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which had trespassed on his land, was-called on by 5 dwts. 3 grains of standard gold, equated to "forty
him to declare on oath who had rescued them, and on shillings ortwopounds." Beneath these similaroutlines
his refusal, was committed -by the magistrate to of two sovereigns—" gold, as a commodity," each of
Bridewell. On being made acquainted with similar weight with the preceding ones ; and equal to
this fact, the LORD CHANCELLOR declared that the value of ".one quarter of wheat." Then, the
Mr. O'DatsciSta. ought not_ to have pronounced 'second part of the, diagram sets out " one quarter of
judgment is his own case, and insisted that wheat," equal to three several sums of 13s. 4d. each,
he should __net interfere further. Soon afterwards or threel.. several " PITT'S pound note of 205." each,
that gentleman was brought up for an assault corn- equal to "forty shillings or two pounds." In stating
mitted, ivithout the slightest provocation, on a boy, a comparative estimate 'of thisitind, the 10 dwts. and
on which, occasion, said. the Ni,ble Earl, he made use 6 grains of gold in two sovereigns, and the quarter of
of the most disgusting language, and totally unbe • wheat, are taken as " natural equivalents ;"—that is
coming one who professed to have the feelings of a r their value in relation; each to the 'other, is estimated
gentleman.- For this assault his brother magistrates !,by the labour necessary to hringthem into market
fined him two pounds, allotting one to ilibear as allt being thus shown that the pressure of indirect'
compensation :for the blows which had been inflicted. !taxation has forced up wheat froM 2L to 3/.
on him. On hearing this award Mr. O'DRISCOLL de, quarter—it beiag thus established that the IL loses its
dared that justice, had not been done him, which sled 'value and power to purchase in the proportion in
to an altercation with the Bench, who insisted ;Which indirect taxation has added to the price
on his publicly: apOlogising to; them for his of wheat—that is to say, that it 'goes. no
indiscreet and intemperate behaviour. The Loan further than 13s. 4d. w-ould have done prior.
CHANCELLOR' as 'in the former case, was put .to the imposition .of this taxation—it results that
into posseision of these facts, when be wrote to the this permissive. capacity in the paper pound to depre-
effect that " Mr. CO'DRISCOLL, after his conviction, .date with respect to the gold pound, the intrinsic
had coMMitted one of the gravest faults which' a value of wheat—in gold—is preserved, the quarter of
magistrate could commit," adding with marked em wheat being still equal (by reference to the-diagram)
to 10 dwts. 6 grains of gold. " Besides this system,
phasis, "all these charges takentOgether, satisfy My
mind that he has not at present that command 'oser. 'taxation may be: added to the price of commodities
his temper- arid actions (even when acting in a to any extent without altering their natural
fen, value in `gold; a property of the highest
magisterial-capacitya or when appearing as a de
fen-
before" the Bench) which is so essential-to the consequence with respect both to the home and
,foreign market ;" for, 'by increased prices on the
due administration of justice." Nothing can well be
stronger or more condemnatory than this language ; former, the producer is entitled to recover from the
it is a virtual and deliberate decision on the part. of -consumer the amount of that taxationon Customs and
the highest legal authority in Ireland that Mr-
,Excise whiCh he has originally advanced to the State.
'
O'Datscora., first from his tem::er, and secondly -The labourer • charges that portion of taxation which
from his conduct, is wholly disqualified for acting as he has paid on articles consumed by him on the pro-
a magistrate; and he was in consequence superseded... duct of goods or commodities for his employer; the
And' yet,' notwithstanding this formal decision,, no employer or master charges this, in his turn,
sooner was a memorial' p the consumer, who finally pays it, as theresented from certain influ- to
ential people in the county to the Viceroy, praying Legislature meant that he should do. In
this way the wealthy and unproductive do bear their
for his reappointment, than the LORD CHANCELLOR',
without the slightest hesitation, restored him to the the taxation of the country—by the share of
en-
commission of the peace, thereby effectually stultify-
harked price they pay for every product of industry.
