The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-25 00:00:00

STATE OF CRIME IN IRELAND

At length we are in a position to lay before our
readers—and the country—for the publication is con-
fined exclusively to the columns of the Evening
—the evidence taken before the Select Committee of
the House of Lords ; and we cannot more practically
evince the respect we entertain for the privileges of
their Lordships, and our determination to abide by their
rules, than the having so long withheld the publication
of this evidence, which had been (as many of our pri-
vate friends are aware), transmitted to us by our Lon-
don Correspondent from day to day throughout the
whole of the protracted investigation.—Dublin Even-
n a Mail.
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i —The impartial and most modest Mail goes on com-
placently commenting, after a fashion peculiarly the
Conservatives' own, "on the testimony given by Colonel
Shaw Kennedy, the original head of the Constabulary
force," and characteristically concludes the fine spun
article of sophistry in the following terms :—" We
have thus established (' established !') the fact concisely
—the evidence P ill do so more at large—that Lord
Normanby and his Government, in the face of the de-
claration of the official spokesman of that Government,
took the means most likely to produce distrust in the
Irish Police force. We shall, in the progress of our
articles show what measures they adopted for the pur:
pose of breeding disloyalty among them also : and we
have no doubt that, when the publication of this branch
of the evidence is completed, our readers will admit,
that if the Police force in this country have not been
completely demoralised—turned, in fact, into a corps of
Popish janissaries—it has not been for want of the ex-
ertions, per fas et nefas, of Lord Normanb and his
Government." !! 1 y

A fatal accident occurred last week on the works
of the Eastern Counties Railway, at the back of the Nag's
Head, at Che:msford. A young man named Dorrington
was driving one of the empty railway waggons along the
line, when a lad in play struck at him in passing with his
whip ; to avoid the blows Dorrington throw himself back,
when he overbalanced and fell off the waggon, with his
head upon the trams, and the wheel passing over his neck
killed him on the spot..—Essex Herald.

CHARTIST MEETINGS IN MAN-

CHESTER.

Yesterday evening therewas another Chartist
. meeting in Hulme, held in the usual place, in a field
between the end of Jackson's-lane and the New-road.
At the commencement, about half-past seven o'clock,
there were not more than two hundred persons present ;
and of these fifty or sixty were lads, who with whistles
and beating tin cans slung round their necks, formed the
band. They had two small banners ; one inscribed
" Feargus O'Connor for ever, and Universal Suffrage,"
and the ()dw a redflag, without inscription. There was
also the flag of the Radical Association of Choriton
Row, and Hulm. A cart served for hustings, and a
mechanic named Edward Jones was called to the chair
by a show of hands. A man, whose name we did not
learn, first addressed the meeting in a low voice. The
next speaker was a shoemaker, named George Smith,
living in Providence-place, near Messrs. Birley and
Co's. factory. Of the third speaker we did not
learn the name. The fourth was the Irishman,
Doyle : and the fifth and last was the Rev., W. V.
Jackson, who announced that he might be found every
Sunday, at the place where he preached—Hall-street,
Oxford-road. The most. violent speches were those of
Smith and Jackson. Smith pointed out a man to the
inch, which, by this time, had probably increased to
about 560 or 600 persons, as a man named Quin, who,
be s:id, bad attempted to enrol himself as a m,'-amber
of the Association, and who was there as a spy. The
individull thus referred to (hat whose name we do not
know), on hearing this, ran, and was pursued by up-
wards of a hundred individuals across the field and
acro--s the New-road ; bus; with what result we. did not
ascertain. The pursuers, soon afterwards, rejoined the
me•Aing in a body. Tile Chairman stated that, a meet-
ing would be held at the top of TrAvis-streer'
road, the fAowing (this) evening ; the Fleur to be
taken at seven o'clock. At the close of the Rev. Mr.
Jackson's speech, a gun or pistol was discharged from
the midst of the mob. About half-past nine o'clock,
the meeting was adjourned to next Friday evening, at
the same hour and place. Immediately on the con-
clusion of the Meeting, same one upon the hustings
called out for the Oxford-road division to fall in, and
go to the right about. This was done, and a consider-
able number of individuals -left the place, marching in
procession towards Oxford-road ; the other portion of
the meeting observed no such order, but dispersed in
different directions. Several of the speakers denounced
the police, as the " metropolitan bloodhounds," &c. Be-
sides the Meeting above-mentioned as announced to be
held in Travis-street this evening, there is another for
the same time, convened by placard, to be held " on a
plot of land between Every-street (Ancoats) and the
River Medlock, for the purpose of carrying into effect
the ulterior measures of the Convention. The Rev.
Wm. Taylor, Mr. Roberts, and other friends of the
people, will address the meeting." The chair is to be
taken at seven o'clock ; and at the foot of the bill are
the words, " By order of the Committee, J. Lomas,
Secretary."—Manchester Guardian.