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THE SUNS LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1844.

ensuing month, en route to Encombe Hall, Dorset, for the
winter.
Th‘ Shrewnhary have arrived
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,:-:01-..iersct's villa.
at Wimbledon.
The Earl of Gosford, who has been on a tour of the
German spas, has returned to this country.
The Earl of Clare has returned to Mount Shannon,
from the seaside.
Viscount Morpeth has joined the distinguished party
assembled at Inverary Castle, on visits to the Duke and
Duchess of Argyll, from Castle Howard, Yorkshire.
Viscount Clifden has left Lady Dover's residence, at
Whit, hall, for the Continent. The Noble Viscount
j intedds to remain abroad until next summer.
zeLl*CZ.tacaulirlet, is ft-
Some time since an account appeared of an intention
on the part of the Government to form a police establish-
ment at Hong-Kong, and that a superintendent and
twelve inspectors would be almost immediately sent out.
The salary of the superintendent to be 500 L per annum.
The arrangements are, it is said, now nearly perfected,
but instead of twelve inspectors, only three will be sent
out at present, and these men have been selected from
the K division. The appointment of superintendent has
been given to Mr. Charles May, the eldest son of the
chief superintendent of the metropolitan police.
We understand that Mr. Peto, who recently purchased
Somerleyton Hall, and the Blundeston property, has
just bought the Norwich and Lowestoft navigation by
private contract ; and it is reported that he intends to
widen the sea-gates at Lowestoft, so as to admit
London steamers ; also to widen the canal to Reedham ;
and then to lay down a rail from Lowestoft on the
banks of the cut ; if so, he will prove a formidable
opponent to Yarmouth, as vessels and goods coming this
way will avoid Yarmouth dues.
On Monday week Sir Andrew Corbet, Bart., Mr. Ri-
chard Corbet, and his keepers, bagged 354 brace of
partridges, the whole of which were given away to his
friends in Shrewsbury.
We understand that the Duke of Wellington has
intimated to the authorities of Eton College that it is his
Grace's intention to present to that institution a bust of
himself.

IRELAND.
REMOVAL OF MR. BREWSTER.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 23.—We have heard in several
ria:lrters rumours of the removal of Mr. Brewster
from his present office. As to the successor of Mr.
Brewster the public are rather indifferent, but the
Government, in taking the step attributed to them,
may gain, and cannot lose supports They cannot, by
the exertion of the most searching scrutiny, discover
a man more unpopular than him whose removal is
reported to be contemplated.
EARL FORTESCUE AND HIS TENANTRY.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 24.—1 n consequence of a para-
graph, which originated in the Waterford Chronicle,
and was generally copied in the English newspapers,
respecting the conduct of Lord Fortescue in regard
to the rejoicings for the reversal of the judgment
against Mr. O'Connell, that Noble Lord has deemed
it necessary to publish the following address to his
Irish tenantry, amongst whom he is at present re-
siding:—
" TO THE TENANTS ON MT ESTATES IN THE COUNTT

OF WATERFORD.

" My Friends and Neighbours—Having reason to
believe that there has been some misconstruction of
my conduct on a late occasion, and that erroneous
inferences have, in consequence, been drawn from it
respecting my opinions, I wish to set both clearly
before you.
" When, on the news of the reversal by the House
of Lords of the judgment against Mr. O'Connell,
bonfires were lighted in various directions around us,
I heard that my Corbally tenants had declined join-
ing in them from an apprehension of my displeasure.
I, therefore, intimated to one of them, for the infor-
mation of others, my desire that, in any matter of
this kind, they should freely consult their own wishes,
without reference to mine, and I repeated the expres-
sion of this desire to the Rev. Mr. Cantwell, adding,
that though I rejoiced at Mr. O'Connell's liberation
from what I considered an unjust and illegal impri-
sonment, I could not take part in any public demon-
stration of joy on the occasion, connected, as it pro-
bably would be, with the question of repeal, to
which I am as much opposed as ever.
" I trust, therefore, you will understand, that
whilst I disclaim alike the right and the wish to con-
trol you in the peaceable manifestation of your poli-
tical opinions, I have not in the slightest degree
altered my own.
" I am always your sincere friend,
" FORTE SCUE.
"Summerville, Sept. 21st, 1844."

. .
In this address, the Dublin Evening Post justly
remarks, " Lord Fortescue has asserted and vindicated
the true principle of independence and liberty of action
between the landlord and the tenant. Such an example
would be most important anywhere ; but in Ireland
it is invaluable, because many of our worst social evils
have been produced by the political dictatorship of
landlords, treating their tenants as serfs, and compel-
ling them to become the merest instruments for pro-
moting their factious objects. This degrading ty-
ranny, practised almost universally by Tory landlords,
is repudiated by Lord Fortescue, who, whilst retain-
ing his own opinions, gives to his tenantry the fullest
latitude to exercise their own judgments, unfettered
by the dread of persecution from landlord or tenant."
OFFICIAL INQUIRY: POLICE SPY SYSTEM.
The following is a report of the proceedings at the in-
quiry held yesterday, before Mr. Corballis, Q.C., at the
Lund Commission-office, Dublin Castle.

