The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-19 00:00:00

DERBY ASSIZES, 3fARCH 16.

NISI YAWS COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron BATLEY and a Common Jury.)
JONES V. BREARY.

This was an action against the defendant, the clerk of
the Derby race-course, in his character of stakeholder, for
money had and received to the plaintiff's use.

Mr. BALouy and Mr. PENNINGTON conducted the case
for the plaintiff; Mr. CLARKE and Mr. N. CLARKE ap-
peared for the defendant.

The facts were these :—At the last Derby races, which
took place in the month of August, Mr. (now Lord) Ca-
vendish and Mr. Thornhill acted as stewards. When" the
Dunnington-park and Fatback stokes" were run for, Mr.
Thornhill told the jockeys, eight or ten in inber, as they
were about to start, that they must he ter y within ten
minutes after theywere weighed to start for t te second heat.
The first heat was watt by a three-year-old horse of Mr.
Beardsworth's, named " Champion." Few, if any, of the
horses were ready at the appointed time for starting for the
second heat. At nineteen minutes after the first heat,
Mr. Thornhill gave the word " Off," there being then
only five horses at the starting-post. Of these the plain-
tiff's horse " Tommy Tickle," which was aged, came
in first. Although the stewards are masters of the rice,
it is usual for the clerk of the course to start the horses,
and it is also customary to allow an interval of half an
hour between the heats, particularly for young horses,
which take a longer time to recover their wind than aged
ones. This heat, therefore, having been objected to as
not been fair, the defendant refused to weigh the rider of
Tommy Tickle, and ultimately the stewards decided that
it was no race, and therefore must be run again. The
horses accordingly started a third time, when Champion
came in first, and a mare name " Goz-lle" came second,
Tommy Tickle coining in third. Under these circum-
stances, it was contended that Tommy Tickle had won the
race, because the second start, it was contended, was
fair; and neither Gazelle nor Champion having run that
heat, they must be taken to be distanced, and therefore dis-
qualified from running the third heat, thus leaving Tommy
Tickle the winner of the third as well as of the second
heat. It was, however, admitted by plaintiff's witnesses
that the usual and reasonable interval allowed between heats
at all the races throughout the kingdom was half an hour,
and also that it was customary for the clerk of the courses
and not the steward, to :start the horses ; besides which, it
was stated that the stewards were the proper persons to
judge of the fairness of a start, and in this case they had
decided that the start was not fair, and that therefore the
second heat should be run over again. Upon these facts,
Mr. Baron BAYLEY was clearly of opinion that the
plaintiff must be nonsuited. If the stewards deviated from
the usual course, they were bound to give notice of such
deviation to the owners of the horses; and they were,
moreover, bound to allow a reasonable time for young
horses as well as old to recover their wind. On the pre-
sent occasion they had not done so, and they bad subse-
quently decided that they were wrong, and that the heat
must therefore be tun over again. In any point of view,
there was no pretence for saying that the plaintiff was en-
titled to the stakes. His Lordship would therefore beg
leave to suggest, that the next person called should be Mr.
Michael Jones.—(A laugh.)
The plaintiff, Mr. Jones, was accordingly nonsuited.

CROWN COURT.

Robert lVliysall, aged 40, was indicted for uttering,
knowing it to be forged, a bill of exchange for 371., pur-
porting to be drawn by Anthony Stanley, and payable at
Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and Co , bankers, London,
with intent to defraud Joseph Smith, and John Jackson.
Mr. WADDINGTON and Mr, FLOOD appeared for the
prosecution ; Mr. Serjeant GOULBOURN and Mr. HUD..
YARD for the defence.

It appeared that the prisoner paid away the bill in ques-
tion to Messrs. Smith and Jackson, for malt purchased of
them, and that it had been drawn without any authority
from Stanley, whose name was sworn by two witnesses to
be, according to the best of their belief, in the hand-writ-
ing of the prisoner himself. It was admitted by Stanley
that he had on a former occasion paid a bill drawn in his
name by the prisoner to avoid prosecuting him because he
was his relation ; and that although there had been a
quarrel between them respecting some claim of property,
set up by the prisoner, he would have paid the present bill
for the same reason if he had had the money.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
The Learned JUDGE ordered sentence of death to be re-
corded, but told the prisoner he might expect the sentence
to be commuted to transportation for life.

