The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 17TH.—THE WEATHER AND THE
CROPS.—It rained very constantly during the whole of
yesterday evening, and all last night ; but this morning
the sun shines out again, and, though watery-looking,
we hope "the clouds will pass away," but as we write
the rain again falls. No injury, however, has hitherto
been done, which a week of warm weather would not
amply remedy ; and we have sufficient trust in the good
and all-wise dispensations of Providence, to rely, with
confidence, on the succeeding season for the realisation
of those hopes which, up to this period, the general pro-
gress of the harvest has inspired.
LAW APPOINTMENTS.—The late Attorney-General
was sworn in on Friday, and is now Chief Baron
O'Brady. Mr. Pigot, and Mr. Richard Moore, are
Attorney and Solicitors• General ; and Doctor Stock
the Sergeant.
The Mail begs leave to acquaint "aspiring young
gentlemen at the bar," that the new Chief Baron is
an out-and-out repealer, and that he owes his advance-
ment to Mr. O'Connell! The .Mail is not mad, neither
is it mendacious, but somehow nobody pays much at-
tention to the vehicle—" nobody goes by it," as a pun-
ster said the other day.
JUDGE; CRAMPTON AND FATHER MATHEW.—The
Learned Judge has written a letter to the Mail, contra-
dicting the accuracy of a report relative to his having
taken the Temperance pledge. Mr. Mathew himself,
too, has corrected the mistake, and satisfactorily ex-
plained the transaction, in his address to the people at
Naas on Saturday last :—" Then there was Judge
Crampton, who, it has been said, took the pledge from
me. But the Learned Judge did not require to do so,
he having already totally abstained from using any kind
of spirituous liquor whatever. I have to acknowledge,
and I beg to do so here, the great and very kind atten-
tion paid to me by Mr. Justice Crampton. He called
upon me several times in the course of my stay in Dub-
lin, and he did me the honour of inviting me to dine
with him. It is a mistake, however, as to his having
taken the pledge from me ; he did not do so ; he did not
want it. But he did do me the honour of receiving a
temperance medal at my bands, and while in the act of
taking the medal, a person happened to come into the
apartment in which we were at the time. He thought
the Learned Judge was taking the pledge, and in that
had originated the mistake. Having given this expla-
nation, I must in the next place observe, that I am ut-
terly at a loss to know why it is that any one should
think fit to attack us because of it having been stated
that Judge Crampton had taken the pledge. Judge
Crampton is a good, a truly excellent man, and why '
our society should bo assailed on account of its being
reported that he had joined it, I confess fills me with
surprise and astonishment."
NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This day a
meeting of the Repeal Association was held at the Corn
Exchange. On the Motion of Mr. O'Connell, Mr. John
O'Neill was called to the chair. Mr. O'Connell then
moved that the Most Reverend the Archbishop of
Tuam be admitted a member of the Association. The
meeting was the most numerous that has yet been held.
It was a perfect throng. The very staircases were
crowded with persons anxious to join in the national
movement. The accumulation of public business is so
great, and the members for admission are now so nume-
rous, that it has been found necessary to commence
the proceedings at a much earlier hour than hereto-
fore. The Association, accordingly, met to-day, at
ave:ve o'clock. The Liberator was hailed with enthu-
siasm on this his first appearance since his return from
Connaught. Among the members admitted to-day, was
the Right Rev. Dr. Mac Hale.—Pilot.

PRIVILEGES OF THE BAR-ASSAULT ON
MR. FREEMAN, THE BARRISTER.

