The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SEW
SIR—If the following desultory and unconnected state-
ment, relative to things generally, but more particularly to
the administration of justice in Ireland, should. reach you
before the termination of the recess, perhaps you would
be kind enough to give it a place in your honests.
uabn
jicitnsdce,
inde-
pendent journal. Two of the circumstances 'which I shall
touch upon in this communication- are. I understand, to be
brought forward in a few days in Parliament, as
impeanhment against the Law Officers of the Crown in this
country ; . and it may not be amiss that the English people
should know something of the real facts. With regard to
the general appearance of things in-this country, there is a
mighty change for the better. I have returned from one of
the Circuits, upon which I have been absent for five wash.
I have had ample opportunity of becoming acquainted with
the feelings and opinions of the people, and it is incredible
the change that has come over them ; they no longer feel sus-
picion in the administration of the criminal law—they will
tell you in their own-emphatic terms, that they know there
is " fair play" for all parties—it must be a consolation to
those who govern to know that the confidence of the mil-
lions is placed in them. -When I speak of the manifest
change for the better which has taken place in Ireland, I
may at the same time affirm that this change relates
more to the moral than to the physical condition of
the people ; for whilst on the one hand those tremen-
dous engines of the law (writs of rebellion) are put
into execution in every corner of the land, and whilst,
on the other, the disappointed Irish landlords, act-
ing upon the foul spirit of revenge, are driving the people
from their homes to perish by the wayside, there must be
sorrows and privations amongst a portion of the people, and
yet what a strange anomaly in the history of Ireland!—
the country never was more tranquil. And wiry? because
the people feel confidence in their rulers ; they know they
will redress their wrongs as speedily as possible ; they hope,
that the writs of rebellion will be put an end to by a
speedy and final adjustment of the tithe question ; and
they trust that the brutal Orange landlord will be coerced
into humanity by a salutary poor-law.
The circuits have now terminated in Ireland, and al-
though the calendars were apparently heavy in some couaa
ties, it has turned out that the majority of the unfortunate
persons thus cast into prison had no charge against them
that could be substantiated, and were either acquitted or
discharged by proclamation. Take, for example, the re-
sult of one day's proceedings at one assize town (Cavan),
as appears by the Morning Register. To give them in de-
tail would go beyond . the limits of this letter ; suffice to
say, that six cases of mighty magnitude, which were prose-
cuted by the Crown, were called on in succession ; in those
cases four persons were charged with murder, two for dc-
mending arms, four for a riot and affray, two for adminis-
tering unlawful oaths,
,and appearing at the head of a
party armed with pikes, one for manslaughter, and one for
assaulting a habitation ; and will it be credited in Eng-
land, that amongst the whole of those heavy crimes
so well calculated to swell a calendar, and to call
forth the pious exordiums of Learned Judges on the state
of society in this country, there did not appear the shadow
of a charge supported by evidence against the accused ?
Perhaps exception may be taken to the case of the rioters.
There was in that case a drunken altercation of some kind—
they wore found guilty; and the sentence of the Court was
three days imprisonment ; with an observation from the
Judge (Pennefather), that magistrates ought to be more
cautious in taking informations, or sending such :.asea to be
tried at the assizes. But to close the farce—a man named
Brady was next put forward, charged with rape, arid .the
poor fellow's trial about to be proceeded with, when lie
cried out most lustily that he never was in the part el the
country where the " fact" was committed, 14 Judge
then called up the prosecutrix to identify him ; and the
woman deClared that she never saw the man before. Tha
Judge seemed amazed beyond description ; and tmArr
en-
quiry into the case, the only explanation that could be given
was, that the person charged was of the name of Tom
Urady s and the priaoner bore the same name. The fore-
going abstract is merely the result of one day's proccediaga
in one assize town ; and although no fault can 49 inipnted
to the Ilsaw Officers of the Crowe, it will he seen that
Irish Magistrates hare as great a pcdre42a for peopling
gaols as they have for depopalating village;s,
A very important Pimp Ikea taloa place in this country
with regard to the selection of juries in criminal eases.
Heretofore it was the custom of the town to pot by" in-
discriminately every parer except Wise whose political pre-
dilections were such as would insure a conviction in any case.
For instance, if a Catholic were to he tried for the murder
of en Orangeman, every Catholic who appeared in the box
would be "put by," and twelve men, "good and true,'" like
Judge Buelits'a Wexford jury would be sworn, and convic-
tion followed as a matter of course. Now the system of
‘ putting by" has been discontinued, and it is a question
which will very rnhably ho speedily brought before Parlia-
meet, whether the ends of justice have been benefitted by
the change. In all criminal trials arising out of political or
party feuds, there will generally be according to this new
izystera viLoect juries, and the result is, that they will not
agree to a verdict, and that the ends ofjustice are defeated.
There should, no doubt, be a remedy for this, and in my
opinion, it would be simple, namely, to make it a part of the
juryman's oath, that he never belonged to any private or.
sworn society, Where an Orangeman gets on the jury of a
brother Orangeman ho would die before he would consent
to a conviction, and if there be in Ireland (which is very un-
likely) a Eihonman respectable enough to act in the capa-
city ol a juryman, ha would probably be actuated by the
same feelings towards his banded brother. The instances
of Orange jurors acquitting Orange delinquents in Ireland,
would fill volumes, and the case; in which they have con-
victed those politically opposed to them, are still more nu-
merous. I may mention one remarkable illustration of the
truth of'the former proposition. About two years ago a
omit number of Orangemen and ribbonmea were to bo
Grled respectively at Cavan, for walking in party processions.
It was arranged that the Protestant party should be tried
by a Protestant jury, and the Catholic party by a jury of
Catholics. The former jury at once acquitted their friends,
although it appeared in evidence that they were the original
aggressors, while the latter jury brought in a verdict of guilty
—the Judge (Burton) observed it was quite evident that one
party had respect for their oaths, whilst the other had
none, and that he weuld inflict no punishment on the
party found guilty. I may mention another instance
of' the light in wloeh Orangemen regard the oath of a
juror, when the case involves anything of a party ques-
tion. At the last assizes of the county Meath, a far-
mer'S son was triad for a via in opposing a writ or rebel-
lion, or some other tithe process. The jury was com-
posed of seven Catholics and five liberal Protestants. I
heard, whilst the trial was going on, several Orangemen
il!looncuonnsdsinctillettlei;
offer to bet largely that the juryfrowmoutlbdeafeatitii:ty;i,tviteinoti Iteilaev;
young Mao guilty, and the
would bring- into the jury box upon any party
tools occasion to congra-
itiillgentilsieeibreosx,julging, of course,
conscientious regard of their oath;;
notwithstanding their well-known personal haratility to ark
uripoptilar MeastiFe, The jory system le criminal eases,
aati in Oyu eases too, requires revision so far as to cleltla3
question,
oetn(hi.cmjurri(.lligplecou'l (ut
ilYea
from juries all Orangemen and Ribbennian, That this
chango is evident I peach only r4lPntlen this fact I—At the
last Assizes of Maryborough, a number of Whitefeet were
tried for a most barbarous murder of an aged and respect-
ableman, who, gels offenee was that of enclosing a part
of a mountain common—a man who had himself been con-
victed of a Whitefoet offence, was on the jury—and al-
though the case was a eloar one, they were discharged with-
out agreeing to a verdict, It is but justice, however, to
add, that the same parties were before tried by as intelli-
gent and respectable a jury as any in that county, and they
could not agree. At the same assizes an Oraagemau named
Abbcot was trial for murder---41ic eaao was clear enough—
be had five nr §11; Orangemen on his jury, and they were
discharged without agreeing to a verdict. . Two Revenue
policemen were tried at the acme asalaca for wantonly
shooting a woman, Their jury was Orange, and they
were acquitted,
. •
The two cases connected with the administration of jus-
tice in this country, to which I alluded, and upon which
the Tory party are to found a charge against the Law Offi-
cers of the Crown, are these—a man named Slevin was
tried at the Meath Summer Assizes of 1834, when Tory
Blackburne was Attorney-General. The indictment
charged Min as an accessory before the fact in the murder
of a man named Bunne, the steward of the landlord Baron
Hussy. He was acquitted on that charge, and a fresh bdi
of imlietment sent up against him for ry conspiracy to mur.
der Mr. Hussy. He was subsequently admitted to bail by
the Attorney-General, and was to appear at the next As-
sizes. He did conic in to stand his trial, but Mr. Black-
burne did not think proper to go on with it, as he was of
opinion that the charge for which lie was tried—although
Offering in name—was in substance the same for which lie
was to be tried. He allowed the man to stand out on his
own recognizance, and no complaint was made by Mr.
Hussy or his friends. Before another Assizes Blackburne
was out of office, and the present Justice Perrin was At-
' Orney-General. The friends of Mr. Hussy teak it.. into
their heads tooproseciito the case them:elves, and a large
subscription was entered into to defray the expences. Every
preparation was made for trial, when Mr. Attorney-Gene-
ral Perrin, acting on the precedent set by Blackburne, inter-
posed, and prevented it going on by entering a noli paa-
ifeq!.q! Previous to the Assize which has just terminated,
RP' a_PPliaadn i o-vaa made to Mr, glaaghlin; to know if (1
would prosecute ; or if not, if he would allow the friends of
Mr. Hussy to do so. The Right Honourable Gentleman
intimated to thm, I believe, that he would follow the
course pursued by his predecessors, and for this a grave
charge is, I understand, to be brought forward in Parlia-
Rapt the present Law O:ficers of the Crown..
' ow
"'he
scl *c4o6 Which. fames a firOaßti 0 '0444'4 LI

