The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-29 00:00:00

ebtrb lattton THE FUNDS-(CI BRITISH ,OSING PRICES). FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons.... .. 974 Ditto Old Annuities — 3-j per Cent. Red....... 1021 Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Ceat New 5 per Gent. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11..... 67 pm Jan. IWO Oct. 1859 Jan. 11380 ...... FOREIGN FUNDS. A *Amu, B per cent !Portuguese, 5 per cent. 74 lit!gian,s per cent — ; Ditto, Now Ditto Brazilian 80nd5........ 78 Prussian, 5 per cent — B ilnos Ayres 6 per cent 321 !Russian, 5 per cent — Cdilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic ..... .. .... (..:4.)mliian, 6 per cent l2 (Spanish, 5 per sent 23 Ditto 1824 — Ditto, 3 per cent.......... 311 Orem )londs, 6 per cent 111 Ditto, Deferred.... ... Danish, 3 per :eat French, 5 per cent —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — t Exchange ...... .... —f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent 341 French, 3 per cent. —L —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 , Dutch, 21 per rent. 5 7 Peruvian. 1825,6 per et. IDitto, 5 per cent.... 1011 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ... ...... 62 Ditto Thirds (25 paid) Ditto Eighths (I/ 10s paid) ... .. 4 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (I00pd) 70 Eastern Counties (23 paid)........... ...:. l O ll • Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (21 p) 3 Great Western (75 paid) ••• Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) Ditto Quarter Sharos ( 4 paid) 7 - London and Brighton (50 pa d) . 46 London and Birmingham ( paid) ..... ... 246 Ditto New Thirds ( 2 paid) .... ... 421 London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 771 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 16g Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .. 110 Manchester and Birmingham (40 part) 391 Midland Counties Rai way (IOJ paid) , Ditto Fifths ( 2 paid) 2l Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .. . Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 351 Ditto Scrip (25 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) .. .. 124 Ditto New Shares (20 paid) EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Baron Ito LFE and a Como mon Jury.) HARVEY V. POCOCK AND OTHERS. Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Hill conducted the case for the defendants. This was an action to recover compensation, by reason of a trespass alleged to have been committed by the defendant and others on the premises of the plaintiff, a master weaver, carrying on business in Nova Scotia-gardens, Bethnal-green. The defndants, who acted under a power of attorney of Lady Isabella Brydges and W. 0. Hammond, being unable to ob tain the amount of a quarter's rent, distrained on several looms and wheels at work iu the plaintiff's house, which he (the plaintiff) contended was an illegal proceeding, there being other goods on the premises to satisfy the demand, the law exempting implements of trade in ' use from distraint. He also contended that his business had sustained serious injury by the seizure; also, that the defendant never applied for the rent, and was not acting for the real owner of the house, the original owner being dead, and the question of ownership, a subject of con siderable litigation. The case was tried during last Hilary Term, when the preceding facts were adduced, and a verdict found for 81. 15s. 6d. in favour of the plaintiff, the present trial being the result of an application for a new trial on the ground that additional and conclusive evidence relative to the ownership had been obtained.—Verdict for the plaintiff, Damages 40s. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) LEE V. TREAD. In this case, of which the substantial facts have not yet come before the Court, Mr. Sergeant Shee, for the plaintiff, ob tained a rule nisi to enter an appearance for the defendant, and to proceed, dating the service of the writ of summons on the 13th of December last. The rule was obtained upon the affidavits of the plaintiff's attorney, and two other persons, an omnibus time-keeper, and a person described as a licensed victualler, who deposed that, on the 13th of December, the victualler pointed out the defendant in Regent-street to tlii; time-keeper, who put' the copy of the writ, and with it, . through mistake, the original document, into the hand of Mr. Thead. Whereupon, one .of the deponents went up to that gentleman and requested him to return the writ which had been served upon him uninten tionally. Mr. Thead refused. The object of the rule was to dispense with the production of that paper. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL', now showed cause against the rule, upon the affidavit of the defendant, that when the al leged service was made upon him, he was in company with some frierids, and was so much annoyed at being accosted in the street by persons of such mean appearance as the depotrents, , • that he did not understand the object of their proceeding, and thrust the papers hastily in his pocket with out-considering what their nature might be. He lost them out of his pocket before he reached home, and knew nothing of the action commenced against him until he received notice of the present rule. The Court ordered the nile to be discharged upon the defendant's consenting to enter an appearance now. The costs of this application to stand as costs in the cause. SPIRIT of the" PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The case of the prosecution termi nated on Friday afternoon. As if an incubus had been suddenly removed from the physical and mental faculties of the Judges—who in this sympa thised with every individual in the Court—they cordially' assented to an !application by Mr. Moore, one of the counsel for the defence, and adjourned the Court until the following morning. Dulness—to whose influence the powers of the Judges, the jury, the bar, and the audience, had gradually yielded themselves while the voluminous documents were read by the Clerk of the Crown—now ceased to be felt. Mr. Shell was to open the defence. The opening speech of the Attorney-General, it will be remembered, was to develope revelations of secret treasons, privy conspiracies, and incipient insurrec tion. It was therefore looked forward to by the public with anxious expectation. To hear this dis closure of plots and treasons was an object not merely of curiosity, but of patriotic desire to those who believed that any such conspiracy existed; while others, more prudent, who regarded those re ports as mere moonshine, were induced to seek ad mission to the Court for the purpose of witnessing . an explosion of the statements by which the alarmists had disturbed the public mind in Ireland. But even this combination of motives' to gain admission within the Court to hear the Attorney-General was feeble in its operation upon the public mind when compared with the excitement in Dublin on Saturday morning. The Court was crowded to suffocation. Ladies of the highest rank and fashon occupied the places to which the favour of the Judges and the courtesy of the High Sheriff had obtained them an introduction before the opening of the Court. The correspondents of the different London journals agree in describing the pressure as extreme, and the interest manifested by persons of all grades was beyond all precedent. If a judgment may be safely formed of its character by the perusal of a newspaper report—which, however excellent, must be imperfect—Mr. Sheil's speech was worthy of the great occasion on which it was delivered. .Under ordinary circumstances, however completely an advocate may identify himself with his client, he can feel but comps ratively little interest in the cause itself. In the present instance, the advocate, the client, and the cause, were not merely linked together by professional ties, they were united by personal and political sympathies through the long period of the Catholic Emancipation struggle. What ever was essential to elevate the advocate to the height of the great argument he had engaged to discuss, was supplied to, and was felt by, Mr. Shell. The conduct which was charged against his client as a crime, he undertook to vindicate ; and he did so with an eloquence in which the force of demonstration carried conviction to the mind, • while the enthusiastic appeals of the orator held captive the generous feelings of the heart, and at length enlisted them on the side of the defen dants. The Government was denounced for con duct which—if the charges alleged in the indict ment were founded in truth —was, either criminal neglect or fatuous indifference :—The unbroken peaceableness of the meetings—the reiterated exhor tations of Mr. O'Connell to the people to respect the law and its functionaries—his assurance that if a single unattended magistrate appeared at any one cif the meetings to disperse the assembly, it would spon taneously disperse—and the immediate counter mand of the intended Clontarf meeting so soon as the proclamation for prohibiting its taking place was issued by the Privy Council—these facts and circumstances were urged by Mr. Sheil with power ful effect, on the consideration of the jury. The yet unextinguished spirit of religious proscription which pervades Ireland, supplied Mr. Sheil with one of those fervid appeals for which he is unequalled in effect, and which on this occasion produced an irre pressible burst of enthusiastic feeling from every part of the Court. To the alleged seditious ten dency of passages set forth in the indict ment from O'Connell's speeches, Mr. Sheil opposed passages equally, it' not more, violent from those of the Right w ll h o o . i :Frederick Shaw, one of the Privy Councillors issued the proclamation against the Clontarf meeting, other gentlemen connected with these prosecii;ions a • n "from pee those of Earl Charleville, and several other Toryi atand Com moners. The Earl of Charleville, in 1837,"great Protestant meeting" held at the Mansion -ileus a , said— " Well, gentlemen, you have a rebellious Parliament; you have a Lord-Lieutenant, the slave and minion of a rebellious Parliament." Other personages of the Tory party who distinguished themselves by violent vituperation against the Queen, her Ministers, and the Parliament, were also referred to by Mr. Shell. From the spoken language, Mr. Sheil proceeded to the newspaper press of the Tory party, and gave some choice specimens of the manner in which those organs of exclusive loyalty expressed themselves when their friends were on the shady side of the Speaker's chair. To the passages charging conspiracy on the leaders of the Association, we can only allude in general terms. Poignant ridicule, and .bitter satire, relieved the elrious arguments and forcible appeals by which the folly of the charge was made manifest. The ex pulsion from the jury-panel of every Roman Catholic, and other instances of reproach and insult to the great majority of the Irish nation on account of their creed, were touched upon by Mr. Sheil . ; but so as to avoid offending the most sensitive of the Pro testant party; while his forbearance must have pro duoed on the reflective a more powerful and abiding effect than if he had employed the most furious invec- tives. STANDARD.