The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-27 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. COMpassing the death of the King? Ali this difficulty cr mistake springs from an innocent overt act, which must be made guilty by everything on earth that can be produced ; I am sure all the conduct I have received from your Lordship, and the prose cutor, has been such as has changed the temper of my mind with which I came into Court ; and I never shall be able to express my thanks suffi ciently. My Lord, I think lam entitled to pro duce this original act of association in 1780, signed I by Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and other persons of distinction, and in high situations. They go to the same overt acts, with expressions stronger than those used by any society. I have heard of omissions which have been charged as crimes—if the word Parliament is omitted, the omission is a crime—if inserted it is a pretext, so that whether the relief was to come from Parliament, or if Parliam en t i s no t men ti one d, i n th e same case th e r Attorney-General has loaded me with it over and over again. 'lf I am guilty, everybody with me must be guilty—the Minister himself, for I have his letter, which every mortal respected and talked of in this country, and I can prove them to be equal traitors with myself." Gentlemen, in this masterly manner did Mr. Tooke go into the nature of overt acts that go to prove a guilty treasonable mind. I will not weaken his argument by anything I can say, but confidently demand your verdict of Not Guilty for my friend and client Thomas Attwood, avowing myself, as I do, A DISCIPLE OF JOHN HORNE TOOKE. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The following visitors took their departure from the Castle th's morning--The Marquis of Normanby, Lord and Lady Kinnaird, Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley Paget, and the Hon. Miss Anson. The Hon. Miss Pitt is expected on a visit to her Ma jesty this evening. The unfavou Table weather has prevented the Queen leaving the Castle to-day. The Band of the Rifles attended at the Castle last night and played the following pieces :—Grand March of Carl shad Volunteers (Labitzky) ; Overture, Fiorella, (Auber); Cavatina, Chiara de Rosenberg (Ricci); Quivirille, Les Rendezvous de Chasse (Mustard) ; Galop, Le Carnival de Paris (Strauss) ; Valse, Les Dentelles de Bruxelles (Strauss) ; Pas Redouble du Postilion de Longuinaeau (Strauss); Walzer, Mein Schonster Tag in Baden (Strauss). Prince George of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. His Royal Highness also paid a visit to the Princess Augusta, at Clarence House, St. James. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George visited the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses, attended by Baron Knesebeck and Colonel Cornwall, returned to their residence, at Kew, in the afte-rnoon. The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Wednesday evening. The Marquis of Normanby returned to town yester day, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. Despatches from the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thom son, Governor of the Canadas, and from Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, were received at the Colonial Office, on Wednesday evening. Lord and Lady Rivera and family left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, yesterday, for their seat in Dor setsh ire. The Right Hon. H. Goulburn left his residence a Betchworth, yesterday, for Cambridge. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Two New Dramas, and the Grand Christmas Panto mime, with splendid Scenery, and a magnificent Diorama. THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, Will be acted, second time, a New Romantic Drama, called MICHAEL EARLE, THE MANIAC LOVER. Characters by Messrs. Saville, H. Hughes, Neville, John• son, and Smith ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, and Miss Martin, After' which, 2d time, a Comedietta, from the French, entitled FAMILY JA KS MENDED. Banhomme, Mr. Smith ; Chapinet, Mr. Saville ; Madame Bonhemme, Mrs. Daly ; Theresia, Miss Martin. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine,:Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are compelled to allow several communications to lie over. " THE SOUTHERN STAR."--We have received a long corr.muuication from Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Bronterre O'Brien, addressed to the subscribers to the Southern Star, stating, as the reason wby they will be unable to publish that projected journal on the 29th inst., that the Stamp-office has refused to accept (they say vexatiously) the securities they tendered, and which are required by the Stamp Act. We cannot, however, publish their ad dress, which is an advertisement. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady Katherine Jermyn and family, for Bel voir Castle; Lieut.-General Sir Charles and Lady Eger ton, for Leamington Spa ; Lord and Lady Beresford, for Bedgebury Park ; Lord Powerscourt, for Poweracourt Castle, Enniskerry ; the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Roch. fort, on a tour; the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Watson, for ditto; Sir Thomas and Lady Barry, for Stratton Park, 'Hants; Mr. and Lady Grace Vandern, for Dublin; the Right Hon. Sir William Fremantle, for Englefield-green ; the Dowager Countess of Aldborough, for Paris ; Lord and Lady Cavan, from Fenton's Hotel; Lord William Lennox, for Goodwood Park. The Marquis of Douglas and Lord Ossulston have arrived at Chillingham Castle from a visit to Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarence, at Etat Howie, Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Countess Cadogan, and the Ladies Augusta arid Honoria Cadogan, who have been passing the win ter in Paris, have arranged to return to this country the third week in January. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and Lady Cecilia Underwood and a distinguished circle are partaking of the hospitalities at Kinmel Park, St. A sapb, the seat of Lord Dinorben. The Duke of Leeds, Lord Zetland, and the members of the Sedgefield Hunt, gave a grand dinner at the Hardwicke A rms , i n th a t t own , on Th urs d ay ; M r . Williamson (Master of the Wynyard pack) in the chair. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond has arrived at Goodwood Park, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, from Scone Palace, near Perth. ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM.—EarI Ducie, Admiral Lord Colville, Sir Edward Stanhope, Hon. Captain Irby, Hon. Captain Saumarez, Colonel Army tage, Sir Coghill Coghill, Bart., Major and Mrs. Thorne, Captain and Miss Eyre, Colonel Bold, Colonel Wyatt, Miss Plunkett, Miss Carrington, Messrs. Domville. Departures—Sir Charles and Lady Chad, for Leaming ton Park, Lord Sudely, for Pontypool, Lady Hastings, for Tilley Court. There is not the slightest foundation for the re port that the Earl of Liverpool is about to form a ma trimonial alliance with Mrs. Mytton, relict of the late J. Mytton, Esq. HOWICK HALL.—The Earl and Countess Grey have a numerous family circle passing the Christ mas with them at the above seat. The Earl and Coun tess of Durham, the Ladies Lambton, Viscount and Viscountess Howick, &c., are of the party. Lady Dover, with her sons the Viscount Clifden and the Hon. Mr. Ellis, have arrived at Castle Howard, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, from Trentham Hall, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The Lady Elizabeth Fielding has arrived at Bath, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe. The Noble Earl, according to the last letter, is much better in health. Lord Morpeth has left town for London. His Lordship went down to Kingstown by the railroad at five o'clock, and proceeded to Liverpool by the mail packet. —Dublin Evening Post. BOWOOD-PARK, WILTS.—The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have a numerous circle pass ing the Christmas with them at their elegant seat. The Earl of Camperdown has arrived, as also Lord John Russell. The Earl of Shelburne, after a temporary ab sence, has returned. DEATH OT LADY WARREN. --We regret to announce the demise of Lady Warren, widow of Ad miral the Right Hon. Sir Borlace Warren, G.C.8., on Saturday last, at Stapleford Hal;, near Nottingham. Her Ladyship was the youngest daughter of Lieut.