that of Slv, recently tried at Carlow for the murder of the
Rev. Mr:Walsh. If ever there was a case where the ac-
cused and his friends had a right to be grateful to the
Crown for the manner in which the prosecution was con-
ducted, this was a case. The Attorney-General could not
prevent persons coming forward with sworn informations,
but be tool: the precaution to have them sifted to the bot-
tom ; and the wretched woman Rooney. who appeared first
in the transaction, was instantly indicted for peljary, tried,
and transported, at the last Assizes. The policeman and
others, who came forward afterwards, could not be detected
in the falsehood of their statements ; but the Attorney_
General ordered that the accused should be supplied with
copies of every syllable that was sworn against loin ! How
unlike the conduct of those who acted under the Orange
regime ! How unlike the conduct of those who prosecuted
Father Sheehy for the murder of a man who was then alive,
and who afterwards came back to the very town, Clonmel,
where the priest was hanged for his murder! In that case
Mr. Sheehy knew not one syllable of what was to be sworn
against him, until the perjured witnesses appeared on the
table. And then the admirable Wexford jury that tried
him ! Sly knew everything that was sworn against him ;
he had his privilege of challenge ; the Crown did not in-
terfere ; and he had eleven Orangemen, and one several
degrees worse, as his jury ; and for this the party complain !
There is a change come over the spirit of the times in
this country. Fiat justitia is the motto of our rulers, and
if it so continues, England will have in Ireland an impreg-
nable tower of strength in the hour of need, and we shall
have peace and security in our long-misruled country.

MADRID.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sit,—You will perceive from the two addresses that have
lately been presented to the Queen, the latter of which I en-
close, that the principles of liberty, and the rights and benefits
of the representative system, have begun to be understood in
Spain. The one from the most distinguished men in Ma-
drid, notwithstanding the sneers attempted to be cast upon
it by a few incurables of the Hereditary Chamber, was a
triumphant manifestation of public opinion, and has, no
doubt, had considerable influence in the decidedly improved
aspect which affairs wear here. The Madrid petition was
immediately re-echoed by the present one from Cadiz, a do-
cument equally energetic, and, if possible, expressing still
more gratitude and admiration for what M. Mendizabal loss
effected, and confidence in his astounding powers. The
position of that Minister is now indeed a proud one—the
intrigues of enemies—the treachery of friends—the whole
force of republican violence and aristocratical hatred, have all
fallen before his unceasing energy—his integrity, and that
Which they have won for him, the unbounded love
and veneration with which he is regarded by his country-
men. In the Chamber newly elected the opposition which
was attempted to be organized has crumbled away. Istu-
riz .has entirely withdrawn from it, and Galiano is utterl-
unsupported. His ingratitude to the friend who
asj-
siSted him during the period of his emigration
;and who has
since showered on him and his family
t'avonrs and employ-
ments, is regarded with disgust
end detestation. Since
the utter failure of his se'. • • ,
..,eIIICS, tne creatures who pro-'
fessed themselves e
nonerentS—the place-hunters—the
very gossips Puerta del Sol," unite in crying him
down. His position is indeed most pitiable; the diatribes
from his pen, which wore wont to stain the columns of the
" Revista," appear no more, and his connection with that
Jeurf; .1 baz entirely ceased. He has now no other organ
tha.a his own eloquence, the only quality he possesses—
that of " false:ft de phrases." He finds little sympathy,
and oven Isturiz disowns him. I may here add that the
Press is universally in favour of M. Mendizabal, with
the exception of the Espanol ; but the present enmity of
its editor is couched . iff the most cautious, temporizing
terms. You have no doubt read the servile apology which
ho inserted some weeks ago, for a gross attack which had ap-
peared in that paper.
I cannot describe to you the electric effect which the
news of Lord John Hay's intended co-operation on the
roast of Cantabria has excited in this capital. This is ano-
ther proof of the confidence of the English Government in
the present Ministry. Accounts have been received to-day
from the theatre of war, according to which the rebel
General Eguia, stung to the quick by the various defeats
his battalions have lately suffered, ordered the Ist, Regiment
a Navarre to be formed in the plain before Salinas, with the
humane purpose of decimating them. Some hesitation
and opposition from his officers, however, took place,
and the project getting wind amongst the troops they
broke into open mutiny, and the General fled for his life
into Salvatierra. Garcia, the sui disant Viceroy of Na-
varre, was attacked by the Queen's troops near Pamplona,
and totally routed., Cordova is now relieved by the Eng-
lish. CoMmodore from keeping a watch upon the operations
of the enemy along the coast, and is concentrating his forces
for a general attack on the Carlists in front. The British
Legion.is in the highest state of efficiency, and the Portu-
guese Contingent is really a brilliant corps. Ample pre-
parations for an attack have been made along the whole
line, and a decisive blow will be shortly struck.

