The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

NONE AND COMMERCIAL NEWS In the CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. sales we. Cotton market a t Li ver p oo l, on S a t ur d ay, th e bales, as elO,OOO bales, of w hi c h s p ecu l a t ors t oo k 6,000 The itr id prices in some instances advanced *d. per lb. .provement, however, was not general. A fair amount of busin ess was d one i n Sh ares, an d t h e mar k et s hr .ner :—Edinburgh and Glasgow were 57i ; Great Fifths, ; Brighton, 43: 1 2 - ; Manchester and Orly , ut 3S-1- ; Nurth Midland, 91 ; Paris and 33 ; Paris a nd Ly ons , 2/. 16s. ' 6 d . ; P ar i s an d , r; 311, 32.1 ; South Ristero, 36 ; and ditto, New, 36i. he priv a t e a d v i ces from the United States and Canada are : nn _t_, of v ery great interest. We find that in Canada the pros -7: of the f ormat i on o f a new C a bi net b y Si r Charles Met :4: -t was expected soon to be accomplished, as the more re- stable portion of the inhabitants were ready to support him :4 the adnthaistration of his Government. And indeed most hu " e gentry, merchants, and others, in Kingston, had addressed itt E h aceriency, approving of his Government. e reply Sir C. Metcalfe said, " I prize those sentiments te. los , • ,aity to our gracious Sovereign, and attachment to the wat' - -wee country, which you evince, and which form the only .131 '•re basis on which the welfare of this colony, as an integral 'Pevtion of the British Empire, can be firmly established. On h feelings, I place my reliance for success in my resolution all% devote myself to the service of this province, and in my -endeavours to promote the prosperity and happiness of every • class of its inhabitants." The season has set in, the thermometer being down to Zero. - There had been some good sleighing. The session of the Colonial Legislature had been abruptly t erminated, and we learn that the Governor-General had ' ahown something like temper in the proceeding. The United States advices do not possess any importance, and it is not necessary to refer to them here, as in another co hunn of The Sun further details r.re given. An improvement has taken place in the public securities this Morning. Consols for Money opened at 964, and they are n " at 97, rather buyers;. The purchases of the Com missioners to-day, amounted to 20,000/. Consols at 97 , princip a ll y , we hear, for the Savings' Banks. If an Yinvestment were made ' for the redemption of debt, it was not announced. Money has become rather more in request, mid a few sales of Exchequer Bills have taken place, but the eel:ilium has not been reduced below 655. India Bonds touched 7. early in the day, but they are now 795. premium. In the has Stocks buts light variations have occurred. Bank Stock as advanced to 167 i, and India Stock to 273. For Pertipluese Converted Stock a considerable demand has Ps,evailed th : a morning, and an improvement has taken place f . s r cun 441 to 4.5 i. We have not heard of any news of im portance from Lisbon, to account for this rise. Spanish Stock remains ve•cy nearly the same as on Saturday, the Five per , C ents. at. 22i t o %, an d th e Th ree per C en t s . a t 31 an d 31 k . Dutch S lock is firm. Venezuelan Two per Cent. Bonds have been sold at 36*; Mexican at 321 and ; Colombian, ex V enezuelan ;at 11, and Chilian at par. In the Rail way Share Market we have to notice an improve ment in the C4eat Western to 33 premium ; in the London and B irmingham (New Quarter Shar es ) to S6i p rem i um ; an d th e ,_„nethern an t i E as t ern h ave , as we ll as severa l ot h er s h ares , 71,1:4 back a little. The Colonial Bank Sh are s ha ve r ece d e d -o(4 i discount. a RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 7i14 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities per Cent. Reduced Annuities Diew 3 per Cent. Annuities lO2 101 i Long -annuities, Expire rith Jan. 1860 India Stock I ndira Bonds, 1,000 r,itto under 1,000 B ank Stock for Account • ( .4' 'ascii* for Opening Zachequer Bills, 10. lid. 10001. 50a/. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Chilitin Bonds, 6 per Cent Columbian Bonds Mexitan Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.....,,.,, 32ii .„ D'Ato Deferred Stock... 9l 10 roriuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent bitto Converted Sk4anish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account.. Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred.... 124 'Ditto Three per Cent. . Dutch 2i per Cent. s4i Ditto for the Account Dutch 5 per Cent. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Ilriteland Exeter taltern Counties 7O .... 644 to 23 ... .. 101 ... to , ui tto Scrip B/. 6s. Bd. ...... 124 neat "W estern radon and Brighton ...... 50 radon and Birmingham ..... ....100 Ditto 1 Shares Lend ll doo and South Western ... 41% ... .. 74 „n and Croydon ( Trunk)..• 134 1544 ... to -olalacheater and Leeds ...... ...... 70 o Ditto 4 Shares II them and Eastern Ditto 4 S hares Nor th Midland IOO our,th Eastern a n d D over SO , .-ntt o s crip 25 4r e arro euth and N orw i c h... ...... ... 13 - ~ ,.8 t London Old Shares 2O ...... +/A t° First Class Preferred .. 10 colou i zorarr STOCK BANKS. 25 : MANCHESTER :STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 13.—0 u market -Bar ge evinces rather more firmness to-day, without - 7. 3 " 4 hge in prices. Manchester and Birmingham, 374 to rt i Edinburgh and Glasgow, 56/ to 571 ; Ditto, Ntlarters, 144 to 4 ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters, lel too -i- ; Paris and Ly ons , 24 to 3 ; Bolton and Preston, .""4 - t 1 ; Manche s t er an d Liverpool District Bank, 91. .LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 15.—Wind N.N.E., and cloudy. RAWIEGATE, JAN. 14.—Arrd. Josephine, Borga for. Cette, with starboard quarter stove in, having been in contact with a French barque off Dungeness. Sld. -Antoinette, Texas. The Anna Cecilia, Thomas, of Al lona, from Hamburgh to Buenos Ayres, struck on the Croodwin Sands yesterday, but was got off and brought 11 1) in Margate Roads. .. A .,DxAL, JAN. 14.—Wind A.M., E.N.E., moderate ; P.M., fresh.—Sld. Shepherdess, Batavia ; Pathfinder, ralcutta ; Curlew, Algoa Bay ; Conservative, St. He len - k y a ; George, Charleston ; Brothers, New York ; Terra '"pa, Newfoundland ; Conservative, Jamaica ; Danske ZeZ, East Indies ; Wallace, Adler, and Sir Charles New Yo r k. NaU THABIPTON, JAN. 14.—Arrd. Pacha, steamer, tib raltar. a P LYMOUTH JAN. 14. —Wind, N.E.—Arrd. her Ma ses ship R es i stance, C or k ; J ess i e, Ri tc hi e, Haven -1113,,,110pe, Newfoundland ; H.M.S. Larne, Sheerness ; S. Lausier, Texel for Africa, towed in, having iza totally dismasted on the 10th instant, between the -. 7. 0 f Wight and Cherbourg. 41ILFORD, JAN. 13.—Arrd. Esther, Shedding, Cal 'eta for Liverpool, left St. Helena, Nov. 24. "ER, JAN 14 —Arrd. Elizabeth, London for China, .e a l ty. I . Arr I •MouTn, JAN. 14.—Wind, N.E., fresh breeze.— Jenne. France, Havre for St. Thomas. Off, Louis, la r -se n , Buenos Ay res f or A n t we rp ; Caroline, L o nd on Jamaica ; •Fortuna, Hamburgh for Havannah. toi ta i 4 ll : , s T To o t, ag J o A .N . 13. —Sld. Leader, Trinidad. 14, Ca -430 taPOo L , JAN. 14.--Wind, N.E. light.—Arrd. Ita t „, s ` 4l , o , Cockerill, Maranham ; Apollo, Scudder, Sa is,-Zan ; Hibernia, steamer ; Judkins, Boston, left Ist l'ir 4t • Sld. Symmetry, Bombay ; Firefly and Gran -11,:, Afri ca • Penelope, Rio ; Delaware, France, eahannock Baigal,' New Orleans ; Margaret lie„ •°_ ,'!nd Tarquin Mobile ; St. George and Roscius, •, -Lurk ; Hirondelle, Maracaibo ; Chaire Marms, 4, 1 ' e 0 ; Compton, Charleston ; James Caskie, Virginia. er,4ITXHAVEN, JAN. 12.--Sid. Brazil, packet, Antigua. bi er JAN. 12. Arrd. Eliza Ann, Bell, and Ram- Ives'„: jr uce, St. Domingo. A brig apparently English, 4, 0 ; 11 ; shore on Atwood's Quay, on the 16th ult., with St,.. ls flying, and apparently much down at the stern. deer JAN. 14.—The Hercules, Wood, from Aber on ti. „fo this port, in making the harbour last night, got the re Herd Sand, and drove over on the beach, where e sins, t_ crew saved. Alto ... LT", JAN. 13.—The Thomas and James Brown, et, t ,„._ -w n, from Shields, lying at the Middle Wharf here, af te d her stern post, and sunk, but has been got afloat, e d ischarging part of cargo. th e I.,IIOMNESS, JAN. s.—The Theodore Henrick, from Baltic, which put in leaky, must discharge part of which, it is feared, is damaged. tb`astou T a, JAN. 14.—The William, from Hull to v , r 2nuth, has been assisted in here leaky, having been /ro Long S an d, an d must discharge. Ile 1 1 14 ., JAN. 13.—The Viscount Downe, Hart, from iNttnuurgh to London, struck on Haisbro Sand, 10th Co and sun k ; crew saved. he% TESAY, JAN. B.—The Active, Disho n , w hi c h barb fr om Jochiudahl, 4th inst., has put back to that le O ur, with l oss o f b owspr i t, ' an d ot h er d amage, hay- Iran in contact w i th the Sally, of Gailistown. Iti: ItT RRONALDSHAY JAN. 10.—The Anna, Jost, from dim t o Belfast, has been assisted into Widewell Bay, &c., during a gale at S. yesterday. 'kei te t sl(ll 3TH, JAN. 13.—The Waterwitch, Cl ar k, from th e ► which arrived here 7th inst., after striking on 1142-nachga Rocks, has been surveyed,and is discharging 6 3 .-ar. t atic a, JAN. 13.—A rr d. Harvest, H as k e ll , N ew , s 'ur Hull, experienced very bad weather. oktrkclrsmotrra, JAN. 13.—Wind N., and 14th, E.N.E.— • lvith Aurelian, Storey, St. John's, New Brunswick, sails split, loss of boats. Sailed, Hendrick Hudson, bittn T ° lk her Majesty's steamer Penelope, on a cruize; Alban, Cork. Off, Scotsman, Jamaica. 4wrlsounr JAN. 13.—Sd. Jenne Evariste, St. °a las ' s .A.L bb 40 4 t '" °11 °I.IOR, JAN. 14.