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of Education, in which he inculcated in graceful
terms the holiness of probity, of purity, of industry,
and of morality ; in which he alluded to
that superb minster, which is not only the
adornment of the ancient city of York, but
which is one of the noblest architectural memo-
rials of England. " I hope," he said, " that you will
never look at its grey walls and massive roofs, tower-
ing as they do above the more humble buildings
around them, without remembering that you your-
selves ought to aspire to rise above the grovelling
cares and the low passions of the life around
you ; and that you will never see the
first beams of the morning, nor the last
hues of evening reflected from its shining pyramids,
or its gorgeous traceries, without remembering that
there are still more exquisite proportions in the har-
mony of well-regulated affections, and that there are
sunsets still more valuable in an honest spirit and in
a well-spent life." In upholding thus the cause of
liberality, enlightenment, and civilisation, and in
speaking thus to the ductile intellect of childhood,
Lord MORPETII is wor+llly employing one of the
noblest prerogatives of his rank and fulfilling one of
his loftiest duties as a Minister of the Crown.

Destitution, and pestilence, and famine -now reign
in Ireland. At present their only active opponents
are British wealth and British sympathy. The misery,
however, that now overwhelms that unfortunate
country does not spring from recent events, it has
only been aggravated by them. If the true annals of
Ireland be searched at almost any period during the
last six hundred years, they will be found to afford,
in the quaint language of Lord BELLAMONT, " a
periodic record of progressive ruin." Living for ages
upon the edge of famine, a slight increase of their
usual misery has been at all times sufficient to pre-
cipitate myriads of the Irish people into that fearful
gulf.

During the reign of ELIZABETH, so prosperous for
England, the Irish seem to have descended to an
abyss of misery deeper, if possible, than the present;
for " notwithstanding," saith the poet SPENSER, " the
province of Munster was a plentiful country, full of
corn and cattle, yet they were brought to such
wretchedness as that any heart would rue the same.
Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came
creeping forth upon their hands, as if their legs could
not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death,
they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ;
they did eat the dead carrion, happy when they could
find them—yea, and each other soon after, insomuch
that the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out
of their graves."
Coming down to a later period, we find Mr. FITZ*
GIBBON, the grandfather of the present Lord CLAIZE,
describing Ireland, in the year 1763, in the following
terms :—" It is always with regret that I discover the
nakedness of my country, but upon this occasion I
ought not to hide it. Upon this occasion I must
remind you that Ireland is not more than one-third
peopled. This island is supposed to contain three
millions of inhabitants, and of these two millions
live like the beasts of the field upon a root picked out
of the earth, almost without hovels for shelter, or
clothes for covering. What method can be found to
prevent the ruin of a state in which these evils not
only continue, but increase ?"
These evils have notoriously continued and in-
creased up to this very hour. Why have these evils
so long existed in Ireland ? Why does the state of
Ireland differ so widely and so miserably from the
state of England ? The reason is plain and undeni-
ible; it is because the laws—those great trainers
and educators of nations—are different, and have
always been different, in the two countries. Every
one can point out active and immediate causes of
Irish evils, but few will take the trouble of tracing
them to their ultimate cause—the difference of laws,
which we assert, without fear of disproof, to be the
common origin of all the woes and agitations of
Ireland ; for what, after all, hava these agitations
been but irregular efforts to redress injurious laws,
resembling in this respect blotches upon the drunkard's
face, which are only violent efforts of nature to
remove the poison improperly admitted into the

to be, the articles of the Union of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the same shall be in force and have effect
for ever, from the first day of January, 1801." And
as if to mark a differesce between the Treaty of
Union and an ordinary Act of Parliament, and to
intimate a superior and more lasting obligation, the
Sovereign did not give his consent in the usual
form of Le roi le vent, but on the part of the nation
solemnly swore to observe it, by saying, " So help me
GOD I will maintain this Act."