—Another act of the Irish State trials (it is hard to determine in numerical order the several stages of this tedious drama) opened on Saturday with the first speech in defence. The speech was delivered by the Right Honourable Richard Shell, and occupied rather more than five hours in the delivery. Many considerations render it difficult to speak with freedom of this address, and yet we are unwilling to pass unno ticed what appears to us the most able effort of an able man, and of one for whom we have always entertained a high respect. The speech of Satur day seems to us not only Mr. Shell's best, but much the best speech of the Grattan school of eloquence ever delivered by any disciple of that school, or by its founder. The school is, no doubt, a bad one, but Mr. Shell's talents, we will say , his genius, has raised him above its defects, in the speech which we present this day. To say that the speech does not even slightly touch the merits of his client's case would be, perhaps, to say that the case is one which will not bear handling; and to compare it with the calm, sedate, and copious, but concentrated, urgent, and masterly statement of the Attorney-General would be, in truth, to place in invidious contrast the respec tive cases of the Crown and the traversers. At present, we must not pretend to say which of the two speeches ought to be the more successful, in that which is the proper object of eloquence — the determination of the judgment of the third party —the jury and the public. Upon the line of argu ment taken by Mr. Shell, as well as upon some topics " beyond the record," we may, perhaps, remark with out transgressing the limits which forbid the least ap proach to an anticipation of the verdict. A great part of the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech is directed against the law of conspiracy—such an attack may be judicious in the advocate of persons charged with the offence, as inspiring in the jury a wish to acquit, if possible • but the law is the law, and while it remains the o fficers of the Government must vin dicate its authority when very signally violated, and sworn jurors must respect it, as they shall answer to the most solemn of all tribunals. The merits of any law are not to be canvassed or decided upon in an) , Court but the High Court of Parliament. This is our reason for not following Mr. Sheil upon this point, but we think that we have some time since satisfied our readers, that without some law restraining political conspiracy, civil Govern ment cannot be long maintained in any free country. Mr. Sheil also attempted to justify the Repeal As sociation—its administration, its institutions, its affiliated assemblies, its elaborate and wide-spread organisation, by the analogy of other societies and meetings ; societies, perhaps, as well organised, if not as extensive ; meetings as numerous in some instances as those held. in obedience to Mr. O'Connelr s fir mans. The analogy is, however, fallacious in this— Mr. Sheil was not able to bring the things compared under a common category, which constitutes the whole force of analogical reasoning. And even were this possible, acts, all innocent by themselves, may be in =orals, as well as in law, rendered criminal by the vinculum of a common bad purpose. When, therefore, we are told of an organisation un connected with any formidable meetings in one place, and ex tempore meetings, calculated to in spire terror, in another, of violent speeches of isolated individuals here, and of, violent writing in independent newspapers there, we may admit the propriety of conniving at them separately without conceeing that all of them united, concerted, and combined, ought to enjoy all impu nity. It is the collected evil that constitutes a public danger and indicates an evil purpose. Mr. Shell's ar gument, in this respect, reminds one of the well known lines of Pope " I cough like Horace, and though lean am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high; Such Ovid's nose, and, Sir, you have an eye ; Go on, obliging friend, and let me see All that disgraced my betters meet in me." But, as we have intimated, it is not merely in being collected, as it were, sparsim, that the ma terial of Mr. Sheil's analogy is wholly inapplicable Its several parts do not come under the same category with the Repeal Association. The avowed object of that association is to , obtain by some means a change in the laws and constitution of the country, notwithstanding manifest proof that such a change cannot be effected without violence offered to the wishes of the legisla ture, if not without actual war. The object of the Orange institution, for example, was not to procure a change in the law and the constitution, but to defend both, and to defend them by lawful means. Nov this surely makes all the difference in the world between the Reprialers and the Orangemen—as much difference as exists hotw s-n the mob which makes a disturb ane,,, to aid the, unlawful purpose of a street practitioner, a i lhe crowd of honest persons who: join in pursuit - of the detected delinquent. The Repealers are against the law—the Orangemen were for the law ; and the law must there fore regard them in very differents aspects. There is alao as between these two classes one very striking illustration of their opposite relations to the law, which Mr. Sheil cannot forget. The Orange men dissolved their society at the very first intima tion of a wish on the part of the Legislature. Has he Repeal Association shown equal promptitude of obedience ? Parliament has more than once intimated its desire. The Queen's speech and the answering ad dresses of the two Houses are now nearly half a year old ; but, if we are not mistaken, the Repeal Asso ciation still holds its sittings. So much for the de fence from analogy. Mr. Shell complains, in a suc cession of brilliant periods, that the traversers have been entrapped by the Crown prosecutor's delay. But this, surely, is unjust. Early in the summer the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel gave notice of their resolved purpose to put down the repeal agitation. A like declaration was con tained in the Queen's Speech ; but these declarations were so little heeded, that half a dozen monster meet ings were held in the month succeeding the last of them, and it was not until the nuisance actually in vaded the seat of Government—until it - was threatened to traverse the streets of the metropolis of Ireland by disciplined and regimented bands of the repeal cavalry—that a Government, reluctant to resort to harsh measures, was compelled to make its stand ; this, if we remember rightly, was about six weeks after the delivery of the Queen's Speeoh. Thus, the Repealers had warning, repeated warning—and they had time, full time, to profit by that warning—though they declined doing so ; and it is hardly worthy of Mr. Sheil, even as an advocate, to speak of their being in such circumstances entrapped. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EIENING, JANUARY 29, 1844. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JAie. 26.—We have no change to report in the Foreign Wool trade this week. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JAN. 26.—Sales of combing wools have been brisk this week, and a further ad vance in price has been realised, though not equal to the rates which the staplers have been compelled to give in the country. There is more doing in clothing wools, and at better prices than of late ; but they are still considerably lower in proportion than fleeces and combing. sorts. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JAN. 26.—Stocks in most kinds both of long and short wools have been moderately re plenished this week, and sales have been about equally ex tensive, at prices somewhat further improved upon the last week's prices. LEEDS.—We scarcely ever witnessed so thin an attend ance of manufacturers at our Cloth Halls as was the case the two last market days ; this shows that many of them are delivering goods to order, and that the stocks of goods in the hands of the manufacturers is much lighter than usual. The demand still continues to be principally for low cloths for shipping, but fine and middle qualities of cloth continue dull of sale. Tweeds have been in pretty brisk demand both for the home and foreign trade. Prices remain the same as for some time past. Business is improving in the warehouses, with a fair prospect of a good demand for the spring. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, :JAN. 25.—There is to day an evident disposition on the part of the 'buyers to ope rate more extensively, and they assent to give an advance for pieces ; still the improving price is not corresponding with the cost of production ; but as the season is now ap proaching when au active business is usually done, it inspires confidence in the manufacturer either to obtain proportionate advances, or decline sales. Yarns are very ready sale, and the manufacturers evince a great desire to buy for distant delivery ; the advances having . been so numerous, they are anxious to avoid any further increase in prices, which the improved value of wool threatens. There is still a large business doing in all kinds of wool, and at further improved prices, and the staplers state, that wool is now commanding higher prices in the country . than it has been sold for he r e : and unless corresponding prices can be realised, it will tend to check the supply. AIANCIIESTER, THURSDAY EVE.NLNO.