The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-07 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A pleasant, lively, bustling, two-act farce, entitled
":Used up," was produced at this theatre last eve-
ning. The hero, Sir Charles Coldstream (Mr. C.
Mathews) is a gentleman of 12,0001. a year, who
having tried every pleasure, is of opinion with Solo-
man " that every thing is vanity." He is dying of
ennui, and, to use his own expression, having begun
life at 13, he finds that, at 33, he is completely
" used up." He determines to make an offer
to the first woman he meets, and accordingly
proposes to Lady Clutterbuck, ci-devant Mrs.
Ironbrace, a lady in her second widowhood, and
is accepted. The lady's first husband, Ironbrace,
whom she had thought dead, happens, at that mo-
ment, to be engaged in the capacity of a blacksmith,
in doing some repairs to Sir Charles's house. Ile
sees his wife—accuses the Baronet of attempting to
seduce her. Sir Charles threatens to throw him out
of the window, which opens upon the Thames
—they struggle, and both roll out together.
In the next act we find Sir Charles living
with Farmer Wurzel (Mr. James Bland) as a
farm servant. Believing himself to have murdered
Ironbrace, he has assumed this disguise, to escape the
pursuit of justice; the only person aware of his
real rank being his foster sister Mary (Miss Julia
Bennett) the farmer's niece. Ironbrace, who fancies
that he has murdered Sir Charles, has also
sought refuge at the same farm. The farmer
himself being his confidant. A series of amusing
scenes ensue, until at length all is exclaimed, and Sir
Charle3, effectually cured of ennui, marries Mary.
The acting of Charles Mathews was excellent; he
kept the house in a continual roar, and at the con-
clusion announced the piece for repetition, amidst
loud applause. This is an excellent farce. The in-
cidents follow one another in rapid succession, and
the dialogue is smartly written. The house was
crowded.

The Ecclesiastical Commission fi,r England had a meeting
yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-place. The
Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop
of Lichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Salisbury,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
.and the Dean of West-

Le Conunamleur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister,
:ran acted business ye6terday at the Foreign-ollice.

Our Dublin Correspondent gives the following
outline of the proceedings in the Court of Queen's
Bench on Monday :
The knowledge of the fact that Mr. O'CONNELL
was to address the Court to-day, drew a larger con-
course than usual of all classes to the neighbourhood
of the Courts this morning. At an early hour the
Queen's Bench was thronged in every part, a great
portion of the auditors consisting of fashionably-
dressed ladies and members of the most distinguished
families in this country.
At a few minutes after ten o'clock, Mr. O'CON-
NELL, who was not habited in wig and gown
as on the preceding days of the trial, com-
menced his address to the Court and jury,
by saying that he felt some diffidence in addressing
the jury, not for his own sake, but when he reflected
how important was the cause he had to plead, and
how numerous were his clients. Ile had seven mil-
lions of clients—the whole Irish people—and he was
afraid that their case might in any respect be
injured by the incompetency of his advocacy.
He was not there to palliate or mitigate anything
he had ever said. He would reiterate, in the pre-
sence of the Court and jury, every protestation he
had ever made against the union—fur that union had
been carried, he repeated, by the most nefarious
agency, and had been designed in fraud and a feeling
of envy—as had often been said by one who had long
ornamented that Bench (Chief Justice BusnE)—a
feeling of envy of the growing prosperity of Ire-
land. With respect to this prosecution for
conspiracy, it was the most preposterous
proceeding that had ever yet been instituted. Ile
had looked into the dictionary, and he found the
meaning of the word conspiracy was a private or
secret agreement among various parties to commit
crime. He asked the jury, then, as consisting of men
of honesty and intelligence, what evidence had been
adduced to them of any such agreement in the pre-
sent case ? Had it been proved that there
was any secret agreement between the parties
indicted in the present instance ; and, even if
had been proved, had it been shown that he was pre-
sent when that agreement had been entered into ?
No such thing. At least this might give him the
benefit of an alibi.