SATURDAY, MARCH 17.
THE DERBY RIOTS.
IVm. Hudson, aged 29, John Roome, aged 20 ; Thos.
Roberts, aged 29 ; Francis Banford, aged 20 ; William
Walters, aged 20 ; Luke Needham, aged 26 ; John
Hanson, aged 21 ; James Wardle, aged 32 ; George
Mosedale, aged 22; Samuel Kirk, aged 20, and Cathe-
rine Henrys, aged 23, Were indicted for riotously and
tumultuously breaking into the Gaol of thin Borough, and
setting at large William Keeling, a convicted felon confined
therein.

Mr. CLARKE, K.C., Mr. N. CLARKE, and Mr. WAD.
DINGToN, appeared as counsel for the prosecution; Mr.
HILL defended Bamford, Needham, Hanson, Wardle, and
Mosedale; Mr. HILDYARD defended Kirk; Mr. WHITE-.
HURST defended Hudson, Roome, and Walters; and Mr.
HAREwoon defended Roberts. The female prisoner bad
no counsel.

The facts of the cases which were undisputed, were

(PRICE 7D

these :—Upon the news of the loss of the Reform Bill
reaching Derby, on Saturday evening, the Bth of October
hat by Express from The Sun Newspaper, considerable
excitement prevailed, and some rioting took place. A mob
proceeded to the town gaol, amongst other places, and
broke some of the windows there. The next morning, at
an early hour, they again visited the gaol, and broke some
more windows ; they thence proceeded to other places, where
they also broke windows. Two of the rioters having
been apprehended, were taken to the gaol, and there locked
up. At about ten o'clock a mob, of lina *tut 1,000 to
1,500 persons, proceeded to the gaol,litd,Snocking at the
gaoler's door, demanded that these two persons should be
set at liberty. At first the gaoler made no reply to this
demand, but finding the mob determined on breaking open
the door and windows, and deeming further resistance
vain, he opened the door, turned out the two prisoners de-
manded of him, and then closed and locked the door again.
Tne mob received the prisoners with shouts of acclamation,
and bore them off in triumph on their shoulders. They
only proceeded a short distance from the gaol, when they
returned again, and tearing up an iron lamp-past that
stood near the building, they battered the door with it
until they burst it open ; forty or fifty of them then
rushed in, and set about twenty prisoners at large, who
i►t►mediately divested themselves of their prison dress and
mingled with the crowd. There had been altogether about
twenty-four prisoners in the felon's yard when the
attack on the gaol commenced, and the gaoler
immediately sent the turnkey to transfer them to the
debtor's yard for safety. The mob, however, pene-
trated to this part of the prison, and, as before stated, set
all they could find, about twenty in number, at liberty.
Amongst these was William Keeling, who had been con-
victed at the borough sessions of feloniously embezzling
5.., the property of his master, and sentenced to four
months' imprisonment and hard labour. So far the facts
were undisputed, the question then being whether or not
all or any of the prisoners were present on that occasion,
taking a part, or aiding and abetting others in the commis-
sion of this outrage. Upon this question, as regarded the
case of each prisoner respectively, the investigation ex-
tended to very great length.
John Roberts, the gaoler, having stated the facts above-
mentioned, spoke to the persons of Hudson, Bamford,
Roberts, and Wardle, as having been at the gaol on the
occasion in question. Hudson, he said, was one of those
who held the lamp-post when the door was opened, and
the lamp-post thrust in to prevent its being closed again.
The mob repeatedly inquired if all the prisoners were
released, and Hudson, taking the witness under the arm,
told him to come and see if they were al gone. To
which the witness replied, be might go himself and
see. After prisoners had gone out, and when the
mob were going away, Hudson said to Mrs. Roberts
(the gaoler's wife) he hoped they were not going to
his master's (Mr. Saunders), who lived near the gaol, on
the opposite side of the way. Bamford he saw kneeling
on the wall outside, holding the iron bars, and looking in
at the prisoners in the gaol. He saw Roberts in the pas-
sage leading from the outer door to the prison-yard, the
perspiration rolling down his face, apparently much ex-
cited, and heard him call out to the mob that all the pri-
soners had not gone out. He also saw Wardle in the pas-
sage at the same time, but did not see him do any thing in
particular. He seemed to be intoxicated.
Oa his cross-examination, the witness said that there
were a great many persons in the street, and be believed
many were there from mere curiosity. He might have told
somebody, in his confusion, to cotne and see if all the pri-
soners were gone out of the gaol, in order to appease the
mob. He denied that be bad received any intimation or
expected that he was to lose his situation for negligence,
unless the prisoners were convicted.