- General Sir John Clavering, by Lady Diana West, daughter of John Viscount Delawarr. Her Ladyship is succeeded in her extensive estates by her grandson Lord Vernon, who is now at Rome. Her loss will be severely felt by the numerous orphans and widows of naval officers, and the poor of Stapleford will long remember her extensive and munificent character. REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.—Mr. Evart has replied to the requisition agreed to at a recent meeting of the Marylebone Reform and Regis tration Association declining the proposed honour. He adds—" I shall feel most happy if the withdrawal of one who was personally engaged i n the last contest for Marylebone may enable the Liberal voters there to con firm and concentrate the power of returning two Liberal Members, which I know them to possess." The Marquis of Worcester, who arrived in town at the close of the past week from the continent, has gone to Badminton to pass the holidays with the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. The youthful Mar quis is to return to Belgium about the 16th of the ensuring month, to finish his martial studies, in order shortly to enter the army. Captain Chaplain, an officer of distinguished talent, has accompanied his Lord ship from Namur. Lord John Scott is in Scotland, enjoying some excellent sport with the Duke of Buceleuch's hounds. "There were several capital runs last week. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday last, at Althorp Hall, the seat of Earl Spencer, the Hon. Richard Watson, youngest brother of Lord Sondes, to the Hon. Lavinia Jane, only daughter of Lord George Quin, and niece of the Earl Spencer. A select circle of friends were present at the solemnisation. AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.—A letter from Con stantinople of the 28th ult., quoted by the Augsburgh Gazette, says, " The arrival of Prince Wolkonski on the 18th, with despatches for M. de Routenieff, has pro duced a great sensation amongst the diplomatists. The English and Russian Ambassadors have both been un usually busy, and have had numerous conferences with Reschid Pacha. Soon afterwards M. Cadalvene returned from Alexandria. It appears that, although holding a mission under the Ottoman Porte at the Court of the Pacha, he has acted rather in the inte rests of France. He has brought the answer of Mehe met Ali to the propositions of the Divan. The Count de Pontois imagined that the Porte would find it ac ceptable, but, on the contrary, it has been repudiated, and since then affairs have taken a different turn. The other Powers have come to an understanding since they have discovered the intrigues of France, and M. de Pontois h as sun k i n cre di t . T he Sultan may, there ore,f look to the future with the greater confidence." LONDON: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1839. " A soft answer turneth away wrath," is one 0 the many beautiful and true observations of the Gospel, which are wholly neglected or scornfully trampled under foot by the Protestant parsons. If only they themselves were concerned, we should not care a rush if they provoked a consuming flame ; but, unhappily for the community, they are allowed, or supposed, to speak for a large portion of the people, and their hard language is kindling wrath in another section of the empire. The use which Mr. O'CoNNELL made at the meeting of his constituents on Tuesday, as elsewhere reported in The Sun, of the violent language of the M'NEILES, the M'GIIEEs, the BRADSHAWS, and the Times, to excite his auditory to a vigorous demonstration of ha tred to the Tories and to Toryism, is a painful illus tration of the effects of the Protestant men of GOD following an opposite conduct from that recom mended in the Gospel. If we were Frenchmen who had served under BONAPARTE, and now wrote in the National, nourishing an intense hatred of England, we could desire nothing better than to see the fury of Protestant parsons and Protestant editors lashing into a similar fury the orators and the people of Ireland. But not being Frenchmen, not thirsting for the ruin of England, we behold with dismay the continued raving at Protestant meetings, and its necessary effects on the population of Ire land. To Mr. O'CoNNELL's countrymen his ap peal will be heart-stirring, and he will not stand alone in his determination to die in the field rather than submit to Tory domination. No, he will be sup ported by millions ; and WELLINGTON, as O'CON NELL said, will not find himself engaged in a little war when, at the head of the Tories, he has to en counter the whole Irish population. It is scarcely necessary for us to direct attention to Mr. O'CONNELL'S speech, but there are several parts of it which will seize fast hold of the public mind. He declares that they have arrived at a period when the lives, liberties, properties, and rights of the Irish are at stake, about to be filched from them by a base and vile faction. Quite a match for those gentlemen of the Press who have accumu lated on him terms of abuse, lie declares the Tories to be everything that is bad, and to be worthy of Prince ERNEST, as he is worthy of them. The Times comes in for a large share of Mr, O'CoNNELL's objurgation, and it is principally from the pages of that journal that he collected his proofs that the English Protestant oligarchy have resolved to crush and enslave the Irish Catholics. When violent men are stirring up national and religious animosities, which promise —by one vitu peration producing an answering vituperation still more bitter—to go on increasing and exasperating till the whole empire will be in a flame, it is high time for moderate men—for men who prefer earthly peace to a religious squabble—to interfere, and command the contending parties to stand at ease. We can not blame Mr. O'CoNN ELL ; he and his country men are not the assailants ; they stand on self defence ; they have made no single encroachment ; they have asked for none on the rights of any class of their fellow citizens. But an endeavour is making to tak e away their rights, to encroach on them ; and they have no means of resistance but to hurl their anathemas against the missionaries of mischief who have set forth on a crusade against the Catholics. If anything can terrify them from their brutal, un social, no unchristianossicicareer, it is the knowledge that yb N e EL s L uccessful , and such a knowledge a m t r p . b o , oN 's speech is likely, if anything can, to conv e y to them. We have lately called attention more than once to the unhappy condition of society in England. Under the head " Chartist Lodges " will be found another picture on the same subject. According to it the Chartists have but to meet in the streets in tens or dozens, or even threes or fours, and an alarm is given that an insurrection is contemplated. Flow graphically are their gait, and scornful leer, inter pretated into ready-prepared resistance to autho rity. A stranger could only escape insult by avoid ing them. 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Vin ing ; Peregrine, Mr. Cooper ; Job Thornberry, Mr. Bartley ; Dennis Brulgrud ery, Mr. Brougham ; Lady Caroline Bray more, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Brulgruddery, Mrs. C. Jones ; Mary Thornberry, Miss Lee. Aftorlwhich will be repeated the New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which has been long in preparation, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. With entirely New Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De- corations. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co. umbine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First. and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doers to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr, Andrews. bookseller, !67, New Bond-street. HIGH-WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO- , WRITO W. Morning 33 minutes after 7 Evening 58 minutes alter 7. 