The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-25 00:00:00

t e nding from do m esti c affli c ti on . Il e kn e w they all fully apprecia . ed he talent of his friend Cobd.n, and in taking bis leave lie believed the Chairman would propose the health of Mr. Cobden.—(The toast was drank amid groat cheerio.) r AiseuniaLD PRENTICE:, of the " Manehests r Times," on coming "ard, was lousily cheered. He said he was an old labourer in the 'nose whi c h t h ey h ad assem b led to p ro m o t e .—(Cheers ) He had been 2!ieri disheartened, but never hopeless. He had now to express Its gratification and pride, and high exultation, at seeing the Iririciples he had so long professed now triumphant in these central districts of the country. While labouring in that cause, almost with :" any public manifestation of sympathy, th c great mass of discontent 11 h regard to these accursed laws needed but the support of the "blio to lighten it into a flame, and it needed but the two sp codid meetings of that night and the precious one, " 11 the array of wealth, and intellect, and talent, which they had pre. 'en " , to effect the expulsion from the statute book of the most re morseless laws that had ever been invented.—(cheers ) He was the %°a of a farmer, an d co uld have no interests c li ff erent or antagonist to that class, and much misunderstanding existed on that point. ie could tell them that the intelligent farmers of England had no in terest at all in the preservation of the Corn-laws. That was the case W ith several persons with whom he had conversed in Suffolk and other aNnties. While they were assembled and ex pressing their acknow. lod gments to the members and delegates who had honoured them With their presence they should not forget advantages conferred on their j,a0,5 by a free press.--(Loud cheers.) Much g ood had been effected .); I ts services and exertions. 'They could not also forget how much they were indebted to Mr. Weir, of Glasgow, who had rendered in calculable service to the cause.—(Much cheering) After a high eulo_ tints upon the talents and exertions of that gentleman, Mr. Prentice eaneludea by proposing " the Health of Mr. Wi lliam Weir, Es q ., of Glasgow.„ —(Loud cheering.) ~, "" r • Watt returned thanks in a very eloquent address, which we 'egret we cannot find space for fteday. The CHAIRMAN said it was now so late, that, afte r two da y s disc ussion, th they would, he premmed, be anxious to retire.' Al_ ° VI he had same other toasts on his list, he believed they shou l d "14 adjourn.—(Loud calls for Dr. Bbwring.) n pr • BoweiNG came forward, and addressed the meeting at s ome ;C U L He pointed out the vast !improvements that had taken et in machinery within the last few years. The great abject and end of their exertions must be to place the workmen of that '''unt rY on the same level with the workmen on the Contine nt in p oint : ,. „ ,°° d and wages.—(Hear.) They were in some measure de p endent upo n othe r coun ti es f o r food ; but if they gave a bounty the y the imp o rt a tion of corn, there would he no fear tha t should ever want a supply. It was said that if they took "°rit from the Continent, the foreigners would not take their g oods, but that Was a f a ll acy. H e hi ms elf had received communications from more n one seat of Government abroad, stating that if the ou etish ition upon the Corn Laws in England was altere d, the y would at o e aboli s h th e i r t er iff s an d sacrifice all their proteoting duties. (Cheers.) ,th er e were many parties who had lately joined them who had bur a 1 0/1g period hung back, and had waited in expectation of some ),„ -rat of enthusiasm like the present. It was one of the infirmities or 7 ,l , 4 2anity that they were too apt to retreat upon the short doings of others. th e lould recollect that the honour was in the race, and not in v. P r ize—they weae now engaged in it, and energy and perse `ie would be sure to succeed.—(Loud cheers. Dr. Bow after some further observations, concluded by thanking yneetin g for the patient attention with which it had heard him. God save the Queen ' was then sung by the professional gentlemen '!aent, all the company standing, and shortly afterwards the immense s age b kro e up. Al H IGH - WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.. ''......... .33 ' mi- utes after 11 I Evening 0 mi n u tes after 0 tIIS Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, - His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, 1 11 , i His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, ti o n g AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Distribu don;i of Money, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES. and f °T I'APOSE the Shareholders to Blanks) offer possibilities obtainiwr LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGII, and contai‘'NB ar t HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, IlriTC„`v SELLING SHARES for any of the said DISTRI of MONEY, at various rrices. The Distributions Noz n p various portions, from and POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS upwardpersons desirous Orders for less than 10/. cannot be attended to. desirous to purchase may receive PREVIOUS to giving WIT HOUT order, the Prospectus and Particulars , upon addressin g , T ROUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. ~. , ..4, I , :7- 14 . e '''' ' -- ' AA, - .0 , _ ( C.°••• f t>',, ' Ac..... ''..'..('' I, ....04 - , - : -, z) j ,4 ..,. ,.- , .......ce,! .. . 4 ;0,..5..0. ---- • , ,—.,...., :,..-,..„,,,,..„,..........._,<,__ Z i t:b t 10X+ LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1839. We are much obliged to the Morning Herald for furnishing us with the following explanation of the vi tuperation with which some Morning and Evening 3 °urnals assailed our notice of her MAJESTY'S ex l'eeted marriage : II,: 11 3 W is it that the important article of Court intelligence— Ilettlsettlement of a question, far more interesting - than the set ttel:;at of the Belgic question, though unconnected wi;h hoZ e Dolities—and which throws into the shade Lord Mel- Nii st ; B rep or t e d recommendation of himself to his Ro y al ir no 'ls for the vaeant Garter—how is it , we ask, that this p ellry 4), rt , a nt Court revelation In e ls escaped the swift-footed Mer die C our ier, and even eluded the capacious grasp of " The great Globe itself !" T he sun, it continues, " has, indeed, a light peculiarly its Ar -- "" - and Globe, and Courier, and Chronicle , with all other r usterial J ourna ls that boast official communications from thei4l—A,ourt, when they hereafter rep ort the p articulars of THE 1114 GE OF HER MAJESTY,' can only shine in borrowed ra diance, like so many sun-dials. Never did that rare astronomical phenomenon which occurs th uen the pl anet V enus , i n her transit, passes as a black spot ove r t han dis c , excite more intense interest among the lea rned. 11 an the hymeneal apparition upon the face of our evening lumi try will stir up among all the anti- Malthusian portion o f her Ma 'estY's subjects. Nor will the interest he diminished beca use of ~V difference of opinion which may exist as to whether the t hin g 2 to be looked on as a fact or a fiction, or something not !xactly either, but which partakes of the nature of both, and 1(1 eommonly called a " feeler." By a process of logical in uction, for which , we are sure our readers will allow us the credit of some ingenuity, we arrive at the conclusion that, if It be not one or other of the two former, it is the latter—that 1 , an announcement of a matter doubtingly, rather than determinately resolved upon, which can be affirmed or lidenntiioTedi; according as it may be well or ill taken b y the for Royal marriages, at least the marriages of reign ing Sovereigns, materially affecting, as they do, the interests of a whole people, should not be actually contracted without first ascertaining how public opinion—the index of national feeling —may regard them. " There is, we believe, an ancient proverb, or prediction, „lt,ieli ays, Blessed is the bride that the sun shines on ;' and T he Sun, it must be confessed, has begun to shine very early, If not very auspicously, on the intended or pretended marriage " - for as yet we scarcely know which to call it. It is indeed only natural that the poor papers, which live on Court news, and fancy such crumbs of it as those with which we occasionally season our sub- stantial repasts to be a wholesome meal, should have be en somewhat like dogs shut up in a kennel w ithout f o od, when they see others at liberty t '''tside, indulging in all the luxuries of the season. A ccordingly, the great Globe itself wastes nearly fralf a column of its narrow