer blows of that description. I recollected that I had a poniard—however, fearing to make use of it un der such provocation, I flung it from me upon a camp bed. I previously never went without that poniard. President—What was your intention in buying the picture of the Duke of Bordeaux ? Fieschi—lt was in order to mislead, so that no one should guess whether the deed had been accomplished by Carlists or Republicans. I was advised also to get a supply of Opposi tion papers for the same purpose, but 1 forgot to do so. Morey assisted me the day before in loading the barrels of the ma chine ; he left me at 11 o'clock at night, and from that moment no one came into my room. Ido not know whom the extra hat found in my room belonged to. My own was a new one, and I wore it when I was arrested, but it was stolen from me afterwards. President.—You know the number and the names of the persons who fell a sacrifice to your attempt. Tell us, was it not your intention that the King, whose forehead a ball grazed, should, with the other members of his family around him, be the principal victims ? Fieschi.—l have already told you the truth as to that, and I will tell it again. I say, then, yes; the attempt had been prepared by me and my accomplices, with the view of taking the life of the King and of his sons. President.—What could have been }our motive for so atro cious an act? Fieschi.—Mr. President, I am but indifferently acquainted with the French language, but I will do my best to make my self understood. I am a Corsican, and I was formerly a sol dier. I was condemned, in 1815, along with Murat, but my sentence was afterwards commuted, and ultimately declared innocent by the Court of Draguignan. I was prevented from re-entering the army, and after the revolution of July, I offered my services to the new Government, and received a portion of the money set aside for political victims of the Restoration. I am neither Carlist nor Republican. I was incorporated with the veterans and was happy, when, at an ill-fated hour, I formed a connexion with a female, which reduced me to my last shirt. I have been in the service of M. Cannes, and of M. Lavocat. M. Baude, the Prefect of Police at the time, also employed me. I feel very grateful for their kind ness. On the 23d of April, 1834, I was accused of having falsely represented myself a political sufferer under the Res toration. The fear of consequences compelled me to lead a life which drove me to extreme distress. I could not procure myself wherewith to dine, not even a couple of sous to get shaved. It was then that the man whom you know opened his house to me, and that the plot about this unfortunate machine was entered upon. My accomplices, Sir, were men beneath mo ; they were not equal to my worth. I have only committed one misdeed in the course of my life, and that one will lead me to the scaffold. I regret that so many should have suffered from my deed; I ant truly sorry for it, but the thing is done. I have never bek'uged to any political so ciety ; but I was acquainted with fo'lr members of one, who. often came to dine at the house of the woman with whom I kept company. They professed conten.'pt for me, because they looked upon me as a Bonapartist. President—But lime you not sometimes crofessed repub lican principles? Fieschi—l am obliged .to . say no. What h as b een sa id o f greatmy desirevingdtoonesprseoad a bisfael le. Some pers ons h ave s h own lie.` that I was in the habit of asso ciating with the enemies of t.7.‘e Government, but Messrs_ Carries, Lavocat, and Baude cat;' Attest that I was not the man to do that. The President then questioned Fieseh.l as to his i n ti macy with Pepin. Fieschi accused this accornpliCe of his, exactly as stated in the act of accusation. President--Did you ever .belong to the Society of the Rights of Man ? Fieschi—Never; occasionally I met some of its memht'rs at dinner, as I said before; but we could never ag ree, for f was a Bonapartist. They never inspired me with any sentimeots inimical to the reigning family. President—Where did you first conceive the thoughts of this attempt ? Fieschi—At Morey's, towards the close of December, 1834. I made the model of the machine by the aid of some military recollections, in order to show that a whole regiment might be killed by it. But that model bad 90 barrels. When Morey saw it he said, " This would do very well for Louis-Philippe." He showed it afterwards to Pepin. President—How did Morey speak to Pepin about the ma chine that you had constructed ? Fieschi—He made al appointment with Pepin, in conse quence of which we breakfasted all three together, and dis cussed the matter between us. Morey told me afterwards that a sum of money might be placed at my disposal, to put into execution a plan still more important; It was that of hiring a house contiguous to the Chamber of Deputies, and blowing up the King and all his family while there. But I made hint perceive the impracticability of such a plan. Morey then told me, that if the King came within 150 yards of his musket, he would not miss him. He need not have said this to me, for I knew it well enough. In our first interview, Pepin asked me for a model in wood of the machine of which Morey had spoken to him. I made the