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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, (JANUA R Y 7, 1844.

FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S

French War, exceeded in iniquity the proceedings of the
British Government in India with respect to Sinde.—( Cheer& )
A deep blow had been given by them to the Christian
religion in India. He believed that nothing could tend more
to procure for it the hatred of the Indian population ; and not-
withstanding present appearances, he believed that if we retained
possession of Sinde in the present manner it would be a cancer
which would eat away the prosperity of the British rule.
The following were the resolutions of the requisitionists :
" Ist. That from the printed papers recently laid before the
Proprietors on the subject of Sinde, it is the opinion of this
Court that the proceedings of the Government of India, which
ended in the dethronement, exile, and imprisonment of the
Ameers, and the seizure of their country and private property,
were uncalled for, impolitic, and unjust.
" 2d. That this Court does therefore most earnestly recom-
mend to the Court of Directors the immediate adoption of such
steps, by representation to her Majesty's Government or other-
wise, as may cause all practicable reparation to be made for the
injustice already committed, and enforce the abandonment of
a line of policy inconsistent with good faith, and subversive of
the interests of the British rule in India."

THE AND.

THEATRE.

M. Achard is certainly one of the most accomplished
artists that has ever appeared in this country, and he
bids fair to rival even Bouffe in popularity. He appeared
in the vaudeville of Farinelli last evening, as the hero
of the piece, and his Farinelli is a master-piece both of
acting and of singing. There are few of our readers
who are not already awa"e of the marvellous power which
Farinelli acquired by his exquisite singing over the
mind of the gloomy Ferdinand VI., King of
Spain, and of the manner in which he for a
time dissipated the illusions of the moody mo-
narch. Barnett some years since produced an opera
on this subject, and the anecdote, for it is really nothing
more, is treated in very nearly a similar manner in the
present piece. We find Farinelli in the first act wan-
dering with his Preciosa (Mademoiselle Marie Beauchene)
about the streets of Madrid, gay, joyous, and penniless.
By a lucky chance he rescues a lady from some danger,
and obtains her glove as a remembrance. He then tunes
his guitar and commences singing to the crowd, having
deposited his hat on the ground to receive the con-
tributions of the patrons of " music for the million."
Suddenly he is seized by the Royal Guards, and
huriled into the palace. The King, who is in a state
of religious madness, has heard his singing, is fasci-
nated by it, and Farinelli is established in the palace,
where he finds his Preciosa also established through the
interest of her uncle, Gil Perez (M. Barqui), the
Court physician. He also discovers that the lady he had
rescued from danger is no less a personage than the Queen.
Reports have been circulated in Madrid that the King is
dead, and the people demand to see him ; he refuses to
appear, but is at length lured into the balcony by Fari-
nelli's singing. This scene was exquisitely acted by
Achard and Lemadre, who acted the part of Ferdinand
with excellent judgment and effect. Farinelli, by the
mere shrewdness of his mother wit, discovers and cir-
cumvents the plots of the King's brothers, who, aided
by the monks, having succeeded in causing the King to
hate his Queen, endeavour, by means of the prescriptions
of Gil Perez, and the sermons of his confessor, to reduce
him to such a state of feebleness, mental and bodily, as
to render a Regency necessary. Their plots, however,
are rendered nugatory by Farinelli, who induces the
King to eat, drink, and be merry, to be reconciled to
his Queen, and to discard his monkish counsellors, and
thus does the singer save Spain. But it is not as an
actor only that M. Achard is great; his singing is ex-
quisite; and were he not one of the first of actors, he
would be one of the greatest of tenor singers. He
was rapturously applauded, and was encored in the greater
number of his songs. Madame Couturier acted the
Queen with ease, grace, and dignity, and the other cha-
racters were all admirably supported. Achard was of
course called for at the fall of the curtain. He after-
wards appeared in La Permission de Dix Heures, as Larose
Ponpon, a soldier, in the French Guards, who is out on
a furlough of ten hours, and never was the French
soldier better represented than by M. Achard. The
first piece was a one act vaudeville, entitled Quand
l' Amour s' en va, in which M. Gaston made his debut as
a French sailor. This gentleman is a very good actor,
and is certainly an acquisition to the company. The
house was exceedingly well attended.