—The cloth market has been very inanimate this week, and prices very irregular, arising out of ' the great advance in the staple. With the exception of printing cloth, there are no descriptions which command a corresponding advance with that on cotton ; a slight rise, however, on all kinds must be noted. There is less doing in twist this week, no doubt from similar causes : a steady market is not anticipated for a week or two, by which time perhaps it will be seen whether speculators can maintain the late advance on cotton.—Leeds Mercury. II ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The meeting on Wednesday evening was engaged in hearing and discussing three papers entitled-1. "A few remarks on the inhabitants of the Pyrenees, by Mr. W. H. Masterson." 2. " A comparative view of the human pelvis in the different races of mankind, by Sir Augustus Francis de Ritgen, Professor of Obstetrics at Giessen?' 3. " On the Mongols, by Mr. Bayle St. John." The inhabitants of Vernet des Barns, in the Eastern Py renees, are classed by Mr. Masterson as " longheads," for a very few round heads are to be found amongst them. They are an industrious and moral people, and differ widely from the Basques. They are of short stature, and exceedingly swarthy complexion. Inter marriage of near relations is very frequent, and with no unfavourable results. In their language there are many words of Moorish origin, which would show a descent rom the Moors who took refuge in these mountains after the terrible defeat they suffered from Charles Martel. Sir Augustus Francis de Ritgen's paper related to the form of the pellls, as furnishing ethnological criteria. After a rapid glance at the modifications of the pelvis in fishes, rept;les, birds, and mammalia, the Learned Professor noticed five modifications of this part of the skeleton as recognisable in the human sub ject, and advanced the ingenious speculation that whilst that part of the pelvis which is above the brim may be compared to the skull, and bearing some relation to it, the inferior portion may be compared to the face—the seat of the senses. Thus, in the elephant, as in the human being, the large intellectual organ is accompanied with a large upper part of the pelvis, whilst in the libidi nous monkey the lower portion is strikingly large. The cranium has so generally been taken as the sole or chief point of national distinction, that these suggestions must be regarded as an object of almost novel interest. The paper of Mr. Gayle St. John was of much greater length than the two preceding, and was chiefly confined to the Mongols Proper, as distinguished from that group of mankind designated by Blumenbach as the Mon golian variety, and which comprises many nations be sides those which formed the subject of the paper. These may be characterised as the nation which left their native seat, under conduct of Ghengis Khan, and exer cised a temporary sway over a large portion of the East. Their physical characters, the modification which their religion and habits received from the natives whom they subdued, their present comparatively limited ter ritory, its capabilities for the maintenance of a large population under a different social system, and many other points, were alluded to in the paper, which ex hibited much careful research and extensive reading, and was well worthy the son of the justly-admired author of the "Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece." Dr. Hodgkin presided, and an animated discussion, in which the Baron de Bode took a leading part, engaged the attention of the meeting until a late hour. - UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE OXFORD, JAN. 27.—Mr. C. F. Trower, Fellow of Exe ter College, having resigned the Vinerian Scholarship, a Convocation will be holden on Wednesday, the 31st inst. to fill the vacancy; there are at present three can didates for this scholarship. The Reader in Experimental Philosophy (the Rev. R. Walker) will commence a course of lectures on Hydro statics and Pneumatics on Wednesday, the 31st inst., at one o'clock, at the Clarendon, and continue them on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, until completed. Mr. Walker has just added to his splendid philosophical apparatus an hydro-electrical machine. The Camden Professor of Ancient History (the Rev. Dr. Cardwell) will begin a course of lectures on Athens, in the time of Socrates, on Tuesday next, at one o'clock. The Savillian Professor of Geometry (the Rev. B. Powell) will commence a course of Elementary and Il lustrative Lectures on Tuesday, the 30th inst., at one o'clock, at his house in New College-lane. The Regius Professor of Modern History (the Rev. Dr. Cramer) will resume his lectures on Philippe de Comines, on Thursday, Feb. 1, at two o'clock, and con tinue them on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the term. Her Majesty the Queen has presented the Rev. J. C. Young, late of Worcester College, to the Rectory of Southwick, Sussex—value 2071 per annum. The Rev. J. W. Twist, late of Queen's College, has been appointed clerk in orders of the parish church of Leeds, Yorkshire. The Rev. T.'l'. Carter, late of Christ Church, has been presented to the rectory of Clewer, Berkshire—value 4601. per annum. The next meeting of the Ashmolean Society will be on Monday evening, Feb. 5. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 27.—Smith's prizes were yesterday awarded as follows :—First, George Wergman Hemming, R.A. (Senior Wrangler), St. John's College. Second— William Bonner Hopkins, B.A. (Second Wrangler), Caius College. THE MATHEMATICAL TRIPOS.—The following Wrang lers were formerly students of King's College, London— Stephen, 4th Wrangler, St. John's College ; Wilkinson, 12th Wrangler, Christ's College ; Woodhouse, 15th Wrangler, Caius College s • Gutch, 19th Wrangler, Sid ney College ; Fenn, 33d Wrangler, Trinity College ; Edwards, 34th Wrangler, Trinity College. The Margaret Professor of Divinity's lectures on the Early Fathers, commence on Friday, the 3d of February, at one o'clock, at the Pitt Press. Wednesdays and Fri flays during term. 'The Regius Professor of Divinity will deliver a course of lectures in the Sophs' school on Tuesdays and Thurs days, at twelve o'clock, commencing on Tuesday, the 13th day of February. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.—Henry Albert Goodwin, 8.A., has just been elected a Fellow of this Society. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAT.—Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert took their customary morning walk. The Royal Family were taken their usual airings. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to enjoy the sport of shooting in the Royal Preserves, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Captain Meynell, Mr. G. E. Anson, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Lady Fanny Howard joined the Royal dinner circle at the Castle yesterday evening. This morning her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal Suite, and the Household, attended Divine service in the private chapel of the Castle. The Rev. Lord Wriothesly Russell and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. The Court, it is expected, will leave the Castle for town on Wednesday next, and her Majesty is expected to hold a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Barone:a Ahlofoldt r raturn.l or , Friday night to her re sidence at Kew. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, transacteel bu siness at the Foreign-office, on Saturday. The Commission for improving the Metropolis, and pro viding increased facilities of communication within it, had a meeting on Wednesday, at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners present were, the Earl of Lincoln, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lord Mayor, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Alderman Humphery, Mr. H. T. Hope, Mr. A. Milne, the Hon. Charles Gore, Sir Robert Smirke, and Mr. Charles Ba Therry. Attorney-General had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Granville Somerset transacted business at the Home office, on Saturday. Mr. Davis had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office, on Saturday. Sir Robert and Lady Peel will have a grand dinner party on Saturday, the 10th of February, at their residence in Whitehall-gardens, to which the principal Foreign Ambas sadors and Ministers, and their Ladies, and several of the Cabinet Ministers, have been invited. Sir Frederick Trench transacted business on Saturday, at the Treasury. Sir James Graham had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. TWO SUPPLEMENTS GRATIS, WITH THE " DISPATCH." GREAT NATIONAL TRIAL AT DUBLIN. The immense size of THE WEEKLY DISPATCH has, hitherto, enabled its Proprietors on all occasions to present a copious, and, at the same time, interesting account of the events of each week. It is, however, now found utterly impossible to give anything like a faithful report of the Trial of Mr. O'Con nell and his repeal associates, without excluding a great mass of interesting domestic and foreign intelligence ; the Proprietors, therefore, feel that their journal, which has been for years, and is new, honoured with more patronage than any other in ex istence, should be, in all respects, complete ; and, with that view, they intend to insert a summary of the proceedings during the proves, of the trial in their usual columns, and present to their friends and subscribers TWO SUPPLEMENTS, GRATIS. One of these Supplements will be published on the Sunday suc ceeding the delivery of the Verdict, and will contain the Speeches of Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Sheil, Sir C. O'Loghlin, the Attorney- General, andother leading Counsel ; together with the Summing itp of the Judge, the Verdict of the Jury, and other matters of im portance that may arise up to the latest hour, for which the services of several short-hand writers of eminence have been specially engaged. The second Supplement (also of the full size of THE WEEKLY DISPATCH) will, in fact, form the early portion of the trial, and embrace the pro ceedings of the commencement to that stage at which the other begins; so that every subscriber to THE WEEKLY DISPATCH will be in possession of a complete and faithful report of this great national trial—a trial which most become a matter of history, and be regarded as an event of no ordinary importance in after time. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MR. O'CONNELL will precede the account of the Trial, which will be written by a gentleman intimately ac quainted with the " great Agitator," and consequently one who has treasured up many reminiscences that will render the Bio graphy a paper of general and absorbing interest. The Two Supplements, forming Ninety-six Columns, will be printed uniformly with THE DISPATCH, and contain a quantity of matter equal to at least an octavo volume of 500 Paf r es. HE DISPATCH is supplied by every Newsvender in London, and by the various Booksellers and News Agents in the country, to whom bills for circulation will be forwarded, with the name and address attached, on receiving a letter to that effect, directed to Mr. Wood, Dispatch-office, 139, Fleet street, where orders'are also received. Tun FUNDS.—A. new feature, indicative of the presumed determination of her Majesty's Government to reduce the interest upon the Three-and•a-Half per Cent. Annuities is, that the brokers for the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund have been directed to commence purchases in the Three per Cents. of 1726. To the extent of about 30,000/. investments in this old security have been made in the course of the present week, by which a saving of one-half per cent. has been effected. The amount of this Stock at present in circulation is, we be lieve, extremely small, and is held, if our information be correct, chiefly by the Directors' of the Bank of England. It may be of interest, perhaps, to- notice briefly that, at the accession of George IT., in 1727, a year, therefore, after the an nuities named bear date, the public debt amounted to rather over 52,000,000/. sterling ; but, what with conversions and amalga mations, it canhardly be considered that the Stock now in exist ence, bearing the especial date of 1726, can amount to anything like a tenth of the sum just quoted. The Government brokers have been again large purchasers on account of the savings' banks, and the Three per Cents. are still selected. The Re duced Three per Cent. Annuities have reached within le of par, the highest point, we believe, that has been attained for at least half a century. After so extensive a rise as that which has occurred in Bank Stock, and very recently too, of little short of 14 per cent., a reaction was calculated upon as a cer tainty, but upon the highest point attained the decline has only been 2 per cent.— Observer. The Lyceum or English Opera-house opens this evening, under the management of Air. Parrat. Mr. Peaks, the popular dramatist, however, is understood to be the real lessee. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley have been engaged. Mr. Tuckett (formerly Captain Tuckett, known from his quarrels with Lord Cardigan) is also engaged, and will perform the part of Falstaff, in Shakspeare's Henry IV. Other actors of well-known merit are also engaged. We understand that the lonian Bank, flee chief es tablishment of which is in London, and which has been carry ing on a steady business for the last four years, greatly to the promotion of commerce in the Greek islands, has just obtained a charter from the British Government in aillition to that pre- Tinnily received from the lonian Government. IRELAND. THE STATE TRIALS. ELEVENTH DAY. procure admission were present. We observed Mr. William S. O'Brien, M.P., and several other influential and popular gentlemen in the gallery. When the judges had taken their seats the most death-like silence pre vailed, and every eye was turned in the direction of the great orator, and when he rose to address the jury we have never witnessed a more impressive or solemn scene. The Right Hon. Gentleman then proceeded as follows: —May it please your Lordships and Gentlemen of the Jury, I am Counsel for Mr. John O'Connell. The im portance of this case is not susceptible of exaggeration, and I do not speak in the language of hyperbole when I say that the attention of the empire is directed to the spot in which we are assembled. How great is the trust reposed in you—how great is the task I have undertaken to perform ? Conscious of its magnitude, I have risen to address you, not unmoved, but undismayed indeed ; for at this moment how many incidents of my own political life come back upon me, when I look upon my great political benefactor, my deliverer, and my friend ; but of the emotion by which I acknowledge myself to be profoundly stirred, although I will not permit myself to be subdued by it, solicitude forms no part. I have great reliance upon you—upon the ascendancy of principle over prejudice in your minds ; and I am not without reliance upon myself. I do not speak in the language of vain-glorious self-complacency when I say this. I know that I am surrounded by men infinitely my superiors in every forensic, and in almost every in tellectual, qualification. My confidence is derived not from any overweening estimate of my own faculties, but from a thorough conviction of the innocence of my client. I know, and I appear in some part not only as an advocate but a witness berore you, I know him to be innocent of the misdeeds laid to his charge. The same blood flows through their veins—the same feelings cir culate through their hearts. The son and the father are in all political regards the same, and with the father I have toiled in no dishonourable companionship for more than half my life in that great work, which it is his chief praise that it was conceived in the spirit of peace—in the spirit of peace it was carried out—and that in the spirit of peace it was brought by him to its glorious consummation. I am acquainted with every feature of his character,• with his thoughts, hopes, fears, aspirations. I have—if I may venture so to say —a full cognizance of every pulsation of his heart. I know—l am sure as that I am a living man—that from the sanguinary misdeeds imputed to him, he shrinks with abhorrence. It is this persuasion —profound, impassioned—and I trust that it will prove contagious—which will sustain me in the midst of the exhaustion incidental to this lengthened trial ; will en able me to overcome the illness under which I am this moment labouring ; will raise me to the height of this great argument, and lift me to a level with the lofty topics which I shall have occasion to treat in resisting a prosecution, to which, in the annals of criminal jurisprudence in this country no parallel can be found. Gentlemen, the Attorney-General, in a state ment of eleven or twelve hours' duration, read a long series of extracts from speeches and publications, ex tending over a period of nearly nine months. At the termination of every passage which was cited by him, he gave utterance to expressions of strong resentment against the men by whom sentiments so noxious were circulated, in language so envenomed. If, gentlemen of the jury, his anger was not simulated ; if his indignation was not merely official ; if he spoke as he felt, how does it come to pass that no single step was ever taken by him for the pur pose of arresting the progress of an evil represented by him to be so calamitous? He toldyou that the country was traversed by incendiaries who set fire to the passions of the people ; the whole fabric of society, according to the Attorney-General, has been a blaze for the last nine months ; wherefore then did he stand with folded arms to gaze at the conflagration ? Where were the Castle fire-en gines—where was the indictment—and of the ex-officio information, what had become ? Is there not too much (FROM OUR OWN REPORTERS.) (From our Third Edition of Saturday.) DUBLIN, FRIDAY, JAN. 26. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. At the sitting of the Court this morning, Mr. M'DoNonou applied on behalf of an officer of police, named Co=Lotion, stationed at Athlone, for a cri minal information against two persons, named JEssor and O'BRIEN, for sending him a challenge, and provoking him to commit a breach of the peace. It appeared that COLCLOUGU called a Mr. GARDINER, who was a friend of JESSOP, "a five-shilling doctor and a Radical;" and on being called upon for an explanation, on the part of Mr. GARDINER, he denied having used some of the ex pressions attributed to him. Upon this Mr. JESSOP who conveyed the words to Mr. GARDINER, sent him a challenge by Mr. O'BRIEN, which occasioned the present application. The Court granted a rule nisi. THE STATE TRIALS. The foregoing case being disposed of, the Court proceeded with the State trials. The business of the day, like that of yesterday, consisted exclusively of reports of meetings and articles from the Freeman's Journal, the Pilot, and the Nation newspa pers. It was a dull, monotonous, and un interesting day's proceedings. Mr. VERNON of the Stamp-office, and Mr. BOURNE, the Deputy Clerk of the Crown, read alternately the various newspapers pointed 'out to them. One of the papers handed in was the Nation of the 11th of April, containing the spirit-stirring ode, " The Memory of the Dead." Mr. VERNON was directed to read the words of the song, which he did in a very distinct and emphatic manner. When he came to the concluding portion— " But true men be you men, Like those 9f ninety-eight," he was observed to look Very significantly at the jury, which they will interpret for themselves. Mr. Justice BURTON took his seat with his brOther Judges this morning, for the first time after his in disposition. The reading of the documents having been con cluded, a policeman was called to prove the proceed ings of the Arbitration Court at Blackrock, and pre cisely at a quarter past three o'clock the ATTORNEY GENERAL rose, and stated that the case for the Crown had concluded. After a short pause Mr. MooRE addressed the Court, and begged an adjournment till to-morrow, when Mr. SHELL will open on the part of the tra versers. The application was immediately granted, and the Court rose. THE QUEEN V. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND OTHERS. The Court sat this morning at ten o'clock, and we are happy to say that Mr. Justice Burton is so far recovered from his recent attack of illness as to be enabled to take his seat on the bench with the other members of the Court. Before the business of the day commenced, Mr. M'Do nough said he had (with the permission of the Attorney-Ge neral), a short application to make to the Court on behalf of Colclough v. John T. Jessop and Edward O'Brien. The Learned Counsel said he appeared then on behalf of Mr. Colclough, who was an officer of police in the town of Athlone, and who sought for a criminal information against the defendants for having written a letter to Kra with the view of provoking him to fight a duel, and for having posted him in the town of Athlone as a liar, a coward, &c. The facts are shortly these :—The plaintiff and Mr. Jessop were acquainted for some time, and, on Dec. 29 the latter called on plaintiff, when a conversation took place rela tive to Doctor Gardiner, when plaintiff said, " Oh, he is a five-shilling doctor;" this was said in jocularity, and nothing more was heard about it until six days after, • when Dr. Gar diner's brother called on Mr. Colclough, who explained, and apologised for the expression. Subsequently, on the 11th of January, the defendants walked the streets, in order to horsewhip plaintiff; but, failing to meet him, a hostile letter was written to him, and, on the 13th of January, the de fendants posted a placard on the walls of Athlone, calling plaintiff a coward and a liar. He was proceeding to read the placard, when The Chief Justice said—That is quite sufficient—take a conditional order. Mr. Smyley handed in the Freeman's Journal of the 4th of April, which was proved by Mr. Vernon. Turn to the first column, third page, at the top. Mr. Bourne then read the proceedings at the weekly meet ing of the Association, at which John Reich, Esq., took the chair. Mr. Smyley—Gl to the s,evond column and read what Mr. Steele said. Clerk of the Crown--" r. Steele, immediately after Mr. O'Connell t- clowis * 'Ward, ana as a repeal warden of London, pr , -;cil:ed him with an address from the repeal wardens of London on the occasion of the triumphant result of the debate in the Corporation on the repeal question, and concluded amid loud applause by moving that the address be inserted on the minutes. Town Councillor White seconded the motion, which was carried amidst acclamation. Mr. O'Connell then moved that his son Maurice, having declared himself ready to accept the office of Inspector of Repeal Wardens for Munster, be appointed to that office, which motion was put and carried. Mr. Duffy handed in 21. from Nevrtownlimavady , and moved the admission of Messrs. Coghlan and men as members." Mr. Smyley—Now go to the fifth column, and you'll see a letter ; read it. The Clerk of the Crown—" Mr. Ray read the follow ing letter from General Clooney. The letter contained a remittance 61., 51. of which was the * subscription of one hundred associates, and 11. the personal subscription of General Clooney. Mr. O'Connell moved the General's letter be inserted on the minutes, and that the thanks of the Association be given to this esteemed veteran and patriotic friend of his country, which motion was put and carried. Mr. Barrett handed in 305. from his own neighbourhood, Drimna, and moved the admission of the subscribers as asso ciates, which was put and carried. He also handed in 61.105. f rom Newtownbarry, a place which he said was famous in Irish story." Mr. O'Hagan — Ref er t o the fourth column of the same page, and read the passage commencing with Counsellor Duffy. Clerk of the Crown (reading)—" Counsellor Duffy handed proved by M r . V ernon, was g i ven in 31. 25., and moved th e admission of Peter C. Roche, Esq." Mr. Sniyley handed in the Freeman 's Journal of the 31 st of Associati on on th e pre- May, we Hayes,r admitted . Esq.' was called to Mr. O'Connell tt 3 ho f e a t y h ,e proceedingsw h Clerki which o having a v i theno gf t been h Crown, e who read fro m it th e re p or t o f Repeal vthioeusday at chair. Several in 31/. 10s. from Youghalt and moved the admission of the Rev. Richard Smith y and Mr. Jo hn O'Lomasney, and having passed a high encomium on the patriotism of both gentlemen, move d their admission, whi c h was secon d e d evewrahlicmh by Mr. John O'Connell, and passed unanimously. Mr. O'Connell next said that he had to correct a typo graphical error in the admirable report of the pro ceedings at Longford, which appeared in the Freeman's Journal. He was reported to have c a ll e d th e so ldi ery o f Britain " a ruffian soldiery , but he did no such thing; they were an exceeding well behaved set of men. He seldom or aver saw a soldier in the dock. He also spoke of the ser geants as an exceeding well-informed and well-behaved body of men, and said if justice was done them one should be promoted to the rank of an officer in each company. What he said was in the words of the beautiful ballad— " And now a sad maniac, she roams the wild common, Against minions of Britain she warns each woman, And sings of her father in strains more than human, While the tear drops do fall from poor Eileen O'More." Mr. Close requested of the Clerk of the Crown to read Mr. O'Connell's speech at the Loyal National Repeal Association, on the 30th of May, 1843. The Clerk of the Crown complied, and read the speech in question. Mr. Close—Go to the report of the Longford meeting. The Clerk of the Crown then read the speech of Mr. O'Connell, proposing the health of the Bishop of Ardagh, and the speech of the Bishop in returning thanks. The next health proposed was that of the Bishop of Meath, and the Right Rev. Prelate, in returning thanks, said he cordially concurred in every expression used by the Bishop of Ardagh Some other documents having been read, among them some referring to the arbitrators, their duties, character, and appointment, together with a form of submission to an arbitration award, Charles Hovonden, a police-constable, was then called and examined by Mr. Brewster.—The witness proved that Mr. John O'Connell acted several times as arbitrator in the Blackrock Arbitration Court, and that Dr. Gray acted once in the same capacity. This was the last witness called on the part of the Crown ; and the Attorney-General then rose, and said that the case for the Crown was closed. It was now exactly a quarter past three o'clock. After a short pause, Mr. Moore rose and said that Mr. Mr. Shell, who was to open the case for the traversers, as counsel for Mr. John O'Connell, was unwell for two or three days. He had been sent for, and stated that he was con fined to his bed, but he would be able to attend to morrow. He hoped under the circumstances that the Court would adjourn the case till to-morrow. The Chief Justice said the application was only reasonable. The Court accordingly adjourned till . Mr. Justice Perrin said hewould remain in Court if any gentleman had motions to make, but there was a general rush from the Court, when it was known the Crown had closed, and that the State trials were adjourned. TWELFTH DAY.—BY EXPRESS. DUBLIN SATURDAY, JON. 27. The full Court sat this morning precisely at 10 o'clock It being publicly known that the case for the Crown had terminated, and that Mr. Sheil, Q.C. and M.P, was to open the case for the defence, the g reatest anxiety pre vailed. The hall o f th e cour ts and the adjoining avenues were thrmiged to excess at an early hour, The interior of the 'court presented a very novel scene, and every part of it was crowded almost to suffocation. We have never on any occasion observed so many elegantly at tired females in a court of justice. Almost all the nobi lity with their families, at present in town, who could reason to think that a project was formed, or rather that a plot was concocted, to decoy and ensnare the traversers, and that a connivance, amounting almost to sanction, was deliberately adopted as a part of the policy of the:Govern ment, in order to betray the traversers into indiscretions of which advantage was, in due time, to be taken ? I have heard it said that it was criminal to tell the people to "bide their time;" but is the Government to "bide its time" in order to turn popular excitement to a useful official account ? The public prosecutor who gives an indirect encouragement to agitation, in order that he may after wards more effectually fall upon it, bears some moral affi nity to the informer, who provokes the crime from whose denunciation his ignominious livelihood is derived. Has the Attorney-General adopted a course worthy of his great office—worthy of the ostensible head of the Irish bar, and the representative of its interests in the House of Commons? Is it befitting that the successor of Saurin, and of Plunket, who should keep " watch and ward" from his high station over the public safety, should de scend to the performance of functions worthy only of a commissary of the French police ; and in place of being the sentinel, should become the " Artful Dodger" of the State ? But what, you may ask, could be the motive of the Right Hon. Gentleman - for pursuing the course he has adopted, and for which no explanation has been at tempted by him ? He will have obtained no advantage signally serviceable to his party by prosecuting Mr. Bar rett, or Mr. Duffy, or Dr. Gray, for strong articles in their newspapers ; or by prosecuting Mr. Steele, or Mr. Tierney, for attending unlawful assemblies. He did not fish with lines—if I may avail myself of an illustra tion' derived from the habits of my constituents at Dungarvon—but cast a wide and firmly constructed trammel-net, in order that by a kind of miraculous catch he might take the great agitator-leviathan, him self a Member of Parliament, Tom Steele, the three edi tors of newspapers, and a pair of priests in one stupen dous hawl together. But, gentlemen, there was another object still more important to be gained. Had the At torney-General prosecuted individuals for the use of violent language, or for the attending unlawful meetings, pitch I:Z.. I - 1 d be held responsible for his own acts ; but in a proleOution for a conspiracy, which is open to every one of the objections applicable to con structive treason, the acts and the speeches of one man are given in e vidence against another, although the latter may have been at the distance of a hundred miles when the circumstances used against him as evidence, and of which he had no sort of cognizance, took place. By prosecuting Mr. O'Connell for a conspiracy, the Attor ney-General treats him exactly as if he were the editor of the Freeman, the editor of the Nation, and the editor of the Pilot newspapers. Indeed, if five or six other editors of newspapers in the country had been joined as traversers, for every line in their newspapers Mr. O'Connell would be held re sponsible. There is one English gentleman, I believe upon that jury. If a conspiracy. were instituted against the Anti-Corn-law League in England, would he not think it very hard indeed that Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright should be held answerable for every article in the Chronicle, in the Globe, and in The Sun? How large a portion of the case of the Crown depends upon this implication of Mr. O'Connell with three Dublin newspapers ?