ins his own previous decision ! Who after this—and The producers contribute to revenue by the amount
Mr. O'DatscoLL's is no uncommon case—can wonder
of their consumption of Excisable and other commo:
that Ireland has no faith In the mode in which
dities. Nor is this all; the wants and tastes of the people
justice is administered ; and that the law which expand with the growing power of production ;so that
should be regarded as a guardian, is looked the greater the production and the denser the population,
on -by her as an oppressor ? In England the burden of taxation is more widely spread over all,
such a case as the one before us could never al'd 165 severely felt. ,The national wealth is readily
have happened, for had any
proportionably diffused through numberless
magistrate - so 3-111
grossly misconducted himself as Mr. O'DRISCOI. • Channels by the distribetive power' such a currency
appears to have done, public opinion would have ex" giYe4; and no excessive toll being demanded from
pressed itself so earnestly and unequivocally on the the field or the factory labourer, he has the opportu-
subject,left hire to raise himself in the social scale.
Under the new "complement's Act assuredly this
that the LORD CHANCELLOR would not have pitydared to replace theoffending individual in the com-
mission of the peace. But in Ireland, it seems, they will not be the case. That is a capital Act fur en-
hancing the value of bullion on money to those who
manage thingalvery differently. There, a Magistrate
have already gotiti by whatever means. It is a visa:
may be carved out of any block of wood. Er quovis
and
ligno :fit Mercurius. No matter how indiscreet tual and probably an intentional disqualification of
intemperate he may be—no matter how grossly ig•
those who have it not from ever acquiring it, through
norant he may be of the laws which it is hii duty whatever merits they may deserve them. There is
j
fully to understand and impartially to administer-=he just a possibility that the Gold Currency Act of 1819
is still wise and prudent enowah for the sister-coup-
was favourable to the enlargement of Sir Ron ERN PE EL'S
private, fortune._ There is every human probability
try. Such is:. the deliberate opinion of the highest
that; ander his Bill of 1844, no man, now without a
legal authority in Ireland, as manifested. by the retip-.:
fortUne, will ever be able; by
.honest industry, to
p(ointment t , the Bench of an individual whom that*
a"quire so large a, one as that bequeathed to Sir
same legal authority had previously "stated to -be
ROBERT PEEL by his late father. What is said on
wholly= disqualified for acting in a magisterial caps-
! The defence set up for
.Mr. O'DatscoLi." by the subject of foreign trade, in the same illustration
their Lordships was the most puerile it is possible t, of the operation of the paper pound system, is cons
Ousive as to its advantages to our own commerce.
conceive. Lord Wuaanscurre went the length
of asserting that his assault on the N/A The illustration of diagram No IL, we should only
weaken by attempting to add anything to the clever
exposition of the evils of the gold, standard. But it
was by- no means without justification, for
it had taken place while he was out hunting, and what
apt to think the
_priblic willattach much more
sportsman could bear to be interrupted in his amuse-
concludes with two assertions, to which we are
value than to the improved -platitudes of Sir
merit ? Irritation at such a moment was the most
natural thing pOssible, and he was astonished, there- value
florsar PEEL didactic essays, •on `- the famous
fore, to find the assault described as an
one." As' for Lord Lvarnnuasr, he thoUght the as-
question, " whatis a pound ?" And these are, 1. That
-
sault quite " ludicrous;' while the. Earl of RIPON on Idait's pound the National Debt was...chiefly con-
observed that " there was material distinction be-
tracted, and might have been paid. Of within the last
tween what Mr. 01,Daiscom. had donea
in
,tuitnty-five years. 2. That on PEEL'S pound the Na-
'tional Debt haa been virtually doubled in amount; but
vidual and Jai' magisterial capacity,"--that is to say,
though the man might be peccant, the magic weare reluctant to believe—and cannot allow—that it
trate was to be held spotless, for, it was
never can be paid," except, indeed, in the disas-
.
quite plain that when he anointed the trous contingency of Sir ROBERT'S retaining the
shoulders of the boy with his horsewhip, he did 'so. PreMiership for five years longer 1
not in his official, but in his private, capacity. Bu