—The broadside of a vessel of par, tons has been brought in here, the deck is re gila7ll to have come on shore at Suzewell Gap, and a oty of wreck at Thorpness. leg 7"nell, JAN. 13.—A small fishing smack belong crew"' Grimsby was lost on the Shipwash yesterday— tirp,c,!aye. Part of the hull of a small vessel, with other a z " , has been brought in here to-day. 1/04i:1,81tEri'o Janeiro. JAN Trust, Barbadoes. 10th. Yeet: ll ,l 4 °lrTx, JAN. 1 2.— A b arque got i n t h e P eg h t l e StthrvraYrhbut succeed e d i n gett i ng c l ear , an d p rocee d e d oat 144 days JAN. 9.—Ar r d. Sh annon , Vi n t ry f or L on d on , QF 110 11. • E, JAN. 11.—Axrd. Horn, London for Vera Cruz. fo r br TaviHE WIGHT, JAN. 11.—Gertrude, Brouershaven, biat Opp Q S OUTH FORELAND, JAN. 11.—Henrietta and 40 14 11 ; Ilanlburgh for St. Thomas ; Egmond and Noord Op x , Amsterdamfor Surinam. nu S' kap...,IJART;nouTs, JAN. 12.—Johanna, Hamburgh for '"-unarn. Itati.LWAT To=---"----BEVERLEY.—ATI application will be ullallidthe session of 1845, under the ausp i ces of the Ice lbY, or the U n it e d C ompan i es, for an Act to rittlway from /lull to Boverloy.-1/ullAcivertiser. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.-MONDAY. Last week the arrivals of English wheat up to our market were on a very moderate scale ' • but those of barley from all parts, were unusally large—those of home grown alone amounting to over 12,000 quarters. Of malt, beans, peas, and of flour, the supplies were scanty. Fresh up from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, the supplies of wheat were very small, and, comparatively speaking, somewhat out of condition, arising from the lately prevailing damp weather. The quantity on show not being equal to the wants of the dealers, who were in good attendance, the demand for all descriptions of both red and white was active, at an improvement in the currencies'obtained on this day se'nnight of is per quarter, and a clearance of the Essex arid Kent stands was soon effected : hence very little was left over for Wednesday. The:re was an increased number of samples of Foreign Wheat on show, yet the business doing in that article was tolerably extensive, and, in some instances, the quotations had an upward tendency, but not sufficiently so to warrant us in making any alteration in our prices. A few speculative purchases were made in wheat under lock, at full currencies. In consequence of the extreme large supply of barley offering, the demand was, much checked ; indeed, it must be called heavy, at an abate ment on last week's prices of is per quarter, and very little progress was made in effective sales. Although the quantity of malt brought forward was small, the in quiry for it was inactive, at rates barely equal to those obtained on Monday last. The show of Oat samples was large, and the dealers were by no means anxious buyers. Prices, however, were about stationary. Beans were very dull, and some of the factors gave way in their demands by I s per quarter. In peas very little was doing. The Flour trade was steady at late figures. ,ace figure . CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT—Essex & Kent, IMALT—Chevalier _ 63s to red . 43s to 6051 OATS—Yorkshire Ditto, white 5lB to 6U Norfolk and Lin coln, red 42a to 458 Ditto white 44s to 508 Irish, red........ Ditto, white RYE—Old 29s to 333 New 368 to 38s' BARLEY—Grinding 2lls to 295! Malting Chevalier 32s to 35sf MALT—Suffolk and Nor folk s6s to 62s Brown sos to 54s Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s FOREIGN GRAIN AN WHEAT—Dantzic Lincolnth., feed 23s to 24s Potatoe Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, feed BEANS Tick 3os to 36e PEss— Grey 3ss to 98s Maple 33s to 34s White 30s to 354 Boilers I FLoun—Town rnade 4ss to 50s Suflo'k 34s to 38s Stockton & Norfolk 343 to 3ta; D FLOUR IN BOND. BEANS 20s to 261 PAAS 23s to 27s FLOUR—American Baltic Hamburgh 36s to 40s, BARLEY 3os to 33s OATS—New Feed l4s to 16s, SMITHFIELD. - - - Although our market exhibited rather an extensive supply of Beasts as to numbers, a very great deficiency as to quality was observed in it, especially as relates to that portion of it derived from our northern grazing dis tricts. The attendance of buyers was tolerably numerous, and notwithstanding the weather was favourable to slaughtering, the Beef trade was inactive. However, the primest Scots, Devons, runts, and Herefords, found buyers, at prices about equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight, the highest quotation ruling at 4s 2d per 81bs, but the value of all other kinds had a downward tendency; still a fair clearance was effected previously to the conclusion of business. From Lincolnshire, Leices tershire, and Northamptonshire, we received about 2,300 short horns ; from Yorkshire—principally by railway-120 beasts ; from the Western and Midland counties, 200 Runts, Herefords, Durhams, Irish beasts, &c. ; from other parts of England 190 of various kinds; from Scotland, by a steamer, 120 horned and polled Scots ; and from Ireland 50 beasts. A considerable in crease was apparent in the supply of Sheep, and which produced some heaviness in the trade, and the rates in consequence suffered an abatement of 2d per 81bs ; the value of the best old Downs, which were rather more numerous than of late, not exceeding 4s 4d per Sibs. In Calves, the number of which was scanty, only a moderate business was transacted, yet the currencies were firmly supported. For Pigs we have to report a firm demand, at prices fully equal to those of last week. We are glad to be enabled to observe that very few cases of the prevailing epidemic were observed in either beasts or sheep to-day. Since our last no imports of live stock have taken place from abroad, neither are any expected for this market. The state of the demand to-day com pletely disappointed the expectations of the salesmen and others ; but the cause of the depression must be principally attributed to the immense arrivals of coun try-killed meat up to Newgate and Leadenhall-markets ; and so long as they continue so extensive, so long will the trade here rule heavy. a. d. to s. elf s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts ..... 3 0 32i Inferior Sheep .... . . ... 3 2 3 4 Second:quality ditto 3 4 3 6, Second quality ditto... 3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen 3 8 3 10; Coarse-woolled ditto.. 310 4 0 Prime Scots. &c.. 4 0 4 2 , Seuthdown Wethers . 4 2 4 4 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 6I / Large Hogs Prime small ditto 4l 8 4IT Small Yorkers 3 8 4 4 Suckling Calves, each 20 - 0 30 01 Quarter old Pigs, eachlB 0 24 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep , I Calves. I Pips I 2,952 29,060 69 289 NEW GATE AND I.E.&DENHAML. A very large arTival of slaughterad meat having taken place since this day se'nnnight, together with the supply of that killed in the metropolis being large for the time of year, the general demand in these markets has ruled excessively dull. However, in some few in stances, the quotations of the primest Beef and Mutton have been supported, but those of the middling and infe rior kinds, as well as of Veal and Pork, have suffered an abatement of quite 2d. per 81bs. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d.l s. d. to s. d Beef, ..... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 8 3 0 middling ' 2 6 2 middling 3 2 310 -- prime large 210 3 0 ( ---- prime 4 0 4 4 prime small..—. 3 2 36i Pork, large 2lO 3 8 Veal . 3 2 4 41 —small 3 4 4 4 ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pits Scotland 24 900 800 Yorkshire ...... ..... ..... Norfolk Suffolk l3 150 280 Cambridgeshire Essex 25 100 100 400 Surrey 7O 300 230 500 Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts : ..... ........" 2O 200 200 150 Total 265 2,979 Previous week's arrival l4O 2,840 763 3,690 760 3,050 Difference since our last... 125 139 8 640 BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. About 2,850 tons of potatoes have arrived in the Pool since this day se'nnight mostly from Scotland, Yorkshire, and the Channel Islands. Prime qualities are in request at full prices ; but in other kinds exceedingly little is doing. BOROUGH HOP MAREET. We have now a much smaller quantity of hops on offer than has been the case at many previous corres ponding periods of the year. This, together with most of the large brewers being short of stock, causes the demand to rule active, and the prices to have an upward tendency. The quotations of new hops are as under : Weald of Kent pockets, 612 s to 61 14s ; Mid Kent ditto, 6112 s to 9/ lOs ; East Kent, 61 15s to 9/ ; ditto choice, 10/ to 11/ 11 s ; Sussex, 6/ to 61 lOs ; Farnham's, 8/ 15s to 11115 s ; Mid Kent bags, 6115 s to 8/10s. WOOL MARKET. About 1,200 packages of wool have arrived in the port of London in the past week, chiefly from our colonies. No public sales have been yet declared, still the demand by private contract is steady, and prices in some instances have an upward tendency. TALLOW. There is no new feature in this market worth notice; the delivery in the past week having been small, a further decline has taken place in prices. Town Tallow is rather more sought after, and the price is firm, at 41s 6d to 42s net cash. HER MAJESTY.—The loyal interest attached to our Queen, whether reigning in her Court, or meeting her Parliament, or travelling among her people, or seeking the solace of such domestic privacy as Royalty may taste, will be increased if we hint that it is more than probable these domestic ties will be multiplied. If we are not misinformed, and we are pretty certain we are not, the family circle next year at Claremont will be more nume rous.—Court Journal. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS AT WORSBOROUGH.