The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 844. There is no other way of calling it. They called it a presumption of law. I will not waste so much of my breath as to describe it in so roundabout a manner. It was a lie, and I will call it so. It was known to be a lie, and yet the judgment so founded was sought to be sup • ported by Lord Lyndhurst and that indescribable wretch Brougham—(Groans)—on this footing, that the lie was supposed to be true, and that we were to be punished against the fact, and in contradiction of the record itself; for the sentence was set forth in the record, " for the of fences aforesaid." That, of course, included all the offences charged, and, of course, the two bad counts among the rest ; so that the record told the truth, but Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst said it told a lie ; but then, blessed be Heaven ! there were found three men honest enough to speak the truth, and therefore it is that I call upon you to rejoice, be cause judgment has been given in our favour oa the merits, and the technicalities were on the other side.—(" Hear," and cheers.) They attempted to con found truth with a fiction of law or a lie • but truth and justice, and the record were with us, and we can make them a compliment of the lie for their portion. — (Cheers.) And now I urn going to make an atonement to a class of public men whom I have often assailed, and who, certainly, in some things deserved to be assailed — namely, the Whigs. But, after all, how infinitely supe rior are they to the Tory party. The principle of Tory ism-is double. It takes away as much of public right from each individual as it can, and it amalgamates all together fur the benefit of the aristocracy ; but where Toryism is most terrific, is in its anxiety to do the great injustice of putting partisans on the bench of justice. The opinion forced upon us from history is., that in 99 cases out of 100, the most prejudiced men had been made judges by the Tory party, and though in England, during the last 30 or 40 years, we have seen but little of party spirit approaching the bench, we all know that in this country the spirit of Toryism remained in full life.— (Hear, hear.) I ask you, if the support that I gave the Whigs could have been effective for one year more, whe ther a very different state of things would not now be observable on the bench in this country ? Should we not have Chief Baron Brady at this moment the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, with Mr. Pigot the Chief Baron, and Mr. Moore and Mr. Monaghan in the room of Jacks ni and Lefroy ?—(Hear.) Now, I ask any man who might be inclined to blame me for having supported the Whigs, whether he thinks, if Chief Baron Brady had been the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, would we have ever heard of this prosecution ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") I am satisfied that we never should have heard of this prosecution if we had had Mr. Monaghan, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Hatchell sitting on the bench, instead of the Littons, the Lefroys, and the Jackson!, with the present Chief Baron of the Exchequer occupying the station; now filled by Chief Justice Pcnnefather.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") You have this distinction, that the Whigs gave good judges ; whereas the Tories were anxious to give partisan judges in former times.—(Hear, hear.) I was for this reason anxious to support the Whigs, but I never gave them a rote inconsistent with my public principle. I defy the Tory press of England to point out one single instance in which I gave a vote inconsistent with public principle. All I did was to attend at my place in the House to assist in creating a majority by my vote in cases not inconsistent with public principle, and 1 now fonder my gratitude to them for the judges that have been appointed by them. They made Lord Cottenham Lord Chancellor.—(Loud cheers.) I was going to say that there never was so good a judge, but I never can forget, in his cold grave, my lamented friend, the in comparable Sir Michael O'Loghlen. But a better judge than Lord Cottenham never existed. He was like Brady in this, that he possessed the same fulness of judicial quality, though he might not have had the power of Plunket as an advocate. B it, oh, how superior has eithei one or other of them been to him us judges!!— (Hear.) Next to him I place the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's:Bench in England—Lord Denman.—(Great cheering for some minutes.) There have been many great men from time to time on the English bench, but who among them has shown himself what Denman has ? He talked of this trial by jury, and said if a similar course were continued, that trial by jury in Ire land would become a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. —(Hear, _hear, and cheers.) Take that, Mr. Attorney- General Smith. Read that, Mr. Chief Justice Penne father. Write that on a slip of paper, and use it as a mark in your Prayer-book, Mr. Justice Crampton.— (Hear and laughter.) The Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in England pronounced a repetition of the course sanctioned by you to be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.—(Hear.) We are come to great times—we are come to times when, if a similar course to that taken to insure a verdict against us be again acted upon, it must be regarded as " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare."—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And, oh, how I thank the Chief Justice of England for the words! Next to him is a nobleman who has been at the head of his profession for years. Lord Campbell told mo that on his visit to Ireland as Lord Chancellor, be had not been more than a week in this country before his heart be came thoroughly Irish, and thank Heaven his shrewd Scotch head remains to guhle it, and his recent conduct does honour to both by the manliness with which he trampled under foot the attempt at argument which was made by the opposing party.—(Cheers.) Wo owe a debt of gratitude to the Whigs for such appointments, and it will be hard to get me to abuse them again.— (Laughter.) We owe them that debt for the principle by Which they have been actuated in their selection of judges, and if they had selected bad judges they would find me assailing them as readily as I now tender them my praise.—(Hear, hear.) Lord Denman had been labouring for many years as a bar rister in the Queen's Bench, and if the Tories had con tinued in power, he never would have been a judge to the present hour.—(Hear.) Lord Cottenham would never have been a judge, and Lord Campbell would never have been elevated to the bench. It is owing to the exclusion of the Tories for a time from power that we have acquired the glory, the honour, and I will add, the security of the administration of justice, arising from having such distinguished personages on the bench. I confess we should he also grateful to another quarter to which lam anxious that justice should he done ; for, though I attribute our delivery to Providence, still it should be re mem b ere d th a t P rovi dence acts in all its decrees by means of agents, and therefore I do not con sider that I speak inconsistently with the gratitude which I have expressed to Heaven for our deliverence, when I acknowledge that we are deeply indebted to the exertions of the Morning Chronicle.—( Hear, hear.) For this, again, we have to thank the Whigs, as it is the great organ of their party, following honest principles with consistency and powerful ability.—(Hear.) Never in the entire history of England has there occurred such another instance of a public journal exposing with such clearness, with such talent, with such energy, and with such perseverance, and I will add, with such effect and utility, any public injustice, as that afforded by the Morning Chronicle, in the manner in which it showed forth to the world the defects of the judg ment in the State trial, and the various iniquities by which every step of the prosecution had been marked. I am glad to have this opportunity of paying a just tri bute of gratitude and respect to the conductors of th it excellent journal. While the Tory press of England laboured to distort everything that could be made of use to injure the cause of the traversers, and to throw an Unjust and unfavourable colouring over their case, the Morning Chronicle, day after day, persevered in bring ing forward arguments and facts that served to place their cause in a proper and favourable light before the public, and in publishing statements and suggestions valuable for their defence. Even if we had been de feated in our application for justice, it would have been some atonement and gratification to us, to think that we had so valuable and able an advocate ; and now, in the hour of our triumph, the Morning Chronicle ought not to be forgotten, but ought to receive as it so well merits, our loudest and most animated cheers.—(" Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) I have but one remark more to make, and that relates to an excellent friend of mine, who, I think, has been spoken of a little too hard. I allude to my beloved friend, Richard Sheil.—(Pear.) I confess I was angry at his asking a request fur me from Peel that looked liked requiring a favour, and he ought to have known me better than to think I could possibly re ceive anything having the appearance of a boon from such hands. No, I would rather have rotted in the gaol than owe my liberation to the pretended clemency of Peel.—(Cheers.) From this spot I told you. before entering the prison, that there should be no compromise or shrinking, and there has been none.—(llenowed cheering.) The entire of us would perish in gaol rather than receive as a favour the slightest concession from the present Ministers.—(Cheers.) My friend Richard Sheil was wrong in that, but he is one of those men who can afford to be once wrong in their lives. His country owes him a deep debt of gratitude. He orna mented and made interesting by his eloquence the struggle for emancipation. When I was going on with my dull speeches, wearying the public mind with my tiresome repetitions, Richard Sheil burst upon the public view with the brilliancy of some sudden and refulgent star, by the corruscations of his genius, and the majestic !ebullitions of his powerful mind.