—He is accused of conspiring with men who certainly never conspired with each other. For those who know anything of newspapers are aware that that they are mercantile speculations—the property in them is held by shares—and that the very circumstance of their being engaged in the same politics alienates the proprietors from each other. They pay their addresses to the same mistress, and cordially detest each other. I remember to have heard Mr. Barnes, the celebrated editor of the Times newspaper, once ask Mr. Rogers what manner of man was a Mr. Tomkins ; to which Mr. Rogers replied, "he was a dull dog, who read the Morning Heron" Let us turn for a moment from the Repeal to the anti-Repeal party. You would smile I think at the suggestioß that Mr. Murray Mansfield and Mr. Kemmy Sheehan should enter into a conspiracy toge ther ! Those gentlemen would be themselves astonished at the imputation. Suppose them to be both members of the Conservative Association : 'Would that circum stance be sufficient to sustain, in the judgment of men a neoi c lwt a nl y sT l of plain sense, the charge of conspiracy upon them ? Gentlemen, the relation in which Mr. Duffy, Mr. Barrett, and Dr. Gray, stood to the Repeal Association, is exactly the same as that in which Mr. Staunton, the proprietor of the Weekly Register, stood towards the Catholic Asso ciation. He was paid for his advertisements, and his newspaper contained emancipation news, and was sent to those who desired to receive it. Mr. Staunton is now a member of the Repeal Association ; he will tell you that his connection with that body is precisely of the same character as that which existed with the cele orypaeacrilnrocyea ct of that attending cele brated body to which I have referred ; he will prove to you, that over his paper Mr. O'Connell exercises no sort of control, and that all that is done by him in reference to his paper, is the result of his own free and unbiassed will. The speeches made at the Association• and public meetings were reported s o iTss d nho l go C feN t aey r dri l gy n erhfo e eetumn i foo f euafvmr : Neytb o tdhoslo n iefu s ecrra p srooF i muh r ef by him in the same manner as in the other public jour , nals ; he is not a conspirator ; the Government have not treated him as such. Why ? Because there were no poems in his paper like " The Memory of the Dead," which, although in direct opposition to the feelings of Mr. O'Connell, and which he had frequently expressed, lah — s bnpa vedti w r aa h fnhnoc i rya c t fis h :lnnigndot e i is now used in evidence against him. Gentlemen, I l ancae-rtouceeft notions ooii fznnu e toesst g srnoe aoyrrscl Attorney-General ueucna actual have said enough to you to show how formidable is this oughtpitl Grfuist lawful assemblies. conviction for conspiracy, and nothing else. He has deviated in these particulars from English usage ' —in indictments for a conspiracy, counts for at ' tending unlawful assemblies are in England uniformly introduced. English juries have almost uniformly mani fested an aversion to find men guilty of a conspiracy. Take Henry Hunt's case as an example. When that case was tried England was in a perilous condition. It had been proved before a secret committee of the House of Commons, of which the present Earl of Derby, the father of Lord Stanley,. was the Chairman, that large bodies of men were disciplined at night in the neigh bourhood of Manchester, and made familiar with the use of arms. An extensive organisation existed. Vast pub lic assemblies were held, accompanied with every revo lutionary incident in furtherance of a revolutionary ob ject —yet, an English jury would not find Henry Hunt guilty of conspiracy, but found him guilty, on the fourth count of the indictment, for attending an unlawful assem bly. Some of the Chartists were not found guilty of a conspiracy, but were found guilty upon counts from which the word " conspiracy" is left out. Gentlemen, the pro mises of Mr. Pitt, when the Union was carried, have not been fulfilled. The prospects presented by him in his magnificent declaration have not been realised ; but, if in griev ous disappointment—if English capital has not adven turedso many other regards we have sustained a most here—if Englishmen have preferred sinking their fortunes in the rocks of Mexico rather than embark them in speculations connected with this fine but unfortunate country—yet, from the Union, let one advantage at all events be derived. Let English love of justice—let English principles—let English horror of oppression —let English detestation of foul play—let English loathing of constructive crime, find its way amongst us ; bat, thank I self upon a similar occasion. The hour for intimidation God, it is not to England that lam driven exclusively I was passed. Sir Walter Scott, after detailing in to refer for a solitary example of the aversion of twelve : stances of the violence of Whitshed, and describing* honest men to prosecutions for conspiracy. You remem- ' the rest of the Dean's letters, says-" Thus victoriously ber the prosecution of Forbes, and of Handwich, and terminated the first grand struggle for the independence other Orangemen of an inferior class, under Lord Wel- of Ireland. The eyes of the kingdom were now moved. lesley's edannstration; they were guilty of a riot in the with one consent, upon the man by whose unbending for theatre, but they were charged with having entered into titude and pre-eminent talent this triumph was accom a great political confederacy to upset Lord Wellesley's plished. The Draper's head became the sign ; his por- Government, and to associate him with the " exports of trait was engraved, worn upon handkerchiecs, struck Ireland." The Protestant feeling of Ireland rose-ad- upon medals, and displayed in every possible manner as dresses were poured in from almost every district in the Liberator of Ireland. Well might : that epithet the country, remonstrating against a proceeding which " grand," be applied to the first grand struggle of the was represented as hostile to the liberties of the country, people of Ireland by that immortal Scotchmitn, who was and a great stretch of the prerogative of the Crown. himself so "grand of soul," and who, of mental loftiness, The jury did their duty, and refused to convict the tra- as well as of the magnificence of external nature, had ei versers. I recollect that the Irish Catholics at that perception so fine; and well might our own Grattan, who time, heated by feelings of partisanship, were rash was so great and so good, in referring to his own achieve enough to wish for a conviction. Fatal mistake ! A ment, in 1782. addresses to the spirit of Swift, and to precedent would have been created, which would soon the spirit of Molyneux, his enthusiastic invocation. And have been converted into practice against themselves. may not I, in such a cause as this, off,r up my prayer, Gentlemen, we are living in the midst of strong political that of the spirit by which the soul of Henry Grattan was vicissitude. God forbid that I should even live to see itself influenced, every remnant in the bosoms of my the time-(for I hate to see ascendancy of every kind) countrymen may not be extinguished. A prosecution. -God forbid that I should ever live to see the time, or was not instituted against the great conspirators of 1782_ that our children should ever live to see the time, when The English Minister had been taught in the struggles there shall be found Catholic Judges at a trial at bar between England and her colonies a lesson from ads upon that bench, and the entire of the Government bar versity, that schoolmistress, the only one from whom who shall be engaged in a public prosecution, shall be Ministers ever learn anything-who charges so much Roman Catholics ; and when a Catholic crown solici- blood, so much gold, and such torrents of tears, for her tor shall strike eleven Protestants• from the special instructions. In reading the history of that time, and jury list, and leave twelve Roman Catholics in that box. I in tracing the gradual descent of England from the tone re-assert it, and exclaim again, in all the sincerity of despotic dictation to the reluctant acknowledg of my heart, that I pray that such a spectacle never ment of disaster, and to the ignominious confession shall be exhibited in this the first criminal court in of defeat, how many painful considerations are the land, I know full well the tendency of power presented to us ! If in time-if the English Mi to abuse. We have witnessed strange things, and strange nester in time had listened to the eloquent warnings of things we may yet behold. It is the duty, the Chatham, or to the still more oracular admonitions of solemn duty-it is the interest, the paramount interest- Edmund Burke, what a world of woe would 'have been of every one of us, before and above everything else, to avoided! By some fatality, England was first demented, secure the great principles of liberty-in which we all and then was