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STATE OF THE POOR.

MYSTERIOUS CASE.
MANCHESTER, Our. 9.—This day, Mr. Richard Thel-
well, lately carrying on a most extensive business as a
jeweller and silversmith, in St. Ann's-square, in this
town, was brought before Messrs. Maude, Walker, and
Armitage, on suspicion of being concerned in a very
serious robbery, which was committed on his premises
about seven weeks ago, when property to the amount of
9,000/. was stolen. A man named William Moobay
was placed in the dock along with him, who had been
employed as a porter in the establishment. Owing to ,
the singular nature of the charge, and the amount of
property in question, the case excited the utmost inte-
rest, and the Court was crowded to excess. Mr. Thel-
well was some time ago made a bankrupt, and the rob-
bery had been committed at the time the assignees were
in possession of the property, and when the bankrupt
and his friends were in treaty for the purchase of it.
Mr. Saunders, the Solicitor under the fiat, appeared
in support of the charge. Mr. Thelwell was defended
by Mr. Greene, Barrister-at-law.
In stating the case Mr. Saunders said the robbery
had been committed on the 22d of August last. The as-
signees under the fiat were chosen on the 12th of May,
when a person named Horton, a jeweller in London, on
behalf of himself and several others, applied to the assig-
nees not to proceed to the sale of the property forthwith,
but to allow it to remain as it was, merely selling by
private contract, to give the friends of Mr. Thelwell an
opportunity of coming forward and purchasing it in one
lot. The assignees, knowing that when the property was
under Mr. Thelwell's control a previous robbery had been
committed, two valuable communion services being
stolen, felt that there was some danger from repeated at-
tempts of the kind, and employed a watchman to remain
on the premises all night, and afterwards all day on
Sundays. He did so for three weeks, and was then dis-
charged from further attendance on Sundays, by Mr.
Thelwell's order, without the knowledge of the assignees.
The robbery was committed on the third or fourth
Sunday afterwards, when the man was absent. Sus-
picion attaching to Mr. Thelwell, it was found that on
Saturday, the 21st of August, the day before the rob-
bery, he had taken his place by the P.m. train from
Manchester to Parkside (the place of junction for the
trains from Manchester, Liverpool, and Lancaster to
London), not in his own name. Thence he had gone to
Lancaster, also in a wrong name ; and on being asked
to account for this circumstance, just said he had gone
there to see a friend, and then that he had gone to see a
young woman. He had left Lancaster on Sunday after-
noon by the train which arrived at Parkside in time to
meet the 7 P.M. train from Manchester to Birmingham,
and by that train he had proceeded to London. In in-
vestigating the robbery, it had been found that a large
heavy box had gone by that train from Manchester.
On the morning of the robbery, during the hours of
Divine Service, a woman saw two men carrying a box
along Half-moon-street (a retired street near Mr. Thel-
well's shop). They were traced into King-street, where
they got into a coach that was waiting, and drove to a
place very near the house of the prisoner Moobay, in
Hulme. The box could be traced no further than the
railway station on Sunday evening. Superintendent Saw-
ley, of the Manchester police, proceeded to London,
where, after some difficulty, he found Mr. Thelwell, on
Tuesday evening, at the White Horse, Fetter-lane, in
company with Mr. Horton, and two persons who said
they were from Birmingham. Sawley told Mr. Thel-
well his suspicions, and advised him to go back to Man-
chester immediately, which he did. Nothing beyond a
very strong suspicion was entertained until last night,
when a letter was received from Mr. O'Brien, a
magis-
trate of the county Sligo, accompanied by a copy of de-
positions then before him, from which it appeared that
a man named Pat Rafferty had been there charged
with stealing 70/. from a James Thelwell, the brother of
the prisoner. Thelwell gave a very suspicious account of
the way, in which he became possessed of the 70/., and
Rafferty, whose sister had cohabited with James
Thelwell, afterwards made a confession implicating
the two prisoners and James Thelwell (who had been
employed as porter by his brother) in the robbery in St.
Ann's-square. He stated that the 701. had been handed
over to him as his share of the property, various portions
of which had been sold in Derbyshire and other places,
and a fruit speculation had been there entered into by
himself and James Thelwell. A quantity of this fruit
was traced to the possession of the prisoner Moobay.
On the premises being examined after the robbery, it
was evident that no force had been used except from the
inside. It was pretended to be said that a box-lock had
been broken open, but the box had been regularly and
carefully unscrewed ; not a bit of wood remained in the
worms of the screw, which would have been the case had
it been forced off. It was suspected that there were du-
plicate keys, and that the premises had been entered in
that way. This was strenuously denied, but it ulti-
mately turned out that there were duplicate keys,
which had been missed since the time the commu-
nion plate was stolen. Beyond all doubt • the rob-
bery had been committed by parties well ac-
quainted with the promises, as was shown by their taking
the valuable property and leaving the refuse.
Superintendent Sawley was then sworn, and stated,
that he was sent for on the night of Sunday, the 22d of
August, by Mr. Gillow, who was in possession of the
shop under the assignees. The outer yard door was un-
locked, and the door leading from the yard to the shop
was open. He had no doubt the lock of the box had