I may here inform you that there is a probability of
General Leona, Commander of the Cavalry of the Royal
Guard, entering the Ministry in the War Department, and
of Oniz and Ferrer taking conjointly the Portfolio of Fo-
reign Affairs.
Madrid, April 2. A. R.

SHIP PIN G.-(THIS DAY.)
(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, Aram 11. —Wind N. N. W.—Arrived ald proceeded
for the river, the Martha, late Dyer, from Waterford; City of
Londonderry, Lewis, from Dublin; Vidonia, Knight, from
Bremen, for Tcneriffe; Aflleck, Ford, from Newcastle, for
Demerara; Achilles, Weatherley, Ditto, for Jamaica; Pro-
gress, Tatchell, from Poole, for Newcastle. Came down from
the river and sailed, the Eliza Stewart, Miller, for Canton ;
Inglis, Wise, for Bombay; Thames, Hornblow, for Madras ;
Renovation, Wright, for Richcbucto; Symmetry, Riley, for
the IVlauritius; Mariner, Skead ; Joseph Storey, 'Whitfield;
Eleutheria, Wheatley ; Hopewell, Dales; Courier, Price ;
and the Elizabeth, Merwick, for Quebec. Victoria, Davis,
for Prince Edward's Island; and the Christian, Thersoe, for
Philadelphia.
PORTSMOUTIT, APRIL 11.—Wind N.E. to W.
PLYMOUTEI, Arau..ll.—Wind N.E.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind N. to N.N. . -
COWES, APRIL -11.—Arrived the George. .-farlow, from
New York.

POQLE, APRIL 11. —A7riyetl the Dolphin, Kraft, from
Memel.

Ann. 1.1,--Arrivoti the Johan, Ilermin, from Lis-
bon; Englieden, Glad, from Copenhagen; Richard Dodd,
from Memel gatckri Preclude, Surgcn, Rostock; Latona,
illurru, from Stettin ; Preclosa, Forth, from Pillau ;
AlLer-
li?la, Patterson, And Josephine, from Gottenburg; and Ema-
nuel* from Kiel.

The Brilliant, Taddy, from Shields, was assisted into Yar-
mouth leaky, having bon on the Cross Sand--cargo discharg-
ing ; bound to RoWart.

EAST INDIA

The Sophia. APls:air, from Canton, off the Lie of Wight,
sailed the 17th December, and from St. Helena the 23d Feb-
ruary ; the Arab, Sparkes, from Canton, off Cork, and pro-
ceeded for London, sailed tho IGth Dec., and from St. Helena,
23d Feb.

AnatvAts AT ST. HRLENA.—The Royal Admiral, from
Canton, and sailed 20th Feb. for London ; Sandwich, Mus-
cat, and sailed 20th Feb. for London ; Demerara, from the
Mauritius, and sailed 19th Feb. for London ; Trusty, 23d
Feb., from China ; his Majesty's ship Atholl, 23d Feb., from
Cork ; Marmora, 20th Feb., from 'China ' • Bland, 2 !st Feb.,-
from Calcutta and Madras, and sailed 22d Feb. for Liverpool ;
Mary Taylor, 22d Feb. front the Mauritius, and sailed 23d
Feb. for London; Constitution, 22d Feb., from Manilla;
(31ritore, from Bombay and the Cape, passed the Island on
the 24th Feb. ; Courier de St. Paul, 24th Feb., from Bour-
bon ; Maitland, 24th Feb., from Cork ; Heroine, 24th Feb.,
from Madras ; Emerald, 25th Feb., from the Mauritius.
DEPARTURES FROLI ST. HELENA.—The Munster Lass,
,23d
Dec., for the Cape. •
ARRIVALS AT CHINA.—TIIO .Severn, December 15, from
Calcutta; Victory, December 13, from Madras; Elmore,
December 15, from Madras and Singapore.
ARRIVAL AT CoLottuo..L.The Clifton, December 12, from
London.

ARRIVALS AT CALCUTTA.—The Lord Hungerford, Decem-
ber 15, from London ; Broxbornbury, December 17, from
London and the Cape ; Diana, December 17, from Liverpool ;
Adelaide, December 17, from Hobart Town ; Washin,gton,
December 17, from Philadelphia ; Florence, December 17,
from Boston.; Alexander, December, 17, from Sydney ; Sa-
lamander, - December 18, from Bordeaux and Pondicherry ;
Water Witch, December 18, from China and Singapore ;
Collingwood, December 19, from China, Singapore, and

DEIAIITURES FROM CALCUTTA.—The Bolton, December
15, for London ; Virginie, December 15, for Moulmein and
Rangoon • Elizabeth, December 15, for Liverpool ; Duke of
Buccleueli, December 25, for the Cape, Madras, and London.
Paasengers per the Eliza, Captain Campbell, to sail from Cal-
cutta, for London, 27th December :--Major Muare,c t
army), Mrs. Munroe, and children ; Mrs tiove Dick and
children ; Mrs. Allan ; Captain Roberts (13ritills Qrtiliery)
and Mrs. Roberts ; I..ieteunnl4 111`1,4croth, arant4 (kickett
(of 1112. Majesty‘s 4stii), Mrs. M‘Leroth and child; Mrs.
Orant ana .chi ldv1.1; Mrs. Crickett ; Lieut. Dalton, (his
Majesty's 3d 13uffs), Mrs. Dalton, and children ; Mr. and
Mrs. Stephenson and children; Captain A. L. Campbell ;
I. N. Lyall, Esq. ; Lieut. Voulez ; Lieut. Campbell ; Nv,
L. M`Dowell, Esq.

STRA--- ...7.,-.1...,t•=—.
'FEGT.—Afcci Oie eaptor3 of Odais by the
li.'l.e;ll,ll.l'e.lif,llo.y_f(4--- 11-1,1-,, a little island in the Channel ; but it
was g lously retaken by a Fleming, who pretended that he
desired to bury a friend of his, that had died on board his
ship, in that island. The French were very careful to search
the men that came on shore, that they should live c ...;ilnii
about the: ; but did not think Of looking ii:tii,;kke epttin, which
was full of arms ; and when they thougiit the seamen were bu_
ryirtg their 14eric.1, they OneVtriernselves, and took all the
-41,eilich that w 46 in thy Onstie,...—/ifirror,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Committee of Commerce appointed to lupin.:
Into the prolect of a general Portuguese Tariff; have
made their Report to the Chambers. It will he found
another part of this journal. From t:hc.communi-
cations which have appeared from time to time in tlit
Morning Chronicle, our commereinl readers rnn;:: 11:we

