The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-23 00:00:00

HIDE MARKET.

Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 23 ; ditto,
ti4lia to 721 b, 21 to 24e1; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2id to 24d:
litto, 801 b to 881 b, 3d to 31d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b 341 i t 4
31,1; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, aid to 54d; 'Lamb Skins.
(each), is 6d to 2s 8d; Calf Skins 4s 6d; Horse Hides,
8s 6d; Shearlings, is 3d to Is 10d.

EAT MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 3/ 13s; New
ditto, 2l 8s to 31 8s; Old Clover, 414 s to 5/; New ditto,
3/ 10a t.) 41 lOs ; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load.
Supply but moderate, and trade rather dull.
CUMBERLAND.---Old Meadow Hay, 3! 3s to 3/ 15s;
New ditto, 21 lOs to 3/ 8s ; Old Clover, 4/ to 41 18s;
New ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 116 s to 1/ 10s
per load. A fair average supply and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 13s;
New ditto, 2/ 8s to 3! 8s; Old Clover, 414 s to 5155; New
ditto, 31 10s to 4/ 12s ; and Straw, 11 6s to 1/ lOs per
load. Trade dull, at late rates.

COAL MARKET..—YzsTEftwor.
Bate's West Hartley... 15s 9 Haswell l7s Od
Buddle's W. Hartley.. 16s 3d Keepier
Chester Main l3s 6d mbton
Dean's Primrose ...... 13s Od Russell's Hetton --16 s OJ
Hasting's Hartley l6s 3d Shotten
New Tanfield l4s Od Stewart's
Tanfield Moor .... ..... 14s Od Whitwell
Walker's Primrose ... 12s 6d Kelloe
Wylam ... .
Wall's End, Stc. Richardson's Tees l4s Od
Brown's l3s 6d Tees
Riddell's ..... ............ 14s 6d Whitworth l4s Od
Walker
Eden Main lss 6d. Hartley ......... ... 16s Od
Braddyll's Hetton l6s Od'Snapethorpe
Hetton .... l6s 6dlW. E. Elgin

TRIAL OF THE CHARTIST
CONSPIRATORS.

CRIMINAL COURT.77(TIIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Justice Williams took their
seats on the bench at five minutes after 10.
Immediately after William Dowling was placed at the
bar.
Samuel Evans, superintendent of police, deposed to
searching the house of Mrs. Keith, the keeper of the
Temperance Coffee-house, opposite the Lord Denman,
on the 10th of August.
Mr. Granville, in the employment of Mr. Darby, fire-
work maker, deposed to examining some balls found at
the residence of the prisoner. They contained 2} ounces
of gunpowder, and some old nails. A fusee was at-
tached to each, which, when ignited, would not reach
the combustible matter for a short time. If one were
thrown into a room ignited a great deal of smoke
would be caused, and curtains, for instance, might be set
fire to. Let off in an open space, they would be harm-
lass to persons a yard or two off.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL here intimated that this
closed the case for the prosecution.

The statement of the prisoner when before the ma-
gistrate having been read,
Mr. KENEALY said he rose to address the jury under
feelings of pain and sorrow, on account of the strong
political feeling evinced by the Attorney-General in
conducting the case for the prosecution. He had read
much of the past history of this Country, but ho
solemnly declared that the way in which the Attorney-
General bad acted in this matter exceeded the cruelties
perpetrated in the name of the Attorney- Generals of the
reigns of the Stuarts and the Tudors. Because he had
availed himself of all the forms of the ancient law of the
country, for which he should ever stand up, on behalf of
his client, the Attorney-General had, in a spirit of ven-
geance, insisted upon his client being put upon his trial.
Was this becoming on the part of so high an officer—
was this the spirit of mercy in which a prosecution on
the part of the Crown should be conducted? He had
gone further. He had called the prisoner a
felon before a jury of his countrymen had
pronounced him one. The great Sir Walter Raleigh,
when aspersed in a similar spirit by the Attorney-
General of the day, who prosecuted him, told him that
's he was a spider of hell" The Attorney-General of
the nineteenth century was equally deserving of repro-
bation. But the Attorney-General had done more—ho
had said that he blushed to say that he (Mr. K.) had
attended a meeting of the " Davis" club, and proposed a
motion deprecating physical force. He made the state-
ment in the sanctuary of justice, and in the presence of
two of the judges of the land. Had he made such an ob-
servation elsewhere he should have chastised him for it.

