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serious and most untoward event, which could not be
counteracted. Mr. Jackson was to have proved all
the matters—the sayings and doings with which
the indictment charges the traversers in connexion
with the Corn Exchange meetings of the
Repeal Association. The following are the dire
forebodings of failure to the prosecution, resulting
from Mr. Jackson's short comings, which the
Dublin Mail utters on this sad mishap 'We know
not to what extent this lathe may affect the indict-
ment with respect to certain transactions of the Corn
Exchange Association; but we cannot refrain from
censuring the culpable carelessness which left so im-
portant a portion of the case to the accidental care or
negligence of any chance reporter whose notes might
turn up. The Government of Lord Grey was far more
vigilant in this respect, and when the occasion of
watchfUlness arose, two Government reporters were
officially attached to the Association of the day,
with its collateral meetings." The witnesses
examined on Monday have proved nothing
which—taken in its fair and legitimate connec-
tion with what had been previously sworn to—
can in any way serve the prosecution. Not a single
circumstance had occurred at any of the later " mon-
ster meetings," which had not marked those of the
negligenceuei on, if it be assumed
on the part of the earlier dates.
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I that the public peace has been perilled by them ;
while, if they be regarded as mere public demon-
strations of a general dissatisfaction in the people
with their condition, and a vague hope that by a repeal
of the Act of Legislative Union of the two countries
that condition would be improved ; they determining
to seek, by constitutional means, the attainment of
that object—lawful in itself, though chimerical in
the highest degree, as a remedy. for their social griev-
ances ; we can scarcely conceive of anything more
impolitic. For the Government to imagine that such
a state of feeling, in such a people, could be allayed by
first spreading an immense military force over the
peaceable country, until every district in it wears the
appearance of a military depOt, and the whole as
though it were held in its subjection to the British
Crown by the presence of an army of occupation—
was a scheme so fraught with folly, and so pregnant
with all the elements of real danger, as to justify the
worst apprehensions for the peace of the country
it was designed, we suppose, to protect and pre-
serve. One of the witnesses for the prosecution—Mr.
M'Namara, a short-hand writer employed on the part
of the Gorernment to attend the Tullamore meeting
held on the 16th of July, examined on Monday—
was asked, in cross-examination, whether he knew
he was going to the meeting to take a note of the
proceedings for the purpose of being used on any
prosecution ? The answer is worthy of note. It
seemed to take the counsel for the Crown perfectly
by surprise; and produced, as it well might, a hearty
laugh at their expense from the Bar and the
audience :—" On my oath I did not. I thought,
after so many meetings had passed over where the
very same language was used, and the same pro-
ceedings had taken place, that no notice would have
been taken of that meeting in particular." It is
now pretty evident that the Crown lawyers are
beginning to wish these proceedings at an end. The
" shine" has been taken out of the vain boastings of
the Attorney-General in his opening speech. A more
lame and impotent conclusion never followed promises
so boldly made, and predictions so confidently uttered.
The proceedings on the trial will be published, of
course. The " mountain in labour " would be an apt
frontispiece to the book, and
" Parturiunt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus"
a fit motto for its title-page. In the prospect of de-
feat, the Tory organs seek consolation in the Royal
speech at the opening of Parliament, which the Mi-
nisters are now laboriously engaged in concocting
for the occasion.

STANDARD.—The proceedings in the Irish
Court of Queen's Bench were resumed on Monday
morning, the Court having overruled an objection
taken by one of the counsel for the traversers, to the
effect that the trial should not proceed in the absence,
through illness, of Mr. Justice Burton. The At-
torney-General proposed to read part of a docu-
ment proved on Saturday by the printer, enti-
tled, "A Plan for the renewed action of the
Irish Parliament." Mr. O'Connell insisted upon
the whole being read, which was accordingly
done. It contained a list of the constituencies to be
created, with .the number of members for each, and
some other regulations respecting the Irish Legisla-
lature, subsequent to the attainment of Repeal.
" The Rules to be observed by Arbitrators," were
then read. They comprised very minute instructions
for the conduct of the Arbitration Courts. The
" Report of a Sub-Committee of the Repeal Asso-
ciation," recommending that such persons as refused
to obey the awards of the arbitrators should be ex-
pelled, was next put in evidence, after some opposi-
tion from Mr. O'Connell. Thomas Packer, a
lithographic artist, late in the employment of
Mr. Holbrooke, lithographer to the Repeal As-
sociation, was then examined. He proved the en-
graving of two descriptions of cards, and a docu-
ment entitled " the diploma of a repeal warden,"
for the Repeal Association. The cards were those
referred to in the opening speech of the Attorney-
General. The witness stated that he designed the
portraits in the borders. They represented Mr.