—(Loud cheers.) •Put in the very speech for which he is blamed, Mr. Shell elicited from Sir R. Peel a statement which must 4th: as sertion him in the minds of every honest man, namely, sertion that we had had a fair trial. That asser tion is, as I shall show you presently, worth much, and from this spot I thank Mr. Shell fur having drawn it forth. (Hear, that, too, uponthe hear.) Well, as we have succeeded, and _merits of our case, by the prayer? ! and merits of faithful Christians—as we have boasted of our success, not as anything ofes our own, but a s an a c t of that Power who regulatesse nations—let us next see how we are to conduct ourselves on the present occasi-n. It is of the utmost importance that we should act dis creetly—it is absolutely necessary that we should act firmly. We ought to act in the f u ll sp i rit of conciliation —(Hear, hoar.) We ought to endeavour to succeed in . augmenting our numbers by every becoming means.' We ought to struggle with renewed energy for the re peal cause by such means, and that struggle should either end in our graves or in having an Irish Parlia ment once more in College-green.— (Loud cheers.) W e what has passed, and we are ought to be encouraged by encouraged.—(Cheers.) The anti-Irish party—l will not call them the Orange party any longer—should look with hope on our efforts, and no longer absent them stives from our ranks. They should look with forget fulness on by-gone views, and unite with us now for the good of our common country.—(Hear, hear.) But, how shall we act in future ? Conciliation should he our first duty, and I think the beat way of our insuring it is by a-king those who absent themselves from us, to look to the manner in which we have acted up to this period. Have we in this struggle injured a single human being? Has a single assault been committed ? Has the least violence been done to any person ? Nai Mieaculone to :peak it, millions hare met and assembled together, and yet not even an accident has occurred. Such is the spirit of forbearance towards each other that has been exhibited by the Irish people, that that moral miracle has been witnessed, of countless multitudes meetine together without e s e single act of violence, without a single accident occurring to man, woman, or child,—(Cheers.) . _ I now turn to my Protestant fellow-countrymen, those , thepower of the law, and we will see whether we cannot among them who have not yet had the spirit of man- ! get a second managing body for the people—not a liness evinced by the gentlemen near me to unite with House of Lords, indeed, but a body possessing more their Catholic countrymen for their common interests. power, as representing the whole Irish people.—(Loud And I ask them, are they timid or doubtful of our inte- cheers.) Three hundred wealthy Irish gentlemen woukl grity after all that has hitherto been done by us to show ! make such a body as would bring about the repeal of tile them our real feelings. Oh, if we were strong enough to union with the greatest ease.—(Cheers.) I am not a shout, ought we not to be strong enough to do some person of overweening confidence in my own judgment, violence, or rather, what but the re-animating spirit of ! but I have so matured this plan in my own mind, affection and conciliation towards each other could have whilst in prison, that I rely strongly on it, although brought them together without some violence taking prepared to abandon it on the instant, if found to be place ? Nay, more, were we not in the midst of our at all dangerous or impracticable—(Cheers)—whilst it strength, with more power than any monarch in Europe , must he embraced, if found calculated to bring back possesses in his hands ?—(Tremendous cheering.) How our Parliament to College-green.—(Loud cheers.) I did I acquire that power ? I acquired it by the core- ! have addressed you at great length, but I owed you victims that rested on the minds of every man, woman, I for three months' rent. (Much cheering and laughter.) and child who obeyed me, that I would not abuse it. I am now like an honest man, paying my debts.—(Re- I acquired that power because I coincided in opinion , nerved laughter.) And now I come to my third plan, with them, and guarded against the contingency of ; and it is one to which lam greatly attached. I want to any crime whatsoever.—(Hear, hear.) My Lord procure impeachment's of the judges of the Court of ! Mayor, I never could attain that power without the ' Queen's Bench and of her Majesty's Attorney-General assistance of the Catholic clergy, and they would not in this country, on these grounds—(Great applause for have given that assistance to me if they had not some nsomentst—on these grounds, I repeat, which I known the use which I would make of it. Oh, my shall set before you, as briefly as I can, consistently Protestant fellow-countrymen, listen to this—they with clearness. The first ground is that of the mon- I knew that I was the first apostle of that political sect ster indictment which was preferred against me— that proclaims the possibility of effecting all great thirty-six yards of an indictment.—(Cheers and changes by moral means alone, and that there is no human laughter.) Lord Denman has well described it as a revolution worth the shedding of a single drop of document calculated to prevent a man from defending. human blood to obtain.—(Hear, hear.) No, human blood himself. Such an indictment no poor man could escape is not a cement to the public station, it possesses rather from. We were backed by the repeal rent—(Cheers) a crumbling than a binding property, and it brings down —but if such an indictment were preferred against a to the ground any public edifice in the erection of which poor man, where could he get a brief of it for his coun it has been expended.—(Hear.) We proceeded without sel? Why it would cost him ten times more money crime ; we shuddered at the shedding of a single drop than ever he saw to do so.—(Cheers.) My excellent of hurnon blood. The Catholic clergy saw these were friend Richard O'Gorman (the dissentient grand juror) our principles, and that there was no danger to the ought to be a proud man this day. He alone was right laws, either of God or man, being violated by those as to this unjust indictment, and had the manliness and who united with us. Protestants of Ireland, what honesty to maintain his opinions in open court. He said, objection can you have to our principles ? and why "We have spent five days over this bill, and not one of not seek to carry them out ? But have I not to us can understand it." To be sure they did not care boast of this, that even yesterday my revered friend much for that.—(Groans.) They found it a true bill. the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, the Catholic Archbishop of I am much obliged to them.—(Cheers and laughter.) Dublin (and lam almost ashamed of using so familiar a Now, this is no idle act of the Attorney term in speaking of him), at the head of the clergy, stood General. Sugden planned it—Peel has adopted before the altar offering up his hands together to the it.—(Groans and hisses.) Impeachment, I say, then is God of all, in grateful recollection and thanksgiving for our wily remedy.—(Loud cheers.) No man is safe from the triumphant assertion of the mercy that the Al- such a monster indictment. What ought the Court to mighty had vouchsafed towards us? If we had acted die- have done with it ? I say an honest court should have loyally, immorally, or illegally, is not Dr. Murray loyal quashed it again and again, if necessary, and have said enough to refuse to sanction our acts ? Is there, con- to the Attorney-General in the words of Lord Denman, fessedly, a more loyal man in the nation than he is, and " Pick out your counts, and do not suffocate them be is not his entire life a continued instance of his loyalty neath the number of your accusations."—(Cheers.) The and wortla ? Oh, I feel a pleasure beyond expression, judges of the Court of Queen's Bench did not refuse to that, yesterday, we had his testimony in our favour.— receive it ; nay, more, they countenanced it ; and, pro (Hear.) Yes, when the moment came, in which the cceding as they commenced, refused us copies of the ' conspiracy was hatched in the purlieus of the Castle— witnesses' names, the caption of the indictment, and other when the Attorney-General used the foul language that privileges which we should have received as a matter of had fallen from him, of calling us foul conspirators— course in England.—(Groans.) By their conduct they when we were bringing in argument after argument for made this monster indictment a babe of their own luck, our defence—though, after all, what can argument do and I say there is no use whatever in the doctrine of im under such circumstances as we were placed in ?—how peachments if we have not the jddges of the Queen's was the heart of your leader—shall I call myself so ? Bench brought before a proper tribunal to answer for (Great cheers)—oppressed with anxiety for your future their conduct.—(Cheers.) I assert this, and I shall be conduct, and how grateful that heart can now be for obe- able to prove it by competent witnesses, that the Lord dience and confidence that it can never merit ! At that Chief Justice—(Groans)—had the air of a counsel for moment, at that time when your leader was torn from the prosecution throughout the trials, and might have amongst you, his beloved son was also most scandalously been taken for such but for the place ho occupied. It included in the same charge. Would it not have been may be said lam rash in taking this up. Ah !I do not punishment enough for my beloved John to see me im- fear their prisons. —(Tremendous cheering.) I am a prisoned, without being himself sentenced to captivity ? freeborn British subject, standing in this place defending Oh, malignant vinegar-cruet on two legs—(Loud cheers my rights, and Ido accuse those men of injustice. — and laughter,—it was John O'Connell's opposition to (Renewed applause.) lam here to call upon the people you at Youghal—his defeat of you at Youghal—his op- of England to aid me in impeaching those men.