— Very early on Sunday morning, some shots were heard in a small fir wood adjoining to Worsborough Hall, the residence of W. B. Martin, Esq. That gentleman and his servants, with the gamekeeper, were aroused and made towards the spot ; but previous to the whole force collecting, two of the watchers came in collision with a gang of poachers, and were severely handled by them : their guns were broke ; a fine dog that seized one of the poachers was shot ; and one of the watchers, named Ro binson, was wounded, having received several heavy blows, which inflicted a dreadful gash on his head. Be fore Mr. Martin and his servants arrived, the poachers had made their escape into an adjoining wood.—Leeds Mercury. CRIME IN WORCESTERSHIRE....--FTORI the corn.. mencement of the year 1843 up to the present time, a period of but twelve months, there have been not less than 700 prisoners whose names appeared for trial on the calendars of Worcester county assizes and sessions ! Of these 700 prisoners only 4 had received a superior education, and but 29 could read and write well ; while 396 could read and write imperfectly, and no less than 241 had been totally denied both these invaluable privi leges. Concerning the attainments of the remaining 30 we have no means of knowing.— Worcester Journal. STATE OF TRADE.—The demand continues fair for the time of the year, but the new prices of cottons and yarns are not yet realised by the manufacturer. Wools still indicate a tendency to advance, and yarns, we are informed, are rather higher. The workmen are fully employed, although we understand to a great ex tent on speculation for the opening of the spring trade in March or April.—Leicestershire Mercury. Lady Disbrowe, accompanied by a splendid suite, arrived in London early yesterday by the General Steam Navigation Company's Mail-Packet Ocean, Capt. John Straneck, from Rotterdam, after a fine passage. The Duke of Bordeaux, accompanied by a brilliant suite, left London on Saturday morning by the General Steam Navigation Company's Steam Ship, Earl of Liver pool, Capt. H. Lomez, fo r Ostend. ISLE OF WIGHT.—IMPORTATION OF M.P.s.—On Tuesday last, 54 young vagabonds, the offscourings of the county, were received at Parkhurst prison from the Millbank Penitentiary ; they were all marked with the initials M.P.—Hampshire Independent. We have been informed that Major Eldred Pot tinger, C. 8., the heroic defender of Herat, is the bearer of the additional treaty from China, by which Sir Henry Pottinger has so wisely secured our future intercourse with Chinn, from the intrigues and cabals of a host of Ambassadors and Envoys from European St a t es , an d the " Repudiated States.'—Na val and Military Gazette. THE RETORT RISIBLE.—When Judge Peters was Speaker in the House of Assembly, one of the Members in crossing the floor, tripped on the carpet, and fell down. The_House burst into laughter, while the judge, with the utmost gravity, cried, " Order, order, gentlemen; a Mem ber La on the door." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EIENI NG, JANUARY 15, 1844. STATE OF IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUII. SlR,—Politics are a means to an end, or they are nothing. Repeal may be carried or fall to the ground, but what is to become of the Irish people ? Irish man as I am, I have no desire to sever our commu nity with England. If, strictly speaking, we are not one in race, we are as nearly so as the different por tions of the British and Irish communities themselves ; our language is the same, and our interests are idea tical. With England and her progress, are associated the best interests of mankind ; no, I would not eat into her resources, or paralyse her arm, but join with with her in realising her best interests and our own. I am against repeal, because I esteem it impracti cable, and, if practicable, undesirable. Did I sup pose that Ireland should linger on in perennial misery ; did I suppose that the injustice of the past should be the inheritance of the future, I should become a re pealer with the best of them ; I should resort to every fair and equitable means to extort by force that which should be conceded as a right. But I entertain no such conviction. I am intimately persuaded that justice —yes, justice in full—shall be conceded to Ireland. I am opposed to repeal, because I esteem it a move in a false direction, ill-calculated to insure re dress of the grievances under which we labour. How will the repeal rent, were it swollen to hundreds, in place of tens of thousands, carry it ? Will England— would any empire—consent to a virtual dismember ment ? Were the Irish people united, could they realise repeal in face of English opposition ? Would they become tributaries to any continental Power in order to effect this purpose ? Would the bought amity of France or America better replace the un bought protection of England; and, were it even secured, are they certain to succeed? But the Irish are not united; as for Protestants and Dissenters, they are totally opposed. Are the repealers willing, single handed, to engage the might of England; are they prepared to wage a civil war with their countrymen ? Surely there are ether and better remedies in store ?' In Ireland there is a surplus of hands beyond the demand ; the population is never fully employed, while the pressure from without causes labour to be performed on terms altogether incompatible with a decent subsistence. The perishable potatoe is the only food which can be habitually reckoned on ; and when, as often happens, the supply is bad or deficient, and when the winter store deteriorates as spring comes round, the wants of the people are miserably aggravated. The deficiency in other articles of prime necessity is almost equally great. The attire is at once wretched, sordid, miserable. As regards the men, clothes, which have served the coarse necessities of half-a-dozen individuals; as respects women and children, a flimsy cotton print, with a sad deficiency of woollen and linen under-garments. In the country a mud cabin, perhaps windowless, chimneyless ; in town, a garret, a cellar, or a nook in some wretched court, constitutes the protection against our often wet and dreary winters. And even of these, the wretched occupants continue to sublet a portion to casual way farers more outcast than themselves. It may be conceived what dens of disease such habitations prove; accordingly, sickness and de a th, with fever and all its sweltering horrors, are never absent. In 1780 and 1817, severally, eighty thou sand persons were carried off by fever, which, if we reckon the mortality at one in thirty, gives for each of those years an aggregate of two hundred and forty thousand sick. What of the sufferers on such occa sions ; what of friends and relatives whose time is occupied and substance exhausted; what heads of families torn away ; what anguish—what despair ? Of all the enemies of Ireland, commend me to the absentee, to him who, with unscrupulous desertion of all the duties connected with home and country, spends abroad the pittance wrung from the vitals of an impoverished peasantry. I know it has been asserted that absenteeism entails no pecuniary disad vantage ; but I shall merely ask whether the four or five millions annually abstracted from a community like that in Ireland, constitute no loss; or whether this sum, if circulated by the unwearying hand of human industry, would not be calculated to ensure comfort and competence to myriads ? How, I would inquire, is production to be carried on without money ca pital ; or, how, without it, are the endlessly diversified capabilities of soil and climate to receive suitable ex pansion ? No, the absentee is among the worst enemies of Ireland. _ It occurs to me when I think of mouldering halls, and the silent park where the mansion-house stood, but stands no more, with what new titles we might in vest the absent owners. Here then, were the abode of Duke Hardheart, that the Earl of Rattledice's ; here the Castle of Lady Smallbrains, that the whilome seat of the Countess of Dissipation. I have stood on the strand where rows of roofless cabins attested the former presence of human life and industry. Look at that blackened wall ! Where are they whom it once sheltered? where the hard-working peasant, the anxious busy mother, the maiden whose carolling was heard so early in the morn, and the children whose little feet went to and fro—where, absentee, where ?