The law of narons is the interpreter of all treaties.
The law of nations may be cited and relied upon in
all British courts of justice, for it is part of the law
of England. In the case of TRIGUET and another
v. BATH, 3d BURROWS, 1478, it was decided that the
law of nations in its full extent is part of the law of
England, and that the law of nations was to be col-
lected from the practice of different nations and the
authority of writers, such as GROTIUS, VATTELL,
BARBETRA C, BINKERSHOEK, &c. To the test of the
law of nations all questions of law arising out of the
Treaty of Union must therefore come, and by the
rules laid down in the law of nations the British
courts of justice are bound to decide all such questions.
That the Act of Union is a treaty, and that the law
of nations is its proper interpreter, thus appears to
us to be positions altogether undeniable. We pro-
pose, in another article, to apply the test of the law of
nations to the sixth article of the Treaty of Union.
and to examine whether, according to the strict rules
of law, that article can bear the interpretation at-
tempted to be given to it in JACKSON'S case; that is,
whether that article extends to Ireland, as of right,
all British civil privileges, and restrains the United
Parliament from passing any laws which would de-
prive our Irish fellow-subjects of any civil right,
privilege, benefit, or advantage that is possessed by
the subjects of Great Britain, and thus affords to
Ireland the means of acquiring every British civil
right by an appeal to the ordinary legal tribunals of
the country.

At the adjourned Middlesex Sessions, which com-
menced laet Monday at the Court-house, Clerken-
well, the Assistant-Judge, in the presence of a full
bench of magistrates, addressed the grand jury upon
two important subjects ; the first related to the insti-
tution of the grand jury ; the second to the impera-
tive necessity of taking some decided steps with the
view of effecting the reformation of juvenile
offenders. Upon the latter topic we have for a long
time cordially coecurrred in the opinion entertained
by Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, and have frequently
pressed its paramount importance upon the attention
of our readers, But, upon the former, we differ very
widely from the leaning which, as elicited by his
recent observations, the mind of the Assistant-Judge
evidently manifests in favour of the abolition of grand
juries. His opinion seems to have been formed from
the following considerations :—The fact, that a com-
mittee has been appointed to report upon several
presentments made by Middlesex grand juries, de-
claratory of their comparative inutility, regard
being bad to the nature of the charges brought before
that Court ; the belief, that police magistrates had
the fullest opportunity of judgieg whether the
charges preferred were prima facie supported or not;
the evil and useless system of bringing, 24 times
every year, never less than 36, and frequently 72,
gentlemen from their different localities ; and, lastly,
the circumstance, that statements are often made be-
fore grand juries quite at variance with the original
depositions taken before the committing magistrates.
We except to very much of these several allegations ;
but, even granting them all to be true, we deny them
to be of sufficient weight to warrant the object
for which they have been specifically enun-
ciated. In the first place, it would not be
wise to attach much importance to the above-men-
tioned presentments of the grand juries, seeing that,
if they were abolished, they would be freed from a
duty which must necessarily entail some personal
sacrifices ; and men are not unfrequently spurred on,
from selfish considerations, to recommend changes in
existing institutions, of either the origin, or present
value for w hick, for the protection of the reputation and
liberty of the subject, they may be in comparative
ignorance, or up3n which they have never been at
the pains to bestow any deep reflection. The
Assistant-Judge concedes that,
-" when vrand
important institution, to counteract any ten-
dency to despotism by the coroner, or to lessen
the evils of popular excitement; but that, at
present, their appropriate sphere of utility seemed to
be in the higher criminal courts." We answer, that
to-morrow a man may be exposed to be harassed by
the despotism of a coroner, or the pernicious effects
of popular prejudice; and that as against the injury
of continued persecution, to the accused, who is con-
scious of his innocence, the grand jury presents a
powerful bulwark for his protection. The graver the
offence imputed, the greater is the necessity for such
an institution ; and we confess, therefore, we neither
admire the discrimination of the Judge, in limiting
the superior criminal tribunals as the only appro-
priate sphere for grand juries, nor can we extol the
judicial perceptions of the several grand juries, who
seem so ready to concede their " comparative
inutility, regard being had to the nature of the cases
brought before them," when, in the very last calendar,
65 of the 68 prisoners, whose names itcontained, were
charged with felony. Keeping in mind the heavy
sentences to which persons convicted of felony are
liable, we hope this country will never be without a
grand jury to intervene between the prisoner and his
threatened appearance in a criminal dock before a
petit jury. We protest against a judge lamenting, in
the presence of grand juries, the inconvenience to
which they may be occasionally put by having to
attend the sessions; and we have no sympathy with
men who grudge the time which they are herein
called upon to devote to the public service. It is a
duty, grave and humane, which they owe to the
State. The protection which it is benevolently
meant they should give to the innocent, overtaken, it
may be, by adverse circumstances, speciously, and
perhaps vindictively concatenated, which have led an
ignorant, or weak-minded, or prejudiced magistrate,
to commit him for trial—the like protection, which it
is the solemn dusty of every grand juryman, by
a rigid and impartial investigation, to afford
to a subject, thus unhappily placed, it may
be his own lot to i ook for and desire, before the close
of his life. It is elf very well to observe that police
magistrates have the "fullest opportunity" of decid-
ing whether charges, are prima facie borne out or mt.
The opportunity may he the best possible, but if the
magistrate be incompetent to avail himself of' it, what
becomes of its vaunted value? Country magistrates,
taken as a body, as e shamefully unfit for the functions
incidental to their office ; and the indiscretions of the
metropolitan are not so "few and far between" as to
sanction the abolition of the " most important" insti-
tution of the mild jury. Statements may be made
before these bodies differing considerably from those
received by the magistrates. These discrepancies
may often he fae result of a venial humanity. With
the subsidence. of the various gusts of passion by which
the mind of ate injured perty may have been prompted
to put the law in motion against his aggressor, and
the subsequent knowledge of marks of deep contri-
tion on the part of the offender, the prosecutor may
be benignly disp)sed to save the prisoner from suffer-
ing further puni. ihment ; and thus, yielding to the
pardonable error; of his nature (if such they be), be-
come the means of preventing the grand jury from
finding a true bilL That, on the other hand, the
ends of justice are defeated by witnesses being tam-
pered with, and bribed by " hush money," may not
admit of dispute ; but this corrupt practice is not
confined to witnesses before grand juries—it is noto-
rious that witnesses etre, by the like means, kept out of
the way when they -ought to be forthcoming at the
trial itself. But would this constitute an adequate
reason fur abolishing trial by common juries ? Would
it not at once he said that its advantages far counter-
vailed the solitary dbuse ? 'We give the same response
to the preject fors weeping away
the venerable and
valuable institution. of the grand jury.
We have so_ recently written upon the desired
reformation of juvenile delinquents, that it is
unnecessary to dilate further upon this subject at the
present moment. Five hundred of these youthful
offenders, whose ayes vary from seven to twelve
years, have been con unitted to prison within the last
twelve months. A -boy was last week sentenced to
six months' impriservnent, which the Assistant-Judge
intimated he would gladly have avoided passing, had
the law left any other course open to him. Shall this

