The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

to crush the, znin who gained Catholic ,emancipation.
He went minutelyinto all the circumstances of the re-
vision and preparation of the list, which had been
denounced as an " atrocious fraud." He trusted that
the solicitor for the Crown would 'be made accountable
for his conduct—as accountable as the Attorney-General,
being a Minister of the Crown, was for his.
Mr. SHELL, M.P., was most warmly received, and,
when the cheering had subsided, he said it wits not his
intention to say more than a very few words upon this
occasion, because, ere long, he should have the oppor-
tunity of adverting, in the House of Commons, to the
very conspicuous incidents that had taken place in re-
ference to the pending trials.—(Cheers.) As he should
have that opportunity of meeting his antagonists face to
face, he should prefer reserving for that occasion the
expression of his feeling—of his indignant feeling—
(Cheers)—which these incidents had produced. It was
to him a source of very great pride —of nothing had he
ever been prouder in all his life—than that he had, been,
the first person who had signed his name to the requi-
sition that bad called them together.—(Cheers.) lie
saw that the time had come for making a great popular
demonstration of their feeling, and a demonstration of
their feeling was also a demonstration of their power.—
(Cheers.) The nation was now roused—(Hear, hear)—
and roused in a just cause ; the facts were with them ;
and his advice was this—to present a memorial
to the Queen, and a petition to both Houses of Parlia-
ment, setting forth these facts with clearness and with
method, and without exaggeration.—(Cheers.) Exag-
geration might be resorted to in a weak and imperkct
case ; but here the truths they would have to press on
the attention of her Majesty and both Houses of Parlia-
ment were of such a character that he would venture to
reiterate to them his strong advice, and he would add his
strenuous entreaty to confine themselves to a statement
of the facts of the case which had been so perspicuously
stated by the Town Clerk of the city of I)ublin. It had
been ascertained that individual Roman Catholics, who
were not members of the Repeal Association,, nor sub-
scribed to its funds, were struck off the jury list. Let
that go forth as an ascertained fact. The Times itself;
which was strongly opposed to what was called the repeal
agitation, had admitted that if a considerable portion (sf
the jury list had been suppressed, it was a 'case that de-
served most serious consideration. That was one fact.
There was another fact: it was this. Yesterday, in open
Court, Mr. Justice Perrin, at the conclusion of the
motion, whilst he declared that he concurred with the
rest of his brethren in thinking that, upon legal ground ,
the Recorder should not be called on to amend, by
mandamus, the writ, added that circumstances hat been
disclosed which were calculated to awaken deep sus-
picion.—(Sensation.) He (Mr. Sheil) announced the
fact, that it might get publicity. A judge of the land—
unimpeached and unimpeachable—a man whose purity
of mind corresponded with his talents and erudition—
whoeombined great weight of character with the purity
of judicial authority, from her Majesty's Court of
Queen's Bench announced—made proclamation—that
there were grounds for suspicion in those transactions.
Let them put that fact in their petition to the
Throne. The Right Hon. Gentleman having read the
resolution, which was to the effect that sixty-three
names of j urors, including a large proportion of Roman
Catholics and liberal Protestants having been struck out,
offered grounds for more than suspicion that foul dealing
had been practised, and that it called loud for Parlia-
mentary investigation, went on to address the meet-
ing; and adverting to the statement of Sir Robert Peal,
that his chief difficulty was Ireland, said Ireland he will
find to be his insuperable impossibility. Sir Robert
Peel is embarrassed by seven millions—he is embarrassed
by the energy, the fearlessness, and indomitable spirit of
your leader, Daniel O'Connell.—(Tremendous cheers,
amidst which a cry of " Richard's himself again !")
Mr. MAILER (late M.P. for Wexford) seconded the
resolution.

The meeting was then addressed by Mr. STEELE, and
the resolution moved by Mr. Shell was then carried
unanimously.
Mr. REDINGTON moved the next resolution, in a brief
address, in which he said that the Government had at-
tempted in Ireland what they would not have dared to
attempt in Canada, and which they would find they
could not attempt here with impunity. He then moved
"That a petition be presented to the Queen, praying that
her Majesty would be graciously pleased to direct her
attention to the conduct of the Irish Government with
respect to the State Prosecutions in the circumstances
mentioned in the preceding resolution."
Mr. V. O'KELLir seconded it, and it was carried unani-
mously.
Mr. MACGILL, one of the deputation from the Catholics
of Belfast, then proposed a resolution for a petition to
both Houses of Parliament, praying fur an inquiry into
the same circumstances.
It was seconded by Mr. JOYCE G alway), and carried.
Mr. O'Corixi-.m. then came forward, and was received
with an enthusiasm almost overwhelming.—He said some
worthy friends had told him that he had no business to
attend this meeting ; others said that a meeting of Ca-
tholies without him, would be the play of Hamlet with
the part of Hamlet omitted by particular desire.—
(Cheers.) But without listening to either one or the
other, he had thought his business to-day was hei e,
wherever it might be on Monday. He was one of those
who had gained Catholic Emancipation for Ireland, and
he did not like to have his job spoiled.—(Laughter.) As
far as lie was himself concerned, the Emancipation Act
had been repealed.—(Cheers.) The whole Catholic body
of Ireland had been insulted by the Government. The,
Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to remark with strong
feelings upon the recent step taken by the Crown, but, as
the mails were made up soon after he commenced his ad-
dress, we cannot give them.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—It is many years since
there has been so brilliant a season at this establishment
as the present one ; and such is the attraction of The
Bohemian Girl and the new pantomime of Harlequin
King Pepin, that every prospect presents itself of its con-
tinuation. Benedict 's opera, already in a forward state
of preparation, has been retarded, and Charles Kean,
who was to have appeared on the Bth inst., does not
make his appearance until the 22d. The receipts have
realized, we are gives to undErstand, upwards of 2,0001.,

