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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1838.

abstain from acts involving a breach of the law ; and so
long as they did that I perfectly agreed with what my
Noble Friend at the head of the department in the Go-
vernment to which I belong said at Liverpool, that it was
less dangerous for the State t 6 permit such opinions as
those to be publicly known, that men might publicly re-
pudiate them—(Cheers)---than by directing the force of
the law against individuals who were scarcely worthy of
notice, and by giving them the character of political
martyrs—(Cheers)—raise them in the eyes of their
ignorant followers.—( Cheers.) So long as they pursued
that course—so long as their language was moderate, and
their actions free from violence, the Government allowed
them to go unmolested—(Cheers)—but they had pro-
ceeded now to such incendiary language, and that lan-
guage and these doctrines having been realised at Ashton-
on-the-Line, by the burning of a factory, that it was im-
possible longer to be tame spectators of the revolutionary
orations of Stephens and his followers.—(Great. cheering.)
Well, what is the effect of this burning ? The proprietor,
no doubt, will lose some thousand pounds : but this loss
will be probably covered by insurauce on the buildings.
Who, then, are the real sufferers ? The four hundred
families who are thrust upon the world to starve.—(Cheers
and cries of " Hear.") The first act of this revolutionary
party falls not on the order of society whom they would
assail, but the blow is levelled against, and acts with too
sad an effect on the poor who are unable to stand it. The
subject in which I am interested above all others—in
which my vanity is not a little interested—is the ameliora-
tion of the system of prison discipline throughout Scotland.
I have seen much with my own eyes, and I have heard
much from those in whom I place implicit; reliance, of the
shocking state—for I can use no milder expression—in
which the gaols of Scotland still are ; and there is no in-
dividual acquainted with the subject who will deny that it
is most unjust to compel the royal burghs to maintain all
prisoners after punishment.—(Applause.) I have done all
in my power to get the grievance removed, and I am happy
to think that, though the measure has not yet been suc-
cessful in both houses of the Legislature, still I have got
one-half of my object accomplished, in having got the
House of Commons to agree to a particular Bill—(Cheers)
—and though I am aware, from what I read of the pro-
ceedings of the town- cotracil of Perth, that some indi-
vidals there were averse to the principle of the measure.
who have been removed from their places by the votes of
the citizens—(Cheers)—I can plainly see that they were
neither disposed to give the Bill fair play, nor fairly to con-
sider its clauses—perhaps because it came from a Reform
Government—(Cheers)—or because it had my name on
the back of it.--(Laughter and cheers.) I am bound
publicly to assure the Provost, Magistrates, and citizens of
Perth that I will do all that in my power lies to attend to
their wishes in regard to the Prison Bill. We see all
things are going by agitation now-.t-days.—(Laughter.)
We sometimes see temporal O'Connells, sometimes
spiritual O'Connells, and now, gentlemen, let me be a prison
O'Connell.—{Great laughter.) With regard to other topics
of general political interest, I will only say, at present, that,
as far as I can consistently with the maintenance of those
institutions which I think useful to the country pursue the
course of Reform—l will be found the same reformer as
formerly—more especially in as far as I am disposed to give
the Reform Bill a fair working.—(Great cheering.) Gen-
tlemen, I have the honour of proposing to you the health
of the " friends of Reform in the county, and the consti-
tuency who have always given their free and independent
suffrages in its favoUr." (The Hon. Gentleman concluded
amidst enthusiastic and long-continued applause.)
Mr. RITCHIE, of Hill of Rutliven, acknowledged the
compliment, and gave " The Marquis of Breadalbane—the
first who so nobly fought the battle of Reform successfully
in Perthshire."—(Long and continued cheering.)
The Marquis of BREA DALBANE could assure the Chair-
man and gentlemen assembled, that, on no occasion, had he
ever required more indulgence than on the present. The
enthusiastic manner in which his health had been responded
to, almost destroyed his confidence in attempting to reply
to it.—(Cheers.) He was convinced that, of all forms of
government, that adopted in Britain, the mixed one, was
the best—combining, as it did, a monarchy, an aristocracy,
and a democracy ; or, in other words, a representation of
the people.—( Loud cheering.) It was on these principles
he had sought the suffrages of the electors of the county ;
and he would ever look back with pleasure on the support
then given to him, and he would endeavour to strengthen,
cherish, and improve the ties that existed between them.
The Noble Marquis concluded by giving " her Majesty's
Ministers," which was received with great applause.
Mr. Fox MAULE returned thanks ; and, after a few ge-
neral observations, said the Ministry were acting, to the best
of their ability, to carry forward the great work of reform
legislation ; and, be their fate what, it might, although they
