The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MR. O'CONNELL—FACTORY-BILL—POOR LAWS.—
On Monday last Mr. O'Connell made his public entry into
Kilkenny, where he was received with every demonstration
of enthusiasm by his constituents. When he entered Kil-
kenny he was accompanied by about fifteen thousand per-
sons, who attended him to the Court House. Mr. O'Con-
nell was received by the Mayor (Mr. Reed), by whom he
was conducted into the Court House. Amongst inscrip-
tions on the banners in the procession, those which attracted
most attention were the following :—" An effective Poor-
law for Ireland," " Abolition of Tithes, Corporation Re-
form, and Vote by Ballot," " Equal Laws or a Repeal of
the Union," " The Woollen Trade of Kilkenny revived."
The Mayor of Kilkenny took the chair.
Mr. O'CONNELL having first thanked the people in the
front of the Court House who bad done him the honour of
meeting him, and having obtained from them three cheers
for the Lord Lieutenant, and three groans for Lyndhurst,
r then proceeded to address his constituents at a length
through which our space will not permit us to follow him
entirely. The Hon. Gentleman asked, " Is there a man
amongst you discontented with my Parliamentary conduct?
Is there any one who differs from me ?" A person in the
gallery Navin; replied, " Yes, from your opinion of Poor-
laws"—Mr. O'Connell said that was just what he invited,
and he should presently dispose of that question. After
making a passing allusion to the statements which have
been put forward by Mr. F. O'Connor and others, his po-
litical enemies, he came to the explanation relative to his
vote on the Factory Bill. He had refused to afford any
explanation to his assailants, but he would not withhold
the facts respecting it from his constituents. The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman then alluded to the history of
cotton factories as connected with the employment of
children. " In England, for several years, there has
been in the cotton factories necessarily a great num-
ber of children employed, and employed for wages."
" Now (continued Mr. O'Connell), 1 took an active part
in preventing children from being employed before the age
of nine years at all, and that children, even at that age,
should not be required to work more than eight hours a
day. A number of operatives wished to have the time of
labour limited to ten hours a day for every body, old and
young, children and adults. I refused to have anything to
do with that plan, as far as it would interfere with the re-
gulations affecting grown-up people. Yet I was ready to
give protection to the children. Their only property was
their labour. The children of the age of twelve were, on
the Ist March, 1836, that is, the March of last year, to
come under a nevi regulation, and to be subject to be worked
only eight hours a day. Under these circumstances, Mr.
Poulett Thomson brought in a Bill, leaving it to children
arrived at the age of twelve to work as they had theretofore
done, for twelve hours. My determination was to oppose
that Bill. I went to the House to oppose it. The debate
came on, and I found this to be asserted and not denied,
that the cotton trade, instead of being unhealthy, as it had
been described to be, was the very contrary—that the mor-
tality in other trades was as five to one in that trade—
that is, that there are five deaths in other trades for
one in the cotton trade. This was stated as a fact, to
prove the propriety of permitting the children of twelve
years of age to work at this trade, as before. It also
was distinctly stated in that debate, and not denied by
the opponents of the Bill, that if the Bill were not passed,
a number of not less than 25,000 children would be thrown
out of employment—that a proportionate number of men,
probably 10,000, would also be thrown out of employment.
These series of facts are then to be carried in recollection
—first, the healthiness of the trade proved ; next, that the
rejection of the Bill would turn out of employment at
once about 35,000 persons, old and young ; and next there
was to be allowed upon the Bill going into Committee the
appointment of twenty-four inspectors instead of four. I
bethought myself then : I asked myself what was my duty ?
Was I to befriend the children in a healthy employment ?
and I found 25,000 were about being turned out of work.
I found, too, there were not inspectors enough, and that
Mr. Poulett Thompson was ready to accede to Sir Robert
Peel's suggestion, upon his mentioning the propriety of their
appointment. Under these circumstances, I considered it
would be cruelty. to the children themselves if I did not al-
low the Bill to be put in Committee, where the statements
relied upon could be, if not true, shown to be false—and if
false, no one would more readily vote against the Bill than
I should have done ; but if true, it would, I consider, have
been my duty to have voted for it. Mr. Poulett Thom-
son did not come into Committee with his Bill, which makes
me suspect that the facts relied upon could not be proved :
and if they could not, I repeat it, no man would more
readily have voted against the Bill than I should have done."
Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to speak on the' question
of Poor-laws. There was necessarily but little novelty of re-
mark in the Hon. Gentleman's address. He began by ad-
mitting that " it was the first duty of a public man as well
as of a Christian to take care of the poor," and professed
that he would " become a violent supporter of a Poor-law"
the moment that it was shown to him that a Poor-law
would be for the good of the poor ; but he was averse to
any measure that would impose additional taxes. " I am
(continued Mr. O'Connell) fbr every Act that can give re-
lief to the poor—l would get justice done to them—l would
put an end to absenteeism—l would have the landlords
either to reside at home, or not to have an estate in Ireland,
if they have one elsewhere. I would have capital to ac-
cumulate in the country—l would get the people of Ireland
work—for it is wages and not alms that they want. My
plan is to elevate man in the social state. We have al-
ready done much in this respect. There is, however, one
Poor-law that I will support—a Poor-law that will increase
hospitals-a Poor-law that will increase dispensaries—one,
by which all sick poor persons will be fed, taken care of, and
attended, and by which they will be provided for, after
their recovery, until they are in full health. I would pro-