Lord MOUNTCAiHELIS defence of Mr. O'DniscoLL

Accounts from Alexandria of the 26th of June
announce the arrival of Sir HENRY HARDINOR, on
the afternoon of the 22d, in the Geyser steamer, from
'Markilles. He landed next day, Sunday, as a pri-
vate indiVidual, but re-embarked again for
.a short
time; and afterwards landed in state, in the PAcua's
barge, when a salute of 19 guns was fired. He was
received by a guard of honour. At three o'clock,
after attending church, he paid a visit to MEHEMET
Am, who met him at the door of the Audience Hall,
and gave, him a warm reception. On the 24th he
dined with the PAcui, and next day left for Suez,
where he was to,embark in the Hindostan for India.
From.all accounts the interviews between the PACRA
And the Governor-General were of the most friendly
lescription ; a circumstance highly honourable to this
.able and high-minded chief.

was the most comical, end logically considered, is

entitled to the praise of consummate originality.
He was of opinion that that gentleman was en•

titled to be restored to 'the Bench, if only 'on

the score- of his gentility, for, added this

droll Peer, '" in a part of the country where

gentlemen were scarce, it was a matter of great im

portanee that a gentleman of Mr. O'DaiscoLL's

character and property should be a magistrate." •We,
infer, from this that to use " the most disgusting and

unbecoming language",is-no impeachthent of an Irish
manes gentility, and that to-thrash a boy without thi

slightest pruvocation, in nowise impugns his charac.
ter, or lessens efficiency as a magistrate !

No public question, within our experience or re-
collection, has developed more varied ability and
talent, out of doors, than that of the CurrencY,"
since the first announcement of Sir ROBERT PEEL'i.
Bank Charter Bill. No public question, of so mo.
mentous or extensive a character, has ever been
treated with such unpardonable apathy or misconcep-
tion by the great majority of the representatives of
the people in the House of Commons, as the pre-
sent state of our monetary system, and its future
relations unler the same Bill. If, out of
the 658 trustees of the interests of the people at large,
who are returned to Parliament by the electoral con-
stituency of the United Kingdom (a body consisting
of some hundreds of thousands of persons), only some
forty or thirty are "still few and faithful found*" in
the conflict between the advocates of the unfettered
action of property and labour against the monopolizing
and absorbing influence of realised capital represented
in gold, or convertible into gold at a fixed standard
Mint price, it is so much the snore important that
there should be zealous, active, and able champions
in the general field to vindicate the salutary rights
of the former upon the destructive and exclusive pre-
tensions of the latter. Among the many clever attempts
at concentrating close reasoning and sound argument
on the somewhat ungrateful but all-important
subject of the Currency, to which the pending
discussions have given rise on • Sir -ROBERT'S
last device for injuring industrial labour,
in this country, facilitating the usurious employment
of capital, and paralysing all the energies of com-
merce, we may commend to our readers, as well
worthy of their perusal, a short paper called " The
PITT Pound versus the PEEL Pound." In another
part of our paper we have reprinted this "Appeal to
Common Sense." If we did not find our own
repeatedly-recorded convictions on the matter con-
firmed by this and other remarkable coincidences of
opinion, we might desist from our humble efforts
to press upon the public the adoption of the views we
hold upon it, in common with all who concur in de-
nouncing both the original mischief of 1819, and its
so-called " complement" of 1844. But the whole
question is one of so vital, so immediate, so irresist-
ible a character, that, like AARON'S rod-serpent, it
swallows up all the rest that interest,. at prpsent, the
public curiosity. Its vast and pervading importance
is felt even now, but it will be hereafter
tangibly present in every concern and relation 1,
of commercial engagement, State business, or do-
mestic and social life, that -are. Mixed up with the

