The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-12 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOISITAIENTS

Crawley and Horsham hds, Monday, Capol Village ; Thurs-
day, West Grinstead ; Saturday, Pound Hill, 10—Cheshire
hds, Motiday, Abbey Arms ; Wednesday, Wryne Hill ; Thurs-
day, Wilkesley Village; Saturday, Wrenbury, I(l—Essex
Union hds, Tuesday, Hazelaiih Hall ; Saturday, Totham
Maypole, l oi Montg omeryshire lids,Tuesday, 1 Iwyllth Gwallay;
Friday, Car Howell Village, 10—Mr. Roe's his, Tuesday,
Creye,mise Village ; Friday, Kinestone Village, 10—'Tiverton
hits, Monday, Rampton Down; Friday, Dulverton—Tickham
hds, Monday, The Squirrels, Stockbory ; Thursday, Wickling
Wood, 10i—Mr. Candler's hds. Monday, Old Hills; Wednes-
day, lii-hop's Woos'.; Friday, Ham Bridge, 104 Hereford-
shire hds, Tuesday, 10th mile-stone on the Abergavenny Road ;
Friday, Wall Hills, 10—United Pack. Tuesday, Buckley, 9
Brighton harriers, Monday, Thunder's Barrow; Wednesday,
Patcham ; Friday, Dyke, 11—Mr. Trelawrey's lids, Tuesday,
Ivybridue, 10I—Brooksit'e harriers, Monday. Newmarket
Hill; Thursday, Telsctimbe Tye, loi--.Fssex and Suffolk lids,
Tuesday, Gol Grove; Friday, Little Lent:ey Hall, Ifl—Norili
Vi icksh ire hds, Tuesday, Kenilworth Castle ; Friday,
Meridens, 104 -- Warwickshire hds, Monday. Bearlay Village ;
Tuesday, Oxhill Village; Thursday, Mitford Bridge; Satur-
day, Red Hill, 104—Ayrshire hds, Tuesday, Enterline Gate;
Friday, Auchans.

Trawl fish have lately been very scarce, but the
boats brought in a better supply on Tuesday morning.
Gurnets in particular were very plentiful ,• and sprats
have been hawked about the town for several days, at the
rate of a penny a quart. The mackerel season has com-
menced. Several of our larger boats have been fishing for
some days off Plymouth. Two llastings boats on Monday
took some fine fish, the first 1,300, the other 500, which
were sold at 3/. per hundred. In consequence of this,
other boats made immediate preparations to depart
for the fishing grounds. We heard yesterday that
some of our fishermen had been successful off
Rymouth, anti had taken about 4,000 mackerel to the
Loudon markets, but that owing to a large suiply at the
.acne time from other parts of the coast, they did not
realise more than 18s. per hundred.—Brighton Gazette.
AMERICAN HoNouß.—The Americans have raised
a loan, but it is out of their own pockets. They have teen
lending each other money, but it is only to decoy others to do
the same. The accomplices of a thimble-rig proprietor lend
money to each other for the purpose of drawing on the b)-
stat.ders to play the game. Such is the intention, no doubt, of
an American loan, raised out of the pockets of the Americans.
If other nations are inclined to trust them, the Yankees will
make themselves safe, and then—repudiate. If, by chance,
the pea is discovered under the right thimble, the proprietor of
the « rig" instantly commences a row, upsets the table, loses-
the pea, pockets the cash, and, in a word, repudiates. In
fact, repudiation is a convenient mode of disposing of sundry
small claims ; and as America has tried it on a large scale, we
strongly recommend its application to smaller matters—such as
tailors' bills, and the claims of one's landlord.—Punch.