been prepared for the recommendations contained iii
this Report. As the period approached at. which the
Treaty of 1810 was to expire, it became a question
With the Portuguese Government wi-,other or not
they should consent to its renewal, and, if so, upon
what terms. Negotiations were opened upon this
offiject between our Minister at Lisbon and the Admi-
oistration of the Duke of Palineita, and had nearly
arrived at a satisfactory termination when Palmeira
was unseated, and the Marquis of Loult, ap' Ap Al,.
to the Home Department. It is unnecessary to v.-
mind our readers, that the Marquis of Loule and the
party of which he is the Representative, ore
strongly opposed to British interests in Po: twyai
—whether commercial or political. The first step
adopted by this anti-English party, was to ap_
;point an anti-English Commission, to inquire into
the project of a General Tariff; and the result
of their labours we have before us, in the
very vague, and, we must add, absurd document to
which we have adverted. We have not the slightest
hesitation in saying that the recommendations of this
Commission can never become the basis of any com-
mercial relations between Portugal and this country.
Upon the very face of the Report, it is rank absurdity
to suppose they can. What is it that this Commission
proposes ? For the duty of 15 per cent., at which the
, 10-reat.proportion of British produce was admitted into
Portugal, to substitute an arbitrarfad valorenz duty,
varying from 50 to 200 per cent. We feel quite
assured that this suicidal, proposition, if persevere„ in,
will be rejected by the good sense of the Portuguese
Deputies. Are they blind to the first and most ob-
vious
consequence it must produce—a measure of re_
taliation which will in effect nearly exclude
from every British port ? What object
they pro-
pose in entering upon this unequal contest between
their attenuated trade, and the healthy, full-,rown
commerce of this country ? it • ,
is necessary—so it
argued by M. Compo-_, and his colleagues, and repeated
by the National. and the other unsound portions of the
Lisbon Pre
_As—it is necessary to protect the Portu-
gues: manufacturer, by the exclusion of a rival with
whom he is unable to compete. Without going into
the general and unanswerable objections to the prin-
ciple of prohibitory duties, we simply ask those rea-
soners who depend upon such an argument, what has
been its effect when reduced to practical operation in
Portugal ! We shall content ourselves with one case.
For the manufacture of earthenware it was thought by
the Government that Lisbon possessed peculiar advan-
tages. A high protecting duty was imposed upon the
importation of' this manufacture from other countries.
A Royal pottery was established,
.and a considerable
~.um voted by Government for its encouragement.
What is the result ? The manufacture is miserably
inferior to any thing imported from England. The
price is full twenty per cent. higher ; and the Royal
pottery has not for any one year, as yet, defrayed the
amount of its expenditure. Such %rill be the eWect of
every similar attempt to force into existence manufac-
tures, to the establishment of which there are nearly
insurmountable obstacles. But it is the less necessary
to enter into a discussion upon this report, as we feel
persuaded that such a change must within a very kid
period take place in the Government of that country,
as we should hope will secure it from the ruinous (Areas
that would be produced from the adoption of so rash a
proceeding as that which is recommended by the Com-
m ission.—Morning Chronicle. •

We had hoped that, if no feeling of humanity, at
least a sense of self-interest might have had the effect
of mitigating that sanguinary spirit in which the
Carlists are .carrying on the conflict whieh still un-
happily rages in Spain. We learn, however, that the
" African Legion" is excepted from the merciful
provisions of the Eliot Convention, and any prisoners
of these troops who may be taken, are apprised that
they can expect no quarter. The necessary conse-
quence of this inhuman resolution is the issuing of an
order by the commanding officer of the Legion (Ge-
neral Bernelle), apprising his troops that they enter
the field against enemies from who'll they are to
expect no quarter if taken prisoners—and to whom,
of course, they are to give none Thus, as this
unnatural conflict advances, it assumes a deeper
dye, and is conducted with a spirit of ferocity, to
which the annals of war scarcely furnish a parallel.
But out of evil good will often spring, and it may
be, that by rendering inevitable an intervention
that might otherwise be withheld, the very crimes of
this contest will Avork their own cure, and lead to its
termination. " Our Government," says the Courie-r'
Francais, "is now placed in the same position v.; was
that of Lord Palmerston when he authorized, the in-
terference of Lord J. Hay. M. 'Tiers 1-.. as the same
duty to perform as had Lord Palmein.con." We cer-
tainly do anticipate that the overnment of Louis
Phillippc will give to his sy3-,:jectS—many of whom are
in the African Legion--the same protection, the same
means of oTbtaints redress for injuries, that has been
give-g by i.ord Palmerston to the subjects of this
co"-otrv.. That the effect of adopting such a course
would produce a very salutary effect on the progress of
the liar, there is not, we think, much room to doubt.
" France," it is aptly observed by the Courier
Francais, "is geographically placed in a more ad-
vantageous position than Great Britain for wreaking
vengeance upon the Carlists, and we shall take the
first opportunity of expiating the blood that may be
shed in accordance with this -inhuman order."—
Morning Chronicle.

Mr. Daniel O'Connell has, to use the words of the
chief Ministerial' organ, " made the most of the re-
lief from Parliamentary duty afforded by the Easter
recess." We have already announced, that Madame
Vestris and Mr. Mathews at Liverpool, Miss Tree at
Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. Yates at Bath, and others
elsewhere, have also, on the closing of their houses in
town, been starring it in the provinces, or, in the
Minigterial phrase, " been making- the most of the re-
lief," ST.c. We borrow to-day from another Govern-
ment journal, an account of two performances of this
" Irish Roscius," upon whom his Majesty's servants
at Westminster chiefly rely for support. The fir-cc
representation was given at Hull, where the ti /star"
from St. Stephen's was accommodated with. the use of
the Old Gaol-yard. We should
11r.0 to know
what Hull wag it was that. that
tugges La loca-
lity. Some experienced, . ttage-Manager, we Nvill
he sworn, who bore in mind 'that " fit folks in fit
places" constitute perfect effect, as " fit words fitly
applied" are Said to contain a complete definition of
eloquence. The tableau vivant must have been at
.once entertaining and instructive. Not so, we think,
was the speaking part of the afrair. Colonel Thomp-
son, we are told, " urged the claims of the Irish to
participate in the rights and privileges of British
claims." This, it must be admitted, is amusing, but
as it happens not to be very intelligible, we cannot
say much for its instructive qualities. Daniel com-
pared the Ministers to " a drag. on the wheel which is
to carry the company safe,"—whither, does the reader
mlppose? Why—" to the bottom." True, Daniel,
true, for once, but evidently by accident, since you
omitted to mention that you had taken out the linch-
pins, and were shoving behind with all your strength,
which, like that of some other animals, is chiefly in
vow " In the afternoon there was a feed, at
which it is narrated, that after Mr. O'Connell had said
his say, the company were addressed by Mr. Gully,
Mr. Barker, and " other gentlemen." The whole per-
formance concluded with a solo from Daniel, called the
Cause of Poland." Oh ! those poor Poles ! We
can imagine them exelahnin7—
" I all the hovlri,edswre,pe:e:
vewrebrole blushed berare "
i; WO griev'd, we sigfed,
But let them take courage. They have survived'
the
vengeance of a hearth-ss d-s-srot' a 4,1 t'reason
to hope, therefore, that the syn;;)athy of a sordid
demagogne, though harder to, be:ar,' wi ll do them no
permanent hart% Tira second representation of Da-
r6!:l 4‘W:4 Waco at York, and there he Went through
ties roost f• avourite those fictions relative to Ireland
which we have so often exposed. For instance., he told
his audience, that Ireland is poor, from want of " equ"l
justlee," • This is old falsehood, and a flimsy one to