At the Cork Assizes, on Saturday, William Allen,
jun., Esq., of Liscongill, was indicted for an assault on
Mr. Freeman, the barrister, committed on the 4th of
August last, during the present assizes. The Bar at-
tempted to induce the Judges to treat the case as a con-
tempt of Court, but they refused to look upon it in any
o,:her light than as an ordinary common assault, com-
mitted by one individual upon another.
Mr. Sergeant Jackson stated the case for the prose-
cution. _ _ _ _ __ .. _

Mr. Freeman, on his examination by Mr. Keller, de-
scribed the assault, and stated that he bad been struck
upon the back with a horsewhip by Mr. Allen, who bad
subsequently offered him his card.
On his cross-examination by Mr. Henn, Q.C., Mr.
Freeman admitted that the elder Mr. Allen, father of ,
the traverser, and a Magistrate of the County of Cork, ,
was nearly seventy years old ; that in the course of the
trial which preceded the assault he had repeatedly called
him " Billy Allen ;" that be had characterised Mr.
Allen's conduct as unrighteous and atrocious—that those
expressions had been used in the presence of Mr. Allen's
son, the traverser—that he felt greatly exasperated
when he saw Mr. Allen put out his tongue at him—
that he had said that he could not bear to see a tongue
with so much filth on it.
[lt may be right to mention that ~ Billy Allen " is
the name of a wandering mendicant, well known in the
South of Ireland.]
Mr. HENN, Q.C.. addressed the Jury on the part of
the traverser.
The Jury returned a verdict of guilty of the com-
mon assault. accompanied, however, with a recommen-
dation to mercy, under the aggravating circumstances
of the case.
The JUDGE (Sergeant Greene) ordered the traverser
to be confined a month, and to pay a fine of 101.
The result of this case cannot fail to produce a salu-
tary influence in checking the unrestricted licence as-
sumed by too many members of the bar, in using lan-
guage of the most offensive description. There are no
men so ready, as a certain class of lawyers, to exclaim
against what they term the licentiousness of the press,
whilst they avail themselves of every possible opportu-
nity of indulging in the most unbridled licentiousness,
without any other cause or provocation than the receipt
of a brief, and the payment of a fee of two or three
guineas. This case, however, will give quite a new
reading to." the privileges of the bar."
• •

for all its endowments.
The General Assembly is not only a Court of review
and appeal, where all causes which have passed through
the inferior Courts must take end;. it is also a legisla-
tive court, where alone proposals to amend old laws, ---.-----........--.
which may be deemed defective, or to make new enact- Rowland's Kalydor is a balm) and odoriferous
'flouts, which may seem 'to lie wanted, must be enter- 'creamy liquid—the most mild f :
dissipating sun.lmr tan,
twined, and cutaneous disfigurements of the
, sac, yet efficacious pre-
tained, and, if approved, embodied and transnaitted to p,rat_ion. ever known, for
osed chiefly from extracts of the most rare
Presbyteries for their adoption or rejection. For so psTnplecs,o
flowersit
guarded were our predecessors, that no unnecessary or
lady of rank,n was no less singular than its effects
violent changes in Church law should take place, that,
however much approved of by the General Assembly,
bineetnhefeliectous durit:g the last twenty years. Perseverahnacv:
it could not become the law of the Chureh, till every
where use
of
Rowland's Kalydor is the only known means.
individual member of every Presbytery in Scotland
tifull ure has denied her bounty, of ataining a beau-
should have an opportunity afforded him, of considering
it in all its bearings ; and until a return was made by .yclearand fair skin, tinged with a roseate hue. .
the majority of Presbyteries in the Church signifying A second expedition to the White River is in
preparation. An artist, a naval officer. Mr. Sabaty, cow-
their approval. missioned to take the heights, and an engineer, arc engaged,
THE COMMISSION OF ASSEMBLY. who will start from Cairo about the middle of the present
It falls to be noticed here, that for various reasons, month for Nigritia.

