The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The verdict against the Dublin Evening Malik com-
mented on with considerable severity by all the con-
temporary Dublin Journals. The Pilot says—" The
public in general are astonished at the amount of da-
mages found in the case of the ex-Sheriff Jones v. the
Evening Mail. We certainly cannot help looking upon
it as quite extravagant, under all the circumstances, and
we have no doubt that it will operate injuriously on
such portions of the public as are involved in the li-
berty of the press. It is curious to observe the impar-
lialtly with which jurors deal out their amercements
when publishers are concerned. No matter who the
defendant may be in a newspaper action—whether
Orange or Green, Tory or Radical—the mulct is cer-
tain to follow, and to be excessive. A verdict for 300/.
is, in reality, a penalty of 6001. Only think of this as
a satisfaction for all that the Evening Mail did to ex-
Sheriff Jones !! ! If Mr. ex-Sheriff Jones were com-
pelled to pay proportionally for his exercise of the li-
berty of speech, what sum would it take—how many
tens of thousands of pounds—to make the aggregate of
his costs and damages ?
ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.—The subjoined is a copy
of the Address to the Queen, voted to her Majesty by
the National Trades' Political Union. It is to be for-
warded for presentation to the Marquis of Normanby

Address of the National Trades' Political Union, to

the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, &c.
" May it please your Majesty—We, your Majesty's
dutiful and loyal subjects, the tradesmen, artisans, and
citizens of your city of Dublin, in public meeting as-
sembled, beg leave most humbly to approach your
Majesty with the expression of our most heartfelt and
dutiful loyalty and devotion to your Majesty's sacred
person and authority, and to assure your Majesty
that we have read with much pain several treason-
able speeches, truly attributed and distinctly brought
home to certain Members of Parliament, clergymen,
and municipal office-bearers, uttered in apparent con-
cert at several parts of your Majesty's empire, and
applauded by certain military commanders, bearing
your Majesty's commission, in which the undisguised
proposition has been set forth of displacing your most
Gracious Majesty, under the pretence of a supposed
conspiracy, that your Majesty was about to supersede
some of the laws of the land,' when it is evident to all
the world that no monarch that ever sat on the throne
of England interfered less in the construction of the
laws, or more humanely in their application.
" We take leave also to assure your Majesty that we
repudiate in the strongest language, at all our meetings,
the several violent and unconstitutional attempts of our
fellow-subjects in England and Wales to obtain favour-
able changes in the laws and suffrage and representation,
for the extension of which we are fully as anxious as
they possibly can be, but which we are of opinion can be
best and speediest and safest obtained by appeals to the
judgment of the nation, its representatives, and its
rulers, rather than to physical force, which we abhor.

" Whilst we entertain and give expression to these
sentiments, we cannot conceal from your most gracious
Majesty that we labour under many and severe griev
antes, in this our native land, owing to a long course
of mis-government, official neglect, and religious perse-
cution, banking and commercial monopolists, unculti-
vated wastes, unproductive because neglected fishing
stations, an absent proprietary, and consequently a
pauper population—and we are thoroughly convinced,
may it please your Majesty, that it is out of the nature
of things that the Imperial Parliament can give that
minute attention to our affairs which is necessary to
develope the vast but neglected resources of our coun-
try, which are fully capable, were they fairly worked
out and applied, to sustain in comfort our increasing
population, whilst contributing fairly and fully to the
necessary disbursements of the State, which causes us
to seek for the restoration of our local Parliament, and
which we fondly trust your Majesty will shortly be con-
vinced is the best means of improving our condition,
and strengthening and consolidating your Majesty's

empire.
" At the same time that we thus venture most re-
spectfully to lay before your Majesty the ground of our
local discontent, and the remedial means we conceive
best suited to remove the same, we recoil with horror
from all community with those men wbo have committed
themselves before the laws by uttering sentiments sub-
versive of your Majesty's authority, and of undisgnised
treason ; and equally do we recoil from all communica-
tion with those other men who have appeared in the open
day with arms in their hands, seeking the overthrow of
your Majesty's authority and laws.
" We humbly request, therefore, that your Majesty
will be graciously pleased to receive the tender of our
personal service, and of our lives, in aid of the civil power
in preserving the public peace and upholding your Ma-
jesty's right and lawful authority in these realms, should
the same be deemed necessary by your Majesty's ad-
visers. _

66 We should be wanting in the expression of the
true feelings which actuate us at this moment if we re-
frained from congratulating your Majesty on the impor-
tant event connected with your Majesty's domestic
happiness which approaches; and while we venture thus
to record our feelings of unbounded delight at the cheer-
ing intelligence, we are tempted to implore your Majesty
to visit this important part of your Majesty's dominions,
in company with your Majesty's consort, and witness the
beauty and fertility of our fields, and receive the uncon-
ditional allegiance and fealty of eight millions of your
loyal and warm-hearted Irish subjects.
" Praying to the Almighty to pour down on your
most gracious Majesty every earthly blessing, we take
leave to subscribe ourselves your Majesty's most faithful
and most dutiful subjects."

There are complaints in several quarters of the scar-
city of fuel and the failure of the potato crop. In
Ennis a subscription is being entered into for the pur-
pose of procuring fuel to distribute among the desti-
tute poor of that town. The Pilot fears very much
that the present year, and the early part of the coming
one, will be marked with great suffering, from scarcity
both in food and firing.

Telford, the person who drove the carriage
when Lord Brougham was killed,, is out of danger.—
Cumberland Pacquet.
PRIZE CATTLE.—This morning the cattle
trains belonging to the London and Birmingham Rail-
road, the Great Western, and Southampton ones,
brought a quantity of remarkably fine prize oxen, sheep,
and pigs, for exhibition, at the grand annual cattle
show, in the Horse Bazaar. The part appropriated for
the exhibition is elegantly fitted up for the reception
of visitors.

BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 4.—The average
prices of wheat last week was 25f. 71c., and that of
rye, 13f. 82c. According to the new law the exporta-
tion of both is prohibited, and the importation of wheat
free of duty ; but rye remains subject to an import duty
of 211. 50c. per 1,000 killogrammes.
LIGHT FINGERED GENTLEMEN.—The COM..
missioners of Pavements of West Cowes complain that
some light fingered gentlemen have stolen, and carried
away, some of their curb-stones. Now, if we are
rightly informed, these precious stones weigh more than
one hundred weight each, and we therefore think we
should be fully justified in exonerating the members of
the London swell-mob from being the parties concerned
in this weighty affair.
PAPER DUTIES.—We learn, by a communi-
cation from the Lords of the Treasury, addressed to
Mr. Robert Robinson, of this town, that their
.Lord-
ships have authorized the Commissioners of Excise to
defer for six weeks the payment of one half of the ar-
rear duties, requ'red by an Act passed in the last
Session cif Parliament to be paid up at the sittings com-
mencing this day.—Tyne Mercury.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen walked for
an hour on the terrace to-day, attended by Lady

Barham.
The Ladies Paget and the Hon. Miss Anson, drove
out in a carriage and four this morning.
Lady Barham rode out in a pony phaeton this after-
noon.

Viscount Melbourne is expected to arrive to dinner
this evening at the Castle.
The Band of the Rifle Corps was in attendance
last evening at the Castle, and played in the course of
the evening the following pieces :—March, (Walsh);
Overture, Otello, (Rossini) ; Cavatini, Chiara de Ro-
selherg ; Railroad W.alzer, (Strauss) ; Quadrille,
Les plaisirs du Salon, or Airs from Bellini's Norma ;
Russo Galop, (Strauss) ; Walzer, (Strauss) ; Quick
Step from Op. Chiara de Rotelberg, (Wichels).
Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Monday
afternoon at Windsor Castle.

The Princess Augusta took art airing yesterday in her
carriage and four.
Prince George of Cambridge came to town yesterday
from Kew.
Viscount Melbourne left his residence in Downing-
street, yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty
at Windsor Castle.
The American Minister and Mr. Stevenson have
returned to town from their tour in the North of
England.
Mr. Young, Government Secretary of Demarara, had
an interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at
the Colonial Office.
The Earl of Chichester had an. interview with Lord
John Russell on Wednesday.
Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday at the f oreign OfLice.
The Lords of the Judicial Commit:ee of the Privy
Council had their first meeting this :season yesterday
morning in the Council Chamber. The Lords present
were Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice
Bosanquct, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr.
C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard in the peti-
tion of John Muir from Tobago. The Attorney-Gene-
ral was heard in a petition for leave to appeal from the
Mauritius. Other petitions and motions were disposed of.
Messrs. Burge and John Stuart, Queen's Counsel,
and Mr. Kennalls, appeared in an appeal from Jamaica,
Hyslop v. Jones, and Jones v. Hyslop- Mr. Baron
Parke gave judgment on the part of their Lyrdships.
An appeal from Bengal, Calder v. Halkett, was
opened, and the appellant's case concluded. Mr. Ser-
geant Spankie commenced his reply on the part of the
respondent, when the Court rose at four o'clock.

FASIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

ARRIVALS,

Lord Macdonald, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-
street, from Scotland ; Baron Wenkheim, at ditto, from
Melton Mowbray; Mr. and Mrs. Cowell, at ditto, from
the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Keckewich, at ditto, from
Devonshire; Lord Dalmeny, in Piccadilly, from Scot-
land ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, Captain
and the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Burton, Mr. Hope, M.P., Lord
and Lady Barrington, the Right Hon. J. P. Courtcnay,
the Marquis of Northampton, Lord and Lady Canning,
Lord Castlereagh, the Duchess di Cannizzaro, the Hon.
Wm. Bathurst, Mr. Culling Smith, Sir George and Lady
Seymour, Lady Deerhurst. Lord Ashburton, Mr. George
Wombwell, Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P., the Hon. W. B.
Baring, M. P. ; Lord and Lady Mahon ; Sir James Duke,
M. P. in Sussex-place, Regent's Park, fron► Italy ; Mr.
Charles and Lady Mary Townley, Lord Dillon, Sir Thos.
and Lady Fremantle, the Countess of Euston, Captain
and Lady Mary Vyner, Lord Burghersh, Lady Barbara
Newdigate, Lord and Lady Katharine Jerilyn, Lady
Georgiana Bathurst, General Sir Edward and Lady Har-
riet Paget, Lord Geo. Loftus, Mr. "Willshere, M. P.,
Lord Chichester, Lady Sheffield.
DEPARTURES.

Lieut.-Gen. Meister, to assume the command in the
Leeward Islands ; Lord Thon4s and Lady Sophia Cecil,
for Bingley House; Lord O'Neill, for Shanes Castle,
Antrim ; Mr; and the Hon. Mrs. Tattenham, for Clog-
her ; Lady Harriet Chichester, for Bath ; Captain
Atherley, for ditto; Colonel Eyre, for Cheltenham.; Earl
Bathurst, for Oakley Park, near Cirencester ; Lord Ash-
brook, for Beaumont Lodge ; the Ladies N. and E. Ash-
burnham, for Richmond; the Right Hon. Yates Peel, for
Bonehill ; the Right Hon. the speaker, for Neckfield
House ; Lord and Lady George Seymour, for Hampton
Court.