M. Beranter has written a letter, praying the
students of the schools to excuse his proceeding at their head
to the ceremony of inaugurating the statue of Moliere on the
lbth, as they had requested. "My character, my
tastes, and my habits," says M. Beranger, " have
always kept me away horn public solemnities, where
I should find myself ill at ease and unable to utter a
single word." The poet also expresses his regret at having
been from home when the students visited him lately, and
laments that any collision should have taken place afterwards.
The following passage in the letter would seem to intimate
that the poet still continues his compositions :—" Persuade
those generous young men to leave in his corner—which, thank
Heaven, is not the gloomy corner of the misanthropist—the old
philosopher and song-writer, still faithful to his convictions and
his sympathies. The dreams which he still makes there will
prove, he hopes, to your generation, which sail so long survive
him, that to his last moments he was occupied with tie happi-
ness and glory of his country."
It is said that the will of the 'ate eccentric Mr.
Thompson, of the Priory, Hampstead, who left a large sum of
money to Mr. Barnard Gregory, at present a prisoner in New..
gate, is disputed, and the question is about to come before the
Prerogative Court.
Catiranviat.n's Nosr.—Crarnal ell's note became a
grand point of attack with the Royalists, in the civil wars of
Charles the First, when they failed Pgainst the " Parliament
Men" in the field. One of Sancroft's correspondents is thus
humoraus upon the topic in a letter, that is preserved in the
liodleian Library :—" Ono, in a discourse about the Lord's
anointed, stuck not to say, he thought. Cromwell the very
same.' ( This was in 1650.) And shall that oily nose at last
go for the Lord's anointed? No, we have better terms to ex-
pre,s so much desert by. his the saints' Minimum quoddant na-
tarok : a Nol-with-the-whisp—the Commonwealth's noli
vie tangere—that which people rather gaze at than delight in,
and wherewith they are mastered, like a company of jackdaws
in the night at the sight of a torch ; were that quenched, they
would be at their nest again. It is Samson's foxes' firebrands,
and all beaten together into an intolerable nose—the Devil's
breeches turned wrongside upwards, and clapped by mischance
to the General's face ! But flies must not be too bold with
the candle for scalding their wings : it is, God knows what.;
and do what I can, I must leave it the same I found it."
This is a tolerably strung philippic against the Oliverian nasal
organ !
FRENCH LAW FOR ENGLISH RESIDENTS.—The
Correctional Tribenal of Tours was engaged on January 6th,
with the trial of a Mr. T an English gentleman, mov:ng
in the first society of the town, for ill-treating his children. It
appeared that this gentleman, who was a person of good for-
tune,
had discharged his valet for some fault, and the latter,
out of revenge, went and lodged the above complaint against
him. The commissary of police, accompanied by a medical
man proceeded to Mr. T—'s residence, and found on the
backs of hi; two little girls same black and blue marks. Mr.
T— at once admitted that those marks were caused by a
small horsewhip, which he used for correcting his children.
On the trial a number of persons came forward, and bore
testimony to the general good health of the children. Several
English ladies declared that they had seen the little girls about
the time of the Commissary's visit, and that they appeared to
be both gay and cheerful. M. de Noe, Captain in a Ilussar
regiment quartered in the town, declared that a kinder man
than Mr. T— could not be found, but that it was the habit in
England for parents to correct their children with a rod or
whip. He had himself been educated at a public school in that
country, and knew it to be a fact. After alengthexed sitting
the Court deliberated for half an hour, and then declared that
Mr. T—, having been proved to have given blows to his chil-
dren, be fined 50f. and pay the costs.— Galignani's Messenger.
ARREARS OF CASES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS.
—Yesterday Hilary Term commenced, at which time the
arrears of the three Common Law Courts were as follow :
In the Court of Queen's Bench there is a list of 74 rules for
new trials ,tanding for argument, the earliest of which was
moved in Michaelmas Term, 1842. In the special paper of
the same Court there are 24 cases, whilst in the peremptory
paper there are 47 rules. In the Court of Common Pleas
there are in the rernanet paper six enlarged rules, and twenty
others for new trials, all of which latter rules were obtained in
last term, and would probably have been disposed of but for the
new business introduced into the Court by the registration ap-
peals, two of which remain for the consideration of the Court.
There are ten causes in which demurrers are to be argued. In
the Court of Exchequer there are 30 new trials which were moved
for in November last. In the peremptory paper there are seven
cases, and 13 in the special paper. These lists will be increased
by applications, which, according to the practice of the Courts,
must be made within the first four days of the present term,
arising out of causes tried at the sittings after last term. 'I here
is a diminution in the arrears, and it is evident that they have
been materially decreased by the somewhat recent Act enabling
the Courts to decide similar matters out of term. A rumour is
rife among the profession, that a measure will he brought
before Parliament for the purpose of lessening the labours of
the Court of Queen's Bench, by creating an additional Court
for the disposal of the ordinary business, and to be a Court of
Appeal in criminal matters. The measure alluded to is said
to be deemed necessary, as the business of the Court of Queen's
Bench is of a very heavy description, and partly to be attri-
buted to its exclusive jurisdiction in criminal proceedings. By
an Act which came into operation on the Ist instant, the
Crown-office is thrown open to the profession and a number of
offices abolished.

last or the four-horse coaches, whose excellent
appointments, accommodation, and /peed, used to be the glory
of illaidstone, ceased running on Saturday last, up to which
day M. . Coastworth hadspiriteilly maintained with his coach,
the Favourite, an unequal competition w.th the steam-cart iages
on one side of the old London-road and the steam-boats on the
other. '1 he inconvenience to the residents on the line of road,
we need not say, will be severely felt.--211aidsbne Journal.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-
(Jae the Governor of South Australia. .

