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rnE SUN, LONDON; _THURSDAY EVEN!

could be aware of.—(Hear, hear.) They owed many of
the subscriptions which they had received to the
fact of the capital having thrown aside every paltry
feeling of party, and returned to the Imperial Legisla-
ture the friend of freedom and of the poor man. They
meant to teach the constituencies to look, in their votes,
not to whether the candidate was Tory, Whig, or
Radical, not to whether he was a monopolist or free
trader. They would appoint canvassers to ascertain the
sentiments upon the subject of every Honourable
Member, and they would get up a requisition requesting
each of them to vote in favour of Mr. Villiers'
motion. According as they ascertained, by the answer
of each Hon. Member, his opinion, they would record
that opinion, and having learned by their canvassers the
state of feeling in the district which he represented,
they would, at the time of election, know where they were
strong and where they were weak, and accordingly under-
stand wh ere they were to concentrate their efforts.—(Hear,
hear,) They meant to contest every borough where a
vacancy might occur.—(Cheers.) It was said that the
Anti-Corn-law League was an unconstitutional, a re-
volutionary, and a dangerous body. They were dan-
gerous to nothing but monopoly—they revolutionised
nothing but ignorance. Their whole power was in their
power to spread knowledge, and in their resolution
never to rest till the people had been taught what it was
their real interest to know.—(Cheers.) They did not
seek by an enormous array of numbers to intimidate.
He repeated they meant to contest every
borough, whether their chance were good or
bad. If it were as bad as Devizes, they
would contest it. By unfurling the banner of free trade
they would give strength to those who were with them,
and he would never be the man to say that any place,
even Devizes itself, was hopeless for the free trade on
some future occasion.—(Hear, hear.) But the greatest
work of all which they had to do was to put down
that old monster which had defrauded the people, not
only of their bread, but of their power to do right—
bribery at elections.—(Hear, hear.) That had been
the great difficulty in the way of all advancement.—
(Hear, hear.) Men did not come before the public to
express their opinions fairly. Efforts were made to
tempt the needy, to influence the doubtful, to cor-
rupt all. The parties who made them had no
wish that knowledge should be the power of this
country. They had no wish to enlighten men ; but they
desired to buy the untaught, to corrupt the poor, and
to degrade all. Against that degradation of the people,
against that purchasing of votes, against that buying
of men, and selling of the rights of industry,
the League had pledged itself to devote its
most powerful energies.—(Cheers.) The matter was
not one of mere declamation. The League left it to
the judges of the country to put down bribery. They
offered, in every place where a contest arose, a reward
of a hundred pounds to every one who would give
such information as might lead to the detec-
tion of any party who had given, offered,
or taken a bribe. The punishment by law for that mis-
demeanour was an imprisonment of two years at the
treadmill.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was hard to
get such evidence as would prosecute men to conviction;
but they put down wholesale bribery; they made it dis-
graceful; they put respectable men out of the list of
bribers ; they made it a thing hard to do. The
men who bribed knew well that those who were corrupt
enough to take a bribe might go a step further, ar.d try
and get the reward of 100/.--Hear, hear, and cheers.)
He had now told them their practical plan to carry out
their object. The only power which they relied upon
was the power, through the funds committed to their
charge, to teach the people. It would be a. glorious day
for England when her people, being un!ettered from
monopoly, put forth all their strength and all their skill;
and, when armies of industry should be the power with
which they made the world their own—not conquering
it by battle, but exercising its power to give them every
comfort, every luxury which it could produce, conquer-
ing all its barrenness, all its waste, all its idleness,
and making all nations their own, because their skill was
the greatest—because their power to produce was the
greatest power of production in the world. 0! it would
be a glorious day for England when every ship left her
port with a white flag flying at the mast-head, a golden
wheatsheaf upon it, and the words "Free-trade with all
the world" visibly displayed.—(Loud cheers.)
Three cheers were then given for " Justice to Eng-
land and Ireland," after which the vast assembly was
dissolved.

KICKING ta. A DUST !—Whether this adage derives
its origin from all London going to Epsom on the Derby
day, or from a brisk gale on the Holyhead-road at noon-
day in July, we cannot say; but out ofdoors or in doors there
never was such a dust kicked up as that at Covent-
garden Theatre last night. Verily, such was the vehe-
mence with which the dense mass in the pit kicked and
stamped, that the dust rose up to the ceiling of the house,
and, after hovering in clouds for some minutes, slowly
descended, but the bursts of cheers sent it in eddying
currents over boxes, stage, slips, and galleries, while
the heads of those in the pit were actually powdered
with their own dust I

JUSTICE TO IRELAND;
At a MEETING held at Cleveland-row, Monday, Feb.
-uary 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 peaeeable 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 Blingsby Duncombe, Esq., M.P., be requested to
preside on the occasion.