Mrs. Roberto, wife to the last witness, spoke to the pre-
sence of Hudson and Roberts, whom she saw in the pas-
sage, as did also Ralph Wyberley, the turnkey ; the latter
also spoke to Wardle and Bamford.
Owen Magawley said that he went along with the mob
to the gaol on that morning, and saw them tear up the
lamp-post and beat in the door with it at the second stroke.
He had previously observed the female prisoner point to
the prisoners, saying, " Look at those poor lads," and she
afterwards, when the lamp-post was torn up, seized a piece
of the flag-pavement, and flung it at the windows, de-
claring " they should lose another pane." This witness
swore positively that all the prisoners, except Hudson and
the woman, helped to tear up the limp-post, and beat it
against the door. Hudson, he said, he did not observe.
On his cross-examination, he said he had been at Not-
tingham, and sworn to a confession made to him by Arm-
strong, who was convicted and hanged. He bad not been
paid his expenses on that occasion. He went from Derby
to Nottingh .in by the coach, and paid his fare himself,
but he had got the money previously from the Solicitor for
the Crown. He had lived, whilst at Nottingham, at the
Rato-inn, and his expenses there were paid by the same
gentleman. He returned to Derby by the coach, and
paid his own fare in the same way lie had done when
going. What he meant, then, by not having paid his ex-
penses was, that lie had not been paid for his time. The
first day after his return to Derby he had spent at a public-
house, and the second day he spent walking about. On
the third day he went to his work, but did not get any
at first ; he did afterwards for a few days. He then went
to Benton, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and various other places,
at each of which he said lie did nothing but eat, drink, and
walk about. He did not know he was bound to tell
where he got his money from to enable him to eat, drink,
and walk about, without doing any work. He did not
choose to tell. He had never been in prison in his life,
nor charged with any offence except once—namely, break-
ing a woman's windows, of which he had " cleared him-
se'f innocent." His father had never charged him with
robbing him, nor had he ever taken an oath about such a
thing. His father was a Catholic, hut he did not know
what he himself was ; he had been brought up to nothing ;
sometimes he went to one place, and sometimes to another.
He sometimes went to church. This riot took place on a Sun-
day, and he thought it very bad. He therefore went before
the Magistrates and stated what he knew. He went there
because his legs took him there. He went of his own ac-
cord, for no other reason than what he stated. He did
not go the next day, nor in a week, nor two weeks, nor
three weeks, nor four weeks, nor five, nor six, nor seven,
nor eight weeks; but he thought it was not so much as
nine weeks before he went. He believed there had been a
reward of 1001. offered in the interval for the conviction
of the persons who had broken open the gaol, but bad not
taken any notice of that. He might have read it ;he did
read it. Ther€ were hand-bills to that effect posted all
ever the town. Bayley was one of the prisoners liberated
on that occasion ; he had been charged with stealing a
fowl. Turner was another of the witnesses ; he was also
in prison on a charge of felony. He had been imprisoned
on a former occasion before the Magistrates. Witness re-
membered going into the Duke of York public-house one
day after his return from Nottingham, and hoped he should
have the pleasure of seeing some of the persons here to-
day whom lie saw there on that occasion. He asked a
brother of the prisoner Roome to drink with him, when
another man said, " Don't, that's blood." Witness said
it was not. The other asked him if lie did not go about
the country swearing men's lives away, and if he had nut
hung Armstrong ? Witness denied it ; but they brought the
newspaper and read it, and threatened to kill him. When
he was threatened, he was obliged to say, " You may
take it so, if you will." Witness had known Turner
all his life. He knew nearly all the prisoners in the gaol.
When Turner was let out of the gaol, he took off his
prison coat, and witness lent him his, and went home with
him in his shirt sleeves. Witness did not go to tie gaol
to help to break it open ; nor would he say he went as a
spy ; he only went to see what was done, that he might
give evidence of it another day. When the lamp-post was
torn up, he put his font on it to stop the gas. A person
with some such strange name as 31‘Cormick went with
him to Nottingly--:. to give evidence ; he had some such
strange name himself as lll‘Gawley. His father was ser-
vant to a bricklayer. He did not know where he was
born. (The witness was a native of Derbyshire, but de-
scended of Irish parents.)