IRELAND.
THE STATE TRIALS.

DUELIN, JA N. Ito.—Term commences ta-morrow, and
already public excitement is wrought to the very utmost pitch.
he town has been literally deluged with rumours, for the last
ew days respecting some fresh and damaging evidence alleged
to be in the possession of the Crown, and which, says the re-
sort, will be forthcoming at an early stage of the prosecution.
The sum and substance of all this appears to be a repetition
if a statement put forward some time since .by an au'hority
alio is supposed to know something of the secrets of Burgh
quay, and vsho then very roundly asserted that there had been
eachery in the repeal camp; that, in fact, an attaché had
out been as fsithful to his trust as the heads of his department
:mold have reasonably wished. During the present wick the
names of three individuals have been freely mentioned as those
of the persons supposed to be implicated in the mysterious
transaction, which, it is just probable, may not have the least
foundation i❑ fact. Meanwhile the Crown is making strenuous
xertiuns to, if possible, strengthen the case against the tra-
versers. Summonses have already and quite unexpectedly
been s. rved upon parties who never before dreamt of figuring
,s witnesses in a State prosecution. Independently of the re-
porters of the London and Dublin papers, a gentleman totally
unconnected with the press hss received a notiasi from the
Crown-office, reques'ing his attendance to prove the hand-
writing of one of the traversers; and other persons similarly
circumstanced, are to be called upon in a like manner.
It is stated to-day that one of the jury has already declined to
serve, en the score of indisposition ; and that he has procured a
sick cereficate for the purpose of exemption from the arduous
task, which, according to the boast of the traver.ess s' part:sans.
cannot be brought to a conclusion before the very last day
allowsble by law. It is also added, that three: or four more
jurors have expressed their determination to pay the highest
penalty that the Crown can inflict rather than run the chance
of being detained for an indefinite period from their usual
avocations.
The indefatigable Mr. Pierce Mahony has filed another
monster affidavit in the Crry.vn-office, upon which to ground an
application to the Court fur a postponement of the trials. The
affidavit goes into a history of the revision before the Recorder,
showing that the Crown, by consenting to a postponement of
the trials from the 11th of December to the loth of January,
did not consider that an impartial jury could be selected from
the old panel. It also sets forth the proceedings had last week
in the Crown-office, the objections to the mode in which they
were conducted, as embsdied in Mr. Ithhony's protest, aid
enumerates the names of sever:.) Roman Catholics who, it is
alleged, were improperly excluded from the list. It concludes
by stating, as a matter of course, that delay is not the object
souglst, but that as the panel is now constituted the traversers
could not expect a fair trial.
The following is from the Monitor of this evening :
MOST IMPORTANT.

We said in cur last that we expected to be able to communi-
cate some startling intelligence in our present publication, re-
specting the extraordinary omission of some sixty-nine names
from the special jury list prepared by the High Sheriff—and so
we are !

That the public nay thoroughly understand the matter, it is
necessary to remind them that the revision cf the special ji:ry
list rests entirely with the Recorder. He examines the quali-
fications of any man, and judges whether or not he is qualified
according to law to be placed on the panel. This done, the
jurors' book is made out under the Recorder's direction, and
authenticated by him, and then handed over to the High Sheriff,
who is bound by law faithfully and truly to make out a list of
juro:s that appear on the jurors' book, and it is from this list, so
made out, that the clerk of the Crown strikes special juries.