limits, instead of fillin g it with an account from Manchester of the great meeting, such as we had, in schooling us for having been so very naughty as to precede it, in giving to the world the important and interesting intelligence. The swift-footed Mercury, the Cou - rier, so named by the facetious Herald, we presume, because it always lags in the rear, calls our article absurd ; and the Standard, of ribbon-plot cele brity, lived where d a Journal which has for six years on conspiracies of its own invention, and is no i favourbly known for a love of truth, speaks of "an Evening Journal fishing for a days sale by the exhibition of some extravagant bait to gull curiosity." The fact is, that each and all of our Con temporaries would have given 1001. to be the first to communicate to the public the intelligence which we conveyed to it on Wednesday ; and their anger and 'abuse of us for having so fortunately forestalled them, snow no bounds. We beg leave to give them a little advice, each and all of them. The next time they open their collected batteries on us they had better mention The Sun, and not say Evening Paper ; because as there happens to be four of these, the shot which each of our Contemporaries directs against us may chance to hit one of themselves. When the "lobe, for example, says " no haste for prio rit y of news can excuse," etc., its readers will surely think Only of the forging Standard. When the Courier speaks of an absurd article in an Evening Paper, all its readers will turn their eyes to the " co d-with-a-child's-head," or gobemouche Globe ; when the Standard talks of an Evening Paper " fishing by extravagances for a day's sale," the world will only think of the dying Courier and the decaying Globe. We respectfully advise our Contemporaries, if they are yet cool enough to listen to anything like reason, the next time they have anything to say against us, boldly to name The Sim, and not pitifully, sneakingly, and meanly direct their censure against "an Evening Paper." As we enjoy their wrath, and believe that half their readers will carry their censures to Globe, Standard, and Courier, we fancy we arc something like Admiral KEATS it the Superb, who en(Yaged two Spanish three-deckers i n th e Gut of Gibraltar, passed between _them, fired at both, and then running on in the smoke, left [them blazing away at each other, till they were n the !restetl Neer-.) 31) the r what nming, Is from r those of th >v, ye !nsions. terror• ;lay in• inst the laugh r," and. ly duty, ese urr mrce 01 iers and d where lecessiti fall of me one red you cries of srs, that ;hear) -- the be. the ills andlords ut being rrofound that the' 1 care to Dy enact e a right rour foot' offer an i s not in the fire W 3 y a house r of roas t le, and it on," the, cd to the to cOO% le invert embelves, ntry to .wail, h 1 me the easonab le which 0 . y did 03 ) who ate Id wome n o me intv men, if t advocate ping st.e a proof , )t only to s,—(Coe ° it the Mc kno.lede not th e ql in ha d .nowledgc, and thou. Itvions at' cere thaf t ! my heal [ ' ur final 0 ; y to me 4 nmittee, an o d rejoice t• he Lndler ° , • ev There I , A enlighten 1 cheering ,/ as a toast' both dismantled and destrorcd 1 We beg leave, in conclusion, to assure the deeply disappointed and 'nor ti Red Globe, that we have, as far as possible, " ascer tained the truth of the communication," and did not mention it without being well acquainted with the party making it, and having a well-grounded moral convic tion that time will demonstrate the accuracy of our statement. The Corn-law agitation goes on bravely, and both sides work it well. Too wide, too long, and too deep, it cannot extend, for it involves the character of the Legislature and the peace and prosperity of the coun try. It will have been seen by the exclusive report of the Manchester Meeting which appeared in our paper of yesterday, that Lords BROUGHAM and DURHAM are concerned in it as well as Mr. POULETT THOMSON, a Cabinet Minister. By our extract from the Chro nicle of this day it will be seen also that Lord JoHN RUSSELL mingles in the fray and avows that some alteration of the laws would be advantageous, though he is for a " moderate fixed duty." On this point we are happy to see that the Morning Chro nicle, catching at length a gleam from the bright and bold spirit %which has been evoked in the north, differs in toto from his Lordship, and declares " that an end must be put, once for all, to a system which is fast undermining the foreign commerce of the coun try. We quite agree with our Contemporary, particularly in his concluding observations, " that the time for trifling is gone by, for the country will now be satisfied with nothing less than justice." We are sure it will not, and Ministers and the land owners may give up at once all idea of maintaining ever so moderate a fixed duty on corn. Who ever heard of men tolerating half a felony ? And since by common consent the Corn-laws are now treated as question of right or wrong, of rob bery or no robbery, there can be no haltind in any middle course. We strongly recommen_ the observations of the friendly Chronicle to the Mi nisters and to the public. The meetings are now pouring in on us so fast, that it is impossible for us to comment on the different speeches, or point out the numerous passages which are particularly worthy of attention. We are little re quired to do so, for generally, the proceedings are so interesting, that they need no recommendation, and are better read in the full report than by extracts. We cannot omit, however, to say, that the letter from Sir S. STIRLING, quoted be Mr. R. H. GREG, and which we insert to-day, will reward the trouble of perusal. We do not repine at the proofs it affords of the prosperity of other countries ; we are glad to see their prosperity ; we know that from a poor people nothing is to be obtained, and that from an opulent nation we can at least get its superfluities ; but we wish, as we cannot possibly exclude other countries from a knowledge of our arts, that we should be permitted also, by the abolition of the Corn-laws, to share their advan tages. We are pre-eminently a commercial nation, and wilfully to exclude ourselves from the advantages .of other countries, is a great wickedness, precisely similar in character to that of an individual wilfully chopping off his hand, or rendering his legs useless. Beseeching our readers to study the earnest and eloquent speeches of the Manchester gentlemen, we must connect one striking fact mentioned by Mr. GREG, with the deep distress of one class of our labourers. For several years past the hand-loom weavers have made many loud and just complaints, and, in fact, numbers of them have perished from sheer misery. Now Mr. GREG stated that the export of our manu factured goods to Russia was gone. He particu larized velveteens, of which, in 1834, he said, " w e shipped 345,000 yards ; in 1835, 177,000 yards ; in 1832, 23,000 yards ; in 1837, 8,000 yards." But while this diminution has been takin g p lace in the export of velveteens, the export of cot ton yarn has gone on increasing. The reason of this difference is that a much larger portion of the la bour of spinning than of weaving is performed by ma chinery. The article on which most labour is ex pended has been gradually made in Russia, because weaving could be performed cheaper there than in England. Thus we can trace to the Corn-laws en- ' hancing the price of the labour of weaving, and at the same time prohibiting us from importing coin from Russia, the wietchedness and decay of our hand-loom weavers, as certainly as we can trace the motion of one ball to the blow it has received from another. Another fact, made palpable from the statement is, that the whole of our weaving would have been carried off but for the invention of the power-loom, which, mighty as it is, and beautiful as are its works, has not been able wholly to resist the ruinous effects of the landlords' suicidal plunder. Ever since the prosperity of England became con spicuous, ever since civilization began to make a rapid progress, the towns have absorbed the surplus of the agricultural population. There the serf found pro tection, and there he attained opulence. There the farmers' sons, whom the land could not support, have followed professions and become wealthy citi zens. The Corn-laws, however, prohibit, pro tanto, the growth and increase of a town population, and they stop up, therefore, the drains which carry off from the land the surplus people. The Corn-laws check emigration into towns, and are the cause of the distress suffered by the agricultural labourers. They obviously attempt to arrest a particular course of society, which