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday,
he amendments made by the Chamber of Peers on
he Orleans and Bordeaux Railway Bill were dis-
cussed. The chief amendment was the rejection of the
7th article, introduced by M. CREMIEUX, which pro-
hibited Members:of the two Chambers from becoming
contractors for works on railways and directors of
companies. A discussion took place on this clause,
and from the opposition made to it by the Govern-
ment and several influential Members, no doubt re-
mained that the . Deputies would affirm the amend-
ment, and reject the, absurd clause. The Committee
on the election of M. CHARLES LAFITTII for Louviers
met on Saturday', Having withdrawn the letter
written by him to the Minister of Public Works, no
objection was raised to his taking his seat; but the
reporter, M. DEMURE, was directed, in recommend-
ing the admissionlofM. CHARLES LAFITTE, to pro-
pose to the Chamber that it should be intimated to
him that his withdrawing of the letter must necessarily
interdict him from . taking any share, direct or indi-
rect, in the question of the branch of the Rouen Rail-
road to which it-related. The papers bring no additional
intelligence from Africa ; hut all interest in the affair
had died away, asit was generally believed that the
Emperor of MOROCCO would accede to the terms
offered by France. 9n the 2d instant the whole of
the- Prince DE JoutyiLLE's squadron, consisting of
the Suffren, Jemappes, and THUM, of the line, the
Belle Poule frigate, and the Gassendi, Pluton, As-
inodee, and Phare steamers, were assembled in the
roadstead of Mers el Kebir. The Phare was dis-
patched on the Ist to Tangiers with the ultimatum of
the French Government.
The following are additional extracts from the
papers :
" A letter from Dreux thus describes the celebration of
the anniversary of the death of the Duke of Orleans :—At
half-past eleven the King; leading the Queen by the hand,
entered the body of the chapel through the crypt. His Ma-
jesty took his station in the centre of the choir, before the
altar, having the Queen on his right, and next to her the
Queen of the Belgians and the Duke de Montpensier.
On his left was the Duchess of Orleans, between her Royal
Highness Madame Adelaide and the Prince de Wurtemberg.
rhe 'Clergy followed the Royal Family from the crypt. It
was impossible to see without emotion the august widow
of the Prince 'Loyal endeavouring to suppress the convulsive
sobbings of her heart, prostrated and motionless on the earth
by the weight of her grief, while the King and Queen were
seeking resignation at the foot of the altar. One overwhelm-
ing feeling predominated in all who were present; the most
lively sympathy with the august mourners was depicted in
every countenance. After the absolution, the King and his
Family returned to the Palace, passing again through.,the
rypt, where tha Queen and the Duchess remained a long
use kneeling before the tomb of the departed Prince.,: j
" The money laid out, upon the chateau at Dretix amounts
to a very considerable slim. .Between 1822 and 1830, the
King vx,,ended more than 100,000 f. in finishing the chapel
!,egun hi- his mother, he Duchess Dowager of ,Orleans. And
'ince WO, the outlay has, been no less than 3,500,000 f. Be-
-0,, ~en Oh: arid, the end a 1845 the works to be done are es-
i.nated at 800,000 f. His Majesty has also endowed the
(loyal chapel with a revenue of 25,0001."
'he Courrier Francais says:— We understand that !mine-
liately on the close of the session Marshal Soult will go to
~ass three months at his seat of Saint Amend ; the Minister
of Commerce will take a tour through the manufacturing dis-
tricts; the Minister of Public Works will make a general
inspection of the railroads; the Minister of the Marine' will
visit Chcerbourg and Brest; the Minister of Justice will pass
a month with his family at Douai, and the Ministers of Fi-
nances and Public Instruction will go to take the benefit of
onte of the mineral waters.
TILE BOURSE—MONDAY, JULY 15.
First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
!'!'etch Five pere!nts•• •. • . 122 05 .. 122 20 122 05 .. 122 15
Three per Cents.•..• K 75 .. 31 115 75 .. 81 SO
Sank et Prance 3040.. —3040 . 3040 ..3040
I I,ooof. Shero,ll2o • .1120 .. 1120 1120
•5400f.'Shares5C67.L0 —5067 50 —5067 50 —5067 bp
itsiglim Rank ..;... • •-• • . CB6 • .. 680 680 .. 1380

T;rlgitliFivc:d.l'.~4n•••••••• 105 f .. 105 f ..
.I.4paiulifsh Threes. , 34 .. 33* .. 335 .. 33}
.*alasive .•..
Neoteolltan••••,%,- . •••• 98 80 .. 98 55 .. 95 80 •• 98 90 1
Rnman• • • ••••,104 .. 1041 .. 104 .. 1043
ft_ttr.NrAY
.. ...•••-• &SS •- • 595. •• 892 50 •• 690
Ve4-5511ie5, la•B.• •••••• • • • • • 247 .. 347 63 245