Now, that a most astounding discrepancy appears between
the number of gentlemen admitted as special jurors by the Re-
corder, and the number set forth on the High Sherifi's list, is
undeniably true. The High Sheriff's list contains 717 names ;
whereas the number, as qualified jurors by the Recorder,
amounted to 780. This, we repeat, is a fact which has now been
ascertained beyond the possibility of all cavil or doubt.
Who, then, is chargeable with this extraordinary omission?
Who thus falsified the special panel ?
It appears from the information that has reached us on this
moms ntous point, that the Reerrder admits that the High She-
riff's list is not a faithful transcript of the jurors'-book, as pre-
pared and authenticated by him.
Yes, we repeat, Mr. Recorder Shaw admits that some 63
gentlemen whom he placed on the parch do not appear cn the
High Sheriff's li,t, from .shish the special jury was struck.
Is Lot this a startling announcement ? But the question
again presents itself, by whom were the 63 names omitted ?
'f he mystery of this dark transaction has not yet been per-
fectly cleared up: We can only state leading facts—the full
details, however, must soon sce the light. ,Concealment is ut-
terly impossible.
We ate so far in the possession of the facts as to state that
after the Recorder had concluded the revision of the panel, but
before that panel had been arranged in alphabetical order, &L..,
he left Dublin on a visit to Sir Robert Peel, at Drayton Manor.
Accordingly, as the panel was arranged in alphabetical order,
it was tran.mitted, made out on slips, to the Recorder, at Dray-
ton Manor, to be authenticated by him ; and it appears that
two slips, containing the 63 omitted names, either were not
forwarded to the Recorder, or, being forwardtd, did not come
into his hands, for we understand the Recorder has no recollec-
tion of the omitted names having reached
,him. Now this
places the whole matter in a nutshell.
Either the two missing slips were forwarded to the Re-
corder or they were not. If not forwarded, than the officer re-
sponsible is the guilty par y. If, however, they were for-
warded, then the Recorder is culpable. . .

We deal thus pointedly with the subject, because it is mere
moonshine to still ose that accident had aught to do with the
ab,t2 action of the missing dips. These says contained the
names of sixty-three genthmen, the majority of whom were
Catholics. This fact speaks trumpet-tongued. By no mere
accident could such an omission took place.
The Recorder's character is involved in this matter, and he
must come honestly forward to clear up the whose transaction,
else he is irretrievably damaged in reputation as a judge, and
in character as an honourable man.

We shall say no more to-day on this branch of the subject ;
but we must now ask how can the Government go to trial
before a jury thus admittedly struck from a partial and falsified
panel?
No trial cars be had before such a jury, for a convietion
under the circumstances would nA carry with it the slightest
par isle of moral weight.
The Crown cannot, without outraging public justice, press
for a trial before such a jury. The evil they seek to remedy
would be aggravated a thousand-fold by, in violation of every
principle of justice, forcing the traversers to go to trial before
a jury obtained from a panel notoriothly detective, no matter
who may be the guilty party.
The administration of justice would gain nothing, Lut suffer
much, by urging on a trial under the circumstances. What,
then, will the Crown do?

Of course we cannot pretend to say. Two courses, how-
ever, are open to the Crown officers—either to proceed with
the present jury, or to consent that the present reduced jury
list be set aside, and a new jury seleQted from the entire panel,
as amended and rectified by the addition of the 63 omitted
names.

This litter is the only honest alternative left the Crown.
To proceed otherwise wsarld .be to shake national confidence
in the administration of justice, and render the Government
that could sanction such a proceeding amenable to the repre-
hension and contempt of every honest man.
We are inclined, indeed, to believe that the Crown will
adopt the fair and honest course we have indicated, because
last night notice was served on the traversers of the intention
of the Attorney- General to move the Court to-morrow, or as
soon after as possible. that, should the trials not have terminated
on the 31st, each succeeding day up to the 15th of April shall
be considered as part of Hilary term for the purposes of the
said trials. The following is the notice :
IN THE QUEEN'S BENCH, CROWN SIDE.
"THE QUEEN AGAINST DANIEL O'CONNELL, JOHN O'CON.
NELL, THOMAS STEELE, THOMAS MATTHEW RAY,
CHARLES GAYAN DUFFY, JOHN GRAY, RICHARD BAR•
RETT, TILE REV. THOMAS TIERNEY, AND THE REY.
PETER JAMES TYRRELL.

" Sir,—Take notice, that counsel on behalf of the Cro.vn
will, on Thursday, the 11th day of January inst., or on the
first opportunity after, move the Court for an order, that in
the event of the trial of this cause, fixed for the 15th inst.,
not hat ing terminated on or before the 31st inst., that Thurs-
day, the Ist day of February next, and every succeeding day
until the 15th day of April next, or so many thereof as may
be necessary for that purpose, shall be appointed by the Court
for the continuation of the said trial, and that the days so fixed
shall accordingly for the purpose of said trial be deemed and
taken to be a part of the Hilary Term of this present year 1844.
" Dated this 9th day of January, 1844. '
" WILLIAM KEMMIS, Crown Solicitor,
"40, Kildare-street, Dublin.
" To Daniel O'Connell, Esq., John O'Conneli,
Esq., Thomas Steele, John Gray, Richard
Barrett, the Rot. 'Thomas Tierr.ey, the Rev.
Peter James Tyrrell, Charles Ga‘an Duffy,
and Thomas Matthew Ray ;
And to

" William Forde, PiereeMahotty, Thomas Rei'ly,
Peter M. Gartlan, and J. M. Cantwell, Escire..,
Attorneys for the abovenamed traversers."