— position to you before the Committee, and his overthrow (Cheers.) I have to complain too of their manner to of you there, that caused him to he placed in the indict- wards me. Mr. Justice Crampton—(A laugh)—used to tnent !—(Hear, hear.) I saw that he had reasonable squeeze up his face at me, as if to strike me with terror grounds for his animosity to me. I had impeached at his lion aspect.—(Roars of laegliter.) Now, I ask his father, and I succeeded in one stage of that impeach- you all, did it ever occur at my trial before this, that merit, and I respect his filial piety—(Great I..ughter) the Chief Justice borrowed the Attorney-General's brief that made him persecute me ; but the very spirit that to make out his case and charge from?—(Cries of " No," would animate such enmity should make him leave out and groans.) You saw him do so.—(Lo u d cr i es o f "W e my son.—(Hear.) But, could there be anything more did,"- and groaning.) Now, Ido say that this is a fact —for the s.) aulthcaolrlity upono f the the LordiigliCshhi peopleef Justice.—to, join unstatesmanlike than the conduct of the Government which must and shall be heard. — (Cheers.) I care not— throughout ? They knew their danger, and they crowded nutljoud I troops over here ; but they doubted that they were, even ( then, sufficient to keep the country, so they boxed the with me and Ireland, and drag him before a proper tri. troops up in barracks, and put loopholes in the wals, burial, and ascertain whether such conduct as this is to . n —(Cheers.) every one of which appeared to possess a tongue telling be tolerated.—(Loud cheers.) My next ground of a a r g g a one -sided im them that they were not able to keep the country, and peachment that they required something to keep themselves. But just. In the House of Lords, in the House of Commons, could anythtng be more foolish than the expressions that fell from the Minister on the occasion ? Think no one could be found hardy enough to defend it.— you that they had no effect on the old diplomatist Louis (Cheers.) It was impeached by all, and admitted to be Philippe ? or that if they had not been used, and if the indecent. I want to know, does it not deserve impeach weakness of England with regard to Ireland were not i merit ?—(Cheers.) Who is safe from such a charge ? known in France, that Tangiers would not have re- We have no remedy against the injustice of such a charge, mained untouched—that Mogadore would not still be for it was not upon the record, and so we were deprived uninjured—and that the plains of Ouchda would not be of the advantage of its influencing my appeal.—(Cheers.) untainted with Moorish blood ?—(llcar, hear.) But There is no other redress or remedy for this wrong but what could be snore peaceable than our conduct through- impeachment. The next ground I have against them is, out ? When an occasional outrage was committed that they admitted newspapers as evidence of facts against against us we did not prosecute ; we behaved kindly to me, and brought in my friend Barrett's paper, and theNu those who were opposed to us ; and have I not these lion, allowing them to be used for the purposes of the pro facts and the conduct of the people throughout all secution. They allowed them as evid e n ces of f ac t s , as if Ireland to appeal to in support of my calls for concilia- witness got into the jury-box and swore, "We heard tion and union ?—(Cheers.) Oh ! the people have O'Connell say so and so." Judge Perrin—though cer conducted themselves admirably.—(Hear, h e ar.) E ver y tainly, poor man, he was asleep during great part of the confidence can now be plemed in their peaceful trial—(Great laughter)—did, however, vindicate his determination. We can repose on their good con- character on this point, and refused to sanction this duct, and they have most completely shown fitness fur evident illegality.--(Cheers.) I will not go into all the self-government.—(Cheers.) More particularly have wearisome details of the packing of the jury, for it is now they done so in giving up the only vice which prevailed universally admitted that it was fraudulently packed. I in Ireland. They have thrown themselves into the tem- shall be able to prove, I tell you, that not only were pro perauce movement, and .the blissful result of abstaining per neines omitted, but names which ought to have been from intoxicating liquors is now known to millions.— omited left on.—(Cheers.) That will be one of say facts. (Hear, hear.) 0 I here is a people, Protestant brethren, I want to know, too, if the doctrine is to be sanctioned tit to govern themselves and worthy of your support and that Anti-Repeaters only are fit for the jury-box ? If confidence.—(Cheers.) I hare conclusive evidence that so, they will soon have to make short work of it, and try ye are beginning to feel so. Look, here is Mr. Grey all their cases wick the same jury, for there will not be Porter's pamphlet : the work of a high Protestant gen- more than twelve Anti-Repealers in the whole country tleman—high sheriff of a Protestant county.—(Cheers.) shortly.—(Cheers, and laughter.) They'll have to pack What does this book say ? I will give you three sen. their twelve men into a box like the Wizard of the North, tepees The union of 1801, the 41st of George 111., and carry them about Ireland.—(Laughter.) It was cap. 47 (all on one side), does, and always will, draw alleged that fraud had been committed ; and what was away from Ireland her men of skill, genius, capital, then the duty of the Court—their sacred duty ? and rank—all who raise its strength and distinguish a (Cheers.) To discountenance such proceedings and nation." "A federal (the only fair) union between Great such a jury, and to put off the trial over and over again. Britain and Ireland inevitable, and most desirable for One of the articles of impeachment shall be this fact : both islands."—(Loud cheers.) These are the principles Perrin did well here.—(Cheers.) But, here, I have on which this gentleman sets out. The first shows the something for you. I know a man who was offered evils of the union, the second advocates its repeal.— to have his fortune made if he would give some par (Cheers.) I want to know will Sugden, that cursed, con- ticular information.—(Sensation.) The information tumelious little English dog—(Cheers and laughter)— did not exist, and therefore ho could not give it • will that currish„ contumelious little gentleman, but, I shall bo able to prove that the expres- I ask, venture to supersede Mr. Grey Porter ? sion, " Your fortune shall be made," was used (Cheers.) I call him a cur, becau ehe barked at us when on the occasion in question, and that by a witness of lie dared not bite.—(Cheers.) He has not the courage the first credit and respectability.—(Cheers.) Again I to supersede Mr. Porter. He won't venture to act say that if that jury had been left to itself, it never could towards a gentleman of that high station as he has done I have returned such a verdict. I say it emphatically that towards some poor county magistrates.—(hear, hear.) ! some one helped them in making up this verdict.— I admire this pamphlet ; for, though mistaken in some ' (Cheers and groans.) Ido not wish now to detain you of its facts, it contains the genuine principle of nation- in this place, but I may remind you that judges, if not ality—that spirit which I wish to pervade the people, accessible to bribes, are not superior to favour. Well, and which seeks Ireland for the Irish.—(Cheers.) I the Lord Chief Justice's nephew has got a place in the invite that gentleman to join us,and I tell him th a t he w ill iCastle of Dublin.—(Loud cheering.) Young Penne_ get that leading place among us which his talent, rank, father has been placed, and it is said Lord Heytesbury is and patriotism deserve. Nay, more, I uhdertske to dis- to do more for him. Now I say that there should be no solve the Association if he does not approve of our con- ! suspicon in such a matter, and that the Chief' Justice duct, or can detect us committing one single act affect- ought to have seen his nephew provided for in some ing our loyalty or allegiance.—(Cheers.) F rom t hi s , other way.—(Cheers.) He should have taken cars that place I call upon him to join us. Perhaps he may hear ! no inference—and here I declare I believe that inference, me yet, and though he may think the present time too : however natural, to be untrue—should be drawn from soon, I think the day will come.—(Loud—(Loud cheers.) This, ;the judgment of the judge, and the promotion of th e then, is the time for conciliation. By it you may gain . nephew.—(Loud cheering.) Ido only protest against such men as Mr Porter ; and is he not worth concilia- ! the example set by a public man, and the insecurity of ting ?—(Cheers.) What would I not do to persuade ! public opinion in a public officer, consequent upon him ? Would I not give a portion of my heart's blood such conduct. — (Cheers.) There is also some story to gait him over ? I sa y, that the man is not honest !of a relation of Mr. Justice Crampton's having been who does not wish to see Grey Porter at the head of this provided for, but it is not sufficiently authenticated for national struggle.—(Cheers.) As for myself, Ido not me to dwell upon it. Well, to proceed now—l have want to he a leader ; I am willing to work in the team, ! been three months in gaol.—(Cheers and laughter.) and I will cheerfully resign to Grey Porter the reins and ! I want to know, do they think I am to submit pa guidance of the whole.—(Loud cheers.) The question ; tiently to this ? lam not acting from any feeling of for us now to consider is,—what are we to do ? The ' resentment or revenge. I spent an exceedingly plea principle of conciliation is admitted, but we are not the sant three months—(Cheers)—pleasanter because less ardently to persevere in working for the repeal.— after the first fortnight I was secure from those ap (Cheers.) In answering the question more fully three preheusions of an outbreak which had disturbed my rest different subjects arise to my mind. The first relates to fer five months previously—(Cheers)—during which the meeting at Clontarf:—(Cheers for some minutes.) time I never slept quietly.