At eleven o'clock Mr. Corballis opened the proceedings
by stating briefly the nature of his Excellency's commis-
sion. He then read the following abstract of the charges
preferred against the parties :
" FIRST CHARGE.—That sub-inspector Parker, and
constable Brophy, being stationed at Shinrone in the
month of October, 1843, conspired with one Martin
White to have fire-arms placed in a wall at the widow
Ryan's haggard, at Cooraclavin, in order that they might
afterwards be found by sub-inspeetor Parker, when acting
ostensibly in the discharge of his duty.
" SECOND CHARGE. That sub-inspector Parker
having, on the 20th of October, in the year 1843, re-
ceived information at Shinrone that fire-arms were ille-
gally concealed in the widow Ryan's haggard wall, he
(sub-inspector Parker) instead of ordering said fire-arms
to be seized and brought to his station at Shinrone,
directed constable Brophy to remove them to another
place, and there conceal them, in order that said fire-
arms might be found by himself, and that constable
Brophy was privy to that transaction, and either actually
removed the fire- arms from the wall in the widow Ryan's
haggard to a clump of turf at some distance, and con-
cealed them there himself, or was privy to Martin
White's doing so.
" THIRD CHARGE.—That Sub-Inspector Parker hav-
ing, on the 21st of October, 1843, seized a quantity of
fire-arms, found by him in a clamp of turf at Cooraclavin,
and knowing that said fire-arms had been actually found
the day before in the wall of the Widow Ryan's haggard,
by constable Brophy, and placed by constable Brophy,
or, at all events, with his privity, and by his authority,
in the turf, made a report, bearing date the 22d of Oct.,
1843, to the Inspector-General of Constabulary, in
which he wilfully suppressed all mention of those facts,
and suggested that a reward of 5L should be given to
the person who gave him the private information.
"FOURTH CHARGE.—That Sub-Inspector Parker and
constable Brophy, while stationed at Shinrone, endea-
voured to induce one Martin White to bring an armed
party to attack the house of Mr. Benjamin Armitage, or
the Widow King, and that constable Brophy gave the
said Martin White gunpowder to assist in the outrage.
" FIFTH CHARGE.—That constable Brophy conspired
with Martin White to put a fabricated Ribbon document
on the person of one Thomas MiLoughlin, and that said
constable Brophy actually wrote out said document, and
gave it to Martin White to copy."
The examination of witnesses was then proceeded with.
Sub-constable Matthew Copeland sworn and examined
by Mr. Corballis—l am a member of the King's county
constabulary. I was stationed in Cooraclavin, in Oc-
tober, 1843.
.There were at the station four sub-con-
stables and one constable. Their names were Carroll,
Burke, Tracy, and myself, sub-constables, and the con-
stable (Brophy). Brophy had the command of the
Cooraclavin station. Cooraclavin is in the Shinrone
district, and under the command of Sub-Inspector
Parker. I don't know how many stations Mr. Parker
had under his command, but I believe eight or nine.
There was a diary kept at Cooraclavin, and it was con
stable Brophy's duty to take charge of it. Sub-inspec-
tor Parker visited the station very often. It was his
duty to do so once a month. I don't know if it was Mr.
Parker's duty to inspect the diary, but he often did so.
The book was always open for his inspection. I knew a
man named Martin White. I saw him first at his own
house, which is about a mile from Cooraclavin. I first,
became acquainted with him because he was a remark-
able looking character, and I was told also that he gave
information to the police on several occasions. As well
as I can remember it was one of our men who first told
me about his having given information to the police. I
saw Martin White at the barrack several times after, but
never before. I could not tell what brought him to the
barrack. It was always with the constable he commu-
nicated when he came. He met the constable generally
in one of the apartments of the barrack. I don't think
there was anyone present but the constable and White
on these occasions. I never saw White in the barracks
but once. Brophy was not present then. White had a
quarter of an acre of ground close to the barrack. I saw
him several times at it. I never remember having seen
the police with him there. I was told that White had
been a schoolmaster at one time. He lived with his
father at the time I knew him. I recollect the night the
arms were found at the widow Ryan's house. I
don't recollect what day of the month that was. The
constable, another man, and I, went to the house that
night. I don't recollect whether that other man was
Burke or Carroll. It was after nightfall when we left
the barrack. It was not more than about a quarter of a
mile from the barrack to the Widow Ryan's by a short
cut. I think White was with us—l am almost certain
he was. I don't recollect having seen White previously
on that day. When I left the barrack I did not know
where I was going. I went merely in obedience to the
constable's orders. Before we went to the Widow
Ryan's we stopped convenient to White's house. The
constable and White left us for a short time. He did
not say where he was going to, but he desired us to re-
main until he came back. They went off in the direc- ,
tion of White's house. They ',were about half an hour
away. When the constable and White came back I saw
a blunderbuss with them which they had not when
they left the barrack, or rather, which I did not see
with them then. The blunderbuss, I think, had a
brass barrel. I could not exactly say who had the blun-
derbuss when I first saw it, but I am certain it was the
constable who first pointed my attention to it. He told me
it was the blunderbuss that shot Mr. Roberts. We went off
then to the widow Ryan's across the fields. We bad the
blunderbuss with us. When we got to the Widow
Ryan's, the whole party with White crossed out to the
road. I think constable Brophy had the blunderbuss at
the tizne. The constable desired us to remain on the
road near the house. We did so. White and the con-
stables then left us. I know the haggard in which the
arms were found. It was in that direction they went.
They were away
.between half an hour and an hour.
We were all the time on the road. When they came
back they had some pistols—three or four I believe.
They had the blunderbuss also—at least I think it was
the same I had previously seen, but I could not swear
positively to it. They showed us the arms when they
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.remained with us two or three
minutes, and went back in the direction of the haggard
wall. They took the arms with them. They were better
than half an hour away. They had not the arms when
they came back. There was no conversation on, or in-
quiries about, what had been done with them. The con-
stable merely ordered us home.
What! no remark whatever about the subject?—None,
sir. You did not even ask on the road home?—Some-
thing might have passed, but I cannot remember it. Was
White with you all the way home?—White, I think,
went home to his own house from the road. Did they
describe to you when they came back from the widow
Ryan's how they got the arms?—Yes, they said they
found them built up in the wall. Do you remember
when the arms were found in the turf clamp?—l do.
Do you know ground belonging to a man named Egan?
—I do, sir; but I don't know if there be a turf clamp
upon it. Had you any suspicion that the arms found in
the turf clamp were those you had already seen?—None
whatever. Do you know if constable Brophy made an
entry in his diary next day about the finding of the arms
at the widow Ryan's?—l don't know, sir. Would not it
have been part of his duty to do so.
Brophy—l will answer that, sir, and say it would be
my duty.