been unscrewed inside. He made inquiries, and on
Monday traced the box up to near the prisoner Muobay's-
house. He searched the house, but found nothing. Moo-
bay was much alarmed. At the railway he learned that ,
the porters had placed a very heavy box on the luggage
carriage of the seven P.M. Sunday train, but they did not
know whether it was passengers' luggage, and none of
them remembered carrying it up stairs. He then went to!
London, and found Mr. 'Bidwell there on Tuesday ; be•
then knew all about the robbery, as he said, by a let-
ter from his son that morning. He had only arrived in
London at six on Monday morning. It was supposed
in Manchester that he had gone on the Thursday pre-
viously, and this led to the inquiry about his going
Parkside and Lancaster. The prisoner's brother James,
Rafferty, and his sister, who had lived with James Thel-
well, had for some time dealt in fruit up and down the
country, but they suddenly disappeared soon after the
robbery, and nothing was heard of them till the com-
munication was received from the Magistrate in Ireland.
Thomas Lee stated that he had been employed as a
private watchman on the premises, in the first instance
by Mr. Thelwell himself, and afterwards by the assig-
nees. He was instructed to remain on the premises from
seven at night till eight in the morning. He then re-
ceived orders to watch on Sundays, and did so for two
Sundays ; on the third Sunday Mr. Henry Thelwell, Mr.
Thelwell's son, told him his father said there was no oc-
casion to stay on Sundays, and he discontinued it. He
then used to leave the premises between seven and
eight on Sunday morning, and return at night. They had
a large dog, which he always left in the yard on
Sunday mornings. On the night the robbery .was
discovered they found the dog shut up in the cellar. It
was a very ferocious dog, and would not have allowed a
stranger to place it there. ' Mr. Gillow used to let wit-
ness in and out. He went with him to let him in on the
night of the 22d of August. The witness then described
the state in which the doors were found.
Cross-examined--Mr. Gillow, the person employed by
the assignees, knew that witness did not watch on Sun-
days before the robbery, and did not comploin of it. He
was paid half-a-crown extra, by Mr. Thelwell, when he
watched on a Sunday.
Mr. Gillow deposed that he was employed by the
assignees to keep possession of the property. When
he first went a watchman was only employed in
the night ; but on the 26th of June, Mr. Whitmore,
one of the assignees, gave instructions to Mr.
Thelwell to put a watchman on on tho Sun-
day. Mr. Thelwell afterwards said to witness that it
was very unnecessary, as, he had not been in the habit
of keeping one either at nights or on Sundays. Tho
watchman was put on on Sundays, and was paid by Mr.
Thelwell, on behalf' of the assignees. On the Saturday
evening prior to the third Sunday of the watchman
being employed, Mr. Thelis ell said it was very un-
necessary—it was only incurring extra expense to the
estate. Witness told him he certainly ought to know
best, bid if the assignees knew of the watchman being
discharged they would find great fault. He was after-
wards discharged from Sunday attendance unknown to
the assignees. During the Sundays he watched, Mr.
Thelwell or his sons let him in and out, as they did
until the 13th of August, when the assignees excluded
them from the premises ; and witness then took posses-
sion of the keys and let the watchman in and out. On
the morning of the robbery he was let ,Out a little before
half-Past seven, and the premises Were left perfectly secure.
The keys were in witness's possession all day till he went to
let the man in at night, and found the premises as described.
Cross-examined—Did not inform the assignees of the
watchman being discarded on a Sunday. Did not in-
form Mr. Hobson, by whom he was immediately em-
ployed, but concurred with Mr. Thelwell, owing to the
experience he had had, in thinking it an unnecessary ex-
pense on'the estate. The reason was this—Mr. Thelwell
had then every expectation of coming forward with secu-
rity to take the stock, which he would have made more
of for the benefit of the creditors than the assignees could
possibly have:done : and witness knew if he had told the
assignees of the discharge of the watchman on Sundays,
they would immediately have closed the shop, and not
given Mr. Thelwell another chalice of coming forward
with security. His reason for not informing the assig-
nees was out of friendship to Mr. Thelwell. He told
him it would not do to let the assignees know, other-
wise it would put a stop to the whole negotiation. Did
not think Mr. Thehvell was acting incorrectly. He ac-
knowledged he was remiss in not informing the assig-
ness that the watchman had been discharged on Sundays
immediately after Mr. Thelwell was excluded from the
premises on the 13th of August.
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The r from the Irish Altiobistrate, and the deposi-
tions taken by him, having been handed up to the bench,
Mr. Saunders asked to have the prisoners remanded
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his power to the police, or to appear at any time when
the Court thought proper to call him before it. In point
of fact, there was not the slightest evidence in the world
against Mr. Thelwell. First of all, he was shown to
be altogether absent from the place ; he went from
Lancaster direct to London. It was attempted to
throw suspicion upon him, because a large heavy box
left the Manchester station the same night, and crossed
Mr. Thelwell on -the way ; the supposition being that
he bad got hold of that box. But how was that to be
made out? The box undoubtedly left the Manchester
station by the Manchester carriages, but the train from
Lancaster consisted of different carriages, which wero

