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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1844.

more power in Ireland than any other • leader'evar
had, who is looked up to by the bar, ai 1. even `by the
bench, as the first lawyer of the day, who has long
held a prominent place in the House of Commons,
and virtually represented the whole of his native
land; was brought up before his colleagues, several of
them his juniors, to receive judgment. On -his
entrance, the bar rose simultaneously, and cheered'
him, the judge who pronounced sentence wept like a
child, and when the chief traverser (we use the un-
couth epithet enjoined by law) declared his
innocence, " three . times three" and " one cheer
more" were given for O'CoNNELL. Was ever
martyr so honoured? And martyrdom it may
be justly called. We have said all along that
he has not had a fair trial. Lord Chief Jos
ticC
DENMAN, and all his colleagues, have virtually as-
serted the fact; no English jury would have con:
victed him on such evidence ; yet from political pre-
judice, or ignorance, or something worse, the first
man in Ireland—the greatest benefactor of his coun=
try—has been shut up within the four walls of a
prison like a felon, and at the age of sixty-eight is
Subjected to a severe and disgraceful punishment
before the law has had its full course. An appeal is
to be made to another tribunal—an appeal, too,
which, from every possible calculation, will be
successful; yet in these times, in an age
more distinguished for humanity than any
other to be found in the range of history,
the law of the infernal regions is still the law of thb
land. It is the law of PLUTO,
" Castigatque auditque dolos."
Suppose he had been convicted of high trea-
son, and condemned to death, could not the SOVE.
REIGN have respited the sentence until full inquiry
had been made whether it was just or unjust? This
is an every day occurrence, even while we have no
courts of appeal for capital offences. Yet, in this
instance, where there is a caurt of appeal, and the
judgment of the lower court may be reversed, the
punishment is inflicted, whilst the victim is suffering
for a crime of which he may be declared by the highest
authority entirely innocent. We have never approved
of the monster meetings assembled by Mr. O'CoN-
NELL, but, in a s:zirit of justice, we have been
inclined to view them as we would view the acts of a
man driven to desperation, when he found there was
no other means of protection, and took the law into
his own hands. This is the case of Mr. O'CoNNELL.
He-had tried every legitimate means to obtain redress
fur the insufferable grievances of his country, he had
brought forward motions, he had resisted motions
in Parliament, but. all in vain ; the Tory and Orange
party were too powerful; none of his countrymen
though they form a third of the United Empire
were admitted into office ; they were treated as-
aliens in blood, and religion, and politics; the_
clergy of the people were described as surpliced
ruffians; and the whole nation was regarded as a
conquered tribe. He was hunted to death, and
he turned upon his purzuers. Is this a crime ?
Is a man not to be forgiven for exceeding the bounds
of the law, when he finds that law will not protect
him ? He may be imprudent, but he is not morally
guilty. This is the decision to which his country-
men have come, and not the mob, the offacourings of
'the people only, but the first men of the land, and the
leading barristers in the Four Courts. The Govern.
ment have obtained a victory, but have they rendered
Ireland more secure ? They have excited a spirit
which will rankle in the heart of every repealer, and
make the Catholics cry for_ vengeance on their op-
pressors.

The house of Lords went into Committee on the
Factories Bill; and, after some discussion, and a
division, all the clauses were agreed to, and the Bill
was ordered to be read a third time on Monday.

In the Commons, the order of the day was read
for going into Committee on the Ecclesiastical Courts
Bill, when Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved an instruction
to the Committee to abolish all ecclesiastical courts,
and transfer the jurisdiction of these courts to civil
tribunals. The motion was lost, by a majority of
115 to 70. A. number of other amendments were
proposed, as particular clauses were brought forward,
all in favour of the Bill. After some discussion, the
Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit

again.
In answer to a question from Mr. Huhu, Sir E.
PEEL fixed the 10th inst. to proceed with the Bank
Charter Bill.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of;
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock.