vide for all eases of-accidents and sickihi ti!hone sex'og.
For these, and all iaieh cases, I have always said there was
rot half r9.lief,erioupi-h .proVidcd in this country. lam fo!
a poor-idw to,impositoti, an,'
gives no security for inteMiidtaiia
Referring to the present GOVOintitent, the lion. Genflon.ln
said, "Let us have but one twelvemonth more of Lord
Igrave's government in Ireland, and I will be able to
gig :!qa.t.t tlart of my Poor,lawg. Having spoken to you
of what was ri eiYh'cVYet ire Parliatren±).- Ist me tdi you
what I mean to do not;. g'tl to Parliament to sup-
port the present Ministry.—(tae'df: 'mat cheers.) If
there a 6 a ri4a'rs' aniVngst you. who. differs Nov mo on
this point, let him ,a 3; ffear;ditar,. cheers, and cries
of " Not one of us.") Well, then, .1 thither at your
direction to support the. present Ministry.-,,!ctiTheers.)
Ido it pverything that an honest and thorOtsgli
Radical can slim-tort thi!!'tr, b ; for in my heart's core I
am a Radical."—( Cheers.) This is the -first Government 1
ever lthew doing justice to Ireland.—(Hear, licar,) Let
us keep iii die llellidt.irrre, Administration for twelve months
more, and instead of 60 lidrieo, Irish Members as at pre-
sent, we will be able to send DO Merribefs., to Parliament,
and then, I ask, who could resist the demand of Ire-
land for justice ?"—(Hear, and cheers.) The Hon. Gen-
tleman having referred to the opposition which the Irish
people had to expect, and the manner in which they were
deserted by English Radicals, upon whose sympathy
they calculated, called upon his constituents to rally
round the General Association, to appoint pacificotors
in each parish, and to forward to Parliament petitions
for shortening Parliaments, for increasing the fran-
chise, for vote by ballot, and the abolition of the
blood stained tithes. That was his plan of operations.
Mr. O'Connell then noticed the insult put upon Irishmen
by Lord Lyndhurst, who designated them aliens in blood,
in language, and in religion. The Hon. Gentleman con-
cluded his indignant commentary on the words imputing
inferiority to the Irish by saying, " I am not a man of
blood ; on the contrary, so much am I a man of peace, that
I am contented to bear being designated for my sins a
coward, because I will not violate the law of God. This,
however, is, I say, an insult that must be wiped out. I tell
myself, I tell my sons, it must be wiped out, and, if the
necessity arise, with blood.—(Hear! and cheers.) I do
say, that, in my opinion it were better that Ireland as a
nation suffered that with which the late Sir Joseph Yorke
threatened her—that she were thirty-six hours under water
—that the entire nation were extinguished, than submit to
this. I preach not Wood, I venture to prophecy it never
will come to that—that the energetic union of Irishmen
will be sufficient—that the insult will be atoned for when
Irishmen combined together shout for liberty and equality
—the liberty of law, and the equality of privileges ; that
that shout will be heard in the tones of an entire people—
that it will be a downfall to bigotry, and extinguish the
enemies of our country."—(Hear.)
At the conclusion of Mr. O'Connell's speech he was
called on to support the Kilkenny Railroad. He replied,
amid loud cheers, that he had taken on himself the con-
ducting of that Bill.
Mr. FINN, M.P., and Mr. SULLIVAN, the late Member
for the city, subsequently addressed the meeting, referring
principally to the subject of Poor-laws. Mr. Sullivan ex-
pressed himself satisfied with Mr. O'Connell's explanation
respecting his opinions on that all-engrossing topic at this
moment.
Thanks were then voted to the Mayor, and the meeting
separated.
S. CRAWFORD, ESQ.-Mr. O'Connell's reply to this
gentleman's letter, inserted yesterday in The Sun, con-
cludes thus :—" Hostility to the Mulgrave Government
of Ireland is, in my humble opinion, tantamount to hosti-
lity to the people of Ireland. It certainly will find few re-
sponses amongst the hitherto misgoverned Irish nation."
The Chair at the Association yesterday, was to be taken
at one o'clock, on account of the quantity of business to
be done.