should resign the reins of government, they could, at least,
do it with honour to themselves ; and he was quite sure
to say that, since 1830, no administration had hitherto,
during three times the space, done the same ; and he might,
with equal confidence, predict that no Ministry in future
would, in the same space, do the like.—(Great and enthu-
siastic cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave the following toasts :
" The Lord-Lieutenant of the County" (all the honours)
—" The Member for the County" (all the honours)—
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't The Member for the City."—(Great cheering.)
Lord KIIVNAIRD returned thanks for the honour conferred
upon his brother.
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The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then rose, and was received
with great cheering. He said—Mr. Chairman, I feel as-
sured no toast proposed even by a stranger can be other-
wise than well received here, of which the subject is Ire-
land.—(Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, it is a lamentable
task for English, or rather British eyes, to read the history
of Ireland. The earlier peri ad of that history extends
over centuries presenting nothing but a picture, from
which the attention turns tired and disgusted, of massacre
and
pillage--domestic dissensions—civil wars never sub-
dued, and sometimes extending their ravages over the
whole country—with everything else that is utterly de-
structive and subversive of security to property or to life.
—(llear, hear.) The revolution, which secured to us
civil and religious liberty—that glorious revolution con-
ferred no such adeantages on Ireland.—( Hear.) The
hatred entirely produced, and I dread at that time not
unnaturally, from the progress and effect of Catholicism,
gave rise to two consequences which have since marked the
progress of her story. One of these was the enactment of
a series of penal acts, and the most oppressive—at least as
oppressive as any which ever stained the statute-book of any
country.—(Hear, hear.) The other was, that in order
to secure the great and favourite object of Protestant as.
cendancy, but securing it by no well-considered policy, the
foondations were laid of a Protestant legislature, of which
there have been many honourable exceptions, but a section
of which, in the end of the last century, (and perhaps at
this time would do so if they could), proved themselves
one of the most remorseless and bloodthirsty factions that
ever oppressed the land—( Loud cheers). It was not until
1829 that the Catholic Bill was wrested from the Tories—
(Hear, hear). It was given so grudgingly—with so little
heart in the matter to make it a boon of grace to that
country—that you may perfectly recollect, that although
there was but a single case that a regulation could touch,
they did so form their measure that they prevented Mr.
O'Connell from obtaining his seat in Parliament, though
returned for the county of Clare, because his return was
before the Bill was passed—(Great cheers). Was not this
a paltry and pitiful outrage oa a man whom, whatever you
may think of some parts of his conduct both before and
since, has undoubtedly proved himself, as regards his own
countrymen, one of the greatest benefactors that Ireland
has ever found—(Loud continued cheering). But has
the Catholic Emancipation Bill not been shown to
bear its fruits. It fell not indeed, fortunately, for
a Tory administration either to give or deny those fruits,
for shortly after that the general Reform Bill was passed,
and it was in vain to deny to Ireland the reform of her consti-
tuency which was yielded to the demands of Great Britain
both in England and Scotland. We know Seotland got a
Municipal Reform Bill, before they got theirs in England ;
and those institutions deserved to be respected, not on ac-
count of their exclusive privileges of trade, which should all
be abolished ; but they deserved to be respected, because in
former periods they preserved the seeds of liberty until it
grew against oppression, and-at last assumed a shape--in
short, until it protected the whole land.--(Great cheering.)
They have been called for and refused in Ireland, as nor-
foal schools of agitation ; but I say schools of good disci-
pline,of teaching men the way to manage their own concerns,
and in politics teaching them how to govern themselves.—
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, another subject there is,
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opinion prevails among you
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that establishment, _ liet wee eesiuleed of her, might
possibly be too well endowed,
(Hear.) lam not striking
Church that property which necesaary to enable her to
diseharge her tleties even to the order of a hierarchy ; all
that was proposed was, that so
at endowments
me of the superfluities of that
establishment—some of' the excess over what can be nooeS-
sarily.required--Sgrne bread of those highly pampered and
groaleng tables should perhaps fell to the moral and reli-
gious instruction of the whole people.—( Hoar, hear, bear,
and loud cheers.) And this was called spoliation ! What,
Gentlemen, are we Protestants afraid of education ? What
has the reform of religion given us so dear as civil and re-
ligious liberty? We baye heard it said duo Ireland is but