We gave in our publication of Wednesday last, some
particulars of the disgraceful outrages at Colne, on the
preceding Thursday and Monday evenings ; but were
prevented, by the accidental miscarriage of a letter, from
continuing the narrative on Salurday.
. It appears that on Tuesday morning (the 11th inst.)
- the men, eight in number, who had been apprehended
during the preceding night, were brought before the
Magistrates, Mr. Foulds and Mr. Wood, who, after
entering slightly into the evidence against them, re..
manded them till Friday, in order to await the reel*
of the inquest upon the body of Mr. Halstead. Cut
Thursday morning, the Coroner, John Hargreaves,
; Esq., and an intelligent Jury, assembled at the Angel
Inn, for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances
connected with the melancholy fate of the deceased.
The inquest eommeneed about eleven o'clock in its
morning ; it continued the whole of that day, (tad till
• about half-past six in the evening of Friday.
Mr. Wood said—During the last week, on several
evenings, generally between nine and ten o'clock, die.
orderly assemblages of rabble had taken place in Colee.
I attended at Colne as a Magistrate, and occasionally
heard discharges of fire-arms from these assemblages.
During the night of Thursday last, the police constables
were driven from the streets, and the mob broke the
windows of several houses. Au inspector of police
was severely injured, and considerable alarm Brevaila
In consequence of these proceedings, Mr. Foulds agli
I thought it necessary to take immediate steps to 'tie.
cure the peace. It was thought necessary to call in
the assistance of the military. I proceeded to the
barracks at Burnley for the purpose, and obtained
detachments of cavalry and infantry. I returned
with the military. Great crowds of people were
assembled, and we were hooted. I expected an at-
tack on the chaise in which I travelled, but none
took place. The cavalry returned to Barnley the same
night ; the infantry remained until Sunday morning.
The town was quiet untirthat time, and the infantry
returned on Sunday morning. Sunday passed over its
quietness. On Monday Mr. Fould and I attended
all the day at Colne, having received information that
disturbances were apprehended. A number of the in-
habitants, about 70 in number, were sworn in ;pedal
constables at eight o'clock in the evening. Eta eise•
cial constable had a truncheon delivered to idol. The
special constables remained in the King's Head Inn
until about half-past nine. Then it was foiled neees-,
sary to order them out, disorderly crowds of people
having assembled in the streets. Mr. Foulds and I pro-
ceeded at the head of the special constables, the police
constables, to the number of 27, preceding the spe-
cial constables, and so they passed along the streets.
Crowds of people were assembled at every street
end. A crowd appeared to have gore before us to
the east end of the town. In the course of ten minutes,
after leaving the King's Head, we thought it ad-
visable to read the Riot Act. I read it at the toll bar,
and told the people that their remaining in the streets
after reading the Riot Act would be felony. The num-
ber of people then assembled in that neighbourhood
would be perhaps 200 ; but, beyond the toll bar, there
being no lamps, I could not distinguish the number in
that direction ; but, I believe, a large body had gone
out in that direction. There, was no actual riot at
that time ; but, from the general appearance of the
people, and from the information which I had received
from the police officers, I was apprehensive that a riot
would take place. After reading the riot act, I return
towards the west-end of the town with a party of the
police constables and a party of the special constables.
On my return through the streets, I read the riot act
again four different times ; and on each occasion I
warned the people, and requested them to disperse.
At the fifth time of reading the riot act, I was a little
westward of the King's Head. The crowd had, at that
time, principally left the street. We then returned,
and went into a part of the town called Windy Bank,
and I read the riot act there. The crowd had thee
much diminished ; very few people were in the street,
on our return from Windy Bank. Having arrived in
the Market-place, the constables took different direo-