boot, though; had it been of stronger textuFe, he
would have worn it threadbare by this time. ,Every
calm observer, whatever :rimy be his, politics, knows
\Veil enough, though our Ministeriaiists have not
the honesty. to admit the fact, that Ireland is poor,
her population. unemployed, and her fields ill culti-
vated, bnause her demagoties have rendered Efe
and property insecure., in whatever district they have
plied their s2lfish and diso.raeeful trade of agitati-in.
it is incontrovertible. that tio man has contributed
more to the impoverishment of his country than tliis
same Daniel O'Connell has. Again, he repeated the
tale of the Rathcormac slaughter for the ten thousandth
time, in the same set phrases in which he first related
it, and, moreover, for the same fraudulent Imruo.9'2.
But that Tuggle no longer imposes upon e.ny bnt fr,ols,
however knaves may applaud the trtetz. The blood
shed at Rathcormac is upon his brad, and Upon tho
heads of others who, like him, have preached resis-
_

tanco to the law, and caused. an ignorant and inflam-
mable peasantry to plume into hopeless conflicts with
the military or an arl-ned police. Of a piece with
these impudent f.s.ttemnts to deceive Were the other

topics upon which the .lizitator for his Majesty's Mi-
nisters. dwelt at York; and we will not insult the in-
derstanciings of his audiences by supposing that his
performances have been in the slightest Lgree suc-
cessful, if what was looked for was that the mounte-
bank should be believed, or' the cause of " Pure-ohi-
Whiggery” advanced.-- •

An alliance with the mean anti ignoble passion of
revel ere being beneath the dignity of -justice, all judi-
cial punishment' beyond wier,r,'
coercionof the offender, is s.a;:ci, by is necessary for the
those who administer
penal law, to be for exa:pdic and that only. It follows
that if the example of the effect intended, the in-
fliction of the n';.mishnient can no longer be defended
on any other
ground than that which is disclaimed—
viz., that when the infliction of a certain punishment
fa. 115 to produce a beneficial example, it ought to con-
tinue to be inflicted for the purpose of gratifying
re-
venge. Now, we have, at various times shown,cfrorn
the statistics of crime and punishment in different
countries, that the punishment of death produces
no beneficial effect on the morals of society—that,
in fact, it is worse than useless as an example..
What other purpose, then, can it serve, except to
make our laws minister to the spirit of reverir.: ?
It will not be asserted that such a punishment
cessary to coerce the offender from a repetitizw of his
offence, because deprivation. of liberty, ;-e, a well-
regulated prison, or settler-fie:4lt, answers
the purpose of coercion quite as' and, what
crimes not a
is more, it is for the snore heeivous

momentary hut a lasting exairrel...,. For -this rea-
son it is that in sonic States of Germany the perpetra-
tors of the worst offences are 'Lee;pt h perpetual .confine-
ment and chains, and in
(I,at state arc seen by the
public at certain times of, 'roe year. So far arc the .in-
terests of society from -IY.;ing rindangered by this blood-
less vindication of tlae
lent in those S'ai'res,
especially those of, •'a heinous nature, are far less preys-
authority of the law, that crimes,
-in comparison with the amount
of population,
than ;.n 'our own country, ‘vhere execu-
tions are se frequent. Need we point to the Castle of
Ham wad .its inmates as a further practical illustration
of thy„ r :„
for which we contend ? We have
mP:intedned not only that. the punishment of death is
'asTi.ess, but absolutely pernicious ; that wherever it
Lroich prevails murder is more frequent than elsewhere,
occause the law detracts from the sacredness of life in
eves of the multitude. Life for life is part and parcel
of the system of retaliation which the Divine Founder
of the Christian dispensation expressly repealed. If,
indeed, in compliance with long usage and human
prejudice, the punishment of death be retained for any
clime, we would confine it to murder, not on the vulgar
principle of expiation ; for how can the taking the lite
of one person compensate for the murder of another ?
but because murder being the greatest of all crimes it
should not be confounded in punishment with any other:.
That executions, whatever may be the crime, have. a
bad. and brutalising effect on the class of persons who
form the bulk of the spectators on such occesior,s, may
be shown by abundant instances. When stealing from
the person was punishable with death, the London
thieves used to attend the execution of their comrades
to take advantage of the excitement of the tragic scene,
aid pursue their vocation at the foot or the gallows.
At Kirkdale, only a day or two ago, a new practical
proof was given not only of the uselessness, but the de-
morelising influence of execution. We allude to the
execution of the woman named Easy Rowland, con-
victed of murder an Thursday, ;rod hanged on Saturday.
We take from the columns of a Morning Contemporary
an account of the conduct of the populace upon whom
the awful see of the scaffold was intended to operate:
as a great moral example. It appears that there was
a mis%dee as to the time appointed for the execution,
Welch caused the populace of the vicinity to assemble:
in the morning, hut it did not take place until three
o'clock in the afternoon. Their conduct is thus de-
scribed in the report to which we have alludeed We
never recollect to have witnessed a larger congregation
of blackguards at scenes of this shocking nature.
During the lapse of time the mob, tired of- amusing
themsclves by doing considerable mischief to the fields
and gariLus in the neighbourhood, commenced an at-
tacltby throwing missiles at one another ; and those M-
. dividuals of a better caste in society, although it cannot
be said of a better task, were sure to come in for thee
most liberal share. A detachment of the police force.,
under the command of Mr. Whitty and Inspecieir
Heaton, were- on the .spot, and with the utmost d;afi-
cUlty preserved the pockets of the people (thus were
the schemesof depredation pursued at the foot of the
gallows.) The police left the ground about nine
o'clock in the morning, but no sooner had they
turned their backs than a rudianly gang of scoundrels,
inetigated by their vile propensity for thieving, made
an attack on the females (of whom we regret to say
there was a large sprinkling), tearing away their
pets, shawls, bonnets:, and other articles dr.:ss coa-
t
VerICI.; to carry away. • Many of the feriae:les took
iee'e*: from the villains in the gaol, and were let
t!recqlbli the Court House at ti,ie other end of the build-
.was a nroral example I As to the
females w
hardly pay Litc2- Ireatinent they received far being in
who halt tir,fiets and shawls to lose, we cant
deli conrox:,,,
and on such an occasion. They \vent
to thtiO.:Lee Of execution to enjcl. a horrible pleasure:
nil ':.atliessing the dying agonies of a fellow-creature ;
end though strangling of the criminal had no beneficial

crcet upon the inultitude, we trust that their punish-
imnt will operate as a salutary example, aucl prevent
glom from attenain,, such brutalising exhibitions in
fu-
ture. With respect to such spectacles, a Paris Corms.
i-0,v1,.nt of anolner journal (theilionting Chronicle) had
IJS ne time ago the following observations: —" Ohl if the