M. Corballis—Well, there is no such entry here.
Brophy—ls the date there, sir?—Yes, I have the date
here—there are some entries; but it is perfectly silent
as rogards this transaction.
Mr. Corballis here read various extracts from the
diary, referring to transactions before and after the find-
ing of the arms at the widow Ryan's, and observed that
it appeared to him strange that no reference was made
to such an important fact, more especially when there
was an entry of the discovery of the arms in the turf
clamp.
Examination of Copeland resumed—l know constable
Ray; I was not stationed at Cooraclavin when he was
there.

Cross-examined by Mr. Brophy—Are you sure it was
a brass blunderbuss we had when we returned from
White's ?—ln my opinion it was a brass blunderbuss.
When I told you and Burke to remain outside the
Widow Ryan's house, did I give you any reason for
doing so ?—Yes, to see that no person came out of
the house,
Mr. Corballis—l do not wish to interfere with any
course you wish to take, but you will be examined on
oath by your own request, and it would be better to re-
serve any statement you yourself have to make until then.
Brophy (to witness)—Did I tell you that night that I
put the arms in the turf clamp ?—I do not recollect, but
you may have told me so.
By Mr. Gitzgerald—At this time I thought White
a faithworthy person. I have had opportunities since of
knowing his general character. From my knowledge
of his character, I do not believe him a person worthy
of credit on his oath, in a court of justice. As far as
I know, Mr. Parker had no reason to think that the
party did not go out that night in the ordinary course
of duty. Mr. Parker was at the barrack the morning
the arms were brought to Shinrone.
By Mr. Corballis—l could not tell if Mr. Parker was
at the barrack a few days before this transaction, or if
he had any private communications with Brophy about
that time. I never remember to have seen White in
communication with Mr. Parker.

Brophy—When Mr. Parker and I were bringing the
arms from the turf clamp did we not stop at the barrack,
and did not the men come out to see them ?—I believe
ye did ; and I believe also that some of the men went
out to see them.

Brophy—That proves we had no wish for conceal
went.

Mr. Corbellis—l don't perfectly understand the force
of that inference.