The Post of this morning observes, in the course cf
an article suggested by the visit of the Emperor of
RUSSIA to England, whose shores he has by this time
touched—" The presence of his Imperial Majesty, si-
multaneously with the King of SAxoNY, in this coun-
try, will infuse a fresh impetus into the gaities and
festivities which are already in the course of preparas
tion. We feel sure that all classes of the community
will fully appreciate the honour of this visit, and
that Englishmen of every grade will unite to
greet his Imperial MAJESTY with a cordial and
hearty welcome." Without going quite so far as our
Contemporary in his expression of a hope that the
Emperor of RUSSIA will meet with " a cordial and
hearty welcome," we wilt content ourselves with
hoping that his reception will be such as is worthy
of a free, dignified, and enlightened nation, and that
during the whole period of his residence among u 4,
he will be everywhere treated with the respect which
is undoubtedly his due. To more than this we
do not see that he has the slightest claim ;
a grave courtesy and a considerate abstinence
from anything that may tend to hurt his
feelings whenever he ventures publicly abroad, is the
utmost he is entitled to expect at our hands. A hos-
pitable reception is very different from an enthusiastic
one, and most assuredly there is nothing in the public
character of the Emperor of Russia—we say nothing
of his private one, which is, we believe, exemplary
in every respect—calculated to call forth the enthu-
siasm of Englishmen, or make his arrival the subject of
general rejoicing. When his brother ALEXANDER last
visited this country, the case was materially different.
We had then just brought to a triumphant conclusion
the long and sanguinary war against the despotism
of France, impersonated by NAPOLEON, and in this
war the Russian EMPEROR. took a most conspicuous
part ; he was, in fact, our trustiest and most in-
fluential ally, and maintained with equal zeal and
perseverance the great struggle for the deliverance
of Europe. As a matter of course, his successes
were our successes—his defeats were our defeats
the interests that for the time bound us to-
gether were essentially the same ; we were
led to believe, too, that he was a Mo-
narch excaedingly tolerant and enlightened in
his views, and willing, and even anxious, to
ameliorate the political and social condition of un-
happy Poland—in whose fate Englishmen, from the
days of KOSCIUSKO, have always taken a deep in-
terest ; and consequently when he made his appear-
ance among us, we received him with general
enthusiasm,' for we felt that he had every claim on
the admiration and good will of a brave, indepen-
dent-, and civilised people. But this is certainly not
the case in the present instance. The Emperor
NicnoLai is not known to us as a lover of free
institutions ; we cannot forget that he was the
very last of the European Sovereigns to xecog-
Rise the right of France to choose her own
ruler in the person of Louis PHILIPPE ; and still less
can we forget—would that we were able to do so ?
the ruthless severity with which he put down the late
Polish insurrection ; the unscrupulous manner in
which he destroyed the last remaining vestiges of
constitutional liberty yet existing in that ill-starred
country ; and the vindictiveness of his conduct to-
wards the bravest and most patriotic Poles, the ma-
jority of whom are now wearing away their lives.
without the faintest hope of release, in the mines and
deserts of Siberia. Neither are the EMPEROR'S recent
proceedings towards the Jews to be "washed in Lethe
and forgotten," whom—for some mysterious reason or
other, which no one has yet been able fully to ex-
plain—he has banished by thousands from the Rus-
sian dominions. We do not recur to these things,
from any wish to excite a popular feeling against the
Emperor NICHOLAS; far otherwise, for we do confi-
dently hope and believe that he will be everywhere
treated with that grave, calm courtesy and considera-
tion, which best become the dignity and self-respect
of a great nation like England ; but we mention them
because we think it right that our countrymen should
be made aware of the exact claims—" neither exte-
nuated nor set down in malice"—that the Emperor
of Russia has upon their admiration and their enthu-
siasm.