TIIE STATE TRIALS.

TENTH DAY.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTERS.)
DUBLIN, THURSDAY, JAN. 25.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
THE QUEEN v. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND OTHERS.
The Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Crampton, and Mr.
Justice Perrin, took their _seats upon the bench at ten o'clock
precisely.
The jurors and traversers having answered punctually to
their names,
Mr. M'Evoy Gartlan (agent for Mr. Duffy) applied to the
Court to grant his client permission to retire until two o'clock.
The application was made on the grounds of Mr. Duffy's illness.
The Chief Justice said it was not in the power of the Court
to make any order upon the subject ; but it was for the At-
torney• General to say whether he had any objection to such a
course, and whether he would insist on having Mr. Duffy
called upon his recognizance.
The Attorney-Gencral intimated that it was not his inten-
tion so to do. He would not take any notice of Mr. Duffy's
absence from Court.
Mr. O'Hsgan called upon the Clerk of the Crown to read
from the Nation of August 12, page 691, a letter addressed
by the Irish Members of Parliament to the people of Great
Britain.
The Clerk of the Crown complied, and read the following
address:—

Mr. EASTWICK seconded the resolution. Having residen
in India, and had considerable experience of Indian affairs,
he felt that the conduct of the British Government
towards Sinde had been extremely oppressive. He
said he differed from the Hon. Mover as to the British
Government having forced their alliance upon the Ameers,
and he read a series of letters for the purpose
of showing that they had voluntarily connected themselves
with that Government. They had, he contended, acted in
conformity with the treaties of alliance; and this ought to
have procured for them some consideration. It was his opinion
that the annexation of Sande to the British empire was a grievous
error, both financially and politically. Underditferent treatment
thegoedßya
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acte of a
thecghgireefsssmion they had gainedighthavebeenco possession
confidently relied
upon.of
a country, filled with tribes, whose motto, like that of the
Affghans, was " We will be content with war, we will be can-
tent with bloodshed, but we will not be content with
a master."—( Hear, hear.) Sinde afforded no ob-
stacle to the march of armies; there was little danger
of hundreds perishing in a night. But there was much to be
dreaded from a pestilential climate. A short time ago fifty
Europeans had perished from heat in two days, and he
had himself witnessed similar effects. Seven-tenths of
the population were bigoted Mussulmans, who, though
not able to contend against European armies in the
field, would be exceedingly powerful in desultory warfare.
It should be recollected, too, that the service in Sinde was ex-
tremely distasteful to our troops. They had been told that
there were commercial advantages—that the markets of
Central Asia bad been thrown open to the British. He
contended that they had by their proceedings within the
last few years destroyed British influence in Central Asia.
Formerly there was security for merchants, now there was
not, and it would be long ere things subsided into their
natural channel. He believed, toe, that the capabili-
tits of the Indus were greatly exaggerated. Caravans
were generally preferred to that river for the trans-
fer of goods; and as to steam, he conceived that that
was a speculation in which no Proprietor would be disposed to
embark. The Hon. Proprietor then endeavoured to proved
from documentary evidence, that the Ameers of Sinde, pre-
vious to the war, had been subject to many grievances, and
were not exclusively to blame for what occurcd,
He also referred to the seals upon which Sir Charles Napier
had founded his proceedings; reminding the Court bow com-
mon forgeries of that kind were in India. It would be ludi-
crous, were not such moral consequences involved, to contem-
plate Sir Charles Napier sitting down with compasses in hand,
to examine and pronounce upon these seals. He believed that
the letter attributed to Meer Nusseer, was not in truth written
by him, and yet upon that letter had the British Government
taken such serious steps. He referred to a man in Sinde
who made a trade of forging seals. He concluded by taking a
view of the events which followed the British in possession of
Sinde. Viewed as a military achievment, nothing more
brilliant perhaps . had ever been seen ; viewed in
a moral aspect, he believed a more disgraceful
case of oppression never occurred. The whole preparations
of the Ameers were of a defensive nature. Nothing but
blindness er obstinacy could cause any one to imagine that they
intended hostilities. If they had meditated hostilities they
would have sent away their wives and children:—(Hear, hear.)
If their superiority in arms was to be purchased at the expense
of justice, he would rather that they should descend within
the limits of a third-rate power.—( Hear, hear.) If they had
suffered misery, they had caused a hundred times greater.
War was at all times a great evil, but an unjust war was fear-
ful to contemplate. It was his solemn conviction that if the
thinking part of this country, if the press, to which they owed
so much, would calmly inquire into the merits of this
question, such a storm of indignation would burst forth
as must lead to all the redress which it was in our
power to make. Every Englishman shared the respon-
sibility of these acts. He believed it to be the duty
of every member of that Court to record his testimony against
a policy which inflicted so much discredit on the British name,
and entailed so much misery on their fellow-subjects in India
The CHAIRMAN said that while he admitted that the sub-
ject had been brought forward with great ability, he was so con-
vinced of the necessity of having the additional papers, that he
would still suggest the propriety of the proposed adjournment.
The Court then adjourned until the 21st of February.

"TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

We, the undersigned, representatives of Irish constituen-
cies, impressed with earnest solicitude respecting the present
state and future destiny of oar country, and deeply sensible of
its wrongs, and resolved to leave no effort untried to obtain
their redress, feel it our duty, before we reparate, to place
upon record our solemn remonstrance against the fatal policy
which has alienated from your Government and institutions the
minds of a large portion of our fellow-countrymen.
" Deep-rooted and increasing discontent pervades the nation
whose interests are intrusted to our charge. Feelings of es-
trangement are rapidly supplanting those affections which
kindness and justice would have placed at her command. De-
spairing of redress from the Legislature, the people of Ireland
now rely upon their own strength and resolution for the attain-
ment of those rights which they have sought from Parliament
in vain.

" The voice of the civilized workl lays to your charge the
guilt of having produced this exasperation of national feel-
ing. For centuries our legislation and Government have been
subject to your control:; on you, therefore, lies the responsibility
of having failed to secure the welfare and contentment of the
Irish people.
" Our social condition is replete with elements of disorder.
The connection between landlord and tenant, deranged, as it
has been, by a long course of vicious legislature, hurts that
mutual confidence which is essential to the development of pro-
ductive industry.' The labouring population, unable to obtain
employment, live habitually on the verge of extreme destitu-
tion. Notwithstanding our connexion with a nation which
boasts to be the wealthiest, the most enlightened, and the most
powerful in the world, nor commerce, our manufactures, our
fi.heries, our mines, our agriculture, attest, by their languish-
ing and neglected condition, the baneful effects of your m'sgo-
vernment.

" A Church establishment is maintained for the exclusive
benefit of one-tenth of the nation.

" Our representation in the Legislature is unjustly dispro-
portionate to the population and resources of Ireland.
" Our Parliamentary franchises are wholly inadequate to
secure a true refl. ctiort of the opinion of the mass of the nation.
" Our municipal rights are abridged in comparison with
yours. Our Corporation franchises are limited by needless
and harassing restrictions.

" The peC-uniary exhaustion occasioned by absenteeism is
aggravated by the mode in which the proceeds of taxation are
applied.
" An anti-Catholic and anti-Irish spirit of exclusion governs
the distribution of official appointments.
" Our local wants are not duly considered in the Iraperial
Parliament, yet adequate powers of self-government for local
purposes are not afforded in the constitution of out fiscal and
administrative constitutions.

" We have applied in vain to the Legislature for redress,
Our complaints are unheeded—our remonstrances are
unavailing. We now appeal to that higher tribunal of public
opinion, which creates and deposes Parliaments and Ministers,
and we ask your intervention to enforce our claims.
" We demand, on behalf of our country, the adoption of mea-
sures calculated to improve the condition of the industrious
classes, and to deve!ope the resources of Ireland.
" We demand the recognition of perfect equality, in regard
to ecclesiastical and educational arrangements, between the
several religious communities into which the population of Ire-
land is divided.