for centuries has been undeviating, and thus they inflict on all classes incalculable evils. We must, in conclusion, remind the Herald, that it would be more decent to refute our observa tions on the Corn-laws than merely to abuse them. It feels their force, we presume, by saying nothing against them but that they are idle and igno rant. We are aware, however, from seeing that our remarks, those, for example, on the silk trade, find an echo in the Common Council, and at Derby, at a meeting on Monday, that they are effective. Our Contemporary who seems angry that he is not listened to, would have more weight with the public if he were not, whether ignorantly or designedly we say not, to assign to the cotton manufacturers the whole value of their produce, omitting to deduct from the profit the small sum of several millions, which they pay in wages, and if he were not so blinded by a stupid zeal, as to say that there is a contradiction between 'Mr. J. B. SMITH'S assertion that the farmers will not use improved machinery, because the Corn-laws protect their monopoly, and Mr. CLAY'S, that those laws are clogs on the f armers enterprize. Verily our Contemporary's brain must lave been dreadfully heated when he discovered, in the lifferent modes adopted by these gentlemen of illustrat ng the same effect of the Coro-laws, a contradiction. We see from the Irish Papers, that a quarrel has taken place between Mr. O'CONNELL and the Übe ral portio n o f th e P ress i n Dublin. At a dinner given to the Honourable Member, he took occasion to make scme severe strictures either on the Editors or the Reporters of the Liberal Papers, who have hitherto been his best friends, in the course of which the Re porters left the room, and consequently only a miserable outline of the speech is given. Mr.O'CONNELL is full of indignation that the Reporters should not sit quietly and hear his abuse, and announces his determination to conquer them, as he conquer e d th e L on d on Press. We know not which Of the two parties was originally in the wrong , b ut the course whi ch Mr. O 'CONNELL adopted at the dinner was anything but gene rous or manly ; he was invited ac a guest ; all around him, of course, were friends ; they would hear nothing against him; and he seizes this opportu nity to pour out abuse against a few individuals who could not reply without disturbing the meeting. One of them, it appears, made the attempt, but he was im mediately shouted down by Mr. 0 CONNELL'S friends. This is certainly a strange way of creating indepen dence and self-respect among a people whom he has so often described as enslaved and trampled on by Saxon intruders, and whom he professes himself anxious to place on the same foot in g with Englishmen. In England at all public meetings fair play is seldom lost sight of, even in the most violent party debates, and the public are ever inclined to take the part of the weaker side ; but it appears a different rule prevails, in Ireland. On this occasion, too, the doctrine was advanced that Mr. O'CONNELL had created THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1839. the Irish Press, but every one was silent on what the Press had done for him. Is this Irish jus tice ? For the sake of Ireland we regret these out breaks. Mr. O'CONNELL has done much for his country, but he has much still to do, and we can assure him, that if he saw himself as others see him, he would not impair his influence by making indiscreet at tacks on the Duke of WELLINGTON, whom all respect. or create distrust among his supporters by quarrelling so often with his hest friends. Thus much with regard to Mr. O'CoNNELL'S ani madversions on the Dublin Press. But we have some further remarks to make on the conduct of this gen tleman. In the speech wherein he attacked the Press, I►e attacked also the Government—more especially Lord NORMANBY, whom he commanded—indirectly, it is true, but in a very significant manner—to punish Lord OXMANTowN for his late speech at Tullamore, by removing him from his office of Lord Lieu tenant of Kim's County, on pain of incur ring his (Mr. O'CoNxer.,e's), severest displeasure. He should hold the Noble Marquis, he observed, "and the entire Cabinet" responsible for the language held by Lord OXMANTOWN. "By leaving him in office, they took part with him." Let them hasten, then, to make reparation to insulted Ireland, and remove the obnoxious nobleman. Such is the spirit, if not the very words, of Mr. O'CoNNELL'S speech ! Now, we ask, is conduct like this to be endured ? Are Ministers to be held responsible for every remark that may fall from the lips of an Irish nobleman, and may not exactly square with the great Liberator's notions of justice ? Is he to be the sole arbiter of what is right and wrong, and none to be allowed freedom of speech but himself ? Because an OXMANTOWN may chance to displease him, is an " entire Cabinet" to be threatened with disfranchisement on that account ? We entertain no ill feeling towards Mr. O'CoNNNEL. On the contrary, we are among his best friends. We respect his long public Services ; we respect his enthusiasm in the cause of freedom ; we feel gratitude for the bold stand he has ever made against Toryism ; but were he ten times the man he is, we would scorn to wink at his follies, or to act as his flatterers or sycophants. Actuated by these feelings, we now take leave to tell him that by his present course of conduct he is doing him self, and the cause which he professes to have so much at heart, irreparable injury. We are no very ardent ad mirers of Ministers, but does Mr. O'CONNELL suppose that by flattering them one day, and abusing them the next, he will be likely to further the cause of Ireland ? Who will pin his faith en a man who appears not to know his own mind for two days together, but at the mature age of sixty-three shows the rashness and im petuosity of twenty-six ? Among other threats with which be no doubt hopes to scare Minis ters, Mr. O'CONNELL tells them that henceforth he is wholly for Repeal. He is now, he says, a Re pealer. Be it so. Let him raise his war-cry ; let him summon his vaunted millions to action, and pro claim the imperative necessity of his pet-Parliament on College-green. What will be the inevitable result of such frantic agitation ? The utter destruction of every plan of Reform that Mr. O'CONNELL has been so long advocating for the interests of his country ! By a letter, which appears in another part of The Sun of this day, on the subject of the " Houseless Poor," and which is signed by a " Guardian of the Poor," it would seem that the Committee of the In stitution for the relief of such destitute individuals are strangely mismanaging matters, for—so our Correspon dent assures us—" their Asylum for the Houseless is not yet opened, and January is drawing to a close." This is a matter which should be inquired into, especially if report speak true, that the Committee have " a fund of somewhere about ten thousand pounds at their disposal." We know of no period when—thanks to higher prices and Corn-law monopo lies—there has been a greater amount of misery in the Metropolis, than exists there at present ; ordinary justice therefore demands, that the Committee of a great public Institution, like that for the support of the houseless poor, which has it in its power to do so much good, should actively bestir itself, and render such explanations as shall account for, what must at present appear to many, its culpable mismanagement. Madrid Journals of the 16th inst. have been re ceived to-day. They bring the copy of a despatch addressed by General ESPARTERO to the Carlist chief, MAROTO, complaining of brutal infractions of the Eliot convention, and threatening reprisals. Were tSPARTERO other than the cowardly braggart that he is, he would drive the rebels out of the kingdom in stead of wreaking his vengeance upon them by the murder of a few defenceless prisoners. He appeals to Europe in justification of his conduct ! To that tri bunal he is only:known as a traitor to his country, and an enemy to liberty. The Moniteur of Wednesday, which we have re ceived, together with the other Paris papers of the same date, officially announces the dissolution of the Ministry. This event has been so long and so confi dently anticipated as to excite no surprise in any quarter. As we stated yesterday, the resignation of Ministers took place on Tuesday after the vote of the Chamber of Deputies for the appointment of Chair men of Sessional Committees. The KING immediately sent for Marshal SOULT, and at a later hour in the evening for the Duke de BROGLIE; but it does not appear that his MAJESTY came to any determination. Nor was M. TRIERS idle. His great task