The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

GEORGE AND ANGEL COMMERCIAL
INN, STAMFORD.

C. L. LUSEGUE has the honour to thank the COMMER-
CIAL GENTLEMEN who have so liberally patronised his
House, and begs to solicit a continuance of their favour, assuring
them that nothing shall be wanting to promote their com-
fort, &c.

Wines and Spirits direct from the docks. Homo brewed
Ales. Loose Boxes.

EARL SPENCER and the NORTH.
AMPTONSHIRE TORIES.
The following letter has been addressed by Earl Spencer to
Mr. Whitworth, tho secretary of the Northamptonshire
Farming and Grazing Society, and by him communicated to
the members of that Society, who are summoned to meet en
the 20th instant :

" Alth trp, January 6, 1E44.
" Sir,—l have always been of opinion, and have frequently
stated; that an Agricultural Society which had anything of a
political character, was an evil instead of a benefit to the coun-
try ; and have invariably declined to connect myself with any
such society, unless one of the conditions of its formation was
the total exclusion of all political discussions. The step which
several gentlemen, who are deservedly considered among the
most respected and eminent farmers of this county, have taken
of withdrawing their names from the Farming and Grazing
Society, and the reason which they have given for so doitag,
must necessarily give a political character t• this society, if I
continue one of its members. I therefore must beg you to with-
draw my name from it. lam very sorry to feel it my duty to
take this step. I have had great satisfaction in acting with the
Society, believing as I do that►it has greatly improved the
agricultr.re of this neighbourhood, but I am confident this has
been mainly owing to the total exclusion of all political feeling
from every part of its proceedings. If I remain a member.
this can no longer be the case, but when lam withdrawn I
hope the farmers will carry it on in the same spirit which has
hitherto animated it.

With respect to the prizes which I have been in the habit
of giving as a member of the Society, I shall, of course, give
those which are announced for this year. After this year, I
shall continue to offer those for cheep-shearing, for mowing,
and for hedge-cutting to the labourers ; for none of them, at
least, will think that they have a r;ght to dictate to me what
my political opinions shall be, because I offer prizes for their
competition.
I shall be quite ready also to continue the other prizes, if
the Society will accept them, unless I find that it is imputed
to me that I have any political or interested motive in so
doing.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
humble set vant, " SPENCER.

•4 11. B. Whitworth, Esq."
This letter was occasioned by several members of the Society
having met on January 4, and resolved amongst other things—
•° That in the opinion of the undersigned, the recent avowal of
the Right Hon. Earl Spencer in favour of free trade in corn,
has rendered it incumbent upon such independent agriculturists
in this county, as are convinced of the evil tendency of such a
measure, to show to the public their sense of the ruin in which
they believe it would involve them, by withdrawing from the
Agricultural Society of which his Lordship was the founder
and is the patror.
The Society, we must add, on the authority of the Nor-
thampton Mercury, under the name of the Northamptonshire
Farming and Grazing Society, was established in 1819, for
the promotion of improvement in agriculture in all its
branches, and for encouraging skill, industry, and good conduct
in servants and labourers in husbandry. It is utterly false to
assert that it was established for a political purpose. It was
one of its earliest conditions that no political question—no
question under parliamentary discussion—should be intruded
upon it. The following is a copy of the rule upon the subject :
" No question shall be discussed at the meetings of this
Society of a political tendency, or which shall refer to any mea-
sure to be brought forward or pending in either House of Par-
liament."

IRELAND.
THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.

