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

a a. to crush •the man who gained Catholic emancipation. a He went minutely into all the circumstances of the re vision and preparation of the list, which had been denounced as an " atrocious fraud." lie trusted that the solicitor for the Crown would be made accountable for his conduct —as accountable as the A ttorney-Generab being a Minister of the Crown, was for his. Mr. Swam, M.P., was most warmly received, and, when the -cheering had subsided, ho said it was not his . intention, to aay. more than a very few words upon this occasion, because; ere long, -he should have the oppor tunity , of. adverting, in the House of -Commons, to the very • oonrn incidents that had taken place in re ference to THE peading trials.—(Cheers.) As he should riavt:tirfitopportunity of meeting his antagonists face to face, he should prefer reserving for that occasion the expteeion of -his feeling—of his indignant feeling— (Cheers) —which these incidents had produced. It was' to him a source of very great pride —of nothing hail he ever been , zrotnTer in all his life—than that he had been thlififst person "ebb had signed his name to the mini-_ sitipn ttat had. %Ilk,' them together.,—(Cheers.)_, lle saw that, the time had come for making a great popular demonstration of their feeling, and a demonstration of their feeling . was also a demonstration of their power.— (Cheers.) The nation was no w roused-74 Hear, hear)— and roused in a just cause ; the factS,were with them and his advice was this—to present a memorial to the, Queen, and a petition to both Houses of Parlia ment, setting forth these facts with cleareess and with method, and without. exaggeration.—(Cheers.) Exag geration might be resorted to in a weak and imperfect caae ;,but here the truths they would have to press on the -attention of her Majesty end : bath Houses of Parlia- Ment were of such a character that he would venture to reiterate to themhis strong advice, and he would add his 4renuoua entreaty tesonfine themselves to a statement of the feats of the case which had been so perspicuously stated byethe:Cowe Clerk of the city of rublin. It had been ascertained that, individual Roman Catholics, who were not members of the Repeal Association, nor sub scribed to its fund.,,. were struck off the jury list. Let that go forth as an ascertained fact. The Times itself, whiCh was strongly opposed to whatwas called the repeal agitation, had admitted that if a considerable portion. of the jivee_ lint had been suppressed, it was a case that de served mast serious consideration... That was one fact. There was another fact: it was this.. Yesterday, in open Court, Mr. justice Perrin, At the conclusion of the motion, whilst : he declared, that. he concurred with the rest of .his brethren in thinking that, nponlegal grounds, the Recorder should: not he.ealled on to amend, by mandamus, the writ, added that, : circurnstances had been disclosed which were. calculated to awaken deep sus plcion.—,(enuttison.) • He (Mr. Shell) announced the factatbat it might get publicity. A judge of the land— unimpeaehed and unimpeachable—a man whose purity of mind corresponded with his talents and erudition — Who combined great weight of character with the purity of judicial - authority, from her Majesty's Court of Queeo Bench, announced—made proclamation—that them:avoaa grounds for suspicion in those - transactions. Let put that fact in their petition to the Throne. • The Right Hon. Gentleman having read the resolution, which was to the effect that sixty-three names of jurors, including a large proportion of Roman Catholics and liberal Protestants having been struck out, ()tiered greunds for more than suspicion that foul dealing had been practised, and that it called loud for Parlia mentary investigation, went on to address the meet ing; and adverting to the statement of Sir Robert Peel, that hs chief difficulty was Ireland, said Ireland he will lied to be hia. insuperable, impossibility. Sir Robert Peel is embarrassed by seven millions—he is embarrassed by the energy, the fearlessness, and indomitable spirit of your leader, Daniel ,O'Connell.—(Tremendous cheers, • amidst which a cry of Richard's himself again !") ; Mr. Maat e , n (late M.P. for Wexford) seconded the resolution. The meeting was thea addressed by Mr. STEELE, and the resolution moved by_ Mr. Sheil was then carries! unanimously. Mrs REDINGTON moved the next resolution, in a brief address, in which he said that the GoVernment bad at tempted in Ireland what they would not have dared to attempt in Canada, and which .they would find they could not attempt here with impunity. lie then moved " That a petition be presented to the Queen, praying that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to direct her attention to the conduct of the Irish GovernmeAt with respect to the' State Prosecutions in the circumstances mentioned in'the preceding resolution." Mr. V. O'KELLY seconded it, and it was carried unani• mously. Mr. 11Leeptue one of the deputation from the Catholics of Belfast, then proposed a resolution for a petition to both Houses of Parliament, praying for an inquiry into the same eircumstances. It was seconded by Mr. Joyce (of Galway), and carried. Mr. O'CoNNEna next rose to address the meeting. He said, that by some it had been said that this was no place fur him to-day, and others had declared that if he did not attend it would be like the performance of Ham let with the chief part left out.—(Laughter.) Without, however, minding what either of these parties said, he felt himself that, as a Catholic, glorying in his religion, it. was his duty to be present.—(Cheers.) lie accused the British Government of the grossest perfidy towards the Roman Catholics of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Trial by jury was admitted to be one of the greatest and most important privileges, of the British subject, but how conld .it be properly. or fairly administered if the Roman Catholics were excluded from the jury-box ?—(Cheers.) He complained that the names of 63 Roman Catholics had been struck off the jury panel, and he proclaimed to . , the people of England and to the people of Ireland that there could be no satisfaction in a trial where these things which were called accidents happened, and were said to be without remedy.—(Hear, hear.) The Catholics of Ireland were indignant at such conduct, and were they not bound then to congregate again and insist on their rights and the vindication of their honour ?—(Hear.)What was the mode of protecting life, liberty, and property but trial by jury, and could that be done if it were once pro claimed to be a legitimate cause for excluding a man from the jury-box that he was a Catholic ?—(Hear, hear.) If such a course were pursued, the spirit of the Act of Emancipation, as well as the Queens prerogative, would be violated ; and this they must not submit to without at least remonstrance.—(Hear, hear.) Sir J. Graham had said in the House of Commons that the Roman Catholics had violated their oaths ; he had thus insulted them, and was he not the Secretary for the Home De partment ?—(Groans.) It was quite true that he had swallowed his words, but he only retracted them when he found the indignation of the Irish Members pouring down upon him. Mr. Sraii.h had accused the Catholics of violating the sanctity of an oath ; there was no incon sistency about him—he had never retracted ;in act, as in speech, he was the same ; and he, accordingly, struck every Catholic from the jury list.—(Cheers.) But did they suppose that by these proceedings they would put down the determination of the people to obtain radical redress for their grievances ?—(Cheers.) 'Would they snake one anti-Repealer by theta ? Would they redress any. . injury or do the people any good ?—(Hear, hear.) lie was ready to abide the result, and he cared not what it might be '; even though the verdict were death itself, what harm could it do to the cause of Ireland ?—(Loud cheers.) He was heartily glad of what had occurred. He did not know how they might tire a jury into a verdict, for he understood that, in conse quence of a motion made that day, the trial might last till the 15th of April—(Hear and laughter)—but this he knew„ that 35 Catholics had dropped from the list. He put this fact abroad among the people of Ireland, and he was rejoiced that no Catholic was in the awkward predi cament ()ruches on a jury with 10 or 11 persons who 4141 notatteial to the evidence so closely as himself. He rejoiced, too, that:the spirit had gone abroad. It was aecre mockery to say that these individuals were to be put off because. they were Repeaters. From north to from east to west, indignant Ireland was uttering slenunciatioue of the mode of proceeding adopted in this case, The, very excuse which they.offered for the act eves the compliment, which hypocrisy paid to virtue. A, :flan was a hypo: rite, not for hating or despising virtue, but put of compliment to it. He knew the value of vir tue; and therefore pretended to that which he had not. 'the virtue of giving a perfectly fair jury was expected :.t the hands of the Attorney-General, and was put forth in the hypocrisy of the _excuse that the Ca : holiee put off the list were Repealerse e -thus ad mitting, that if he had not that excuse the act would be slerogatory to a public functionary.—(Rear, hear.) lie came forward as one of the Catholics of Ireland. What %va s it to him that he Was. one , of the accused party— eeere. they not all, accused ?—(Hear, hear.) They had ipdicted his son, though be thought they should be con e. nt with indicting the father, and he was bound to pro ., vet that-son. Bathe came there to call on the Catholics iti Ireland to protect thernselves--(Cheers)—to forget what differences might have existed amongst them, and without involving any man ir. an 'opinion which he did ,ot entertain. They lied heard that day gentlemen who were anti-Rep:dors, but while they maintained their as such, they were ready to join with:the Re v• elers in that meeting in insisting that the Government . sdiould really; emancipate the Catholics b y takin g :ovay that degrading inferiority• which they could not endure.. lle c elled on the Cetholics of Ireland, from satrth to south, and from east to west, who had listened snore than. once to his voice, to rally one and all, in in- Ahlg that justice should be done to the people of 'eltincr. anti that the Administration. who hadoutrage a.esly dared to violate the Emancipation Act should be 1 !tiled with disgrace from the position which they held, 0 -, if not, should continue to hold office with the exe cration of every rational man in the community. The Cetholic party, since their accession to power, had acted v ith perfect and complete liberality. In the corpora- ,n of Dublin they had returned an over proportion of I rotestants, and wherever a liberal Protestant had pro s nted himself he hail been elected by the Liberals. % ith the Catholic party there 'were no bigotediestric e: )ns, 110 psitry rivalship religion.