The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then alluded to
the Anti-Corn-law League, and ridiculed the idea of its
being denominated a conspiracy. Yet the organisation
of the League differed in little from that of the Re-
peal Association. Could a jury be found in England
that would convict the League of a conspiracy, if it
were possible to suppose that such a charge would be
preferred against that body ? Then there was the Anti:.
Slavery Society would that be termed a conspiracy ?
That body received money both from home and
abroad; its members held their private and their
public meetings, and yet it was never thought of call-
ing the body a set of conspirators.
With respect to the constitution of the jury, he
stated that in England no twelve men would be put
as a jury into a box to try men from whom,
according to the principles on which they were edu-
cated, they differed so widely in opinion. He then
alluded to the peaceable charaCter of the meetings ;
and with respect to the charge of intimidation which
had been brought against them, he said this Go-
vernment, who had all the gentry, the magis-
tracy, and the clergy of the Established
Church attached to them, could have ascertained
whether the charge was founded in truth or not. But
not one witness had been called to prove that any-
thing like intimidation had been used at those meet-
ings ; and why ? Because no one could conscientiously
swear that intimidation had been used. He pointed
out that eight years ago, when illegal combination
was attempted to be established among the trades
unions of Dublin, he was the person who put a
stop to it. Would he have done so if he was one

who was justly liable to the charge of conspiracy ?
Allusion had been made by the Attorney-General to
the conduct of the men of 1798, and it was sought
to fix upon him the charge to which they were
amenable—that of desiring French sympathy and
French aid. Had he acted as one who had desired
either ? Had he not rejected the proffered assist-
ance of the French party, at the head of which was
M. LEDRU ROLLIN. He flung back with indignation
and contempt the charge which the Attorney-General,
in his opening address, had sought to fasten upon him
of speaking disrespectfully of the QUEEN. Ile denied
it. The charge was false. The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman then proceeded at much length to de
monstrate that the English Government had, from
the commencement of its connexion with Ireland,
governed this country with the most narrow jealousy,
and he adverted,par parenthese, in proof of his position,
to the history of the woollen trade of Ireland—
that the transactions of 1782 were intended to be
a final adjustment of the condition of the Irish Par-'
liament, which it was then agreed should be estab-
lished as an independent Parliament for ever— -that
the greatest prosperity of the country followed from
the establishment of an independent Parliament—that
the union was forced upon the Irish people, against
their consent, and by the most corrupt and
fraudulent means—that the poverty under which
Ireland is now suffering is the result of the union, and
that the only remedy for Ireland's grievances, and
the only means of preventing the ultimate separation
of the two countries, was the repeal of the union. In
the course of his observations he quoted AUGUSTIN
THIERRY, Mr. PITT, Primate BOLTON, Chief Justice
BUSHE, and several other writers and speakers, in
support of his position. He also entered at length
into statistical details to show how prostrated
were the energies of the Irish people,
and how ruinous were the effects of the union upon
the manufacturing industry of this country. He
then read in full several of the documents issued by
the Repeal Association, and which had been read in
part and produced in evidence by the Attorney-Ge-
neral, and he contended that those very documents
constituted his best defence. He cited LOCKR, Lord
GREY, BUSHE, SAURIN, PLUNKETT, &C., in support of
the doctrines which he had propounded as a Repealer.
In a nation like the British empire, where Parlia-
ment had so often changed the succession to the
throne, was he to be told that he would not be allowed
to discuss a question like the repeal of the union ?
There might be error, but there could not he
crime in discussing the question. lie again re-
verted to the present state of Ireland, and com-
pared it to that of the country in the middle
of the last century when ARTHUR YOUNG visited it
The people, then, according to that writer, had
each " a belly-full of potatoes" to eat when hungry ;
but now, according to the report of Captain LAR-
COM, 30 per cent. of the town and city population,
and 70 per cent. of the agricultural population were
in a state of the most abject poverty. Were, then,
those who sought to remedy that dreadful state
of things to be branded as conspirators, and those
who sat undisturbed in the enjoyment of the emolu-
ments and honours of place, to be lauded, when they
assailed those who endeavoured to remedy such evils?
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by glorying in his
attempts, whether successful or otherwise, to benefit
his native country.
At the conclusion of Mr. O.CONNELL'S speech
the CHIEF JUSTICE inquired if the traversers were
going into evidence, and being informed by Mr.
MooRE and Mr. HATCH ELL that the witnesses could
not be conveniently produced this evening, the Court
adjourned until the usual hour to-morrow morning.