people of Enzlraid did but know one-thousandth part
of what is said and thought throughout civilized En-
rope o these periodical executions in London, and. at
the country assizes, I cannot but think that they u;ould
demand the abolition of capital punishments wig, the
same unanimity and energy as they now display ior a re-
form in Parliament. On a recent occasion, at a town in
France, when a man, a criminal, deserving solitary
imprisonment for life, was ordered
.tr: be executed,.on
the
.morning of the day all the slit.)ps and houses were
system
,ir'jrifc::lit:l;
closed, the streets were deserted,- and no one assisted
at the execution but the public executioner-and the
officers of justice." Hera the example was lose, for
there were no spectators for the example to operate
upon I Since that time - Louis Philip, contrary
to his former professed abhorrence of the puniA,
meat of death, has been endeavouring to tecanrte
the French people to the use of the guilrotme. In
that respect, as Philip l'Egatite did, he may go too
far, and see his error too latel.)arclti.n oAurreoolurirtwinhe,trlo-..
1 is there was an execution
.yesterday for butc;,..0.5.
which might
im-
proving" at:l
ilex;%o'pe.alelsolitl)oak:
return tbuleorelolnr.tasol
morals
hte)
by the.
sey,
of ..ons of the
public executionetrheasfac!th_e_i:l:ll_47l,: the
With regard to the guilt of the' wormn execut •I at.
Kirkdalelitdainyoccarotuonsbeel byon no rhea, el,erahr.ereTi,,,,,:sl;ol.:or.
grne..l: )p.iit arsenic ir.s.tc.ad
.
it was not tne Act
I (.(ci,ll:ro..:ietsuitaltgbit,gti,Eatarlelirs:i.diiiini:elitee...odiis.peortift 1
tilleat,:sil):
til(til:i .
on her trial, and ~,..
..- ~4 intention. She asserted
least, possibki. i, ...rsisted in that. statement in her:
• ,
__, mi6ti,,,w
wi Sic Iniqook the' 'arsenic for sur. iir
. .lich, under the circumstances, was., at
The rßporter r.;ays, " she did not d,,„),
that subsequently to his death she disc6vered llek: This-

take, but did not mention the circumstances to any in-
dividuals for fear of the consequences. This she so-
lemly declared to be the fact to the Rev. Mr. Horner,
stating at the tune that as she knew she was about to
be hurried before her God, and, having partaken of the
holy communion, ia earnest truth of her assertions, it
was not likely she would die with a lie in her mouth."
We do not say whether she was or was not guilty of
the dreadful crime of which she was convicted. On
reading the report of the trial we th
lou:zlit the case a
.
very doubtful one. If subsequent nqu iry
could do
any thing towards clearing •it up, it was prevent
• ed by
that diso,raceful—that truly barbarous law, which or-
dains, that a person convicted of murder—the very sus-
piciou of which causes more prejudice than any other
crime. i'Ball be executed within 48 hours !—Morning
Herald.
The brief r,:ecss from Parliamentary duties, which
the Tories as wet'r as the Liberals have experienced,
has becn most employed by the former, for
the purpose of adjusting their difK•rences of opinion
and policy, and corning to certain unanimous resolu-
tions respecting their future conduct in Parliament,
and more especially with regard to the Irish Municipal
and Church Reform Bills. Numerous private and
exclusive meetings have been held, and various reso-
lutions mooted, and maturely, considered in different
quartets ;—for the Tory party is now divided into in-
nitely more sections than have been ever known to
exist among the Reformers ;—but the grand scat of
Tory machination—of Tory intrigue—and of Tory
manoeuvre—the grand arena of Tory broil, and of
anti-reforming policy—has been Strathfieldsaye, the
seat of his Grace 'the Duke of Wellington, where,
according to the Court Newsman, and other equally
valuable authorities, there has been -an incessant
round of entertainments and festivities. If any one
ever dreamed that these meetings were of a purely
social character—that they were mere matters of
etiquette, of routine, or of friendly greeting, we
beg at once to undeceive him, and to assure him tai 1t
nothing could be more opposite to the fact. The
meetings were purely political—the plan of the whole
remaining parliamentary campaign was minutely dis-
cussed ; but the primary object was, if possible, to
secure unanimity as to the course to be adopted
in destroying the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill
in its progress through the House of Lords. It will
give pleasure to every friend of rational freedom to
learn that the differences of opinion on this point
'were
.found to be perfectly irreconcilable—the junta
broke up its sittings not only without . arriving at
any satisfactory result, but with something approach-
ing to what his Grace of 'Wellington, in military
phraseology, designated as " rank insubordination.
In order to a right comprehension of the importance
attached by the whole Tory party to the result of
the Congress of Stratkfleldsaye, it is necessary to
inform our readers that certain veteran practitioners
in intrigue, whose services have been for some time
dispensed with, were invited to attend. Among these
last-named gentry was the celebrated ex-whipper-in,
Mr. Billy Holmes. It is well known that this once
useful functionary has been for some time rather en
mauvaise odeur with certain of the Conservatives. On
this occasion, however, a point was strained—his assist-
ance was held indispensable by some, and reluetantly
submitted to by others ; but it was in the end found to be
~utterly unavailing—the meeting broke up in the worst
possible temper, and it was with some difficulty that po-
litical differences were nrevented from degenerating
into personal animosities. As to any decided plan
of operations on the important Reform which they
design, if possible, to reject altogether—and should
that be seemed too hazardous, at all events to
mutilate, their Lordships arc as little agreed as before
the matter was discussed in their ill-omened conclave.
It is not to be inferred from this statement of facts
that these differences of opinion indicate a disposition
on
,the part of any of the opposition Lords to pay a
just deference to the unanimous public opinion in fa-
vour of the measure which the representatives of the
people have sent up to the House of Peers. The
Hostility of the party who call themselves the " mo-
derate Conservatives ;" is quite as incurable as that of
the most outrageously ultra ; but their tactics are in-
tended to be less openly offensive,—they wish, by
plausible amendments and an affected adherence to
what they call constitutional institutions, so to alter
and emasculate the Bill so as to ensure its rejection on
its return to the Lower House, or its inutility if it comes
to be law. The ultras, on the contrary, look upon every
thing short of a direct and contumelious rejection of
the measure, as an unpardonable sacrifice of dignity,
as something little short of a treasonable prostitution
of their hereditary and irresponsible prerogatives ;
—they cannot reconcile themselves to the special
pleading of Lord Lyndhurst, or the Fabian policy
of the Duke of Wellington ;—or, to adopt the lan-
guage used by one of themselves on this occasion,
" they may be confounded, they cannot be convinced."
In this spirit, and under these inauspicious circum-
stances, his Grace found liimfelf under the necessity
of adjourning the Strathfieldsaye Session re infects.
Circulars have just issued, commanding a fresh attend-
ance for Wednesday, at Apsley-house. Of these re-
sumed deliberations we shall not pretend to anticipate
the immediate effect, but 'of the final result no rational
man can entertain a doubt. The Lords will either
reject the Bill in lobo, or mutilate it, as they mutilated
the Irish Church Reform Bill of last Session, to
such an extent as to render it impossible, on the one
hand, for Lord Melbourne to re-transmit it to the
House of Commons, or for the House of Commons, on
the other, not to reject it. And what comes then ? Let
Vie Lords take warning in time. A factious opposition
may embarrass—may thwart—may cripple the reform-
ing measures of the present or of any other Govern-
ment for a time ; but if those measures have the sane-
tion,of the public—if they arc eagerly desired, and
more especially if they are insisted upon by the people
—the opposition only serves to work out a larger mea-
sure of reform, and to place its authors in a tenfold
worse position than that which they would otherwise
have occupied. If this hint be of use to them, we
readily give them the benefit of it—if not, let them
proceed in their anti-national course of policy until the
cup of public yulignation is full, and the only ques-
tion that remains to be settled be—in what manner the
place of an hereditary House of Legislature shall be
most beneficially Applied by the people whose desires
it rejects, whose wishes it sets at nought.—Morning
Advertiser.

