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

THE SUN, LONDON,

-- -IRELAND. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
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From the communications of our Irish correspondent . FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
in the Times of yesterday, there may be ground—whether GLOBE —The reported omission of sixty-three
conclusive or otherwise, as yet we know not—for suspecting, 1 names from the special jury panel, and the probable
that the old Irish demon of " had luck" has been busy, result upon the proceedings of this strange negli-
and somehow or other managed to "bewitch the milk." In
Igt once, or something worse, on the part of the func-
short, it is not merely that Mr. Pierce Mahony has sworn
another feli9 affidavit, in the hope once more to postpone the I.i aries whose duty it was to preserve the list
evil hour of-the trial, but that an oversight, and a grave one, is intact, was commented upon at some length in
said to have been committed by some subordinate functionary Yesterday's Globe. The discovery was alluded to
or other in his treatment of the special panel on its passage ,Ir y
•n the Dublin correspondents of every London
from the Sheriff to the Clerk of the Crown. The tale imports,the I
journal of yesterday, without respect to its political
that upwards of 60 names among those returned b
Recorder on revision had been omitted from the list befoyre its character. From the universal credence given to the
delivery to Mr. Kemmis. We hear it further stated, that of 'rumour, it was regarded as unquestionably true. The
'Dublin Monitor of Wednesday (received yesterday)
the names thus left out, the majority were Conservatives and
Protestants. Now, it is not for us to say how fa ran act of this ,also gave the report ; accompanied by a circumstantial
description, should it prove true, may serve to vitiate the panel,
explanation of the mode by which the missing sheets
or to retard the trial, if at all. Any possible motive of cor-
on or bad faith, in the subaltern officer at least, for the 'of names was accounted for. No contradiction
rbuentiefit of the Crown, seems to be completely negatived by is given of the report by this morning's ar-
the fact that the greater portion of the missing names rivals from Dublin, where the rumour still
were Conservative. Moreover, an air of something even prevailed. An application was to be made
beyond ridicule is flung over the entire history by a
yesterday by the prosecutors to the Court, that in
repeal newspaper, which stammers away about re-
corder Shaw and Sir Robert Peel having themselves tampered the events- of the trials not having terminated on
with the list, which was sent over to them at Tamworth ! pre- the 31st-ins,t.f;asach succeeding day, up to the 15th of
vious to its final arrangement. If the account even of the AprilOrd be considered as a continuation of
carelessness, however, be confirmed (we ask no more), what a Hilaitf serrn for the purposes of the said trials—a
picture does it hold out of the way in which Irish placemen,
discharge their duties, and of the manner in which an English course. determined on, it was generally supposed, on
Government is likely to be served ! On the other nand, 'the discovery of the omission, and to meet the exigen-
scarcely does a post come in from Dublin without fresh proofs, ;cies of the case. The Tinzes of this morning assumes
as if such were needed, of folly and ferocity in the partisans of
sug-
men appealing ostensibly to the laws of their country, which, Ithe truth of the facts as they have appeared, but
in the course of our long experience, we have never seen sur- b'n'ests that the omission of the 63 names will not
passed. There have on this occasion of the O'Connell trials i operate to vitiate the panel, . . .
or retard the trials.