half conquered. I scarcely know in what sense the word
is used. Half conquered Ireland ! If it is intended to
convey this meaning, that all that is required to pacify Ire-
land, to repress agitation there, is to unite her to Great
Britain by military power, by great oppression and by a
great deluge of blood, it is a maxim, and I say a most un-
worthy one, and which in that sense cannot be wed by the
great man to whom it is ascribed, however ready the Orange
party in that sense may be to adopt it.—( Hear, hear.)
Gentlemen, I say half conquered Ireland and her conquest
will only be complete when her interests and affections are
identified with yours.—(Great cheering.)
The meeting was afterwards addressed by Provost Greig,
Captain Arnston Stewart, Colonel Abercrombie, Lord Kin-
naird, Sir David Brewster, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, and
several other gentlemen.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 24.

A Letter has been received at this Office, addressed by Captain
Sandom, commanding her Majesty's Naval Force on the Lakes
of Canada, to Vice-Admiral the Honourable Sir Charles
Paget, and dated at Kingston, the 18th of November last,
in which the Captain reports the proceedings of the
vessels employed in concert with the Land Forces under Cols. Dun-
das and Young, in repelling the attack made upon the town of Pres-
cott, and on the British territory in its vicinity ; as detailed in the
lettersfrom the two military officers above-named, which appeared
in the " Gazette" of the Bth instant.

Captain Sandom commends, in high terms, the gallantry, zeal,
and activity of Lieutenant Powell and Mr. David Elliot, Mate of her
Majesty's steam-vessel Experiment, and of Lieutenant C. A. Par-
ker, of the Royal Marines, commanding the detachment landed
to co-operate with the Queen's troops; as well as the good con-
duct of the seamen and marines employed on the occasion.
The following is a list of the officers and men killed and wounded
in the action of the 13th November :
Return of Killed and Wounded, on the 13th November, IE3B.

KILLED.
Robert Kershaw, private Royal Marines.
WOUNDED.

Lieut. C. A. Parker, First Lieut. Royal Marines, slightly.
Mr. David Elliot, mate, slightly.
Samuel Wade, seaman, severely.
John M‘Dermott, seaman, severely.
John Chapman, lance corporal Royal Marines, severely.
Josh. Humm, lance corporal Royal Marines, severely.
George Clackett, private Royal Marines, severely.
Richard Wakeham, private Royal Marines, severely.
William Ward, private Royal Marines, severely.
John Stephens, private Royal Marines, severely.
Richard Parry, private Royal Marines, severely.
John Powell, private Royal Marines, severely.
. William Miller, private Royal Marines, severely.
' Thomas Burton, private Royal Marines, slightly.
Richard Dibben, private Royal Marines, slightly.
( Signed) WILLIAM SANDOM, Captain.
EDWARD NEWMAN, M.D.
Acting Surgeon. -

KENSINGTON PALACE, DEC. 21, 1838.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has been pleased to ap-
point the Reverend Doctor Bowles, Rector of Noke, in the county
and diocese of Oxford, to be one of his Royal Highness's Domestic
Chaplains.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 25.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Lieut. H.
Brand to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Chisholm,
who retires; A. Woodford, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Brand.; Lieut. and Capt. Lord F. Paulet to be
Adjutant, vice Chisholm, who resigns, Dec. 25.
3d Regiment of Foot—Ensign 0. H. St. G. Anson, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice White, promoted; A. H. Robson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Anson, Dec. 25.
6th Foot—Ensign R. S. Cole to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice White, promoted ; J. R. Croker, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Cole, Dec. 25.