—borne to the sordid town, the hospital. Who is that with haggard countenance—now he gasps, anon he picks the bed-clothes with his hands ! The nurse plies the grateful wine in vain, the physi cian shakes his head and passes on ; for why, the peasant's course is ended, his life is done ; nor can the tears of that spent and faithful woman, nor the sad inquiring face of the last and youngest, avail to stay the parting agony. Hark ! it is the dead rattle ; now—no once again ; now indeed, it is over for ever more; the peasant has sped to a land where the L-rd thereof will not tear down his dwelling, or expel him and his from the light of his protection ! Mother and child are gone ; the child has lain down amid the straw, he asks why his father is away. But where is the blythe daughter the while ? There, pale, trembling, by that flickering lamp; the rains pours, perchance it blows, no matter; she must earn the wages of corruption, or go home to her garret and die. But the son, the sturdy son, who was to work and strive and make all things square, where is he ? Look across the ocean—to far America ; there, hard by the canal, in the swamp, are rows of graves. In one of these, with others of his race, victims to disease and neglect in a foreign land, lies the young Irish man ; his hand is cold, he'll work no more ! Who does not know that our few manufactories are insufficient to supply the swarming population ; that our minerals are not dug; that our fisheries are neglected ; the tenure of the soil precarious ; that rents are high, while produce, too gener'ally, is low; that land, even on these terms, is let and sub-let, so as no longer to afford a decent subsistence ; and that the peasant is ground down, what by the outlay for his humble necessaries, a heavy rent-charge, grand jury levies, tolls, taxes, poor-rates, and the support, at once onerous and unavoidable, of Protestant, Catholic, Presbyterian, and other establishments ? The land is overstocked with labourers, the towns with artisans ; while every trade, profession, calling, swarms with needy candidates for employment. There are few or no public works, no Government dock-yards, and, with excellent harbours, no foreign packet station. In other respects, we have canals on which one sees nothing but turf-boats; a matchless custom-house where there is no trade, and a cyclo pean harbour which only serves to shelter fishermen. The centralization principle, carried toofar, has drawn away the emoluments connected with most of the public offices; money does not circulate; and if any one experience unusual losses in his calling, he finds the utmost difficulty in retrieving them. In a word, the people do not receive adequate employment at home, and are too generally destitute of the means to seek it abroad. Before any searching remedies for Irish grievances can be adopted, there must be aproper understanding with the parties to be relieved. The task must be entered into with vigour, and a firm determination to probe the canker to the bottom, and eradicate it. If Ministers for the day, if Hon. Members set out with repugnance and disgust, view the affair as a nuisance to be abated and abandoned, how do they expect they will accomplish their undertaking, or conciliate those whom it most concerns ? The Irish, too, must relinquish their prejudices, their ostentation, `their pride, their desire to spend before they earn, their distorted conceptions, and their expectations, often sadly at variance with the every-day realities of life. I would adjure the political agitator, ere he evoke the vengeance of heaven and earth on English misrule, to correct his own faults. Man, have you never been your own enemy ? have you never slept the hours you should have been waking; never passed in rude debauchery the time that should have been spent with your anxious partner, in instructing your children, and in making provision for the period of age and sickness which is sure to come, and which often, alas too often, finds you wholly unprepared ? Among other follies of which we have been guilty, is the recent attempt to found a barrier on the dis tinction of race, as if Saxons were better or worse than Celts • Celts than Saxons. But the fact assumed is quite otherwise; the aborigines of these islands were all Celts ! Are not Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, Cor nish, dialects of one and the same language, once spoken over Great Britain and Ireland by a race that has left indelible traces of its existence in the remains of its language, and the still adherent namea of places? In England the after irruption of Romans, Saxons, and Norsemen settled in France, gave rise to a diver sified population, just as the invasion and settlement of Ireland by Danes, Normans, Saxons, and We!sh led to a similar result here. It is unlikely that there is a single Irishman, whatever it may be in the high lands of Scotland or Wales, who can boast unmingled Celtic descent; and were it even otherwise, the gain would be very small. The Deity, who knows better than us all, has designed his children, Celt, Saxon, and Norman, alike to mingle together; and wherever a consummation so desirable fails to be realised, de terioration and decay are the only results. Freer ingress as regards the productions of other countries, freer egress as regards our own, would, I conceive, realise a high degree of prosperity both for England and Ireland. Abolition of the corn-laws is not perhaps the commercial avatar which some esteem it; but as matters now are, abolition would doubtless prove of the utmost importance to Great Britain and the world. Providence dictates, reason suggests, the unshackled interchange .of every production of men's hands, of every growth of the soil. I need not dilate on the rival establishments too often the result of British gold and influence, or the singular anomaly in America of the trees of the forest giving way, not to fields of corn, but mules and spinning-jennies, the fruits of our restrictions ; I would merely advert to the fact, that in Ireland there are hosts of idle, im-. poverished individuals, to whom free trade would prove the signal for occupation and competence. Our linen manufacture would be revived, our almost un productive fisheries encouraged, and our ports would become emporiums for all nations. The vast increase of occupation in England, whose workshops would ring again with the varied processes of her multiplied industry, would create an incessant demand for Ireland's sons, then sure to receive a hearty well paid welcome. Pat might then rear his cabin by the pleasant shores and green-hill slopes of his native country ; then might he have land and the means of paying for it too; while dark-eyed girls and curly headed boys, no more to perish in aguish America abroad, or of want-created disease at home, would gladden his heart ! Let the holder of the soil have a longer, say a twenty-years' lease, with security for specific outlay and improvements, and let the landlord realise those admirable agricultural improvements for which Ire land is so well adapted, and for which the tenant would so gladly pay. With drainage, sub-soil ploughing, alternate grain and green crops, change of seed, turnip culture, and to a cer t a i n ex t en t spade labour,incalculable advantages would be realised by the tenantry and community at large. The landlord might, with great propriety, lay down a mode of cul ture mainly founded on the Scotch system, and see that it was carried into effect. At present, the country is not half tilled; it is just as if so much land or produce were cast into the sea. Irrespective of defective culture, vast tracts are wholly unre claimed ; rich slopes subsist to the south and west, which no plough disturbs, and into which no spade delves ; while mountains that might be planted to the summit, are with few exceptions, bare and barren. The proprietors, I submit, should be compelled to plant these mountains, to reclaim those wastes. Un like Mr. Blacker or Lord Headley's agent, agents in general, have neither the power nor the means to insure the proper culture of the soil. Let the land lords, then, go home and do it. Who, and what are they to absent themselves from the country of their birth, at any rate the community, to which by all the ties of property and humanity they belong ? Either a heavy absentee tax should be levied, or the rents, with narrow restrictions, handed over to the actual resident owner of the soil. Thus peace and plenty, contentment and capital, would spread over the land, and propitious Astreeit be seen again to smile. The anxiety on the part of the labouring classes in this country to obtain a little ground is very great, and has been turned to rich account in the way of high rents, renewal fines, fines for abating rent, and the like. Does any one propose to leave his holding, eager competitors are willing to bestow what should seem the value of the ground ; but this, which is termed buying land, only confers the privilege of paying rents, fines, tithes, taxes, cess, as may be. In my opinion, it should be optional with the tenant to purchase, at least in part, the fee of the soil. That this is feasible may be seen from the example of the Channel islands, where poverty and wretchedness are unseen. In some cases the landlord in Guernsey and Jersey retains a lien on the soil, which is acknowledged by a proportionate yearly payment, to the mutual advantage of the joint own ers. An industrious proprietary has banished mendi cancy from France. I should consider the general introduction of such an arrangement, such as that which subsists in the Channel islands, as great an advance in civilization as the abolition of serfage itself. The slave must be supported, whether he work or remain at rest, whereas the Irish labourer, in one sense the slave of many masters, starves in the intervals of employment! Thanks to the home consumption and to John Bull's enduring appetite, to the union, and to steam, the poor Irish trader often brings his produce to a e g h o a od nnmelakr with F t. as sliatitrl e w h e e a s t i hr or foul , ta e ti en a si he crosses if were et the hnext parish, and disposes of his live and dead stock to the highest bidder. Many, considering their station in life, thus realise a fair independence. This, therefore, . . would enable such to purchase their holdings, and further facilities might be afforded by means of loans. As at present conducted, loans, what with bonds, deeds, searches, interests, and foreclosures, too often prove ruinous to the borrower. If a legis lative enactment enabled holders of land to purchase so as to become part proprietors, is it too much to expect that capitalists, well satisfied with their 4 or 5 per cent., would come forward with the requi site amount ? For what can be more anomalous than a condition of society that compels a hard-wrought race of men to borrow money on usurious terms, while the despairing capitalist is obliged to retain vast sums in his coffers, for which he can realise no ade quate return ? In