POOR LAWS MEETING.—Last Tuesday there was a nu-
merous meeting of the parishioners of St. Mickan, in re-
ferring to which the Freeman says—" We rejoice heartily
to see men of all persuasions uniting cordially together in
favour of our suffering and destitute countrymen. If any-
thing could add to the importance of the proceedings, it is
the gratifying fact of almost all the speakers being Protes-
tants, and a Protestant clergyman joining his Catholic fel-
low-citizens in advocating the claims of those who have
been rendered " poor indeed" by a long course of misgo-
vernment and oppression.
CONSERVATIVE DINNER.—There was, on Tuesday last,
what the Mail characteristically calls " one of the most
splendid entertainments ever witnessed out of the metro-
polis." This exceedingly splendid entertainment, it is an-
nounced, " was given by the nobility, gentry, and indepen-
dent freeholders of the county Carlow, to their respected
representatives, Colonel Bruen and Mr. Kavanagh."
As we cannot find room for heralding any part of the
convivial feats or transferring to our columns the orato-
rical flourishes of the gentlemen who figured on this occa-
sion, we will adopt the description of the meeting given by
their own organ. " The meeting (says the Mail) was in
every way worthy of a county the most distinguished in
Ireland for the intrepid assertion of its rights, assembled to
do honour to two men, not surpassed by any in the whole
Conservative force, for their pecuniary and personal sacri-
fices to their cause, their undeviating principle, and we will
add, their enlightened moderation. Two hundred and fifty
gentlemen sat down to dinner, not comprising all that is
respectable and distinguished in the county, because al-
though all that was respectable was in the town for the
same purpose, the largest room in Carlow could afford no
greater accommodation. There has been no meeting of
the same number composed so entirely of men of rank and
property ; and regretting, as we do, that Mr. Kavanagh
was wholly incapacitated by ill health from being present, it
was really a proud thing for any man to witness, as Colo-
nel Bruen did, so vehement an expression of public feeling
for his and his colleague's services, accompanied by an inti-
mation of unbounded personal esteem."

Mr. Anson, Private Secretary to Viscount Mel-
bourne, is recovering from a severe attack of influenza.
MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—
President, Earl Stanhope ; Treasurer, Henry Cope, Esq.,
jun. ; Secretaries, George G. Sigmund, M.D., and John
Foote, Esq., jun., F.R.C.S. ; Librarian, 'William Henry
Judd, Esq. ; Conservator, Frederick John Farre, M.D.
Professor of Botany ; Charles Johnson, Esq., Professor of
Chemistry, Thomas Everitt, Esq.; Professor of Materia
Medica, Michael Ryan, M.D. ; Professor of Toxicology,
John Davie Morries, M.D.
IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING LAW-SUIT.—
A case of very great interest and importance is soon going
to be opened in one of our colonies. The difference of cir-
cumstances in life of the contesting parties, the interesting
facts which will be brought before the public, and the
large sum in question (about 400,0000, will probably
attract to it the attention of Europe. The plaintiff is a
very poor lady, residing in Sweden, of the name of I'ilecn,
and the defendant a gentleman of immense wealth in this
country. The plaintiff having a long time struggled
against obstacles, arising from her poverty, has now found
means to carry on a suit for recovery.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S NEW WORK, " ASTO-
RlA."—Washington Irving possesses, in an extraordinary
degree, the felicitous power of casting over reality the at-
mosphere of romance, without diminishing its truthfulness.
The tone of his mind is singularly poetical, and whatever
be touches takes the hue of his feelings. Whether he
treads the gorgeous halls of the Alhambra, or tracks the
red Indian through his remote and sublime haunts, or chro-
nicles the wonders of early adventure and enterprise, he is
equally pictorial, .devotional, and eloquent. Astoria' is
one of the most perfect, beautiful, and picturesque produc-
tions of this distinguished writer. Based upon a founda-
tion of facts amongst the most curious and exciting in the
annals of enterprise, this narrative, with its startling epi-
sodes, its strange portraits, its dramatic circumstances, and
marvellous Panoramas, may be affirmed to belong to the
regions of romance without compromising the sobriety of
truth.—Atlas.