—(Renewed cheers.) Ido not That meeting was called legally. It was illegally sup- complain of my imprisonment—pleasanter companions no pressed.—(Cheers.) We are bound to adhere to prig- man ever had. We had, too, the blessing and the ciples, and it is now to be considered whether that rule honour of the sweet companionship of our fellow-cap extends so far, or whether it has been sufficiently yindi- tives' wives— the talent and power of facetious entertain cated without calling the meeting. For some time I ment. No set of naen ever lived in more social harmony. did think that it was absolutely necessary to call it to Well, lam not vexed for this, but lam determined on vindicate a great principle, hat on reflecting deeply on atonement.—(Cheers.) I defy Vinegar Smith t o wipe what has occurred in the louse of Lords, and the via- away his injustice. I defy England to do us justice here, dication of its legality put on eternal record by Denman or compensate for the harassing of our families and our —(Cheers)—Cottenham—(Cheers)—and Campbell— and their hours and days and weeks of suspense. Will (Cheers)—l began to doubt that it was necessary. It they do nothing to remedy these things ? Are these might create ill-feeling, and be construed into a wish to things nothing, which have now admittedly been done insult, and it might alienate friends. What I me an t o contrary to law and justice ? Who did so ? It was the do is, upon this day week to propose that it be r e fe r r e d act of the Irish Government that imprisoned us, and to a select committee whether or not it is necessary t o Crampton had his mother wit about him, and put it to hold the Clontarf meeting.—(Cheers.) Ido not wish to the Attorney-General to let us stand out till the result prejudice their decision, but I must say that my opi n i on of the writ of error was known. Now, I charge the At is against the calling of that meeting. The next point I torney-General for not consenting to this proposition. wish to lay before you is with reference to a plan which I charge him and the Government with the crime, I frequently proposed last year. I mean the collection with the sin of refusing to accede to it, and thereby of the Preservative Society for Ireland, consisting of a running the chance of punishing innocent men. l body of 300 gentlemen sitting in Dublin.—(Great ap- In their conduct was a most plain, palpable want of plause.) This point is surrounded by legal difficulties, honest intention.—(Loud cheers.) How did the At ! and must be approached with serious considerations, torney-General know but that the judgment would be re which we were last year prevented fl om applying to it versed, as it has been ?—(Cheers.) He did not care by the proclamation and subsequent proceedings. My for that. He punished us upon the chance of its not plan, which I have deeply considered, is shortly this— being so.—(Groans.) During the trial he was its con that 300 gentlemen from the various counties in Ire- stant consultation with Government. I do not know land should meet on a certain day in Dublin—(Cheers) that poor what's his name—the shin-of-beef Lord -and that their title to meet should be the handing- had much hand in it, but his Government is responsible in of 100/. each—that they should hare a treasurer for the evil. When Mr. Moore proposed to let the of their own, and have the working of their own names be put upon the list by consent, which Mr. funds.—(Cheers.) I do not intend that they shall Justice Burton said might readily be done, the At initiate anything, but that they shall control every- torney-General had not a word to say for himself, but thing, and that the Repeal Association shall be corn- ; he would not do it.—(Groans.) Now, I want to know, pletely governed by them, and not venture upon any act will not England join me in impeaching these men ? without their previous sanction.—(Cheers.) A body of i They have had us three months in gaol ; we are pro this kind would comprise so many of the wealthy and I nounced innocent, and they might have avoided that influential of Ireland, that it would be an effectual check crime if they would.—(Cheers and groans.) From this to any rash revolutionary outbreak, and would be a spot I call on England to join me. I mean to propose steady drag upon the wheel of the movement. It would that a Select Committee be formed, of which I shall be of that bearing on society and high station that it cheerfully make one, to go through all the principal could enter i n t o t rea ty with Government.—(Cheers.) j towns of England about two months before the meeting It eould arrange it s own pl a ns with Ministers, and stipu- lof Parliament, to obtain an answer to this appeal. 'We Ite terms.—(G ree t c h eering .) N o h an d over -h ea d wor k, w ill sa y, " H e r e i s inj us ti ce c l one . A pa c k e d jury, an but , s teady, deliberate agreement.—(Cheers.) And unjust judgment, a sentence inflicted before its right is he re let me say that I quite agree in making the expo- ascertained, and innocent men imprisoned. English riment of a federal Parliament. I want any Parliament ! men, I will test you ; I will see whether you will join which will pr o t ect I reland, and ask for no more. If we , me, one and all.' If not, I will come back, and say to I arrive at the period of repeal without some body of this ! my countrymen, " Look no more to the pretences of description, Government may dictate a plan to you, per- i John Bull; look alone to your Parliament in College- justice, haps, which may fall sho r t of though it may satisfy green."—(Hear, and cheers.) If they did not approve some of you. They can never do so with this Preser- of this, I will go at any rate. Curiosity to see the lion vative Society of three hundred.—(Cheers.) The terms E who had been caned fur three months would bring many ; of any treaty must be well con s id ere d — financial as well together, and collect crowds around me; and I look for- as political—and it seems to me that we shall here have ! ward to suceess. But here, I ask you, are the Ministers the workmen to build up the palace of justice to Ireland. ,to escape?—('Groans and yells ) Is Sir J. Graham to I will this clay week —(Cheere-) move for a Select ! escape?—(leeid cries of " No, no," and groaning and Committee to consider the possibility- of such an assem- h . issing.) Ile who had the unparalleled impudence in , blage, and to prepare cases to have laid before the most the absence of two Members of the House to call them eminent lawyers of England and Ireland.—(Cheers.) i convicted conspirators.—(A voice, "He's a liar." Cheer- We will take care not to bring a single individual within j ing.) Why, you seem to be as uncivil as Pie James him , self.—(Laughter.) I do not called hint that, but I do term him a foul-mouthed letter-breaker.—(Shouts of ap plause and laughter.) I come to what Sheil did in the House. He produced Sir R. Peel's declaration before , his face. He had that paper before his eyes, and vet he had the power of farce, the audacity, the intensity of falsehood to say, according to the newspaper reports, that he had a fair trial.—(Several voices—" He's a liar.") To be sure he is.—(Great cheering, and loud laughter.) There's a British Minister for you—the Premier of the first country in the world.—(Groans arid laughter.) With a packed jury, a one sided Chief Justice, the exclusion ' of jurors and evidence of justice, he ventured to any we had a fair trial. Oh, a very fair trial, sweet Sir Robert! Ah, my good man, you were wrong to call him a liar. He thinks what we got was a very fair trial for an Irish Catholic.—(Cheering and groans.) That foul falsehood, however, identified him with the whole of the proceed ings here, and the union is but a mockery indeed, if the English people do not join us in hurling Peel from office, and driving him from power as a Ministerial leader in Parliament.—(Cheers.) I have done. I want to consider the affair of the Clontarf meeting.—(Cries of " Have it.") I want to consider the assembling of the Preser vative Society. I see, I know I can rely upon the people. —(Cheers.) There will be no revolt, no riot, no tumult, or violence. They would not be the shrewd people that they are, if they did not perceive the advantages they have already derived from the same course at the time of the emancipation and other agitations.—(Cheers.) I tell you, repeal is irresistible, if you continue peaceable. —(Cheers.) Oh, how my heart throbs wit t when I see the O'Briens, the Butlers, the Hute &Mt ms. the Mocklers, the Porters rallying round old Ireland.—(Great cheering.) What a day will we have round King William in College-green.---(Great laughter.) What a triumph we had on Friday, when the news of tardy justice done at last was spread through the country. Oh, it is a proud feeling, a noble hope, an endearing anticipation for us to look forward to the day when we shall have old Ireland free and a nation again —(Tremen dous cheering)—to have her commerce spring to life, her agriculture crowned with riches, to make her merry maids and brave men more merry and cheerful and happy. Old Ireland for ever—hurrah for the repeal ! [The Hon. Gentleman resumed his scat amid ap plause nearly as protracted and quite as enthusiastic as that which greeted his opening address.] Several sums of money having been handed in by Mr. O'Connell and Mr. D. O'Connell, jun., Mr. J. O'CONNELL came forward, and after handing in some subscriptions, proceeded to address the Association amidst great applause. He stated that he regarded the glorious triumph that they had just achieved as but the harhinger of the still more glorious triumph of repeal. He fully concurred in what his father had stated of the pleasure and comfort they had experienced during their confinement, and wished to take that opportunity of re turning thanks to Mr. Butler for the present which he had sent them, of some fine Kilkenny venison. He was delighted that the Attorney. General had included him in the indictment, for what higher honour could a young man, or any man, desire than the honour of suffering for old Ireland—(Loud cheers)—but ho had more—he had the deepest and the sweetest pleasure that a son could have, of sharing and of endeavouring to mitigate the captivity of a beloved parent.