was to keep the coalition from splitting ; and his success, no twithstanding the personal exertions of the KING, was really extraordinary. Louis PHILIPPE has two grand objects in view, for the attainment of which he has laboured incessantly for the last four years. The first is to retain the virtual Presidency of the Council, and thus direct the national policy without the onus of responsibility ; and the second is to carry his own measures in the Chamber by means of a majority devoted to the will, not of the Cabinet, but of himself. The first of these objects the Presidency of Count MOLE enabled his MAJESTY to realize, and towards the second he has so far suc ceeded as to command two hundred votes in the Chamber. As the complete success of the KING would render the Charter a nullity, M. TrifElls, and those who have joined him, are determined to destroy the unconstitutional influence attempted to be esta blished by the Sovereign. They see France in a fair way of being enslaved, and they have patriotically de termined to unite for her emancipation from a regal yoke. The KING can now propose terms to any Minister, not only as head of the Executive, but as an individual commanding two hundred votes in the Chamber—as the great boroughtnonger of France ; and to put an end to this system M. THIERS proposes that the successor of Count MoLE shall be able to say to the KING, " Sire, I am indifferent to the number of your friends in the Chamber; the measures which I shall propose, with the consent of your MAJESTY and the approbation of my colleagues, and for which I shall hold myself responsible, will command the only majorities by which I desire to be continued in the service of the Crown." These are the considerations which really give importance, in a constitutional point of view, to the appointment of a new Cabinet in France. This day (Friday) was fixed for the departure of the Royal Family to Dreux, to he present at the in terment of the remains of the much-lamented Duchess Of WURTENIBERG. Rear-Admiral BA UDIN has been nominated Vice- Admiral by the KING, for his services in the Gulf of Mexico. The high price of bread continues to endanger the tranquillity of France. It was affirmed to day on change that the protocol which imposes on Belgium the execution of the twenty-four articles, with new conditions as regards the debt, and without modifi cations as regards the territorial question, is definitely signed by the Five Powers. Thus all the reports of further delay, solicited by France, falls to the ground. An English squadron will take up its position in the Scheldt while our troops will line the southern frontier of Belgium, such at least were the reports in some circles. The concentration of our troops is a precaution in case the Dutch, taking advantage of the refusal of Belgium to adhere to the new protocol, should attempt, as in 1831, a dash at Brussels.—Le Temps. BOURSE—Pents, WEDNESDAY, JAN 23. HALF-PAST TIIREE.—Owing to the state of the weather, the estafette mall yesterday waited at Calais until three-quarters past three for the English letters, which were subsequently taken up at Boulogne, the packet not having been able to make Calais. The letters werr to day delivered in consequence at noon. For the Account the Three per Cents, opened at 78f. 75c., declined to 78f. 70c., rose to 78f. 80c., and closed at 78f. 7:.c., a fall of Sc. The Five per Cents. from I I Of. 55c' fell to 110 f. 45c., and closed at 110 f. 50c., a rise of se. For money, both the Five and Three per Cents. are sc. hicher. The Lafitte Sank I,ooof. shares are sf. and those of 5,000 f. arc 201. lower. The Belgian Five per Cents, unvaried. The Bank Shares 2f. 50e. lower. The Spanish Active is -,} better; from 184 it declined to 181, and closes at ISd. The Portuguese Three per Cents. fur the Account 22; and the Five per Cents., 34. Nothing new in Railway Shares. First Highest low st Laq Price. Price. Price. Price. Fre:lth 5 per Cents. 4 per Cent'. 3 p r Cen,s 7B 50 ~, 7-1 so ... '73 75 ... '875 Bank of France 2631 _2625 -.261 5 .... 625 Latitte Bank 1,00.. f. Sli 5,090 f. Sh Belgian 5 per Cents. Ba. k 575 ... 575 ... 572 50 ... 572 50 Coupons Spanish A cti . e Passive Portuguese 5 per Cents. Nozw-li ta il Roman lOl ... 101 ... loi ... 101 One month, paperE, X,2717A:cGEm0nNey!..2„0,,f,15)(0 9.4 f. lh 34e., money, 21f. 90e. ' ' RAILWAY SHARES. three months, paper, St. Germain 593 ... 5:411 ... 590 ... 5!)0 Ye .sailles, R.B. L.B. Rouen Orleans 452 5 ) ... 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 452 50 St.rtsburgh to Bale 347 50 ... 347 50 ... 347 50 ... 3t7 50 Bordeaux to La Teste 4lO ... 410 ... 405 ... 4 5 - - - AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 13. Five Per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares l4BO —AligemeineZcitung. Jan. •.:0. LORD J. RUSSELL AND THE CORN. LAWS, &c. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) The following important letter from Lord John Russell on the subject of the Corn-laws was read by Charles Stanton, Esq., the Chairman, at a meeting of the inhabitants of Stroud, called to consider the propriety of petitioning the Legislature for their repeal, held in that town on Wednesday last. It will be seen that his Lordship advocates a moderate fired duty on corn. It is for the interest of all classes, the agriculturist as well as the manufacturer and trader, that the repeal should be total and unconditional. It is time that an end be put once for all to a system which is fast undermining the foreign com merce of the country, and is as injurious to those who have capitals embarked in agriculture as in manufactures, by closing foreign markets against British industry, and raising up rivals in every direction. A moderate duty is a less evil than a high duty ; but why should we subject the indus trious part of the community to any disadvantage in its compe t:tion with foreigners? We have no hesitation in saying, that the people of the great hives of British industry arc so strongly impressed with the mischievous nature of all protecting duties, that they are determined no longer to be the victims of the un just policy of the landowners, by which all are injured, while none are benefited. In the charges on importation, the manu facturers are already subject to a heavy duty, which adds consi derably to the price of food in this country, and consequently has a tendency to draw caiital to countries where food is cheaper; but they do not of course repine at this, which they feel to be an inevitable disadvantage. Lord John states, and states truly, that " it is desirable not to alter too frequently the laws by which the direction of capital and the channels of in dustry are regulated ;" and as his Lordship thus declares that the present laws cannot and ought not to be maintained, true policy as well as justice demand that we should abandon all half courses, and proceed at once to settle the question on fair and equitable principles. The time for trifling is gone by ; for the country will now be satisfied with nothing less than justice. " Whitehall, Jan. 21, 1839. " My dear Sir—lt is out of my power to absent myself from London at a period when the session of Parliament is so nearly approaching. I should otherwise have felt it incum bent upon me to attend the meeting of my constituents upon the subject of the Corn-laws. I gave my support to the bill of 1829, considering it an improvement on the former prohi bitory system ; but it is my opinion that a moderate fixed duty would be more advantageous, not only to trade and manufac tures, but likewise to agriculture, than our present fluctuating scale. It is desirable not to alter too frequently the laws by which the direction of capital and the channels of industry are regulated ; but it is also desirable not to maintain a system of duties which, as experience has shown, increases the high prices of dear years to the consumer, and depresses the low prices of cheap years to the producer. " I give you this as my individual opinion ; but it is one which I shall be ready to support by my vote in the House of Commons. I remain, my dear Sir, yours, very faithfully, "J. RUSSELL." FITE MARKETS.--(THiS DAY.) COkN EXCHANGE. 'Fills week's arrivals are good. The prevention of exportation of Corn from France has caused the factors to hold Wheat more firmly at Monday's prices. Barley, Beans, Pease, and Oat?, remain as last re. ported. Flour is still very heavy, and ship parcels are lower. ARRIVALS Wheat. Barley . G ate. I Flour I 3,310 qrs 22,6 N) qrs. 7,430 qrs. 11,240 acka I i 11,163 English Foreig I. I 10,800 Supply good, and trade brisk. Mutton was a trifle lower. Vea: Best Beef and Pork sui --- brls. was 2d. per stone dearer. ipported former prices. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAYj, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVRRPOOL COTTON MARKET, TIIITRiDAY. —The demand for Cotton to-day has been to a fair extent. The sales, 4,000 bags, of which 500 have been taken on speculation, at previous prices. Sydney Papers have been received to the Bth Sept. :-- EMIGRATION.—By a return laid before the Council, it ap pears that applications, under the Bounty system, have been made for leave to bring out 3,000 married couples during the ensuing year. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.—Upon the Order of the Day for the further consideration of the Estimates for 1839 being called, the Colonial Secretary moved that the following sum be ap propriated for the support of the Sydney Police ; total -14 377/. 19s. 2d. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—A great number of persons were daily leaving Van Diemen's Land, many of the very oldest and most deserving colonists, seeing no prospect of supporting themselves. In consequence of the colonial revenue falling off so rapidly as to compel large sums to be borrowed from the Commissa riat, it is reported that the Government have an intention to put up for sale by public auction the whole of the extensive Government paddock at Hobart Town, in suitable allotments. About two ton weight of specie arrived in Hobart Town from Launceston, on the 18th August. The Legislative Council of Van Dieman's Land has been prorogued to the 16th October. It may not be generally known that good bills on London are now at a premium of two per cent. in Launceston, in con sequence of which the respective banks are on the qui vine to meet the demand. The Australian Bank has taken over from Launceston a waggon load of dollars to be invested in Trea sury Bills at par, to be sent to London to meet the Bank drafts. We have no arrivals as yet of the American packets of the Ist instant. business doing THE FUNDS. Consols may be quoted at present at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 921 -a for the Account; Money, 92 4 1; lit tle as yet. The speculators are waiting to ascertain how the Be l g ians will recive the signatures of the Five Powers to the Protocol. Exchequer Bills, 65 67 ; India Bonds, 62 64; Bank Stock, 9.02 3 ; India Stock, 254,4 51. In the Foreign Market the chief speculation is' again in Spanish Active, which maintain the price 20+ 1, rather an improvement on the leaving of price of yesterday, owing to the confirmation of the resignation .of the French Ministry. Portuguese, sa m e as they clos ed 35i 6 ; 1; Three per Cents., 221 3+ ; Belgian, 984 9 ; Brazilian, 781; Colombian, 281 9 ; Mexican, 24+1; Dutch Two-and -a-half per Cents., 54k si; Five per Cents., 1024 PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock .'o2Vz 3 , :1 per Cent. Red. .............. 9!,44 3 per Cent. Cons. .................. 3 1 ., per Cent Ditto Red New 3% per Cent .................. 99704 New 5 per Cent. .................. Bank Long A nnu ities toexpire _ Jan. 5, 1860 l5 1-16 15 Oct. 10, 1859. - Jan. 5, 1860 ...................... Jan. 5, 1881 "- - April 5, 1890 ..................... Jan. 5, 1870 ..................... DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Stock Ditto Bonds S ( ) o l t d u l A t Sea i, u i S t t i o e , c k pm. New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 — b lx it etho. Bills, £1,00050 Ditto Small 6B 0i pm Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account - India Stock for Account Consols for Account . 92 % HALF -PAST ONE. Consols continue steady at 921 i for the Account, Money 92 Exchequer Bills, 67 ; Bank S toc k , 202 1 3; I n di a -11 ; Bonds, nothing done; India Stock, 2541. Spanish Active continues improvin g , 20 Portuguese, .i 351 36 ; Three per Cents., 2.2 - 3 ; 7 7 : Belgian, 981 99; Bra zilian, 78/ 9,f; Colombian , 28,1 2 9 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i 5k ; Five per Cents., 10.1 i LI if . THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES nrt.ITIsH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... ....................... 2 , 03 , Indiai tack 254 ............ A% ,Ditto Bonds 3 per cent. Red ......... 64 3 per Cent. Ccas ...................... 021. 2 , , Ditto Old Annuitie• 91% 5(4 per Cent. Red ................. 90 4 (Ditto New Annuities New 3(4 per Cent .................. 99% 1... x. Bills, 1,000/ ..Nd 64 pm. Ncw 5 per Cent ... . .................. Ditto 5001 415 pm Long Annuities to expire 5 1 . ... Ditto 500 1 65 pm. Jan. 186 1 .................. .. Bank Stock for Act. 0ct.1859 ..................... India Stock for ...t 0 55 Jan. 18(10 ..................... IConsals for Act 04., FOREIGN FUNDS iPortuguese Bonds, 5 per cent 7 ! IA Asturian, 5 per cent... ............ 7 , Ditto. New Ditto .... Belgian, 5 per cent ................. 7 9 35% Brazilian Bonds ..................... 7 S ~, Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayr, s, 6 per cent. IRussian Bonds, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent .................. IDitto, Metallic Colomb.an, 6 per cent (Spanish, 5 per cent - T l% Ditto, 15.4.......• 1:81._:. , Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent — !French, 5 per cent. 110 f. 05c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent. — French, 3 per cent —f. i . Ditto, 6 par cent.. 1845 2 lei Dutch, 2 1 % per cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent........ 18 Ditto, 5 per cent. 102% (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY.) Eastern Counties Railway , ........ Edi n b u rgh and Glasgow Railway ill Great Western Railway „ ~.... 75 London anclißrighton Railway .London and Blackwall Railway London and Southampton Railway London and Cioyclon Railway London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip) M anc hester and Leeds Railway Manchester and Birmingham Railway 9b,,,North Midland Railway ..... ... In the case of the Eton College v. the Great Wes tern Railway Company, the Lord Chancellor this day decided rgainst the Etonians, by dismissing their appeal from the Vice Chancellor's judgment, with costs. IRELAND (FROM OUR OWN CORRESF . ONDRN T. DUBLIN, WF.DNESDA Y. THE PRESS AND MR. O'CONNELL. Last night the long projected dinner to Mr. O'Connell by his constituents took place in the Circus, Abbey-street. The attendance was large, and the enthusiasm very great. Near the close of his speech, in returning thanks for his own health, Mr. O'Connell made an attack upon the Dublin Press, couched in the strongest language that anger could suggest. The reason of this is supposed to have been the fact of their not having taken sufficient pains to increase the attendance at the dinner. Mr. Staunton, the highly respectable proprietor of the Morning Register, during an immediately subsequent part of Mr. O'Connell's speech, where he observed that the proceedings of that night would go to England, said " not without the Press," on which immense hissing commenced in the meeting, which was answered by cheers from all:the Repor ters and others connected with the Press present. Mr. O'Connell then dared the suppression of the proceedings by the paltry Press of Dublin. On Mr. O'Connoll concluding his speech, all the Reporters of the Liberal Press rose and left the room amid hissings and hootings, while some violent fellows even attempted an assault on them. They immediately held a meeting, and passed a resolution declaring that the in dependence of the Press was the groundwork of liberty, and that a mean submission in this matter would be a surrender of the principles for which Mr. O'Connell contended, adding that, under these circumstances, they felt justified in suppress. ing the proceedings. Accordingly the Liberal Morning Papers came out this morning without a line of the dinner, and with long Editorial comments condemning Mr. O'Con nell's conduct in the matter. The proceedings of the Pre. cursor Society this day were chiefly allusory to this affair. Mr. O'Connell declared that he meant no insult to the Re porters ; but that he had reason to complain of the proprietors, and would bring the subject before the meeting on next Friday. He also seemed to threaten the establishment of a new Journal. The Pilot of this evening, which has been called Mr. O'Connell's own Paper, protested strongly against his conduct in the matter. DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL. (Abridged from the Dublin Evening hail of Wednesday ) The metropolitan dinner given to Mr. O'Connell took place yester. day evening at the Circus, Lower Abbey street. At one end of the room, on a raised platform, there was a table prepared for the Chairman, Mr. O'Connell, and the selected guests ; on the opposite end of the building there was a gallery set apart for musicians, and on either side there were galleries filled with the female friends of the guests. The chair was taken about half-past six o'clock by Ignatius Callaghan, Esq. Between two and three hundred persons were present. As soon as dinner was ended, the usual toasts were proposed by the Chairman, namely, " The Queen," " The People," " The Duchess of Kent." The CHAIRMAN then said, that the family of George the Third had never produced any member who was so useful to the people as the the Duke of Sussex, who, fur his fidelity to the cause of popular liberty, was excluded for a long period from the favour of the Court. He begged to propose " The rest of the Royal Family not resident in Eng land."