—(hear, hear.) /The example now set by the Government could not, therefore, he permitted to go down to posterity unscathed sod undondemned—(Heer, hear)—nor could they allow , he spirit of the Emancipation Act to be frittered away by the illi'oerality of a Government prosecution. After e).!esson of peace to the people of Ireland, Mr. O'Connell c =Wed by saying, that there might be injustice ; there 'eight be..martyrdom, hut elmee must be no shrinking. The petition to her Majesty was then adopted, and the eeting separated.. *- DIFFICULTY OF DISTiNGUISIIING ONESELF LN LON .London, every man is So:submerged in the ;‘•,lltitude, that he who can hold his head high enough it of the living mass to 4 known, must have oethinghim. s.f remarka'ole buoyancy pr peculiar villany about reJ exccpt to a few of the leaders, is no s istbaction. The member for the shire is clipped of all is plumage at the rimtrient of his entering that colossal .1111q-yaril,.amt must take his obscure pickings with •,)! her unnotic!ablefowl.—Blachwa i d'sW a g az2'ne. The trial of 11r,. Gilmo.ur, for the" murdi,r,of her tusband; wag -to take place before the High Coda of uAinfao,4idixiburgh, on Friday. THE SUN, LONDON, -- - IRELAND. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. , From the communications of our Irish correspondent . FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. in the Times of yesterday, there may be ground—whether GLOBE —The reported omission of sixty - three conclusive or otherwise, as yet we know not — for suspe ctin g , 1 names from the special jury panel, and the probable that the old Irish demon of " had luck" has been busy, result upon the proceedings of this strange negli and somehow or other managed to "bewitch the milk." In Ig t once, or something worse, on the part of the func short, it is not merely that Mr. Pierce Mahony has sworn another f e li 9 affidavit, in the hope once more to postpone the I. i aries whose duty it was to preserve the list evil hour of - the trial, but that an oversight, and a grave one, is intact, was commented upon at some length in said to have been committed by some s ubordinate functionary Yesterday's Globe. The discovery was alluded to or other in his treatment of the special panel on its passage ,Ir y •n the Dublin correspondents of every London from the Sheriff to the Clerk of the Crown. The tale imports, the I journal of yesterday, without respect to its political that upwards of 60 names among those returned b Recorder on revision had been omitted from the list befo y re its character. From the universal credence given to the delivery to Mr. Kemmis. We hear it further stated, that of 'rumour, it was regarded as unquestionably true. The 'Dublin Monitor of Wednesday (received yesterday) t h e names thus left out, the maj orit y were Conservatives and P r otestants. Now, it is not f o r us to sa y how fa ran act of this , also gave the report ; accompanied by a circumsta n t ial d escr iption, should it prove true, may serve to vi tiat e the p anel, explanation of the mode by which the missing sheets or to retard the trial, if at all. Any possib le motive of cor- on or bad faith, in the suba ltern officer at least, for the 'of names was accounted for. No contradiction r b u en ti efit of the Crown, seems to be completely negatived by is given of the report by this morning's ar the fact that the greater p ortion of the missing names rivals from Dublin, where the rumour still were Conservative. Moreover, an air of something even prevailed. An application was to be made beyond ridicule is flung over the entire history by a yesterday by the prosecutors to the Court, that in repeal newspaper, which stammers a wa y about re corder Shaw and Sir Robert Peel having themselves tampered the event s - of the trials not having terminated on with the list, which was sent over to them at Tamworth ! pre- the 31st - ins,t. f ;asach succeeding day, up to the 15th of vious to its final arrangement. If the account even of the AprilOrd be considered as a continuation of ca relessness, however, be confirmed (we ask no more) , what a Hilaitf s errn for the purposes of the said trials — a picture does it hold out of the way in which Irish placemen , discharge their duties, and of the manner in which an English course . determined on, it was generally supposed, on Government is likely to be served ! On the other nand, 'the discovery of the omission, and to meet the exigen scarcely does a post come in from Dublin without fresh proofs, ;cies of the case. The Tinzes of this morning assumes as if such were needed, of folly and ferocity in the partisans of sug men appealing ostensibly to the laws of their country, which, I the truth of the facts as they have appeared, but in the course of our long experience, we have never seen sur- b'n'ests that the omission of the 63 names will not passed. There have on this occasion of the O'Connell trials i operate to vitiate the panel, . . . or retard the trials. been made—lst, an attempt on the part of the town clerk, so far 1 The Standard, more vigilant than discreet, employs as in him lay, by withholding the corporation books, nothwith- its proverbial sophistry to raise doubts respecting the standing notice to produce them, to suppress the evidence whence it would appear that certain persons, magistrates and'examinationruth of the report. Having stated , from a careful town-councillors, were disqualified by the 3d and 4 th Victoria, ... k that the first name on the list is "John , lley," and the last " John Yeates," it then infers from acting as special jurors. The plain purpose of which was to pack a jury, and to commit the p it eac e of the country to a that their can be no lost sheets containing 63 names ; panel of fin ious Repeaters. For be k now n that Mr. Forde, " for there cou ld not be 63 names before John Alley who withheld the b oo ks, besides being town-clerk to the or after John Yeates." As a specimen of our Contem- O'C o nnell corporation, is likewise attorney to the traversers ! porary's mode of settling, by assumption, a mattcr which 2d. A second attempt of the brawlers foi constitutional purity is by this time placed beyond question by an official ad and liberty was, as we have already seen, to deter, by loud mission or repudiation of the statement, the following menaces, the Crown solicitors from d i sc har g in g their own im- perative duty, and from exercising the lawful and obvious extract from the Standard ' s article may suffice :- —" In right of their clients, by striking out from the jury-list the order to meat the possible case, that the numbers were names of men from whose known devotion to the traversers, an not prefixed to the names in the first instance, and unfair acquittal might with all confidence have been expected. that they, in consequence, do not furnish complete 3d. The next attempt for the indirect des t ru ction of trial b y proof of the integrity of the list, we have applied an jury was, by abusive publications and fac ti ous advertisements, to insult and degrade the jurors remaining on the panel, daring other test. We have taken the last Dublin Directory them to find a verdict of guilty in the teeth of an interdict list of the resident nobility, gentry, merchants, trus from a silly Alderman in the Town Council, importing that tees, &c., and having pretty accurately ascertained the the " prosecutions ought to be dropped altogether by the Crown !" 4th. The last attempt of which we have ye t heard, number of names under each letter , have a pp lied the although it would be rash to calculate on what anot her day ratio of names in the Directory to the ratio of the may bring forth, is to stir up some sham commot i on in the names in the list, and find them to correspond with country, by representing the decent, sober, and merely wonderful precision. We are thus confirmed in our technical discharge of their duties by the officers of the opinion that there is nothing in the story of the Crown, to be such a flagrant outrage upon the whole missing sheets." To this very ingenious mode of Roman Catholic body, as calls at this hour of factitious . excitement for an "aggregate meeting" of those millions mystifying a matter of fact, we might oppose—first, thus industriously exasperated, to keep away the whole the high probability that if the statement were not administration of criminal justice by bursts of clamour and true, it would beibre this have met with an au pageants of multitudinous force. Every rational being must thoritative contradiction; and, secondly, that—taking construe such a course of flimsy, senseless, and utterly fruitless the Standard's own mode of disproving " the story violence as an index not only of conscious wrong, but of un deniable apprehension for the result of this political and judicial of the missing sheets"—it is only to assume that struggle. It is the tendency of power to be composed , of im- the two missing sheets consist of the first and last o f the potence to be fretful; and whilst all the world must admit that series, and the whole fabric of the Standard's inferen the Queen's Government has not erred on the side of eager- tial argument in disproof of the story falls to the ness or anxiety for battle, the opposite party have with equal ground. The Court Circular of this morning con truth disgraced themselves by offensive arrogance while danger tains an announcement which seems to strengthen the was distant, and a shabby, sulky, and snappish q uerulousness, as it approached a little nearer. Nothing cou ld exhibit a more rumour respecting this "untoward event." Ano ther discreditable contrast that Mr. Daniel O'Connell's whole de- abinet Council (the third during this week) was m eanour before the Queen's Governmen t showed signs of vi- held yesterday. The Council sat three hours. All gilance with regard to him, and since the adoption of their he Ministers were present. Such frequent meetings more animated and active policy. The first metamorphosis wrought upon this grand incendiary was the work of the long e 1 era .10ns, L f . th , e Cabinet, and . such d l'la t• imply the Queen's speech, wherein, according to the seaman's phrase, a existence of a dilemma which calls for combined shot was fired "ahead of him." It was meant for a warning, counsel, and the necessity of providing means for meet but it had a more manifold operation. It did warn, to be ing difficulties which have arisen suddenly, and the sure ; but it also irritated, provoked, frightened, and per plexed him. During the session, and while the