—(Cheers.) They had also given him the further pleasure of sharing the cap tivity of the fearless, devoted, and true. hearted men who were in prison with them ; and he would tell the people of Ireland to cherish these men in their heart of hearts, fur he had an opportunity of knowing how de• serving they were of every honour that could be con ferred upon them. After referring to the decision in the House of Lords, and promising to redouble his efforts with renewed energy in the cause of Ireland in future, the Hon. and Learned G entleman resumed his seat amidst loud applause. Mr. T. STEELE, who was loudly cheered, said that he had never enjoyed such a high honour as on the pre sent occasion, and that the greatest glory of his exist ence was being included in the martvrs for Ireland. The people had heard his last words at their parting, and by no act of theirs had violated the awful tranquillity of the country—that tranquillity which had struck horror into the hearts of their enemies.—(Cheers.) Having passed some high eulogiums upon the perfection of the repeal organisation under the guidance of Mr. O'Con nell, which he compared to that of the steam-engine in the hands of Watt, Mr. Steele proceeded to refer to cir cumstances connected with the State trials, more parti cularly to his protest against being put on his trial by the Attorney-General, on the ground that he would re ceive no justice from that gentleman, and referred to the result as verifying his predictions. He concluded, amid loud applause, by expatiating on the necessity of repeal. Mr. S. 0 BRIEN, in handing in 421. from the county of Limerick, said, that he was anxious to congratulate them upon their liberation from their imprisonment, for their proud position as vindicators of Ireland, for their noble and manly bearing.—(Cheers.) He tendered his gratitude to them.—(Cheers.) Was he at liberty to tender the gratitude of that meeting also ?—(Loud cries of "You are, you ate," and cheers.) He regretted that the scene of Ireland's vindication was not Ireland herself, and that it had been reserved to English judges to do justice to Irishmen. To Lord Denman alone were they indebted, and to him they were indebted through an ac cident for the liberation of the friends of Ireland. — (Cheers.) He did deeply regret that their liberation had not been effected by an Irish jury ; but the worst features of their provincialism had prevailed over the spirit of justice. It was a subject of sincere regret to him that the character of the Irish bench kad been so seriously impeached.—(Cheers.) He had hoped to have found judges upon the bench in Ireland who would not have had to go to school to their brothers in England for the merest instruction in the first principles of law and equity.—(Cheers.) As to the proposed impeach ments, he would not venture to say more than that he believed the parties threatened most richly deserved them.—(Cheers.) But the imprisonment, the sin of the premature imprisonment rested with the English Go vernment, for it was distinctly suggested to the Attor ney-General by Mr. Justice Crampton, that the impri sonment of the travervrs should not take place until the result of the writ of error were known.—(Cheers.) It was a most fortunate thing that that result had been suc cessful, for he would not answer for the conduct of the Irish people if they had beheld their leader imprisoned throughout the long winter, whilst - a foreign war was impending.—(Cheers.) They were now, however, tri umphant, and he implored them to be as calm and dig nified now as they should be in the hour of their danger bold and defiant.—(Cheers.) Let them persevere in their course, and assist their great leat:leader in his soon to-be-successful struggles for thefiberty and happiness of fatherland.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. BARRETT (rising in obedience to a call from va , that though he was he would not refuse rtnhiooetu expression x p mp a re r em t s s sbi eo o rn f oo t ffh thethe e s e eA t n i si g mo ) oei said att iisod n vwhich the courtesy of his fellow-countrymen had called for. He was delighted that he had had an opportunity of sharing the martyr• dom of the father of his country. He proceeded to ex patiate upon the iniquity of the State trials and the in nocence of himself and hisquoadam b rot h er p r i s oners. They had, he said, administered justice as they would have read Hebrew —they commenced at the end.—(Loud cheers.) They first inflicted the punishment dictated by injustice, and then they proceeded to investigate that injustice.—(Cheers.) Could Irishmen be insensible to the wrongs of their country ? Did they not see their brethren aliens and exiles, their name a mockery, and a subject of gibes and insult ? They must unite. Let them do so, and they would triumph. Let them hesi tate, and they would fall.—(Cheers.) Dr. GRAY then came forward amid loud applause, and having tendered an apology for addressinproceeded to g the meeting similar to that g i v en by the last sp ea k er , say that there was a difference of opinion between some of the conspirators. His friend Mr. Steele had said that he had had no redress. Was not that redress ? Was not that hour redress enough ?—(Tremendous applause.) They had sought for redress, for inquiry from England. They had been refused.—(Loud cheers.) Like that un righteous city, wherein 50 good men were sought for in vain, wherein 40, 30 , 20 , 10 , aye, even 5, were looked for fruitlessly, and Sodom was destroyed—(Loud cheers) —so had it been with England. Well was it that there were three men of probity and of honour—all praise to them—who declared that a packed, fraudulent jury was not an instrument of justice.—(Great applause.) Mr. O'CoNNELL came forward, in answer to loud cries for Mr. Duffy, and assured the meeting that that gentleman had been obliged to retire from illness. The lion. Gentleman proceeded to hand in numerous contri butions to the repeal rent. Mr. Scorn brought in 20/. from Edinburgh, which was, he stated, altogether contributed by Scotchmen. Mr. N. BOYLAN, ex-justice of the peace, handed in 201. from the county of Meath.—(Great cheering.) Mr. S. O'BRIEN gave notice that he would move, on the next day of meeting that Messrs. Hutchinson and Butler should be added to the general Parliamentary Committee. Mr. O'CoNNELL formally entered his notice of motion for a Committee to i nqu i re into the expediency of hold ing the Clontarf meeting, and to inquire into the mate rials requisite for the impeachment of the parties he had I named connected with the recent state trials. • Several sums of money having been handed in, some letters read, and a few speeches made, amid great noise and confusion, Mr. O'CoNNELL announced the rent for the week to be 5751. 6s. 6d. —(Loud cheers.) The usual vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman,l the meeting, which was very turbulent after Mr. O'Connell's speech was over, then adjourned. MIDDLESEX COUNTY REGIS TRATION. (FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.) The Liberal party, it would appear from the fol lowing statement, are active in the field, and have again an advantage over the Tories, although we are sorry to say the old Whig party, have rendered but little aid. The Honourable Member, Mr. Byng, has apparently for the last three years forsaken the sup port of the registration of the county. To some ex tent it is said the Anti-Corn-law League have ren dered service. We do not know if this circumstance has given offence, seeing that Mr. Byng took the chair at the Hammersmith Anti-Corn-law meeting, and afterwards voted with the monopolists on Mr. Villiers's motion. Reformers. Tories... Bedford district * Brentford do. Enfield do. Edgware do.. .......... ..... 15 "Uxbridge do l3 *Hampstead do 0 ...... .... . 4 Hammersmith do 2B King's-cross do ... 6B Westminster do Mile-end do 62 Bethnal-green do City of London do 364 637 514 4 The overseers have objected in these parishes. In the county list in the City of London two Judges, the Solicitor and Attorney-Generals, and eighty-five barristers and attorneys, who voted for the Tories, are objected to, they having claimed in the wrong parish. No doubt much noise and declama tion will be made to induce the Revising Barrister to retain their names. [When Mr. Byng's age and his s^rvices to the county are taken into consideration, great allowances should be made.—En. Sun.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, of respectable appearance and good address, who gave the name of Edward -Williams as his at the station-house, was brought before Alderman Gib'is, charged under the following circumstances. The defendant appeared to be very near-sighted, and a native of the sister kingdom. The shopman of Mr. Hughes, optician, of Fen church-street, detailed, at great length, the circum stances of a visit . paid to the shop by the defendant, who asked the prices of several eye-glasses, and at length went away without purchasing any, but stating that he would call again, for the purpose of getting something done to a pair of spectacles. Immediately after the defendant left the shop, the shopman missed a gold eye-glass, of the value of 2/. 