A sub-Committee, consisting, of the following gen-
tlemen—viz., Messrs. Weston, Redhead, Cory, Evans,
Smith, and Brookes, having been appointed to select an
appropriate piece of plate as a testimonial to B. Hawes,
Esq., M.P. for Lambeth, have decided upon a splendid
candelabrum, to weigh 450 oz., the height to be two feet six
inches, and to be presented to the Hon. Member early in
March next.

The Hilary Examination of Attorneys is appointed
for Monday, the 23d instant. The examination will take
place as usual, at ten o'clock, at the hall of the Incorpo..
rated Law Society, in Chancery-lane. The number at pre-
sent appointed to attend considerably exceeds the former
Terms, being no less than 138. The candidates are to
leare their testimonials of qualification with the Secretary
of the Law Society, within the first seven days of Term,
the last of which was Wednesday, the 18th instant.
We understand that no material change is contemplated by
the examiners, either in the course of proceeding or in the
nature of the questions to be put. The inquiry will ex-
tend to ail the branches of Law and Practice, namely, the
Common and Statute Law, Conveyancing, Equity, Bank.
ruptcy, Criminal Law, and the Practice of the Courts in
each department.—Legal Observer.
—The superlatively ridiculous affair of the Spanish
Inquisition in Broad-street is not likely to escape the sati-
rical pencil of a certain celebrated caricaturist.
On Monday morning, a hostile encounter took
place at Paris, in the Bois de Boulogne, between Major
Andrews and Lieutenant Barker, both in his Majesty's
service. The meeting arose out of a discussion upon mi-
litary tactics. After three exchanges of shots, the Major
was mortally wounded in the breast. A stray ball struck
the arm of M. Gamboyine, Mr. Barker's second,

SUN EXPRESS EXTRAORDINARY.

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746 Try EDITOR OF THE SUN.
crLASGOW, JAN. 18, 1837.
SlR—Tile extraordinary and unprecedented despatch
with which you have given to the public an account of the
,plendid banquet to Sir Rol)ert Peel in this city on
niday last, and received back by the ordinary post on
Tuesday, demands: even from a political opponent, some
trifling acknowledgment ; and I do it with the more plea-
sure, because accident brought me in contact with the ac-
tive and intelligent gentlemen by whom your extraordinary
express was so cleverly managed. On my way through
Argyle.street, at a late hour of the night, 1 wa.s attracted
by an assemblage of three or four hundred persoDs, oppo-
site the Black Bull Inn, and, on making inquiry, was in-
formed that one of the London Papers was about
despatching a report of the important proceedings which
had
,rust taken place at the Pavilion. Little dreaming that
the honour of giving exclusively the first intelligence of this
brilliant display of political feeling would he left. to one of
the organs of the Liovement party, I mingled with dr)
crowd, and was astounded when I heard two gentlemet
who were strvggling through the dense mass, exclaim—,
" Make way for The Sun Express !" The crowd instantl:'
did 070 way—the important despatch was thrown over the
shoulders of the fearless rider—the animal which he be-
strode dashed off at a pace which bid fair to render any rail-
way communication between this and your metropolis un-
necessary, his scarlet coat, laced hat, and streaming ribbons
flashing like a meteor in the wind ; and I joined most
cordially in the hearty shout of acclamation which rent
the air from the assembled multitude as an involun-
tary tribute to the skill and enterprize which had
conceived and executed this arduous undertaking. I re-
turned to the dinner-table with the gentlemen to whom
the conduct of the express was entrusted, where I had
the pleasure of spreading a tale which was received with
a buzz of astonishment and admiration, mingled, I must
say, in many quarters with a good deal of incredulity, and
of joining Tories and Conservatives of all shades in pledg-
ing "the gentlemen of The Sun" ip full bumpers. What-
ever my opinion of the political principles advocated by
The Sun may be, I sincerely trust that the enterprizing
spirit which has prompted such unparalleled and expensive
expresses on every matter of interest or importance, may
meet the reward it so justly merits in an ample share of
public patronage.--I have the honour to be, Sir, &c.,
A CONSERVATIVE EYE-WITIIESS.