We are wiwilling to think so meanly of English-
men as to admit they can be bamboozled by Mr.
O'Connell's provincial harangues, which the Govern-
ment payers in London are compelled by the degrading
necessities of their position to print and publish. In
most towns where a supply of common labourers, who
will work for low wages, is required, the lower order of
Irish soon swarm, and Mr. O'Connell will therefore
find an audience upon which he may produce bad, and
even dangerous, effects: but the sturdy English must
Piave changed their nature if they do not despise him
even when he is, in his own opinion, most eloquent.
The applause which the Ministerial prints represent
the flaunting swaggerer to have received at certain pub-
lic dinner parties does not make for much against
this opinion ; first because the various statement!:,
are probably but fragments of one wholesale lie,
which they have been commanded to tell, and next
because, though it were true, the persons who at-
tend these dinners are the chaff of society, which
by its very lightness floate upon the surface, and
demagogue
may be blown about by the breath of any
with strong lungs and a lying canting tongue. They
scarcely deserve the name of' Englishmen. We have
been led into these observations from the exceedingly
O'Connellized aspect of the Government papers of
yesterday, which, 110 doubt for the sake of warning
the House of Lords that it must not legislate without
baying the fear of the Irish Agitator before its eyes,
present the public with sundry columns of Mr. O'Con-
nell's vulzar vituperation at Hull and at York. The Hull
:affair is -altogether a curious and instructive picture of
the political state of the present time, particularly
Tylieve consider that it is exhibited by organs of the
Administ 7 .on. The Chief Magistrate of the town
—not the rep ,sentative of the King's authority, but
•
of the party f ings and party animosities of the po-
• dice—the cd Mayor of Hull, was in the chair,
. •
—id the ehie o the company consisted of the two
who represent the town in the House of Com-
m oiss ; Mr; h n Gully, formerly a public prize-
figl;, and now by the choice of an enlightened consti-
-,,,,-;.z.

tuencv a Member also of the House of Commons ;
and Mr. Daniel O'Connell, the Representative of the
Irish mob, who sits in the House of Commons for
Dublin, but who can scarcely be described as Mem-
ber for that city, under the present circumstances
of his disputed election. What the rest of the name-
less diners ma) have been we cannot positively say,
but we may judge of their quality from the circum-
stance that while they " cheered " at the health of the
King, and received the iiame of the Princess Victoria
with " thunders of applause," the health of her Ma-
jesty the Queen was drunk in what is described as
" respectful silence." And all this is put forward as
a glorious and praiseworthy manifestation of political
feeling by the papers which receive the direct patro-
nage of his Majesty's Ministers. But the interesting
liminess of the evening- commenced with a speech of
the most astounding eloquence from the person named
Hutt, who is one of the Members for the town. It is
remarkable that if this person be of such mortiferous*
powers of speech as he appears to have been at Hull,
and in the Morning Chronicle, we should not be more
familiar with his distinguiehed patronymic in the
parliamentary debates. How happens it that it is
only when he gets to his own .stercoraceous heap at
Hull, that he claps his oratorical wings, and crows
like Chanticleer ? Is it modesty that closes the lips
of the gentle, retiring Member for Hull? Is it that
he is awe-struck at the bitter smiling foe upon the
Opposition benches, or mindful that there is a re-
porters' gallery, the sitters in which are not awe-struck
at the sound of his voice ? Alas ! for the humility
of Hutt ! What does not the nation lose by it ?
But he has shown what he can do at Hull, and if he
can but take courage in the House, it is manifest that
the Hutt will become a tower of strength to his party.
The great Sheil himself will alone surpass him. Se-
riously, we think it right to notice the speech of this
man Hutt, from one passage in it, which he himself
dignifies with the title of an " episode," and which is
really curious when considered in connection with the
:ircumstances of the blowing up of King William the
Thi.,;(l's statue in Dublin, Aid' took place the next
day. IC:: Butt's " episode" is as follows :
" I tell you, Gentlemen, that now, as in the year 1689,
upon the soil of Ire and the great cause of civil and reli-
gious liberty is again to he contested. Now let not my
excellent friend the represei:.+ative of the Irish people—l
say, let not my excellent friend, 1,7h0 has done my col-
league and myself the honour of appeat.7g in this room—
let him not feel any offence that I make this a. "sign to the
conqueror of the Boyne. He has been in our marke:6c,et:
and seen there the statue of King William glittering wiL..
the lately-bestowed munificence of our townsmen. He re-
marked to me in the course of the dinner that he remarked
not only Orange men here but purple men also. Let him
feel no dismay. I tell him, in your name, that we reverence
the memory of King William, and at times we regild his
statue—not because we see in him the bloody-minded bigot
that the grossest ignorance and intolerance would represent
him, but because we remember him as the blessed cham-
pion of the rights of conscience, and we remember that, if
King William came over to this country to put down the
armed minions of a bigotted Catholic, we remember like-
wise that it was with an army composed partly of Catholic
soldiers and officers that he over home to vindicate the
liberties of England."
We do not observe that Mr. O'Connell, in his sub-
sequent speech, took any notice of this episodical
flight. It was, perhaps (in such a place and such a
company), rather an awkward subject to discourse
upon, particularly if any " coming events cast their
shadows before" into his mind, respecting the Dublin
outrage. But what a silly gentleman this Mr. Hutt
must be, if he really supposes that in praising Wil-
liam 111., as the friend of religious liberty, he is pro-
pounding that with which Mr. O'Connell and his Irish
allies have any sympathy. The Irish agitator (being
in Hull) would take good care to manifest no offence
at what his shallow dupe had uttered ; but we can
tell Mr. Hutt that it would have been rank treason in
Tipperary, and we would not for a good premium
have insured his life in that respectable county after
the delivery of such an episode, unless O'Connell
had given a wink to the priest, and the priest had
given a word to the people, not to hurt the poor man,
as they bad further use for him. It is pitiable to see men
in a public situation so stultified by ignorance, or stu-
pified by faction, as to allow themselves to believe that
the tool of the Romish priesthood in Ireland can be
really a friend of religious or political liberty. Let any
man go into Ireland, and sec what notions they have
there of toleration and freedom of opinion. There is
no such thing among the Priests or the peasantry.
There can be no such thing under the doctrines which
we know are taught, and the discipline which we know
is enjoined. Mr. O'Connell knows as well as he
knows his own existence, that every word he utters,
calculated to lead the English people to believe that
the Irish Priests, and the party lie represents, are the.
friends of toleration and freedom, is an absolute false-
hood, put forth to impose upon ignorance and folly.
That the imposition is successful in sonic instances,
Mr. Hutt and sonic others of his stamp sufficiently
show ; but we cannot believe that such impudent non-
sense is successful in imposing upon any considerable
number of Englishmen.—Morniucr Post.
. _

* ‘; Mortifera est facundia."—Juv.