On his re-examination he said that he had been obliged
to live in the prison latterly to prevent his being knocked
on the head, in consequence of his having given evidence
at Nottingham. When he visited the different places he
had named he had gone there from Derby for the same
reison; and he bad obtained money fur his support from
the tow❑ clerk, who conducted the prosecution.
The two prisoners, Bayley sad Turner, mentioned by
the last witness, were severally called, and spoke to Need-
ham, Hanson, and Walters, as having been in the gaol on
the occasion in question, in addition to those spoken to by
Roberts.

No person having spoken for Roome, Mosedale, Kirk,
or Catherine Henrys, except Owen M'Gawley,
Mr, N. CLARKY, on behalf of the prosecution, said that

' felt he ought not to ask for a verdiet,agaiast those: lbtr.
irisnners on the unconfirmed testimony' of that witness
ihme.s—They were therefore declired entitled to an
.1 ni ttal.
Of the remaining seven, the threeOsisnerp_..-e444i,
Hanson, and Walters, who were onlyspoki4iitiy-411.1,,
and the two felons, denied having heeif:ar-the-tai4fie-
dl. Hudson said he had not taken any Oi-ti iit`the
•eedings, but had gone like many more respectable per-
ons out of curiosity, and that it was only after the pri-
,oners had left the gaol that he iktered it, when he was
-guested by the gaoler to satisfy the mob that all the prl-
i,m.rs had gone out. He stated to Mrs. Roberts who
trifl what he was, and expressed a hope th it the mob went
int going to his master's premises just near. Several wit-
nesses swore that he never went near the lamp-post, or took
my part in the riot ; and did not enter the gaol until after
the prisoners had been liberated. The witnesses gave him
a most excellent character

Roberts's defence was somewhat similar, except that he
401 he had been involuntarily carried along by the rush of
the crowd, and so forced into the gaol, where, however, he
hal taken no part whatever in the riot or enlargement of
the prisoners.

Bamford also called witnesses to disprove his havirg
eaken any part with the rioters, an I War'le made a aim
hr defence. Most of the prisoners received a viod chi.
racter.

Mr. Justice J. PARKE, after observing on the absence
of a single respectable inhabitant of Derby. several of
whom were stated to have been spectators of this outrage,,
to state wha were the rioters or any of them, proceeded to
call the attention of the Jury to the Cacti for th onci•,
aeration. He cautioned them as to how far they of tto
give credit to the testimony of Ml:miry, who was, upon
his own showing, something very like an accomplice, and
who had come forward under circumstances, and given his
testimony in a manner, which certainly did not entitle it
to much weight, except so far as it was corroborated by
other credible evidence. The Learned Judge then surnm,-d
up the case of each prisoner separately, and concluded his
charge at five minutes past one o'clock in the morning.
The Jury, after about a moment's deliberation, returned
a verdict of Acquittal in favour of all the prisoners.
The Court had continued crowded to the end of tl e
trial, and the moment the verdict was announced the outer
hall rung with the shouts and cheers of the populace.