Brophy—Why, sir, Mr. Parker and I were charged
with a conspiracy respecting these arms, and it is right
to show that there was no concealment.
Mr. Corballis (to witness)—Who were the police that
went for the arms to the turf clamp ?—I think Mr.
Parker, and constables Brophy and Ogle were there, but
I don't know of any others.
Did you bear them say when they were leaving the
barrack OR what duty they were going ?—Yes ; they said
they were going to look for arms, but did not mention
any place particularly.
Mr. Fitzgerald—l am here for Mr. Parker, and I wish
to know if he said so ?—He did not.
Mr. Fitzgerald—Was he present at the time 7—Not
to my knowledge.
Mr. Corballis—How soon after the night of the occur-
rence at the widow Ryan's did you see Mr. Parker at
the barrack ?—The day or the day but one after. I
know a person named Clancy ; he lives about a quarter
cf a mile from the station ; I believe he is a tailor ; I
never saw him at the barrack ; I recollect that two
pistols were found in his house ; it was before this oc-
currence, but I don't know how long : I don't know of a
blunderbuss having been taken from Clancy.
This ended the examination of Copeland.
Patrick Burke, the policeman who remained in com-
pany with Copeland during the visit of constables Brophy
and White to the widow Ryan's, gave testimony similar
to that of the previous witness ; he further added—When
Constable Brophy and White were in the widow Ryan's
haggard, I heard noise of stones like the throwing down
of a wall. They came back in a very short time after
that. They had three or four pistols and a blunderbuss
when they came back. I think it was the same blunder-
buss I bad previously seen. The constable said that
some of the pistols were loaded. They remained with
us a few minutes, and then went back to Mrs. Ryan's
land again. They went in direction of the
turf clamp, where the arms were subsequently found.
They were away this time about twenty minutes. When
they came back the constable remarked that he did not
like to take up the arms, as he did not think he had
authority for doing so. He also said he changed them
out of the place where they first were, being in fear that
the person who gave information would remove them. I
understand that that informer was White.

And did not White go with him ?—lle left us with him.
Now, did it not appear odd to you that he should
have taken White with him for such a purpose, when
White himself was the informer ?

Mr. Fitzgibbon—He did not say that White was the
informer:?-oh, yes I did ; but I did not give the subject
any consideration then.
Mr. Corballis—Had Brophy all the pistols in his pos-
session when he left you ?—lie had all. What did you
understand by Brophy saying he kad no authority to
take arms?—l don't know. Ile did not:tell you:on what
duty you were going 7—Ho did not. And would you
not consider that you had sufficient authority to take up
arms under such circumstances ?—I would, most cer-
tainly. What opinion did you form of his refusal to
take them up ?—I considered it strange. Did you con-
sider it your duty to inform your officer of the fact ?
No, I did not. When did you see the arms after that ?
—Next day; constable Ogle had them in his possession,
and Mr. Parker and Brophy were of the party. Was
there anything stated by either of them as to the place
the arms were found P—Yes ; constable Brophy said he
took them from the turf clamp, to which place he had
removed them the night before ; and the reason I did
not consider it my duty to mention the fact is, that
Brophy told me his officer, Mr. Parker, was in posses-
sion of what he had done ; before we went to Ryan's
house, Brophy and Whelan appeared to have had a
private conference. Do you mean to say that they
went out of the hearing of the rest of the party, or that
their privacy was accidental ?—I think they went out
of our hearing for the purpose of conversing ; White
had the blunderbuss then. Did you ever know an in-
stance before of arms being so re-deposited in this
manner P—Never, sir. *They were always before, as
far as I know, brought to the station. Did you ever
see White in the barrack before ?—I did, sir. Did you
ever see him write there 7—Never ; but I know that
he called for paper at one time, and I believe it was for
the purpose of writing. Was it well known to all the
men in barrack that the arms had been removed ?
—Perfectly well, sir. How do you account for White
giving up the blunderbuss on this night to the constable
—can you give any reason for it 7—l cannot, sir. Was
not the blunderbuss in the constable's possession, before
you came near Mrs. Ryan's house at all?—It was, sir.
By Mr. Fitzgerald—White's character in the neigh-
bourhood was not good ; it was so bad, that he earned
the marked displeasure of the Rev. Mr. Nolan, his clergy-
man. Ho was not liked in the place. The general re-
putation of the man is such, that he would not be trusted
on his oath in a court of justice.
Mr. Corballis—Now, that is not the way to put the
question. Is his general character so bad, that you
would not believe him on his oath in a court of justice ?
—I would not believe him.
Mr. Corballis—Did you see Brophy and Mr. Parker
in conversation at any time, immediately before this ?
I saw them frequently together. I saw Mr. Parker with
him, at a time that arms were seized in Clancy's house.
Cross-examined by Brophy—Are you sure that the
blunderbuss which White had was a brass-barrelled
one ?—I am. Could you understand by me that I en-
deavoured to hide anything, in reference to the arms, that
night I—l could not.
Mr. Corballis—Oh, no. So far as I can collect from
the evidence of Copeland and this witness, nothing of
the kind has appeared.
This ended -the evidence of sub-constable Burke, and
the investigation was adjourned to half-past ten o'clock
on Friday next.