WESTMINSTER HA L L.—The extensive repairs and
improvements, which have been so long a time in progress, are
now almost completed, and this noble edifice will be again
opened to the public on Friday next, the first day of Easter
Term.

The Hague Journal contains the following recital
of a horrible event that has lately occurred at Deux Ponts :
" Nine years ago, a young man, living as servant in the family
of Adam Kettenring, at flcrmersberg, became enamoured of,
the daughter of his master, and found in Lisette a return of
affection. The parents, however, treated him with harshness,
and turned him out of doors. Shortly after, a rumour was
spread in the village that the young man and Lisette had
eloped ; the father insinuated that they had gone to America,
and the report was believed. Nine years passed away in this
manner; but, some time ago, the village watchman announced
to the burgomaster, that having been seated during the night
at the door of Kettenring's house, lie had heard groans and
sighs proceeding from the cellar, and had therefore deemed it
his duty to inform the proper officer of the circumstance. The
burgomaster, in whose mind this intelligence awakened a sus-
picion against which he had been struggling for more than a
year, ordered the watchman to keep strict silence on the sub-
ject, and gave notice to the superior authorities of the circum-
stance, and of his own suspicions. Measures were immediately
taken, the house of Kettenring was surrounded by gendarmes,
and himself arrested. The agents of justice then descended
to the cellar, and to their horror found that the groans pro-
ceeded from a kind of cupboard formed of strong planks. The
cupbond was opened, a foetid odour came from it, and a fright-
ful object was seen—a person naked, covered with filth,
crouching in a corner, and hardly showing any signs of life.
It was Lisette, Kettenring's daughter, who had been shut up
for nine years in this tomb by her inhuman parents. Here
this unfortunate creature had been kept like an animal upon
coarse food, and the monster of a father, afraid to kill his
daughter, had left her. there to perish gradually. The mis-
shapen being who was thus discovered had only a few remains
of her chemise about her neck of all the clothes she had on
when first shut up. She was half-brutalized, and in a dread-
ful state of exhaustion ; she no longer knew how to speak,
and the words died on her lips. Proper care, however, hav-
ing been taken of her, her mind and body began to recover,
her memory began to return, and she is now in a fair way of
being re-established. The question now is, since the girl is
here, where is her lover?—Every atrocity may be expected
to have been committed by such parents ; and it is generally
supposed that the young man was assassinated before the eyes
of his mistress, and that she, as a witness of this crime, was
thus shut up alive in her tomb. The assizes will soon clear
up the mystery.
STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE.—There
arc a great many forms and observances of minor importance
enjoined in the standing orders of the House, but only a part
of them is attended to. It is a standing order of the House,
as previously mentioned, that no part of the proceedings of the
House be published, and consequently every newspaper in the
kingdom is daily and weekly guilty of an infraction of that
order, as are the Peers themselves in openly countenancing it.
Another order not very strictly adhered to, is that which en-
joins every Peer to sit in the place which he is entitled to oc-
cupy in virtue of his relative rank. One standing order never
enforced is, that every Lord who enters the House after
pra'yers shall be fined according to his rank. If he be a Baron
or a Bishop, the penalty is to be one shilling ; and " if any
degree above," he is to be fined two shillings. Every Lord
stillelinegxsc. excuse for his absence,
penalties thus exacted are ordered to be given
who does not go to the House at all, and renders no admis-
sible to be subject to a fine of five
to the poor. Were this order strictly enforced, the paucity of
attendance at the time of prayers, and the emptiness' of the
benches sometimes for weeks in succession, would prove
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oinrdeoenrssivldehriactlearreordTaniluye
violated
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hibits any Peer from entering the House of Commons without
first obtaining leave from the House of which he is a member.
The truth is, that the standing orders of the House are so
numerous, and embrace such a variety of points, that it
were
matter of as much difficulty rigidly to observe them as most
people, whose business is exclusively with the Excise, find it
to be to keep its laws. The standing orders amount in num-
ber to no fewer than two hundred and thirteen.—Random
Recollections of the House of Lords,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Arra); 11.

The Srr.AKL---to:ktheClitirsflortlY before four o'clock.
Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, presented papers.
ISLINGTON MARKET BILL.
Mr. HAWES presented a petition from Lambeth,
complaining of the Islington Market Amendment Bill.
The petitioners stated that the effect of the Bill was to
destroy the Islington Market altogether, and that if it was
allowed to pass, the petitioners would be most materially
injured; if not ruined. The Hon. Member considered the
petition well worthy the attention of the House.
EASTERN RAILWAY BILL.
Mr. ROSS presented a petition from an individual named
Walker, against the Eastern Railway Bill.
DUNDEE AND NEWTYLE RAILWAY BILL.
On the motion of Mr. HALIBURTON, the Dundee
and Newtyle Railway Bill, the Dundee Harbour Bill, and
the Dundee Water Works Bill were severally read a second
time, and ordered to be committed.
MR. BUCKINGHAM'S CLAIMS.

Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from Hull
in favour of Mr. Buckingham's claims.
SWANSEA HARBOUR.

On the motion of Mr. J. H. VIVIAN, the Swansea
Harbour Bill, and the Newport Harbour Bill, were seve-
rally read a second time, and ordered to be committed.
DUBLIN STEAM PACKET COMPANY.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from Liverpool,
praying to be heard by Counsel against the Dublin Steam
Packet Company's Bill.
HODGE'S DIVORCE BILL.
On the motion of Mr. TOOKE, this Bill, as well as Hicks's
Name Bill, were severally read a second time, and ordered
to be committed on Friday.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
Mr. TOOKE presented a petition from Messrs. Ban-
ton' and Co. against this Bill.
CHESHIRE RAILWAY.
Lord SANDON presented a petition from an indivi-
dual of the name of Brooke against the Bill for making a
railway from Manchester to Chester.
FOLKE'S NATURALIZATION BILL.

On the motion of the NOBLE LORD this Bill was read a
second time.
HERIOT'S HOSPITAL BILL.

Mr. FERGUSON presented a petition from an indivi
dual, against certain clauses of this Bill.
STAMP DUTIES UPON NEWSPAPERS.

Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from
Heeklestone, praying for the total abolition of the Stamp
Duties upon Newspapers, and also for the release of the
persons who were imprisoned for the violation of those laws,