JAMES COPPOCIC, lion. Secretary.

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fir E R MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SEASON 1844.
The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season
is respectfully prtttnted to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public.

ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.
Madame Grist, Madlle. M. FaTemti (her first appearance at this
Theatre), Madame Bellinl, Madame Dal Fiori, and Madame Persian!.
Signor Mario, Sig. Correlll (his first appearance at this Theatre),
fig. Dal Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), gig.
Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablachs.
Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa.

tin 0.1.4.4 •
Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madllo. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di
Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy
Stephan ; Madllo. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Pi:menet,
Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle.
Fanny Elsaler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. 3fouteatali (his
first appearance in this country), M. Conlon, M. Goaselin, M.
Gouriet, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous
and efficient Corps de Ballet.
Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Taglioni, and there is.
every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se-
cured for a limited number of representations.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 22,
Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, sated THE
BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnhetm, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Raintorth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts. After which,
Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY
OF CiHEN Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benedict, M.
Hoguet Vestris ; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara
Webster; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan.
Dress Boxes 71., Second Price Si. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.,
Second Price 35.; Pit Ss , Second Price gs.; Middle Gallery 25.,
Second Price IL ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price OLL

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIRN'S CONCERTS
THIS EVENING, February 22, THE CONCERT will be
for the BENEFIT of HEitR KCENIG. when he will have the
honour to perform a New Solo, entitled " The Storm." M.
Deloffre, who has just arrived from Paris, will make his First Ap.
/3,2 arance this Season, and play a Solo on the Violin. Beethoven's
celebrated Septette, and the Destruction of Pompeii, will also be
performed.
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I.

Overture, Leonora—Beethoven.
Quadrille, the Buffo Quadrille on Mr. John Parry's celebrated
Comic Songs, arranged by M. Jullien.
Beethoven's Septette for Violin, Tenor, Violoncello, Double Bass,
Clarionet, Horn, and Bassoon, performed on Twelve Violins, Six
Tenors, Four Violoncellos, Feur Double Basses, Two Clarionets,
Two Horns, and Two Bassoons.
Valse, Bird of Paradise, received with the greatest favour at the
Nobility's Balls—Koenig.
Sinfonia in C Minor, The Andante, Allegro, and Finale--Beethoven.
Solo, Cornet -a-pistons, Herr K.cenig, The Storm (First rime}- Roth

Albert. -
The Destruction of Pompeii—Rock Albert.
PART 11.
Opera, Robert le Diable, Grand Fantasia, with Solos —Meyerbeer.
New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes—Jullien.
Solo, Violin, Celottle (Fitot 'time)—Deloffre.
New Valse, Die Victorian Waltz, r (First Time)—Kcenig.
Die English Quadrille--Jullien.
Doors Open at Hall-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock.
Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. dd. ; Private
Boxes, U. is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the
Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, Now
Bond-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's
-street; and M. Jullien's Office,
bladdox.street, Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MU. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 2-2,
will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE
MILL. 'Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine,
Madame Vestris.
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED LIP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus
Leech, Mr lllbury ; %Vurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs Humby.
To conclude with a New hairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymose, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Miss Julia Bennett.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 95.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Half.price—Boxes, 3s. ; 95.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, etl. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performance
commence at Seven.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 42,
Will be performed Bellini'a Opera Serie, NORMA. Pollio, Mr.
Wood; Oroveso, Mr. Wei a; Norma, Mts. Wood; Adel isa, Milts
Grant; Cloti da, Miss Floyd.
After which, a New Comic Drama, called BLASE; or, The Man
in Search of a Sensation. Monsieur Blase, Mr. Kee ey ; Groefer,
Mr. Paul Bedford; Louise, Madame Eugenie Prosper; Madame
Pipou, Mrs. It P. Grattan.
To conclude with a New Farce, called BOUNCE; or, The
Ojibbeway Indians.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 22,
Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., TIE
CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. Q. Smith,
Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Dorman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews,
Miss Clasplin, and aliss Lee.
After which, the Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. U.
chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley.
To conclude with THE WRECK ASHORE. Principal Cha-
racters—Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, and
Wright.

DATIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING. FEBRUARY .291,
Will be repeated LOVE'S SACRIFICE, support d by the entire
Company.
Alter which, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by "Boa," with
splendid Appointments.
To conclude with THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS.

combination of interested parties, no selfish
views supported by the Minister of the day
and a packed Parliament, can withstand
the public voice. Even Mr. O'Com4TELL, who has an
interest in supporting the Irish landlords, is com-
pelled by this public voice to join in the cry for a
repeal of the corn-laws. His presence last evening at
Covent-garden confirmed the fact. Would a man
with his discrimination have come forward, against
the deliberate sentiments of many Irish landlords,
if he had not been convinced that monopoly was
at an end ? He performed his part nobly, and he
was duly rewarded. Never was such enthusiasm dis-
played on the entrance of a performer as was displayed
last night. Every person in the house rose when he
spoke. The cheers and waving of handkerchiefs, and
umbrellas, and other demonstrations, surpassed every
exhibition of the kind we ever witnessed. The
" convicted conspirator" was welcomed as a brother ;
and, notwithstanding all the unjust attacks he has
made on the Saxon race, the English forgot his de-
fects, and remembered only his merits. He must ad-
mit that this is a good feature in the Saxon character
and that there is still a generous spirit in this coun-
try which will avail him more than foreign aid or
repeal. He has done much for his country—no man
ever did more ; and we only wish, for the peace of
England and Ireland, that in place of advocating a
measure to which all England, Scotland, and a great
part of Ireland, are opposed, he would exert his great
abilities in the proper place, and not make his best
friends his enemies.

In the Commons, after some discussion, the County
Coroners Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed on the 6th of March.

On the Order of the Day for the House going into
Committee on the " Horse-racing Penalties' Bill," Mr.
HOUSMAN asked Mr. J. S. WO&TLBY if the Bill was of
such a pressing nature as to interposebefore the Order
of the Day. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY said the Bill was of
such a pressing nature that he should move that the
House go into Committee.
Mr. BRIGHT moved, as an instruction to the Com-
mittee, to extend the provisions of the Bill to all pro-
ceedings of common informers under the authority
of any penal Act. Mr. CHRISTIE, having previously
spoken on the motion, was precluded from moving the
instruction, but he seconded it, and said he
wanted a broad, general, just, and impartial applica-
tion of a wholesome principle, and that legislation
should not be for individuals but for the whole
people. This led to a lengthened discussion, and
Ultimately the House went into Committee on the
Bill. The different clauses were then discussed, and
the House resumed.

The Irish Attorney-General resumed the adjourned
debate on the state of Ireland, and was the only
speaker. The debate was again adjourned.
The House sat till Ten minutes to Twelve o'Clock.

The protest of Lord NOIMANBY and several other
Liberal Peers on the subject of Ireland, is one that
does credit to them both as legislators and as
English gentlemen. The protest comprises not less
than seven distinct reasons, each of which, to our
thinking, is irresistible, and is expressed in the
simplest, tersest, and most straight-forward manner
possible. One of the reasons is as follows, and
there is not a single word in it that could be altered
for the better:—" Dissentient, because under the
system pursued during the first four years of her
MAJESTY'S reign, the value of property in Ireland
had increased, in consequence of the tranquillity
produced by confidence in the impartial administration
of the laws. Since them, Ireland has become the
chief difficulty of the Executive, and for this reason,
that they who as legislators had previously impeded
the full extension of equal laws, have since, in the
conduct of the Government, neglected to secure to
that people the practical enjoyment of equal rights."
In these few significant words we have an explana-
tion of the whole cause of the present discontented
state of the sister country. The people there have lost
the confidence which four short years ago they
had in the favourable disposition of an English
Government. While the MELBOURNE Ministry were
in power, they felt that they had some rational
ground for hope ; they knew that efforts would be
made to befriend them, and that a small, arbitrary
faction, always inimical to their best interests, would
not be openly upheld and patronised to their manifest
disadvantage ; but this ground for hope has now been
cut away from under their feet ; the Tories are in
power—the Tories who never yet conferred on them
even the most trivial boon from good will, but al-
ways from the pressure of stern, gaunt necessity—
consequently the Irish people see clearly enough
that the course of policy that will be hence-
forth pursued towards them will be one of no earthly
benefit to their interests, but will be founded on the
as-little-as• needs-be" prineiple. As a matter of
course, Sir ROBERT PEEL and his congenial col-
leagues, who have already determined on their line
of action, will do little or nothing for Ireland ; some
alteration in the franchise they will make—whether
for better or worse cannot as yet be ascertained—
and some day or other they will come forth
with a bulky Report of the Landlord-and-
Tenant Commission; and this is just about the
sum total of benefit which they propose to confer
on the native country of their great idol, the Duke
of WELLINGTON I But no, we do the Tories injustice.
They will allow the Irish question to be debated
for long nights together in the House of Commons ;
aye, and they will even allow the whole six hundred
and fifty-eight Members of which that spotless and
patriotic House consists, to have their full swing of
talk on the occasion ; but why is this ? Because, in
the first place they cannot help themselves ; and
secondly, because they are pretty well assured of their
majority. When the present debate is brought to a
close, Ministers will consider that the great ques-
tion of Ireland is -fairly and fully settled
for the session, and will make a point of
doing all that in them lies to check any
further diicussion on the subject. And while they
persist in a miserable, mischievous line of policy
like this, they expect the Irish people to be un-
feignedly grateful, and look about them with a fool-
ish stare of wonder when they find themselves dis-
appointed in their expectations ! Of one thing
Ministers may rest assured—so long as they main-
tain the principles of Toryism, they will never be
able to appease the discontents of Ireland,
or govern it with any credit to themselves,
or advantage to the country. They may,
indeed, manage to keep it quiet —as NA-
POLEON quieted Germany by filling it with
horse, foot, and artillery ; but they will never
gain the confidence and affections of the people ; and
this is, or should be, the great aim and end of all
legislation. And how long, pray, will England con-
sent to be saddled with an income-tax, in order that
Government may be enabled to meet the heavy ex-
penses of the military occupation of Ireland ? This
is a question, the solution of which cannot now be
very long deferred, and on its successful solution or
otherwise, depends, in a great measure, the stability
of the Peel Administration.