lost. Her repentance followed her per have an equal concern-from invasion, and to guard dition. The colonies were lost ; but Ireland was saved against the creation of a precedent which may enable by' the timely recognition of the great principle on which some future Attorney-General to convert the Queen's her independence was founded. No Attorney-General Bench into a Star Chamber, and commit a further inroad was found bold enough to prosecute Flood and Grattan upon the principles of the Constitution. Gentlemen of for a conspiracy. With what scorn would twelve Irish the Jury, it is my intention to show you that my client men have repudiated the presumptuous functionary by is not guilty of any of the conspirac'es charged in the whom such an enterprise should have been attempted. indictment • and in doing so I shall have occasion to Irishmen then felt .that the y had a countr y ; they acted advert to the several proceedings that have been adopted under the influence of -that instinct of nationality by the Government, and the evidence that has been laid which, for His providential purposes, the author of nature before you. But before I proceed to that head of the has implanted in us. We were then a nation- we division which I have traced out for myself, I shall show were not broken into fragments by those dissensions by the jury what the object of my client really was. I shall which we are at once enfeebled and degraded. If we show you that that object was a legal one, and that it were eight millions of Yrotestants (and, Heaven forgive was by legal means that he endeavoured to attain it. me, there are moments Nchen, looking at the wrongs The Attorney-General, in a speech ofconsiderable length, done to my country, I have - been betrayed into the but not longer than the greatness of the occasion amply guilty desire that we all were) ; but if we were eig ht justified, adverted to a great number of diversified topics, millions of Protestants , should we be used as we are . quoted the speeches of Sir Robert Peel and of Should we see every office of dignity and emolument , e t Lord John Russell. He adverted to the report of the this country filled by the natives of the sister island'? secret committee of the House of Lords in 1797, and he Should we see the just expenditure re, referred to the great era of Irish parliamentary inde- provement of our country denied ? S multi we see / • pendence, 1782. That he should have been so multifa- quit and crown rents of Ireland applied to the improve . . . isite for the im he nous and discursive, Ido not complain. In a case of ment of Charing-cross or of Windsor Castle ? .Should this incalculable importance, we should look for light we submit to the odious distinctions between Engler e wherever it can be found. I shall go somewhat farther men and Irishmen introduced into almost every c" than the year 1782; but do not imagine that I mean to of legislation ? Should we bear with an Arm s Mi t. • enter into any lengthened narration or elaborate expa- by which the Bill of Rights is set at nought _ tiation. Long tracts of time may be swiftly traversed. Should we brook the misapplication of a poor law !, Ido not think that any writer has given a more accu- Should we allow the Parliament to proce ed as if we had rate, or more interesting account of the first struggle of' not a voice in the legislature? Should we submit to our Ireland for the assertion of equal rights than *h . Walter present inadequate representation? Should we alto w . a Scott. He was a Tory. He was bred and born, per- new tariff to be introduced, without giving us haps, haps, in some disrelish for Ireland; but when he came slightest equivalent for the manifest lo ss we have ay amongst us, his opinions underwent a material alters- tamed ? And should we not peremptorily require doe tion. The man who could speak of Scotland in those the Imperial Parliament should hold a periodical ses' noble lines, which were cited in the course of this sions for the transaction of Irish business in the metro trial, with so much passionate attachment, made a j us t polis of a powerful, and, as it then would be, an midi: allowance for those who felt for the land of vided country? But we are prevented by our wretched their birth the same j u st emotion.. I n hi s lif e religious distinctions from co-operating for a single otos of Swift, he says, Molyneux, the friend of Locke, and ject, by which the honour and substantial interests of ottn of liberty published in 1698, " The case of country can be promoted. Fatal, disastrous, detestable' Ireland being bound by acts of Parliament in England d i stinctions ! Detestable, because they a re not only stated," in which he showed with great force, that the repugnant to the genuine sp ant of Christian ity, and su b .: right of legislation, of which England made so oppres - stitute f o r the charities of religion the rancorous an sive a use, was neither justifiable by the plea of con - p athies of sect ; but because they practically reduce Ps quest, purchase, or precedent, and was only submitted to a coloni a l dependency , make the union a name, CO! : to from incapacity of effectual resistance. The temper vert a nation in to an appurtenance , make us t he footstool of the English House of Commons did not brook these of the Minister, the scorn of England, and the commies` remonstrances. It was unanimously voted that these ration of the world. Ireland is the only country in bold and pernicious assertions were calculated to shake Europe in which abominable distinctions between Pro the subordination and dependence of Ireland, as united testant and Catholic are permitted to continue. In Ger' and annexed for ever to the Crown of England, and the many, where Luther translated the Scriptures ; 111 vote of the House was followed by an address to the France, where Calvin wrote the Institutes ; aye, in the Queen, complaining that although the woollen trade land of the Dragonades and the St. Bartholomews ; in was the staple manufacture of England, over which her the land from whence the forefathers of one of the judie legislation was accustomed to watch with the utmost cial functionaries of this Court, and the first Ministerial care, yet Ireland, which was dependent upon and pro- officer of the Court, were barbarously driven-the enll tected by England, not contented with the linen manufac- tual wrongs done by Catholic and Protestant are fors ture, the liberty whereof was indulged to her, presumed given and forgotten, while we, madmen that we are, also to apply her credit and capital to the weaving of her arrayed by that fell fanaticism which, driven froth own wool and woollen cloths, to the great detriment every other country in Europe, has found a refuge of England. Not a voice was raised in the British here, precipitate ourselves upon each other in those House of Commons to contradict maxims equally impo- encounters of sectarian ferocity in which our litic and tyrannical. In acting upon these commercial country, bleeding and lacerated, is trodden under foots restrictions, wrong was heaped upon wrong, and insult and our island, which might be the noblest in the works" was added to injury-with this advantage on the s id e t o is miserably degraded, and her national resources un the aggressors, that they could intimidate the people of developed by those who counteract the designs of nature Ireland into silence by raising, to -drown every co m - and who become conspirators against the Providence of plainant, the cry of "rebel, and Jacobite When Swift God.-(Loud cheers and clapping of heads, which con came to Ireland in 1714 he at first devoted himself to tinued for some seconds.) • literary occupation ; but at length his indignatio n was Chief Justice-Such interruptions as that are highly aroused by the monstrous wrongs which were inflicted indecorous, and if that conduct be repeated, I shall cer upon his country. He was so excited by the injustice tainly order the Court to be cleared. lam sure that you, which he abhorred that he could not forbear from ex- yourself, Mr. Shell, are sensible of the impropriety of claiming to his friend Delany, "Do not the villanies of such interruptions. men eat into your flesh ?" In /720 he published a pro- Mr. Sheil-Noeene, myLord, can deprecate more than posal for the use of Irish manufactures, and was charged Ido such modes of expressing opinion in the Court. It with having endeavoured to create hostility between dif- is not by such means that the jury can be persuaded ferent classes of his Majesty's subjects, one of the lam much obliged to your Lordship for the oeservation , charges preferred in this very indictment. At that time as it has afforded me a moment' s r e st. the judges were dependent upon the Crown. They did not Chief Jusfce-Whenever you feel exhausted, Mrs . possess that "fixity of tenure" which is a security Shell, you may sit down. for their public virtue. They are now no longer Mr. Sheil -I thank your Lordship. (The Ri g thank God, "tenants at wit." They may be mistaken- Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded . ) .1° they may be blinded by strong emotions-but corrupt the prosperity of our country, architecture has they cannot be. The circumstances detailed in the fol- left us its magnificent attestation. This temple do lowing passage in the life of Swift could not by possibi- dicated to justice, stands among the witnesses, silent and lit occur in modern times. "The storm which Swift solemn, of the glory of Irel a nd, to which I may appe al. haddriven was not long in bursting. It was intimated to It is seen from afar off. It rises high above the smoke Lord Chief Justice Whitshed by a person in great of- and din of this populous city; it is the type of that moral, five" (this, if I remember right, was the expression used elevation, over every contami na ti ng i n fl u ence, to whic h by Mr. Ross, in reference to a great unknown, who sent every man who is engaged in the sacred administrati os him here) "that Swift's pamphlet was published for the of justice can ascend. The penal laws were enacted I I purpose of setting the two kingdoms at variance ; and it slaves and relaxed by freemen. The Protestants of Ire" was recommended that the printer should be prosecuted land had been