conflict between law and philanthropy be longer en-
dured ?

Madrid papers to the 14th have arrived.
Senor PIDAL, on the second election, has been re-
turned for Madrid, by 287 against 214, the number
of votes polled for the Marquis DE Soconao, the Pro-
gressista candidate. The manner in which the Count
DE MONTEMOLIN has been received in London has
created a great sensation in the Spanish capital.
Senor Mort had been closeted for some hours with
Senor BRAVO MURILLO ; the subject of the confer-
ence being, as is supposed a modification of the
Cabinet.

MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 14.—The Three per Cents.
were done on the 14th at 34* for cash ; the Four per
Cents. at 21; the Five per Cents. at 21k; the Vales
at 8i ; the Debt without Interest, at 6i ; and the
Coupons, at 19k.

We have received the Parir papers of Tuesday.
The affairs of Germany and of Spain are com-
mented on in these journals. The Courrier Francais
thus describes the state of opinion in Germany, and
the alarm prevailing there. We fear that the state-
ment of the Courriir, that the free states of Germany
have nothing to hope for from official France, is but
too true :

" The state of opinion in Germany seriously alarms
the three Powers. That alarm betrays itself in all
their official organs, whose diplomatic correspondents
bitterly reproach the German press with making common
cause with the French press. The petty states of the
Confederation, menacsed in their existence by the
destraefon of Cracow, look up to France for protec-
tion. They have, however, little to expect from that
quarter, and they are told by the diplomatists of Vienna,
that the protest of the French Cabinet, on which
the Germans appeared to rely, ' had produced less sensa-
tion than even the English note.' Now, we know with
what indifference Lord Palmerston, entirely preoccupied
with the Spanish marriages, prot( sted (hypothetically)
against the incorporation of Cracow. We may judge
from that of the tenor of the note of M. Guizot. The
Germans, consequently, have nothing to hope from
official France. Still they hope, knowing well that a
brave and humane nation is to be found behind a false
and egoistical Government. Moreover, Germany has no
choice left. All that badly balanced scaffolding, raised by
the treaties of Vienna, threatens to crumble entirely
under the states of the Confederation, shaken in their
very foundation by the downfal of Cracow. None of
them aro sure of their existence for one day, being
surrounded on all sides by predatory Powers. Upon
what country should they rely in their imminent
danger, if not upon France, the only supporter of
democracy in Europe? Dreading the effects which French
ideas still exercise in Germany, in spite of this pitiful
attitude of our Government, Austria preaches a crusade
against France. One day she asserts in the Austrian
Observer. that we dare not accept war, and that were the
Po.vers to share among themselves Saxony and all the
states of the Confederation, France would look on as she
did in the case of Cracow. The next day M. de Metter-
nich writes to the Augsburgh Gazette, that if France de-
termined on war it would be to absord Rhenish Germany,
as she had lately absorbed Spain and Italy, as she pre-
viously absorbed Belgium, and we know not how many
other imaginary countries. Behold M. Guizot and the
Court of the Tuileries denounced to Germany—and by
Austria!—for their extravagant ambition. Louis XIV.
and Napoleon are outdone by our sublime Minister for
Foreign Affairs, who must certainly wonder at himself,
and perhaps consider himself bound to refute such an
imputation. It is reported that the Germanic Diet will
refuse to recognise the act of incorporation of Cracow.
Germany, they say, ought to decline all participation
with the three Powers in the political complications
that may arise from the violation of the treaties. The
c ,mmereial cities, injured by the incorporation, in
their interests and their relations with Cracow, loudly
complain and expostulate. Breslau has sent deputations
to Berlin to demand that Cracow should remain a