According to the accounts from Madrid of the 24th
ult., the two Queens and the Infanta were expected
to reach Valencia on the 23d, where they would re•
main till the 28th, and then proceed to Tarragona.
At Barcekna several political prisoners had been set
at liberty in honour of the royal visit. The Cow t
were not to arrive in that city till the Ist inst.
The Three per Cents. were done at 281 for cash,
and 28i at sixty days ; the Five per Cents. at 201 for
cash, and 201 at 60 days.

Nearly all the Paris papers have articles on the
brilliant speech made by M. TmERs relative to
French interests in South America, from 'which we
have already given extracts. Those of the Opposi-
tion dwell upon it with admiration, and describe the
effect produced by it in the Chamber as almost un-
precedented. Ills severe attacks on. M. GUIZOT'S
foreign policy has called forth a bitter reply in the
Journal des Debuts. " It is easy," s; tys the writer,

The scene in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench on
Thursday, was one which, we believe, has no parallel
in the history of the country. The man who has

THE SUN, tCrISTDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1844,

DAY'S NEWS.

MONE 17." AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREB.
There was no improvement in Cotton at the Liverpool
market yesterday. Sales 3,500 to 4,000 bags at previous
rates.—There has not been a large business done in Railway •
Shares, and prices, generally speaking, were the same, ex-
cept for Grand Junction and London and Birmingham, which
were lower.
There are no late arrivals to-day. • •
A compass, calculated to resist local attraction of even the •
most powerful character, has been on view within the last
two or three days- at •the Hail .of Commeree..._.The Baron
Rothschild and brother, Mr. Baring, and other leading men
in the City !raving called to inspect it,. and have signified
their satisfaction at the important objects which it is intended
to accomplish, and for which the experiments instituted in
her Majesty's dockyards, and on Board one or two iron
steamers, appear to show its entire capability. The compass
on view is for her Majesty's yacht, and there is a similar one .
to be 'presented by the inventor, Mr: Hirsh; to the King of the
French.
The English Stocks have been firm to-day. Con Sols for
Transfer realise 99% to 994, and for Time 99i to 99/. Bank
Stock is supported at 1991- to 200. The New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents, obtain 1028 to 103, and the Reduced 1014 to 102.
Exchequer Bills have been quiet at 70s. to 725. The tone
of the funded investments is decidedly good, and the heavy
stocks, as will be seen, are better.
The Spanish Securities lost their temporary appearance of
buoyancy. yesterday afternoon, and took the downward move-
ment we anticipated, and are now again ther lower.
The Three per Cents. have been 34J to 314, and the
Delerred, Nothing has been' done in the Five
per Cents. Portuguese Converted are a little firmer, being
46 to 46%. 'Mexican have been rather good at 35% to f ;
but Colombian continue flat at 138 to /. Dutch Two-and-a-
Ilalf per Cents. have been rising; they are 61% to %.
The Railway Shares have been quiet, but generally at
about yesterday's rates. Croydon, Brighton, and South-
'Eastern are firmer. The French lines are very firmly held.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock . 200 199%
S per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... .......... 9Bt %
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99 If,
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 192% % 03
Long Annuities. Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 rf.io
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1160. 12%
India Stock ... 288
Consols for Account ....... ....... ... 92%1i%

-.--- -
eq.
Exchuer Bills, 13/4d. 13{il.
1,0001.
5001
Ditto Small — 7 O pm.
Ditto Advertised —
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ll3
Columbian Bonds. . 13%%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent., ••• ---
Ditto for the Account 3514%%
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%."
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account. 4611
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 —
Ditto Deferred 13%
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 234 per Cents 61% %
Dutch 5 per Cents.loo%
New Loan 1837. 5 per Cents.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SNARE.
Birmingham and Derby lOO ........ CO
Dit, o Eighths
Bristol and Exeter 7O 7938
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered 81. Os. Ad....... 13%%4 to
Great North of England
Ditto % Shares
London and Brighton
London and Greenwich
London and South Western 41% B7 to
London and Croydon
Ditto Scrip
Manchester and Leeds '7o lO3 to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 .... ..... 5614 to
Midland Counties 100
Northern and Eastern 45 56% to
south Eastern and Dover
Trent Valley
York and North Midland
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Paris and Orleans ............. ...... .. 20
Paris and Rouen 2O 3834% ... to 39
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, MAY. 30.
3 per Cent. Consols 98%
Three and a Half Stock ......
Ditto New, 1430
Ls.
334 per Cent. Debentures 94_,
Batik Stock 20.(1
Grand Canal Stock '
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Dublin and K. Road
2rogheda 55 • 7O
Dublin and Cashel ditto
Hibernian Bank 25 31%
National Bank
Royal Bank
National Insarance 25
Patriotic ditto
Wicklow Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50
Steam Ship Building Company