The following letter speaks for itself. It is evidently
written by a man imbued with religious feelings, and
endeavouringi,;
ofro ornsihtohuelldigbhet..soufbSiecercitpd oturtetsouacsiei eurntanilieirwitlelyd
the virtuous
suffering in a land flowing with plenty. When the people
find they are oppressed with taxes, and cannot obtain food
to satisfy the cravings of hunger, while the nobles and
clergy, and all the higher classes have abundance, are
they to blame in quoting Scripture as an authority against
kingly government ? The conversation between the
two boys gives a true picture of the condition of tens of
thousands throughout the country—honest men willing
to work, but unable to find employment :
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR —A circumstance came to my knowledge the
other day which brought a passage of Scripture to my
mind. if you will insert, it in your paper, with a few
observations, you will oblige.—Last week as my daugh.
ter was walking from Aterstham to Reigate, two boys
were walking behind her, about thirteen or fourteen
years of age ; one said to the other, " I have never suffered
so much in my life as I have this last fortnight. If I
could get some work to get food, I would not care about
having any place to sleep. lam determined to go to
gaol, I will not go so any longer." The other said,
" Not go to gaol ?"—" Yes, I shall then have food and a
place to sleep." Chap. xxx. of Proverbs, 7,8, 9 verses.—
" Two things have I required of thee, deny me them
not ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with
food convenient for me ! lest I be full, and deny thee,
and say, who is the Lord ; or lest I be poor and steal,
and take the name of my God in vain." Sir, a wise
Government will endeavour so to rule, that all may be
so situated as not to place any one in poverty, to be
tempted to steal—or rich, as to forget God. When God
brought the children of Israel out of Egypt into the
land of Canaan, every family had land, and if they
borrowed money on it, every seven years it went back to
the family again! so that none could get the land from
their poor brother ; but Samuel told them if they had a
king how ho would serve them ! he would take the best
of their land, and give it to his favourites ! So that
the king's favourites have got almost all the land ; they
have forgotten God, because they are rich ! lam con-
fident there Will be no prosperity for the people till
kingly Governments are done away.
Your's obediently,
W. C.

Southwark, Oct. 11.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert left the Castle this afternoon for an airing,
poney phaeton, his Royal Highness driving,
attended by Lord Charles Wellesley and Colonel
Bouverie on horseback.