Prussia, Poland, and Belgium the Governments respectively have established a fund for the express relief of landholders, who may borrow any sum not exceeding half the value of their unencumbered pro perty ; for this 6 per cent. per annum—in the Duchy of Posen it is less -4 per cent. for interest, and two for cancelling the debt, is paid during eight-and twenty years, at the expiry of which period the debt, both principal and interest, without costs, fresh loan, or ruinous foreclosure, is extinguished. These loans are duly register e d, th e l en d er h o lding in return scrip or notes (Pfandbri e f), w hi c h pass from hand to hand as money. Sustai ne d b y th e c redit of a whole community on the imp er i s h a bl e b as i s o f the soil, they are even preferred to gold ; circulation does not re duce their value, and, still more unlike gold, they are earning their four per cent. while in the chest of the holder. As two per cent. is yearly poured into the treasury of the fund, the owners of the pawn briefs, when a certain sum has accumulated, are paid off by lot in succession, the debtors of course continu ing to hand in their six per cent. per annum, to the end of the eight-and -twenty years. Is there any reason why this s y s t em o f l oans s h o uld not obtain currency, or i n d ee d w h y t h e scr i p o f our national stock should no t c i rculate as current cas h ? HOW prodigious the i m p e t us w hi ch every s pecies of indus try would experie nce b y the c i rcu l at i on of an inde structible paper m oney equ i valent i n amount to our present mortgage b on d s. I t can only, I should conceive, prove a question of time. Prussia, under Frederick 11., devastated by the seven years' war, owed her sOcial regeneration to the pawn-brief sys tem. Poland—not to speak of Belgium—was almost equally benefited. E ven a t th e taking of Warsaw, as during all the pre v i ous un happy struggles, the pawn-briefs, which John Czynski states could at any time be exchanged for gold, never once lost their value Emigration to other, as yet unpeopled, portions of God's earth, seems a natural resort when population presses on the means of subsistence; but the love of home and kindred, with the cost and risk of t r a nsit, are weighty impediments. The first might be overcome by numerous individuals starting from the same dis trict and settling in the same locality; . the expense, as regards the poorer classes, I really think ought to be defrayed by Government. Emigrants ar e often so unaware of the soil and climate of the place of their election ; so deficient in resources ; so ignorant of the best means of proceeding, as to suffer miserably in the attempt. They, venture in unseaworthy ves sels; perchance their provisions run short ; the place is unhealthy, or the demand for their labour nil. Multitudes of the poorer Irish perish in different parts of the United States—eigh thundred, I believe, annually, in New Orleans--of the effects of climate alone n ; whilead all many i are condemned to in occupation ts consequent wretched ness. I am surprised at the apathy with the hardy labouring hisgreatepire sees its lif e -bl oo d , as population maya wpeeollplbee in some respects squandered s o inimical in a as and amid those of th e U n i te d S tates. There are tracts in the Canadas, the uplands of B A r t ;i l t e i r sh iea ?u N ian ew a, the Cape, the west ern s h ores o f Zealand, and Australia, where the people and the institutions of. Great Britain and Ire land might wax and thrive for ever more. A few of our unemployed ships of war might a t a mo d erate expense be made the means of thr ow i ng a t i de o f to the great relief of population advantage of fn the ee emigrants,places those they left behind. Much has been done of late years to promote edu dation among the Irish poor, but I do not think sufficient attention is paid to impart a mastery over the mother tongue, and thus to lay open the endless appliances for mental cultivation, Which this single acquirement would realise. Education, too, has be come sectarian ; and children of different persuasions, who should learn and play with each other, without a thought of such matters, are imbued with exclu siveness from the cradle. _ most varied instruction that it was possible to impart. Our clergy, as a whole, are by far the best educated portion of the com munity ; but if teachers, however able or esti mable, were taken from their ranks, persons of different persuasions would hesitate to place their children under their care. It would, indeed, be in finitely desirable that the children of the gentry, the mercantile classes, and those intended for professions, should be brought up at the same institutions; any other procedure must be productive of exclusion, narrow, one-sided views, and distorted, abortive conception of men and things. The Catholics, in my opinion, make a great mistake, in conducting the preliminary education of so influential a body as their clergy, in a theological seminary ; and in further debarring them from the advantage once enjoyed of a partial residence abroad. Finally, I must regret that nubile opinion does not yet appear to sanction establishments for imparting a higher grade of educa tion to females than what seminaries for the young can reasonably be expected to afford. That estimable individual M. Theobald Mathew, with others, has effected a most beneficial revolution in lessening the uncalculating addiction to in toxicating drinks. The advantages yielded by the Mathewite reform, I may be permitted to observe, would be considerably enhanced by a reduction in the duties on tea and coffee, for which civilising bever ages the Irish working classes have already a great addiction. I would further attach great importance, - In the way of improving the social condition of our abouring poor, and generally consolidating the union, to a more perfect intercourse between the countries. There ought to be a daily steam-boat communication between Glasgow and Londonderry, Belfast and Liverpool, Bristol and Waterford, as between Dublin and one or two points there already is. The charge :perhaps is low enough; but the ac commodation for humble wayfarers is infamously de ficient. In the old sailing packets straw and a refuge in the hold were always available; but at present even during the coldest weather, exposed to wind, rain and drifting surge, men, with women anddelicate children, divide the crowded decks with swine and cattle, destitute of the accommodation which decency, not to say comfort, enjoins. I would have no Irish Parliament, whether inde pendent or federal, since I fear they would only prove the source of strife and disunion, an arena for secta rian disputes, clashing interests, trashy harangues, and petty ambitions. Am er i c a n federalism hardly in vites imitation. We had a Parliament once, and those who composed it, Irish as they were, sold their inhe ritance. Who is to say that successors equally un principled might not repeat the sale ? The shame, as on all who make a trade of their country's wrongs, lay more in the selling than in the buying—out upon the wretches and their memory for ever ! Would that the union, however desirable, had been accom plished by honester means ; an honest end neither needs nor sanctions a dishonest re sort. I would maintain the Union indeed, but on the principle of equal justice; I would maintain it, but not to be cast in the shade, to be treated with scorn and obloquy, neglect and poverty. Let not the iron heel of despotism be planted in the faces of the widow, the fatherless, the miserable. Do not further alienate the energetic, the enlightened, and the de termined of the Irish ; do not push beyond endurance the sufferings of the poor. The rattling cutlass of the heavy dragoon, the clanking musket of the red coated soldier—horse, foot, artillery, are poor and passing expedients to allay starvation and despair. We may be trampled on, but we still would have strength left to drag our oppressors into the mire. Yet rancour towards Ireland is not so potent, nor the love of order and justice so extinct, as to suffer the continuance of ineffaceable wrong : bright and con fident are my hopes in the well-doing of generous England as in the progress of our race. If not a local Parliament however, elective grand juries, or other similar local elective jurisdictions, in order to transact local business, and watch over local interests, should assuredly be established. Bills for particular purposes before the Imperial Legislature might well be discussed in Standing Committees ; an institution that we might borrow with every advan tage from the Congress of the United States. In other respects, the unnecessary and expensive juris diction of the Lord-Lieutenant being abolished, I would urge, with all my heart and soul, that the Im perial Court and Parliament should sit triennially in Dublin, of course, triennially in London and Edin burgh. It is quite absurd to say that the members' ' of an itinerating Parliament, as it has been termed, could not as readily meet in Dublin as in London. Never will there be happiness, never perfect peace or pros perity in Ireland, till this vital measure be accom plished. If Mr. O'Connell, with his powerful talents, his unwearying energies, had agitated for this in place of the dislocating expedient of repeal, he would have had the hearty concurrence of myriads who otherwise never will join with him. Suitable accommodations were easily, and how cheerfully provided ; we have a palace and houses of parliament already constructed, with means of communicating with London in a few hours. Absentees, one and all, would flock without coercion homeward; we should be further visited by multitudes of our Eng lish and Scottish neighbours ; and more would be done in a single year by this simple and constitutional measure, which I am well 'assured must one day be carried, to conciliate the Irish, appease the differences, unite the countries, and introduce order and pros perity, than during long years of previous abortive legislation. These remarks now close. Without a wish to give offence to any party, they have been dictated by an earnest desire to promote the prosperity of my native land, and to secure in reality, as well as name, a tho rough community with England ; that we might in all things be one with a country which in many re spects, as I trust she will one day prove in all, is the hope of surrounding nations, the bulwark of the op pressed, and the glory of the world.