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London, England, 1848-05-17 00:00:00

N0.17,300.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING S Er, MAY 17, 1848

SALES BY AUCTION.

The Beautiful snd Important ESTATE of ST. MARGARET'S, near
RICHMOND BRIDGE, opposite Kew Gardens, late the Residence
of the Dowager Lady Ailsa, deceased ; with other valuable Pro-
pertieS adjoining, commanding extensive and invaluable Front-
ages upon the River, and the Iseleworth-road, with Possession.
ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned by the Trustees under the will of the late
Most Noble the Marquis of Ailsa to announce that the above very
capital and delightfully situated RESIDENCE and ESTATE will be
SUBMITTED to SALE at the Auction Mart, on TUESDAY, May 30,
at Twelve, in Lots (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously
made).
It comprises the elegant and spacious Mansion of St. Margaret's,
with its rernarka. ly beautiful shrubberies and choice flower-gardens,
conservatories, ornamental dairy and cotiage, terrace and other
walls, overlooking the river and the grounds of Kew, with complete
stabling, and offices of every description, superior walled gardens,
and a rich small park superbly timbered ; also St. Margaret's Cot-
tage, various lodges and farm lands, and homesteads ; offering a very
complete and most enviable retreat for a family of fortune, and par-
ticularly suited for a minister of state, or any one wishing to be
within half an hour's ride of London, in the midst of the far-famed
scenery of Richmond Hill.
The Estate may be viewed with orders, and descriptive particu-
lars, with plans, had at the Auction Mart ; at the chief Hotels in
Richmond and Windsor ; of Mr. Cain, House Agent, Richmond ; of
Messrs. Ashfleld and Clode, Solicitors, 7, Staple-inn, Holborn ; of
Alex. Hunter, Esq., Edinburgh; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and
Son, Land Agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, who are fully autho-
rised to treat for the disposal of the Estate.

•
Capital and handsome MANSION, rich Park, and very valuable
Farm, and other Lands, in a highly picturesque part of MIDDLE-
SEX, only fifteen minutes' journey from town by the Great

Western Railway.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
submit to PUBLIC SALE, at the Mart, on TUESDAY, May
30, at Twelve (unless previously disposed of by Private Contract),
The HANWELL PARK ESTATE, comprising a capital and
spacious Mansion, with pleasure grounds, walled gardens, hot-
houses, orchards, stabling, and other outbuildings, most desir-
ably situate about eight miles from London, in the remarkably
healthy parish of Hanwell, near the church, on the north side
of the Great Western Railway, the entrance Lodge being within
a few minutes' walk of the station; and also the Cuckoo Farm
and other lands, nearly all rich meadow and pasture, advanta-
geously situated, adjoining the park, and extending to the roads
leading to the rural district round Greenford, Harrow, and
bounded by the windings of the river Brent, with a respectable
farm-house, and all suitable agricultural buildings ; the whole com-
prising nearly 300 acres, richly timbered, and parts beautifully un-
dulated, in command of varied and picturesque scenery.
The mansion and park may be viewed by tickets, and particulars,
with plans, had of Messrs. 11. and C. Hall, solicitors, New Boswell•
court, Lincoln's Inn ; or of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land
agents and surveyors, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

ELTHAM PARK, near its picturesque village, Blackheath, and
Shooter's hill, and only nine miles from town, on the Bexley and
"Maidstone roads, in a remarkably healthy part of Kent.
MESSRS DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned by the Trustees of the late Benjamin Currey,
Esq., to submit to PUBLIC SALE, early in JULY next (if not pre-
viously disposed of by Private Treaty),
The above delightfully situated FREEHOLD RETREAT, com-
prising an elegant and substantial villa, with beautiful pleasure-
grounds, conservatory, and hot-houses, walled-garden, Sec., sur-
rounded by a richly-timbered park, of a particularly dry healthy soil,
skirted by ornamental groves and woodlands, and commanding,
nearly on all sides, extensive and rich scenery, being in a finely
wooded and highly picturesque country, and delightfully secluded,
though in the midst of a favourite neighbourhood, studded with gen-
tlemen's seats. As a residence it comprises all that can be required
for a gentleman's establishment on a moderdte scale, excellent stab-
ling, complete farm homestead, bailiff's house, ice house, lodges, and
a pleasurable park and farm, altogether about 130 acres, freehold,
and exonerated of land-tax and about 55 acres of leasehold may be
had, Part of the purchase money may remain on mortgage.
Cards to view the property, and particulars, with plans, may be
inspected at their. Offices, in Waterloo-place, Pal-mall.