—(Loud laughter, which lasted for several minutes.) The CH AIRMAN — An Irishman has leave to speak twice.—(Laughter.) I used the word " not" incorrectly, and mean to give the health of the rest of the Royal Family resident in England. The toast was then drunk amid loud cheers, The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the health of the Marquis of Normanby, and said that so susceptible were Irish hearts, that the ever. to-be.remembered name of Mulgrave could never be effaced by that of Normanby. Indeed so firmly was he attached to the former, that he wished it was made a Christian name in Ireland—(Hear, laughter, and cheers).—that he could induce his fair countrywomen to christen their children by that name.—(Loud cheers.) The mothers of the coming generation each of them ought to have a son called Mulgrave.— (Loud laughter.) The Chairman now called their attention to him on whom all their hopes depended—(Loud cheers)—to him who, after a long ca. reer in the service of his country—to whatever period of his career they looked, even when he was maligned by foes, was O'Connell still. — (Loud cheers.) The Chairman concluded by proposing the health of Mr. O'Connell, and prayed that he might enjoy increase of rears and continuance of vigour for his family and country's sake—and that when his career was run, and his eternal happiness completed, should his de parted merit be permitted to find justice done him by his opponents and posterity, they might know that the names of O'Connell and Ireland were so interwoven, that they could not be separated.—(Vociferous cheering.) Mr. O'Coreeret then rose, and was prevented for some time from proceeding by the continued cheering. He said, you suppose that I have risen to make speech ; if you do, you are entirely mistaken. I rise merely to ask you a question. Are we agreed ?—(Loud cries of "We are ") I want to know whether we are agreed for action.— (Hear.) Not the tumultuary violence or sanguinary action which the traitors to public liberty and the false suggest—but that determined action which has already brought you out of one struggle. This is no ordinary occasion that we are met upon ; we are making Irish history to-night.—(Cheers.) It was said by their malicious enemies that there was something of a compromise—some sacrifice of the 40s. freeholders —some abandonment of their political rights in achieving emancipation. It was false. The sixty-three delegates —some of whom he saw around him—called on the Briesh Parliament not to emancipate them at the expense of the franchise from one single Irishman.—(Loud cheers.) TheOentered into the temple of the Constitution erect and fearless, with unstained banners and untarnished reputation.—(Cheers.) Yes, England would never have got reform, if Ireland had not got emancipation without a single crime— without a particle of offence without the destruction of a particle of property.— (Cheers.) They deserved well of the friends of civil and religious li berty. They might, perhaps, think that his blood, after 63 winters, ought to flow coldly—perhaps his tongue might falter, but his heart beat as lively, his blood throbbed as warmly and with as violent indig. nation as in his earliest youth—(Cheers)—and not having much time to spend, he wished to work every moment of it.—(Cheers,) He called on them to remember that when they did triumph for civil liberty, the base ungrateful Whigs bestowed a stinted and limited reform on them. He charged the young blood of Ireland, by their allegiance to their country, to remember that the first thing England did—the first thing the Reformed Parliament did, was to fling the insulting chains of a Co ercion Bill on Ireland. Yes, let them note it down in their tablets with a pen of adamant that on their souls was branded the name of slave. The first requital that England made to Ireland for fighting the battle of Reform was the horror of a Coercion Bill. Let them not talk to him, then, of trying the Union—he hated the Union. He was work ing now an experiment, and he frankly told them the only thing that consoled him was, that its effects would be to give him a stronger argument for Repeal hereafter.—(Loud cheers.) From this moment he devoted his life to repeal.—(Loud cheers.) Repealer was his name. It should be his name while he lived, and, after ho died, if he did not first address a Parliament in College.grecn, Repealer should be on his tombstone. —(Cheering.) They might tell him that repeal was an impossibility, but every difficulty was so to the timid, the cau tious, and exceedingly sensitive. There were no impossibilities for men who were for the right, and who loved their country. Mr. O'Connell then repeated his statement as to the defective franchise in Ireland, and said, that if justice were not granted them, let it be in the filthy cellar or hideous scaffold, he was still for repeal.—(Vociferous cheers.) He stated that, in the next Parliament, Bills would be brought forward to regulate the franchise and the registry. He would endeavour that they should have a fixity of tenure and a certainty of holding, and not be driven by Lortons and Oxmantowns to starvation, or to the insane justice of revenge—it was, he would tell them, his leading idea as to how this mischief would be remedied. They had spoken of the Queen's representative, the Lord Lieutenant, the Marquis of Normanby. He challenged him from that place. Oh, he maintained that the late dastardly letter which appeared in the Evening Mail was never the production of the Marquis of Normanby. —(Cheers.) It was sent from the English Whigs as a memorial of their weakness.—(Hear.) He would not submit to it —(Cheers.) If he stood alone in the House of Commons, he would next Session move an address for the removal of Lord Oxmantown.—(Loud cheers.) His words would be few—he would say that Lord Oxmantown traduced the honestest, most faithful, bravest people that ever yet were, and he would appeal to English history for every word he said. When his Lordship stood up to discover the murderer, it was only a pretence, it was not a reality. If he wanted the murderer, there was not one man in the King's County who was not ready to assist him.—( Hear.) Sure the wretched being himself, during the three days that Lord Norbury sur. s ived, he never asktel him if he saw the man. The Scotchman did not see him; his back was turned; he met the people returning from a funeral, with all its awful impressions of having left one of their dead behind them—yet the Scotchinan did not ask help to find out the murderer ; the track of the murderer was not the rough nailed shoe of the peasant ; it was the neat and finished boot of some one who never wore frieze stockings. Why did not Lord Oxmantown inquire into these facts ? If his intention was to find out the murderer, he had just done that which was most likely to prevent it. He had uttered one of the most virulent audacious calumnies that had ever disgraced a creature calling himself a man. He had the audacity to attack the Catholic Clergy, and attribute to them the wholesale protection of mur. derers.—(Shame, shame ) He ought to have remembered the whole sale murderers of his own family; and the Catholic Clergy were at that minute making a most rigorous inquiry into the facts. He declared that the speech of Lord Oxmantown, he being the Lord Lieutenant of the county, was an offence committed by Lord Normanby, and by the entire Cabinet, so long as they left Lord Oxmantown in his place. By leaving him there they took part with him. They could have nothing worse from the Tories than the calumny uttered by Lord Oxmantown. It was an insult to Ireland, and he (Mr. O'Connell) for one, would not bear it.—(Cheers) They might think him indiscreet and heated.—(No.) Could any country ever deserve liberty that submitted to wilful insult? —(Loud cheers.) What cared he for the phrases of Mr. Drummond? Lord Oxmantown did not care for them. Mr. O'Connell then spoke on the subject of corporate reform. Blessed be Heaven ! its fate was sealed. There was no doubt of its death. Like a pig in killing, it might take a great deal of dying.