155., the first the defendant had examined, and t o w hi c h h e had objected that the price was too high. The defendant and the shopman, it is necessary to state, were, during the prisoner's visit, the only persons in the shop, and the defendant had, before he proceeded to look at the articles exhibited to him, laid his handkerchief and gloves on the counter, close to the spot where the eye glass in question had been deposited. The shopman at once ran out and overtook the defendant in the neigh bourhood, there being at the time two persons near to, but not in apparent communication with, him. Upen being spoken to by the shopman, the defendant asked whether he had left anything behind him. "No," repliedmthe -shopman, " but I have lost something," and desired the defendant to return with him to the shop. Not the least objection was made, and, after a little while, a policeman was sent for, and directed to take the defendant into custody. The defendant said it was true, as the shopman said, that he had looked at some eye-glasses, and as he did not choose to lay out more than thirty shillings on an eye-glass, he had objected to all he had examined as too high; and not wishing to give any more trou ble to the young man, he put on his spectacles, took up his gloves and handkerchief, and walked leisurely away. He had gone a very little way indeed, when the shopman came up to him, and asked him to re turn. Upon being informed that an eye-glass was missed, he insisted that a policeman should be sent. for, and that he (defendant) should be searched. The search was accordingly made, but nothing was found upon him but his own money. It was further stated that the sum of 21. 10s. in gold was found upon the defendant, that he refused to give his address and a respectable reference to Mr. Hughes, although that gentleman said, that if he per formed that very necessary ceremony, he should no t be detained longer; but that he said if Mr. H ug h es o him policeman pleased, they mi g ht e i t h er of them accompanyto his residence, w hi c h was a great r w a y off. f Alderman GIBBS (to the prisoner)—C an you re f er the me to anybody who knows anything about vou ? The defendant—l have respectable friends, but Ido not know what construction they might put upon this matter. _ Alderman GIBBS—Who, and what are you ? The Defendant—l came from Dublin about two years and three months ago. I have two relations, the one at Islington, the other at Gravesend. Alderman Ginns—Have you any objection to write upon paper the address of your friend at Islington, and hand it to me ? Defendant—l do not wish my friend to know of so disagreeable an incident. Alderman Gums—Then you refuse to give me any reference ? The defendant—l do not wish to do so. What proof of guilt is there in any part of my con duct. I walked leisurely out of the shop, and when the man came to me I instantly returned with him, and insiited upon being searched by a policeman. I was wholly unaccompanied—and the shopman and I were the only persons in the shop, and I do not at all recollect seeing the eye-glass he has deecribed as lost. Alderman Ginus—ln all cases of doubt character is calculated to settle the doubt. Now the absence of all references upon your part where there is so much ground for suspicion, makes the probabilities against you. Before I can part with you I mu s t h ave some reference. The impression your conduct has made is unfavourable. The defendant—l cannot think of letting my friends know anything of such a circumstance. The defen dant here repeated the circumstan , ..es, which he pressed as evidence of his complete innocence. The shopman—.Mr. Hughes distinctly sail, if the gentleman gave him a respectable reference he would let him go. The defendant—As neither Mr. Hughes nor the policeman would consent to go with me, I did not like to give a reference, for I did not know what people might be inclined to call it. Alderman Gil:ins—By refusing to give a reference you oblige me to remand you till Thursday next. The defendant—l hope you do not mean to detain me. There is no proof whatever against me. Alderman Gtnna said there was quite evidence enough to justify the person accused, who should have the opportunity of combnunicating with the policeman on the subject of the reference, which was, in such a case, considered so necessary. The defendant was then remanded. CLERKENWELL. Margaret Anne Stephens, an elderly female, dressed hi thread-b are bl ac k garments, and wearing a widow's cap, was charged with the novel offence of attempting to obtain money from a police-inspector, through the means of a begging letter. The prisoner was accompanied by her two little children, about the ages of six and twelve years. The inspector stated that on the previous night, between six and seven o'clock, the prisoner and her REJOICINGS IN CORK. (From the Southern Reporter.) Under any circumstances that have arisen to call forth popular enthusiasm in Ireland, we have never witnessed so intense and earnest an expression of pub lic feeling as this city presented, from the hour at which the news of the decision of the 1-louse of Lords arrived yesterday, to a late hour last night. Within a few minutes after the intelligence was received by the coach—having been specially marked on the way bill in Dublin, by Mr. Charles Bianconi, and its ac curacy confirmed by the signature of that patriotic gentleman—it was promulgated through every street, lane, and alley ; and anxious thousands of every sex and age instantly abar.doned their usual occupations, and thronged into Patrick-street, towards the Cham ber of Commerce, and the newspaper offices, for the purpose of satisfying themselves that the account was true. A requisition was, at a moment's notice, drawn up, and signed by all the influential and respectable citizens, requesting the mayor to convene tr• meeting on an early day, for the purpose of voting a congratu latory . address to Mr. O'Connell and fellow-patriots on their triumphant release from an unjust incarcera tion. It was also resolved that the Chamber (pf Com merce should be illuminated to celebrate the glorious event. Soon after nightfall thousands of people began to parade the principal streets, carrying lighted tar- barrels, and proceeded, in one case, by over sixty two children knocked at the door o f hi s p r i va t e resi women with lighted flambeaux, which they waved in 'dense, in Pcarl-crescent, Bagnigge Wells-road, and the air, the effect of which was singularly picturesque. sent t o hi m a lett er su ppli ca t ing re li e f, en d thanking Severe\ temperance bands accompanied them, playing she was one of those impostors who subsiat on this national and popular airs, and as they pas, , ed each species of fraudulent representation, he took her to the house or public edifice which was illuminated they police station. Ile handed in the letter, which set gave several hearty rounds of cheers. The Chamber forth the distress of the applicant, but in simple un of Commerce was effectively lighted up, and was I exaggerated language, and written in a legibly man filled during the evening with the members and ner by a female hand. others exchanging cordial congratulations on the Mr. Coigne; asked if any money was found on her?— event which was thus hastily celebrated. The inspector replied in the negative. Nothing was After describing the illuminations the report pro- found on her but a number of duplicates. ceeds The inspector further stated, that not wishing to Until a very late hour the dense crowds continued confine children of sach tender years in a police to parade the streets, and though shouts of triumph station, he sent a police-constable with them to and acclamation rent the air, we have the happiness Clerkenwell workhouse, but the officials there refused of recording that no outrage or insult to the person, to receive them. lie sent the same constable with property, or sentiments, religious or political, of any them to St. Pancras workhouse, but there, too, they of our fellow-citizens occurred. %Veil did the people were refused admission. In compassion he took them exhibit on that exciting occasion the effect of that to his own home. (The inspector behavea in the moral training which their leaders and friends have kindest manner towards the children, who were in a shown them the value of. In exhibiting the intensity most deplorable condition, their garments having been of their veneration for their illustrious patron and literally covered with vermin. The inspector's wife friend, they carefully—scrupulously—abstained from had them properly cleaned, and gave them nourishing the slightest indications which could ba censured by food, so that the poor little creatures appeared in court the partisans of any political doctrine. This was as in a much better condition than they otherwise would it should be, and as it henceforth ever will be. We have done.) have received accounts this morning from several The prisoner, who seemed very timid and nervous parts of the country, all of which acquaint us with when called upon for her defence, stated that her the extacy of the people on the receipt of the intelli- husband, who had been clerk to Mr. Alexander, a gence which restores to liberty the Liberator of mil- . merchant, residing at the \Vest-end, died about IS lions of his countrymen. A respectable correspon- months ago. She supported herself and children for dent writing this morning from Mallow says : some time ofter his death by the sale of furniture and "On last night Fiddane, Knockaro, Mallow, and by pawing her clothes, and at length turned to the entire of the country, as far as the eye could needlework ; she earned something by stay-making, reach, was brilliantly illuminated. Joy beamed in but it was inadequate to supply them with the neces every countenance for O'Connell's triumph. A meet- caries of life, and her health failing her about three ing is to be held this day in Mallow to appoint a months ago, she was reduced to the greatest dis number of persons to keep order and prevent the tress. She did not like to go into the workhouse, least annoyance during the illuminations this even- because she would be separated from her children, ing—extensive preparations are making for the occa- and was at length driven, as a last resource, to solicit sion in that town." aid in the manner in which the inspector found her. In Bandon the populace carried lighted tar-barrels Inspector Barton said he believed what the woman through the principal streets, and by the most enthu- stated. The Mendicity officers had no knowledge siastie popular demonstrations evinced their partici- whatever of her. There were between thirty and pation in the general feeling of joy and gladness. The forty duplicates found in her possession, and none of hills all about Cove and for miles in that direction to- them were for more than one shilling, most of them wards Youghal and along the coast were illumined for fourpence, a - pocket- handkerchief or a shawl, and with bonfires, and the people thronged round them