4371. e s z • 4 =' . • • z*s., ICU nn+ TOE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1839. s watched by the police, and obliged, perhaps, as we have been before now, on the Continent, to rise in the night to answer the interrogatories of gen d'armes. Every unknown man is regarded as a spy, and suspicion and dread lurk in every heart. The jurors begin to be afraid, as in Ireland, which is very natural; and even convivial parlours have sub stituted distrust for mirth and joviality. This is a sad alteration, indeed, but will it be confined to one neighbourhood ? What the Chartists have:done at Merthyr Tydvil and Monmouth,—they may easily accomplish in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow. If by meeting in groups, these holiday times, with a menacing or scornful air, they can ob tain no advantage for themselves—they may have the pleasure, if it be one, to make others more miserable than they are. But what a condition of society does the very suspicion that the working classes can feel pleasure in making others miserable indicate ? What terrible demon has been at work to pervert the friendly and kindly nature of man ? We answer, the law-maker, the tax-imposer, the ar rogant, ambitious man,who stints the supply of food, and dooms the labourer to want and woe. If the lower classes were comfortable their minds would never conceive such a malignant desire. Their recklessness is the offspring of their wretchedness ; and for the safety, security, and happiness of others, it is indispensable that they should have justice done them and be made contented. For their present condition—for all the evij which that causes—for such scenes as those at Newport, Merthyr Tydril, and Glasgow, the land lords are to blame. One House of Parliament is composed exclusively of them, and in the other they have a majority. The Reform Act made no alteration in the relative superiority except somewhat to increase it. They therefore are, and have been, the law-makers; and unless legislation and Govern ment be altogether a humbug and mockery, they are answerable to the well-disposed and peaceable inhabitants of the community for their present ap prehensions. We are not even convinced that the condition on which we have supposed they might es cape can be sustained. If Government and legislation be a mere mockery, they are answerable for cheating the community by acting and talking as if they believed that Government and legislation could ef fect infinite benefits. At any rate they have had the power in their hands, they have called, and still call, on the community to sumbit to their ordinances —they have had the fashioning of society as far as that can be accomplished by the skill of the legislator, and are responsible both to GOD and man for the present condition, both moral and physical, of the people. The Tory fanatics not mean to suffer Sir R. PEEL, and other Toxy politicians, to brand them with having agitated the country for no religious or practical object. They persist in demanding the repeal of the Emancipation Act ; and they de nounce as cowards the respectable Tory politicians who will not give legal force to the principle of Protestant ascendancy. I rejoice, (said Mr. M'Neile, at a meeting held at Market Drayton, on Thursday week,) in the assurance that Englishmen, in every direction, are beginning to see who are their real friends, and to appreciate aright the dishonesty of those who have been seeking treacherously to undermine ; the cold, coward carelessness of those who have been consenting basely to betray ; and the noble boldness of those who have been standing forward determinedly to defend their Protestant citadel.—(Cheers.) Of course, in propor tion as our testimony becomes successful in arousing the dormant, but far from extinguished, Protestantism of the country, it stings the enemies of England to madness. For a time they affected to despise us as in significant ; they laughed at the utter absurdity of at tempting to revive the " No Popery" cry, and flattered themselves into an assurance that the Emancipation Bill, to which your Lordship has referred, and then the Reform Bill, had prostrated for ever the noble edifice of Protestant ascendancy. The principle of Protestant ascendancy lives, ac cording to Mr. M'NEILE, i❑ the minds and hearts of the nation ; and as it certainly does not live in the minds and hearts of the Catholics and Liberals, Mr. M'NEILE must believe it to pervade thes`whOle' of the Tories. He describes the conduct of the Tory politicians as " cold, coward careleSsness," and implies that the Emancipation Act is to be made a complete dead letter of by the " noble bold.: ness " of those who have been getting up the No- Popery cry. He and his friends, therefore, will not submit to be branded as unthinking zealots, as hot-headed enthusiasts, as hair-brained orators by the Times and Sir ROBERT PEEL. They stand up for Protestant ascendancy, and justify Mr O'CONNELL in calling on the whole united Catholic population to rally round him, by declaring, that they " will not have Popish Members, will not have pro-Popery Members," and will exclude Papists from every office of public trust. At any and at every risk the fanatics are determined to re-establish Protestant ascendancy, and as they are now informed that Sir R. PEEL will not and cannot do their work, they cast him off as the chief of those whose cowardly carelessness has ruined and betrayed their bigot cause. In another part of The Sun will be found an excellent letter on the law of High Treason, which contains a most appropriate anecdote which ought to be now impressed on the minds of Jurors. The public will find it stated in that letter, and distinctly and clearly proved, that the Rev.lMr. O'QUIGLEY was in 1798 falsely and most unjustly found guilty of high treason, on what it appeared to be a distinct proof of an overt act of treason. Mr. O'QUI GLEY was immediately thereafter hanged, and so the Kentish jurors and the law officers of that day have his blood to answer for. We are, however, sure th a t th e J urors , L aw Officers, and Judges of our day will not pursue the men now accused of high treason with the same unrelenting rigour as the Rev. Mr. O'QUIGLEY andjhis friends were pursued with ; at the same time the anecdote is extremely well timed. We regret to differ from our Cor respondent on the subject of Mr. MUNTZ, as jwe have supported Mr. STURGE. The French Journals of Wednesday bring un fourable news from Africa. Hostilities were re ported to have commenced in the vicinity of Oran. The following telegraphic despatch, announcing this disagreeable intelligence appears in the official columns of the Moniteur:— " TOULON, DEC. 22. THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE. " According to the report of the Captain of the Nep tune, it was rumoured in Algiers that on the 17th the column commanded by General Rulhieres, whilst pro ceeding with provisions to the camp of Koleah, had had, near Mahelma, a serious engagement in which the Arabs had been again defeated. " The same report states that a vessel which arrived from Oran on the 18th had brought intelligence of the resumption of hostilities in the west. The Chief of the Garabas had been killed in an affair against our troops." The preparation which the French Government are making to repel the aggressions of the Arabs are most extensive. According to the Eclaireur of Toulon, between the Ist of November and 20th of December, 5,761 men, provided with all the ne cessary camp equipage, sailed from France to rein force the army in Africa. There remained ready for embarkation at a moment's notice 6,838 destined to join the Ist, 26th, and 62d regiments of the line, four battalions of artillery, four com panies of engineers, two companies of workmen, twelve detachments taken from the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 19th military divisions to the number of 300 men from each regiment, to be embodied with the corps now forming in Africa. Camp equipage to the weight of 1,200 tons, is to be sent to Toulon to be embarked for Algiers. The twelve squadrons ad th ro e n of cavalry are to emb ar k f rom M arse ill es, a 13th regiment of Light I n f antry , an d the 4th battalion of the Foreign Legion are to proceed to Port Vendres, where two corvettes and as many steamers were to carry them to Aljers. After some other unimportant details the Eclaireur concludes with the following observations, which are suffi ciently significant :—" Our first expedition to Africa in 1830 consisted of 