The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

IR ELAND.

DUBLIN, FRB. 19.
The question whether the jury in Mr. Osman
Duffy's case will be unanimous engrosses much atten-
tion here. One of the jurors asked a great many
questions in a very odd style; bat the prisoner's friends
have no expectation that this particular juror will be
a boot-eater. There are one or two " characters" on
the jury, aLd many still think that there will be no
verdict, more especially as one of the jurors is so ill
as to require the attendance of a physician. Yester-
day
ithejurorr guarded by police, wire taken out
drivinginto the country for the sake of getting fresh
air.

After I closed my despatches yesterday afternoon,
the cue on the part of the crown having closed,
Mr. Butt, Q.C., argued at some length that no legal
evidence had, been 'clawed to sustain the charge that
the prisoner had aided Mr. Smith O'Brien in levying
war, inasmuch as the record of his conviction had not*
been produced, it being weixesary, as counsel soft."
tended, where guilt is denntive, to prove the crinß
Utility of the pkincipal In order to ensure the ocetviess
tion of the accessory ; and, thereon, Mr. Duffy was)
entitled to an acqeittaL Comma quoted find and
Hawkins, Sir Michael Foster, and other authorities. •
The court would not pronounce its decisidit Him;
although it entertained little...doubt in the sisitqw,* bat
would defer doing so till Monday.
The court then adjourned to this den t eL MAI
Butt will speak.
In Archbishop Murray's instructions kr Lent read
yesterday at the Roman catholic chapels, then was
one passage which has seised much remet, desiring
that during Lent certain prayers may be offered up
by the clergy in thanks for the country being saved
from the horrors of a civil war. It is asked, why was,,
not this done sooner? and many recollect that Arch-
bishop Murray offered up a ruff pontifical high mass
for the liberation of Mr. O'Connell from Richmond
prison. But people here have ceased to wonder at
anything, from-the variety of singular changes they
have seen within the last few years.

SCOTLAND.

PUBLIC MEETING IN_ EDINBURGH AGAINST

THE GAME-LAWS.
A public meeting was held in Edinburgh on Wednes-
day, under the auspices of the committee of the
National Anti-g►me-law Association, to consider and
adopt a series of resolutions condemnatory of the moral,
social, and economical evils of the game-laws. The meeting
was numerously attended; gni amontst those present were
a ceasiderable number of tenant•larmers. The Lord Provost
in the chair.

Mr. WILLIAM CHAMBERS moved the first resolution,
which was as follows: " That the moral, social, and econo-
mical evils arising from the game-laws exist undiminished—
that these laws are continued only for the supposed amuse-
ment of • comparatively small number of individuals, and by
whom • large proportion of game cases are adjudicated—
that they are the source of much irritation to the tenantry,
and of frequent disputes between them and their landlords—
that a great expense is entailed upon the ceuntry by the
prosecution and punishment of offenders against these laws,
and by the increase of the poor-rates arising therefrom—that
infringement, of these laws are not in general regarded as
violations of the mural law—that a great amount of human
food is wuted and destroyed—the progress of agricultural im-
provement checked—the land rendered much less productive
—and idleness, dissipation, misery, and crime, created
to • lamentable extent among the rural population."
Mr. Chambers said it had hitherto been said that this was
peculiarly a farmer's que.tion, and that the people of the
cities had nothing to do with it. He altogether repudiated
that assertion ; he considered that whatever concerned one
class of the community concerned all the others, and that the
people at large, equally with the farmers, were sufferers
from the deficiency, caused in the amount of human food,
from its destruction by the game. Mr. Chambers referred to
the bad feeling which the game laws engendered between
the landlord sad the tenant, and to the great amount of
grime of which they were the origin. What they wanted
was this—the entire abolition of the game laws, because any
half seems. was oat of the question. There was a time whet
• half measure would have been acceptable to the country,
but the time was altogether gone by for that. (Applause.)
It had been asked, " Would you permit anybody to go upon
another man's groped, and not be liable to punishment ?"
He replied, by no Means ; but let any man who trespassed
upon his nenthbout's property be sued for trespaw, and not
for the killing of these wild creatures. Therefore, let game
be pot under the same category*. pigeons, or sparrows, of
butterflies, if they would—(a laugh)— and it found upon any
ona'sigrounde, let them be killed and appropriated by thou
upon whose property they were found. That was the true
common manse view of the question, and to that it must come
at last. (Applause.
Mr. HOPIS seconded
the motion, which was adopted
with acclamation.

Mr. CHARLES COWAN, M.P., then addressed the
meeting, and said that he believed that the game laws were
founded upon injustice; Hist they were subversive of the
rights of the cultivators of the soil—a large and important
class, upon whose labours we all depended ; and that, like
all other infractions of right and justice, they brought with
them a fearful retribution. He believed it was impossible to
overrate the mischief which was entailed upon the commu-
nity at lugs by the operation of those laws, whether they
looked to the demoralisation of the agricultural labourere,the
great increase in the expenditure which they occasioned, and
still more, perhaps, to the had feeling which they caused be-
tween the proprietor on the one band and the tenant on the
other.