NISI PRIUS COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron BAYLEY and a Special Jury.)
BEMROSE V.' THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF'

DERBY.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a
book and music seller in the mark,•t-place in this town, to
recover compensation from the inhabitants for tho damage
dens to his house and goods by a riotous mob, on the night
of the Bth of October last.

Mr. CLINTON and Mr. PENNINGTON conducted the
phintiffs case, and Mr. BALGUY and Mr. N. CLARKE
the defence.

The action was brought on the 7th and Sth George IV.,
c. 31., under these circumstances :—About ten o'clock on
the night of the Bth of October, accounts having been re-
ceived of the rejection of the Reform Bill, a mob assembled
and broke amongst others the plaintiff's windows. They
repeated their attack on his house at twelve and again at
three o'clock in the morning. They broke not only all
his windows, but forced the shutters of the shop, and
shattered the glass inside them. They knocked all the
books, music, instruments, &c., which were in the win-
dow about. They then went away, and returned at half-
past four, armed with iron bars and other instruments.
They broke in t%e doors, and windows, and entered
through the latter into the shop, to the number of
thirty or forty, They threw the books and music in
r mfu 1I s into the street. They then struck, with their
crow-bars, at two iron pillars which stood in the shop win-
flow, and supported the front of the house, and without
such support the front must have fallen. By this time it
was five o'clock, and light was breaking; and Mr. Bem-
rose called out :to them, " You rascals, it is now getting
light, and I shall know you again, and have you up before
the Magistrates." lie was in the shop amongst them at
the time. Some of the mob said, " Let him alone, we
have done enough for him at present; we'll return -to-
night and finish bum." Same troops had arrived which
were stationed in different parts of the town that night.
The riots, however, continued in the town for two nights
afterwards, but the plaintiff's house was not again at-
tacked. Upon these facts it was argued on behalf of the
plaintiff, that there had beeu an evident intention on the
part of the mob to demolish the plaintiff's house, which
intention had been defeated by the approach of day, and
the fear of detection. This was, therefore, a beginning to
demolish within the meaning of the Act, and entitled the
plantiff to recover.
On the other hand, the defendant's counsel contended
that there had been no intention to demolish the house or
de ;more fait:Lief than they bad done, as there -was nothing
to prevent them from completing their purpose either
then or subsequently, the riots baying continued two days
longer.

The amount of the damages it was agreed should be
settled out of Court, if the plaintiff established his right to
recover.

The Learned JUDGE left the question of intention to the
Jury, who, after about a quarter of a❑ hour's deliberation,
returned a verdict for the plaintiff.

SHREWSBURY ASSIZES, MARclr I'7.

The commission opened here late on Thursday evening,
and the Grand Jury were sworn on Friday. The calendar
is not a heavy one, being forty prisoners for trial, and,
with the exception of three for arson, there is nothing of
interest. On the civil side there are eighteen causes set
down, and but one Special Jury, which is an action brought
by Broughton t.
Strey,
Esq., a gentleman of independent
fortune and great respectability, against Offley Crew, Esq.,
a gentleman of equal rank and fortune. It is fixed for
Monday morning. Yesterday there was no case of any
interest. This morning,
Hannah Spnwonds, a prmy innocent-looking girl,
aged 16, was charged with vetting fire to the premises of
Mr. John Forgeham, of Wixhole, in this county, her
master.

Mr. John Forgeham was a farmer, The prisoner was
his apprentice: she is about 17 years of age; has been
seven years in his service. On the morning of Friday,
the 11th of November list, he heard a noise while in bed ;
he heard persons speaking about a candle b,ing taken out
of a lantern ; amongst them was the prisoner. Witness
got up and gave the boys half a candle to take into the
stable. It was very dark. He said to prisoner " How
came you, Hannah, to take the waggoner's candle out of
the lantern, you had no business to do that ?" Pri-
soner made no answer. He said that she deserved
to be punished, for she had no business to take
waggoner's candle. He went to bed again. This
was about four o'clock in the morning, and at six o'clock
prisoner came to the foot of the stairs and cried out " Oh
Lord, master and mistress, get you up ; a fire, a fire !' He
got up and ran down stairs, and asked she prisoner w here
the fire was, and she said it was in the French wheat bay.
He went down to the fire, which was too large to be put
out. Two barns, a cow-house for twenty cows, a cart-
house, and granary were destroyed, as well as a considerable
quantity of corn, fifty loads of straw, and ten tons of hay.
Cross-exatnined—When witness saw the fire it was

