The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-22 00:00:00

THE STATE TRIALS.

The readers •f the Pilot %N ill see by our columns that we aro
faithfully redeeming the pledge given in our last. We have
been close, and not unobservant, ear and eye witnesses of the
proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench since Monday, and
our readers shall in due time be placed in full possession of the
result.
Never, certainly, was there a stranger proceeding ; never a
lamer case. From no labouring mountain of threat ever crept
forth a mainuter mouse of statement and proof than the farrago
of the Attorney-General and his evidence up to the moment
we write.
On Monday we intend to publish a Supplement, in which
shall be given the speeches of O'Ccnnell and of Mr. Barrett,
delivered at Mullaghmast, on which the Crown lawyers seem
to rely as the main buttresses of the case. During the reading
of O'Connell's magnificent speech a thrill of admiration per-
vaded the Court. That speech ought to be, and it shall be, re--
published in full.
Of other incidents in Court we shall speak, and amongst
other things we have to make the amend. to Mr. Frederick
Bond Hughes, which we shall do with much greater satisfae-
, tion than we felt in assailing that gentleman.
j The greater portion of the time to-day was consumed by the
I reading of documents—a work performed by Ross in a slow,
feeble, and unsatisfactory manner. The Mullaghmast speeches
were read a second amt.—Pilot.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
TVORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. Hamm-m.IN requested the reporters to acknowledge the
receipt of the following further donations for the unfortunate
widow Hoscroft and her* family, who have been the objects of so
much practical benevolent''-:—From Mr. Mitchell, Bradford,
Yorkshire, 2/. ; T. A. G., N. ; two Ladies, " M. and E. W.,"
11. ; a Gentleman, 10s. ; Aconymous, 5/. ; Mr. C. Pearce,
Auction Mart, 51. ss. ; Y. 8., Ramsgate, 10s. ; " Cerdawd
Cyfawrferol," Wales, 101. ; G. G.,. 1/. ; Anon., 21. 2s. ; Al.,
1/. ; and M. A. S., 1/. The Majistrate also expressed his
grateful a.knowledgments for the• following remittances to be
applied to general charitable purposes 8., 5/. ; S. A. D.,
101.,; and S., 10s.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE EVENING PA PEAS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—The examination sot witnesses, in the Irish State
Trials, on the part of the prosecution, was proceeded with on
Thursday morning. Three "' gentlemen of the press," occu-
pied in succession " the chairs.' as the revolving seat in the
centre of the table around which counsel are arranged,
is designated in the Irish Law Courts. Their evidence
—a mere recapitulation of matters with which every one
who has read the proceedin gs at the " monster meetings,"
as supplied by the daily Journals, was already familiar
—afforded nothing new to the_ craving curiosity of the crowd
within the Court, and will be regarded with indifference by
the country at large. The heatlers of the Repeal Association
seem to have courted publi city in their whole proceedings.
The extraordinary facilities afforded to the reporters for
the London journals, and the special attentions shown
to the witness who anno a:need that he attended the
meetings on leelialf of the Government, showed that se-
crecy formed no element in the dire " conspiracy" with
which the indictment charges O'Connell and his co-defendants.
The Attorney-General, in his opening speech, laid great stress
on those parts of the speecht is delivered by O'Connell which
asserted that the Act of Union: was not binding on the Irish peo-
ple. Divested of the redomo ntade which seems to be generally
regarded in the sister country • as genuine eloquence, the mean-
ing of those passages mus t be taken as intimating that
the conditions on which the. Act of Union was proposed,
have not been fulfilled on the part of England. The impres-
sion which prevails in Ireland iF, that the distress of the popu-
lation of that country has largely increased since, the union
of the two kingdoms ; mud that, in its results, it
has not wrought any of those benefits which it
was expected to produce- The Repeal leaders have,
it is true, asserted that th Union has palsied, instead
of invigorated, the energies of Ireland ; that it has ex-
cluded, instead of admitting, the talents of the country from
the national councils--that it has deprived her of the benefits
which she hoped to derive front the exertions of her own chil-
dren, born, bred, and educate d within her bosom ; that, in
fine, it has not allowed her to. judge for herself on matters re-
lating to the management aolelv of her own interests ; and that
a surrender of her legislative: independence, without compen-
sation or equivalent, it the character and consequence of the
Union. But these things were said and published long before
the Repeal Association was in existence. The question is not
as to the validity of these vieacs : it relates solely to their ex-
istence, and to the periods of their birth. At the time when
they were first promulged, it was contended that the Union
ought not to be conden used before it had obtained a fair
trial. Catholic Emancipation was part and parcel of Mr.
Pitt's plan of uniting the two kingdoms. Nearly thirty
years elapsed before that measure was conceded; and
then it was wrung from the fears of a Government, the leading
members of which yielded to the arrayed determination of a
people to obtain, by force of compulsion, what ought long be-
fore to have been conferred from a sense of justice. Shortly
after that great measure wit 'passed the Whigs came into office,
and administered the Government in the spirit of the enact-
ment. The people receirised the altered disposition of the
Government toward the lon g-proscribed race a; a pledge and
earnest of a new dispensation. The country became peace-
able. The long-existing Indications of a disaffected popu-
lation disappeared Ancient feuds between the profes-
sors of the rival creeds became less frequent, and
less virulent. A new order of feelings began to
pervade the social so atm. This gratifying t
il chan
be-
g
continued to grow in ,extent and depth, untie
came evident th vt the hold of the Whig Ministers
upon the Governnont w. axed feeble, and that the period
of their government was fast drawing to a close. The
apprehensions of the Cad iolicosea, that
s:bed with th
as unfit to pos see return to officess
of the party which had lov g pr them
the rights of citizens, tl tett Oractical exclusion from thoie rights
would again commence, be can to operate. The raised hopes of the
Ultra- limtestants found' it sterance in boasting of what would be
the effects of a Tory (3 cis eminent. The first acts of the pre-
sent administration v reNe but little calculated to remove
or loosen the Cat} ,o7iic dislike to its rule. Tile Re-
peal movement was th e result. With giant strides it pursued
its march. Three pi evinces became embued with its spirit,
and thousands of the population enlisted in its cause. The
policy of the Governor a at was the very opposite of that which
would have disarmed t h e hostility cherished by the Repealers.
Conciliation would Is ave melted the masses into grateful
submission. A very email instalment of gentleness would
have sufficed ; but , that small effort to propitiate a
jealous population was denied. The country
this a gar-
rison—its shores vcircled by a fleet. asthough a
blockade was to ben vaintained, strict as if an invasion were
dreaded by its inhabitants. 'The people are quiet; but that
very quietness is inter preted into an indication of gloomy res
s , ol
bve.
A State trial, which promises_ to 1)o extended ekas