been made—lst, an attempt on the part of the town clerk, so far 1 The Standard, more vigilant than discreet, employs
as in him lay, by withholding the corporation books, nothwith- its proverbial sophistry to raise doubts respecting the
standing notice to produce them, to suppress the evidence
whence it would appear that certain persons, magistrates and'examinationruth of the report. Having stated, from a careful
town-councillors, were disqualified by the 3d and 4th Victoria, ...k that the first name on the list is "John
, lley," and the last " John Yeates," it then infers
from acting as special jurors. The plain purpose of which was
to pack a jury, and to commit the p
it eace of the country to a that their can be no lost sheets containing 63 names ;
panel of fin ious Repeaters. For be known that Mr. Forde, " for there could not be 63 names before John Alley
who withheld the books, besides being town-clerk to the or after John Yeates." As a specimen of our Contem-
O'Connell corporation, is likewise attorney to the traversers ! porary's mode of settling, by assumption, a mattcr which
2d. A second attempt of the brawlers foi constitutional purity
is by this time placed beyond question by an official ad-
and liberty was, as we have already seen, to deter, by loud
mission or repudiation of the statement, the following
menaces, the Crown solicitors from discharging their own im-
perative duty, and from exercising the lawful and obvious extract from the Standard's article may suffice :- —" In
right of their clients, by striking out from the jury-list the order to meat the possible case, that the numbers were
names of men from whose known devotion to the traversers, an not prefixed to the names in the first instance, and
unfair acquittal might with all confidence have been expected. that they, in consequence, do not furnish complete
3d. The next attempt for the indirect destruction of trial by
proof of the integrity of the list, we have applied an-
jury was, by abusive publications and factious advertisements,
to insult and degrade the jurors remaining on the panel, daring other test. We have taken the last Dublin Directory
them to find a verdict of guilty in the teeth of an interdict list of the resident nobility, gentry, merchants, trus-
from a silly Alderman in the Town Council, importing that tees, &c., and having pretty accurately ascertained the
the " prosecutions ought to be dropped altogether by the
Crown !" 4th. The last attempt of which we have yet heard, number of names under each letter, have applied the
although it would be rash to calculate on what another day ratio of names in the Directory to the ratio of the
may bring forth, is to stir up some sham commotion in the names in the list, and find them to correspond with
country, by representing the decent, sober, and merely wonderful precision. We are thus confirmed in our
technical discharge of their duties by the officers of the opinion that there is nothing in the story of the
Crown, to be such a flagrant outrage upon the whole missing sheets." To this very ingenious mode of
Roman Catholic body, as calls at this hour of factitious .
excitement for an "aggregate meeting" of those millions mystifying a matter of fact, we might oppose—first,
thus industriously exasperated, to keep away the whole the high probability that if the statement were not
administration of criminal justice by bursts of clamour and true, it would beibre this have met with an au-
pageants of multitudinous force. Every rational being must thoritative contradiction; and, secondly, that—taking
construe such a course of flimsy, senseless, and utterly fruitless the Standard's own mode of disproving " the story
violence as an index not only of conscious wrong, but of un-
deniable apprehension for the result of this political and judicial of the missing sheets"—it is only to assume that
struggle. It is the tendency of power to be composed, of im- the two missing sheets consist of the first and last of the
potence to be fretful; and whilst all the world must admit that series, and the whole fabric of the Standard's inferen-
the Queen's Government has not erred on the side of eager- tial argument in disproof of the story falls to the
ness or anxiety for battle, the opposite party have with equal ground. The Court Circular of this morning con-
truth disgraced themselves by offensive arrogance while danger
tains an announcement which seems to strengthen the
was distant, and a shabby, sulky, and snappish querulousness,
as it approached a little nearer. Nothing could exhibit a more rumour respecting this "untoward event." Another
discreditable contrast that Mr. Daniel O'Connell's whole de- abinet Council (the third during this week) was
meanour before the Queen's Government showed signs of vi- held yesterday. The Council sat three hours. All
gilance with regard to him, and since the adoption of their he Ministers were present. Such frequent meetings
more animated and active policy. The first metamorphosis
wrought upon this grand incendiary was the work of the long e 1 era .10ns,
Lf.th,e Cabinet, and. such d l'la t• imply the
Queen's speech, wherein, according to the seaman's phrase, a existence of a dilemma which calls for combined
shot was fired "ahead of him." It was meant for a warning, counsel, and the necessity of providing means for meet-
but it had a more manifold operation. It did warn, to be ing difficulties which have arisen suddenly, and the
sure ; but it also irritated, provoked, frightened, and per-
plexed him. During the session, and while the Minister existence, of which were not anticipated. The ex-
seemed asleep, O'Connell's fierceness was not merely boiste- elusion of every. Catholic from the panel is, however,
rous—it was buoyant, impatient, and savage. Her aiajesty felt by the Times to be the pinching difficulty. That
' spoke, and the effect was instantaneous. Still he was equally extraordinary stretch of prerogative—involving at
laud and boisterous; but the swagger was more circumspect, once the determination, on the part of the Go-
the ill-temper more guarded, the defiance more vague, the vernment, to pack a jury, in order, if possible, to
growl more crippled. Such was the intermediate condition of obtain a verdict at any cost ; and this, though the in-
the disturber. Next came the proclamation, finally the prose-
suit and injury inflicted upon the religion of seven-
cution, and away at once went all of glorious war, even the
" pomp and circumstance." The fight was evidently out of eighths of the Irish population by the monstrous pro-
him. No more appeals to physical force, nor talk of tri- seeding should inflame the public mind in Ireland
uruphant millions—nor trumpet, summoning his retainers to to a pitch of irrepressible excitement. This reproach
this broad field and that fair mountain—whether the the Government—rail as its supporters may at those
recorded or the fabricated scenes of Celtic prowess—all sub-
The who denounce the ill-advised and indefensible act—
sided from royal riot into " the better part of valour."