those of later dates for articles still more requisite in in joyous excitement. female attire. Mr. CosinE discharged her, and directed the officer to accompany herself and children to the overseer of Islington, that they might be relieved. SJDCUP PETTY SESSIONS. (Before Lord SYDNEY, 11. S. BERENS, Esq., and J. CHAPMAN, Esq.) Yesterday, two lads, named Matthew Butler and William Sharp, were brought up in cus tody, charged upon the police-sheet with unlawfully assuming the appearance of ghosts, for the purpose of frightening passengers upon the public highway, at the parish of Crayford. Mr. Latter, the clerk to the bench, having read the charge from the police-sheet, the Noble Chairman in quired under what Act of Parliament it was made ? Mr. Latter replied that he supposed the present complaint was made under the Police Act, which made it an offence to do any act calculated to create a breach of the peace upon a public highway, but the offence was also an indictable one at common law. The BENCH said they were aware of that, but the charge in its present shape was one of a novel cha racter. Inspector explained the circumstances under which it arose, and said that for a considerable period the inhabitants of Dartford, Crayford, and the neighbourhood, especially the female portion of them, had been very much alarmed and annoyed by the pranks of some mischievous individual who chose to personate a ghost. It was his custom to station him self in the lanes leading to the two villages, and when any person approached him, he suddenly distended a sort of white dress he wore, and emitted a sort of flame, and in several cases had caused the greatest alarm, many persons being at present actually seri ously injured in their health from the sudden fright they had received. In consequence of these proceed ings, he gave directions which led to the apprehension of the defendants. Hayman Smith, a police-constable, stationed at Crayford, deposed that on Saturday evening he went in plain clothes to a place called the Old-lane, near Crayford, for the purpose of looking out for the ghost, and about eight o'clock, just as it was getting dark, he saw the defendants coming to• wards him. One of them said, " Tke coast is clear —look sharp," and they then both jumped over the bank into a field, and he saw them pull their shirts out over their trousers, which they tied round their waists underneath them, and they then com menced a series of gambols upon the bank, when, being satisfied of their object, he pounced upon them, and took them into custody. After he had secured them, they told him that they did not mean any harm, and that they merely intended to frighten the girls. An inhabitant of Crayford here addressed the bench, and in confirmation of the statement made by the inspector, said that the proceedings of the Crayford ghost had, last winter, caused the utmost alarm in the neighbourhood, and there appeared to be good grounds for believing that they would be renewed during the ensuing winter. _ Lord SYDNEY — asked the defendants what answer they had to make to the charge, or what excuse they could give for their misconduct ? The defendants assured the bench that they had no idea of doing any harm, but the fact was they heard that the " real ghost" was expected to show himself, and they had acted in the manner described by the constable merely. for a joke. The BENCH said they had done very wrong, and although the charge, in its present shape, could not be sustained, yet they had subjected themselves to be indicted for misdemeanour, and to receive heavy punishment. They would now be discharged, but they were cautioned to be careful, and not to per sonate ghosts for the future. fatioT's HosruAL.—The monthly meeting of the Governors was held on Thursday—the Lord Provost in the chair. A letter was read from Mr. Crosbie, teacher of the school in Bothwick's-close, High-street, resigning the appointment. It was resolved to advertise for can didates. The Property Committee reporte 1 the result of their negotiations with the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railn•ay for the disposal of the ground required by that Company for the Leith Branch Railway. The Governors approved of the Committee's refusal of the offer made, and re-committed the matter with instruc tions to dispose of the ground on the same terms as had been agreed upon in the case of the Cemetery Company. —Edinburgh Pacer. [ADVERTISEMENT.] ANOTHER WONDER I—CURE EXTRAORDINARY BY HOLLWAY'S PILLS.—Mrs. Maguire, a respectable per son, residing near Sunday's-well, C or k, was g i ven over in a case of dropsy, and was perfectly cured, when pro nounced to be at the point of death, by these wonderful pills. Persons, either young or old, who become corpu lent, pottle-bellied, bloated, or dropsical, may not only avoid apoplexy and other dangerous diseases attending thereon, but also regain the highest state of health, strength, and energy, and their figures become as tight, as light, and as good as in the days of youth. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Esta blishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. ALLEGED ROBBERY OF 8,900/. FROM THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—Considerable sensation has been created in mercantile circles in the City, by the circulation of a report that a clerk in one of the departments of the Bank of England has absconded with 8,9001. in sove reigns. Our information has been obtained from a re spectable source, and we believe the following particulars, meagre though they be, may be relied on:—On Wed • nesday last, the clerk in question asked and obtained leave of absence for three days ; he ought to have re• turned to the Bank yesterday ; but he has not yet made his appearance, nor has any intelligence been heard of him. Inquiries having been set on foot relative to some transactions in his department, the signature to a power of attorney to draw 8,9001. has been discovered to be a forgery. The forged document was presented on Wed nesday afternoon by a person having the appearance of a land steward ; he was paid in notes, but the whole of these were subsequently changed for sovereigns, which being placed in strong wooden boxes, were carried to a carriage at the Bank entrance, in which they were de posited, and the apparent "land steward" having en tered, it immediately drove off, The name of the clerk, believed to be implicated in this serious and daring affair, has been handed to us, but in the meantime we decline to give it publicity. The gold weighed about four cwt. — Shipping Gazette. OTAHEITE.—The following is an extract from a private letter, dated " Otaheite, April 24, 1844," ad dressed by Mr. Alexander Salmon, resident at Otaheite, to Mr. John Salmon,B6, Piccadilly, London .—" My dear Father,—l now regret to inform you that there has been an engagement between the French troops and the natives, in which the former have lost lti killed and about 50 wounded ; and the latter from 180 to 200 killed, and a great many wounded. You may fancy we are not very easy here; in fact, we have all our arms cleaned up, and keep watch every night." EXTENSIVE FIRE AT STRATFORD.—AbOIIt half past two o'clock yesterday morning a tire was discovered making considerable progress in the lower part of the Rose and Crown public-house, near Stratford turnpike. The 'police, with the utmost difficulty, aroused the family and lodgers, who escaped with only their night clothes. The engine of the parish was soon taken to the spot, but the flames had spread their fury so rapidly that its use was trifling. Shortly afterwards the powerful ones belonging to the London Establi:hment and West of England Companies arrived, and were ably worked by the firemen and others pusent, i tit in vain, as nearly all the stock, furniture, &c., were consumed. The loss is estimated at 11001. THE QUEEN DOWAG7,II.—We are happy to state that tier Atajesty the Queen Dowager arrived safly at Witloy Court, Worcestershire, on Monday evening, tween five and six o'clock, where she was warmly greeted by all the most influential inhabitants of the surrounding neighbourhood. LONDO N AND GREENWIC It NIL WAY. An adjourned Meeting and a Special Gene ral Meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the 1 1 don and Greenwich Railway, took place yesterday to the London Tavern, for the purpose of taking in consideration and determining the propriety of l easing the the Lo ,don and Greenwich Railway Company to South-Eastern and Dover Railway Company. Shortly after one o'clock, W. SIIADBOLT, ESTI too k the chair, and stated the objects of the meeting. this time, among the Directors and Proprietors Pi: sent, we noticed Mr. Alderman Hughes, Mr. D. ". Harvey, Mr. Salomans, &c., &c. Mr. D. W. HARVEY then proceeded to rea d tbi t report of the Committee that had been appointed iist the last meeting, that was adjourned to the Pre°, Ihty to consider on the propriety of leasing the li n o , The Committee had proceeded to ascertain the fi ne re cial circumstances of the Company, and they w, gratified in stating that the assets of the ConiP1111:3 were adequate to ail its liabilities, and that a sur i ) would be left to carry out every proposition effect, and to pay the interest on themspecialty de , Now the result to which the Committee had eon and the minute of terms arranged between the Di re ; tors of the London and Greenwich Railway Cei ll P e— f and the Committee of Shareholders of that Cone, and the Directors of the South-Eastern R ail° Company, was this : vesil " That a lease fur nine hundred and ninety - nin e i bs be granted by the Greenwich Railway Compaq 1 " South-Eastern Railway Company, of the Gr een R'silway, and all the works and CO:iYt niences connector therewith, at a rent of thirty-six thousand pounds io d the first year, to be increased at the rate of one th°t l ) , s- 0 . pounds per annum, until it shall reach forty-fiv e t i s ol sand pounds per annum ; such lease to include tbe.foto on either side of the railway, varying from twen,tY, t ,pU and a half feet, more or less, to thirty feet, to blew" tne land reserved for widening the Greenwich line., sad " The lease is not to include the surplus l an %ni, buildings thereon, belonging to the Greenwich C003y1701 bey and parcels of land on each side above reie.,o, to, which excepted property is mentioned in the used " With regard to such surplus or excepted l en " o t buildings, the South-Eastern Company are to be of liberty to purchase the same, or any part of it, ; 1 4 s i o s time previous to 29th St ptember, 1845, either (i..ava whole be taken) at the gross sum of twenty t hew — pounds, or if they should prefer it, or should take err e only, then at a valuation, in the usual way, for the or part. " The engines, carriages, stores, and working generally, to be taken at a valuation in the usual 0,11;45, " The lease to commence from the Ist January, ;01 on which day the railway and works shall be d eli lr, to the South-Eastern Company in good working 0111 e " The rent to be payable quarterly, clear of sill and deductions, except property or income-tax. n th' " The Greenwich Company to guarantee the .