28,000, with the correspond. ing materiel. In 1840, after ten years' possession, we are obliged to undertake a new expedition, infe rior in force by only one-third, in order to keep our ground in our establishments. This simple state ment is the bitterest condemnation of the system of administration adopted by our Government." The Moniteur Parisien publishes the following details of the engagements in Africa, alluded to in the previous telegraphic despatch from Marshal VALLEE : On the 14th, at the moment when the moveable column, composed of the 2d and 17th light infantry, 400 cavalry, and four pieces of artillery, was leaving Mered for Blidah, it perceived the enemy in the plain. The cavalry fell upon them, and our chasseurs attacked the Arab infanty with the sabre, and drove them into a ravine. The infantry completed the dispersion of the enemy. A great number of bodies were left on the ground by the fugitives. Several Arabs, at the moment when our soldiers fell on them, cried out " Grace!" They were Zouave ;, who had passed over to the enemy ; our cavalry showed them no pity. Dur ing this combat about SOO Arab horsemen were endeavouring to manoeuvre on our rear, and 100 chasseurs, who formed the rearguard, received orders to attack them vigorously. The Arabs were overthrown at the first shock, and, after having lost a great number of men and horses, fled in all directions. At six o'clock in the morning of the 15th, while a convoy was proceeding from the camp to the town of Blidah, the 2d light infantry, supported by the artillery, marched against the Arabs, who have shown themselves at the loot of the Atlas, between the town and the Chiffa. The regular infantry of Abd-el. Kader was again dispersed, and experienced, still greater losses than on the preceding day. A Correspondent at Bona writes to the froulonnais— " The aria cativa is making frightful ravages here. One half of the garrison is in th hospital, and in a few days we shall not have men enough to do duty at the several posts. The people are also suffering, but in a less proportion. The prevalence of sickness among the military is partly to be accounted for by the small quan tity and bad quality of the food allowed them." Madrid papers of the 18th inst. have arrived. They merely announce that the QUEEN REGENT had applied to the wife of ESPARTERO to write to her husband, in order to prevail upon him either to embrace the policy of the Cabinet or to resign the command of the army. We trust that ESPAR TERO has too much regard for the welfare o Spain to accept either alternative. He will best consult the welfare of his country by remaining where he is, and kicking out, which he can easily do, the political knaves who have already so far succeeded in abusing the confidence of the QUEEN REGENT as to estrange from her the af fections of the Spanish, and even to jeopardise the throne of ISABELLA 11. The latest intelligence from the theatre of war in Spain is contained in the following tele graphic despatch copied from the Moniteur of Wednesday : •" BAYONNE, DEC. 23. " Cabrera had gone to Mora and Flix on the 12th, to hasten the completion of the fortifications of those places ; he returned to Zurita on the 15th. The Car lists attacked Berga on the 15th, but without success. The third division marched from Alcoriza, and drove them from the village." The domestic intelligence in the French Journals of Wednesday is not of much importance. M SAUZET was on Tuesday re-elected President of the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 78 votes. There was hardly any opposition, M. O'DILLON BARROT having declared himself indifferent to the result. He obtained, however, 94 votes, whereas only four votes were given for the ex-President M. DUPIN, and one each for MM. LAMARTINE and GAUGIER, the only other candidates. The nine Bureaux, or Standing Committees of the Chamber, were likewise appointed. Of the first it was proposed that M. THIERS should be Presi dent ; but the casting vote of his old friend M. DUFAITHE was given for M. LEFEBRE, one of the supporters of the MOLE Cabinet. This inci dent is noticed with great asperity in the Constitu tionnel of Wednesday—M. THxEßs's organ. The Chamber of Peers met likewise on Tuesday, and appointed its Committee and Secretaries. Count D'ALTON SHEE made a powerful and sar sastic attack on the Cabinet for having " picked up without dignity the wounded in electoral con tests," and appointed them M e mbers of that As sembly. The creation of the last batch of Peers was weakly defended by M. VILLEMAIN, who complained of the unfairnes s of attacking the new Peers in their absence. This was at once admitted by Count D'ALTON SIIEE, and the conversation was suffered to drop. The Moniteur announces that Chevalier de Koss, the Danish Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary, has delivered to Louis Philippe, in a private audience, the letters announcing the death of King Frederick VI., and at the same time M. de Koss pre sented his new credentials. A Court mourning of 21 days is ordered, to expire on the 18th of January, save and except on Dec. 31, and the Ist, 3d, and sth of January, the French Court levees on the new year. BOURSE.—PAkIs, TUESDAY, DEn. 24. t first Highest Lowest Last Price Prier. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents ll2 10 ... 112 15 ... 112 10 ... 112 15 4% per Cents lO7 ... 107 ... 107 ... 107 4 per Cents lO2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 3 per Cents BO 50 ... 80 50 ... 80 35 ... 'BO 40 Bank of erance 2997 s'l ...2997 50 ...2997 50 ...5997 50 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1077 50 ...1077 50 ...1077 50 ...l. 77 50 5,000 f. Sh 5225 ...5225 ...5225 ...5225 Belgian 5 per Cents 10 1 3,i ... 10134 ... 10.% ... 101 3 4 3 per Cents 23y ... 234 ... 234 ... 234 Bank Bl5 ... 845 ... 840 ... 815 Coupons ...... ....... Spanish Ac..ive Passive 6% ... 6 ... 6% . 6 3 ' .. is Portuguese 3 per Cents 23;4 ... 23% ... 23% ... 23 Neapolitan Roman lOl ... 101 ... 101 ... 101 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. B 5OO ... 500 ... 500 ... 500 L.B. 322 50 ... 325 ... 322 10 ... 328 Orleans . . 447 50 ... 447 50 ... 447 50 ... 447 50 Strasburg to Bale 315 ... 325 .. 313 ... 317 5(1 ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS. Yarn (Maberly's) The defendants denied the charge, and having no Wit= ncs, to call, Mr. HALL ordered the defendant, Lincoln, to pay 40s. for the assault, or go to prison for three weeks, and his companion a similar penalty, or a like imprison meat. BOW.STREET.-(•THIS DAY.) Joseph Nichols, a private in the First Company of the Third Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, was placed at the bar by 122 F, who stated that about six o clock last evening he observed the prisoner running through George-court, Strand, with a new Malacca cane in his hand, and before he had time to ask him how he came in possession of it he heard the cry of " Stop thief," and he took him into custody. Edward Shenton, shopman to Mr. Cheek, 52, Strand, identified the cane, value 135., his master's property. The prisoner came into the shop in company with another, in a state of intoxication, and on turning round, for the purpose of handing down a stick, which the other expressed a wish to see, the pri soner laid hold of the cane, which stood in the window, and escaped from the shop with it. On being taken into custody he appeared to have been drinking, but knew well what he was doing. The prisoner sad he was drunk, and he did not know what he eras about. The sergeant of his company said that the prisoner had been in the regiment about two years, and no com plaint had ever been preferred against him before. Mr. HALL said the case was of that nature he could not order his discharge, for if every person was allowed to plead drunkennness as an excuse for crime, there would be very little protection for the public. The prisoner was ordered to be committed for trial to the Middlesex sessions. It duty. ap p andra ed dr ihvai driving Jame s Wi nc h i voilh, a pianoforte-m a k er , and George Lincoln, a ca bi n et-maker, were brought up by Ri c hb e ll, 109 F, c h arge d w ith assaulting him i n t h e execution of his g a gig violently th roug h the streets. at seven o'clock y ester d ay evening a crowd was co ll ec t e d i n Russell- s t reet , C ovent-garden, round a poor b as k e t wom!tri who h a d b een knocked et down b y t h e d e f en d an t s ' furiously d r i v i ng while in a state of i n t ox i ca ti o n, but on taking them to the station as they had satisfied the poor woman who suffered no more injury than the loss of her fruit, th ey were suf fered t o go a b out their business. They, ho w ever, no sooner got into the streets than th e y aga i n in commenced flogging the horse such a manner as to compe l every person p assing by to fly i n a ll direc tions for sa f ety . The constable seeing their conduct took hold of the horse's head, when Lincoln swore at him, and attempted to assault him after he jumped out of the gig. The other remained in the gig, and from his manner seemed entirely unable to take a direct course, and being taken to the station-house, Lincoln made several attempts to strike every person who came in his way. THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's supplies have been moderate both of Grain and Fleur, and the buyers have been disinclined to purchase, little has been done in the trade, and prices of all articles are un varied from Monday. In the Flour trade there has been a moderate demand at previous prices. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply of Cattle was larger than for the season of the year might have been expegted. There was a fair trade at a decline on last. Friday's prices on Beef and Veal of 2d., and Pork 4d per stone. Mutton secured more demand and higher rates were freely submitted to, the finer descriptions sold at 5s ; and superior 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. per stone. Price per stone of Sibs., sinking the offal—Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 4s 2d. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. Head of Cattle at Market—Beasts, 525 ; Sheep, 1,870 ; Pigs, 304 ; Calves, 73. CITY FISH MARKET. The market was moderately supplied, and prices were lower. The demand tolerably good. Turbot ss. to 20s. ; Cod 4s. to 20s. ; Oysters 425. to 48s. per bushel ; Carp h. to ss. ; Whitings 4d. to Bd.. Haddocks Bd. to as.; and Soles 6d. to 3s. per pair. SEED MARKET. This market to-day was utterly destitute of interest. The arrivals were but moderate, and no variation on current prices. TALLOW MARKET. Very little business in this commodity, and the price o; P, Y. C. is 495. to 495. 6d. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, DEC. 26.—Wind S. S. E., strong breezes.—Ar rived the Malvina, Burton, from Monte Video ; Victoria, Goulding, Carthagena. Sailed the Abel Gower, for Bom bay, with most of the outward bound. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 26. —Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Myrtle, Farrant, from Terceira; Nino, Jarvis, ditto ; Naiad, Smyrna. Sailed the Mary, Williamson, for Rio Janeiro; Patrick Hurry, Delano, New York. Off port the Areatus, from New o:leans. HULL, Dan. 26.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Kingston, from Richobucto. Sailed Persian, Rowan, for Sotannah. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 25.—Arrived the William, Crisp, from Quebec. FALMOUTH, DEC. 25.— Wind W. S. W. to W. N. W.-- Arrived the Lady Flora, from London, with cargo shifted and leaky. CARDIFF, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Mary and Harriet Rees, from Miramichi. MILFORD, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Argo, Ablett, from Quebec, with three feet of water in her hold. MARIPORT, DEC. 25. —The Venus, Wilkinson, coal laden, in putting back to this port, got on the North Bank, but came off with the tide, and was brought into the harbour, where she grounded and filled immediately. HULL, Dac. 26.—The Newland, Tonge, from Archan gel to this port, has put into Stromness, leaky, and with loss of sails. STRANRAER, DEC. 25.—The wind yesterday suddenly shifted from S. to W., and blew a perfect hurricane for two hours. The Letitia, M'Galkin, from Carrickfergus to Carlisle, struck on Sugar Head, and sunk. Crew, ex cept one, drowned. REDCAR, DEC. 25.—The Comet, from London to Stockton, ran on the rocks off this place, 23d inst., but got off with assistance, and proceeded, MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL, COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY,—" WC have had a fair demand for Cotton to-day, the sales 4,000 bags to the trade, without change in prices. The Dutch mail has arrived of the 26th inst., bringing papers of the same date. The prices from Amsterdam are, Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51 1.16 th to i ; Five per Cents., 96i ; Ardouins Spanish, 224 to 9-16th. Arrivals this morning, French and Ostend mails, ship letters from Munte Video and Carthagena. On Monday evening the Dutch prices, Two-and-a- Half per Cents., receded to 50i-, and on Tuesday they improved to 51i. The Chamber requires a considerable reduction in the Budget before they vote the ways and means, but they will at the same time give the King a vote of credit for six months for what he may require. Private letters received from Philadelphia by the Bri tish Queen, state, that the statement of affairs of the United States' Bank so lately published, inspired great confidence in its ability to discharge all its engage mentst and has sufficient left to pay its shareholders. The full amount of the capital and the prevailing opinion there was that a dividend would be declared in January next. Up to the present time we do not hear of any further arrivals from kievv York. The President's Speech is anxiously looked for, which is expected by the packet ship which sailed on the 7th instant. THE FUNDS. This being a dull morning and holiday time, little is doing in the funds or in commercial affairs. Consols opened at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 92i for the Account ; Reduced, 901,1 ; Exchequer Bills, 5 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1771 178 i ; India Stock 253 255. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is rather lower, left off at 25i, at present 24i 25i ; Portuguese, 3:31 ; :34 ; Three per Cents., 231 24 ; Colombian, 241 ; Mexican, 281:-1 ; Spanish Passive, 6,-ii ; Defe rre d, Il ia ; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents., 52i i ; Fire per Cents., 971 981. ruicEs OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 1778 8 7 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 901. 1• % Ditto Bonds 3 per Ccnt. Cons. — South Sea Stock — 3N, per Cent 9Bl Old Annuities Ditto Red. 98;14 % ' New Ditto New N per Cent... ...... .... 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toes tire Ditto 500 Jan. 5, 1860 !S 15-16 14 Ditto Small 4 2 dis. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 0.2 N RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE (),CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — , Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilia n Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian 3ortd . , Prussian Bonds Ditto Ac c: nt. — Russian Bonds, 1822 — Colarn: 1.7.2<r1d$ — Ditto Account Ditto ices, nt Ulan' z 1: 3;: d 5,1824 1.11::o Acco.nt EaMsh 3:r d • —; Passive Ditto MGM nt — -I).,lvrred .s. Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... _f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — --- 4 per cent. Ditto Account —l ---- 3 per cent Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. --- Exchange. — G ~.., Ditto Account — Dutch, ‘2.Y‘ per cent.......... Ditto, (1 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan. — Ditto Account ..... ... ...... ._........ .._...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLO C K. Paid. Per Share. Cobre Copper. brlghton Railway lO 15Mi lti Mexican and South Aingfican 7 55i HALF-PAST ONE. --- - To the present time of writing, we have no further arrivals either from America or any other quarter to communicate. We hear that a great commercial house at Liverpool expects from New York about 105,000/. sterling, in do!- lars, by the Liverpool steamer, which is expected to ar rive in the course of a few days. Since the early part of the morning the British funds have rather improved, and at present have a firm ap pearance, with little doing ; Exchequer Bills 4 2 rather better; Bank Stock 177 k 8 7 ; India Bonds 7 discount ; Money rather more easy. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish rather improved, 241,- 25 ; Portuguese Three per Cents. 23 ; in the Five per Cents. nothing done ; Colombian 241 ; Brazilian 71,i ; Dutch Five per Cents. 97 98. The Lelpsic Musical Gazette states that M. Manuel Garcia, the father and instructor of Madame Malibran and Mdlle. Pauline Garcia, is about to pub lish a great systematic work on the art of singing. This announcement is partly incorrect. Garcia, the father of these celebrated ladies, who was one of the greatest tenor singers in Europe, and formerly well known on our opera boards, has been dead for several years ; and the forthcoming work is from the pen of his son, himself an eminent musician, and the husband of Madame Garcia, who lately made so brilliant debut at the Opera Comique in Paris. SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER.-Thursday night an inquest was held at the Barley Mow, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of a very fine female child, which was found on Tuesday morning, near Cumberland-gate, Hyde Park. The Coroner directed the body to be placed on the table of the jury -room, and upon the jury examining it they declared that it must have been born alive, and said it was necessary to have a post mortcm examination. The parish surgeon was accordingly sent for. Mr. Attwell, of Moscow-row, Bayswater, said he was coming through the Park at the time stated, when his attention was called to a dog pointing at a bundle, which was covered with blood, and upon opening it the body of the child was discovered in it. Mr. Bloxham, the surgeon, said the umbilical cord was torn, and there was a bruise on the chest, but he could not say whether the child had been born alive. The inquiry was adjourned to Saturday. The venerable Earl of Leicester's cattle sale, at Holkham Hall, took place on Monday, when there was a large attendance of the gentry, farmers, and buyers. The Noble Earl, with his daughter the Dowager Lady Anson, attended the sale. Every one was rej o i ce d to see the Earl. in such wonderful health. Three years ago the winter set in so early that the harvest was not all gathered in some parts Of this neighbourhood, particularly at Thistleton, Rutland ; and at the present time there are fourteen or fifteen acres of beans and pease in the fields in that Lordship, which the wet has quite spoiled.—Lincoln Mercury. His Excellency Baron Brunow returned to Mi vart's Hote; l on Tuesday night from Broadlands, Hants, where his E xcelleney has been staying a few days on a visit to Viscount Palmerston and the Dowager Countcss Cowper. MEETING O} MIL O'CONNELL'S CONSTITUENTS. (Abridged from the fliitll t Monitor.) A. most numerous and respectable meeting of Mr. O'Connell's constituents was held this day, in the Adela phi Theatre, Great trunswick-sfreaf, The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who appeared in etedlent health and spirits, entered the theatre about a quarter past three o'clock, and was received with the most decided marks of approbation. A few moments after haltpast three he rose to address the large assembly which stood collected to hear him. After the renewed applause had subsided, Mr. O'CONNELL then said—l have called this meet ing not only to express to such of my constituents as should do me the honour of complying with my request to meet me here, that I might express to them my opi nions of the present political aspect of this country, but to avail myself of the opportunity of conveying those opinions, through the medium of the press, not only throughout the British dominions, but, I may venture to hope, throughout civilised Europe.—(Cheers.) I am convinced that we have arrived at a crisis of singular importance—(Hear, hear)—l am convinced that we we have arrived at a period when, as I stated in the circular which convened you, the lives, liberties, pro perties, and rights of the Irish people arc at stake— (Cheers) —and that we are arrived at a conjuncture of affairs when, if we do not determine on manfully defend ing those rights and liberties, they will be filched from us by a base and vile faction, and trampled under the hoofs of a malignant despotism.—(Cheers.) I would have preferred not resorting again to agitation while the Government remained in the hands of men fairly and honestly disposed towards the Irish people—l would have been induced, while our affairs continued to be ad ministered as they were, by Lord Melbourne in England, and Lord Ebrington in Ireland, to refrain from dis turbing by a single ruffle, that serenity of the popular tranquillity which now pervades this country.—(Loud cheers.) But the avowal of the sentiments of the Tory party in England, exhibiting in its vilest forms, the full flow of national hatred, made more palatable to the ear of prejudice by the admixture of religious antipathy ; these sentiments, universally expressed by the Tory party, have not been denied by their leaders, Peel or Wellington, who, although refraining themselves from the avowal of those malignant feelings, secretly hoped they would be sufficiently strong to elevate them to office.—(Cheers.) This prospect has convinced me that there is but one remedy before us, that of arousing the energies of the universal Irish people.—(Cheers.) I may be told of the Queen that she is favourable and just towards the Irish people—that she makes no im proper distinction between England and Ireland, or be tween one religionist and another, and I admit the fact —I boast of it ; to me it affords delight, and in the impulse of my allegiance to the Throne I rejoice at the circumstance ; and, while I pray for her prosperity, temporal and eternal, I readily convey to her Majesty the allegiance of the Irish people.—(Great cheering.) That is, of all the Irish people, with the exception of the m'se , able Tory factior.—(Hear, hear, and laugh ter.) I cannot control their disloyalty—l cannot reform their doings and their ways ;—but I speak of the Irish people, not of those who would call it loyalty to plunder, and allegiance if they were allowed to torture and torment—(Hear, hear, hear.) I speak not of that faction who blotted out the name of Ireland itself in the blood of the Irish people—l speak not of those mercenary traffickers who have recourse to every bad practice, in order to advance their political or private ends.—(Hear, hear.) Men who if they could get back Ernest of Hanover, would have a congenial monarch, and he would glory in having congenial sub jects.—(Hear, and laughter.) Ido feel the strength of the objections made to my agitation, in the impartial conduct of the Queen. Ido admit, that I may be told that Lord Melbourne means well to Ireland—l may have it pointed out that Lord Normanby's example has been strictly followed up by Lord Ebrington—and thank Heaven he has earned the hatred of the Orange crew. —(A laugh.) They flattered, they coaxed, and lauded him, as long as it was possible to deceive him ; but I thank my stars they have failed in their deceit, and it is to be rejoiced at, too, that he saw so soon into their designs. I look at the Mail—l wade through the muddy current of its unsavoury eloquence, and I find that after all the praise, they now abuse Lord Ebring ton as much as they ever did Lord Normanby.— ( Hear, hear.) This your pride and glory, Lord Ebrington ; you have been too honest not to escape their malignity ; and as you have met with their petty vituperation, I tell you, you should value the fact as a triumphant achievement. There is in favour of Ire land, the Queen, God bless her.—Jremendous cheer ing.) She is in favour of Ireland, because she is im partial towards all her subjects. The administration of Lord Melbourne and the Government of Lord Ebring ton are in our favour too—all these I admit ; but what I ask is this—l ask of every considerate man in the community —are we safe, even with all these proteotions ? May we repose in tranquillity, or live as we should wish ? Is the peaceful current of the Government to go on in its natural cou rse ? no ! no !! no ! ! ! a thousand times I say no. We cannot—(Loud cheer ing)—we cannot do it, my friends—(Hear)—and when I turn to England I find the Tory aristocracy there ready to trample on the precincts of the Crown, and slan der those around the Monarch, if they were not above their reach, and despised their petty malignity. I find traitors amongst the Tory aristocracy, and I find that treachery and treason are abroad amongst that party, and would fain elevate themselves by making the Monarch a slave, if she were not in possession of their designs, and if the true-born spirit of loyalty nurtured within the breasts of those mho love and value her were not still at the Monarch's command.