The Sun Paper, by most extraordinary speed, obtained
and published the report of the proceedings at Glasgow up
to their close, on Friday night, so early as Sunday morn-
ing, half-past one o'clock. The distance is four hundred
miles.—Taunton Courier.
The lack of local intelligence in our columns of this week,
will be amply compensated by the interesting and spirit-
stirring speech of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow. It is un-
necessary for us to make an apology for withholding notices,
which, whatever their interest, must necessarily fail of ex-
citing such interest as the speech we have reported nearly
at length. The metropolitan newspapers were fully sen-
sible of the excitement this speech would produce, from
the pains they took to have express reports at so early an
hour. The Sun received its report at half-past one on
Sunday morning, thus performing a distance, presuming
the reporter to have left the meeting at eleven o'clock, of
nearly 400 miles, in the incredibly sort space of twenty-
six hours and a half. The report was re-expressed through-
out the kingdom on Sunday, and we have to acknowledge
the courtesy of the spirited proprietor, in favouring us with
so early a copy of his Journal, containing nearly the whole
proceedings of this memorable meeting.—Bury and Suffolk
Herald. _

By " a most extrordinary express," received at The Sun
Newspaper Office on Sunday morning at half-past one
o'clock, the spirited proprietor of that Journal was enabled
to give a full report of the speeches at the Glasgow Ban-
quet to Sir Robert Peel on Friday evening, and copies of
The Sun were circulated in these towns by nine o'clock on
Sunday morning, thereby anticipating the re.ct of the me-
tropolitan press by twenty-seven hours.—Roche,cter, Chat-
ham, and Stroud Gazette and Weekly Advertiser.
DINNER TO SIR R. PEIL.—The expresses of T,le Sun
London newspaper have been employed on this occasion
with extraordinary effect. The account of the dinner at
Glasgow, about four hundred miles from London, reached
Birmingham in about forty-eight hours after the feast com-
menced ; and we ourselves received a copy from Messrs.
Mansell and Co., news agents in Birmingham, on Sunday
evening—an instance of expedition which, we believe, is
unexampled in the annals of newspapers.—Wolverhampton
Chronicle.

It is a proud thing to witness the involuntary homage
paid to the superiority of the Conservative leaders. When
was half the anxiety felt to read a speech of Lord John
Russell ?—risum teneatis ?—or even of Lord Brougham, or
Lord Grey, that has been displayed, by Whigs and Radio
cals, as well as Tories, to read the speech of Sir ,Robert
Peel at Glasgow Even a " Liberal" paper, The Sun--
and it would be unjust on such an occasion not to notice
its wonderful exertions—published in London, early on
Sunday, a long report of the dinner, which had thus been
brought, in an almost incredibly shbrt-space of time, a dis-
tance of four hundred miles.—Brighton Gazette.
SIR R. PEEL'S SPEECH.—It is but due to our enterpris-
ing London Contemporary, The Sun, to notice the extra-
ordinary exertions it made in procuring a report of the
Glasgow meeting. The account was expressed to London
in little more than twenty-four hours, was printed to the
extent of nearly nine columns, and reach this city by the
Emerald coach on Sunday evening about half-past nine.
It is also clue to our aforesaid contemporary to state, that
though similar surprising efforts are now made by other
London papers, The Sun was the first, some years ago, to
set the example, and that it is particularly and almost
exclusively distinguished among the evening Press, for the
fullness and lateness of its intelligence. In the eventful
Session about to commence, as we are quite sure a similar
display of energy will not be wanting, so we trust it will
meet with a corresponding return on the part of the pub-
lie.—Bristol Gazette.

DINNER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—We copy the following
from an expressed edition of The Sun newspaper. 'the
dinner took place on Friday evening, at Glasgow, after
which this and other speeches were delivered. The report;
being eight and a half columns in length, small type, Was
expressed to London, a distance of 400 miles, in about 24
hours after the meeting, immediately printed, and forwarded
to all parts of the kingdom within 200 miles of the metro-
polis by Sunday evening. The extraordinary rapidity with
which important events have heretofore been circulated
through the country by The Sun, has been matter of sur-
prise and astonishment to the whole kingdom; but the dis-
patch used in this instance exceeds that of any former oc-
casion. Yet the spirited proprietor promises to endeavour
to outdo his former exertions, during the eventful Session of
Parliament now at hand. To doubt for a moment that such
herculean efforts and tremendous sacrifices as must then be
called into requisition, will go unrewarded, would be a libel
upon the commonsense of the British public.—Lca»zing-
ton ChrOitide.