their contributions—or whether it may be more expe-
dient to consider the present church in the light of pri-
vate property, as it has of late years been considered by
the proceedings alkided to, and to apply to Parliament
for an Act to remove the public place of worship to
some other site, where we -may find, as we do on the
Continent, that the house of God has something more
attractive than stone walls and iron palings. A com-
plaint similar to this is made by other parishioners—
who are obstructed in their right of way to their chapels
and to other places where their business calls them. I
have to apologise for troubling you with this letter ; the
matter being a public not a private concern, it was in-
tended for the public press, but the high respect which
I bear to you personally induces me, is the first in-
stance, to submit it to you, and to avail myself of the
opportunity it offers of assuring you of the consideration
and regard with which I am yours, &c.,

J. GRATTAN.
"' To the Hon. and Rev. William Wingfield.'"
The Evening Mail of this evening publishes the
following
" TO THE DISPERSED PROTESTANTS IN THE SOUTH AND

WEST OF IRELAND.
" Brethren—ln these evil times, as I have seen some
faint hearts amongst you, and know of more, permit one
of the dispersed of your body respectfully to give you a
few words of counsel, and not to count it to him for pre-
sumption. _ _

"The Snake has thrown a new lure—a Federal Par-
liament—whether the infatuated Mr. Hutchinson it was
who started the hare, or the Snake himself, no matter—
the viper has adopted it as his own. Does it require
anything beyond common sense to discern that, as far as
the Father of Lies is concerned, he only wants that toy
well packed with Popish influence and craft to blow up
a quarrel between it and the Imperial Parliament on
any invented pretence, and then to arrive at his darling
Repule ?
"Surely, surely, no Protestant awake will heed him.
It may be true that much of our business is mismanaged
by English officials, who know little of our country and
are backward to learn it, but these are only matters of
detail ; the basis of the union is fraught with advantage
even to excess for Ireland, and it is part and parcel of
the plan of the agitators to shower inventions so thick
into the House of Commons that there should be no time
for Ministers to effect business ; but were the country
once at peace within herself, the Scorpion crushed, and
his Riverend coadjutors put on their good behaviour, the
prosperity of Ireland would know no bounds.
" It is true, we have at present the hideous deformity
in the heart of the country of a band of infuriated de-
mocrats, consuming her bowels, inviting adherence and
co-operation, threatening massacre, and thirsting for
blood; for what else means their phraseology of Ireland
biding her time ?' The bait of plunder flung out to the
peasant must have had its influence ; for, by true Jesuit
finesse, he is perpetually urged to put into the raffle,
that he may be eager for the day of drawing ; yet the
poor people aro not ill-disposed, if let alone, and the
proof is, that it is thought indispensable not to relax for
one moment the stimulant of sedition upon them. All
this is true, wofully true ; and as it constitutes a govern-
ment within the Government, having the torch and the
stiletto for its device, it may make some honest hearts to
quail. But, Protestants, remember you are hated be-
cause you hold the Bible. It all resolves itself into this.
The Bible and the right of private judgment in religion
it is which renders Popish priests superfluous lumber—
that it is translated into every known language for cir-
culation, by Saxon aid, maddens them to fury—now that
they blindly suppose they have only a short time to wait
to sacrifice your Church, which has taught you to know
what they are, and what they are not.
" You cannot have forgotten the Pope's circular, dated
from Rome on the 4th of May last, addressed to his
worshippers in Italy, denouncing the New York Bible
Society. He tells them plump that reading the Holy
Scriptures in the vulgar tongue leads to certain perdi-
tion, and forbids what the Saviour enjoined. If this be
not the beast drawn in the Revelations, God has given
us our reason to betray us. This circular was published
in all the papers. So, Protestants, take your line.
Waver not. Have no fellowship with their principles.
I was once an emancipator myself—a conciliator—and
now am well reviled as a dupe and worse. Observe the
return which the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert
Peel daily get for having brought forward the Emanci-
pation Act, and mind, this is not the exception, but the
rule. What folly then it is to hope that the sense of
shame will associate some of the morn respectable per-
sons of the Romanist persuasion to denounce the agita-
tors ! They don't come forward, at least I know of but
one or two that have, and they are well scoffed and spi-
at by the demon for their honesty. Be not seduced by
any of his baits. Hold aloof to the last. It is the trial
of your faith. Let every Protestant say to himself, 'lf
I was the only one left I never would unite with them.'
Nail the Bible and the Union Jack together to your
heart. Have something in your hand also to make him
repent who would approach with the rags of an Italian
priest to defile either. The English Protestant people
will yet consent to distinguish between the true and the
false in Ireland. Our brethren of the north are alive to
our sufferings ; nay, the English Dissenters, much as
they may dislike the monarchical principle and the
Church, will yet, from a sense of shame, postpone their
aversion to these elements in order to teach the turbulent
Popish agents here that if they expect protection and
security, they must at least let others enjoy it. Watch.
Be firm. Be indifferent alike to their cajolery or their
threats. Call to mind the words of the Psalmist—which
cannot be found, by the bye, in the Popish Missal—' 1
was young, and now am old, and yet saw I never the
righteous forsaken,' &c.—l am, brethren, your sincere
well-wisher, " WESTMEATII.
" Clonyn, Sept. 2.1, 1844."
LANDLORD AND TENANT COMMISSION.