—(Cheers.) I am here to vindi cate the prerogative of the Crown and its constitutional rights, as well as lam here for the people of every creed and class who respect it.—(Hear, and loud cheers.) Let no man say that lam accusing the Eng lish peerage without cause.—( Hear, hear.) Have they not taken the control of the double branch of legisla tion into their hands?—{Hear.) Did they respect, in their proceedings, the majority of the House of Commons that was opposed to them ?—(Hear, and no.) Did they obey the wishes of the majority of that House, when the franchise in England, a matter referring solely to the Commons, was brought forward?—(Hear.) Were the Commons or the Ministry able to work out the details of amending the state of the franchise in England in consequence of their acts ? In fact, was there a single matter which could in any way interfere with the abso lute power sought by the aristocracy of England, that the House of Lords did not intermeddle in ? Would they not, in a word, have taken absolute dominion over the entire legislation, were it not for the exertions of the people of Ireland, who were more particularly sought to be deprived of their rights, and against whom the most determined malignity is and has always been shown by the oligarchy of England ?—(Hear, and cheers.) A tyrannic monarchy, unchecked by the popular voice is, to be sure, very bad ; but an oligarchy is still worse, and for this reason—that you multiply the number of tyrants—you multiply those that feed and fatten on the State and on the people.—(Hear, hear.) The Lords wish to bring about an oligarchy in England, and, in fact, a revolution—for that end is actually in progress at this moment in that country ; and, so help me God, I am at this instant firmly convinced that, but for the spirit of freedom that breathes in the breasts of the people of Ireland, that revolution would have, ere this, broken out, and that the oligarchy of England would succeed in establishing an unlimited power over the people of England.—(Hear, hear.) But at all events this must be admitted, that they are making the experiment. It is not only the power which they have in the House of Lords, and which they refuse to submit or regulate by the will of the Queen or her Ministers—it is not only their direct power in the Lords, but the indirect power which they have obtained by property in various boroughs, and through bribery—committing the crime of bribery wherever it can be safely committed ; they intimidate and they corrupt ; they use every species of influence, and every act, to accumulate the number of their followers in the House of Commons, and accord ingly the majority of Ministers is but small—compara tively insignificant. There is no concealing or dis guising the fact—it cannot be kept frotit the eye of an intelligent man, or an? person who has statesman-like views, that this is the position of affairs—there is a Liberal and enlightened Queen, with servants ready to work out her views ; a House of Lords, the ene mies of every species of human liberty ; a House of Commons, with a minority almost equal to a majo rity, and subservient to the worst passions of the Lords. Well, but what is the plan they have adopted ? —(Hear, hear.) The people of England at large have no interest in being badly governed—in allowing an oli. garchy to be established. There is, to be sure, a pro pensity in England to submit to titles, and to be lured by the " gew-gaws" of hereditary nobility. It was one of those things that tarnished the English mind ; but, notwithstanding that, John Bull possessed common sense enough not to submit to despotism of a bad descrip tion. What has the oligarchy done ? What steps have they taken to get dominion over the Queen and her Government ? Why, they began the accursed crusade of religion. They have assailed Catholicity ; they have put forward Protestantism ; they have set up their bigotry in every part of the land, to traduce the reli gion of the people of Ireland, whom they know to be the real foes to the tyranny they would establish.—( Hear, hear.) Not having reason, not having argument, not having any justification of right at their side, they found it necessary to adopt some plan of delusion— and they knew that no plan ever succeeded in England so well as the " No Popery" cry. Have they not raised that cry ? Is there a man in Ireland, or in the British dominions, who does not know that they have raised it ? Have they not traduced the Ca tholic priesthood of Ireland ? Is there any word too foul in the language not to be applied by them to the hierarchy and priesthood of the Catholics of Ireland?— is there any slander too abominable not to be used against their religion ? They do not act thus to convert the Catholics—that is not the way to do so. If you knock a man down and call him a scoundrel, you arc not very likely to convince him that he is not as good a man as you are—on the contrary, the promotion of bad VENING EDITION and bigoted passions is the surest way not to make a convert. If I wanted a receipt to prevent any Protes tant friend from becoming a Catholic, I would find it in putting him into a passion, and calumniating his re;: e — rei ( o H re e , a a r c , t h in ea t r i:is and man loud ner t o e' c h o e n e chee rs. ) r)t the They hey people.do They do it to excite a big o t e d and political feeling in the minds of the people, that th e y ma y join in giving the oligarchy a trites s ,eh over th e Q ueen a nd her Ministers. not,Tilli,e I have made several eatracte from the London peess, and I have brought them here. It is a disgrecabie mole of addressing a public meeting to read extracts, but I carinot help reading one or two of them from the Times. --(Groans). In order to describe this newspaper as it should be described, I take a poetic kind of view of it, and I put my thoughts in six lines. Let me give you a specimen of my poetry (laughter) : Vile press, without a parallel, Organ fit for fiends of Hell— , . LIES thy trade—thy master-sense, BRIBED and BRUTAL INSOLENCE. From Puddledock to either sea, Toryism stinks of thee. (Cheers and laughter). The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to read passages which appeared in the Times :—The following is one as a specimen : 0 " It is, we repeat, notorious that a large section of ) the Romish priesthood. instead of behaving themselves like peaceful ministers of the Gospel, have been, in fact, ' since the year 1829, the most open, audacious, and un grateful—the most inveterate and irreclaimable de structors of the peace and the security of Ireland—the loudest trumpeters of disaffection against the British monarchy, defined and represented by the Protestant Constitution of 1668."—Dec. 21, 1839. If ever there was a gross and malignant calumesy upon the Catholic priesthood it was that—it was the vilest that could be set forth even by the Times, that miscreant or gan of the Tory party in England.---( Hear, hear.) it. was quite evident when the Tory press use such means as those to calumniate Roman Catholics that the Tory party would put them down if they could—(Cheers) — yes, they would crush them if they got into power, and when they made such virulent attacks as those through the medium of their press, they could not be supposed to act otherwise than crush the Roman Catholic priesthood and the Liberal party under their feet.—(Cries of " They shall not—never!") Did they ever hear of the Rev. Hugh Nl`Neile, who preached at Manchester the other day ?—(Hear, hear.) Was he a minister of peace like the Roman Catholic priesthood?—(Hear, and cries of " No, no.") No ;be certainly was not, for that man had the hardihood to say, some days ago, in his sermon at Manchester, that there were no such words as the " minister of peace" in the Scriptures.— (" Shame.") Oh !he shuddered at the hardihood of the wretch. He (Mr. M'Neile) preached in favour of Chartism, and of planting the sword in the land, but the Roman Catholic priesthood preached against it.