Mr. Justice ERLE interposed, and advised the Learned
Counsel to confine himself to the evidence, and not to
deal lu expressions of the kind he had uttered.
Mr. KENEALY went on to say, that this prosecution
was but another instance of the gradual abrogation of
the rights of the people, for, notwithstanding the progress
of civilisation of late, the Act of Chares IL, an Act passed
in the most disgraceful period of our history, had been
disentombed and applied to the people of the present day.
Stronger evidence of treason was adduced in the case of
Hardy, Horne Tooke, and others, yet the juries em-
pannelled to_try them—London juries—who valued the
rights of the commonwealth, acquitted them with in-
dignation at their prosecutors. But, in cases of treason,
a prisoner was entitled to two counsel, to have the names
of the jurors empannelled to try him, with their occupa-
tions, ten days befdre his trial, and to address the jury
himself; but by the Act under which this prosecution was
instituted, which the Attorney. General had the face to
say was conceived in a spirit of mercy, all these privi-
leges were taken away. He was ready to admit, to the
fullest extent, that the conduct of the prisoner was
highly criminal and foolish ; but he denied that he had
conspired to levy war against the Queen. The Parlia-
ment that passed the Act of Edward 111., which first
defined the crime of treason, and which the Act recently
assed was said to modify, was called the " Blessed
Parliament ;" but surely the present Parliament,
owing to the cruelty of the measure, was far
from being entitled to such an appellation. The
proper way to govern a country was not by the
sword, nor by police with those fearful cut-
lasses which had been described in the new.
papers. To show the spirit in which the recent Act
was passed he might state that it adopted the language
of an Act passed on the 18th of December, 1795—a must
disgraceful eta in our history, since that Act so quoted
said if twelve men met to discuss their rights and did not
disperse when directed by a justice of the peace, that
they should suffer death. The Wars of the " Red and
11'hite Hoses," the houses of York and Lancaster, the
wars of the Stuarts, the rising of the barons against King
John, were truly described us levying war against the
Crown. Those who took a part in those great move-
ments would have scouted the notion of a few
miserable Chartists, with a few rusty pikes, being con-
sidered capable of levying war against the Queen. It
was utterly absurd to say that the prisoner and others
had assumed royal authority, for this was made a charge
against him and them. Lord Coke clearly drew the
distinction between a mere riot and levying war. Had
the prisoner—had Cuffy, of whom they had all heard,
assumed royal authority?—(Laughter.) It was ridi-
culous to say they had.
Mr. Justice ERLE said, Lord Coke spoke of persons
breaking open prisons and liberating prisoners. lie could
see no reason why the persons charged with the prisoner
might not have had that intention.
Mr. KENEALY said they had committed no act of ag-
gression; they had done nothing of the kind. They
might recollect that Percy Hotspur levied war against
the King; his father, the Earl of Northumberland, col-
lected a furce and marched it through the country, in•
tending, no doubt, to aid his son, but ho did not en-
counter the force of the King under the Earl of West-
moreland. He was tried, but his peers found him guilty
of a rout alone, not levying war. The Learned Counsel
then went on to quote Lord Hale, in the course of which
he told the jury that they must decide with that high
authority that the prisoner had not levied war. Ac-
cording to the law he was not guilty of that offence.
Mr. Justice ERLE interrupted the Learned Counsel
by saying that it was his province to explain the law to
the jury.
Mr. KENEALY declared that he was not quoting un-
fairly.
Mr. Justice ERLE said he was quoting isolated state-
ments, and telling the jury that they must, in law, decide
in accordance with them.
Mr. KENEALY inquired if his Lordship intended to
tell the jury not to believe him.
Mr. Justice ERLE said he hal already explained what
he meant.
Mr. KENEALY said, on the trial of Hardy evidence
adduced on former trials was adduced. Former convie-
Y made matter of dis-
tions, at such trials, were usual!

cussion.
Mr. Justice ERLE intimated that it was impropor to
do so.
Mr. KENEALY inquired if h© might not read extracts
from other cases as matters of history.
Mr. Justice EALE said, to quote isolated portions, and
to tell the jury that they must decide iu a similar spirit,
was going beyond his province.
Mr. KENEALY contended that the jury must derideupon the facts as well as in accordance with the law.
Unless they were satisfied that the prisoner intcndad to
levy war against the Queen—for breaking into all the
gaol 3 of London could not make up that offence—they
must acquit him. It was ridiculous to say that thirty-
one men, shoemakers and carpenters, and others, devoid
of education, property or station, could establish a re-
public. Twelve intelligent men must have a greater
amount of credulity than he could imagine to believe
such a statement. Was it not far more likely that they
intended to attack the police, for they could not fail to
bear in mind the way in which the police had dispersed their
meetings? There was no ground for believing that there
WAS a "plotting conanaittee. it Was true there was an ul-