17th Foot--Lieut. G. E. Darby, from the 45th Regiment of
Foot, to be Lieut., vice Stowell, who exchanges, Dec. 26.
32d Foot—Captain 0. Markham, from the 34th Regiment of
Foot, to be Captain, vice Bradfute, who exchanges, Dec. 25.
34th Foot--Captain R. Bradfute, from the 32d Regiment of
Foot, to be Captain, vise Markham, who exchanges, Dec. 25.
45th Foot—Ensign R. Bates to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Killikelly, who retires, Dec. 25 ; Lieutenant J. Stawell, from the
17th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Darby, who ex-
changes, Dec. 26 ; H. T. Vialls, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Bates, Dec. 25.

50th Foot—Ensign J. W. Hope, from the 99th Regiment of
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Rathborne, who exchanges, Dec. 25.
57th Foot—D. E. Armstrong, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Cardew, promoted, Dec. 25.
60th Foot—Second Lieut. S. G. Bunbury to be First Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Rose, who retires ; C. W. H. Sotheby,
Gent., to ba Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bunbury, De-
cember 25.

95th Foot—Lieut. J. Campbell, from the 46th Regiment of
Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice W. C. Fisher, who retires,
Dec. 25.

99th Foot--Ensign W. H. Rathborne. from the 50th Regiment
of Foot, to he Ensign, vice Hope, who exchanges, Dec. 25.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign F. M. W. Pogson to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Beecher, deceased, Oct. 27 ; C. B.
Birch, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Pogson, Dec. 25.
Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies—Lieut. W. Mason,
from the half-pay of the 82d Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant,
vice Macpherson, appointed Pdymaster of the 77th Foot; Lieut.
11. Munro, from the half-pay of the 103 d Regiment, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Rice, promoted, Dec. 25.
UNATTACInD.—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieut. H.
Macquarie. from the 55th Regiment of Foot ; Lieut. S. Rice, from
the Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies; Lieut. E. Suther-
land, from the 77th Regiment of Foot, dated Dec. 25.
BREVET.—The under-mentioned Cadets, of the Hon. the East
India Company's Service, to have the temporary rank of Ensign dur-
ing the period of their being employed, under the command of Col.
Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for field instructions in
the art of Sapping and :Vining :—Gentleman Cadet H. Yule ; Gen-
tleman Cadet A. J. M. Boileau, Dec. 25.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 24.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.— Second Captain G. Spiller to be
Captain, vice Robertson, placed on the Retired List, ; First
Lieutenant H. Poole to be Second Captain, vice Spiller; Second
Lieutenant the Hon. G. T. Devereux to be First Lieutenant,
vice Poole.

Commission 'it e Lord Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire.
Dumfriesshire, &c.;., • itia.—Lieutenant J. Rutherford, half-pay
23d Regiment, to be 1- in, vice Sir P. /E. Irving, Bart., de •
ceased, Dec. 17.
Commission by the Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
North Somerset Regimen( of : Yeomanry Cavalry—G. C.
Sawyer, Gent.'to be Cornet, vice Giay, promoted, Dec. 19.

WHITEHALL, Dec. 20.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Bonsor Swan, of
the city of Gloucester, Gent., to be a Mister Extraordinary in the
High Court of Chancery.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
WILLIAM BARTLEY, money scrivener, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
JAMES BOWERMAN, shopkeeper, Castle Cary, Somerset-
shire.