contented to kneel to England upon the with the uttermost rigour. Whitshed was not a person Catholic's neck.. They rose to a nobler attitude, to neglect such a hint, and the arguments of Govern- and we were permitted to get up. In 1782 1 ment were so successful that the grand juries of the the Protestants of Ireland, who had acquired political rights, communicated civil privileges , ° county and city presented the Dean's pamphlet as a seditious, factious, and virulent libel. Waters, the their fellow-subjects. In 1793 they granted us the slew printer, was seized and forced to give great bail ; tive franchise-a word of illustrious etymology. here but, upon his trial, the jury, though some pains had can be no doubt that the final adjustment of the Ca been bestowed in selecting them, brought him in not lic question upon terms satisfactory to both guilty • and it was not until they were worn out by the would have been effected, and without • the coup putting Lord Chief Justice, who detained them eleven hours, • h i try to that process of fearful agitation through which a and sent them nine times to reconsider their verdict, that has passed, if the rebellion of 1798, so repeatedly op , they, at length, reluctantly left the matter in his hands, with a sincerity so unaffected, denounced by Mr. O' l,° ' l „ .. by a special verdict ; but the measures of Whitshed nell, had not marred the hopes of the country and esse,': were too violent to he of service to the Government ; tially contributed to the Union. Mr. Pitt borrowed , e ,"`,. - men's minds revolted against his iniquitous conduct." plan of the Union from that great soldier to whom 1 - :Sir Walter Scott then proceeded to give an account of gentry of this country are under obligations so essent ia r ; the famous Draper's letters. After speaking of the first It must be acknowledged, however, that they make op a rties 'three, Sir Walter Scott says, "It was now obvious, from the zeal of their loyalty for t'he republican orig,in ° the temper of Ireland, that the true point of difference their estates. Oliver Cromwell first advised t h s ; between the two countries, might safely be brought Union. He returned 400 members for England, .. 3 p .. before the public." In the Draper's fourth letter, ac- for Scotland, and as many for this country ; a 1 ,.; - cordingly, Swift boldly treated of the Royal prerogative port of the debates in that singular assembly was 'i; by the almost exclusive employment of natives of Eng- served by Thomas Burton, who kept a diary, en - 0 land, in places of trust and emolument in Ireland ;of the stated in that book which I hold in my hand to ha dependence of that kingdom upon England, and the been a member in the Parliaments of Oliver sli t power assumed, contrary to truth, reason, and justice, of Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659. It was puh lish°- binding her by the laws of a Parliament in which she had a few years ago from a MS. in the British Nfusell; no representation." And, gentlemen, is it a question The members from Ireland were English soldiers, _.„ 1 ",,, too bold of me to ask, whether if Ireland have no had acquired estates in Ireland. You would 8 11 Zr; effective representation-if the wishes and feelings of that they were cordially welcomed by their Engl ism ...,'.l the representatives of Ireland upon Irish questions are soCiates, for they were Englishmen, bred and born ; -.--„„ held of no account-if the Irish representation is utterly they had very materially contributed to the tranquili sa r merged in the English, and the Minister does not, by a of Ireland. I hope I use the most delicate and least 0 11 1; judicious policy, endeavour to counteract it-as he sive term. I acknowledge that I had anticipated as t i n c i might, in the opinion of many men, at least effectually before I read the book. What was my surprise wu ee - t e do-is not the practical result exactly the same as if found that these deputies from Ireland were consider'', 0 4 Ireland had not a single representative in Parliament ? be in some sort contaminated by the air which they '- Gentlemen, Swift addressed the people of Ireland upon breathed in this country, and that they were most 01 0 '.: this great topic, in language as strong as any that courteously treated by the English Members. g ee . Daniel O'Connell has employed. "The remedy," he tleman whose name ought to be Copley,. says, " "i, ' -... says. "is wholly in your own hands. . . . By the men are foreigners." The following is the sPec e ".„ . e • laws of God, of nations, and of your country, you are, " Mr. Gewen said, it is not for the honour , of the --T; and ought to be, as free a people as your brethren in lish nation for foreigners to come and have pewertor England." " This tract," says Sir Walter Scott," pressed this nation. They are but provinces at bests"- , D , :r ic he at once upon the real merits of the question at issue. Clarges says, on behalf of Ireland, page 114, had and the alarm was instantly taken by the English Go- (the Irish) were united with you, and have alwaYs, ed, vernment, the necessity of supporting whose domination an equal right with you. Ile that was King of -4 11 1P f . 1 he devolved upon Carteret, who was just landed, and ac- was King of Ireland or Lord. If you have no t a is. cordingly a proclamation was issued offering 300/. re- to sit here, you must in justice let them have a P o se ward for the discovery of the author of the Draper's meat at home. How safe that will be, I question. '_l7.,, e r fourth letter, described as a wicked and malicious that sit for them are not Irish teagues; but faithful Pew pamphlet, containing several seditious and scandalous sons." Mr. Gewen again observes-" It w ere . ilia . passages, highly reflecting upon his Majesty and his both for England and for Ireland that they had ra et er- Ministers, and tending to alienate the affections of his ments of their own. It is neither safe, juste nor he el e r good subjects in England and Ireland from each other." able to admit them. Let them rather have a s alt Sir Walter, after mentioning one or two interesting ment of their own." Mr. Antic observes-" If Y °ll l , s ;eore anecdotes, says-" When the bill against the printer of as to the convenience in relation to England, much sit the Draper's letters was about to be presented t o th e is to be said v, by those who serve for Scotland sh,° 1 . &- grand jury, Swift addressed to that body a paper en- here. It is one continent, and elections are eas e i u s e ee for tiled ` Seasonable Advice,' exhorting them to remember termined ; but Ireland differs. It is much fi t the the the story of the Leyone mode by which the them to have Parliaments of their own. That n t , and wolves were placed with the sheep on con- old constitution. It will be difficult to chang e ee 'biliq dition of parting with their shepherds and dangerous for Ireland. They are under an intl)°-1 n ever m astiffs, after which they ravished the flock at pleasu re . of redress Their grievances ci ll ' ens iseed• A few spirited verses, addressed to the citizens at large. be redressed. Elections can never be in its of and enforcing similar topics, are subscribed by the Though they were but a province, there were c ° . •i• 1 Draper's initials, and are, doubtless, Swift's own com- justice and parliaments as free as here. • • • - e 'vanc es position, alluding to the charge that he had gone t oo f ar pray that they may have soon to hear their gr l ; hell in leaving the discussion of Wood's projects to t rea t o f in their own nation, seeing that they cannot Il ave e I an" the alleged dependence of Ireland. He concludes in heard here." - Sir Thomas Stanley observes". Ire' these lines- n o t t o s p ea k for Ireland, but for the English and " If, then, oppression has not quite subd ue d land The members for Ire " - e n clan° t° .. At once your prudence and y our gra tit u d e - the electors are all Englishmen, who natur• - lee be g °" If you yourselves conspire not y our undoing- have votes in making - laws by which they. In, "an d pre' And don't deserve, and won't bring do wn your ruin- verned ; they have fought your battles, obtain e , ( Lea a" If yet to virtue you have so me p retence - serve d your interests, desig T. ned by the famous elf,freyer If yet you are not lost t o common sense, liament, obtained by blood, and sought fur make Assist your patriots in your own defence; solemnly.' You may ask of me, wherefore is " tions °" That stupid cant, ' he went too far,' despise, And know that to be brave is to be wise; j the Think how he struggled for your liberty, these references ? I answer, because the institua 0 fare , country may ,change the Government - rn e a Yi ) Lie of a And give him freedom while yourselves are free." undergo essential modifications ; but the st . 0 me ee aF . national character, like its language, remaillsse -g e glisn e At the same time was circulated the memorable and_a t to c e ll: quotation from Scripture, by a Quaker (I don't know,p to this very day there is in the feelinvgntouire--d gentlemen, whether his name was Robinson, but it ought men towards this country what I have .•ee. Toward elsewhere the instinct of donain:r Papists we r e to have been)-" And the people said unto Saul, shall Jonathan die who bath wrought thy great salvation in the Protestants of Ireland, when feeling nrevtge Israel. God forbid ! As the Lord liveth there shall ground to powder, the very same to , is ' our. start' of which l we see manifestation a s tho tsu proter t i o not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath but is not one between C wrought with God this day ; so the people rescued but the question is between the greater Jonathan and he died not." Thus admonished br deavours to w ho :eel. :Ci l i c t i ntrY an keep verse, law, and Scripture, the grand jury assembled. smaller, which the greater countryany j ande Claraeaen under an ignominious control. M It was in vain that the Lord Chief Justice Whitshed, tit ; Lord e a voted for the Union lived to repen n peer by a g t r o d, who had denounced the Dean's former tract as seditious, when designated as a into and procured a verdict against the prisoner, exerted him- • himself, . ta k b e ad Go Whig patrician, lamented the mis e plebeia -•••