FORTY-HILL, ENFIELD, about Twelve Miles from Town,
Handsome FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, upon a most comfortable
scale, in well-dispo ed Grounds and Paddocks, with walled-gar-
dens, and elegant Conservatory, opening to beautiful and extensive
views of the opposite Essex hills, with possession.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
submit to PUBLIC SALE, at the Auction Mart, at the
end of Jusz (unless previously disposed of by Private Contract),
A. most desirable and complete RESIDENCE for a moderate esta-
blishment, desirably situate near Enfield Chase, and about one mile
from the town (to which a railway is shortly to be extended), and
within easy reach of the wildly varied scenery of Epping Forest,
hi the midst of a highly respectable and sociable neighbourhood. The
house is very substantially built, and contains on the upper floor nine
or ten bed-rooms and a morning.roorn, water-closet, &c., with front
and back staircases; and on the ground ildor an elegant drawing-
room, dining-room, breakfast-room, and spacious hall, with the
usual domestic offices, four-stall stable, double coach-house, with
grooms' moms, and lofts. The principal rooms command uninter-
rupted and beautiful views of the home grounds and distant country,
and the drawing-room opens into an elegant conservatory, and to
the lawns and shrubberies, which lead, by good broad gravel walks,
to the two rich paddocks of twelve acres, with some tine ornamental
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timber; screened from the house is a farmyard, with granary and
various buildings, and every partwater.
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railway it is about three quarters of an hour's ride. The whole is in
excellent order, and the appropriate furniture may be purchased
with the place.
For particulars and cards to view apply to Messrs. Daniel Smith
and Son, Land Agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall. mall, who are fully
authorised to treat previous to the auction.

SUFFOLK.

Between BURT and BOTTESDALE.—VaIuabIe FARM, with Old
MANOR ROUSE, &c.

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Ipswich, Fcc. ; of Messrs. Gibbs,
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TOCARLTON HOUSE TERRACE ST. JAAIES'S PARK.
BE SOLD, with possession, by
DANIEL SMITH and SON, one of the most desirable and
splendid MANSIONS on this select and delightfully-situated ter-
race, overlooking St. James's Park, with superior offices, good
stabling, &c. ; the whole in excellent order, and held under the
Crown for an unexpired terra of seventy-eight years, at the small
reduced or
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of 341. The handsome Furniture may na Pur"
reduce with the Mansion.— ' - Messrs.
For particulars and cards to view apply at their Offload,
100-place, Pall-mall ;or to Messrs. Dawes, Solicitors, Aagel-court,
Throgmorton-street ; or to. Messrs. J. C. and H. Freshdeld, Soli-
, eit rs, litar.BiUl/E-bUildlngs. in Water-

SALES BY AUCTION•

SURREY, CLOSE TO REIGATE.
To BE LET or SOLD, a very desirable and
perfectly detached RESIDENCE, handsomely Furnished ; in
its character, arrangements, and fittings, a complete gentleman's
place, but on a moderate scale, secluded in beautiful grounds, with
conservatory, and varied walks, commanding picturesque scenery,
and leading to capital gardens, with a rich paddock (in all about
eight acres), stabling, &c. It is a dry, healthy soil, close to a church,
and with all the advantages of Reigate, and the railroad station
on the Brighton and Dover lines at a short distance.

For particulars, and cards to view, apply to Messrs. Daniel Smith
and Son, Land Agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
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Deposited Works by Mr. Crispe. Experiments with the Diver and
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Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including
Saturday) from Seven to Half-past Ten.
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ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES.

Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, an improved edition, re-
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MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA-
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A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the Generative Organs,
emanating from Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex-
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sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age; with Practical Remarks
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF TUESDAY.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 16, 1848.

Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received a dispatch
from her Majesty's Minister at Copehagen, inclosing a
note from Count Knuth, the Danish Minister for
Foreign Affairs, dated the Bth instant, announcing that
neither the Mouth of the Elbe, nor that of the
‘Veser, not any other port in the North Sea, will
for the present be blockaded ; and also that the
blockade of Pines, Dantzig, Stralsund, Rostock,
and Wismar, will cease on the 16th instant;
and further announcing, that Kiel, with the Mouth
of the Canal of Schleswig at Holtenau, and
Swinemiinde, will remain blockaded, and that this
blockade will be extended, from the 16th instant, to the
three Mouths of the Oder, namely, those of Wolgast, of
Swinemiinde, and of Cammin.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 15.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert
Hicks, as Consul at Lerwick for his Majesty the King
of Hanover.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Gunder Anton Martin Aas, as Consul at Great Grimsby
for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
James M'Dowell, as Consul at Belfast for the United
States of America.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 12. _

Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant John
James Brandling to be Second Captain, vice Ramsay,
retired on half pay; Second Lieutenant Henry Jermyn
Montgomery Campbell to be First Lieutenant, vice
Brandling, Mav 1.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 15.
Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant Richard
Burnaby to be Second Captain, vice Hornby, deceased;
Second Lieutenant Augustus Jonathan Clerke to be First
Lieutenant, vice Burnaby, April 14.
MEMORANDUM.—The date of the promotion of Second
Captain Craigie, and First Lieutenant G. H. Gordon,
has been altered to April 9.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding

of Yorkshire.
First West Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry
Cavalry—Charles Stanley, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
May 12.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 22.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Ward
Duffield, Gent , of Chelmsford, in the county of Essex,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.
Robert Ewitt, licensed victualler, Kennington-lane, to
surrender, May 26, at half-past twelve, and June 27, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Brown, Finsbury-place.
John Smith, jeweller, Regent-street, May 24, at half-
past one, and June 28, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Orchard, Hatton-garden.
John Vaughan, leather dresser, High Holborn, May
26, and Juno 23, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Edwards, Nelson-
square, Blackfriars-road.
George William Dean, jeweller, High-street, South-
wai k, May 26, at three, and June 23, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab-
church-lane; Holmer, Bridge-street, Southwark.
Eusebius Langley, innkeeper, Hednesford, Stafford-
shire, May 31, and June 22, at half-past ten, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ; Blair, Uttoxeter ; Motteram, Knight, and
Emmet, Birmingham.
George Morrell, innkeeper, Belper, Derbyshire, May
26, and June 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Biddleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Wil-
liamson and Shaw, Derby ; Enfields, Nottingham.
Thomas Holt, rope manufacturer, Bury, Lancashire,
May 30, and June 20, at one, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Bridger
and Blake, London-wall; Dodge, Liverpool.
Thomas Hair, attorney-at-law, Miles-street, South
Lambeth, May 22, at two, and June 26, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee,
Guildhall-chambers; Smith and Co. Bedford-row.
George William Ai'
Arthur Reynolds, publisher, Wel-
lington. street North, Strand, May 26, at half-past two,
and June 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Davis, Holies-
street, Cavendish-square.
John Jowett, boot manufacturer, Loughborough,
May 26 and June 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham;
Inglesant, Loughborough.
Robert Turtill, saddler, High Holborn, May 26, and
July 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green.
official assignee, Aldermanbury; Dowries and Co., Fur-
nival's Inn.
Wiriedn Stevens, saddler, Taunton, Somersetshire,
May 30, and June 21, at eleven, at the Exeter District
Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon,
Exeter ; Keddell, Baker, and Grant, Lime-street,
London. _ _ _

Wolfe Ansell, broker, Pontypool, May 30, at twelve,
and June 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Jones and Co„
Crosby-square, London ; Abbott, Bristol.
Peter Martin, miller and baker, Northampton, May
26, and June 23, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry;
A'Becket and Co., Golden-square; Pell, Welford.
George Adam And.rson and George Kirk, hardware-
men, May 29, and June 20, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds;
Ivimey, Chancery-lane, London; Wright, Birmingham;
Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
George Matthowman, commission agent, Leeds,lMay

30, at twelve, and June 19, at eleven. at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Tattershall,
Great James-street, London.