—l am, &c. HENRY M'CORMAC, M.D. Belfast, January, 1844. National seminaries m ight be bett er organ i se d , an d teachers of a higher grade, intercha nge d t oo w i t h those employed. A piece of groundEngl and might wh eretaught aagr icultural Scotland, onla and horti cu lt ura l pro cessesa yet effective scale, should be attached to every school. The various handicrafts as r egards the b oys, w i th occupa tions suitable to females, should b e a tt en d e d to w i th i n doors. Numbers of poor children, lam sorry to say, does not huma nity be overcome ? keep away from school because destitute of fo o d an d clothes dictate; is that i t at this drawback chimericalt o suggest, shld o oneAosrrmegoarrodssomhooorelsa, gymnasia,dv or coll eges , f or everyanced culture, th ere s h ou ld b e hundred thousand of the population. I would have them endoWed by Government, and - thrown open to the public ; while they should afford the THE NOTTINGIIAM TRADE CHINA LAC E. The state of the most exten lye branch of the hosiery manufacture—wrought cotton stockings— has very littl e var i e d f or some ti n c past, the frames, with the exception of those : 1 ove forty guage, being in general fully employe d. The cut-up cotton hose branch continues brisk, and as most of the firms are coming gradually in to give the penny advance, the hands have some hopes that another rise in wages may be obtained.—The drawer and pantaloon branch, we are sorry to report, is worse this week than it was the last, the masters coming from the warehouses with empty bags. An abridgment of the labour in some cases has been adopted by the workmen being directed to widen up the thighs of the drawers by taking the thread round the needle, instead of removing the troops, in the usual manner. These articles are not like the drop-offs ; they are perfectly sound, but the selvages are raw and unsightly. The hands complain that too much is deducted from their wages for this abridgment of labour.— The silk glove branch is in a better condition. The articles generally made are cut-up, and of the most inferior kind, but still the increased demand is felt most beneficially. A new fashion is coming into vogue, of making long-armed mits. These are made from the shoulder to the hand on wide frames ; they are then run on narrow frames, to ornament the hands. The fancy bobbin-net trade is dull, more es pecially the plat and' other ornamented laces. Yet there are few or no machines standing, the nets being in general consumed. The plat-net machines keep going, though the sale prices are extremely low. Lace has been for some years much cheaper than muslin, and will wear longer, being made of hand spun two-thread yarn, of the best quality. Muslins are made of single yarn, the shoot being very slightly twisted. 'We have been favoured with the sight of a very singular production, a amely, cushion bobbin lace made in China. This article was obtained by' a British soldier,who was a lace-maker, at the time the armament advanced up the great river, to obstruct the grand canal, and to attack Nankin. It was near this place that the soldier saw the women at work, and conceiving it to be a great curiosity, he took out his knife, and without ceremony, cut off a yard, which he brought to England. The ground is that of a mechlin, a sort of Brussels, being plaited at the close, and twisted on the other sides of the hole. It is coarse, having only about four holes to the inch—a scallop pattern is worked into it, by shoot ing the threads cross-wise, near three quarters of an inch. It has large prominent spots, in which the hole is closed with no less than fifteen bouts round the pillars. To the naked eye it has the appearance of being made of yellow Bengal silk, in the gum, but no sooner is the microscope applied, than this vanishes, and it has all the resem blance of being a vegetable substance, as though com posed of a sort of fine basket twig. Several experi ments have been made, to ascertain its real quality. Upon being boiled, it produced a thick, foetid, glu tinous substance, and the material had all the ap pearance of twisted cotton, though not the least twist can be observed in the thread when in the gum. At a distance it has somewhat of a shining appearance, as though it were a metallic substance. This is considered rather important to this district, as it demonstrates that the Chinese wear and use lace, and that such articles will be in request in that extensive empire, which is said to contain a third of the human race.—There is no material alteration in the cotton warp lace trade, the hands being fully em ployed.—The silk blond hands are, however, confined to certain limits, nor does there appear much prospect at present of a renovation taking place in that branch. —Nottingh am Review. The Great League Fund already exceeds 60,000/. and the metropolis -has yet to begin its subscription, COURT CIRCULAR, The Queen and Prince Albert, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite, attended Divine service yesterday at Claremont. The Venerable Archdeacon NATilberforce officiated. Archdeacon Wilberforce arrived at Claremont on Saturday, on a visit to the Queen, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Her Majesty and Prince Albert rpromenaded in the grounds of Claremont Park on Saturday afternoon. In the forenoon his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting, Lord Rivers, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Mr. G. E. Anson, went out shooting. The Royal party returned to Claremont to lunch. We have authority to state that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has withdrawn her name as Pa troness of the Royal Belg-rave Lying-in Institution. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy Governor, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. The Commissioners of the Model Prison at Pen tonville had a meeting on Saturday, at the Council-office, Whitehall. The Commissioners present were the Lord President, the Duke of Richmond, Earl of Chichester, Lord John Russell, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Ferguson, Major Jebb, Mr. W. Crawford, and Mr. Whitworth Russell. The meeting broke up at three o'clock. Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Graham had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. Dispatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Canada, and from the Governors of the other North Ame rican Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial office. Mr. Driver had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing -street. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. Dispatches from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. IRISH STATE TRIALS. COURT OF Q UEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN. FRIDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK. At an early hour in the morning the Attorney and Solicitor-General, Mr. Brewster, and all the rest of the Counsel engaged for the Crown, appeared in Court. Mr. Moore, Q.C., Mr. Henn, Mr. Pigott, M.P., asd the other Counsel for the traversers, were also present. At a quarter past ten o'clock Mr. Justice Perrin sat for the disposal of motions of course. At eleven the full Court sat, and proceeded to deliver judgment in the case of " the Queen v. Samuel Grey." Mr. Justice PERRIN recapitulated the facts of the case. He gave it as his opinion that a venire de novo should be issued, and the motion on the part of the prisoner in arrest of judgment should be granted. Mr. Justice Crampton, Mr. Justice Burton, and the Chief Justice, were of the contrary opinion, namely, that the motion should be refused. The CHIEF JUSTICE then passed sentence upon Grey. His Lordship said, that he had been convicted of discharging a loaded pistol, or some other deadly weapon, at, and wounding James Cunningham, but whether with intent to kill him or not was probably only known to the Divine Searcher of the human heart. The Court, taking the enormity of the offence into consideration, had unani mously come to the conclusion that the sentence should be a heavy one—transportation fur life. Sentence was then passed in the usual terms. Mr: NAPIER said, that as it was his intention to sue out a writ sf error, it was necessary that this sentence should be respited, to enable him to do so. The CHIEF JUSTICE replied that this should be done. At :Os enty minutes to four o'clock, the Chief Justice called upon the Attorney-General to know whether or not he had anything to move. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that he understood two motions were to be made by the Counsel for the tra versers, in the case of the Queen v. O'Connell. Mr. MOORE, Q.C., rose and moved that the special jury in this case be quashed, and that a mandamus be issued, directed to the Recorder of the city of Dublin, calling upon him to replace on the special jury list the names of certain parties excluded therefrom. And, fur ther, that until this be done the trial of this cause be postponed, and that the special jury to try the same be taken from such amended list. The motion was grounded upon the affidavits of Mr. Pierce Mahony and others. Counsel proceeded to call the attention of the Court to the Act under which the jury list was formed, namely, the 3d and 4th Wm. IV.. c. 94. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion, which, after some remarks from the Bench, was refused. Saturday, Jan. 13. THE QUEEN V. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND OTHERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved, on the part of the Crown, for an order that in the event of the trial in this case not having terminated on or before the 31st instant, that Thursday, the Ist of February, and every day until next term, or as many as shall be necessary, shall be fixed by the Court for the purpose of said trial, and be deemed and taken to bo part of the present Hilary Term. He could not say the precise time that would be neces sary for the trtal, but he thought it well to have the order made. He applied under the Ist and 2d William IV., section 3, by which it was provided, that if any trial at bar shall be directed by any of the said Courts, it shall be competent for any of the Judges of said Courts to appoint any day for the trial thereof ; and that if such day shall be in vacation, it shall be deemed and taken to be part of said preceding term. lle apprehended there could be no difficulty with regard to the propriety of making this order ; and he thought it would not be right to make an application pending the trials for such an order, and he deemed it to be the most proper course to have the order made before the trial. That order would be eontered upon the record, and thus the proceedings which it might be necessary to take in vacation would be perfectly regular and legal. If there was any difficulty in making the order, of course the Court would take it at their peril. The CHIEF JUSTICE—Is there any occasion for mak ing an order at all ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL referred his Lordship again to the provision of the Act of Parliament. The CHIEF JUSTICE—When the Court directs a trial at bar to take place, and fixes a day for it, does not the Act make the provision that, in such case, the vacation shall by virtue of the statute be part of the term ? The ATTORNEY -GENERAL—But it is the safest Course to have the order made that the vacation shall be part of the preceding term, and I apprehend there can be no difficulty in making the order. It will, on the contrary, prevent any difficulty that might be suggested hereafter, for if the order were not made and entered on the record, it might be said that the proceedings should not be con tinued in the vacation. Judge CRAMPTON—At present there is no order for any rial in the vacation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that, in consequence of some allegations over which they had no control, with regard to the time the trials would extend to, he thought, even though the construction of the Act be what the Chief Justice said, that this order should be made in the terms of the notice. In point of fact, if it were contemplated when the original order was made that the trials should continue so long, it might be made part of the original order. But lest any difficulty should arise hereafter, they applied for this order, and when that order was entered on the record all the proceedings would be perfectly regular. Judge PERRIN—Cannot you make this application at any other time. I have art objection to make an order to this extent, for you anticipate that the trial will continue for three months, and it would be a formidable precedent to make such an order. I cannot see why the trial should not be closed within the term, but if necessary you can make this application at any other time. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—The Court, by the Act, is to fixa day. . _ _ Judge PERRIN—But I have great difficulty in con senting to appoint a month or months. What I mean, Mr. Attorney, is this :—Here we have fifteen days of term before us, and we will better see our way in the course of that time than at present, and I have a great objection to make an order of this kind unnecessarily. 'fhe ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the Course they pro posed to take was desirable, as it was necessary that there should be no opportunity hereafter of suggesting any irregularity. Judge PERRIN—But that order will be as good any day in term as to-day. It is not an order to fix the day of trial, but to extend the time, and you have the same facility of moving it any day during term if it should be necessary as at present, and you would then have much better grounds for applying to the Court than you have in calling upon us now to anticipate that a trial by jury would exceed fifteen days, and there are yet fifteen sit ting days in term. Judge CRAMPTON—If that anticipation were likely to add a single hour to the trials I would object to make the order. But I cannot see how making the order now can affect the trial except to abridge it. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--If there be any point be hind which may affect the regularity of the proceedings, that may be a ground for delay. When I speak of the vacation I have not the slightest anticipation that the trial will occupy all that time. But if we fixed a parti cular day within which the trial should only last, it will hold out a bonus to extend it beyond that time. Judge PERRIN—You call upon us to make an order which contemplates the trial lasting until the first day of next term, and that, I think, would be really holding out a facility for prolonging it. If gentlemen found that a certain time was given they would consume a great deal less time than if three months wero given. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—With great respect to your Lordship, I cannot concur in that view. Judge CRAMPTON said the application might be made on the last day of term as well as that day. But he would like to give every facility to make it ; and argu ments might arise on the last day which would create embarrassment ; and as it might give rise to discussion, time might be lost in making it. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said they thought it would be more convenient to the Court, and more proper for them to make the application before the trial com menced, and not delay the proceedings by a discussion of this kind during the trial. The Court might say, if they had postponed this application, why not make the application before the trial commenced. He thought it probable that the circumstance of this order being made would lead to the trial being concluded within this term, and he thought if the order were not made it would not be concluded. The CHIEF JUSTICE—We understand that no opposi tion is made to your application by the traverser. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—We understand no. Mr. MONACHAN—The_traversers don't appear on this motion. The CHIEF JUSTICE—I am not including you at Till. Of course, as there is no opposition made to the motion, the Court—however they may think it might be unne cessary, and it is my own opinion—conceive it will do no harm, and the majority of the Court are for granting the motion according to the terms of it. I don't think my'brother Perrin agrees with the order of the Court. Judge i apprehend great difficult n at, and ~~i ~,: r; ,~- w .y .*""'"'"----;•\ , (,) ............................. the danger of su c h a precedent,; itk, the contemplation --,1 that the trial by jury will be extended to such a time. '' . l It is not necessary for me t o go i n t o; my reasons p l I con- sidered it a good deal since I heard the intention of / moving it, and I cannot reconcile it to my mind"to think that it is at all within the meaning of the Act of Parlia ment, and from the extent to which the order goes, I greatly fear the result of it as a precedent. I have no idea of consulting my own convenience. I have no ob jection to sit any length of time every day. Application granted. SITTING OF THE COURT.—THE FIRST DAY OF TRIAL. The ATTORNEY-GNERA L—What hour will your Lordships sit on Monday morning ? The CHIEF JUSTICE —W e have been thinking abou that, and on Monday morning the Court intend to s punctually at ten o'clock. THE GREAT AGGREGATE MEET ING OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY. The great aggregate meeting of the Catholics of Ire land took place this day, at the Music-hall, Lower Abbey street. To the requisition by which it was called an immense number of names were attached, and as the interest attached to the proceedings had been much in creased within the last few days by the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench against the motion on the part of the traversers to postpone the trial, on the ground of the illegality of the jury panel, the anxiety to attend the meeting was great in proportion. The admission was by tickets. The body of the ball, the side galleries, and the space beneath them, were crowded. The gallery fronting the platform was appropriated to the ladies, and it contained ladies of some of the most respectable families in Dublin. The entrance of Tom Steele was greeted with several rounds of applause. Mr. O'Connell entered soon after him, and was received with unbounded enthusiasm, the cheering continuing several minutes. He is evidently in the best state of health, and appeared in excellent spi rits. Mr. Sheil was also most loudly cheered. Among the gentlemen present were the following Hon. Charles Barnwell, Esq. ; James Blackney, Esq., Fort Castle, Phillip's Town ; W. F erregan , E