model, and left it at a house in the neighbourhood. Some days after I went to that house, and no longer found it there. As lo what such a machine would cost, I told Pepin it would be 500 francs. He said—" Such a sum is not likely to stop our purpose." The Ist of May was first fixed for the attempt, it being the King's birth-day. We looked out for a suitable apartment, and after visiting a great number, I pitched upon the one on the Boulevard du Temple, on the 15th of March. I took Morey to look at it, and it was on .his approving it that I took it. He gave himself out as my uncle, and I took the name of Girard. Pepin also came and looked at it, in order to examine the spot on which we could fir the machine, so as to hit the King. I said in the house that I was a me chanic, in order that I might introduce my implements with out attracting notice. I worked, and although it was 'for the commission of a great crime, I might say that I was regularly earning my livelihood. It may be said- that lam a great criminal, but surely lam not an assassin. I call an assassin a man who murders another, in order to get at his purse; but I fully admit that I am a great criminal. Fieschi then spoke of a dinner at Pepin's, where there were several persons, among whom was Ni. Recurt, concerned in the proces d' Avril, an advocate, and a deputy. The sub ject of attempting the life of the King was discussed. The de-. puty said. " Let the mutton boil well." Fieschi further stated that it was he himself who bought the timber used for the machine, and that he paid 6 francs for it to a carpenter in the Rue Montreuil. Those six francs were supplied by Pepin for that express purpose. After a few more unimportant questions relative to the frequency of Morey's calls on Fieschi at the Boulevard du Temple, the sitting was adjourned by the President till Sun day, at 12 o'clock at noon. COURT OF PEERS—SITTING OF SUNDAY, JAN. 31. At a quarter past 12 o'clock the five prisoners, Fieschi, Morey, Pepin, Boireau, and Bescher, were introduced with the same ceremony as on the preceding day. The only dif— ference was, that Fieschi, instead of being placed first on the prisoners' bench, was led to the centre scat, which he occupied with the same cavalier air so remarkable at the former sitting. He spoke familiarly with the officers of the court and the municipal guards, and seemed particularly anxious to show the cicatrix of the wound on his hand, that on the temple being so evident as to be plainly visible from every part of the court. The prisoner Morey occupied the first seat ; he still appeared extremely ill, but be paid more attention to what was passing than on the previous day. The prisoner Pepin had a less gloomy air than yesterday; be rose to make an inclination of the head when his cotosel came into court, and took his seat in front of him. The other two prisoners offered nothing particular in their manner or appearance. The interior of the court was crowded in every part, and contrasted forcibly with the want of external marks of interest or popular curiosity, for although Sunday, there were not more than twenty or thirty individuals at the entrance of the Palace of the Luxembourg. There was a numerous attendance of Peers ; we did not, however, observe Prince Talleyrand amongst the number. Several foreign Ambassadors and diplomatic personages were also present. At half-past 12 the President, Baron Pasvier, took the Chair, and the Registrar called over the list of Poers. The President ordered Ficschi to stand up, and continued his interrogatories commenced at the former sitting'. The prisoner was ,questioned as to his intimacy with the three females whom be had kept as mistresses ; he said that one? of them was named Nina Lasave ; she was, in fact, his only m:s tress at that time ; the other was the mistress of one of his friends, and the third was an acquaintance of Nina's brother ; he. took a special interest in the welfare of the second female ; she shared his lodging and table ; he respected her much, for he had always been a man of honour. The three females were not his mistresses ; in fact, he thought that one wife was half too much.--(Laughter.) - He conversed with them on different subjects ; it could not be supposed that he would talk politics with women. Nina Lasave knew that I was intimate with Pepin, and that I had credit for money at his house—that is to say, for small sums, as is the case every day in Paris ; he regarded Pepin in the light of a friend. He told Nina that Pepin and Morey would take care of her if anything happened to him ; he was then seriously engaged with the plot, and he had therefore told her the above, as also that he could not any longer keep her at his lodgings, not having the means ; but it was agreed, that in case he was forced to fly, Morey and Pepin were to pay her sf. each per month. Nina was only acquainted with Morey, who often came to the house. The girl 81 ocquin knew Morey. He became acquainted with the prisoner Boireau in 1834, at the shop where he worked. He sometimes saw him at his (Boireau's) lodgings. He called on him on the 23d of July last, with the intention of sharing his bed, as it was too late to return to his own house. The porter at Boireau's would not allow him to go up stairs, as it was late. He could not say that he returned there the following day to take a bed, but he certainly slept there on one occasion. The prisoner replied to many of these questions in a very sharp tone, often speaking with much energy and action, crossing his arms, and giving other demonstrations of sang froid. He was still under exa mination when our reporter left. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARTS, JANUARY 29. Five per Cents., 1085: 95. 109 f. 25e. Four per Cents., 102 f. Three per Cents., SOf. 25c. 15c. 35c. 50c. National Loan, 108 f. Sic. Rank Actions, 2,150 E Rente de Naples, 99f. 25c. 20e. Roman Five per Cents., 103%. Spanish Actives, 48, 7 i 49 , A !.( ii Spanish Differes, 25;4. Spanish Passives, 15'5 16!‘a1A. Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagnc, 37%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103 X. Portuguese Three per Cents 53 Dutch Two and a half per Cents , 56f. 25e. Ilaytian Loan, 4105. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 4'Nc. ; money tlsf. 4714 . e. Three months, paper, 25r. 32%e. ; money, 25f. - rs Authentigue. FRENCH Ft_INDS.-Fa RN, JANUARY 30. Five per Cents., 109 f. 15c. Four per Cents., 102 f. Three per Cents. SOf. soc. 6Cc. 40c. 3Cc. Bank Actions, 2,150 E Bente de Naples, 9.)f. 30c. 35c. Roman live per Cents., 103%!.i. Spanish Actives, 49! 40. Spanish Differes, 25 1 ,4 '.D. Passives, '6 16 1.6!f, Rente Perpetuelle, Pclgian Loan, Five per Cents., 103!.. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 52. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 45c. ' • money, 25f 45r. Three months, paper, 25f. 30e. ; money, 25f. 30c. -Coors Authentigue. Bevan, THREE o'CLoex.—The Three per Cents. haVO not maintained their ground, and the prices arc lower than yesterday. Great fluctuations have taken place to-day, this being the settling- day of the bargains at option. The Three per Cents. opened at 801. 50c., rose to 801. 60e., and receded to 80f. 45c. Spanish stock is also lower, but no reason is assigned for this. The buyers had over-stocked themselves yesterday. The settling is heavy ; an overflow of Rcntes has occasioned another decline. QUAkTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 109 f. 15c. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 20c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb bards, —; Differes, 16k; New Loan, —; Actives, 49k Passives, 16i; Ducats, 99 30 ; Romans, 1031; Pedros, —; Belgians, 1031 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, --f. ; 111iguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 25 ; Five per Cent. Pei pe tuelles, 38. Three per Cents. for the next account, end of February, 80f. 4 . 7ic. to 80f. 50c. the French surgeon, is n Madame de Beaumont, only daughter of the late celebrated Baron Duptlytren, one of the richest ladies in France, having by the death ow li unt ly her father succeeded to a fortune of 7,000,000 francs. of THE WEATHER.—On the 27th 1111 BY LIG. has fallen to the (Scotland), there was a tremendous gale of ; : ind a , t accompa nied with sleet and snow. To-day, snow depth of s everal inches, and a stroll.. gale coutmues. CHURCH STRUCK esemng, we had as heavy a fall of hail, accompanied vividbyy flashliels'ONfiNligGl.;ninßge, t a v: e w e t e i. four and five o'clock on Friday • remember to have Witnessed for some years. The spire of Blackrock Church was struck by the lightning, rent from top to bottom, and the stones scattered about the building. —Cork Reporter. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. A very full meeting was held yesterday evening at the Hall of Science, Commercial-place, New-road, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the total repeal of the Stamps on Newspapers. Mr. Wakley, M.P., in the Chair. The Hort. CHAIRMAN expressed his great gratification at meeting so many of his constituents on so noble an occasion as the attempt to give knowledge to their fellow-countrymen. He only regretted that there existed the necessity for their meeting for such a purpose : he should have imagined that Government would have been taught ere this, by the events of history, to dread the ignorance.of the people, not their en lightenment—(Cheers)—but as the case stood, it was for the people to assert their just right to the benefits of a free diffusion of untaxed knowledge. The printing-press had now been worked i n E ng l an d f or f our h un d re d years , yet i n t h e pro vinces th e peop l e were, i n genera l, st ill as d ep l ora bl y desti tute of p o li t i ca l k now l e d ge as t h ey were b e f ore i ts introduc tion.—(Hear.) The people had hitherto been like the four great horses in the country-story, who let the ploughboy. hit them about as he liked, because, as the lad's father explained to him, they had not thought about the matter. The people, however, had now begun to think about the matter, and seriously to o , and the pl o ughboy would no lon ger b e a ll ow ed to hit them bout as he had done.—( Laughter.) The Chan cellor of the Exchequer had treated the question altogether as a fiscal one. He admitted the abstract obnoxiousness and mis chief of the tax, but it brought 450,0001. every year into the Treasury, and this was a sum which could not be spared at [ r