DINNER TO Sin ROBERT PEEL.—We are indebted to
the spirited proprietor of The Sun for a copy of that paper,
which reached us early on Monday morning, containing
a report, extending eight columns, of the proceedings
at the dinncr given on Friday last, at Glasgow, to Sir Ro-
bert reel.—Barrow's Worcester Journal.

Through the astonishing exertions made by the con-
ductors of The Sun newspaper, that publication on Sunday
morning contained a lengthened report of Sir Robert Peal
speech, delivered at the dinner at Glasgow, on Friday even-
ing. The company did not sit down to table till five
o'clock ; and allowing for the time occupied in discussing
the feast, in the toasts which preceded that of their dis-
tinguished guest, the Right Hon. Baronet's address, and
the subsequent speeches—then the copying the short hand
notes—the distance accomplished (400 miles in about
twenty-four hours, and full half the time in darkness)—and,
lastly, the publication at seven o'clock Sunday morning--
when, we say, all these are taken into consideration, grati-
fication gives place to wonder at the excellence of their ar-
rangements, and the astonishing celerity with which the
task was accomplished.—Sherborne Journal.

The Russian Ambassador is expected to be joined
by his nephew, Colonel Pozzo di Borgo and his Lady, in
the course of a month. A new and elegant town chariot,
which was ordered previous to the departure of the Count,
in the summer, for Savoy, is now ready for him.
The General Steam Navigation Company's fine
new steam-ship the .Nrptune, waslaumhed yesterday from
the dockyard of Messrs. Green and Wigram, at Black-
wall. The Neptune went off in gallant style, and was
the admiration of the spectators who witnessed the pleasing
scene. This splendid steam-ship is intended, we under-
stand, for the Hamburgh station, and is the sixth vessel
of the first class launched by the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company within tho last six months. This Company
have also a steam-ship of the first class now building at
Leith, and another at Liverpool, which will be launched
in a short time.

Yesterday evening a meeting of gentlemen cow
netted with the medical profession was held at Exeter Hall.
George Webster, Esq. of Dulwich, in the chair. The
chairmain explained the object of the association to be the
relief from the disabilities under which licentiates of
the College! of Surgeons laboured by reason of their not
ranking with those who had studied at the Universitieg•
and also from their being precluded from all Court ap-
pointments. The remedy proposed was an union of the
branches of the medical profession, so as to form one
general faculty of medicine, who should have the power of
electing its own officers, and managing their own affairs•
The address, which want of space has compelled us t°
curtail, was received with much applause. After passing
various resolutions the meeting separated.

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1837.

The South Nottingham Conservatives gave a dinner
to the Earl of LINCOLN, at Newark, on Tuesday last,
in return for which his Lordship indulged them with
a long speech, in which he recapitulated all the ini-
quities of Ministers, and expressed his solemn and de-
cided conviction that they were no better than they
should be. As the Noble Earl, like his illustrious
father, is a man of many words and few ideas, the
task of analysing his oration, is a comparatively easy
one ; we have merely to state that he was snappish,
vituperative, and gave utterance to a world of q d
c ou y
generalities, and 10, our task is accomplished I One
point, however, in his Lordship's speech we must not
omit to notice. He expatiated in most indignant terms
•n the " black ingratitude" of the House of Com-
mons, in having compelled Sir ROBERT PEEL to
quit the sunny region of the Treasury Bench, for
the shady and inclement climate of
Opposition.
Now where was the " black ingratitude" here ?
What reason had a Reformed Parliament to be
grateful to the man who did all he
possibly could
to prevent its ever being assembled in that capacity ?
We know of no claims that the Right Hon. Baronet
has on the respect or forbearance of the Liberal party
but,
in the House of Commons. He has never strugled
with them ; never fought side by side with them
;g
on the contrary, has always—if we except a few occa-
sional flirtations with them, which had no meaning,
and were meant to have none—opposed their projects
for the public good, with all the energy and all the elo-
quence he could muster. What cant, then, in the Earl of
LINCOLN to talk of the " black ingratitude" of the Re_
formers towards such a man I We firmly believe that at
this very moment there is no one who hates them with
"ell a perfect hatred as Sir ROBERT PEEL. For does
not their frankness put to shame his insincerity, and
their straightforwardness afford a striking contrast to
Ilia tortuous course of n policy ? Moreover, are }to
a constant thorn in his side—a stumbling-block toy
his ambition ? Assuredly they are, and every one
knows right well that it is not in the nature of ambi-
tre
ion either to forget or forgive, at least until its own ends
aeeoMpliShed. We trust we shall hear no more
°I this sickening twaddle about the " black ingratitude"
of
have the
Reformers towards Sir ROBERT PEEL. ThEy
d
, one justice to his political claims, and more he
" no right to expect at their hands, whatever the
arl of LINCOLN may say to the contrary. In fact,
if there has been ingratitude any where, it has been
among the Right
Hon. Ba's party, who
throughout the latter part of the lastown Session evinced
a strong
disposition to abjure his supremacy, and take
up vvith Lord
LYNDHURST as a leader instead.