Now, unless the Crown intend to adopt such a course as we
have mentioned, it appears strange that they should require
such an extension for the trials as io the 15th of April next,
making three clear months.
We hope, then, that the Crown have determined not to go
to trial before such a jury, for a trial under the circumstances
would be nothing but a barefaced and outraged mockery of the
administration of justice.
We subjoin the particulars of what is regarded as a most im-
portant notice, xthich was served on the traver;ers last night by
the Crown.

The notice is very long, but we have made an abs`ract from
it, giving in detail everything contained in it, denuded of an
immense mass of verbiage:—
l. To produce on the forthcoming trials any diploma, card,
or other document issued by the association, wherein the tra-
versers are designated volunteer mernioers or associates, or any
other document in their possession proving their connection
with the association ; and also the books containing the entries
of members, the payments to the association, &e.
2. To produce the laws or rules which govern the association,
and of its several officers, such as repeal wardens, inspectors,
collectors of rent, &c.

3. To produce any book containing entries of the proceed•
ings of any committee appointed since the Ist of July, 1840,
together with the minutes of proceedings of all such meetings
held (luring all the months of the past year, and the resolutions
passed at such meetings.
4. To produce tie abstract of accounts of the Association
from the 6th of September, 1842, to the 26th of January, 1843,
audited and signed by Edward Hogg, J. P. Conran, arid John
I.evey, and also all books containing the receipts with the dis-
bursements for the years 1842 and 1843, to the proprieto.s of
the Nation, Pilot, and Freeman's Journal newspapers.
5. Copies of the following letters.—Of the 14th of February
last, by 'T. M. Ray, to the Freeman's Journal; of the 6th of
March, by the Rev. Richard Kitson, of Askeaton, Limerick;
of the I lth of March, by J. C. O'Callaghan to T. M. Ray ; of
the 29th of April and other subsequent dates, by Maurice
O'Connell; of the 10th of May and other dates, by B. O'Hal-
loran, of Curry; of the 16th of May, by the Rev. Mr. Mea-
gher, of Stradbally ; of the 22d, by Mr. O'Connell ; of the
16th of June, dated Halifax, and signed James Tobin; of the
29th, by Mr. O'Connell, contaiiiir g the list of repeal wardens
for Munster; ..of the 29th, by Rev. A. H. Martin, of Carrow-
brow ne ; also all letters addressed to Mr. O'Connell fiorn the
Repeal Societies in the United Staten and British America, of
which many are suggested in the notices; also letters by the
Rev. Martin Loftus, of Galway ; Rev. P. Hanly. of Rally-
doialy ; Rev. T. Gillseman, of Lurraghroe, and all documents
by the latter gentleman to the Association in the months of
.luly, August, and September of the past year.
6. Also, copies of letters by the Ver. P. Maguire, of Ma-
gun e's• bridge ; the Rev. Charles M‘Derrnott, and E. AP Hugh,
to the Pilot new•paper • the Rev Hugh M'Gauran, of Swan-
briber ; Sir Benjamin 11Iorrls, Waterford ; P. Daly, county of
Clare; lion. Martin French, to Dr. Gray ; Robert 'l)ler,
jun., to 1). O'Connell ; Lord French ; F. Maguire, Clonkeen ;
Rev. E. Murtagh, of Eglish Frankford; Thon as French ; J.
1114)annell, Doo Castle; Charles O'Connell, Aghadoe; B. T.
Roche, Galway ; J. 11. Hynes, Clare ; Dennis Jackson, Tal-
low ; H. Daly, Wicklow; J;APDermott, Athlone ; J. Doyle,
P. Sherrett, Loughrea ; J, M'Cougher, Glasgow ; J.
M.Ternan and Simon Walsh ; Rev. N. M'Evoy, Keels; Rev.
E. Casey, Collinstown ; Rev. P. Farelly, Moyrialty ; Rev.
M. Coughlan, ReV. M. Tunny, Ballintt a ; B. Mas'erson, Mul-
lingar ; J. Delany, Marybbrough ; Rev. E. Walsh, Ballypo-
reen ; together with all letters received or read at any meet-
ings of the Association for the past year.
7. Also a document entitled, "Plan for the renewed action