On Monday the Commissioners held their inquiry
at Middleton, and examined several witnesses, includ-
ing Mr. Warren Hastings Jackson, Mr. Barry, a
farmer, William Gleason and Richard Neill, tenants
of Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Robert Barry, an extensive
farmer. On Tuesday they proceeded to Macroom,
where they examined Charles Colthurst, Esq., of
Coachford, respecting some extensive improvements
in waste lands made by that gentleman ; James Car-
negie, Esq., of Cork, an extensive land agent ; Wm.
Crooke, Esq., a landed proprietor; Rev. Richard
Lane, P.P. Ballyvourney, near Macro= ; John B.
Warren, Esq., Mr. Edward Ashe, of Macroom ; Mr.
Cornelius O'Connell, farmer, Mr. Timothy Murphy,
farmer, and some others. On Wednesday they held
their inquiry at Kanturk, where they examined
Daniel Leahy, Esq., of Rossacon ; the Rev. Jeremiah
Beachenor, of Newmarket, P.P.; Sir W. Wrixon
Becher, Bart.; Jonathan Bruce, Esq., of Prohurst ;
Owen M'Sweeny, farmer ; Bartholomew Verling,
farmer; Rev. R. O'Reardon, P.P.; William Allen,
Esq., and Cornelius Ryan, farmer, nominated by the
hoard of guardians. After the inquiry, they were
sumptuously entertained at dinner by Edward Tier-
ney, Esq., the public-spirited proprietor of the Kan-
turk estate, who had a large party of the principal
gentry of that part of the county of Cork to meet the
Commissioners. On Friday they proceeded to King
William's-town, the estate of the Crown, on the
borders of Kerry County, where they minutely in-
spected the model farm and improvements, which
have been for some years in progress, under the
direction of Mr. Griffith. On Saturday they sat at
Mallow.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

PROM TIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

lIERALD.—The progressive decrease in the value of
money, and the consequent advance in the value of
Public Securities, have rendered it necessary for the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt
to enlarge the tables for the conversion of stock into
annuities for lives and terms of years. The tables con-
structed in 1828 did not contemplate the Three per
Cents. rising above par, and, consequently, the terms
on which annuities were to be granted being governed
by the current price of Consols above par, there was no
standard of conversion.

The range to which the tables are now extended is to
when Consols, minus the dividend, arefrom 1001. 16s. 10d.
and under 1021. 1 ls. 3d., and from 1021. 1 ls. 3d. and
under 1041. 6s. 11d. This, it would appear, the Com-
missioners consider a sufficient extension to embrace the
practical limit to which it is likely Three per Cent.
Stock will advance. The new tables may be procured
gratis at the National Debt Office, by any person who
may choose to call fur them.
As to the future range of the price of stock, no in-
ference whatever can be drawn from this measure.
It is merely a provision made in the event of an ad-
vance above par, but has no connection whatever with
actual prices.
We understand the joint-stock banks in the City are
preparing to register their public officers, with a view of
availing themselves of the privileges conferred by the
Act (7 and 8 Victoria, c. 113) to regulate joint-stock
banks in England. By tho 47th section it is enacted
that any joint-stock bank within the distance of 65 miles
from London shall have the same powers of suing and
being sued by their public officers as are granted to joint-
stock banks beyond 65 miles from London, by the Act 7
Geo. IV., c. 46, and shall deliver to the commissioners of
taxes the same returns,
By the Act 7 Geo. IV., c. 46, any joint-stock bank
may register its public officers at the Stamp-office.
The number of officers may be two or more, but.
a suit is brought or defended only in the name of
one. These officers must be shareholders in the bank,
but they need not bo bank officers in the business
sense of the word. They may be trustees, di-
rectors, or simply shareholders, but they must
be resident in England. The board of directors may
at any time recal the name of a party who has been re-
gistered as a public officer, or supply his place in case of
death or other contingency. One of the public officers
of
placesabode
ef
must swear to the accuracy of the returns required by
the Act.
The returns required include the firm or name of the
banking company, names and places
nacaesd
such company, names and places
otfheallthebank
members of the company, m
of abode of the directors, managers, and other like
officers of the said banking company,
names of the
several towns and places where the business of the said
company is carried on.