Madrid journals of the 14th have been received,
but they bring ne intelligence of the slightest in-
terest. The whole of the country is now under mi-
litary law, and the Constitution is at an end. The
people of Catalonia may thank themselves for this
happy result. According to the Government jour-
nals, for scarcely any others are now published, order
and peace universally prevail. The National Guards
of Leon, Salamanca, Cuenca, Talavera de la Reins,
Zamora, Balajoz, Orense, and Corunna, had been
disarmed, and those towns declared in a state of siege.
The Three per Cents. were done at 28 13-16 for
cash, and 29i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at
20i ; the Debt without interest, at 7i at 60 days.

The Paris Opposition journals still continue their
comments on the dethronement of Queen POMARE,
and the decision of the brave Admiral DUPETIT
TIIOUARS, in occupying Otaheite. These comments
generally are in the worst possible taste, and are
made evidently not from any importance attached to
the acquisition, but to raise a bad feeling against the
GUIZOT Cabinet, and to make unjust attacks on the
policy of England. TIIIERS' journal is equally vio-
lent and vain-glorious with the others ; and thus,
with much complacency, adverts to the prejudices
and antipathies of John Bull, and the admirable fa-
culty of assimilation which is peculiar to France
in her relations with new nations. Algiers, of
course, is a proof of this assertion. " We
have no doubt," says that journal, " that

the Ministry is exceedingly chagrined and em-
barrassed at the success which the conduct of the
brave Admiral DUPBTIT Tumults has just obtained.
But it must make up its mind to act. The welcome
which public opinion has given to this act of vigotr
and sound policy will not permit it henceforward
to draw back, without being covered with shame.
Willingly or unwillingly, it must accept the new
colony with which our navy has enriched us. We are
accustomed to the ridiculous language of the journals
of London, and we expect, in reference to this matter,
to read in their columns furious declamations
against the unbridled ambition of France. Those
accusations, and the abuse attendant on them, will
find us perfectly indifferent. The English them-
selves, at least all those who are acquainted with
their epoch, do not believe one word of those griev-
ances, reputed from the time of Perr, and which are
flung as food to the prejudices and antipathies of old
John Bull. They know what task their mis-
sionaries have imposed on themselves in the latitudes
of Oceania, and they will perceive that, if the condi-
tions of our treaty with the chiefs of the Society
Islands have of necessity been changed, it is solely
because the influence of the Methodist traders, who
had seized on the chief power in Queen POMARB'S
name, had rendered the maintenance of the protecto-
rate impossible. In the bottom of their
hearts they will render justice to France;
awl there is not one who is not of opinion,
that in an analogous situation, tEngland would have
been obliged to do what France has done. But it is
not precisely according to sound sense and justice
that the English journals will regulate their opinion.
There is a fact, in all this, which occupies and' annoys
them. Our marine has exhibited vigour, in seas
where our flag was scarcely known, and where Eng-
land reigned supreme. With our taste for civilisation,
and with that admirable faculty of assimilation, which
is peculiar to France in her relations with new nations,
GOD only knows where this first step may lead us. If
such is, in fact, the cause of anxiety to the English
nation, we are sorry for her, but it will not turn
France away from the path where her destinies call her."
The Ministerial journals preserve a strict silence on
the subject. The Chamber of Deputies have been
engaged for several days in discussing the Game Bill
in Committee, when the Governmekt was beaten in
a division on a rather important clause. One of the
clauses exempted from the provisions of the Bill the
Crown property, though the penalties enacted by it
were to be enforced against trespassers on the royal
domains. Against this privilege the Opposition de-
eared, and the article was rejected by a considerable
majority. Upon this, Ministers are stated to have
retired from the hall, leading away a large number
of their ;voters, and the consequence was that the
ballot on-Lthe whole Bill could not take place, and the
House adjourned.
Queen MARIA CHRISTINA arrived on Saturday at
Chalons, where she slept. She embarked next day
for Lyons, receiving royal honours throughout her
ourney.