Sir James Clark arrived at the Castle this af-
ternoon at half-past five o'clock.
Dr. Locock left the Castle to-day.
The Duchess of Kent walked for some time
this morning on the terrace of the Castle, attended
by Lady Charlotte Dundas, and afterwards rode
out in a poney phaeton.
The Princess Royal has been taken out twice
to-day.

Prince Albert, accompanied by his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, had an excellent hunt with
the beagles about 12 o'clock, in the Great Park.
His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel
Bouverie, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Lord Charles
Wellesley. His Royal Highness and the Duke
were in at the death.

Colonel Arbuthnot, 72d Highlanders, and Mr.
G. E. Anson will have the honour of dining
with the Royal party this evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cam-
bridge, arrived in town yesterday from their re-
sidence at Kew. The Duke of Cambridge
visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House, and in the evening returned to Kew.
The Lords of the Committee of Council on
Education had a meeting at the Council-office
yesterday. There were present the Lord Presi-
dent, the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Stanley, Sir
Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and Lord Granville Somerset.
Dr. Kay was in attendance.
Their Lordships remained in deliberation until
six o'clock.

Mr. Charles Buller had an interview with Sir
Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence
in Di-iwning-street.
M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Lieutenant Moody, R.E., Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of the Falkland Islands, left town on
Saturday:
Despatches from the Governors of Honduras
and the Bahamas were received yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

()rid, and that I EXTENSIVE ROBBERY of PLATE, attached to the other at Parluicle. It bad clearly Item
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a passenger's box, otherwise it would have appeared in
and abuse, at i
JEWELLERY, &c.
the bill ;- there wriuld hate been- carriage to-be paid on
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it at London,
porters what had become of it. And, assuming that it
and it Might have beei-CknoWn from the
contained all the stolen property, there, was no connec-
tion shown between it and Mr. Thelwell. What had
been Mr. Thelwelrs conduct ? Had he not come down
to Manchester iminedktely when . desired to do so
by Smiley? Then, With regard to the discharge
'of the . watchman froM attendance on Sundays,
it was evident that Mr. Gillow himself thought
there was no necessity whatever for his continu-
' anco. As to the duplicate keys, there was no evidence
in the world of any such existing, still less of Mr. Thel-
well being in any way connected with them. Mr. Thal-
well's brother, or Mr. Pat Rafferty might have had some-
thing to do with the robbery for aught that appeared,
but there was no evidence affecting Mr. Thelwall.
Mr. Saunders contended that there was a very strong
case made out against Mr. Thelwell.
After a conversation the Magistrates consulted, and
then said, that without expressing any opinion as to the
probability of his being implicated, and thereby affecting
his character, they felt bound to call on him to find two
sureties in I,OOC/. each for his appearance on that day
week.-

Moobay was also required to find sureties for his ap•
pearance on the same day, when the parties in Ireland,
whose evidence has led to this disclosure, will be brought
forward.