Ties returns are to be made to the Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes annually, between the 28th of Feb-
ruary and the 25th of March ; and every return must
contain a list of every new or additional director, ma-
nager, or other like officer ; a list of those who have
ceased to be members, and of those who have become
members since the date of the previous return.
In consequence of this alteration the joint-stock banks
within 65 miles of London will discontinue the practice
of requiring their customers to sign a special contract
when they open an account. All business will be carried
on in the name and title of tho bank. Bills will be
proved under bankrupts' estate us the property of the

bank, not as: heretofore as the property of the trustees.
And suits may be commenced against all parties in debt
to the bank, though they may have signed no special
contract. On the other hand, the public will know
against whom to bring their legal actions for debts duo
I the bank ; and when judgment is obtained against
the public officer, execution may be issued against all
the funds of the Bank, and if they should not be suffi-
cient, against the private property of all the share-
holders. No system of banking can afford greater se-
curity to the community, and Sir Robert Peel was quite
right when he said that the privileges we have men-
tioned are as necessary to the public as to the banks.
The act to regulate joint-stock banks received in the
later stages of its progress through Parliament, two
important additions. One limited the duration of any
charter granted to a joint-stock bank to twenty years.
This must operate as an objection against existing banks
applying for a charter, as in that case they must wind
up their affairs at the end of twenty years, unless they
have the good fortune to procure a renewal of their char-
ter. Few banks, we apprehend, would be willing to put
a termination to their existence at so short a period.
The other important addition is clause 48, which en-
acts " that every company of more than six persons, car-
rying on the trade or business of hankers in England,
shall be deemed a trading company within the provisions
of an Act passed in this session of Parliament, intituled
' An Act for facilitating the winding up the Affairs of
Joint-stock Companies unable to meet their pecuniary
engagements.' "

SUN.—The markets fur Stocks, both English and Fo-
reign, closed very firmly this afternoon, Consols at 991
for Money, and 998 to par for Account. Bank Stock
for Account was 2861 to 287 k ; and India Stock
2081 to 209 i. New Threeand-a-half per Cents. have
been 1011 for Money.
The foreign investments were marked 24 to for
the Five per Cents. 358 to 4 for the Three per Cents.;
and 48 to 471 for Portuguese Converted ; and 90 to
901 for Brazilian ; being much fuller prices for all than
were obtained in the morning.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 5 ;
Bristol and Gloucester, 13 ; Eastern Counties, New, 41- ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 161 ; Great Western, 65
to 67 ; Birmingham, 116 ; South-Western, 311 ;
Croydon, 2 ; London and York, 21 ; Lynn and Ely, 21;
Newcastle and Darlington, 27 to 29 ; North British, B ;
Northern and Eastern, 126 ; Ditto, Scrip, 108 ; Nor-
wich and Brandon, 91 ; York and North Midland, 5 t ;
Ditto, Scarborough Branch, 20 ; Paris and Rouen,
181 8 premium ; Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings, have
been 6- ; Caledonian, ; and Brighton, 21 discount.
Austraasia Bank Shares were 9 premium.

WARSPITE CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Times.)

We are informed that the writer of the first of
the three letters which found their way into our
columns last month from the Warspite, in Tangiers
Bay, has, in consequence of the " inquiries," the in-
stitution of which we noticed on Monday, disco-
vered himself to the " authorities," and been " severely,
reprimanded" accordingly by the Admiral in com-
mand at Gibraltar.