a-week.
ASTLET'S THEATRE.—This elegant theatre has
been crowded, night after night, during the representa-
tion of the Christmas pieces, and the spirited proprietor
has yielded to the earnest entreaties of his patrons and
friends, and announced his intention of keeping it open
for six nights longer. Our holiday friends will feel highly
delighted with this arrangement ; for the fun and amus-
ing representations are so very ludicrous as to draw forth
the loudest demonstrations of merriment and applause.
The subject of the pantomime is taken from Burns'
celebrated productioa " Tam O'Shanter," of which we
gave a full account at its first production. The enter-
tainments conclude with the Scenes in the Circle, the
performances of Mons. Plege, and the Victories of Murat,
of which we have before expressed a favourab!e opinion.
The bill of fare is highly attractive.
THE Ross-SHIRE RIOTS.—fn the High Court of
Justiciary, held at Edinburgh on Wednesday and
Thursday, several of the parties implicated in the Ross-
shire Church riots were tried. Some of them were
convicted on evidence, and others pleaded guilty. The
principal offender, Urquhart, was sentenced to nine
months' hay risonment, and the others to six months.
ST. ANDREW'S.—SIR DAVID BREWSTER.— On
Wednesday week, the Committee
appointed by the
Presbytery for arranging the case of Sir David
Brewster, met in the session-house of the Town
Church, to order the serving of the libel agreed
to, against Sir David, at last meeting of Presbytery.
On the officers arriving at the mansion of the
Principal, it appeared
that the gentleman had or-
dered his domestics not to receive any papers coming
from the quarter from which the officers alleged they
had proceeded. The officers accordingly threw the do-
cuments into the mansion of the Hanoverian Knight, and
took witnesses that they had duly served it at his dwell-
ing-house.—Fife Journal.
WooLwicn JAN. 11.—Letters have been received
here by-the mail which arrived on Tuesday from Bermuda con-
veying the intelligence of the entire subsidence of the medi-
e fevvr
there, and of the return to Halifax, Nova Scotia, of
cal officers end gentlemen who had kindly tendered their pro-
fessional services and attentions to the sick and dying during
the recent fatal epidemic. Until this information had been
furnished, no, more troops were to be sent to that region ; but
now that the group of islands has been declared to be free of
the fever, reinforcements will shortly be sent out to fill up the
deficiencies occasioned by tbe,ntortality of the disease. The
widows and orphans of the non-commissioned officers and men
of the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and 'Miners, arrived
at Southampton, in the Clyde mail-steamer, and reached
Woolwich yesterday evening in a waggon. There are nine
women and about forty children of the two companies of there
two corps at Bermuda thus thrown on the world, without pro-
tection and support. The sight was a very melancholy one,
and excited the deepest sympathy. It is consolatory to know
that the Royal Sappers and Miners, in consideration of the
deep distress to which the widows and orphans of those who
served in their corps, have been educed, have entered into a
sub'cription for their relief, and,r
being aided by their officers,
belonging to the Royal Engineers, the contribution, which is
still increasing, already amounts to a sum which refints the
highest credit on their liberality-
THE KE-KO-KA-RI, A NEW DOMESTIC ANIMAL.
—M. Audubon, in a letter of the 20th of June last,
writtendegr
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tenl o
communicates the " disco-
very of an animal which bids fair to become not
mmiinluestes above
N., communicates Port Union, in latitude 49
only a valuable but a domestic one." He had taken re-
fuge in a wood during a storm,, and saw two enormous
beasts at play, somewhat resembling kangaroos. A com-
panion shot one of them; the other fled. " The buffalo or
mountain elk," says M. Audubon, " is nothing in com-
parison to this animal in the scale of worth. It sits on
its hind legs, its front legs or arms are short, but
armed with sharp claws, and it bounds or jumps with
its hind legs. It has a tail, somewhat like that of a
sheep, about 10 inches long ; and round the middle of the
body it has a ring of flesh, about 12 inches wide and eight
thick in the middle or centre, which produces a large
quantity of oil. On their heads they have ti, o
horns very similar to the horns of the deer, but no
more than eighteen inches long; the head is also shaped
Tory like that of the deer, and has the same kind of
teeth ; but what is most remarkable, their coat is of the
most beautiful fur I ever beheld, of a dark brown colour.
The one we killed weighed, to the best of our calcula-
tions, upwards of 600 lbs., and it measured from the top
of the head to the end of the tail, nine feet-four inches.
We had no sooner killed this one, than some Indians
joined us ; they said that in these woodlands similar
animals were in great abundance. They called it in
their tongue the ke-ko-kaki, or jumper ; they feed on
grass, herbs, and foliage. Upon observing us take off
the skin, the Indians expressed a desire to have some of
the flesh, which we gave them. We cooked some, and
found it delicious ; it was white and tender, and tasted
very similar to veal ; but the ring on the body was
nearly all oil, and the whole upper part will produce a
great quantity. The "Indiana took us to their huts, or
linage, which consisted of six families ; therewe saw no
less than six of these animals domesticated. Two young
ones, male and female, I bought for some beads."—
Mirror.