James Itougnton, wine merchant, Leicester, May 26,
and Jure 30, at eleven, at the Birmingham
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Ste-
venson, Leicester ; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet,
Birmingham. District

Thomas Williams, and Thomas Williams, jun., auc-
tioneers, Cheltenham, May 29, at twelve, and June 22,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official
aF•signee, Bristol; Bromley and Co., Gray's Inn;
Ches.
shyre, Cheltenham.

John Cotton, spindle maker, Manchester, May 31, at
eleven, and Juno 31, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester;
Abbott, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Geolden, Manchester.
John Wood and henry Wood, woollen manufacturers,
Dearnley-mill, Hundersfield, Rochdale, May 30 and June
20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Mott,
official assignee, Manchester; Bell, Bedford-row; Heaton,
Rochdale.

T. bolt, rope manufacturer, Bury, Lancashire, May
30 and June 20, at one, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Bridger
and Blake, London wall; Doge, Liverpool.
(Dividends, &c., in our next.)

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mages,ceive a pecuniary offer.
This closed the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Ser , T
geant arsounD then proceeded toaddress
the jury for the defendant. The
Learned Sergeant
contended that no breach of the defendant's
in fact proved. The defendant had r promise was
truth awakened
from that state of unhappy infatuationn which lovers
were generally but too apt to forget the realities
position, and seeing the folly of
beginning 'ties of their
world with nothing, he had written the the
of the Bth of August to the plaintiff Thet e letter
made no reply to that letter, but a plai9tiff
fortnight
afterwards went to her attorney and instructeci
in effect that money alone was what she wanted.n2
? p) yeartSi i
the breaking
servantbarnedaka
There the matter rested. The plaintiff had sued in her
maiden name in her former action against a nobleman
en the present occasion by the name of her adoption.'
The probabilities were that she had attempted to trade
on her misfortune, and had held herself out as a widow
of a Mr. Black, with a legitimate son provided for, and
the poor defendant, as a railway clerk, had fallen into the
snare. It was not likely that the defendant would have
formed such a connexion had he known the plaintiff's
true position. There was nothing to show that when he
knew of the plaintiff's former action he was aware that
she had been the paramour of a nobleman. In the former
action the plaintiff bad recovered 3001. damages. There
was no doubt but that money was now her object, but
she could not expect to recover that sum again, as she
had not been seduced a second time. He hoped the
jury would not think this a case for heavy damages; but,
whatever their verdict might impose on the defendant, it
would be preferable to accepting the plaintiff and poverty
without virtue.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, said there
could be no doubt that the evidence established that a
promise had been made, though it was not clearly
proved that there had been a breach of it. That, how-
ever, was not put in issue by the pleadings. The defen-
dant relied on the plea of fraud as a discharge of his
promise, and the question for the jury to consider would
be whether the defendant was aware at the time that
he made the promise to the plaintiff that she had had a
child. Of this they must satisfy themselves from the
evidence. Supposing the jury thought that he did not
know of the plaintiff's having had a child, the question
of damages would arise, and the jury must impose such
reasonable damages as the circumstances of the case
might to them seem to demand, taking into account the
defendant's means.
The jury, after about half an hoar's absence, found a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing.
This finished the sittings after term at Westminster.