sq. ; C. D. Duffy, Esq. ; A. R. Stritch, Hugh Macgill, Henry Murray, E. Campbell, P. M'Growram, C. M'Allister, C. Lennon ; Roe, Blessington-street ; S. O'Brien, Esqrs. ; Rev. Mr. Scudy ; Doheny, barrister ; Dr. Nagle ; G. Hamilton ; T. Joyce ; Valentine Blake ; Walter Joyce ; S. J. Murray; Richard Barnwell; Mar tin Honan ; Richard Ferrell, J.P. ; Sir John Power ; James Nugent ; W. Reynold, T.C. ; Mr. Moran, T.C. ; Mr. Atkinson, T.C. ; Mr. Loughman ; Very Rev. Mr. Stewart ; Rev. Mr. Tierney, one of the traversers ; Reverend Mr. Andrews ; Reverend Mr. Hopkins ; T. Sheridan, T.C. ; Rev. Mr. Lynch ; J. T. Devit, Barrister, Limerick ; C. Walsh, solicitor ; Dr. S. Murphy ; J. White, J. P., Shannon ; J. Chester, D. L., Stone House, South-bridge ; — Johnson, J.P. ; M a j or Kearney, J. P., Gerald Aylmer, county Kildare ; Cor nelius Egan, Alderman of Dublin ; Richard O'Connell ; H. S. Reynolds, D. O'Conn e ll, Mr. Duffy, barrister ; Mr. Kelly, T. Kerwan, T.C. ; Dr. J. Murphy, James M'Kean, M.D. ; Sir T. Esmonde, J. C. Egan, John Es mond, James M'Owen, G. Fitzgerald, Martin Madden, Sligo ; J. Troy, Rev. Mr. O'Malley, T. Wise, M. P. ; F. J. Moony ; Philip Taggard, George Graham, Coyan, T. N. Redington M.P. ; J. 11. Talbot, county of Monaghan ; Robert Irwan, Roscommon ; James Hogan, Robert Cassidy, J.P. ; James Power, M.P. ; Hogan, Fairview ; Thomas Dwyer, J. Mackenna, T.C. ; the Lord Mayor ; the Rev. Miley, D.D. ; Michael Staunton,Edward Dowell, Esqrs.,county Galway; W. Ford, P. Kelley, Esq. ; B. Andrews, T.C. ; O'Flannagan, barrister ; Alexander Macarthy, barrister ; Barlew, T. C. ; G. Gilchrist, T. P. Curtis ; J. Flan naghan, Esq. ; Galway, Esq. ; Thomas M'Mahan, J. Kirwan, Richard L. Sheil, M.P. ; James Barnwell, Dr. Harker,:&c., &c., &c. The proceedings did not commence till two o'clock, when, on the motion of Sir T. Esmonde, Bart., the Lord Mayor of Dublin, T. O'Brien, Esq., took the chair. The LORD MAYOR on taking the chair observed, that it was now sought by the Government to deprive the Roman Catholics of Ireland—the loyal subjects of this realm—of that privilege to which even aliens were entitled ; namely, the privilege of being represented on the jury before which they were to be tried. No less a number than seven millions and a half of the subjects of the British Crown had been thus excluded from the en joyment of their undoubted right and privilege. To express their abhorrence of that inroad upon their liber ties, the Roman Catholics of Ireland had assembled there that day ; and, for his own part, not remembering the exertions of those to whom he, as a Catholic, owed his elevation to the office which he now filled, he felt that gratitude and duty both urged him to take an active part in the proceedings on the present occasion. He wanted words to express his sense of the high honour conferred cn him by being called on to preside at the present meeting. He would not then take up their time further, particularly as they would be addressed by men who had won high fame in former struggles for civil and religious liberty. —(Cheers.) After some further observations, the Chair man, who was all but inaudible throughout the entire of his observations, resumed his seat amidst loud applause. On the motion of Sir T. ESMONDE, Bart., T. V. Fitz pataick and Alexander Dl`Carthy, Esqrs., were nomi nated Secretaries of the meeting. Mr. M'CARTHY having read the requisition convening the meeting, which was signed by a host of the most in fluential and wealthy Roman Catholics of Ireland, in cludiag the Earl of Kenmare. Sid T. ESNONDE, Bart., came to the front of the platform, and was received with the most enthu siastic applause. lie said he attended there that day with, he candidly acknowledged, very sincere regret, for he came from necessity, as a Roman Catholic of Ireland, to vindicate his own character and prin ciples, and theirs. For many years he had agitated with them in the great oause of civil and religious liberty, and, by the Act of Emancipation, he thought a termination had been put to that species of agitation in which they had acted together for so many years. But within those few days there had arisen proof positive that Roman Catholics were considered unworthy of belief on their oath. That foul imputation which had been cast upon them by itinerants from period to period was now nearly obtaining the sanction of those in power. It was to protest against that that they were now assem bled.—(Cheers.) And if they should have to struggle again in the cause of civil and religious liberty, he was much mistaken if his countrymen would not be more firm and more persevering, if possible, than when they had been seeking for emancipation.—(Cheers.) They were now a temperate people, and in the pursuit of civil and religious liberty, they would be consistent, perse vering, united, and firm.—(Cheers.) lie concluded by moving the first resolution, which ,was to the following effect :—" That the Roman Catholics of Ireland yielded to no portion of the Queen's subjects in true loyalty to the throne, and the strict observation of the religious obligation of an oath." Sir J. POWER, Bart., seconded the resolution, which was carried amidst the most vehement applause. Mr. WYSE, M.P., then addressed the meeting. He said it was but a few days after the first granting of the great claim of Catholic Emancipation, that a great meeting was held in that city, for the purpose of stating what were the feelings, prospects, and claims of the Catholic body, after the emancipation bad become law. Ile read the resolution carried at that meeting, expressive of their gratitude for the measure so healing and conciliatory ; that was then the manifesto of the Catholics of Ireland, that the differences of the past were buried, and that they would do all in their pewer to promote the interest of the common country. It was hoped that that feeling would have continued. That was fourteen years ago. But what must be their feelings now, when they were called together again, once more, to claim the common rights of their fellow-subjects, of which they had been again deprived? Who would not, on looking round, believe that the Emancipation Act had never been passed, or that it had been repealed ? (Great cheering.) Since the time their claim was granted, had not the deeds of the party leaders proved what they said at the period—that that claim was granted unwillingly? And when that party was suc ceeded by one of more liberal and generous nature, were not the efforts and acts of that party continually thwarted when they endeavoured to make the Emancipation Bill more than a dead letter? It was the party of Wellington and Peel that always stood in the way of all their municipal and political reforms ; and the same spirit had been manifested. To be a Catholic was a crime ; that a man was of the opinion of the majority of the people of Ireland was a sufficient excuse for striking a man off the list of the jury. There had been no proof that they entertained any peculiar political opinions ; it was sufficient that a man was a Catholic—was of that reli gion that had been branded in Ireland in every way, and had been accused of a disregard of oaths ; it was to destroy the confederacy of Catholic feeling that would always lead them, inside the House or out of it, to repel such imputations upon their honour, that Catholics were now struck off the jury. During the last year they were taunted with a disregard of the obligation of en oath by a Minister of the Crown, and that Minister was com pelled, in the face of the House and of tho empire, to apologise for that imputation. The same prineiples on which the names of Catholics were struck off the panel would form a ground for re-enacting the old penal laws against them in all their severity. lie contended for an equality of rights in every respect. Did they think fiat while every country was gainiag its rights and fran chises, and were regaining their position in the scale of nations, did they think the people of Ireland could sit down contented and not do all in their power to make themselves felt and known in the great incorporation of the British empire ?—(Cheers.) It was impossible that the laws of the land could be respected unless they were loved, and, by being administered impartially, made the shield to defend, and not the sword to attack, the people. Ile concluded by proposing a resolution, stating, that in striking off the names of the Catholics from the list, the Government had inflicted a wrong and an insult upon that body, and against which they now recorded their opinion. The resolution was seconded by J. 11. TALBOT, Esq., who stated that he was himself a victim to his religion, having been dismissed from his deputy-lieutenancy be cause he would not be the slave of any Government. W. FORD, Esq., then addressed the assembly, stating circumstances that attended former prosecutions, to show that the striking off jurors on account of their religion was no new practice. He also quoted the opinion ofhMrat. Smith, the Attorney-General, expressed in his speech t i li s e 3 gr 7,— ea t t he l l ' i ro c te a s t t h a o n i t ie m s ofeheatdingvery little r the24tehga sanctity of an oath, that oath being the n by Mr. Wyse and Mr. Sheil. li© also adduc ed the in. the same imputation upon them. He a ll u ded to the stance of Lord Roden casting fact of the Catholic people of Dublin having or fd o j e E t tel a a k t r en e, hy They a h n e ts citizens.an and a Presby terian to decide had done everything in their power to show their confi dence returnedonthe franchisest h ree Protestants st t in the Protestants , and w e re the y now to be told that Catholic gentlemen were not to be entrusted to sit QA a jury ? 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