°() t bs Eastern Company against all liability in respet t° mortgage bonds and other debts of the Greenwich Co o °l pa" The above terms to be subject to the ratifinatt,o. the Shareholders of the two Companies and to the b ..- tion of Parliament." t, Now the probable result of this arrangemea„4 adopted by the meeting, would be, t h a t the y .. a year's dividend would be 7s. 6d., and that it icnutoi increase sd. every year until it reached the alem i l i t hs I Is. 9d., and a fund would also be left to meet ai expenses of future management. CO W Mr. HrrcuENs felt much indebted to the bt mitt:e for the trouble they had taken, but he the the matter required further consideration n o it, clear that Parliament, in any application ma de fle would not consider private, but public interests. _`e thought they ought to wait and see what the pr o Nest Kent line would do. .•,tieos Mr. GUNTER thought some further nert ie ought to take place upon t h the meeting sect. Mr. LEVY moved that should e° °cur in the course proposed by the Committee. b ate Mr. SCRINGCOUIt believed that if a prop er c us ce had been adopted, the Dover Company would Po given them better terms. If that Company en leri tie its offer, they ought to accede to it at once. t o thought the meeting should be adjourned for 3' night r so, to see if they would do so. Mr. o HAMILTON considered that the present A be pany was in the condition of a garrison that he-,ere out well, and that the moment relief came they rt is going to surrender. Their terminus was the m otet London, and though the terms offered by t h IA Y / VA line might appear fair and reasonable, he u' flo or think them sufficient. He should, therefore/ re i the mend the meeting not to confirm the opinion °`..blic Committee. It was against the interests of the Pu t o that the whole property should be thrown in ought South-Eastern line. He thought the question ger, to remain open for other Companies to make an Se Dr. LEESON seconded the motion of Mr. Left t o thought the rising of the price of the shares 111 market was an evidence that the arrangement ought posed was a beneficial one. lie thought they ° t ' e et to be careful that the Dover Company did 0° disgusted with their arrangements. A t op present WoErrE thought they ought not to r e .T u pon present offer, for if they did, they might dePe,t, it they would not get it offered again. %,"'"•ttee not confirm what their Directors and the '' ° " --1111 had done, they ought to lose everything. Mr. APLAUREN saw no equivalent in the preseet offer. t he d Mr. D. W. HARVEY said that it became t- e deo l consider that the only party they could properlY t th 3 with was a line in existence. He consider ed there of objections that had been raised to the report 004 such a nature as ought not to be stated, becausessible would endanger the arrangement. It was ign,P ° fi r to suppose for a moment that, in the present a": b ot ment, the Greenwich Company had not got tue lintl of the bargain. There could be no doubt theit,t he was going from bad t o worse, and as a proof of f ' t o might state, that although they had had one_:witho finest summers they could possibly be blessed their while their expenses exceeded 52,3 2819 t here' receipts had only been 55,33.51., the balance, too fore, in favour of the Company was little Incsr e I RO 3,0001., and something less than ls. 6d. a sha re '. oo hi could they calculate on improving their conal.leoor any other means than increasing the means 0 noel munication ? The arrangement that VMS PrNhel was the best that could result from any line. _ eh to never would have, by any other means, so ra ii vo ola divide as under the present arrangement. P rec eife be found that by it the Shareholders would tithe nearly 41- per cent. In conclusion, he 00 0 best s Proprietors would not be led away from 3 L e j e s. which he believed was based upon right prin c. n r o ffer Mr. MONEY thought they ought to accept an which they were not likely to have again. re ha d Mr. MooRE considered that the Proprieto _Des, now an opportunity of making the concern 007;e0t. lation, but a safe investment, upon which 4 i Pe' might be obtained. on the Sr ajor NUTT ccurred iri the adoption of port of the Committee. thst quests Spec 1 . The CHAIRMAN was about to put the cneele the meeting do approve of the report of the Committee, and agree therewith, when chil ent ' Mr. G. W. BARNARD moved, as an aln en ni . s at $ that the present was not a fitting time t° °- lease of the Greenwich Railway. Mr. SCRINGCGUR seconded the amendment; an d the Which, upon a show of hands, was los t ? original motion carried by a large majority. The following resolutions were also ag reed , t fe r tie r Ist. That the report of the Directors, i" g ith 6 with the accounts, be approved and mloPteut s od t ° exception of the calls relating to the Br i g ht°W the Croydon Railway Companies co n tinu e respective l 2d. That the Directors be authorise d to ,sti the agreement they have entered into wit them lt er Eastern Railway Company, should they dee pedient. 0 e °ll' 3d. That the Directors be authorised a15°,..„,,d0e tinue the subsisting agreements with the `'"il e tion Railway Company as to tolls, until the 0 °,0,011 of the arrangement with the South-Eastern De should they deem it exedient." ape ci6l A vote of thanks was then agreed to, to the Committee, for their labours. inf se he The meeting was then made special, for ten s nout e d of ratifying the arrangement that had been c into with the South-Eastern Railway Corn P ut tbet Resolutions were proposed and agreed t° ge purpose, and also for authorising the Director.% pro. to Parliament for the purpose of perfecting t° seeding. Qui d m F e . n G d .thi!iArmsteErTvoanrrtstrtioisttnede sthnentDh rec A o l m r. way Company. The CHAIRMAN said they had already done 50' one, The meeting, which was rather a stormy broke up at a late hour, the general feeling rbeeo thi e the for Proprietors tneir appearing nr to b rr e h t e h aptrtnch eetbztike:l4l day virtually piAulWffieGt...........,.wigooevenwell Company. !Ere:5:11101, DIED. t he On the 26th ult., at Ludlow, Shrorhire Frederic k+ second son of Dr. Thomas 'Willis, of Brighton', Sussel• On the 3d inst., Mrs. Ross of Sloane - str eet. id 'f• On the 6th inst., at Ryde, ' John iteade, only son of • Hoddius, Esq., of Irvern-court Hants. ri • 1/ ' On the 6th inst.., at Grove ' e Farm, T u rnham - gr el3 ' 3 Jessop, aged 74. lier t° ' On the 7th inst., at Old-park Farm, Much Iladhara, , se r Robert Elliott, Esq., late of the East India Company A vice, aged 58. Tholnil° On the 7th inst., at Loslev- park, Staffordshire, - gr• Sneyd K 3 nnersley, Esq., aged 71 . hter On the 7th inst., Kathleen JepllBoll, on ly daug Jephson, aged 5 years. , ----_—_-7-----------„ „,,,O . o Longo!): Print,,,i ami Publi3hed IN .:413;IDO -1 1 0 No. 112, Stnind, Printer, at Tile Sus 011' 10 1, 2 'v' 0:1 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the S avo y , in the BLiddleoex, Wednesday, September 11,1844. of lA RA rEI E t tf Buti4Tvlrry It s even. ; r a Its 'Pore ° ell in k ir ora ] ivh..lllapert thee pr:reSeNDiTit: toil:4111:r:: t siT c ysht , h r ale;w Winter TUE COU tar klul ztera lt t Ilolders of conti nu tolui r annum tu day of Ot st, k o zer. iti s t u t e ine—Dr. Add' Az tat r o ia Redica—D iih e ,MY and Physi bc 44 `are and .Disea 4,2l2ltrators —MI 44", i 'T and Opth,v, kopi,,erY—Dr. , ,(144 , 14 Ilnat omy _. t ry —Mr. A A. C. I , 44 tar j , n riSPrillth ,S m tsai,„` ..1080p4 y Cli k " oF,Ophy- LectureS br. ° ( lptlialxnie tux h i 41 1 Will cont Ittett,, n win bo 'llazitY, an( :itootn, VW( YIST 'The u liritzeTZ at tb e Rally a 7%`.4n1. of th ** By a Ac e Se Sta 4 i tla: ANS V R.tit ai ' "000,000, • q t. ll : 34 „:•iar 3. C. tept,'m eral Sir 813 : ?. Saro.uel .fhaYi, Etc 4101 4 neon, 7 k ito k ,'" Edmond lit ros, ki72 7. • Rare, 3I bENT.—L %% t ~ U t -G eneral ViSI krt i , L aniuinais, ti• D. Belleg %0 % Eloi Durnen toward Dc 1 14,4 7. and Din lot ; Toulouse : "' Henry ' , (Witl Atzk,'AS IN L( IN P., 4,,,,,,1i8uLT1N( b.4 "'kz i ;"log to the 41 1 of the Li I 5 ,i t, tl 4 ilt l i 4 I ~.trl I , I 1 1 ;14 4 f .' 4 ' 4 l i e e tiki t 1 ; rB 4 , s' is e . r:calattit October 1 . 1 ' is : e n t I :: : s e n tn e tr o croeo e s E n as : np r ß l C I : ( B a . di T t xhton n( e t ai kl ' Corn ' Pany ha Ib t "Kle the locos L NP,t Of these la itaee, b . b . e restric `;i4.7. earthworks, t rt t i7 and Tours I 4 . 'tile •. I t rails, an; i t t , /e ar this part :/ 1 47c aPon it wi , t o'usit) a pc `. e remaining ' will only be e in a fit s ~..... a a working Itions fort 4 1 , 0 .44 ,,e In the for SEPTEM) :,it , C LO TTED, a 'ett], solicit v. , oixi moy, : .. 11 4 .ke r ,..l`zcreta r y o f ih. i r !quest tha 1L1, 4 tli e ''" ea in th , , 4 ' e rata and t m ad I LerebY k L bt rlo i t° aae, to pa L4'aft . .,1" 'requisite lit e - ;_ l alr behalf ) N tir,b ; t aul_a_t r i e o r also, * 1 %tat r 4:"luth o r r par --.1 aM, Sir, 3 \,,._ I ) CLEANS 1 1 1 4 4 4 b e• C ° The " ; 144 14 1) on SA.] ° aPPlicatic ~~~ '~ BIRTHS. -.. pre y., 9 44 On the Bth inst., at Streatham, the lady of .u. of a daughter. r 0 eprl On the 9th inst., in Manchester - square , the l ady ° Pearse, Esq., of a daughter. Th . Cle" On the 9th inst., in Wimp°le-street , th e lady °f m.. dinning, of a daughter.