— (Cheers.) The Chartists' language was, that he who had not a sword should sell his coat and buy one.— (Hear, hear,) That was the language of Mr. APNeill too.—(Hear.) He told the people of Manchester t.:lere could not be peace in England so long as the women Jezebel lived—(Groans)—and the loyal English cheered that expression, which he was proud to hear that meet ing groan at so heartily. The stupid men of the English newspapers did not know what woman he meant.— (Laughter.) S irely he could only mean one—{Hear, hear)—and that was " the Queen, God bless her." --- e , (Loud and long continued cheering.) If a Catholic s ' priest had uttered these words in reference to her Majesty, in any part of the globe, where, he would ask, would end the expression of well-merited indigna tion which the Protestant party of England would pour r out ?—( Hear, hear.) He adverted to another passage, and then continued :—The Catholic Clergy, preaching fire and bloodshed to the people of Ireland ! Was there ever, I ask you, a more atrocious calumny uttered against any body of men ?—(Cries of " No, no.") No ; they have not been guilty of such conduct—but still I they are thus brutahy assailed and misrepresented by a paper having the most extensive circulation in England; a paper that circulates most widely amongst the people of England of every class ; a paper that is to be found on the breakfast tables of every noble family in England ; a 1 paper that is to be found on the ladies' tea table, and ) from thence descending to the servants in the kitchen, i and is there read by them—a paper that is to be found in every public house, tavern, club house, and mansion, and it is an organ that has been made one of the greatest properties in England that utters these calumnies of the Irish priests.—(Hear, and cries of" Oh!") Why, atone of their meetings, some scoundrel, named Smith, and I proclaim him to be Irish, dared to assert that the Irish Catholics had knives to the throats of every Protes tant in this country. Is it, I ask you, for nothing this 1 is done ? is it done for only mere ordinary party pur poses ? have not the persons who use such language, some ulterior objects in view ? I tell you they have. They are the instruments of the oligarchy ; and those ' are the weapons they use to effect their base purposes. —(Hear, hear.) Oh, what a base set of miscreants they must be.—( Hear, hear.) We seldom see the Times in Ireland ; the Irish people have a natural re pugnance to it, and small blame to them : for from what I state of it here to-day, I am sure that every man and woman in Ireland will read it, and that those statements, foul and atrocious as they are, will receive an indig nant response from Cape Clear to the Giants' Causeway, and from Cunnetnara to the Hill of Howth.—(Cbeers.) And it is this party, headed by Wellington and' Peel, that would set themselves up against 'eight millions of the Queen's subjects ; for the Catholics of England, Ireland, and Scotland, art. more than eight millions— (Cries of " Oh, oh")—and those statesmen would indulge their base passion of avarice, and gratify their unworthy ambition, by endeavouring to obtain power by those dishonourable means. Oh ! shame on them, it was a disgrace to England, and enough to tarnish the English name—(Cheers)—and this puts me in mind of the lan guage used by that villain—that ruffian Bradshaw, at the meeting at Canterbury.—(Groans.) I will read one passage from it for you, and then be done with those vile statements and calumnies.—(Hear, hear.) Oh ! there is another extract I shall read in the first instance. He then read a resolution agreed to at a county meeting in Berwickshire, deprecating Catholic appointments, and then turned to Bradshaw. I perceive where that miscreant attacks the Queen, he introduces his treason by saying :—" I wish, in a very few words, to point out to you what I conceive to be the dangers and difficulties of our present position, and first I shall direct your attention to the fearful growth of Popery, allied as it is with atheism, infidelity, and the voluntary or anything-arian principle. (Hear.) Her Majesty's Ministers have recognised this medley as their rule of faith, as exemplified in their precious scheme of education without religion ; and I grieve to say that her Majesty herself has shown too much countenance to the enemies of the Protestant Church." He then audacious ly utters the following language :—" Brought up under the auspices of the Citizen King of the Belgians, the serf of France, and guided by his influence, the Queen thinks that if the monarchy lasts her time it is enough." He lies, the villain ! these are not the feelings of her Ma jesty, for she knows that the safety of her subjects con sists in the safety of the throne. That statement of Brad shaves is a foul lie, and if there was any chivalrous spirit present he would have struck the audacious ruffian to the earth.—(Cheers.) There were certainly English officers and parsons present who listened in silence to this foul language uttered against their Sei vereign, and that Sovereign, too, a young and interest ing woman—(Hear, hear)—but chivalrous feeling had no more hold on them than the greased foot would have on the slippery ice that covered a stagnant pool. —(Hear, hear.) There is a Member of Parliament for you! speaking that speech in the archiepiscopal city of England, and speaking it .before a number of par sons and English officers !—(Hear.) More shame to hem : the English uniform was never before disgraced until it was disgraced by tbem.—(Hear.) But those men cannot degrade the British soldiery ; for the 1 bravest army in the world cannot be disgraced by the ' dishonourable acts of a few persons.—(Cheers.) They would deprive you of the Queen's protection ; they would put down the people of Ireland. Will you submit to it ?—(Cries of " No.") Is not the time come for you eto speak, and say, we will not submit to it ? (Loud cheers, and cries of "We will not.") It is said they conceded rights to us in 1829, when they passed the Emancipation Act. I deny it. They stripped us of our rights in 1692 and 1693, and also in the reign of 1 Queen Anne ; they deprived us of our inherent rights i and liberties by the perpetration of the treaty of Lime rick. Our rights are not founded in the statute of 1829 at all, but on the common law rights taken from us by injustice, and afterwards extorted back by us in 1829 by peaceful violence.—(Cheers.) And having a regard for those rights, do they think we will allow those men to take them away again ?—(Cries of " We will not".) I am a man of peace, approaching old age— ? (Cries of "Long may you live ! ')—l havemy children grown up men and women, and grand-children to the , number of more than twenty. I have always declared that not one drop of blood should be shed in the assertion of our liberties. I have struggled through many contests firmly fixed in the; resolution ; but I tell you what it is, Irishmen, that I for one am now determined to die in the field rather than submit to Tory domination.—(Loud cheering.) Let others act as they like ; I ens determined not to submit to it, if I should stand alone, and I am certain I shall not, stand alone, for I will be supported by millions in that d e termination.—(Cheers.) I tell Wellington that if the hateful Tory faction are to be forced upon Ireland we will not have a petite guerre, as he calls it, but he and they will have to contend against the united population of Ireland.—(Cheers.) I tell Peel that that constitutional authority . does not exist which can filch from us those constitutional libel.. i tics which belong to us as well as to him and his party. No ; we are as ore man resolved to preserve them, and to prevent his return, and that of the faction he heads, into power. But to avoid such infliction, we must speak up.—(Cheers.) Need I remind you of the last sth of November, which has been called Cecil's holiday, because Cecil, with fifteen or seventeen others, managed the entire plot ? That passage of history, so well understood, was taken advaqtage of; to send men of peace, as they called them, into the pulpits, throughout England. \Vas it to preach the prin ciples of charity and peace ? No, but to create