collision of arms degenerated into that of chicane. Forme of cannot roll away. The blunderings which have oc-
turbulence, obsolete for many years, are now again resorted tn. curred in the course of the proceedings may
" Aggregate meetings"—an innoxious imbecility—are called be attributed to subordinates. The Times may
for; petitions are to be prepared—the prosecuting parties be- deplore " the way in which Irish placemen dis-
fore the Court are to be abused—national movements are to be
suspended, or rendered susceptible of no better than a paltry charge their duties," and
." the manner in which an
galvanic impulse. Hopes are insinuated that Government English Government is likely to be served." The
may relent ! and withdraw its no longer despicable charges ! instructions to strike every Roman Catholic name
To all this we answer—execute the laws. Surrender them— from the panel was, manifestly, the orders of the
and you, the Queen's Ministers, will be abandoned by them ; Government. The idea was conceived in the spirit
and we, the unoffending portion of the Queen's subjects, may
which would subjugate by intimidation a people
have to seek the protection of our lives and properties from the ,
heartless, ruthless, and finally futile bayonet. Therefore, and it lacks the generosity to propitiate by treating
to the last we say, for the sake of civil government, execute the them as fellow-citizens ; and is a practical exemplifi-
laws ; meet evil repert and good report—meet corrupt knavery, cation of the never-to-be-forgotten fulmination of the
and calumny, and falsehood—meet licentious incitement, by Lord
.s but does so in a wa which—if the writer
Chancellor Lyndhurst—" The Irish people are
even-handed justice. temperate, unflinching, and, when once ;1
victorious—merciful, if you will. We have condemned, as The Times endeavours to justify the pro-
unauthorised by equity and integrity, the gross assaults made ceeding ; y
upon the Crown and its officers for the strict performance of of the argument be not deemed insane, and there-
their unquestionable duty—with regard to the formation of the lore not answerable for his own acts, and whose acts
jury. It appears to us that setting aside the mischievous male- ought -not to be allowed to damage others—must be
volence of such conduct, nothing could be more glaring than its taken as demonstrative of the insecure tenure on
folly. Was it for the so-called representatives of the Irish
which Ireland is held by the British Crown under a
" Liberals" to hold out to mankind the whole body of the Roman
Catholic gentlemen as leagued and identified with O'Connell Tory Ministry.
and his accomplices in this conspiracy to overthrow the State ? STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle infers,
Was it for Mr. Pierce Mahony and Mr. Forde to tell the from the impunity hitherto indulged to Mr. Cobden
people of England—" Your Government in Ireland shall not and the Leaguers, that the Repeaters ought not to
be suffered to enjoy the acknowledged rights of plaintiff or pro-
he prosecuted. To this we reply, " Wait a while."
secutor in a court of justice against the enemies of the Imperial
Crown, if it should turn out that the individuals affected by Mr. Cobden and the Leaguers, whatever sums of
the exercise of such rights are members of the Church of money they may exhibit upon paper, whatever' con-
Rome ?" Is this the pretension of the Roman Catholic body, verts they may gain among the silliest of silly people
that individuals appertaining to it shall be allowed an exemption
,—" foolish lords,"— and they have succeeded in
from these restraints of law to which all Protestants are sub-
catching three of the £oftest heads in the
jected? Is that the equality so preached about by our libera-
tors—that while a Protestant repealer is quietly struck off the House of Lords—whatever the Leaguers may
panel, a Roman Catholic repealer shall be continued thereon, Fay or do, they are at present simply con-
on pain of a universal outcry? The clamour amounts to this temptible. Let the Leaguers remember that Mr.