I IRISH STATE PROSECUTIONS.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
TRIAL OF MR. SMITH O'BRIEN.
DUBLIN, MONDAY NlGHT.—After the post left this
evening,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE charged the jury. He
said—ln this case her Majesty's Attorney-General had
filed an information against the traverser, W.S. O'Brien,
the subject of which information are certain passages of
a speech delivered by him on the 15th of March, in the
present year. I say certain passages, because you are
all aware there was a large portion of that speech
now
wlich is not transcribed into this information, and
which, so far, is not for you in any way to consider
thsn this: that having heard that 3 part which is stated
in the indictment, as well as that part which is omitted ,
it is now for you to consider whether the portions that
are omitted either qualify, retract, or explain, that which
is the subject•matter of the information. . The first con-
sideration for you will be, whether this be a seditious
speech in the particulars charged by her
her Majesty's Attor-
ney General ? So far as regards' the speaking of this
speech, there exists no difficulty. If there did, it would be
a matter for your consideration ; but it is conceded
that the report of Mr. Hodges is a correct.. and accurate
O'Brien;
report of the speech delivered by Mr. Smith
so on that subject you have no difficulty. The diffi-
culty in the case, whatever be its amount in value con-
sists in this—whether you on your oaths shall be able
to find that those portions of the speech, or any of them,
were delivered with all or any of the intentions charged
in the information? That is a subject exclusively for
you to consider. In the assistance which it will be my
duty to render you, I shall first call your attention to
the designs with which this speech is charged to have
been uttered on the information. I need not define to
you what sedition is, because I am quite prepared to
say that if the language used by
Mr. S. O'Brien was
with any one of th •
intents charged by this information,
e
it was highly sedwiati:uist; andt therefore the question, as I
before said, is,
intents, tor I tell .ouu.ftered with all or any of thosei
guage. I have now to
were, it was seditious an-
made against Mr. your attention to the charge
you before, that if any of
fett and to repeat what I told
.se designs are made out to
your satisfaction, the
to him is establisher:n(lN of
sedition imputed
next observation I have to makeors'thisg.elnutleumunesni,derituhge
the language which is the subject -matter of this charge,
your duty is to understand that 1.-n guage--as the per-
sons to whom it was addressed should
arcaunderstandmind, it. It
we must
is no matter what may pass in
a those
judge of his intention by his words, and
must be taken to be uttered with the intentionof Words
veying that meaning which the words themselves, plain natural signification, import; and it is no;. in
the power of any man having uttered certain words, to
put upon them a construction different from their ordi-
nary meaning. He must stand or fall by the meaning
which those who hear them attribute to them.
And
you must see at once that if that were not the law, an
responsibility
for spoken or written language would be
at an end; and again I say, you will be bound to take up
the report of this speech, and read it as those to whom
it was addressed understood it. By that understanding
you are to bind the defendant to that from which the
law does not allow bins to escape—for otherwise the
evasion of the law must be universal. You will
observe that all these are preliminary remarks which I
wish to impress on your mind as the key or index by
which you are to be controlled and regulated when you
come to consider the language of this speech. The next
observations I will make to you are on the subject of
the; repeal of the union. Now, gentlemen, the repeal
of the union means this and nothing else—the union
consists in the Acts of the Irish and British Parliament.
Those are the Acts of the two Legislatures, the result
of which was the legislative union of the two countries.
And those Acts of Parliament, I have to tell you, can
only be repealed by law, and are only capable of being
repealed by an Act of the Imperial Legislature. There
is no other power by which that repeal can be legiti-
mately effected, but that repeal, so to be effected, is an
object which it is perfectly lawful for any man to
contemplate, and by legal means to bring to pass. As it
can only be legally effected by the act of the Legislature,
the means by which that act is to be brought about,
are those which must be ordinarily familiar to you as
the means by which the Legislature may be moved
to exercise its functions. It is the right of every
subject to petition the Legislature for the repeal of the
union. It is the yight of every man, by his representa-
tive in Parliament, to endeavour to procure the repeal of
that Act. It is the right of every man fully, fairly, and
freely, liberally and without control, to discuss the
merits, and expose the demerits of any act of the Go-
vernment, or of any act of the Legislature, and there are
no weans which reason, persuasion, or personal influence
can supply, or any other mode affecting individual will
and action, which can be imagined, that are not lawfully
open to every man who wishes to effect changes in the
law of the land; but these are all preliminary in their
nature to the act of the Legislature, by which alone they
can be accomplished. And if you should be of opinion,
on the consideration of this speech, that it is confined to
means of the kind I have mentioned—that is to say, by
means of argument, reason, and persuasion—effects are
produced which are calculated in their nature to work