BANKRUPTS.
DAVID DAVIES and RICHARD FERDINAND COX,
coal owners, Oxford, to surrender Jan. 15, and Feb. 5, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, Finsbury-square, official
assignee ; Richards and Motteram, Birmingham ; Chaplin, Gray's
Inn-square, London.
THOMAS WHARTON, house carpenter, Lancaster, Jan. 4,
and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Royal Oak Inn, Lancaster. Loftus
and Young, New Inn, London ; Wilson, Kendal ; Baldwin, Lan-
caster.
WILLIAM THOMAS DOORNE, bookseller, Torquay, De-
vonshire, Jan. 12, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the New London Inn,
Exeter. Cloves and Wedlake, King's Bench- walk, Temple,
London ; Laidman, Exeter.
JOHN NUTTER and ROBERT NUTTER, corn-merchants,
Cambridge, Jan. 10, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn,
Cambridge. Egan, Waterman, and Wright, Essex-street, Strand,
London ; Adcock, Cambridge.
GEORGE ELD, miller, Coventry, Jan. 10, and Feb. 5, at
twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry. Austen and Hobson,
Gray's Inn, London; Troughton and Lea, Coventry.
DIVIDENDS. -
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball-street.
T. Rankin, draper, Epping, Essex, Jan. 15, at twelve—J. An-
derson, merchant, Winchester House, Old Broad-street, Jan. 15,
at half-past eleven—C. Basan, licensed victualler, Strand, Jan. 15,
at one—B. Verrindcr, coal merchant, Davies-street, Berkeley-
square Jan. 17, at half-past eleven—G. Palmer, tailor, Seuthamp-
ton, Berkeley-
square,
17, at twelve—B. Sewell and W. Garrod, drapers,
Hackney, Jan. 17, at half-past twelve—H. Grace, painter, Re-
gent-street, Jan. 17, at one—W. P. Williams, draper, Newton
Abbott, Devonshire, Jan. 17, at half-past one—C. Bailey and W.
H. Potter, wholesale druggists, Garlick-hill, City, Jan. 15, at eleven.
In the Country.
W. Atwood, watch maker, Lewes, Sussex, Jan. 16, at eleven, at
the Star Inn, Lewes—J. Llewellyn, draper, Carmarthen, Feb. 14,
at ten, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen—S. Hugo, maltster,
Truro, Jan. 18, at eleven, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro—J. Harries,
timber merchant, Carmarthen, April 4, at ten, at the Boar's Head
Inn, Carmarthen—D. Davies, victualler, Manchester, Jan, 16, at
ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES.—JAN. 15,
G. Martin, builder, Oxford-street—J. Saul, schoolmaster, Green-
row, Cumberland—M. (lroucott, dealer in glass, Leamington-
priors, Warwickshire.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
U. Coflyer and T. R, Sabine, window blind manufacturers,
Brighton—J. Taylor, sen., and J. Taylor, jun., tailors, King-street,
Southwark—W. Borradaile and J. ;Middleton, King's Arms-yard,
Thames
ColemanFoun-streetJ. M, Hervey and G. 11. Burnell, iron founders,
dry, Brick-lane, St. Luke's—J. R. and T. Newbery,
table cover manufacturers, Percy-street, Bedford-square--C. Bos-
worth and R. Norton, brick makers, Upton, Nottinghamshire—J.
T. and R. B. Coles, paper makers, Wells, Sornersetshire—T. B.
Jervis and R. Bagulcy, manufacturers of striped cottons,
.Manches-
ter---A. Batt') and W. Muller, tailors, Sackville-street, Piccadilly,
—J. Holt and W. Benson, iron founders, Liverpool.

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UNIVERSITY •OFDURHAM.—A, Professorship,
which promises to realise the most important results as re-
gards the advancement of science, is about to be established
in this University—viz., a Professorship of Mining, an on-
dowment which has long been a desideratum in this
country i and from the 'peculiarly favourable position of
the heart of the great mining districts of
England—ti: students will, at all times, have the advan-
tage of *winging their theoretical instruction to the test of
actual experiment.
HIGIIWAY ROBBERY.—SIIANIEFuL TREAT-
MUNI' or THE PRISONER.--Thomas Baker, a marine, of
the Woolwich division has been fully committed by the
Woolwich bench of Magistrates for robbery and attempting
to murder John Selby Watson, Esq. The prisoner com-
plained that he was almost dying for want since his incar-
ceration ; that although sixpence a-day was a.ilowed for his
support out of his pay, he only receiveda thin half slice of
bread and butter, and a basin of coffee and water per day,
and that this had been his on!y sustenance for a fortnight. It
was stated that the Magistrates would cause an immecnts