free city. Prussia perceives, rather late, that her
connivar.ce with Austria and Russia has estranged
from her the affection of Germany, and is now endea-
vouring to justify herself in the j,.urnals devoted
to her cause. In conjunction with the London and
Paris press,' says the Universal Gazette, the Ger-
man papers particularly attack Prussia in the case of
Poland. Nevertheless Prussia does not possess 1-30th
part of the partitioned kingdom. She could not,
without endangering her own safety, oppose that par-
tition, and it did not behove her to undertake, for the
restoration of Poland, what England and France de-
clined to do. Did she not alwa) s treat the Poles with
kindness ? &c. Would Prussia make use of that lan-
guage if she did not find her influence compromised in
Germany? And, if the fate of Cracow excited s:ich
agitation in the public mind, what shall be the alarm
produced by the last ,absorption of Poland now ef-
fected by the Czar, and which is the mere conse-
quence of the act of Cracow ! That absorption of the
kingdom of Poland places Russia in the heart of Ger-
many. The Czar dreaded so humble a state as Cra•
cow. What jealous domination will he not new inflict
on Germany, from which in future no barrier will se-
parate him?"
On the subject of Spain the National says that the
Mined his influence with the young couple, and that
'he departure of CHRISTINA. for France is probable.
But still it contends that the desire of independence
on the part of ISABELLA has as yet produced no fruits
the scandal of the Palace has not affected general
politics, and, although the Ministry is dislocated, the
person charged with its reconstruction is Senor MoN,
the creature of the Count MUSSON.
The Constitutionnel, in noticing a rumour which
prevails in Germany, that it is the intention of the
Emperor of RUSSIA to destroy even the name of
Poland, and to call that portion of it which is sub-
mitted to his yoke New Russia, expresses its dis-
belief of the rumour,
.because there is already a
province named New Russia, of which Odessa is the
capital ; and, secondly, because Poland, being an
older country than Russia, to call Old Poland New
Russia would be a solecism. There does not appear
to be much force in the latter objection. One who,
like the Emperor of RUSSIA, has set all rules of
morality and justice at defiance, will scarcely be re-
strained by the rules of grammar.
In consequence of the measures adopted by the
English Government for the reduction of the duties
on sugar, produced by free labour, some of the towns
in the Nord have demanded from the Minister of
Commerce permission to export, free of duty, beet-
root sugar taken direct from the manufactories. The
Minister has acceded to this application.
The Minister of Finance publishes the returns of
the quantity produced and the consumption of beet-
root sugar during the present season, from which it
appears that 293 manufactories of the article were in
operation on the Ist of December. The quantity
manufactured down to that date amounted to
16,559,180 kilogrammes (16,559 tons) ; that sold
for consumption amounted to 7,355,886. The duties
levied on beetroot sugar during the year amounted
to 14,217,916 f.
It was not yet known on what day the ICING and
QUEEN of the BELGIANS would leave Paris for London.
Their MAJESTIES would, however, spend the Christ-
mas holidays at Windsor.
Prince VICTOR DE ROHAN•GUEMENE, Duke de
Bouillon and de Montbazoo, expired on the 10th
instant at the Château of Sichrow, in Bohemia, in the
81st year of is )-;.;
We read in the Journal du Havre .
"A letter from Vera Cruz of the 25th of October,
speaks of the arrest of a midshipman of the French navy,
on suspicion of having carried ashore some dispatches of
the American Commodore. After having kept him a
week in prison, it was discovered that the pretended dis-
patches were merely an American newspaper, which this
young man had carried by order of his captain to a com-
mercial house. The discovery was rather tardy, and,
consequently, the French commandant had expressed
great indignation at this conduct of the Mexican autho-
rities towards a French officer."