tions to ascertain the state of the back streets. I went
with one party down the main street, as far as a street
called Nineveh-street. We went partly down that
street, and crossed over into Parliament-street : there
we heard the sound of a rattle as from the main street,
and we hastened into that street. There we heard the
alarm bell. When we arrived at a situation between
Mr. Bolton's house and the top of Clayton-street, we
heard, proceeding from the east end of the town, about
the toll-bar, swearing, shouting, and yelling ; also calls
and threats to come on, as if directed to us. We thought
it best to remain where we were. For a while we did
so, and then proceeded towards the toll-bar, as far as
the top of St. John-street : we found the lamp in thajt
street put out. We then returned to the top of Clay-
ton-street ; then, in consequence of some information
which I received, we proceeded down Clayton-street, as
far as the first cross street. Then proceeding from the
lower end of the same street, the shouts, noises, dis-
charge of fire-arms, and the striking of iron bars, as it
sounded to us, against the walls or palisades, was most
alarming. There were calls also, " Come on ;be firm ;
mash at them," and other expressions to that effect.
Mr. Foulds was with me at that time : standing at the
corner of Clayton-street and a cross street leading to
St. John-street, we could perceive that a conflict had
taken place in the cross street, and an alarm was given
that a man was killed. A tremendous volley of stones
came just then, and drove me and ply party from our
position. We went up Clayton-street into £he main
street, and there I saw the mob coming up. I could
not tell from which street ; they marched in a dotal
body in a sort of military array up the street, each men
carrying in his hand a wooden bludgeon about four
feet long. I retreated before them to the King's Head,
and sent for the military ; but, before the military ar-
rived the mob had dispersed. It was about eleven
o'clock when we last left Clayton-street. The deceased
was sworn in as a special constable on Monday, and I
saw and spoke to him in the market-place on on- re-
turn from Windy Bank. Before reading the Act the
second time, I took out my watch, and observed that it
was then ten o'clock.

Further evidence was given, the effect of which was
to show that the deceased, Mr. Halstead, bad been
struck on the head with an iron bar by one of the
prisoners, a man named Richard Boothman ; and that
two others, named James Wilkinson and Thomas Riley,
were present. aiding Boothman in the attack upon the
police and the constables.
After a very calm and dispassionate, but at the same
time very able charge from Mr. Hargreaves, the Jury
retired to consider of their verdict. After about an
hour and a half's deliberation, the Foreman returned a
verdict of " Murder " against Richard Boothman, as
principal, and James Wilkinson and Thomas Riley, as
accessories to the murder.

The three prisoners were then committed to Lan-
caster, for trial at the ensuing March Assizes, and on
the following morning were conducted thither under
military escort.

On Wednesday the Magistrates sent a requisition for
the continuance of the military to Major-General Sir
Charles Napier, the commanding officer of the northern
district, who, however, before he had received it, in con-
sequence of information which lied been communicated to
him of the state of affairs at Colne, promptly proceeded
thither that he might personally have an opportunity of
forming an opinion of the necessity which existed for
military protection. Sir Charles arrived on Thursday
morning, and, after a consultation with the authorities
of the place, expressed himself perfectly willing, not only
that the, small detachment of the 78th Highlanders
a'ready at Colon might remain if they could be well
accommodated ; but he also expressed an intention of
sending an engineer" to fix upon a place which might be
or was capable of being rendered suitable for barracks.
On Saturday, accordingly, Captain Patten arrived at
Caine, and, after inspecting the Cloth Hall, a very la'rge
building, similar to the Halifax Piece Hall, and at pre.
sent almost useless, pronounced it (after an addition for
culinary and other purposes, the expense of which the
inhabitants are willing to defray) fit for the reception •f
troops. It was understood that a detachment, consist-
ing of SO or 100 men, would arrive at Colne yesterday ;
and as the Cloth Hall would not be ready for their re-
ception, they would be billeted at the ions. It need not
be added, that the town is perfectly quiet, and will, no
doubt remain so as long as it continues under the pro-
tection of the military,—Manchester Guardian.