We have once or twice had occasion to notice the
vagaries
of ries of an Irish P
namPresbyterian Minister of the
e COOKE. This consistent person, though be-
longing to the dissenting community, and not ashamed
to pocket the free-will
of a
congregation to
whose spiritual concerns, a it would appear, he can
afford to devote but a
small portion of his time, takes
every opportunity that he can either make or find
of holding forth against the
voluntary support of reli-
gion. The ruling passion of the m is e
fancies himself the cleverest fellow
in an
t vanity. H
he world, and
the labour of his life—a most
unsuccessful
has proved— labour it
has been to persuade other people to
agree with him on this point.. He has not the
least scruple of conscience as to the truth or false-
hood of what he asserts, possesses a forehead of
brass, and is gifted with much low cunning and
considerable volubility of tongue. These are his
sole qualifications for eminence. Having worn the
subject of the voluntary system threadbare, and
added nothing to his reputation by his itinerant exer-

tions in behalf of endowed establishments, he has now
himself to a new mode of acouring notoriety.
The PIOUS and Rev. Doctor has commenced a crusade
against the national system of education in Ireland.
In his progress through Scotland on this holy mission
we find by a report in a Morning Contemporary, Le
reached Perth last week, where he did not meet with
exactly the reception he had anticipated. Notwith-
standing the preparatory steps which had been taken
by the bigots of that town to ensure him success, the
Rev. Gentleman came but second best off in his rude
assault upon men much better than himself. A meeting
was held in one of the churches, and the Rev. Gen-
tleman attacked the national system, the commissioners
who superintend it, and part cularly the Archbishop
of DUBLIN, with his usual intemperance of language
and disregard of truth. He happened, however, un-
fortunately, to challenge any one present to answer
him. A voice ;vas heard from the further end of the
church, saying, " I accept the challenge," which
seemed to disconcert the Doctor not a little.
He had now committed himself too far to re-
treat, though, during the remainder of his speech
his tone was greatly lowered. When he had finished,
the Rev. Mr. MAssIE came forward, and in a
speech of great power, refuted the charges the Revd.
Representative of the Synod of Ulster charged him
to his face with uttering what he knew to be grossly
false, and defied him to bring any proof of the calum-
nies he had alleged against the individuals whom he
had abused. The worthy champion of intolerance
seemed quite crest-fallen. All he had to say for him-
self was, that he would take another opportunity of
replying to Mr. MASSIE ! How pitiful these fellows
are made to look, when they are bearded as they
ought to be !