Mr.WILSON, in movies the second resolution, contended
that on this quea'ion there was no middle course. The
game laws must be swept from the statute-book. The second
resolution was as follows :—" That the recent alteration in
the game-laws, whereby those wbo formerly possessed the
right to kill t area many now do so without the payment of a
certificate duty, leaves wholly untouched the manifold evils
occasioned by the preservation of game except only as regards
a very few small proprietor —thst this act tenant farmers
have obtained no additional power to protect their property
from the ravages of wild animals, and they are still plaftd
in the anomalous and unjust position of being liable to pay
the full commercial valve for the use of the soil, while the pro-
prietor may, by means of the game, indefinitely consume and
destroy the produce.
Provost M'LAREN, of Leith, in seconding the resolution,
said he was convinced that it would tend greatly to the
benefit of all classes in the community, if the game laws
were repealed. The landlord wail I receive an increased
rent—the tenant would erjoy uninjured the fruitfulness of
Ms ; and the public at large would be gainers by the in-
enwd of food. The resolution was then agreed to
unanimously.
Mr. J. F. MACFARLAN proposed the third resolution,
which was as follows :—" That the only effectual remedy for
these grievances is the total and unconditional repeal of all
the laws relating to game ; and this meeting strongly recom-
mend that petitions to parliament for this purpose fil fdrtlt-
with sent from all par's of the kingdom, and that the mem-
bers atlas different constituencies be requested to euppert

tbeeriis; eril briber. that all ether constitettoeak slime
esiperwrered is until these obnoxious laws be
teem the seatate-beet"

Mr. H. CRICHTON said that he seconded the motion
with hie whole heart and soul. He had eat upon game cases
fro.
;"enhatred :orthethedgamareasony,
ailiathatweth:
anhet"midittol otse:ewCthaisiFeca'ssinase:ofikYiskieunheart-infity
u."
' nee Gould go, the least pomade infliction was put upon the
poor victims. He was himself sprang from the aristecracy,
he was eouneeted with about a doses noble sad ducal fami-
lies in this country—mid though it was an " ill bird that
fyled its sin nut," he really would desire, for the take of the
themselves, that those vile game laws were done
aststaPg. (Applause.)
Mr. MUNRO, Fowls Mains, moved the fourth resolation,
which was as follows : " That petitions founded on thee* re-
solutions.signed by the chairman, be transmitted to both
_houses of parliament ; that Lord Hetherton be requested to
present and support the one to the House of Lords, and Yr.
Cowan that to the Hones of Casomons; and also that the
medial thetas of the meeting be given to Mr. Bright and
the other members of perl.ament who have so ably and
strenuously advocated the total repeal of the game laws."
The Rev. Dr. RITCHIE seconded this no:dation. They
had lately heard a good deal about colonels in the army being
meroluat tellers; hat he *bought the @opponent and pro-
moters of the gesee laws Wt with as much propriety be
called baesasia and right honourable poulterers—(a laugh)
--tat ft vela bet that well not be disputed that a large
amber of the pads awl adds sportsmen this *tunny
were la the regular haMt of killing. and sending the game
which their teaser tad to be sold in the public mea/tet.—.
Abridged teen the theesesos.

PROVINCIAL.

REVIVAL OF THE OFFICE OF ABBOT IN REMAND.
—The eeremosy of meet:rating an abbot took plans at tha
monastery of Mount Sant Bernard, is Charawsod Fonts* on
Sunday, when the Rev. I. Palmer, otherwise Father Bet,
nerd, the superior of that monutery, was installed in that
dace, and. presented with a crosier, rings, witme,.ead glom%
each of whiettwaramparately blamed and spoisklod whit
holy water by the Bomanlet bishop of the aidlead distils*,
Dr. Tfllathorms. This the d* mession of the kind is
England since the , some interest was ski
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distance' wen present ta whams the
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Bishop Waring was present, bat took 4 ..:4:it, , , •
part in the proceedings. Several other 6 • ,r.. .. A c ill vg
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gpasa were preetaat, uwere also Abbot lik ,
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rather liessord is lb awl sad psi salsa. The sereseey
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to Mars is lie pease, etch the mail soaps, dispersed
widest Mai wayildisi.
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P0180111!ki WITS BWAITIALATIL—A case bu jut
warred at Tasstriis 'Sae the life of a ice boy, four pus
of Nom woe smilesi by putskiog of pert of oat of the
psea eresseses s site &versa a Cbrbtates cake.
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sod the lei. char livell=te, died has k. deem.KE.
BRISTOL CATIIIMIAL.--The dispute about eliaant-
lea the eirvies I. this per, Rye a conespondent, pro-
Wes be bed tea seises sleasNbs. The
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isiefereave to the opiates tithe ebrey sad , resolved
et
flak swedes to mead the order ia which they directed
that she mimeo sad Warp ahead as longer be intoned by
lbseasiating siabeer ; bat tbs Dna having bees out
Wiet the Issuer, sad ast eseewrift is des aew rassiaties,
Wed ea eider es eslad eisary la tialh be dbesie that the
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CLERICAL.
Tammany.. Rey. A. B. actisWolizz, to Great
amp C. 0., IhrOalk, OW. Nor.
Bor. 0. Poria. W Nokia P. C.
Rev. C. Duerr, Pidellgaii ILAN
1104 vie ; pot., Bp. of Auge.
Bov. I. W. lompooo, to his AbbAts C., Itomotoot.
Bow. H J. Woofs. to Wise Hy& P.C., Hato. die. loth.; pet.,
Bp. of Lorloa.

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