—(Laughter.) They were squeaking as a killing pig did; but, at the end of their squeaking, they must meet with the fate of the pig—die they must, and die they would.—(Vociferous laugh ter.) The question was, what kind of an animal would they get in place of the pig? Were they to get a real, proper, democratic corpo ration, in which all would, as they ought, participate ?—(Loud cheers.) That was what he (Mr. O'Connell) was contending for; but the Re corder wanted an aristocratic corporation. He said he would have none of the tradespeople in it.—(Hear, hear.) After some further remarks, Mr. O'Connell continued to say that lie could not resume his seat with out again rejoicing in this assembly.—(Hear. hear.) He rejoiced, be. cause a higher feeling congregated them together than mere kind ness to him. He felt it as a proof of their attacemeut to Ireland ; for all the claim he had on them was only in his love to Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) He said that they were making a part of Irish history. Such an assembly was never assembled before; but he could not forget that the Irish Press bad betrayed them.—(Loud clamour, cheers, and inter ruption.) On the present occasion they did not do their duty. Nothing was owed to them. One and all neglected their duty, and it was found now that they could be done without.—(Loud cheers and clamour.) All his life he had been putting his hands in hornets' nests whenever he thought it was necessary. He declared that he was not satisfied with the Irish Press.—(Loud cheers.) It delighted him to sec that the spirit which was abroad superseded the necessity of working any of the usual modes of getting an assembly—there was no need of a preliminary boiling the kettle.—(Loud cheers.) There was a spirit abroad, and he told them that spirit would spread independently of them.—(Loud cheers.) They de served castigation, and he trusted that the castigation they got would make them somewhat better to-morrow. Mr. STAUNTON here rose, and attempted to make some observations, which were inaudible. He was assailed with all sorts of cries—" Put him out, the blackguard." " Who is he?" " How dare he get up ?" Src, lie was at last obliged to resume his seat. Mr. O'CoNenet, after silence was obtained, said, the next thing to overthrowing an enemy is putting him in a passion ; it showed that he was wrong; the present passion was a paltry passion. The Press were the servants of the public; let them dare to omit to give this to the world tomorrow; let them abuse him in all moods and tenses; let them bor row every sarcasm against him that the Orange Press had used, and make of it as unsavoury an olio as they pleased.—(interruptions.) Mr. O'Connell then touched on other topics, and concluded amid loud ap plause. It was not easy to hear his concluding observations from the excitement which prevailed at the reporters' table. At the conclusion of his speech the majority of the gentlemen connected with the Press quitted the building amid the hootings and hisses of the company. The health of the Chairman was drunk amidst loud expressions of applause, ~ y ., r- ) c ,, n k i TT The following toasts were proposed, and drunk amidst loud appialtsl " Lord Me'bourne and her Majesty's Ministers." 4.e„. " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the world." The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Miss Alicia tt,Melt, French, a member of the Precursor Society." — (Cheers.) • " The Friends of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament," • ), " The Stewards and Committee of Management." Mr. ROBERT N. FINN returned thanks. He regretted that inter, ruption had taken place.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") He was _ repeat that an interruption did take place.—(Hear, hear.) He l lepicrole . , --- to the sudden departure of the gentlemen connected with the Freeman Journal and Morning Register newspapers.—(Hear, hear.) It was - time to speak out, and express the sentiments which the Liberator htm. self had just then spoken—(Hear)—that the Press had acted in a most disgraceful manner—that very Press which has actually lived by the breath of Mr. O'Connell, and lived too upon his patronage and his re. commendation.—(Hear.) After all they had the ingratitude to turn their back upon him, and actually refuse to publish to the world the pro. ceedings of this important assemblage.—(Hear, hear.) Rut he thanked Gcd, that notwithstanding the opposition of the press, the undertaking had succeeded.— (Hear, hear.) There was a glorious manifestation Ot popular feeling—(Cheerine)—and he trusted that the manifestation would cheer their great leader in his parliamentary campaign upon which he was about to enter —(Cheers)—and if unsuccessful they would all become repealers--(Hear and cheers.) In addition to that there were gentlemert there upon that platform who have expressed their determination to establish a national press—(Cheers)—a national press in the City of Dublin—(Cheers), and he called upon every honest man who witnessed the manner in which the Freeman and Register newspapers had acted to support it.—(Hear, hear.) After some other observations Mr. Finn concluded amidst loud applause. Several other toasts having been proposed, Mr. O'Connell retired b ut half-past eleven o'clock, amidst loud cheering. f THE DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL. (From the Pilot.) We came into town this morning anxiously expecting to lead the proceedings of a dinner given to Mr, O'Connell yesterday, part of which we had witnessed with gratification; but we were surprised and sorry to find that all details were suppressed in the Liberal journals, in consequence of some observations of Mr. O'Connell harshly di rected against the press without any exception. We did hope that at letst the Pilot would have been excepted from such censure—first, be cause we thought old recollections and old services might have had their due influence; next, because we ought not to be included in the particular incident that excited the ebullition, which would seem to be a supposed ntglect of sounding the note of preparation for the dinner. This duty our rea ders know that we took care to discharge as far as good taste would warrant—that is without making it appear that the Liters_ toe's dinner would fail without the previous puffing of the press. These considerations, and others which we shall not, as yet, at least trust our. selves in expressing, caused us to hope that we would have been excused. We pass the incident, however as one of those which men who mix in public life are subject to. We forgive and shall try to forget it. Long since, indeed, should we have been driven into the more congenial pursuits of private life, were we not sustained by higher motives than any which individuals, however eminent or powerful, could give or take away—and our character and establishment founded on something more stable than individual friendship or gratitude. We are sorry for, not angry at, the incident. The prowling place hunting creatures, who lately turned patriots, and who earwig the great, have, we suppose, their way, in causing Mr. O'Connell to quarrel with his old friends, that they may set up the paper of their own, which they have long been hatching, because the existing journals had too much regard to their own characters to publish all their foolish sperches and the puffs they convulsed for so indefatigably. This is the real seortt of the affair. Hitherto we have only alluded to the case as it related to ourselves. But we must say, for the Liberal press, that con-. fidence in the public and in Mr. O'Connell, and not any neglect of duty, caused them not to put in all the ill-written articles of these speculating creatures. The event has justified their reliance on both. MR. O'CONNELL-THE PRESS. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) We are quite satisfied that we shall get credit from the gentlemen connectcd with the Daily Press, when we state, that we are filled with satisfaction at the occurrences of last evening, not so much as they are likely to prove injurious to Mr. O'Connell politically, but as that they afford evidence of the spirit, integrity, and independence of the mem bers of a profession to which we ourselves belong, and whose import ance and usefulness are neither appreciated nor rewarded as either de serve. There is no more laborious, painstaking, or faithful class of persons, than the Dublin Reporters—gentlemen at whose position it is rather the fashion to sneer, and whose efforts it is rather the custom to decry. We have never done either. We have always sustained and supported them, whenever they have come before the public in their personal or professional capacities, and their conduct upon the occasion now under consideration, proves that we had formed no erroneous estimate of the independence of their feelings, or their correct sense of propriety—first, with respect to what was due to themselves—secondly, as regarded the character and import ance of the great engine with which they are connected. We copy the following notices from our Morning Contemporaries:— FREEMAN (EDITORIAL). "Tiff METROPOLITAN DINNEE.