Minister existence , of which were not anticipated. The ex seemed asleep, O'Connell's fierceness was not merely boiste- elusion of every . Catholic from the panel is, however, rous—it was buoyant, impatient, and savage. Her aiajesty felt by the Times to be the pinching difficulty. That ' spoke, and the effect was instantaneous. Still he was equally extraordinary stretch of prerogative—involving at laud and boisterous; but the swagger was more circumspect, once the determination, on the part of the Go the ill-temper more guarded, the defiance more vague, the vernment, to pack a jury, in order, if possible, to growl more crippled. Such was the intermediate condition of obtain a verdict at any cost ; and this, though the in the disturber. Next came the proclamation, finally the prose- suit and injury inflicted upon the religion of seven cution, and away at once went all of glorious war, even the " pomp and circumstance." The fight was ev identl y out of eighths of the Irish population by the monstrous pro him. No more appeals to physical force, nor talk of tri- seeding should inflame the public mind in Ireland uruphant millions—nor trumpet, summoning his retainers to to a pitch of irrepressible excitement. This reproach this broad field and that fair mountain—whether the the Government—rail as its supporters may at those recorded or the fabricated scenes of Celtic prowess—all sub- The who denounce the ill-advised and indefensible act — s ided from royal riot into " the better part of valour." collision of arms degenerated into that of chicane . Forme of cannot roll away. The blunderings which have oc turbulence, obsolete for many years, are now again resorted tn. curred in the course of the proceedings may " Aggregate meetings"—an innoxious imbecility—are called be attributed to subordinates. The Times may for; petitions are to be prepared—the prosecuting parties be- deplore " the way in which Irish placemen dis fore the Court are to be abused—national movements are to be suspended, or rendered susceptible of no better than a paltry charge their duties," and ." the manner in which an galvanic impulse. Hopes are insinuated that Government English Government is likely to be served." The may relent ! and withdraw its no longer despicable charges ! instructions to strike every Roman Catholic name To all this we answer—execute the laws. Surrender them— from the panel was, manifestly, the orders of the and you, the Queen's Ministers, will be abandoned by them ; Government. The idea was conceived in the spirit and we, the unoffending portion of the Queen's subjects, may which would subjugate by intimidation a people have to seek the protection of our lives and properties from the , heartless, ruthless, and finally futile bayonet. Therefore, and it lacks the generosity to propitiate by treating to the last we say, for the sake of civil g overnment, execute the them as fellow-citizens ; and is a practical exemplifi laws ; meet evil repert and good report—meet corrupt knavery, cation of the never-to-be-forgotten fulmination of the and calumny, and falsehood—meet licentious incitement, by Lord .s but does so in a wa which—if the writer Chancellor Lyndhurst—" The Irish people a re even-handed justice. temperate, unflinching , and , when o n ce ;1 victorious—merciful, if you will. We have condemn ed, as The Times endeavours to justify the pro unauthorised by equity and integrity, the gross assaults made ceeding ; y upon the Crown and its officers for the strict performance of of the argument be not deemed insane, and there their unquestionable duty—with regard to the formation of the lore not answerable for his own acts, and whose acts jury. It appears to us that setting aside the mischievous male- ought -not to be allowed to damage others—must be volence of such conduct, nothing could be more glaring than its taken as demonstrative of the insecure tenure on folly. Was it for the so-called representatives of the Irish which Ireland is held by the British Crown under a " Liberals" to hold out to mankind the whole body of the Roman Catholic gentlemen as leagued and identified with O'Connell Tory Ministry. and his accomplices in this conspiracy to overthrow the State ? STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle infers, Was it for Mr. Pierce Mahony and Mr. Forde to tell the from the impunity hitherto indulged to Mr. Cobden people of England—" Your Government in Ireland shall not and the Leaguers, that the Repeaters ought not to be suffered to enjoy the acknowledged rights of plaintiff or pro he prosecuted. To this we reply, " Wait a while." secutor in a court of justice against the enemies of the Im p erial Crown, if it should turn out that the individuals affecte d by Mr. Cobden and the Leaguers, whatever sums of the exercise of such rights are members of the Church of money they may exhibit upon paper, whatever' con- Rome ?" Is this the pretension of the Roman Catholic body, verts they may gain among the silliest of silly people that individuals appertaining to it shall be allowed an exemption ,—" foolish lords,"— and they have succeeded in from these restraints of law to which all Protestants are sub catching three of the £oftest heads in the jected? Is that the equality so preached about by our libera tors—that while a Protestant repealer is quietly struck off the House of Lords—whatever the Leaguers may panel, a Roman Catholic repealer shall be continued thereon, Fay or do, they are at present simply con on pain of a universal outcry? The clamour amounts to this temptible. Let the Leaguers remember that Mr. acknowledgment, and no less—viz., that all Roman Catholics, O'Connell and his associates had their "day of without exception, are to be considered as de facto conspirators a g ainst the union ; that their religion is at once to absolve them race," a much lon g er da y than the Lea g uers have from the consequences of all transgressions, both temporal and -et had ; that the Repeaters had " three warnings," eternal—to guard their persons in every conflict with human whereas the Leaguers have not yet had one. Let law, and to confer on them a charter of impunity. Our justifi- them, then, not be jealous if the O'Connellites are cation of this reasoning we do not scruple to state—namely, prosecuted and they are not ; all in good time. Let that one and all of the individuals excluded in this instance by the Leaguers, if they are really candidates for peremptory challenge of the Crown were avowed and known members of the Repeal conspiracy; against the collective martyrdom, speak out as 'plainly as Mr. O'Con words and deeds of which conspiracy the State prosecution has nell spoke at Mallow, Clifden, Tara, and our own been directed. Dispute this, and legal government is brought ever memorable " Mullaghmast of the Martyrs ;" to a speedy end. We may just add, that, from the most above all, let them organise military processions, recent proceedings of the town council, the speech of the late and meetings of ten; of thousands to threaten Lord Mayor, and his proposed petition for an act of amnesty to the public peace. But no ; the last they neither can the firebrands of the Corn Exchange, appear to have had some more of trickery and somewhat less of gratuitous childish- nor will do ; cannot, because even hundreds will not ness than we at first suspected. The simple-souled alderman assemble, unlared, at their call; and if they were to a ppears to have hatched a plot for purloining an act of grac e take part in any very public procession, according to to the Repeaters, that they might the more easily, as a return late experience, it would be a procession in their for the Royal mercy, carry on their seditious manoeuvres un molested.— Times. favour to some shallow horse-pond. At present the League is merely an object of disgust and contempt to the country, and it hourly be comes more loathsome and contemptible ; but the rule is " De minimis non curat lex," and they who are appointed to put the law in motion, only upon proper occasions, act wisely and constitutionally in winking at petty follies, and even at crimes that are only ridiculous. Perhaps the time may come when the League will be properly prosecuted as a swindling conspiracy—but we confidently predict that it will never be worthy of a State prosecution in any other aspect. "The Government unable to enter the Ests against the repealer of the corn-laws ! " In what county of England could such a pro position be gravely maintained without provoking a burst of laughter ? Let the League dispose of Mr. Ferrand, who alone is more than a match for them, and even then they will have enough to do, before they can be in a condition to challenge the Government. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JAN. 12.—There ' has been a very evident improvement in the demand for foreign wools during the past week, and a firmer tone has in consequence been given to prices. ENGLISH WOOL. MARKET, LEEDS, JAN. 12.—Sales of combing wools are readily effected, and prices con tinue gradually to advance. Clothing wools are firm but do not yield higher prices. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JAN. 12.—We have to report a gradual and steady improvement in the demand for all descriptions of combing wools, and, as the market continues to be very barely supplied, the advance demanded last week is now fully obtained. No movement in short wools. LEEDS.—There has been a fair quantity of goods sold at our Cloth Halls this week, considering the time of the year. The principal articles in demand have been plain and fancy Tweeds, And low cloths for export, but fine and middle cloths still continue in very little - demand. Prices continue unaltered, al though wool is higher. There are, however, no very heavy stocks, and if there should be a very moderate demand in the spring, an advance in price must take place. A few houses are busy in the export trade, but in the warehouses generally there is little doing. BRADFORD ' MARKET, JAN. 11.