O'Connell, Mr. Flood, Owen Roe O'Neill (a leader
of the Roman Catholics in the merciless war-
fare carried on under pretence of favouring the
monarchy in 1641—.5), Brian Boroihme, and Allan
Fodlum (an apocryphal character celebrated in
the Irish annals as a lawgiver). This likeness the
witness sketched from his imagination, as he did that
of the rebel Hugh O'Neale. There were also por-
traits of General Saarsfield and " King Daltran."
The designing and engraving of these cards were
carried on under the inspection of four of the tra-
versers. The crnas-examination of these witnesses
and Joseph
elicited nothing material. Isaac. Gardner, a writing
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some opposition by the traversers' counsel, read to the
Court. John Ulick Macnamara, a short-hand writer,
connected with an Iri▪
sh provincial newspaper, stated
that he was present at a repeal meeting, attended by
Mr. O'Connell, at Tullamore, on the 16th July, and
took notes of the proceedings. He read to the Court
the addresses of three Roman Catholic priests,
Flanagan, Spain, and Kearneyr, and a portion of the
Mr.
speech of
O'Connell. The witness also de-
scribed the banners displayed on the occasion, one of
which bore the motto "Ireland and her Parliament,
or the World in a Blaze., He was cross-examined
at great length, and stated that'he had been employed
to take notes of the meeting by a stipendiary
magistrate, but had not been yet paid. During
the examination of thi▪ s witness the Attorney-General
informed the Court that two of the traversers
(understood to be Mr. O'Connell and his son) had
'left the precincts of the Court ; and that
although he was disposed to give them every
reasonable liberty during the trial, he could
not permit them to attend meetings elsewhere ; con-
sequently, if they di▪ d not return immediately he
would estreat their recognisances. Mr. O'Connell,
who had been attending a meeting of the
Repeal Association, shortly afterwards entered the
Court. John Simpson Stewart, a sub-inspector of
constabulary, gave evidence respecting the Tullamore
meeting, in corroboration of that of the last witness.
Mr. Neill Browne, a stipendiary magistrate, gave
testimony to the same effect. James Johnson,
a head-constable, was next examined respect-
ing the meeting held at Longford on the 29th
of May. He took notes, which he read, of the
speech of Mr. O'Connell, and proved that banners were
exhibited bearing such mottoes as " A population of
nine million,' is too great to be dragged at the tail of
any other nation," &c. With the cross-examination
of this witness the proceedings terminated. We
observe with regret a statement to the effect that
placards have been posted in Dublin of a most
atrocious character, denouncing Mr. Hughes, one of
the witnesses for the Crown, as " a spy and an in-
former." Every person who knows anything of the
feelings of the lower Irish must be aware that to
use these epithets respecting any individual, is to
make him the victim of gross insult, if not of assas-
sination ; but the miscreants who are guilty of such
a proceeding as posting these placards, add lying to
their other iniquities. Mr. Hughes gave his evidence
in a most ingenuous and honest manner. At all the
meetings he was known and declared to be taking
notes for the Government. His testimony bore, with-
out the least injury, a searching cross-examination,
and in no one particular is the slightest impropriety
attributable to his conduct.

ARUNDEL, TUESDAY EYENINC—His Royal Ili/41'
nen the Duke of Cambridge has been enjoying tke sports o the
field to-day, in company with Lord Arundel, Lords Edward
and Bernard Howard, &c. The dinner party at the cutle
this evening will include the Duke of Richmond and Lady
Caroline Lennox, W. G. K. Gratwicke, Thomas Evans, John
Abel Smith, Esqrs. Our kens rang
a merry peal en the ar-
rival of his Royal Highness en Monday evening, which gave
great eclat on the occasion. We are happy to say the Noble
Duke is in the enjoyment of excellent health ; he leaves for
Petworth on Thursday on a visit to Colonel Wyndham, in
company with the Duke of Norfolk. The Norfolk Arms is
well occupied with company on the occasion. On Monday
they return to town to attend to their Parliamentary duties.
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SALMON FISHERIES IN THE NORTH.—In the
salmon fishery in the river Eden, near Carlisle, since the com-
mencement of the season, the takes of saluaon have been very
scanty, not more than about a dozen fish having been
and they only of inferior quality, which have been sold in the
market at3s. per pound. In the salmon fisheries in the Tweed
the unlawful practice of poaching has greatly decreased this
season, owing to the vigilance of the water keeper', who have
taken a large number of unlawful nets and brought the of-
fenders to lustice. As yet fish are also very scarce in these
fisheries. The migration of salmon to the northern coasts is
remarkably precarious, for last season they were unusually
plentiful, and wo.. ere sold as low as 4d. per pound, whereas the i
present season is likely to be one of great scarcity, and co
quently that noble 114 will be Mil at high prim.