Du Bran, JAN. 7.—The Orange advisers of the Irish Go-
vernment have taken a fatal step in striking off the name of
every Roman Catholic from the special jury list. At first those
eleven Roman Catholics, and the single non-political Protes-
tant who was excluded along with them, were set down by the
Orange and Government press as "Radicals." But, even if
they were Radicals, they would not, necessarily, be disquali-
fied from serving on a jury. It was found necessary, there-
fore, to devise some more plausible pretext for the removal of
every Roman Catholic from the panel. Accordingly, the
Evening Packet of last night received instructions from the
Castle to describe them as " Repealers." There is no evidence
whatever of this, even if the fact could be relied upon as a jus-
tification of the conduct of the Crown. At the striking of
the jury, not a syllable on the subject was uttered either by
the Counsel of the Government ( Mr. Brewster), or the 'Clerk
of the Crown (Mr. Kemmis). As each Roman Catholic name
was struck off, Mr. Cantwell, one of the agents of the tra-
versers, publicly declared that he was so struck off as a Roman
Catholic. The fact was not denied. How could it be denied?
The truth is, that the objection about Itepealers was an after-
thought, when the functionaries at the Castle discovered the
fatal error into which their zeal had betrayed them.
But siippose that some, or even all.of the Roman Catholics,
were Repealers, what right would the Crown officer, acting on
behalf of the Government of the country, have to start such
an objection? How could he have had evidence of the fact,
even if there were law to disqualify a Repealer from serving on
a jury ? If a foreigner or an alien is to be tried on a criminal
chtu-ge, the British law gives him the right to place six fo-
reigners upon his jury.
!Here Roman Catholics, seven laymen and one clergyman
(the second clergyman indicted has sunk into the grave), are
to ;Ise tried on a criminal charge, and every Roman Catholic
name drawn out of the ballot-box has been struck out of the
jury list by the officers of the Government
Nark you, this was a special jury list of forty-eight names,
sele,lted from seven hundred, all perfectly eligible, unless some
legal. 'objection could be sustained against the adjudication of
the Recorder upon the revision. If political opinion as a Re-
pealer were a disqualification, it should have been urged before
the Het:order. It was not started then, nor was it urged at
the b.sllot. If the Crown officers were determined to strike off
Repeal( rs—supposing them to have been such—they should
have krpt them off the panel altogether. As it is, the defend-
ants have not had a fair chance of a jury list of forty-eight,
inasmuch as Repealers are declared to be disqualified from
serving' on a jury.
It riney be asked, did the Crown oounsel and solicitor, whilst
they held an inquisition respecting Repealers and Roman Ca-
tholics, its ke any steps to ascertain how many of those they left
on the jury list belong to the Orange Association?
But, ass already observed, the objection about repeal was a
mere aft( sr-thought. The naked fact before the empire—befere
Europe— -is this, that every Roman Catholic, without cause as-
signed, %vas struck off the jury by the agents of the Govern-
ment. :;ir Robert Peel is very plausible; but this damning
fact, not his sophistry can explain away.
The Da sblin Evening Post, of last night, contains the fol-
lowing am touncement:—
" AGGR EGATE MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF
IRELAND. —Who would have imained that it would become
necessary, fourteen years after the Catholic Relief Bill had be-
come the law of the land—that the Catholics of Ireland would
find theses, dyes coerced into an aggregate meeting, for the pur-
pose of denouncing the grievous wrong and the gross insult
offered to them by the Crown, on the recent occasion of re-
ducing the special jury ? Thanks, however, to our nise Go•
vernment— -to those eminently ' practical' men who have the
mismanages tent of oar affairs—this has happened. The re-
quisition will appear in the course of the next week ; but pre-
viously, we %Milli! call on every Roman Catholic gentleman in
Ireland, who can conveniently leave home, to hold himself in
readiness. We shall, on Tuesday, speak more at large on this
most importanS' movement."
EJECTION OF TENANTRY.

The Limerick Chronic.'e says: —" Wednesday last, William
Smith, Esq., eaub-Sheriff. with the aid of police, and a party
of the 61st, f=rom Hathkeale, dispossessed, under habere, a
family of the rwme of Ahern, on the estate of Mr. Conyers, of
Castletown, alit', immediately after he had withdrawn his force
the country peo pie rushed on the premises, broke the locks, and
re-took possessi on in view of the civil and military authorities."
Lord Cardigan will resume the command of the 11th Hussars,
in Dui,lin,. on the 15th inst, the day of AIL O'Connell's trial.
General Lord Bloomfield only stopped two days at his seat,
Laughton, King►'s county. His Lordship has permitted his out.
offices to be appropriated for a detachment of cavalry to be
stationed there.
The remains of Lord Grey's grandson, who died a midship-
man on board the Fox frigate, were inter-red at Tarbert church
with naval honours.