—There is a dis position.on the part of the merchants' to lay in stocks of pieces, seeing that goods are far. below the price 'of the raw material, and the manxfacturers refuse to sell except at advanced prices ; knowing that the further increased cost in the production, by the late advances in yarns, will not enable them to meet the buyers. Scarcely as much business was done as last week. The recently advanced prices for wool have caused the spinners to act with great caution, for many have old contracts at prices very disproportionate to the raw material ; and what sales are now made are chiefly for the home and Delaine trade, the prices of last week being generally realised. There continues to be a full average business doing in all kinds of combing wools, and the rates of last week are fully maintained. Noils and Brokes are more inquired after; the stock being low, higher prices are acceded to. . MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had rather less animation in our cloth market this week than of late, but this circumstance does not appear to affect the firmness in the market, as stocks are uni versally low. Most parties (sellers) seem anxious to wait • - the arrival of another Indian inail before they enter into fresh arrangements, which they might do at old prices. It is probable that the temporary and comparative stagnation of trade in China will continue a short time, so that it will require a few weeks to test the reality of the present firmness. The velvet trade is brisk, and likely to continue so. The silk trade is not so healthy as could be wished : some weavers are out of work, and a few limited as to the quantity produced. Twist is without any de cided change; the change, however, if any, is favour able, and prices rather firmer. BARNSLEY.--The - linen trade continues steady %Uhl:nigh the improvement is not so great as it is in many other branches of trade, yet the prospects for tie present year are encouraging. —Leeds Mercury. TIMES.—The Greek Kalends have arrived. The day which the most sanguine never hoped to see— the day the indefinite remoteness of which rendered it an almost impossible unit of time—has dawned upon the inhabitants of St. Stephen and St. Benet Sherehog. Alderman Gibbs has published his ac counts; and when the world has recovered from its first surprise at this announcement, it will be prepared to hear the startling news that the vestry has audited them and passed them. There is—according to the most celebrated metaphysicians—a feeling of pleasure produced by astonishment. Whether it be that the excitement caused by an unexpected event acts upon the system by stimulating the languid circulation of the blood, and dispelling the heaviness which a monotony of occupation causes to weigh upon the human frame, we cannot undertake to say; but we believe it to be an admitted fact that the sensation of pleasure invariably results from the excitement of surprise. If so, what happy fellows the inha bitants of St. Stephen, IValbrook, and St. Benet Sherehog, must be ! For it has been their plea surable diversion to ascertain not only that Alderman Gibbs has given an account of his official receipts and expenditure, but also that the vestry has audited them ; and not only this, but that the Alderman makes out the parish to be his debtor to the tune of eighteen hundred and two pounds three shillings and sixpence; and, more than all else, that the auditors of the vestry have authorised the aforesaid balance to be paid over to their calumniated and dilatory creditor. One thing is clear—either that the Alderman is one man picked out of ten thousand, of admirable self-denial, exalted contempt of gain, and un bounded generosity, or else—but we will not state the alternative. But there in another thing which is equally clear, viz., that to men - of less self denial and less virtue than the Alderman, this system of giving 18 years' tick for parish disburse ments presents innumerable opportunities for some thing very like fraud. Only fancy a private gentle man authorising his steward to receive his rents and pay away money without ever asking, or, if he did ask, without enforcing, an account of the respective receipts and expenditure ; and this indifferent manage ment to be continued, not for one, or two, or three, but for nearly twenty years. Qr, imagine the trustees of a charity appointing a secretary to col lect subscriptions and to lay them out for certain definite objects, and yet never extracting information as to the mode of expending the money until twenty years had elapsed. Would not such wean be thought The Rev. Dr. David Ritchie, for many years minister of St. Andrew's Church, and Professor of Logic in the University of Edinburgh, died on Wednesday at a n advanced age. lie had long been in Ind health. _, :; . MONDAY EN JANUARY la, if 344. an idiot, and such trustees unfaithful to their trust? Alderman Gibbs' accounts run over a period of eighteen years. As might be supposed, they include items of the most heterogeneous kind. Coals, can dles, organ-blowers; funerals, carpenters, plumbers, lecturers, vergers, sextonesses, and parish-clerks. Here are draughts for a costive Jones, there are pills for a dyspeptic Seroggins ; Mrs. Tibbs' midwife and Mrs. Brag's casual nurse ; shoes for small boys, and stuff gowns for charity girls, jostle Dr. Waters' yearly salary of 40/, as parish lecturer, and Mr. Chappell's bill for the firecock in Bond-court. And whenever there has been the most incongruous assort ment of parochial necessities in one page, the next page illuminates the inquiring mind with a long suc cession of ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, &c., &c., &c. All this may be quite right and correct. There may have been so many shoes bought in one week, so many petticoats in another, and so many midwives in a third, and black draughts in a fourth. The organ tuner, the organ-blower, the sextoness, and the glazier, may all have been punctually paid, and paid out of Alderman Gibbs' pocket too. Still we maintain that it would be a much more business-like proceed ing to audit the accounts every year, and spare both the purse and the feelings of the payer, as well as preserve the parish from the continued visitation of intestine disputes. Of course the auditors never dreamed of passing the Alderman's accounts, without having seen the vouchers for them.• What a collec tion of precious autographs Alderman Gibbs must have possessed ! Now that he has no further use for them, we fear he will commit them to the flames. When we think of their number and their value, our memories recur to the fire which consumed the Alex andrian library. We dread a . second fire of London, which shall avenge the Gibbsian wrongs, and extin guish the river Thames. ADVERTISER. —Our Dublin correspondence of this day merits a most attentive perusal, and cannot fail to excite a deep interest. It contains not only an account of the aggregate meeting of the Roman Ca tholics, in reference to the recent exclusion of their members from the jury panel, but also an account of the proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench, on a motion on the part of the traversers to have the trial postponed till the jury list were corrected, as well as on another motion, on the part of the Crown, to have the trials continued—in case of their not being pre viously concluded —through the vacation after the close of the present term, of which it was moved that said vacation shall be regarded as part. The latter motion, made by the Attorney-General, was acceded to by the Court, Judge Perrin only being dissenti'ent, as to the propriety of granting it at that stage of the proceedings, when there were no less than fifteen days of the term unexpired. The motion on the part of the traversers to postpone the trials till the extraordinary omission, to which we have already alluded, of certain names from the jury list were supplied, was refused on the grounds that there was no party directly charged with the omis sion, and that the Crown appeared before the Court in the light of an ordinary prosecutor. In concurring in the view of his brothers on the bench, however, Judge Perrin remarked, " I cannot but think that there was great negligence and gross want of care in the way in which authentic documents have been treated, and I am not prepared to say that the whole was the result of accident." Mr. Moore, in applying for the postpone ment of the trials, stated that the names of twenty seven persons, of whom twenty-three were Roman Ca tholics, duly recognised by the Recorder himself as qualified to be on the jury -list, were omitted, either by " mistake or fraud," and subsequently, upwards of sixty individuals were excluded, in a manner of which no satisfactory explanation has yet been attempted. Such is the present phase of the State prosecutions in Ireland. What is to be expected from them ? Nothing, save to make " confusion worse confounded." The manner in which, from first to last, the prosecu tions have been conducted is sufficient in itself to give a triumph to the traversers, even in their conviction. It is the weight of public opinion which gives solidity to law.—" Packed" juries, as is already but too. well known in Ireland, may convict, and partisan judges may condemn ; but happily the time is past for general integrity to submit to such foul desecrations of common justice. The State prosecu tions in Ireland, after what has already taken place, can have no other effect than to sink their promoters deeper and deeper in public ignominy and execration. Had the traversers violated the law, they might, even in Ireland, be punished by the ordinary forms of the law's administration ; but when the legal officers of the Crown, who ought to be the foremost in setting an example of the most scrupulous impartiality, de scend to the petty and disgusting quirks, quibbles, and subterfuges which from the first have polluted the present prosecutions, the only effect of the trials, in whatever manner they may terminate, must be to make the people more and snore disgusted and in censed against the Government under whose adminis tration such abhorrent irregularities can have place. SURREY SESSIONS. DANIELS V. THE POOR-RATE OF WEST MOULSEY. This was an appeal from an additional sum of 3001. as a poor-rate for Moulsey Hurst-course. Mr. Willinger and Mr. Conner appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Chambers, who came specially, with Mr. Bevill, were retained for the respondents. From the evidence adduced to the bench, it appeared that the Hurst contained 79 acres, and that in December last a rate of 328/. was made for the race-ground ; the ground of- appeal was, non-occupancy at the time the rate was made, and also that the course was not rateable property, and that it only ought to have been rated as farming land. Mr. Daniels held the race-course, together with other land, under Lord Ho tham and Sir 6eorge Berkeley, but there was a clause in the agreement, that for a period of twenty-one days at the summer races he should remove his cattle, and give up pos. session to his landlords, in order that booths, stands, tents, posts, rails, &c., might be placed in the ground for the accom modation of the public. at the races. Mr. Daniels himself received no profit from the races, but, on the contrary, it was deemed an injury and inconvenience to him ; and it was also proved in evidence that, until the year 1840, no attempt was ever made to levy a poor-rate on the ground, as profits de rivable from a race-course. On that occasion an appeal had beers made against the rate, but the parish did not take it into Court. Mr. CHAMBERS, on behalf of the parish, now argued that the Hurst was clearly rateable, and that the tenant was liable who was in possession at the time the rate was made. The races had now become exceedingly popular and attractive, and the ground was let fur 3001. for the two days. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to call witnesses to prove the revenue which was derived, and said that if Mr. Daniels gave up pos session to Lord Hotham and Sir George Berkeley, no doubt there was a deduction in his rent in consequence. Mr. Bates proved that previous to the death of his father, who held the land before Mr. Daniels, he had made a calculation of the money received for the summer races, which he estimated as follows :—Twelve gambling booths, 450/. ; stable standing, 100/. ; thimble riggers, 75/. ; drinking booths, 2001. ; stand ing of carriages in the inclosure, 3501. The Spring Meeting was not so profitable, and he hod that put down at 501. There was also a cricket club, which produced Si. per annum. There were private snatches, shooting, and other national sports, which produced a great deal of profit, but how much he was not enabled to state with accuracy. The Learned Counsel contended, therefore, that by the statute of Elizabeth, Mr. Daniels was clearly liable to the rate ; the race-course had local advantages. Epsom Grand Stand, and the Lord's Grounds were rated to the poor, and there was no possible reason why Moulsey Hurst race-course was not liable. Several witnesses proved that Mousley races were improving every year, and that Queen's Plates were run for, and there was also the Surrey Stakes, which made them exceedingly attractive, and the races were attended by thousands of persons. The Court confirmed the rate. Appeal disallowed. Costs 40s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) • CITY POLICE COMMITTEE. A young man named John Eagle, driver of the En. deavour omnibus, plying between Gracechureh-street and the New Cross Station, wearing badge No. 7,003, was summoned by the police before the sitting magis trate, Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood, for causing an ob • structiou in Gracechureh-street, and for an aggravated assault on an old man, of the•name of Cope, on Friday week. A solicitor appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty to the charge. City police-constable No. 532, stated that on Friday afternoon he was placed on duty at the top of Cornhill. At about half-past four o'clock he saw the Endeavour omnibus coming up the hill, the defendant and his con ductor sitting on the box. Just before them was a cart containing an old man, a butcher, of the name of Cope, who was driving steadily,. and following the lino of other conveyances. On their coming nearly to the top of Cornhill the defendant whipped the horses to turn the corner into Graceehurch-street ; there was not sufficient room, as the defendant could plainly see, but their in tention apparently was to annoy the old man, and to throw his cart out of the rank, for immediately the pole of the omnibus caught the back of the cart and threw it, horse and all, completely round in an oppo -. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, Jun. ]3. THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK V. THE KING OF HANOVER. The MASTER of the ROLLS gave judgment in this case, which was argued last term. The suit was instituted by the Duke of Brunswick, who was deprived of his duchy by a revolu tionary movement in 1830, while the Duke of Cambridge was Viceroy of Hanover. At a convention of the Germanic Diet, the plaintiff's brother (William) was invited to take unon himself the government provisionally, but the diet left it to the legitimate agnati of the family to provide for the future government of the duchy. In 1831 King William IV . arid the Duke of Cambridge claimed to be the legitimate agnati a the family. The plaintiff was then deposed, and his brother William was recognized as Duke of Brunswick. By a deed made in March, 1833, signed by his Majesty King William IV. and the Duke of Cambridge, it was decreed that the Duke of Brunswick, having wasted the fortune which he possessed in enterprises alike impossible and dangerous both to himself and other persons in seeking to damage the just claims which certain persons interested might have upon his property, they considered that the only method of preserving his fortune from ruin was to appoint a guardian over him. This deed then appointed the Duke of Cambridge guardian, which office he accepted, and took possssion of all his property. Upon the death of King William IV., the of ce of guardian was trans ferred by the Duke of Cambridge to the Duke of Cumberland, who had become King of Hanover, and the Duke of Cam bridge accounted to the King of Hanover for the receipt and application of the income of the estates. The King of Hanover then took possession of the estates and property of the plaintiff, and the bill stated that applications had been made to him to account for the income, which amounted to several hundred thousand pounds, but his Majesty had refused to render any account. The present suit was therefore instituted against the King of Hanover, praying that the instrument which had been executed by the agnati of the family, appointing the defendant curator of his estates and property, might be declared void, according to the laws of Brunswick, Hano ver, and Great Britain, and to obtain an account of the receipts and payments. Upon the late visit of the King of Hanover to this country he was served with process in this suit, upon which he applied to the Lori Chancellor to stop the proceedings in limine ; but the application was refused, and his Majesty then filed a demurrer to the bill for want of equity, and denying that the court of equity had any jurisdiction. His Lordship, after stating the circumstances of the case, went at great length through the various arguments used on both sides. He said the plaintiff had contended, first, that as the defendant had appeared to the bill, that ought to be considered proof of his submitting to the jurisdiction of the Court ; secondly, that the Lord Chancellor having refused to stop the suit, tha t was a decision that the defendant mi g ht be sued. Upon this sub j ect his Lordshi p had a pp lied to the Lord Chancellor , who s tated that h e h a d no i n t en tion of giving any opinion as to jurisdiction. The defendant had con tended, first, that as a sovereign prince, he was net liable to be sued ; secondly, that such exemption was not confined to his own country ; thirdly, that such exemption was not lost by his being temporarily resident in a foreign country ; fourthly, that, if liable to be sued for some things, he was not liable to be sued on such a case as this ; fifthly, if liable to be sued in such a case, that the matter was not subject to the jurisdic tion of the court of equity, but could only be tried by some particular court, expressly appointed for the purpose. The plain tiff had 'contended that this suit ought to be allowed the same as between two natural-born subjects of this realm—that being a subject of Great Britain, he could not throw off his allegiance upon becoming Sovereign of a foreign country—that the law of England did not prevent foreign sovereigns from being sued here—that the law of nations and the interest of mankind showed that justice should be done all over the world—that the Queen of England was liable to be sued in &proper form. His Lordship said, what had been established as to the right of a foreign prince living in this country was involved in some difficulty ; wh'en a foreign prince prosecuted a bill here, he certainly might be made party to a cross suit in the same matter. There had been occasions in this Court where some funds were to be distributed, and, fur the justice of the case, it had been found necessary to make foreign princes parties, but it had never been decided that a foreign prince could be compelled to come in and submit to a decree in this Court, but only to be allowed to make a claim ; failing to do so, after an opportunity had been given him, he would not perhaps afterwards be able to make another claim. In the present case the defendant insisted that under no circum stances could a foreign prince be compel led to submit to a decree, and that any such attempt would be an aggression against the state and people of which he was sovereign, and might lead to a war • and that such risks ought to be avoided. The most influential argument in his Lordship's mind was, as to the im munity of ambassadors. It was said that the law having granted immunity to ambassadors would not refuse it to So vereigns themselves ; on the other side it was said, ambassa dors who came upon business ought to have immunity in cer tain matters, but princes who came upon pleasure needed not such immunity. There was, howeyer, no English law upon the subject, and the question could only be determined accord ing to the law of natio ns . It was said by some wri t er s t h at the only guide we h a d i n suc h cases was reason. It was very difficult here to come to a s atisfactory conclusion ,• the whole case was replete with diff ic ulties. It was admitted that am bassadors should have immunity because they could be punished by their own sovereign, but a prince not being subject to any one in his own country could not be punished at all ; but, on the other hand, :if the Court were to make a decree against a foreign prince it could have no power to enforce its orders. Jus tice could only be administered under a jurisdiction having power to enforce its decisions. His Lordship said he had given the case his fullest consideration, and he thought it must be considered upon the whole, according to the law of nations, that a foreign prince was exempt from the jurisdiction of.the court of the country in which the prince may be. residing. The interest of mankind required that justice should be done to all, but where obedience could not be compelle d, and j ustice was not provided for by treaty or otherwise, and en f o rcin g it by means of the state would be the cause of war, an exception must be made. Cases had occurred where an ambassador had been a subject of the sovereign to whom he was accredited, and it had been agreed that then he would not enjoy total immunity. It was said that an ambassador continued to be a subject where he was before a subject, but according to what was considered the law of nations it must be seen what acts of his were the subject of discussion. The most general rule was, that every person should be liable to the courts of justice, and amenable to the law of the country where he resided. It was clear that a Sovereign, having been formerly a subject of an other