Id, zing strong, but he did not think it h n burning
long. In about an hour after Mr. Harper, the attorney,
came ; he examined all the 'nen-servants, but not the
females. Mr. Murray, the Magistrate, was present at the
time, but no charge was made against the prisoner for seven
days after. He (witness) never took any improper liberties
with her. Never did any thing more than put his hand
upon her. He did not recollect b,ing called a dirty man
by his wife fur taking liberties with the prisoner. His wife
might have said so, but he did not recollect it.
Re-examined—Once beat the prisoner with a small whip.
Richard Jones resides near the prosecutor's ; and after
the fire, when the prisoner was found out, he went to the
prosecutor's house, and there saw the prisoner. He said
he was sorry to see her placed in such a situation, and.
without holding any inducement to her whatever, she
made the confession now produced in the presence of Mr.
Weston, and which was read over to her.
" Voluntary ,tatement• of Hannah Synnoonds to Richard
Jones and Philip Weston, made the ISth day of November,
1831 :

" Master threatened to beat me when he got up in the 1,100,
ing. I took a stick that was in the fire and a snatch. I went
to the bay nearest the cow-house and opened the door. I
lighted the match by the fire-stick, and then I put the match to
the straw, which lighted the straw as large as a man', hand be.
fore I left. " HANNAH SYMMONDS,

" Her mark.
" Richard Jones, Philip Weston, and Thomas Weston, wit-
nesses."

Prisoner being called on for her defence said, that het
master bad treated her ill, and she was anxious to leave
his service, and thought by accusing herself with burnm
the stacks of corn and straw she would get herself dis-
charged from his service, which he could not du as being
i.is apprentice.
The Jury having consulted some short time, returned a
verdict of Guilty, but recommended her to mercy on ac-
count of the ill-treatment of her master. The prosecutor
earnestly recommended her to mercy on account of her
irevious good character and conduct while in his service.
file youth and innocent appearance of the promror, who
i 4 an orphan, end perfectly destitute of relations, excitril
• be greatest compassion.

BENEVOLENT SOUIE rY of ST. PATRICK.

On S:turday the 49th anniversary of the Benzr:olent
S ,eiety Sr. Patrick was celebrated at Freemasons'-hall,
his Grace the Duke of NORTHIJMIEMLAND in the chair.
On his right were the Marquis of Lundonderry, Lord
Teynham, Sir J. Doyle, Sir Henry Hardinge, Ise. ; rn
his left the Earl of Mayo, and many persons of -tleibetion
connected with Ireland, amongst whom wsrt,. 'the Marquis of
Ahercorn, the llarquii of Doom I.,:rd L. F. Gower,
Sir William Brabazoor Bact,, Mr. Shell, M.P., Sir J
M. Doyle, &e. &c.
This festive celebration was much less numerously a:_
tended than on former occasions : there were not pr: sent
even twmthirds of those who were o::tected.