—The Liberal Press of Dublin was assailed la,t night, in very virulent and unjustifiable terms (in an after-dinner speech, by Mr. O'Connell, at the entertainment got up in honour of the Learned Gentleman, at the Abbey-street Circus. We had made arrangements for the publication this morning of the entire proceedings; but as the gentlemen connected with the reporting department of the Liberal press have seen fit to convince Mr. O'Connell that they dared to act and think for themselves, and that they dared also to resent the insulting and ungentlemanlike treat. mcnt to which they were subjected at the hands of their hosts—by suppresi.ing the entire proceedings--we have only to express our regret that the intemperate and unjust tirade launched against the body gene. rally should have deprived our readers of the pleasure and satisfaction of perusing a full report of the eloquent speech which, we understand, Mr. O'Connell delivered on the occasion." (REPORT " METROPOLITAN DINNER TO MR. O'CoNNEtt..—Yesterday evening Mr. O'Connell's constituents entertained him at a public dinner, at the Circus, Abbey-street. " Ignatius Callaghan, Esq., President. " John Guthrie, Esry , filled the office of Vice. Chair. " The proceedings continued with uninterrupted harmony until Mr O'Connell had nearly concluded his speech. The Learned Gentleman about that period took occasion to indulge in a tirade against the Dublin Liberal Press, which was felt to be so offensive by the gentlemen who represented it, that they spontaneously discontinued reporting him, and as soon as he had concluded his observations they retired in a body from the room, having been previously assailed by the houtings of violently excited individuals, who groaned and hissed them in a manner both in. decorous and violent. In their passage out, some of the stewards and police had to interfere for their personal security. A meeting was in stantly held by the gentlemen who felt themselves thus individually no.. ticed, and a resolution, which appears elsewhere, was then agreed to." II EGISTER (EDITORIAL). " Ma. O'CONNELL.— TIIR PRESS.—The reader who may feel sur. prised upon looking in vain for a Report of the proceedings of the metropolitan dinner to Mr. O'Connell, will find an explanation set forth in an advertisement from the gentlemen in attendance on the part of the Liberal press. We approve of the suppression. not because we fear anything that may be alleged against the character of that gteat engine of which it is our pride to form a part ; for we are ready to justify our course, where it is deliberate, or to make atonement where we are wrong. But we appruve of the suppression, because the independence of the press has been trenched upon—because we have been DARED to refuse to give power and effect to words that would otherwise die upon a few hundred ears—because we feel the sustentation of our professional character of infinitely more importance to the public than columns unnumbered of Mr. O'Connell's eloquence, impulsive as that has undoubtedly been towards the goal of Ireland's liberties—because it we proved ourselves the whipped slaves of the Learned Gentleman, which we have been sometimes slanderously re presented to be, we should weaken even his utility—because, finally, however reasonably Mr. O'Connell may think that Ireland's hopes are centered in him, the integrity of the Press is of incalculably more im portance to the nation than the dominancy of an individual's power —see.ng that the individual patriot is mortal, and his influence dies with him, while the Press lives for ever, vitally affecting the destinies of generations unborn, for good or evil, according to the character it earns and the course it wisely or weakly pursues. For the present we shall quit the subject, by demanding of Mr. O'Con nell the cause of this unmannered, unexpected, and from him, most undeserved attack upon the Press ? The subject is one in which the community has the deepest interest ; and to the bar of public opinion —the sense of public virtue—we appeal. Enough in conclusion to say, :hat when goaded by Mr. O'Connell's Insulting language, the reporters indignantly threw down their pens, and left the room. In the name of the Press we thank them for the manliness that induced the resolve not to permit an outrage so gross to pass unreproved." (RKPORT.) " METROPOLITAN DINNER TO MR. O ; CONNELL—Last night this en- tertainment took place at the Circus, Lower Abbey street. In the course of Mr. O'Connell's speech, he unexpectedly commenced an at. tack upon the Press of Dublin, which was so insulting that the re- . , porters threw down their pens and refused to take further notes of the proceedings. On the termination of his speech all the reporters of the Liberal Journals walked out of the room together; but during their progress they were assailed by groans and shouts, while some of the more infuriated and slavish of those present even attempted vio lence upon their persons. They immediately afterwards held a meet ing at which was pasued the resolution which will be found in an other column." .... The following arc the resolutions referred to in the foregoing ar. icles " METROPOLITAN DINNER—THE Paass.—At a meeting of gentle men connected with the Dublin Press, held this evening, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : " That inasmuch as Mr. O'Connell, at the Metropolitan dinner this evening, used, in reference to the members of the Dublin Press, terms as insulting as they were unjustifiable, and dared theomission of the report of the proceedings—Resolved, that having respect,to our own character, and holding the independence of the Press to be the foundation of public liberty, and considering that a mean submission, under these circum stances, would be a surrender of those principles which Mr. O'Connell professes a desire to establish, we hold ourselves justified in a total sup. pression of all the proceedings that took place upon the occasion.' " James Coffey, Charles D. Duffy, Martin Haverty, John Flanedy, S. Corcoran, Andrew C. Elrington, John Morgan.' " January '22, 1639." HER MAJESTY AT DRURY-LAN THEATRE. Last night the Queen honoured this theatre with her .pre sence for the third time during the season. Her Majesty arrived soon after ten o'clock, and was a ttended by a suite which included the Marchioness of Bre adalbane, Hon. Miss Murray, Baroness Lehzen, Marquis Conyngham, Lord Lil ford, Sir Robert Otway, and Lord Alfred Paget. The per formances were Benedict's opera of The G i psy's Warning, and the Pantomime : and after their conclusion her Majesty paid a high, and we bel ieve un p recedented compliment to the theatre, by going personally upon the stage, and wit nessing the feeding of Van Amburgh 's lions, which were again brought on after the departure of the audience t')gra tify the Royal curios it y . On this occasion the stage was in a manner walled in by the scenery, and everybody be hind the scenes excluded from it, with the exception of the Queen and suite, Mr. Bunn, who attended upon her Majesty, and Mr. Van Amburgh. The beasts in their dens devoured their food (raw beef) with a violent rapacity which leads to a supposition that their feeding time might have been purposely delayed- 7 a surmise, in some measure, borne outby an occur rence which had previously taken place during the perform ance. When the lamb was put into the page the lion and panther simultaneously attacked it, and it would certainly have been killed but for the determined interference of Van Amburgh, who unmercifully whipped the animals until they crouched in their den, and rescued the poor lamb, which bad been washed and furbished up to a snowy degree of cleanliness —perhaps in honour of its appearance before the Queen. Her Majesty, when on the stage, held some conversation with Mr. Van Amburgh, and appeared very much pleased with the ex hibition of the feeding. The Queen has announced her in tention to go in State to Drury-lane Theatre on Tuesday next. 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