acknowledgment, and no less—viz., that all Roman Catholics, O'Connell and his associates had their "day of
without exception, are to be considered as de facto conspirators
against the union ; that their religion is at once to absolve them race," a much longer day than the Leaguers have
from the consequences of all transgressions, both temporal and -et had ; that the Repeaters had " three warnings,"
eternal—to guard their persons in every conflict with human whereas the Leaguers have not yet had one. Let
law, and to confer on them a charter of impunity. Our justifi- them, then, not be jealous if the O'Connellites are
cation of this reasoning we do not scruple to state—namely, prosecuted and they are not ; all in good time. Let
that one and all of the individuals excluded in this instance by
the Leaguers, if they are really candidates for
peremptory challenge of the Crown were avowed and known
members of the Repeal conspiracy; against the collective martyrdom, speak out as 'plainly as Mr. O'Con-
words and deeds of which conspiracy the State prosecution has nell spoke at Mallow, Clifden, Tara, and our own
been directed. Dispute this, and legal government is brought ever memorable " Mullaghmast of the Martyrs ;"
to a speedy end. We may just add, that, from the most above all, let them organise military processions,
recent proceedings of the town council, the speech of the late
and meetings of ten; of thousands to threaten
Lord Mayor, and his proposed petition for an act of amnesty to
the public peace. But no ; the last they neither can
the firebrands of the Corn Exchange, appear to have had some-
more of trickery and somewhat less of gratuitous childish- nor will do ; cannot, because even hundreds will not
ness than we at first suspected. The simple-souled alderman assemble, unlared, at their call; and if they were to
appears to have hatched a plot for purloining an act of grace take part in any very public procession, according to
to the Repeaters, that they might the more easily, as a return late experience, it would be a procession in their
for the Royal mercy, carry on their seditious manoeuvres un-
molested.— Times. favour to some shallow horse-pond. At present the
League is merely an object of disgust and
contempt to the country, and it hourly be-
comes more loathsome and contemptible ; but the
rule is " De minimis non curat lex," and they who are
appointed to put the law in motion, only upon proper
occasions, act wisely and constitutionally in winking
at petty follies, and even at crimes that are only-
ridiculous. Perhaps the time may come when the
League will be properly prosecuted as a swindling
conspiracy—but we confidently predict that it will
never be worthy of a State prosecution in any other
aspect. "The Government unable to enter the
Ests against the repealer of the corn-laws ! "
In what county of England could such a pro-
position be gravely maintained without provoking a
burst of laughter ? Let the League dispose of Mr.
Ferrand, who alone is more than a match for them,
and even then they will have enough to do, before they
can be in a condition to challenge the Government.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JAN. 12.—There '
has been a very evident improvement in the demand
for foreign wools during the past week, and a firmer
tone has in consequence been given to prices.
ENGLISH WOOL. MARKET, LEEDS, JAN. 12.—Sales
of combing wools are readily effected, and prices con-
tinue gradually to advance. Clothing wools are firm
but do not yield higher prices.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JAN. 12.—We have
to report a gradual and steady improvement in the
demand for all descriptions of combing wools, and, as
the market continues to be very barely supplied, the
advance demanded last week is now fully obtained.
No movement in short wools.
LEEDS.—There has been a fair quantity of goods
sold at our Cloth Halls this week, considering the
time of the year. The principal articles in demand
have been plain and fancy Tweeds, And low cloths
for export, but fine and middle cloths still continue in
very little - demand. Prices continue unaltered, al-
though wool is higher. There are, however, no very
heavy stocks, and if there should be a very moderate
demand in the spring, an advance in price must take
place. A few houses are busy in the export trade,
but in the warehouses generally there is little doing.