PRICES OP FOOD AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
The price of white wheaten bread of the first quality,
at Paris, is 70 centimes the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which
is scarcely equal to Gd. for the four pound loaf of Eng-
lish weight.: Bread of the first quality is sold in Lou-
den at 10d. for the four pound loaf. The best descrip-
tion of bread is, therefore, 66 4-6ths per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris. There is a second quality of
wheaten bread made in Paris, of which the price at
present is 54 centimes for the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, or
41d. for 4 pound loaf of English weight.
The highest quotation of the best flour in Paris on
the 4th instant, was 65f. the 159 kilogrammes, which is
equal to 40s. lid., the sack of 280 pounds English
weight. The highest price of flour at Mark-lane yester-
day was 625. the sack. Flour, therefore, is 511 per
cent. dearer in London than in Paris, where a man can
buy 281 b. of the finest flour for 4s. ld,, whereas is
London he can buy only 181 b. for the same money.
The highest quotation of white wheat at Paris on
the 4th instant was 35f. for the 1k hectolitre, which
equals 535. sd. the quarter. 'The highest quotation at
Mark-lane on Monday was 801." per quarter : wheat,
therefore, is 49 2-3ds per cent. dearer in London than
in Paris; or a man can buy in London only one bushel
of the best wheat •for ten shillings, while in Paris he
can buy a bushel and a half for the same money.
At Arras, on the 2d instant, the best wheat was sel-
ling at 23E the hectolitre, or 525. Bd. the quarter ; at
Amiens, on the 3d instant, at 22f. 50c. the hectolitre, or
51s. 6d. the quarter ; at Dieppe, on the 3d instant, at
22f. the hectolitre, or 50s. 4d. the quarter ; at Nevers,
on the 2d instant. at 20E the hectolitre, or 4.55. 10d, the
quarter ; at Nantes, on the 2d instant, at 18f. the hec-
tolitre, or 41s. 3d. the quarter ; and at Tarascon, on the
Ist instant, at 25f. the hectolitre, or 575. 3d. the quar-
ter. At Nantes, therefore, the port where the purchases
of French wheat for the English market are most fre-
quently made, wheat is 91 per cent. cheaper than in
London.
At Danzig, on the 2d instant, the highest quotation
for the best wheat was 535. per quarter, free on board.
There were several English vessels in the port at that
date ; but as it was known that the duty would be up
again in England to a prohibitory point, none of those
vessels could obtain cargoes, though willing to accept of
very low freights.
At Konigsberg, on the Ist instant, the highest quota-
tion of wheat was 525. 6d. free on board.
Cured India beef of the best quality is now selling at
Hamburgh at 5/. 6s. the fierce of 3361 b. For the same
quality 81. is charged in London. The best cured beef,
therefore, is 50 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh. The best navy beef (the quality generally
used for victualling the Royal Navy) is selling in Ilam-
burgh at 41. 14s. the fierce of 3041 b. The Lash Go-
vernment, as we first stated this day week, lately made
a contract for 15,000 tierces of the same quality for the
use of the navy, and the average price at which the con-
tract was closed was 71. ss, 2d. a tierce. Government,
therefore, paid 2/. 11 s. 2d. more for each tierce of beef
than the present current price at Hamburgh ; conse-
quently the country has, on this contract fur nary beef,
been subjected to a loss of 38,375/., which may be looked
upon as so much money taken from the tax-payers of
the United Kingdom, and handed over to the landed
aristocracy. At the same time, a contract was closed for
16,000 tierces of navy pork, at an average price of
71. 3s. Bd. the tierce. Pork of the same quality is now
selling at Hamburgh at 4/. 17s. Gd. the tierce
_; on this
part of the contract, therefore, the country hasAven
mulcted in the sum of 2/. Gs. 2d, for each ticeete.orein
the gross amount of 36,933/. 6s. Upon the 81;000
tierces of beef and pork purchased this year for the use.
.of the navy, the people of England have been obliged.
to pay to their own aristocracy 75,308/. 6s. more ;than
they would have had to pay had there been a free trade
foreign provisions. The present fixed importation•duty,
on cured meat is 12s. per cwt.
The best fresh beef is retailed in Hamburgh.at
per pound. in London at 9d. The best freUt muttow;
retailed in Hamburgh at 4d., and in London at Bd.phntl
;it must not .be forgotten thivt the mutton is of an:in-0
.ferior quality in Hamburgh, which is not the case kith
beef. The best fresh pork is retailed in Hatnbaightt
4id. a pound, and in London at 9d. The inaportatiak
,of fresh meat into England is totally prohibitederereaal
.In New York the prices of fresh meat, thoughintbi
neral somewhat higher than in Hamburgh, are consider-
ably lower than in London. The best beef at New York
costs 12 cents. or 6d. per pound, and the best mutter, set
Pork is retailed in New. York at 6 cents. or .3d, er
pound, which Is less than is charged for it eitlier Lpon+.
don or in Hamburgh.
An ox in London, fit for making into India beef, atal
weighing about 70011 es. without the offal, will cost aleemt
25/.; the same description Of ox fattened in. Holstein,would cost in Hamburgh about 10/. in autumn, and
about 15/. in spring. The people of England, however,
can derive no advantage from the comparattve cheapness of
cattle in Hamburgh ; for let the ptice in England be
ever so high, the importation of live stock is, at all times
and under all circumstances, positively prohibited.
P- P-'

