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London, England, 1844-02-23 00:00:00

ikriA Foster was examined in reference to the visit of Miss

Arnold to Reading.
Sea House. I have held that situation four years: I know
Mi. Fraser; he visited in my family. Therd-was a lady
named. Simmons in ray house; an intimacy was formed be-
tween her and ray son. I heard of the result of that inti-
macy. I paid the expenses attending her confinement.
Dr. ..kshwell was again recalled, and proved that Miss
Arnold possessed the best test to indicate virginity.
Ou cross-examination, he said that married women, and
even women who had children, sometimes possessed it ; but,
those cases, there was always some disease or mal-
formation.
• Mr. Duncombe, an attorney, examined—l have known
Mr. Fraser for about twenty years. I had communications
with him respecting his wife in October, 1843. There were

some inquiries —instituted at thitt time. They
were not satisfactory in their result. I had some-
thing to do with regard to the debt due to Mr.
Cockburn. What he heard respecting Mrs. Fraser's inti-
macv with Mr. Bagley, together with the debt due to Mr.
Cockburn, kept him in England. None of the money he got to
take him to India, from Mrs. Fraser, had gone to maintain
this action. I have supplied the funds, and am responsible
for them.

Cross-examined by Mr. CiumßEns—l have had bill trans-
actions to a large amount with Mr. Fraser. I have been a
bankrupt. I was discharged last year.
The evidence on both sides having closed,
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the jury on the part of the de-
fendant in reference to the new evieAence produced on the part
of the plaintiff The Learned. Gentleman dwelt briefly on
the evidence of Dr. Ashwe2l, which he said amounted only
to a strong conviction on his part. He remarked
on the want of propriety, in not putting the mother of Miss
Arnold in the box, and in not calling the physician who was
called in t 9• see Miss Arnold, when she was in hysterics.
He then commented in strong language on the evi-
dence of young Arnold, who said that he was the
fatho: of the child which Miss Simmons had.
But, there was nothing to account for Mr. Fraser's paying a
large sum of money, for his instruction in singing, to Mr.
Bennet. The Learned Gentleman then commented on the
evidence of Miss Arnold herself, and concluded by call-
ing on the jury not to give any damages to a man
who asked for them at their hands, because the peace of his
family was destroyed while he committed such outrages upon
society himself.

Mr..TnEsIGEn then replied in a powerful and able speech.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, and the jury re-
turned a verdict for the defendant at ten o'clock last night.

LORD W%[. PAGET V. THE EARL GP CARDIGAN.