THE SILK TRADE IN LOMBARDY.—Ip 1800
the silk collected amounted to 1,800,000 11m, at present
it is said to be ebout 7,000,000 lbs. During the last twenty
years,
the quantity, I am assured, has increased threefold,
and the value sixfold. This led to ill-judged spaculaibmi,
with a view to bring the silk trade into a few hands, tod t
maintain prices at an artificial height. False hopes were
raised of au almost unlimited advance. The consequence
was, a tremendous depreciation in the years 1834'and 5,
something similar to what took place in Germany with re-
spect to the wool trade. The same danger which seems
to threaten the latter from New Holland appears to be im-
pending over the silk trade from Asia. The impartation
of silk from Asia into London increased from 1824 to
1838 at the rate of 36A. per cent. In 1800-1802 it
amounted to 1,350,000 pounds weight, and in 1830-1832
it had already increased to 6,138,000 lbs. At present,
the silk trade continues to increase in Italy, and prices
ataetwe
tolerably stationary
papopineta.r tTohehawveeafivxinegd
ofs themselves
ilkhas
likewise
Lombardy; but is of little importance as yet, employing
only 2,349 looms and. 3,276 labourers.—Raumer's Italy
and the Italians.
THE URQUHART MANIA.—OR Saturday last,
in consequence of' a handbill published by Charles Att-
wood, invitir,Ohp Working classes to hear his sentiments
on the p;gruosition of this country with regard to its
relations t foreign powers, the working classes of New-
He spoke about two hours, and not only ex-
castle‘and the neighbourhood assembled in considerable
hausted his own strength, but the patience of a great many
of his hearers, for at the close of his address the room was
not more than half full.— Tyne Mercury.
Major-General Sir James Limond, K.C.8., died
at his hotel, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, on Friday last, in ]xis
62d year. Sir James had served with distinction in the
East Indies, and was promoted to the rank of Major.
General at the Coronation brevet in Is3B.

ERECHTHEIUM CLUB
Or, AUXILIARY ATHEN/EUM.

The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT of this Literary
and Scien4ific Association having, on Thursday, the 6th inst.,
made their SECOND SELECTION from the List of Candi-
dates, pursuant to Advertisement, hereby give Notice, That
they will again meet on Thursday, the 20th August, at One
o'eloek precisely, at the temporary Offices of the Club, No. 6,
Waterloo-place, Pall Mall, to make a further Selection from the
List of Candidates, and take into consideration the several
MANSIONS which have been offered for the use of the Club.

Noblemen and Gentlemen desirous of joinleg the Association
are requested to send in their applications to the Secretary,
H. E. Paine. Esq., to whom all other Communications re-
specting this Club must be addressed.
(Signed) JOHN DEAN PAUL, Chairman.

On Monday next, in vols. post Bvo.,
NARRATIVE OF THE
WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN,
IN 1838-9.
By Captain HENRY HAVELOCK, 13th Light Infantry,
Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Willoughby Cotton,
G. C.B. and K.C. H., commanding the Bengal Forces as-
sembled for service in Affghanistan.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
* Orders received by all Booksellers.

MR. G. P. R. JAMES'S NEW NOVEL.
Now ready, at all the Librariesin post Bvo.,
THE MAN AT ARMS;
JJLL Or, HENRI DE CERONS.
A ROMANCE.

By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq.,
Author of" Darnley," "De L'Orme," " Charles Tyrrell," &c,
Richard Bentley, Nev Burlington-street.

On Monday next, the 24th inst., in 2 vols. Bvo. bound, with
numerous Illustrations,
THE THAMES AND ITS TRIBUTA-
RIES.
By CHARLES MACKAY, Esq.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
NINTH WEEK, and CONTINUED BRILLIANT SUC-
CESS of BEETHOVEN'S BATTLE SINFONIA,
With its novel and effective Introductions ! !
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
CHAMPETRES,
By Godfrey's unrivalled Band.
Programe of the Concert far August 17th, 11th, and 20th.
• Overtures—Le Lac des Fees; Das Nactlajer in Grenada
(first time). Quadrilles—L'lndien, The Cavaliers, composed
expressly (first time), Les Echos. Waltz—Hommage ala
Beale, Die Berggeister. Fantasia from Oberon. Aria—Tutto
e Sciolto (Sennambula). Clarienet Obligato—Pot Pourri
stir Ins Motifs de Fra Diavolo. Trio—Night is coming (Blanche
of Jersey). And
BEETHOVEN'S GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA,
By the augmented Band, with instruments of novel construc-
tion, asd 340 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the most
vivid realization of the events of the Battle of Vittoria.
Ire vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by
Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows—
I:elease and Departure of the Discovery Ship.
Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light.
Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c.
On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday next.
ADMISSION ONE SHILLING.
Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock.
Concert commences at Six.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
13 minutes after 7. I Eyening minutes atter 8.

'ice Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SuN corn•

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