upon the minds of those who are to make the laws of the
country, it is exempt from the charge of being seditious
—it is an act which every subject of the realm has the
right to perform, in order legally to accomplish that
legal purpose. But while I have on the one hand told
you how it is lawful to act, I must come to another
consideration, and a material one in the considera-
tion of this subject. However lawful or legitimate the
repeal of the Acts of Union may be in themselves, they
are not to be accomplished by the use of illegal means;
they are not to be accomplished by actual force; they
are not to be accomplished by the threat of force; they
are not to be accomplished by the threat of foreign
invasion, or by foreign recruits, or money, or assistance.
The use of these means, and the advice to have recourse
to them are utterly illegal. I may say of them, that the
acts are treasonable and the advice is seditious. You
will have to bear in mind this important question as
to the construction of these words, and the natural,
plain, and obvious meaning of them. Is it such as to
fall within the class of means which I have mentioned
as being perfectly legitimate, or does it fall within that
class which includes exhortations to violence—threats
of force, and threats of foreign invasion? That will
be for your consideration, because if that be your de-
liberate judgment on considering this speech, you will
have no alternative but to pronounce it seditious, and
seditious in a high degree. But there is a third
view of this subject which must not be omitted,
because there are passages infk this publication,
which, if they do not fall within the second
class of illegal means which have been dis
closed, seem to deserve to fall within another class
requiring consideration, and that is, whether the repeal
of the union be not a mere pretext; and whether, run-
ning through this speech, there be not a third view, and
whether it does not mean the dismemberment, by force
and foreign aid and assistance, of Ireland from the
British empire. I am pointing out this to you, not as
the actual construction of this speech, for it will be for
Sou to decide what that is, but I am pointing to it as
possible that, in certain passages of this speech, that
may have been, if not the intention of the traverser, at
least the meaning which his words are calculated to
create; and having done so much by way of preliminary
observation, I will call your attention a little in detail
to the speech which is the subject-matter of this pro-
secution; and, after I have done that, I will advert, for
the purpose of bringing them before you distinctly, to
the topics of defence which the traverser's counsel has
relied upon, and see whether they aro calculated to re-
move the impression which the evidence of the
Crown is considered entitled to make. The meeting
at which the speech was made was held on the 15th
of March, Ito tadopt an address of congratulation to
the citizens of the French Republic. It was, I will
!tot say more of it, a very precipitate move—an
early manifestation to Conciliate parties in France, who
had just overthrown the established institutions of the
°untrY. The address to the French people is drawn
ep by Mr. O'Brien himself. I will not go over any por-
t this address which does not directly bear on the sub •
ject before me; but for the purpose of seeing whether
Mr. O'Brien be guilty or innocent, you must look to
every part of it connected with the charge against him.
tie is entitled to have every part of it read, to show if
be can, the absence of sedition, and he is bound by every
part of it that shows the presence of sedition. His
Lordship, having read passages from the address to the
*'rench people, and from the Youghall address, con-
tanued—Gentlemen, it is needless to say that the Par-
liament of England. which is called a usurpation in that
address, is the Imperial Parliament, and that addresso
propounds the overthrow of that Parliament liCts:l'i
Unquestionably, the word "overthrow" does
import something, I would say, different fromulitrsndisnoamrye
and legitimate means. The very term
imparts
a l course;
ne-action and some irregular or unconstitutional
phrase, or
13ut I should be sorry indeed to fix upon
tb say that was necessarily
itsth the canino.g
overthrow
the
legislative
is for you
tip say whether it meante
ofgtishlealtimve-
iierial Parliament by the repeal
union—that repeal to be effected by the known and
constitutional means of
repealing an Act of Parliament,
dr to overthrow it by the use of force—by the seduction
df the soldiery and constabulary, and by the solicitation
f foreign aid and assistance. I have to call your att a
on to the suggestion contained in Mr. O'Brien's sp eecril;
ith respect to the landlord class
; and there a state of
t iings different from repeal was hinted at, for it was said
t at the property of the landlords would be confiscated
s the penalty of their supporting the connexion be-
tlween the two countries. Ile next addresses his hearers
tdus :—" I would advise you to fraternise with every
silage you have been in the habit of considering as hostile,
rod I think it is your duty to fraternize with the
soldiers." I don't pretend to give an accurate descrip-
t on of the word " fraternize," but I am able to suggest
to you what it means here as used by this speaker, and
Ido suggest to you that he:is exhorting them to confede-
te with the soldiers to secure their sympathy—to
ake them partners in his designs, and to make them
i t to instruments of carrying
his designs into execution.
he next passage was addressed to another body of the
queen's forces (the constabulary), whose support or neu-
tfality it was plainly the object of the speaker to secure.
There is an inuendo on which a witness was examined,
about which no coutroyeray was raised, and which you