At the sitting of the Court,
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD said he was instructed to apply to
his Lordship to name a day for the trial of an action brought
by Lord Win. Paget v. the Earl of Cardigan. His Learned
friend Sir Thomas Wilde was with him (Sergeant Talfourd)
as counsel for the plaintiff. The Solicitor-General was
counsel for Lord Cardigan; now if it was the pleasure of the
Court, Tuesday next would be a convenient day to both his
Learned Friends.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said he had no objection to take
the case on Tuesday next, if the other causes which stood
on the paper before it were disposed of by that time ; but he
could nut pass over other cases.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Anti-Corn-law League held its usual
weekly meeting last evening. It was truly a " monster"
meeting. Every part of the immense building was
crowded. There could not be less—packed as the assem-
bly was—than six thousand persons present. These li
were principally of the class of society to which the
term " respectable " is conventionally applied ; but
who would be more properly designated as the middle
(to distinguish them from the labouring) classes. The
dress circle, the private boxes, and the stage were ap-
pria.ed to a. yet higher class, among.whom were persons
of considerable rank and station. The issue of tickets
had been restricted, and every effort was employed by
the Committee to prevent confusion. To a very con-
siderable extent, the preliminary regulations, and
the arrangements within the house, were success-
ful ; and, with one or two trifling interruptions from
personal altercations between parties who were incon-
venienced by the pressure at the pit entrance, the pro-
ceedings of the evening were conducted with order,
only interrupted by the enthusiastic cheering within,
and by crowds without, the theatre. For intensity and
duration, this far surpassed any demonstration (and we
have been present at many exciting scenes) we ever
witnessed. The newly-formed " League for the Pro-
tection -of Agriculture," and the proceedings that
marked its formation, supplied the speakers with topics,
which they employed:- with considerable effect upon
the risible faculties, of the meeting. Mr. Daniel
O'Connell's announced intention of being present
had contributed to heighten the interest, which
the weekly meetings of the League had hitherto kept
alive, to the excitement we have described. He also
applied his 'peculiarly caustic sarcasm to the proceed-
ings of this new, agitation; and slily alluded to the pro-
secution against himself and his coadjutors in Ireland,
as having rendered the Duke of Richmond and the
Duke of Buckingham fearful of coming, as conspira-
tors, within the clutches of the Attorney-General.
Passing from the incidental to the immediate business
of the night, we cannot withhold the high gratification
with which Mr. James Wilson's speech was evidently
listened to—a speech which was delivered under the
manifest disadvantage of the meeting being kept on the
qui vive by the expected entrance of Mr. 0 Connell,
and the occasional intimations of his approach. As an ,
exposition of the impohcy of commercial restrictions,
and the mischiefs it has wrought in this and other
countries, it was most able and convincing, and de-
serves the widest circulation, as a vindication of the
efforts now employed to impress the Legislature, through
the medium of public opinion, with a conviction of the
necessity of adopting a wiser policy in its enactments
respecting commerce than that by which it has hitherto
been governed. We have taken occasion to allude to the
enthusiastic reception of Mr. O'Connell by this immense
assemblage. We regard it as one of those " signs of
the times" which no Government can safely treat with
indifference. The prosecution of O'Connell and his
co-agitators has produced an effect on the public
mind, even in this country, most unfortunate for the
Ministry ; and this feeling is spreading. O'Connell,
whose influence was subsiding, has been exalted into
a hero. If subjected to personal infliction, he will be
more formidable in his prison than when presiding in
his Conciliation Hall, or addressing his monster meet-
ing on the plain of Tara. There he was a " ditii-
catty" to a Government, disliked by the great bulk of
the Irish nation. He might have been neutralised by '
Ministers; and would have been so, had they adopted
a- mild and generous policy toward the people, over
whom he exercised an influence which had waxed
or waned according as the Ministry of the day
coerced, or conciliated, by its system of government.
• At the close of one of those enthusiastic bursts
of cheering with which O'Connell was last night
greeted, he said—and who will venture to doubt the
correctness of the anticipation ?—" The sound of that
shout will not die within these walls ; it will be carried
throughout your metropolis ; it will be conveyed on the
eastern winds to Ireland—it will be heard to re-echo
soon on the banks of the Shannon, the :Sore, the Suir,
, and the Barrow."
STANDARD.—The adjourned debate was last night
continued by a single speech ; but that speech possesses
an interest greater than belongs to all the speeches that
went before it, and all that are ikely to follow it. It was
the speech of the Attorney-General for Ireland—the de-
fence of a man who had been for six consecutive nights
in the House of Commons, and for twice as
many weeks out of doors, the object of incessant attack
from open enemies, and of insidious blows from pre-
tended friends, as unjust as they were malignant. Great
interest naturally attached to such a defence, even before
the speaker had opened his lips ; but we do not hesitate
to say that the Right Hon. Gentleman had spoken but
a very few sentences before the generous sympathy with
the persecuted man was wholly lost in admiration of the
great lawyer and orator, and astonished at the power
with which he crushed all his opponents, and vindicated
the cause of truth and justice. In Ireland it is
pretended that Mr. Smith is not an eloquent speaker,
and some chattering fribbles in this country
talk of his failing in the House of Commons, but
read his speech of last night—mark its perfect unity
as a demonstration, the irresistible sequence of each in-
ference, the lucid order in which these inferences pro-
ceed to an inevitable conclusion, and the animation and
vigour which pervade the whole, and then say whe-
ther such a speech would not be thought eloquent in
Greece in her best age—whether it does not rank
with the best English models ? It is not " Irish
eloquence " quite the opposite—but that is indeed
high praise. It is an inadequate acknowledgment to
say, that by his speech last night Mr. Smith has won
the very first place among the professional orators
in the House of Commons. That it overturned the
whole case attempted to be raised against him, and
overturned it without effort, can be easily under-
stood. The case was one which any infant's hand might
crush; but it Was not with infantine force—it was with
the strength of an Afrite—that the Attorney-General
for Ireland rolled back their accusations upon his ac-
cusers. The expression of indignant scorn with which
he vindicated his own honesty, and the honesty of
the Irish bar, in reply to the imputation of
Sir Thomas Wilde, has probably never been
• excelled ' • and an inferior matter, his contrast
of Sir Thomas's own precedents to Sir Thomas's
late exposition of the law, was as ludicrously effective
as the vindication was terrible. We say so much of the
qualities of the Attorney-General's speech to invite
those who read for amusement only, and who would,
perhaps, be deprived of the high gratification of reading
this splendid argument by the terror of a long speech
upon a threadbare subject from one hitherto known
only as a consummate lawyer.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVSNDTG.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 44 • and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 57i, it follows
that gold is 0.54 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advicee from llamburgh, the price of gold is 433 per
'nark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per
ounce for standard: gold, gives an exchange] of 13 9 ; and
the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10,
it follows that gold is 0.46 par cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 1091
per eent. ; and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 2.3-40 per cent., it follows that the ex.
change is 0.33 per cent, against England ; but the quoted ex-
change at New York being for bills at sixty days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the above difference.

SHOREHAM.—We were informed shortly before
going to press that the Rev. Mr. Wheeler, the clergyman of
New Shorekam, had refused to allow the corpse of a woman,
the wife of a mariner named Webb, to be taken into church
when brought for interment on Monday, because she was a
Dissenter ; and the husband not choosing to dispense with
the service which the minister with characteristic charity
withheld, had the corpse taken home, and it has since been
conveyed to Rottingdean for interment. This week, too, at
Old Shoreham (same minister), the church service was
denied to the remains of Joseph Tilstone. This much-
boasted charitable Church is persecuting them to the very
last.—Brighton Guardian.

JUSTICE TO IRELAND;
At a MEETING held at Cleveland-row, Monday, Veb.
-nary 19, 1844,

Resolved—

That the conduct of ,the present Government towards Ireland, in
its general policy, and particularly in connection with the late trial
of Daniel O'Connell and his fellow-traversers, deserves and demands
the most severe reprobation.
That equal laws- and equal privileges—freedom of discussion—meet-
ing together to proclaim grievances—agitation by peaceable and legal
means—and fair trial by jury—are the birthrights of every subject of
the United Kingdom.
That the powers brought to bear against these rights in Ireland,
although directed against Mr. O'Connell, are equally adverse to the
rights of Englishmen.
That, in order to show the sympathy of Englishmen with Irish-
men, and the admiration. entertained in this country for the constant
and consistent advocate of the rights and privileges of Irishmen
during the last forty years, a public dinner be given to Daniel
O'Connell, Esq., M.P.
That Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., M.P.., be requested to
preside on the occasion.
JAMES COPPOCK, Hon. Secretary.

E'ER MAJENYIB'S THEATRE,

The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season
is respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public.