The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

THE SUN,

portant case of the whole. It is true Mr. Jones was a
man of learning. He had not the honour of being
acquainted with Mr. Jones until these proceedings. Since
that time he had placed in his hands several prose and
etical works, which he had published, and which showed
Air. Jones as a man of the highest degree of intellect, he
was a member of that profession of which he (Mr. Wilkins)
was an humble member, and by the exercise of which,
if he was industrious and honourable, he would rise to a
high rank, for the bar was a republic in which the
poorest subjects of the Crown, if they were industrious
and honouruble, might rise to the highest rank a subject
of the realm could enjoy. Being an educated man
showed that he would not have gone amongst
the people unless he believed in his conscience that
they were seriously aggrieved. Therefore the premise
of the Attorney-General tended in the contrary directio❑
to that imputed. Mr. Jones was an educated, but yet a
poor man, without patronage. It had been insinuated
that Mr. Jones had received pay to advocate his prin
ciples. He (Mr. Wilkins) was instructed to deny that
gross assertion with all the fervour of which he was ca-
pable. lie hurled back the disgraceful insult ; he had
never received a shilling, or the ghost of a shilling, it
he might so speak, fur advocating those principles from
the moment he began. The present Cabinet would not
have been in existence, nor the Attorney-General, the
law officer of the Crown, but for the movements of the
p ople. But for the meetings at Newhall Hill, the speeches
ut Daniel O'Connell, the exhibition of sovereignty
in ridicule, in the streets of London, the Go-
ve•rnment would not have filled the places they held
and would they now permit these men—these poor men
—to be persecuted, and thus illustrate practically the
doctrine that there was one law for the poor and another
for the rich? Did Earl Grey, did Lord John Russell,
did the Goverment of recent years, punish the thou-
sands who marched from Newhall Hill to London in
support of the doctrines which they themselves advo-
cated, and the carrying of which had placed them in
power? Let them not believe that men could not be
actuated by patriotic motives unless they were accom-
panied by sordid and selfish objects. The Attorney•
General said Mr. Jones called upon the people to or•
ganize. Why Catholic Emancipation, the Reform
Bill, the abolition of the slave-trade, the repeal of
the corn-laws, and other great measures, were car
vied by organization. Why, organization obtained
the Magna Charts; all the liberties they enjoyed were
obtained by organization. He therefore contended that
Mr. Jones could look back to numberless precedents in
favour of the course he adopted. Let them not measure
patriotism like the commodities in which they dealt.
He denied that there was any ground for the charge of
sedition. The fact of a minister of religion preaching
on the ground, and of men with their wives and children
parading about, proved that the meeting did not inspire
the fear which had been claimed in respect of it.
(The trial had not concluded when our report WO
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_A MARKET THEATRE.
Saturday evening was the last night but one of the
sea-on. The performances were for the benefit of Mr.
Webster, and consisted of the unnatural and disagree-
able play of The Stranger and of The Wonder. Mrs.
Charles Kean was the Mrs. Haller, and was, as she al-
ways is, modest, pathetic, beautifully true to nature, and
most touching. Mr. Charles Kean was the Stranger,
and, he did for the character what no other actor in
our remembrance has been able to do for it,
he rescued it from contempt, by throwing more energy,
more passion, more of the sense of hate against, and
desire of revenge on the man who had wronged him,
than his predecessors had thrown into the part—thus
making of the Stranger a man smarting under a
keen sense of injury, and, therefore, to be re-
spected and soothed, rather than a maudlin
spiritless, contented wittol, who is to be despised or
kicked. The piece was very strongly cast. We had
FarrEn as Solomon, Keeley as Peter, Webster as
Francis, Mrs. Keeley as Charlotte, and—though last not
least—Miss P. Horton as the singing girl. Mr. and
Mrs. Kean, and Mr. Webster, were called for at the con-
clusion of the play, and received with enthusiastic
applause. After the play John Parry sung one of his
comic songs, and the comedy of the Wonder followed.
Tonight is the last night of the season. There will, how-
ever, be an extra night to-morrow evening, for the
benefit of Mr. F. Webster, the stage director. As this
gentleman is a member of the anoient and honour-
able fraternity of Freemasons, we have no doubt
but that the brethren will muster in great force to
support him. We can promise them a rich treat. In
addition to the Haymarket and Adelphi companies, Mr.
F. Webster has secured the services of Mr. Sims
Reeves, and of a host of extraneous talent.