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
NEWTON, MAY 30.
This morning the High Sheriff proceeded to the County
Court, and announced the numbers polled at the late election
to be as follow :
Dir. Entwisle
Mr. Brown

• Majority ...
Mr. Entwisle was then declared duly elected, and the meet-
ing dispersed.

THAMES ROYAL YACHT CLUB.
GRAND CHALLENGE CUP.—The anrounced great race for
the 10th of July, is at present the leading.feature in the
aquatic circles. Subjoined are the. winners since the first
institution of this great-contdst with-the entries fOr forth-
coming race
1840. The Gazelle.

1842. The Ada.

1841. The Champion. 1843. The Enigma.
ENTRlES.—Mystery, 25 tons, Lord Alfred Paget, blue, red
Maltese crozs ; Exquisite, 15 tons, T. K. Tatham, Esq., white,
blue cross, gold star ; Gazelle, 25 tons, T. Rutherford, Esq.,
white,. with red =ow ; Enigma, 25 tons, Josiah Wilkinson,
Esq., crimson, gold Maltese cross.; -Blue Belle, 25 tons, John
Chandless, Esq., blue ; GnoMe, 25 tons, Thomas Meesome,
Esq., blue and white, with star. . - - •
The Challenge Cup is a floating prize, open to tWenty
five ton yachts of any Royal Yacht club, and must be won
two following seasons by the same yacht before it. becomes
the property of tie owner. It was, however, determined at
the last. Thames Yacht meeting, that a prize, value twenty-
five guineas, should be presented to the holder of the one
year, who should be unsuccessful on the second.. Such a list
of powerful competitors we have never before remembered,
and the equality of the tonnage,. with the exception of the
Exquisite, renders it difficult for the most observant yachter
to deteriffine which to back.