country, could pot be released from that legal stibjectitirs Which he previously oNted. His Lordship thought Mint aperson came up and was instantly assaulted by the sol )t was licit Mesh tO any of the opinions ft/ Consider dier, That person was the complainant. Witness went to the that the immunity of the Ring cif Hanover was modified by statiou-house to state how she had been used. The complainant his duty to the Queen of England. He' had always continued did not speak a word to the soldier before h he appeared to was ill-usedwitness The his liability and subjection to the law of Ens.;and, and since soldier mlg,lit have been drinking, but e he had become King of Hanover he had been so Ls' from to be more wicked than drunk. renouncing his claim as a subject owing allegiance to the A footman named Wise proved that he had left the corn- Queen of England, that he had actually come over here, and plainallt net more than a minute bef3re the assault took place, renewed his oath of allegiance, and had taken his seat again as and he perfectly well recollected the witness Thompson coming an English Peer. He came to this country. not as King of up and telling the polies that the soldier had just been ill-treat ' Hanover only, but as a subject of the Queen of England ; and ing her, and afterwards had runovergod struck the complainant. he, therefore, ought net to be exempt from the power of the j The complainant's solicitor said he had . a host of most re- his Queen of England. It could never be consistent w ith j ustice s p ectable witnesses in Court to speak to thse character of that exemption should be allowed to any person without there client. to being some power also in return. The Kine of Hanover Mr. Haanwicic said it was wholly unnecessary call them, might come to England, might be guilty of acts Contrary to the for the evidence clearly proved that the charge h.: .d been law—he might even sit in the Privy Council, and give impro- trumped up by the soldier, in order to cover the unjustifiable per advice to the Queen—it could not be supposed that he assault he had committed when drunk. Nothing could be more should hold himself free from the Courts of this country and abominable than such an infamous defence, and if the soldier yet commit any illegal acts he thought fit ; he could not be al- received a punishment of two years' hard labour for his con lowed to enforce contracts or make claims here without being duet, he would get no snore than he richly deserved. He liable to submit to the law of the country. The defendant was should go as far as the law allowed, and inflict the inadequate a Sovereign Prince, and inviolate in his own dominions, as penalty of 51., or two months' imprisonment. The corn well as in the dominions of any other prince to whom he was plainant left the Court with an unblemished character. not also a subject, but in this country he still remained a sub ject, and as such he owed a duty to this country. His Lord ship said, in his opinion nothing would prevent the defendant from being compelled to do justice in his character of a subject, but still he thought the defendant was exempt from being sued here in respect of acts done by him as King of Hanover, al though liable for any acts done by him as a British subject. In such a suit as this against a Sovereign Prince, being also a British subject, it perative that the bill should show that the decree sought wira p inst him as a subject, and it ought to appear on the bill that the case was one to whieh special immu nity ought not to be extended. There were strong reasons to believe that only as King of Hanover was the defendant ap pointed guardian to the Duke of Brunswick; and, connecting all the acts, his Lordship was disposed to think that the deed was connected with State affairs; but on this occasion it was not necessary for him to give an opinion upon that. The ques tion he had to consider was whether, under the circumstances of this ease, the Court had jurisdiction, and his Lordship's opinion was that the acts of the defendant were not acts in re spect of which the defendant was liable to be sued in this Court. The demurrer must, therefore, be allowed. THE ALLEGED . FORGERIES OF WILLS. The apprehension of. Mrs. Georgians Dorey, the wife of Mr. -Dotey,- of Oxford-street, has greatly increased the interest created 'by the evidence against Messrs. Barber and. Fletcher. We give copies of the wills, &c., a letter produced on the three charges, and some par ticulars respecting Mrs. Dorey. "In the name of God, Amen. I,' Eliza Burchard, spinster, formerly of Cooper-street, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, and late of Rostock Mecklen burgh, in Germany, but now of New Bond-street, Bath, in the county of Somerset, being of sound mind, me mory, and understanding, do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following :—I give and bequeath unto my niece, Eliza Burchard, who is now living with me, the sum of seven hundred pounds stock in the Three-and-a-116 1 f per Cent. Re duced Annuities . ; also three hundred pounds stock .in the Consolidated Three per Cent. Annuities, both stand ing in my name in the books of the GOvernor and Com pany of the Bank of England in London: I also give, becitiettth unto her, my aforesaid niece, all my money, securities for money, goods, chattels, estate, and abets, of nature soever and wheresover the same shall be situate at the time of my death. And Ido no minate, constitute, and appoint my said niece sule execu trix of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making 'void every other 'will or wills at any time heretofore by me made., and do declare this to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof, I, the said Eliza Burehard, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this fourteenth day of. October, in the year of our Lord, one: thousand eight hundred and twenty -live. (Signed) " ELIZA BURCIIARD (LS.) " Signed and sealed by the above-named Eliza Bur chard, the testatrix, in the presence of us present at the same time, who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses, in the presence of the said Eliza Burchard and of each other. (Sigu, , d) site direction to where it was going. The concussion was so great as to throw the horses of the omnibus upon the pavement, thereby rendering it impossible fur any person to pass, as also any other vehicle passing along the street, the omnibus obstructing the whole of the carriage road. Witness, perceiving the danger that was likely to ensue by the pole going through the shop windows, caught hold of the horse's heads to keep them quiet, and told the defendant to keep them so. lie, however, continued whipping them, forcing the omnibus against the cart, with the old man in it, who was crying out not to turn his cart over to kill him, and appeared greatly frightened. Witness asked the defendant what he meant by such conduct ? he replied, "He would cut the b-r's liver out ;" at the same time striking the old man over the head three severe blows with his whip. Another police-constable coming up at the moment pre vented any further outrage being 'committed. The old man was much injured by the blows, and to this day has marks of the defendant's violence on the head and hands ; throughout, his conduct was most disgraceful. Cope, who is upwards of seventy years of age, and almost bent double, was next examined, and his evidence confirmed that of the officer. llis bald head and-the backs of his hands were much cut from the lashes of the defendant's whip. Mr. Lamb, a respectable tradesman, residing at N 9. 96, Gracechurch-street, came forward, and stated he never saw a more aggravated outrage committed. Re happened to be standing at his shop-door with a friend, and saw the whole occurrence. A great crowd was at tracted in the street, who cried out " Shame, shaine !" at the defendant's conduct, and it was a matter of much surprise that the officers did not drag the defendant off the box, and take him to the station house. On behalf of the defendant, his solicitor called two witnesies, who, instead of adducing evidence. in paliia tion of the offence, corroborated every fact that had been stated on part of the prosecution. Mr. Alderman Woof) commented severely upon the . defendant's conduct in horsewhipping the old man, "old enough to be his grandfather." Unfortunately, the case 'adore him had nothing to do with the assault, as the charge laid in the information was for causing an ob struction in Gracechurch-street. This had been sub stantially proved, and he inflicted the highest penalty he wasempowered by law. Respecting the assault, it was a matter for another Court, which he advised should be applied to. The defendant was then fined 205., and 3s. the cost of the summons, which was paid. GUILDHALL. The Rev. W. Jones was summoned before Aldermen J. Johnson and Humphery to show cause why he refused to pay the sum of 31. ss. for poor-rates due to the parish of St. Gre gory by St. Paul. Mr. Wilkins appeared on behalf of the parish, and Mr. C Pearson, the City Solicitor, was present to advise the Magis trates, as the case was a most important one, and the first which has been brought for decision under the new Act of Parliament. Mr. Jones is the Secretary of the Religions Tract Society in Paternoster-row, and handed in the Act of Parliament passed last session, which exempts all societies " of literature, science, and art," from the payment of poor-rates, provided " that no dividend, gift, division, or bonus, is, or may be made amongst the subscribers." The Act of Parliament also requires that the Society must be supported by voluntary contributions, and that a barrister must certify that it is within the meaning of the Act. This had been done by Mr. , Tidd Pratt, whose cer tificate to that effect was handed in, and this, Mr. Jones con tended, was all that the law required to bring the Society within the exemption, and the rules themselves showed that the Society was entirely supported by voluntary contributions. Mr. Wilkins, on the other side, urged that it was not only necessary for the Society, which was only an underselling book shop, to show that they had not divided any profits, but " that they may not do it." This was an association which could not be said to be for the advancement of science, but on the con trary, and nothing expressed in the Act took away the power which a magistrate had under other circumstances. Mr. C. Pearson said he should certainly advise the Bench to dismiss the summons, or else why should the barrister's certi ficate be given. The parties applying had still a right of appeal to the sessions. After a very long discussion the summons was dismisses, but a very general impression prevails that the decision will be set aside on the appeal. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. - _ Joseph Enzmington a private in the Coldstream Guards , was brought before Mr. H ardwick for final examination on a charge of having committed an unprovoked assault on George Stephen Bond, carpenter, of No. 11, Dorcas-terrace, Hammersmith.' The complainant said he was passing through Hyde-park about seven o'cbck on Thursday evening, having about a ,minute before left a person with whom he had been in com• pany, when he was suddenly attacked and ill. used by the de denfant, who appeared to be drunk. He called for assistance, and a policeman and his friend, who bad not got out of hear ing, came back and took the soldier into custody. In defence, the soldier said the complainan t . wanted to take infamous liberties with him, and thts was the reason why he had assaulted him. The complainant, who appeared horror-struck at this decla ration, asserted that it was utterly false , and , i f allowed, he would bring forward proof to that effect. Mr. Ilaanwzcx having consented to remand the case until Saturday, all rarties were in attendance. Ann Thomson, a young woman, living at 18, Little Garner street, Paddington, said she was in the park about seven o'clock on Thursday evening, when a soldier came up to her, struck her, threw her down on the glass, and wanted to abuse her person, but she resisted successfully, and just at that mo- " AMELIA. RIESLIE. " W. SANDERS." Extracted from the registry of the Prerogative Cour of Canterbury in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. " In the goods of Eliza Burchard, spinster, deceased. " 9:h June, 1841. " Appeared personally Eliza Burchard, of No. 9 Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, in the county o Middlesex, spinster, the sole executrix named in the last will dnd testament of the said Eliza Burchard, formerly of Cooper-street, Westminster, in the county of Middle sex, then of Rostock Mecklenburgh in Germany, after wards of New Bond-street, Bath , in the cou nt y of Somer set, but late of Broad-street, Bristol, in the same county, 'spinster, deceased, and made oath that the said deceased died on or abeut the 21st day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1841, and that the estate and effects of the said deceased which she in any way died possessed of, or entitled to, as a trustee for any other person or persons, and not beneficially and without deducting anything on account of the debts due and owing from the said de ceased, are under the value of 2,0001., to the best of this deponents knowledge, information, and belief ; and she lastly mach oath that the said deceased was not possessed or entitled to any leasehold estate or estates for years, either absolute or determinable, on a life or lives, to the best of the deponent's knowledge, information, and be lief. " E. BURCHARD. " Sworn before me, S. B. Barnaby, Surrogate." In the above affidavit the deceased is described as having lived in Broad-street, Bristol, after her residence in New Bond-street, Bath, as stated in the will ; and this information could have been given only by Mr. Baaber or the executrix by word of mouth to the Proctor at the time of proving the will, Mr. Cox having filled up the affidavit and read it over to the female in Mr. Barber'si presence; and Mr. Barber their gave him a cheque for the duty. The female then signed the affidavit in Barber's presence, and was afterwards sworn. It will be noticed that the'executrix is described in the above affidavit as of No. 9, Great Russeil-street, Bloomsbury. Now it appears that Mr. Barber, on the 10th of June, 1841, being only the day after the affidavit was read, addressed the following letter to the executrix : " 28, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars—Thursday. " Mr. Barber's compliments to Miss Burchard, and will be glad to see her to-morrow morning (Friday) by eleven o'clock, for the purpose of signing the usual applications to the chief accountant to transfer the stock, and to ar range as to obtaining the evidence of Mr. Sanders. " Miss Burchard, 9, Great Russell-street." This letter was returned to Mr. Barber on the 11th of June, 1841, through the Post-office, with the following reason indorsed on the letter:—" Not known at 9, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, or in Little Russell-street ;" signed " J. Crook, J. llewson." The following are exact copies of the documents purporting to be the will of Mary Hunt, and of Anne Slack, extracted from the registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , " I, Mary Hunt, widow, formerly -of Bristol, after wards' of Bath, bat now of Spring. street, London, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, .but in bad health; do make this my last will and testament as follows :—Whereas, I am possessed of about twelve hundred and ten •pounds, in the Three per Cent, Con solidated Annuities in the Bank of England, this I give and bequeathunto my beloved . grandson, Thomas Hunt, mariner. Also all my money, securities for money, goods, chattels, estate . ; and effects of every kind, where soever the same shall be found at the time of my death. And I also make and appoint my said grandson, Tho mas Hunt, sole executor of this my last will and testa ment, hereby revoking and making void all and every other will or wills at any time heretofore made by me; and do declare this to be my last will and testament.. In witness whereof, I, the said Mary hunt, have here set my hand and seal this 14th day of December; in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. (Signed) • " MARY HUNT (L. S.) " Signed and •sealed by the above-named Mary Hunt, as and for the last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at her request, and in her presence, have sub scribed our names as witnesses to the same. (Signed) " JANE ROSE. " MARY HOWARD. " Proved at London, 24th of May, 1842, before the Worshipful John Danbury, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate, by the oath of Thomas Hunt, the grand son, the sole executor, to whom administration was granted, having been first sworn only to administer. (Signed) " CHARLES DYNELEY, " JOHN IGGULDEN, Deputy Registrars. " W. F. GOSTLING, "May, 1842." " I Anne Slack, spinster, formerly of Smith-stree Chelsea, but now of South-terrace, Pimlico, do make this my last will and testament, as follows :—That is to say, I give, devise, and beqUeath unto my beloved niece, Emma Slack, the sum of 3.5001. stock in the Three per Cerkt.' ,Uohsolidated Annuities, now standing in my name on the books of the Bank of England, and also all my money, and securities fur money, of what nature or kind soever, and wheresoever the same shall be at the time of my death. And Ido appoint and constitute my said niece sole executrix of this my last will and testa ment, hereby revoking and making void all and every other will or wills at any time heretofore made by me ; and do declare this to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I, the said Anne Slack, have hereunto set my hand and seal this 3d day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1842. " ANNE SLACK (L.S.) " Signed and sealed by the above-named Anne Slack, as and for her last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at her request, and in her presence, have sub scribed our names as witnesses thereto. (Signed) "JANE PERKINS. " WILLIAM WILLIAMS. " Proved at London, March, 1843, before the Worship ful Augustus Frederick Rayford, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate, by the oath of Emma Slack, spinster, the niece, the sole executrix, to whom administration was granted, having been first sworn duly to administer. (Signed) "CHARLES DYNEGEY, Deputy "March,-1843. " JOHN IG GULDEN, riep.,trars. " S. H. " W. F. GOST.._,ING, Mrs. Georgiana Dorey, who was on Friday examined before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of having termed part of the confederacy, with Mr. Barber and Mr. Fletcher, to defraud the Government of the amount of stock in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduc tion of the National Debt in the name of Anne Slack, and with having also been concerned in a similar fraud in the case of the will of Eliza Burchard, was in the year 1834 before the public as plaintiff, in the Court of Exchequer, in an action of damages for breach of pro mise of marriage. At that period she was Miss Georgiana Richards, and the person against whom she brought the ' action was the Rev. Robert Taylor, the notorious lec turer on infidelity. The damages were, we understand, laid at 2,0001. .Miss Richards had a political acquaint ance with Mr. Richard Carlile. She was then living with her mother and her married sister (Mrs. Sanders) at Bath, as a milliner, and i , t:as considered to be a person of very extraordinary abilities. Three or four years after wards she came to London,accompanied by her mother, and as the family had embarrassments to contend with, she determined to do all she could to diminish the difficulties under which they laboured, and accepted the situation of housekeeper at the Rotunda, on the Surrey sid l e of Blackfriars-bridge, where the Rev. Rob e rt T a ylor was in the habit of lecturing at the time. Mr. Carlisle, who, wo believe, rented the premises at the time, was the individual who engaged her at a salary. The ' Rev. Robert Taylor having had frequent opportunities of see ing Miss Richards, was regularly smitten with heoin telleetual and personal charms, and paid her tOch attention. In the correspondence which passed between them there were the strongest evidences of attachment disclosed, and when the Rev. Gentleman was laid up in Horsemonger-lane gaol, the lady gave the most unquestionable proof of attachment to him. She was, however, but ill-requited for in numerable acts of kindness, for he suddenly broke off the acquaintance, and married a lady who was inure :than , dantly supplied with the gifts of fortune. The jury awarded the plaintitl damages to the amount Of 2501., and the principal witnesses examined upon the oc casion were Joshua Fletcher , t he same p erson, w, ars told; who stands charged with Mr. Barber and her, telf , as confederate in the alleged frauds upon the Gore rn; ment, and Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, her brother-in-law t Wd sister, who have absented themselves. EXECUTION OF SARAH WESTWOOD. , STAFFORD, SATURDAY. — The unhappy ctliPr Sarah Westwood, convicted at the last Spacial. Ls - sizes for the county, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, for 5 10 murder of her husband, ..has been executed. .:kt 1 1 )- pears that the culprit was the daughter of a labou man, living at Churley, hamlet near Burntw Wui ' where the murder occurred. At an early age lir acquired a loose reputation and was discarded by b pareilts, and eighteen months prior