•4 The Health of the King" was of course the first toast;
I ut it was not introduced by any observationt ett the part
of the Noble Chairman. It was immediately followed by
The Health of the Queen," a toast that called fottla
much more applause than the health of his Majesty.
The CHAIM:MAN, in ailnoOneinZ the next tnesc, inrormed
the company that her Royal Hightte the Duchess of
Kent had forwarded a donation ist. 501. to the Treasur r
of the Society. He then gave " The Duchess of Kent.
and the rest of the Royal Family."—Drunk with meth
applanw.
"The Navy and Army," and other and patriotic
toasts, followed, without any tett-lark from the Chairman
beyond the mere annountettti-nt.
Sir JOHN DOYLE returned thanks on the part of the
army. The toast to which the company had done el rutieh
honour could not fail to touch sensibly the heart of every
IfriAnin—a nation, which without vanity he might say,
had Len prodigal of their Istnui Whent-ver the general
-rause of the whole empire required that it should be shed.
It would be needless for him to say more than to repeat,
on behalf of his brethren in arms an i himself, their ettpres-
sion of their mast heartfelt thanks f.r an hettotr which,
r:Te.z t as it was, they did persuade theettelves was not alto-
.gether undeserved.—(Great applause.) The Gallant
Officer then sat dawn, beta hnmediately rose, saying, that
he had been guilty a great omission—he bad not pro-
posed the health of the renowned General by whotn. those
lrmies had been led so often to victory, and in no single
instance to defeat. He confessed that he had been guilty
of a great omission, and lest he should fall into any of those
beauties of Irish rhetoric which ignorant Englishmen called
bulls—(A laugh)—he should instantly conclude with pro-
posing " The health of the Duke of 'Wallington." Drunk
with much applause.
The Alarquis of Doe no returned thanks.
The next toast was" The health cf the Lard Lieutenant
set Tr'eland."—(Applause pretty general, and in some quar-
ters very enthusiastic.) There was no one to return thanks,
:and it was observed that no gentleman present r.-as connec-
ted with the Government, and but very few rya' of their
supporters in either House of 11:triiament.

The children belonging to both schools then walked in
li:weal...ion through the hall, and if the success and value
of the association is to he measured by the numbers and
interesting appearance of the children, it might be said
that none could be more flourishing or better deserving of
public support.
The CHAIRMAN then T.:commended the charity to the
'ompany, and appealed to the op,n-handed benevolence of
Irishmen, urging them to contribute liberally to the col-
lection then going forward.
Tbe health% of the Duke of Leitliter, tIT Marquis of
Downshire, the Marquis Wellesley, anal other noblemen
Arid gen:len:en, contributors to that clinity, wee them
given as one toast. Afterwards the memories of the Dukes
of York and Kest, Earl DiTtiley, Mr. Canning, theMAr-
quis of Londonderry, and other deceased contributors to
the fnud.—Drank in solemn silence.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY could not• allow the
name of his distinguished and ever-to•be-laumented relative
to he mentioned without addressing a few words to that
company. A'though he felt as dearly as any man could,
that he was himself unworthy to be named in connexion
with that illustrious man, whose fame would descend to
tnture ages—though he telt most deeply that he had dege-
nerated from that great man in all things but a love for
Ireland, he still would presume to say a few words. He
knew that Noble Lord well, and with perfect truth he
could declare that at all times, and under all circumstances,
he held Ireland in his dearest recol:ection. That great
roan, now, alas! no more, had, though no other of his
,eminent qualities were transmitted, at least left him the
strongest sentiments of affection and respect towards that
country so highly gifted by Providence,--gifted to an ex-
rent, perhaps, certainly equal to any country on the face
of the globe. He hoped tha time was not distant when
that interesting country would receive the great boon of
which she stood so much in need—repose, tranquillity,
and quiet. He hoped the time would soon
arrive when agitation should cease, and Ireland realty be
that which it was so often asserted she was--

" Greet, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth, the first gem of the 6caa.''

t Applause.) The Noble Lor:d then proposed the hedlth of
'lair illustrious Chairman.—(Great applause.) It had
ever been a rule of that socie,y to exclude politics, and
every thing approaching to political feeling ; but he hoped
that it would be perectly practicable to do justice to the
merits of the distinguished individual under whose preai•
dency they had the honour to sit, without in the slightest
degree violating the c,tablished maxims u hich bad hitherto
governed their festive celebr4tiens. He might, he truste 1,
be allowed to staid forward as an Irishman, and say
that the ( ffice of Lord Lieutenant was never filled with
more uprightness, impartiality, and benevohnce, than dur-
ing the administration of his Noble Friend who then
filled the Chair. The country owed the Noble Lord a
deep debt of gratitutle, and the put•lic charities of Ire-
land would long continue to bear about them striking
marks of thebenevolence of him and his amiable consort.—
(Applause—a voice from the lower end of the hall, All
policy.")
The toast was then drunk with the most enthusiasth;