Some fluctuation took place on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday. In the end prices improved, but no reason
for it was stated.
The Three per Cents. closed on that day at 80f. 80c. ;
the Five per Cents., 118 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,265 f. ; Rotten, 910 f. ; Havre, 660 f. ; Great Northern,
648 E 75c. ; Avignon, 885 f. ; Vierzon, 6101 ; Bordeaux,
562 f. 50c. ; Troves and hlontereau, 346 f. 25c. ; Bas:e, 220 E ,•
Dieppe, 360 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 485 E ; Tours and
Nantes, 490 f.; Paris and Lyons, 511 f. 25c.; Lyons and
Avignon, 490£. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c.; Spanish
Do.rmic Debt„ 323/.
MaasEnr.i,, DEC. 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 8801. , • Northern, 643 f. 75e. ; Paris and Lyons, 505 E

BUSINESS DC tNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECZMBER 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16%—Dutch Rhenish, 434—Lux-
embourg, amur and Liege, WA—Northern of France
Constituted, 1014—Paris and Lyons Constituted, Bt/—Paris
Ind Strasburg %Constituted, -OA—Sambre and Meuse, 4%.

Lucir,E GA sus.--Letters from Bome of the Ist
inst. describe- tt e extraordinary sensation created in that
capital by dike Danish danseuse. her last appearance
was an unextant pled triumph. The theatre was illumi-
nated a glom% and decorated aitk flowers, and a por-
trait of Grai in adorned each of the 200 boxes of the
theatre. Me prices of admission were more than
doubled, ye,;, nevertheless, the house was crammed.
Every pas was 'encored. After the ballet Lucile's car-
riage was dr: pvit by the enthusiastic crowd, and escorted
by 100 perso ]s w ith torches. Mdlle. Grahu has since
left Rome for•
There has re cently been an instance of shipwreck
caused by fair w rather. When the sea is agitated, it
always breaks 01 k the rocks lying at the mouth of the
Charente, and sailors can thus avoid them. But one
night lately the s ea was so calm that, by the light of the
moon, no sympta n of peril could be perceived, and the
English brig the, inn, proceeding from England to Cha-
rente, came rigitit, on the rocks and was wrecked. For-
mutely the crew' A soaped.--French paper.