RESENT . IiOSPECTS Or THE IRON TRADE,
—lt is truly astonishing, when we look back and con-
sider in how few years the iron manufacture has arrived
at its present vast extent, and that this rapid increase has
occasioned no heavy accumulation of stock. The iron
trade, in common with all other trades, feels the effect
of any general stagnation, but not from the over-pro-
duction, as with its growth, now channels of consump-
tion have kept pace. The endless detail into which
the foundry trade branches itself, the almost universal
fabrication which it embraces, consumes a very large
proportion of the make ; in buildings iron is becoming
a very general substitute for wood : railroads may also
be mentioned as consuming a very considerable quan-
tity of manufactured as well as cast iron, but principally
the former. It would be endless to show where it has
been, within a few years, introduced, but we cannot
omit noticing its recent application to the building of
ships. The success attending these first trials cannot
but lead to the conclusion that, for the future, ships will
very generally be made of iron instead of wood, and, if
so, what a field, it opens to the ironmaster, and how
greatly it would add to the consumption! The plates of
which the ships will be built must necessarily be of a
very superior description of iron, involving a greater
waste, and, consequently, increasing the consumption of
pig iron ; and those works must be benefited the quality
aad character of whose iron stands high, as, where the
safety of hundreds or thousands of individuals is at stake,
the very best iron alone should be used. With increased
facilities of procuring iron at a reasonable price, Ame-
rica, and also France—provided that, in this latter coun-
try, the duties are reduced—will become large pur-
chasers ; and our iron trade, unlike many of the other
manufactures, being altogether the production of our own
soil, will continue to give employment to hundreds of
thousands of our population, to the great advantage of
the country at large, as well, we trust, as the individual
benefit to the ironmaster.—Scrivener's History of the Iron
Trade.

How TO OBTAIN FREEDOM.--Whether we
look to ancient or modern history, to the history of
other countries, or that of our own, we shall find that
one or other of these modes has been, with scarcely any
exception, the only road to obtaining relief from op-
pression. We shall be able, from time to time, to furnish
innumerable instances of this ; and without pursuing the
subject in chronological order, we shall select such
cases as may present themselves most strikingly. The
nearer we come to the present time the fewer instances
shall we find of resistance by physical force, but the
inure numerous the cases of moral resistance. In cases
of fiscal oppression, the smuggler has been the greatest
friend and assistant to free trade ; and when our Chan-
cellors of the Exehequer have been deaf to every argu-
ment, and duties of 40, 50, or 100 per cent. have been
levied on commodities, let it but be shown that, in spite
of all their expensive parade of coast guard and revenue
cutters, and land waiters, and tide waiters, and custom-
houses, and custom-house officers, that the smugglers
could import for 10 per cent., and that to a large ex-
tent ; and the Legislature have consented to the reduc-
tion.—Bread Eater's Advocate.
REIGATE REGISTRATION.--An informality
in the making of the poor's-rates, which prevented the
electors of Reigate from paying them, being deemed a
sufficient reason for disfranchising a considerable por-
tion of the constituency of the borough, a notice of ob-
jection to their votes was served, on the' part of Mr.
John Flint, upon the overseer, according to the form
prescribed by the Reform Act. The overseer, however,
neglected to exhibit the same on the church door, by
which he rendered himself liable to the penalty of 500/.
When the Revising Barristers held their Court, in con-
sequence of the overseer neglecting to cause the objec-
tions to be publicly exhibited, they refused to hear the
case, which, had they done, they would probably have
have opened
decided in favour of the objections, and so
a favourable opportunity for wresting the borough from
its present abject position.—A Correspondent.
FIRST CATHOLIC APPPINTMENT BY SIR
EDWARD SUGDEN.—The Right non. the Lgrd Chancel-
lor has been pleased to appoint Joseph CP eery, Esq.,
Barrister-at-law, to the office of Secretary for Lunatic
'Leary is a na-
Wards of Chancery.—/?egister. [Mr.
tive of our city, and nephew to our worthy townsman
to the genuine ability and legal
John O'Connell (Kerv-hall). We understand he owes
his selection simply
knowledge evinced in his published works, which at-
tracted the notice of his Lordship ; and
we hail this
early indication of; patronage bestowed •on merit alone,
aloof from all party coxisideritticalq---Southern Reporter.