to her marriag with her unfortunate victim,, she gave birth to an illegitimate child. Twenty years since her union took place, the fruits of which are several children. At the same house in' which they resided at Burnt wood also Jived a man . named Phillips, who, no doubt, was the priveipal cause of this diabolical occurrence taking place, from .the fact thatit was supposed that he had had a er;minal intercourse with her, and which ' excited the Uniwepy- differences that constantly hap pened bet Ween her and• her husband. • .0n the 9th of :Uove tuber, when the family were' s:l' i sea ted at the dinne; - tab l e , the 'father entered_ and , complained of a pain .his head, and requested bii him ° wife to - make gruel, Shethinki digtd ahat the dinner would not agree l e l vth him. sired,, and he partook of it, t.'ut inquired what Was thel white stuff" that was • flote k ;:ng about on.the top of it.. To this question she gave an evasive answer, and im mediately afterwards the ludo ttunate man was taken' . with a severe fit of. vomiting, and pains in the - stomach, and was instantly - sent to bed, and expired the - same night. The. wife appared 'bat very in differently concerned, and ex pressed a wish to have the. body as quickly • interre d as possible. An inquiry, -h owe ver, took place, and on a post martens examination being Made, it was clearly ascertained that the deceased bad died frote the effects of arsenic. The above was the substance • .of the children's evi dence, and by the exertions of the constabulary force, abundant proof was adduced that she had purchased the arsenic but a few days before, together with, other po is onou s matter, at a chemist's shop, at a village called Worsall. These facts, with other circutmslanceS, so clearly brought the case honie to the wife, Chat the jury, on the trite', without hesitation, returned 'a diet of guilty. k. entente of death .was accordingly passed upon her, ae:..d she wits. 'remciVed. Eince her condemnation she has been daily attended by the Rev. G. Norman, chaplain of the gaol, who has used every spiritual means to bri n g her to a just sense of her condition, and . in answierito7the entreaties made by the worthy pastor to. induce hetAkacknowledge her guilt, she has on all oocasions firmly declared her innocence. Her two youngt st children visited her on Thursday for the last lime. The interview is stated to have lasted about an - hour, h ad on their parting scene presented itself "of a most affecting character, such a one. as not to :be Wished 'for .. again to occur swithin the walls of.this prison.. On the same day •she expressed a wish to see her 'sister and her husband, who were instantly sent for. .On their arrival, hoWever, from circutnstua aces which had been made known to the 'Governor, it was found that, instead of the man. being the husbi ad of the 'wretched woman's sister, it was Philipps, bvr ;paramour; consequently the meeting was rel rused in the most, positive terms. At this disappointement she manifested deep regret. • This morning the condemned sermon was p reacheN in the 'chapel, the worthy minister taking for h i►s the 2d Peter, chap. 1, verso 14, " Knowing' I t es .l aut shortly I must 'put off my tabernacle." Afte r the: service the unhappy creature partook of the s. ment, and she - eifidently . felt the - deepest anguis.'r. at the awful position in which as placed ; in f acts she fainted twice or . thrice. during .its performs sce• Notwithstanding all this, she still t;vowed her c, plete innocence of the murder of her husband Her conviction appears to have given satisfac don throughout this part of the country; as t: o p etition : hat ! • been forwarded to the Secretary of State for a ,jete' mutation of her. sentence. Her age is stated to : IR 4. She appeared deeply distressed as she approach ea the, scaffold, and when' placed under the fatal beam troy. bled - violently. preliminatiea,having been quickly arranged, and the xepe'placed row nd her neck, the WI was drawn, and-the sufferings of. 'the murderess ceased .n this world. DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN A . COAL-PIT .-- - - ELEVEN. LIVES . LOST.-40 .stop the press to OZ. nounce a dreadful explosion. of .fire-tiamp, which to w ! place in Duke. Pit, Whitehaven, on Thursday atizernoo e between three and .four o'clock. The tvhole of the moll in the pit at the time, eleven -in number, were killed, There were also eleven horses killed.—Carlisle JoialW of Saturday. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) • Intelligence has been received in town from Whit e ': haven announcing a terrible coal-pit- explosion, accore" panied by fearful loss of human life, which occurred td the vicinity a that town. between the hours or Ewe s 1 six on 'Thursday evening last. The dreadful event too k place st a colliery called Duke's Pit, at the time if; wa 1 , 11 ! full operation, and arose, it was supposed. from the u rf : damp becoming ignited and exploding in the low er.os" gallery in the pit, where_ no fewer - than sixteen Miner. were at work, and eleven horses, all of whom w. .r stantly.hurled into eternity. Most of the unfor ttioal! sufferers, we regret to say, are married men, and: h¢oß left large families, totally unprovided for, to lament thew dreadful fate. Up to ten o'clock on Friday morning Q' eight out of the sixteen bodies had been recovered. I. THE KE-Ko-KA-KI, A NEW DOMESTIC ANIMIt 1 1 ;. —M. Audubon, in a letter of the 20th .of June let written 110 miles above Port Union, in latitude 4' degrees ten minutes N., communicates th e " disc very of an animal which bids fair to become n r4 ' only a valuable but a domestic one." He had taken r e? fuge in a wood during a storm, and saw two enortnen° beasts at play, somewhat resembling kangikroos. A enr er ,. panion shot one of them; the other fled. " buffalo mountain elk," says M. Audubon, " is nothing in cowl' parlson to this animal in the scale of worth. It sit 3 O n t Its hind legs, its front legs or arms. are sho rt, armed with sharp claws, and it bounds or jurups wfito its hind legs. It has a tail, somewhat like th at 0 6 sheep, about 10 inches long ; and round the iniddle of th o body it has acing of flesh, about 12 inches wide and eig thick in the middle or centre, which produces a lard of oil. On their heads they have kll horns very similar to the horns of the deer , but 0,1 more than eighteen inches long; the head is also shall I very like that of the deer, and has the same k ind teeth ; but what is most remarkable, their coat is of ti). most beautiful fur I ever beheld, of a dark brown colour' The one we killed weighed, to the best of our calnO ly. tions, upwards of 600 lbs., and it measured from the top' of the head to the end of the tail, nine feet four inell e ip We had no sooner killed this one, than some Ind ie , joined us ; they said that in these woodlands sirni j animals were in great abundance. They called it oo their tongue the ke-ko-ka-ki, or juniper ; they fee d o ff grass, herbs, and foliage. Upon observing us take o f the skin, the Indians expressed a desire to have sorec a the flesh, which we gave them. We cooked some, itild found it delicious ; it was white and tender, a nd tee s 7, very similar to veal ; but the ring on the body Iv 0 nearly all oil, and the whole upper part will pr oduce great quantity. The Indians took us to their hut s ' i t o village, which consisted of six families ; there we ri g less than six of these animals domesticated. Two ones, male and female, I bought for some beads. Mirror. ST. ANDRE - WIS.—SIR DAVID BR.EWSTER." t he Wednesday week, the Committee appointed by y id Presbytery for arranging the case of Sir Brewster, met in the session-house of the - - 1 ,%41 Church, to order the serving of the libel ng l ` r i , to, against Sir David, at last meeting of PresbYt•etbe On the officers arriving at the mansion of, o r Principal, it appeared that the gentleman ha' p og dered his domestics not to receive any papers e° a i d from the quarter from which the officers allege d9' had proceeded. The officers accordingly threw th e l d currents into the mansion of the Hanoverian Knights e if• took witnesses that they had duly served it at his dW • ing• house.—Fife Journal. A 0 -1 T - ROSS•SIIIRE RIOTS. thr High Cour t 11E .ie Justiciary, held at . Edinburgh on Wednesdal ao se 'Thursday, scvcral of the parti es i m pli ca t e d in the S e re shire Church riots were t r i e d. Some of them 'l l , O convicted on evidence, and Others pleaded guilty D ype principal offender, Urquhart, was sentenced to months' imprisonment, and the others to six nont _ _ - - BIRTHS. mot On the 7th inst., at the Rectory, Meppershall, BedforasP the lady of the Rev. Henry Howarth, of a still-born soy On the 12th i ns t., a t Harwich, the lady of Lieutenant ti") R.N., of a son. A On the 12th inst., at Clapton-squire, Hackney , O il ' fret! William Smith, of a daughter. stirg e° , °' On the 13th inst., the lady of George Franks, Esq. , Blaekfriars-road, of a daughter gi ell . ° o MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at Trinity Church, MaryLebow' , - to e, eldest son of Richards Jennings, Esq., of Portlan d-1 10V Agnes Catherine Annabella, only daughter of Vice-' Il se; Sir Edward Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., of Cumberland -3° 00 On the 13th inst., at St. John's, Hampstead, Jarneoao, Esq., Secretary to the Hon. East. India C01 n 6., ° Eliza Jane, eldest daughter of the late A. Hardcastlet Hatcham'House, Suriey , ----- 12161). 0 010' On the 9th inst., at Bedford-terrace, High WyeoraA. e , Eleanor Phillipps Kicg, widow of the late B. King, Robe fre On the 9th inst., at Howe - street , Edinburg h, R°i's to bairn, Esq., aged 72. ifi llit On the 9th inst., Mary Harman, relict of t he late , Harman, of Hammersmith. Vi ," On the 9th inst., Anne, eldest daughter of James its Esq., of Epping, Essex. od, Di' i ' On the 11th inst., at Clayton-place, Kennington-O. ' Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. W. Edwards , aged 76, 110 Pi On the 12th inst. , at Hornton-villas, Keusing ton,d° tds l ‘ ford, Esq., of Doctors' Commons. ceS leo On the 12th inst., Robert Sparlirg, Esq.: Of inst., at Grove House, Ham, , il l " B st e r o e e street, : h P Ee i s m iq2 l . i th co. l'f s". On the 13th inst., at Felix-terrace, Islington, the wife of Mr. Samuel Dawes. ur.:Aenjii, . of - - n ij ,INvl 10 Loudon : Printed and Published byAll.l RDO x `-' otr ovi No. 112„ Strand, at The Sux Office, No, I 12 1.,A. the County of Middlesex, Monday, JanoarY 16,1 • la I TIES I Depo: Orders o Mess? Al( kessrs. Mr • Jo 1 14 A prolong oc Palpitat t o )10 IA a nd a fi 14, 0 of °I-.11)1e1 use of it „ NliaL„ P ILI s life. ip this .% 44 m 7tars, oenefil arequ li nany r eceivi b orer Person °uPply .....,' te ll u llivin s avail. Kni " c 1, 111 PUbli(