CALEDONIAN ASYLUNl..—Yesterd4y the friends of
the Caledonian Asylum (the Hon. Sir George Rose in
the' chair) presented the Rev. John Lees, M.A., with a
purse of a hundred sovereigns, and a piece of plate,
value one hundred guineas, bearing the following in-
scription :--" Presented to the Rev. John Lees, M.A.,.
in purauance of a resolution unanimously passed by a
public meeting of the guardians and friends of the Cale-
donian Asylum, held at the Freemason's Tavern, Lon
don, on the 14th of April, 1844, as a lasting testimonial
of their respect for. his chaeacteri_ and of their gratitude
for the paternal and unremitting kindness and zeal with
which, for a period of twenty-one years, he discharged
the duties of Superintendent and Secretary of that In-
stitution." Among the subscribers to this well-merited
testimonial were his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, Sir Augustus Frederick D'Este, his Grace the
Duke of Sutherland, his Grace the Duke of Richmond,
the Duke of Roxburgh, the Marquis of Bute, the Mar-
quis of Breadalbane, Lord James Stuart, M.P. ; Lochiel;
Chisholm ; Sir Charles Forbes, Bart. ; P. M. Stewart,
Esq., M.P. ; Colonel Hugh Baillie, M.P., James Ma-
theson, Esq., of Achany, &c.
FlRE.—This morning, shortly after twelve o'clock,
some alarm was created in the immediate vicinity of the
Surrey Zoological Gardens, in consequence of a fire breaking
out in the boiling-house belonging to Mr. Lyons, floor-cloth
manufacturer, situate in Lovemore- gardens, kewington.
Fortunately the building was detached, or it is impossible to
tell to what extent the conflagration would have travelled.,
By half-past one o'clock, owing to the exhaustion of all com-
bustible material, the fire was entirely extinguished, not
however until the boiling-house, with its contents, was con-
sumed. The origin of the outbreak could not be ascertained;
the fire under the boiler had been raked out some time be-
fore the flames were discovered. Unfortunately Mr. Lyons.
is not insured, and the present is the second fire that has
occurred upon his premises in the course of a few weeks.
PARISH OF ST. MARY, NEWINGTON.—CHURCII-
RATES.—Yesterday afternoon, a most numerous meeting of.
the inhabitants of this parish was held in the vestry-room,
and, by adjournment, in the school-rooms adjoining the
church. According to the statements of several of the
parishioners, the meeting was the largest held in the dis-
trict since The passing of the Reform Bill. . The meeting
was convened by the churchwardens, on account of a re-
quisition that had been presented to them by upwards of
500 of the inhabitant, stating that it was intended to take
a vote to pay the suns of 601. per annum as salary for
the Rev. Mr. Ainslie, who had been appointed chaplain
to the workhouse. The question was considered at a pre-
vious mating, when the payment was refused, it being
alleged by several of the rate-payers that Mr. Ainslie was
not entitled to any further remuneration, he being then in
the receipt of 550/. per annum as incumbent of St. Peter's,
Walworth. Several eminent dissenting clergymen after-
wards offered to perform the services gratuitously, but their
offers were rejected by the board. After some discussion con-
nected with the holding of the meeting, Mr. Brown, the
churchwarden, took the chair, and read the requisition amidst
much uproar. Mr. Shaw then proposed a rate of one half-
penny in the pound, amidst the most tremendous uproar.
The resolution was seconded. A most disgraceful scene next
ensued, during which several chairs and other articles- were
broken in pieces. An amendment was passed to the effect
that the question should be considered by a committee, in
order that the sum might be raised by both parties, without
it being demanded as a rate. The amendment was carried,
but the parish will be polled on the subject. There were
about 1,200 persons present. _ _

For some time past a series of reports have been
circulated respecting certain changes that have recently taken
place in the Royal Household, and in anticipation of further
alterations which it is alleged are about to take place. It has
been studiously represented that the persons dismissed from
the Royal Household have been discharged without suffi-
cient reason, that the saving produced by their removal is to
be applied unfairly to purposes unconnected with the Royal
Household, and that the pensions to which these discharged
servants are entitled are not only of lower amount than
they ought to be, but that they are to be derived from a
fund which will increase the burdens of the people. These
reports have been circulated with so much industry andlap-
parent candour, that we regret to say we were in one instance
deceived by them. We have since ascertained that they are
all, without. exception, destitute of any foundation. Amongst
the number of attendants that it has been found necessary to
place upon the retired list, there are some whose conduct, so
far from entitling them to complain of the amount of pen-
sion awarded to them, has not entitled them to any retiring
allowance. There are others still retained in the Royal ser-
vice whose conduct has not been satisfactory, and from those
sources may be traced those misrepresentations which have
been forced into public notice.—Times.
SUDDEN DEATII OF AN ACTOR.—Mr. Edward
Dry, many years an established favourite at Sadler's Wells,
expired suddenly last night at his residence, No. 3, Boun-
dary-row, Black'friars-road. He was only
.33 years of age,
and greatly respected by a large circle of friends, During
the last few weeks he had been performing at the Britannia
Saloon, Hoxton, being thrown out of an engagement through
the sudden closing of Sadler's Wells Theatre, a short time
back. He ,has left a widowed mother, of whom he was the
chief support.