BRADFORD ' MARKET, JAN. 11.—There is a dis-
position.on the part of the merchants' to lay in stocks
of pieces, seeing that goods are far. below the price 'of
the raw material, and the manxfacturers refuse to
sell except at advanced prices ; knowing that the
further increased cost in the production, by the
late advances in yarns, will not enable them to
meet the buyers. Scarcely as much business was
done as last week. The recently advanced prices for
wool have caused the spinners to act with great
caution, for many have old contracts at prices very
disproportionate to the raw material ; and what sales
are now made are chiefly for the home and Delaine
trade, the prices of last week being generally realised.
There continues to be a full average business doing in
all kinds of combing wools, and the rates of last week
are fully maintained. Noils and Brokes are more
inquired after; the stock being low, higher prices are
acceded to. .
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
rather less animation in our cloth market this week
than of late, but this circumstance does not appear to
affect the firmness in the market, as stocks are uni-
versally low. Most parties (sellers) seem anxious
to wait • - the arrival of another Indian inail
before they enter into fresh arrangements, which
they might do at old prices. It is probable that the
temporary and comparative stagnation of trade in China
will continue a short time, so that it will require a
few weeks to test the reality of the present firmness.
The velvet trade is brisk, and likely to continue so.
The silk trade is not so healthy as could be wished :
some weavers are out of work, and a few limited as
to the quantity produced. Twist is without any de-
cided change; the change, however, if any, is favour-
able, and prices rather firmer.
BARNSLEY.--The - linen trade continues steady
%Uhl:nigh the improvement is not so great as it is in
many other branches of trade, yet the prospects for
tie present year are encouraging.—Leeds Mercury.

TIMES.—The Greek Kalends have arrived. The
day which the most sanguine never hoped to see—
the day the indefinite remoteness of which rendered
it an almost impossible unit of time—has dawned
upon the inhabitants of St. Stephen and St. Benet
Sherehog. Alderman Gibbs has published his ac-
counts; and when the world has recovered from its first
surprise at this announcement, it will be prepared to
hear the startling news that the vestry has audited
them and passed them. There is—according to the
most celebrated metaphysicians—a feeling of pleasure
produced by astonishment. Whether it be that the
excitement caused by an unexpected event acts upon
the system by stimulating the languid circulation of
the blood, and dispelling the heaviness which a
monotony of occupation causes to weigh upon the
human frame, we cannot undertake to say; but we
believe it to be an admitted fact that the sensation
of pleasure invariably results from the excitement
of surprise. If so, what happy fellows the inha-
bitants of St. Stephen, IValbrook, and St. Benet
Sherehog, must be ! For it has been their plea-
surable diversion to ascertain not only that Alderman
Gibbs has given an account of his official receipts and
expenditure, but also that the vestry has audited
them ; and not only this, but that the Alderman
makes out the parish to be his debtor to the tune of
eighteen hundred and two pounds three shillings and
sixpence; and, more than all else, that the auditors of
the vestry have authorised the aforesaid balance to be
paid over to their calumniated and dilatory creditor.
One thing is clear—either that the Alderman is
one man picked out of ten thousand, of admirable
self-denial, exalted contempt of gain, and un-
bounded generosity, or else—but we will not state
the alternative. But there in another thing which
is equally clear, viz., that to men - of less self-
denial and less virtue than the Alderman, this
system of giving 18 years' tick for parish disburse-
ments presents innumerable opportunities for some-
thing very like fraud. Only fancy a private gentle-
man authorising his steward to receive his rents and
pay away money without ever asking, or, if he did
ask, without enforcing, an account of the respective
receipts and expenditure ; and this indifferent manage-
ment to be continued, not for one, or two, or three,
but for nearly twenty years. Qr, imagine the
trustees of a charity appointing a secretary to col-
lect subscriptions and to lay them out for certain
definite objects, and yet never extracting information
as to the mode of expending the money until twenty
years had elapsed. Would not such wean be thought

The Rev. Dr. David Ritchie, for many years
minister of St. Andrew's Church, and Professor of Logic
in the University of Edinburgh, died on Wednesday at
an advanced age. lie had long been in Ind health.

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