It is now generally admitted, that the Govern-
ment has totally failed in establishing the shadow of
a case against Mr. O'CONNELL arid the other tra-
versers ; it is allowed, on all hands, that not a parti-
cle of evidence has been adduced, from which a con-
spiracy can be inferred, an illegal intent presumed, or
an overt act either of conspiracy or unlawful in-
tendment established : and yet nobody presumes to
guess, with anything like certainty, what the next

Government move is to be, either in the event of a
conviction, in the procurement of which evidence
has no concern ; of an acquittal, which the
evidence given ought clearly to cause ; or of no
verdict at all, to which the general opinion, at this
moment, seems to lean.
Suppose O'CONNELL convicted, what then ? What
earthly creature, save a Government creature, will
attach the smallest importance to such a consumma-

tion of fraud, of intolerance, of official and judicial
knavery ? Suppose him acquitted, what then ? Does
any human being, save the Tory and renegade GRA-
HAM clique, think that the acquittal of O'CONNELL
is other than the mere dealing out of barren justice
to hint ? And suppose, that the jury do not agree
upon a verdict, what then ? Is there a man who
will not believe that, honest although the jury may
be, there are men among them who wish to save the
Government from that defeat which a direct acquittal
might be thought to inflict ?
happen, the Government of Sir
ROBERTirtv
PEEL
re-
dcmption by the result of the trial. Commenced in
anger, carried on with hatred and malice, ridicu-
louslylhat will
inlreland is damaged beyond
imbecile in all its progress—the only remem-
brance in after times of the Irish State trials of
1844 will be of a Government powerless to prevent,
eager to punish, and yet without the ability either of
inflicting effectual punishment or of procuring the
means by which that end might have been attained.
Without a single individual, from the Attorney-Ge-
neral downwards, competent to set the legal machine
in motion, to direct its movements, or to bring
those movements to any useful end, the engine
of Irish law has been rolling about, totallymisguided,
and without direction. Such a getting up of a case,
lawyers never yet saw; such a conduct of a case,
heaven grant no lawyer may again witness ;—and
from Crown Solicitors and Attorney-Generals such
as Ireland is now blessed with, there is not a man in
that country, who does not heartily pray to be deli-
vered.

Melancholy, indeed, is it to witness the destiny of
a great nation confided to instruments so utterly
incompetent. Melancholy is it, to witness the play-
ing with the welfare and well-being of a great coun-
try, merely to gratify the vanity and the self-pride of
a GRAHAM, a STANLEY, or any other renegade of such
a school as that to which they belong. Melancholy is it
to witness the spectacle of two entire terms consumed in
a vain and hopeless prosecution of the man who has
been to Ireland, and accomplished for Ireland, more
than man could have hoped, and achieved more than
any other man for her liberties, her rights, and her
privileges. To witness the whole legal business of a
nation suspended, that an illegal attempt might be
made, to crush by the name, but not by th? spirit, of
the law, the right inherent in every man of England,
Scotland, or Ireland, to discuss his grievances, and,
by peaceable means, to seek for their redress
Is Sir ROBERT PEEL prepared to enact the part of
RICHARD the THIRD in our times ? Is he prepared--
having gained the Government by deception, by base
truckling to the prejudices of all parties, to the worst
passions of bigots and monopolists, in all the three
countries--to support the power he has gained by
force of arms and of violence ? Does he adopt the
sentiment ?

" Thrones that are won by blood, by blood must bQ
maintained." And is he prepared to carry this doc-
trine out in all his relations ? If so, he will find his
field of Bosworth sooner than he may calculate.

The Paris papers are almost entirely filled with the
report of the debates in the British Parliament on the
QUEEN'S Speech. Most of them comment on the speeches
made by Sir R. PEEL and Lord BROUGHAM, and in
general regard the opinions expressed in both Houses as
of a friendly character towards France. The National
of course forms an exception.
The funeral of General BERTRAND took place last
week at Chateauroux. The whole garrison was under
arms. The pall was borne by the Prefect of the Indre,
by Generals GITEHENEC and DE RIGNY, commandant of
the department, and by the Mayor of Chateauroux.
The funds slightly improved on Monday. The Three
per Cents. closed at 81f. 90 c., and the Fives at
124 f. 90e.

Owing to press of matter we are compelled to post-
pone our remarks on Mr. O'Connell's excellent speech,
and, in the meantime, call the attention of our readers
to the arguments urged with such effect in his defence.
WILL OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.—
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met this
morning to hear an appeal by the Hight Iton. J. Croker,
claiming as a legatee under a codicil of the late Mar-
pas of Hertford. The Solicitor-General appeared on