On what pretence, or on what conceivable principle,
this gentleman, who turns out to be the chaplain of
the ship, has been " severely reprimanded" by the
Admiral of the station, or any other Admiral, merely
for expressing his own private opinion about the
manoeuvring of a couple of French line-of-battle
ships, of which he happened to be an unconcerned
spectator, we are really at a loss to conceive. We
should have thought that the Bishop, if any one,
was the authority to which this gentleman was
responsible for his opinions; and to have an Admiral
catechising the chaplains of his fleet with a view
to limit their freedom of speech and opinion about
things indifferent, certainly appears to us pretty
nearly as great an incongruity as would be exhibited
by that well-known naval wonder, the service of the
horse-marines. We are really surprised that an "in-
quiry" has not been instituted into our own esta-
blishment, with a view to a naval court-martial, or
perhaps an Episcopal Synod being held, for the satis-
faction of the French Opposition, upon the guilty
printers and publishers of these wonderfully ac-
curate epistles. But in any case, and overlooking
the absurdity of such an exercise of jurisdiction by
a sailor over an ecclesiastic, we put it to any one
whether it is—we do not say just or decent, or in
accordance with our English notions of freedom of
speech and opinion, but—whether it is compatible
with the plainest rights and liberties of the meanest
subject of the realm—whether it is not, in short, a
downright act of oppression and tyranny thus to
punish a man for freely saying what he thinks and
believes about a matter on which he has as good and
undoubted a right to form and express an opinion as
has the Admiral who reprimanded him, or the Lords
of the Admiralty, or King Louis Philippe himself.
We remember to have heard of a tyrant who was
grievously angry, and indeed threatened war, against
a neighbouring free State, which pleaded the freedom
of her institutions as a reason why such summary
and irregular proceedings as the oppressor himself de-
sired and could in his own dominions have put in
execution, could not, nevertheless, be taken by the
neighbouring State against one of her subjects who
was the object of his resentment. It was rightly
held that the formality of a trial, and the free and
regular course of justice, were not to be waved or
impeded at the request or instance of any foreign
power whatever, merely because that power was
unable itself to comprehend the reason or admit the
justice of any such formality and delay. But it
seems to us as if, in order to please our French
neighbours, or rather to please the worst and least
worthy part of them, our own Admiralty had con-
sented, in a spirit directly the reverse of 'that which
we have instanced, to wave for this once the ordi-
nary maxims and forms of English justice and Eng-
lish freedom, and to punish men actually for exer-
cising their undoubted right of forming and expressing
opinions about matters open and accessible to all.
The lay officers of the Warspite, we are told, have
resisted this most inquisitorial and un-English in-
trusion upon the free exercise of their hitherto un-
doubted right of speech and opinion, and have re-
fused to discover the authors of the remaining two
letters. We are heartily glad of it. A plainer case,
of tyranny—of vexatious, truckling, and most un-
profitable tyranny—could not occur; and there can
be no breach of discipline involved in resisting, or
rather baffling, it. If a military or naval officer
takes upon himself to have an opinion about any-
thing concerned with the due administration and
order of the service in which he is engaged,
and expresses that opinion in a way calculated to
impede or injure it, he is then, indeed, amenable
to the authorities who direct it, and is guilty
undoubtedly of a breach of discipline. But in
this case the matter about which the opinion was
expressed had nothing whatever to do with the
British service. It would have been just as reason-
able to have punished an officer who wrote home word
that the weather was, in his opinion, indifferent, or
the Moors deficient in personal appearance, or the rock
of Gibraltar a picturesque object from the sea. What
is it to the Admiralty even if all the officers in the
British navy think, as indeed is not unlikely, that the
appearance of his French Majesty's ships Suffren, Je-
mappes, Triton, and Belle Poule, is not altogether un-
exceptionable in the eyes of a practised critic, or that
their crews do not handle them quite as crack and ex-
perienced as seamen should ? is it a crime to enter-
tain such an opinion ? Or is it a breach of discipline
to express it ? It would appear that the French
Government in requiring (if they do require), or even
accepting, such measures as these, are, in truth, con•
fessing that they have no other or better answer than
this to give to the letters in question. To suppress
the free exercise and expression of opinion on any
given matter of fact, is tantamount to a confession that
the subject will not bear discussion or scrutiny. We
should like to know whether any British officer would
be afraid of any criticisms that the most ill-natured
Frenchman, or set of Frenchmen, could pass upon any
ship or ships under his command ; or whether he
would ask that the naughty boys who pointed out his
mistakes should be whipped for their impertinence.
But before this spirit of punishment comes over
our rulers, we would suggest whether it‘Nouaildi,ntoot
be as well to inquire if it is likely, after
answer its object. It is done, of course, to please the
French, and for no other reason. We would put it
to the Lords of the Admiralty, whether they seriously
believe that anything, short of hanging all the letter-
writers at the yard-arm, and formally proclaiming, in
the most bombastic language which can be com-
manded, that the French are the first maritime and
naval people in the universe, would be likely to please
our very implacable neighbours. We extract, on
this head, the following paragraph from a recent num-
ber of our Parisian Contemporary La France :
"elsYsiltiyen a grave offence has been committed, and the
necof reparation is felt,j justice
sceis
idsonreerihdoenreesdtlL,
in the retractation complete andth e
adversary. England does not act in this way. We have
published the order of the day of Admiral Owen on the
subject of the letters of the officers of the Warspite. We
now publish a letter from Captain Wallis to his Admiral.
It is a very dry and insignificant acknowledgement of
the receipt of the order of the day, and the name of
France is not mentioned in it."
This is the reception which the late order of Admi.
ral Owen on the subject of these letters meets. Let
our readers mark the last words of the paragraph we
have quoted:—" You have given us official disclaimers
of the offenders" (such seems to be the language of
French sensitiveness), " and you have punished and
reprimanded them—but disclaimers and punishments
are not what we want. We want, to be plain, some
flummery about la grande nation, some glorification
of France and her arms, especially her naval great-
ness, and then we shall be content, but not before."
Such is the reception with which any step, even of
humiliation and abasement, however low, on the part
of England, would be met by the French war party,
and such the gratitude which we should get from
those whom we thus sought to please and conciliate,
for subjecting our own officers to an oppressive inqui-
sition and an unjust punishment. We recommend
the paragraph we have quoted to the attentive consi.
• deration of Lord Haddingtonand his colleagues.