We request the particular attention of our readers
to the report of the proceedings of the Middlesex
Magistrates on Wednesday last, on the important
Appeal case of the parish of St. George, Hanover-
square, against the County-rate of Middlesex, and we
are sure it will amply repay the most attentive perusal,
because it throws a flood of light upon the powers of
the Magistracy to levy and expend such immense sums
of the monies of the County-rate payers.
The points of this important case are so clearly de-
veloped by the lucid statements of the Learned Counsel
for the appellants, that to attempt to give an abstract
of them would be but to re-state that which is so clearly
put in the Report.
The strong grounds upon which the case of the
Vestry of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square,
rests, will be apparent to the most superficial readers ;
and the difficulties into which the Bench may be
thrown, or the confusion into which the County credi-
tors may be involved, is no answer to the case—either
the rate appealed against is a legal one, or not. It
will be seen that the judgment delivered by the Learned
Chairman is that of an acute lawyer, placed in a most
embarrasing position, by the force of the arguments
brought by the Counsel for the appellant parish against
the validity of the rate of the 27th of October.
We cannot but congratulate ourselves for the
publicity we have given to the proceedings of
the Middlesex Bench on the very point of the
legality of making the County-rates, when we some
two years back presented to our readers the fact of
an enormous amount of thousands of pounds of un-
collected rates, when a new rate for current expenditure
was ordered and enforced. We now see from our report
that the Learned Chairman announced that the amount
of uncollected rates at the present time is only 521.
Such then is one important result of a searching en-
quiry, and we say with the great. Jurist, " that publi-
city is the soul of justice."
We have no doubt that the rate-payers of the county
of Middlesex will see the cause why the expenses of
that Asylum were not defrayed by the Special. rate
ordered by the 12th section of the Act, in preference
to levying the sum out of the ordinary County-rate, as
directed by the repealed Statute the 48th Geo. 111.
c. 96—because if the Special-rate or rates had been
made, the Magistrates possessed the power to charge
the landlords with one-half of such rate and the tenants
with the other half. We differ in toto from Mr.
BROUGHTON as to there being no substantial differ-
ence in the two modes: because if a Special-rate or rates
had been made, the attention of the rate-payers would have
been alive to the subject, and no doubt that thousands
of pounds expended on that Asylum would have been
saved to the rate-payers. The difficulties in which the
Magistrates have involved themselves are most apparent.
We leave Mr. ROTCH to explain how it is, that now he
is quite clear as to the legality and the advantage of
the Special-rates, when, as Chairman of the Sessions,
for several years, he assisted in making the ordinary
County-rates applicable to the expenses of the Lunatic
Asylum. As to the distressing situation in which the
Chairman stated the Magistrates were placed, by being
at the same time judges and parties accused, we have
no doubt the Legislature will, in the next session of
Parliament, relieve them fro:n any further embarrass-
ment on that point.

The whole of the Paris papers of Wednesday have
been received. The debate in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, on the address was followed up on Tuesday by
speeches delivered by M. SAUZET, ex-Minister ; M.
II EMUSAT, and M. MAUGUIN ; and, on Wednesday,
by speeches from M. HERVE and M. ODILLON
BAItROT, the latter of whom had not concluded when
the mails left Paris. M. SAUZET boldly denounced the
policy of the Government as unworthy of France.
It was insincere, paltry, and contemptible. What,
was the Government afraid of it, that it trembled so ?
Why did it sign a treaty,, which it had neither the
courage to defend or to execute ? M. RENrusAT en-
deavoured to shield the Government, from the attacks
thus made upon it. He ves of opinion, that it ought
to have taken active measures to maintain the peace
of Spain, upon the death of FERDINAND. But
things now wore quite another aspect, and a line of
policy which was suitable for that time, was quite un-
fit for the present Spain had chosen to adopt insti-
tutions then not recognised, and therefore it was for
her now to defend them. M. MAUGUIN spoke at •
great length against the present policy of France, which
he declared to be the very worst that could be adopted.
The war in Spain was not a war of succession, but
of principles. England stood single-handed on
the one side, assailed by the united influence of
. Austria, Prussia, and Russia, while France dastardly
and suicidally affected neutrality at the expense of her
honour, her principles, and her safety. Either Eng-
land or Russia would reap the benefit of the supine-
ness of France. He had carefully studied the language
and the conduct of Ministers, and he was convinced
that at heart they were favourable to Don CARLOS.
Their position, therefore, was a most unnatural one.
But it was for the Chamber to compel them to do
their duty to France. The QUEEN wanted money
more than men, and France, as in the case of Greece,
ought to grant her a loan. This would be the cheap-
est way of crushing the power of the Pretender. He
would never consent to see thus English and Spanish
alliances—the best France had—sacrificed, and there-
fore he would vote against the paragraph. This
speech produced the appearance of great excitement
in the Chamber. In the sitting of the following
day-, M. HERVE made a miserable attempt to
grapple with the solid arguments of M. THIERS
in favour of intervention. His defence of the
Government was ridiculous, but he persevered in
it for nearly an hour, to the great annoyance
of his auditory. M.
ODILLON B4RROT next ascended