G. T. F. SMITH'S WEATHER PRE-
DICTIONS FOR THE WINTER, 1847.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sussex Lodge, Cheltenham.
SlR,—Since my last communication with you, every
attention and perseverance has been given to the science
of the enclosed arduous estimate, in order to render the
subject of value to the public. Considerable advances
towards perfecting the system, and acquiring a. complete
knowledge of its principles, having been made, I am
desirous of test and publicity, in order to show the result
of certain discoveries recently made in determining the
principle of magnetic attraction relative to heat and cold,
affecting the state of the atmosphere, during all seasons
of the year. With much diligence, and close study. the
accompanying paper has been completed, and, therefore,
with confidence, is submitted to your observation.
Yours, with respect,
G. T. F. SMITH.
January, 1847.--From the Ist to the sth, and from
the sth to the 12th, and probably to the 16th, the season
of the year being considered, a mild temperature gene-
rally prevails. From the 9th to the 12th, or near the
10th and 12th, rainy weather will intervene. From the
16th to the 19th or 20th, a distinct change in the tem-
perature takes place, dry fine weather with inclement
action producing frost. From the 26th to the 31st the
general tendency will be dry, fine, frosty weather, ex-
cepting near 24th, when rain or snow will intervene.
From the 16th to the 20th, agreeable to my theory, will
be the most intense degrees attained during the month,
next to that from the 26th to the 31st. From the 20th
to the 26th we have a remission of the cold and milder
than previous, i.e., from 16th to the 20th. Windy near
the 27th, the following days will give the intensity
operating during the intervals mentioned. Morning of
the Ist cold compared with that of the 3d, night of
the 4th cold. From noon of the sth to near noon of the
6th, mild when compared with the periods of the Ist and
4th, Bth mild, 9th mild, 12th cold increases; 14th P.M.
inclement, severe; 16th night very cold, also the 17th
morning and 18th. The cold at these periods will give
the greatest degrees of cold during the interval gene-
ralized. 21st, night stringent cold, from 6 P.M., night
of the 24th and morning of the 25th inclement action,
very cold.
February.--From the Ist to the 4th a remission of
cold and generally dry. From the sth to the 18th the
weather gradually increases in cold and becomes intense.
Near the Bth and 13th a thick foggy atmosphere or
falling weather may intervene. From the 24th to the
26th a remission of cold takes place. Upon wet or dry
weather the testimonies are too conflicting to decide,
conceive it will alternate between both, from the 26th to
the end of the month tendency to dry and frosty weather
generally. Day% in February of the greatest cold at-
tained during each interval, subject, as before observed,
to the general statement, will be most inclement. Night
of the 13th to noun of the 14th extreme cold. Morning
of the 18th, 20th, P.M., 21st P.M., 24th night, and 27th
P.M., all cold. The above are the coldest days operating
at the respective intervals during the month, those of
the period from the 12th to the 15th will be the most
intense, in consequence of the general inclement testi-
mony of that time being the coldest.
March.—From the Ist to the 3d the weather will be
very cold, there are indications of rain near the 6th and
11th, but bright and fine weather intervening between
the 6th and 9th, the temperature from the 3d to the 9th
cold, but not so severe as the former, high temperature
continues to the 19th of the month, with fine weather ge-
nerally. It will be remembered that my prediction of
heavy rains during the month of April, 1846, said would
exceed the average of wet Aprils for many years;
the result balanced with the calculation made respecting
that month, although it may be proverbial for Aprils to
be showery, there are only five Aprils in the space of
fifty years classed as wet ones by the author of the cli-
mate of England. During the present month, from 19th
or near then to its terminus, very heavy rains or snow,
alternately tending to floods, will occur, and though not
uninterrupted, will prevail during that time ; and the
temperature from the 19th to the 28th will be very celd,
particularly as the 28th draws near. The extremes of
the month are from the Ist to the 3d, and from the 19th
to the 28th. The balance of correctness or incorrect-
ness in this attempt to arrive at an improved method of
judging the weather must be taken upon the several
heads of heat, cold, dry, or wet, and as the present effort
possesses the advantages derivable from progressive ap-
plication and experience, it will be seen on the fair sive- J
rages being struck, hew far the system is deserving the attention bestowed upon it. The following are the par- I