We demand a more ample representation in the Legislature.
We demand the assimilation of municipal rights in both
kingdoms. _ _

.rWe demand that Ireland shall participate more largely in
the benefits of the public expenditure.
" We demand, in regard to administrative government, that
the profession of the Roman Catholic faith shall no longer be
made a ground of virtual, as it has ceased to be one of legal, ex-
clusion from official station ; that in the general administration
of the affairs of the empire; Irishmen shall be called to take part
in a proportion commensurate with the extent to which Ireland
contributes to its greatness ; and that the management of our
local affairs shall be confided, as much as possible, to those who
are identified and acquainted with the interests of our country.
" We demand that the principle of self-government, sub-
ject to popular control, shall be applied, wherever practicable,
in the organisation of our local institutions.

" We recognise in you no superior title to political rights.
We demand perfect equality as the only secure and legitimate
foundation upon which the Union can permanently rest. So
long as these claims are denied, so lon will continue the
struggle of the Irish nation against injustice d misrule.
" Should this remonstrance be successful, we cannot, indeed,
promise the immediate restoration of those feelings of attach-
ment which, a few years since, had begun to expel from the
national breast sentiments engendered by centuries of oppres-
sion. We can only express our conviction that those who con •
fide in the influence of justice will not have misplaced their
trust. It may still be in the power of a Government which
may merit the confidence of the Irish people to win back
their forfeited affections ; but we warn you that every day's
delay increases the difficulty of the task, and gives additional
strength to those who maintain that there is no hole of good
government for Ireland except in the restoration of her national
pailiament! . _

" Should this warning be neglected, on you, not on us, be
he responsibility of future events.

" Wyse, Waterford city ' • D. R. Ross, Belfast :T.
Fsmonde, Wexford; T. V. Stuart, Waterford county ;
R. S. Carew, Waterford county ; D. J. Norreys, Mal-
low ; W. E. Corball3, Meath county ; J. O'Brien,
Limerick city; M. J. O'Connell, Kerry county; R.
Archbold, Kildare county; R. Gore, New Ross; H.
M. Tuite, Westmeath county ; J. Power, Wexford
county; W. S. O'Brien, Limerick county."
The Clerk of the Crown continued to read the document to
.5 conclusion.

•
Mr. Smiley then handed Mr. Vernon the Nation of the
26th of August, which he identified as having been lodged ;in
his office, and which purported to be printed and published by
Charles Gavan Duffy, at No. 12, Trinity-street.
The Clerk of the Crown having been handed the paper, read
from it the article entitled, " The Crisis is upon us," at page
728, and, in the same number of the paper, the article headed
"The Irish Congress." When he had concluded the articles,
he asked if they required anything further read from that paper.
Mr. Smyly—Ne more from that paper.
Mr. O'llagan read from page 726, in the third column of
that paper..

The Attorney-General said he wished to interpose. On the
preceding day he felt disinclined to affect the reading of certain
passages at that stage of the proceedings by the traversers, but,
in consequence of the course adopted in the reading of Mr.
Sharman Crawford's letter, and the resolutions of the Members
of Parliament, and other matters which had no bearing on the
documents read by the Crown, he wished the case should take
the ordinary course. The Crown wished to close within a rea-
sonable time, and would be enabled to do so by being per-
mitted to read the important parts for the prosecution, and
when the traversers came to make their case, they could offer
such evidence as they would consider bearing on the issue.
Mr. Hatchell, Q. C., said on the part of his client, and in•
deed he might say en the part of the other traversers, in con-
sequence of what had taken place the day before, and fully
acquiesced in by the Crown, they were certainly extremely
surprised that there should be any departure from what they
considered the fixed arrangement respecting the reading of the
papers. The counsel for the traversers had made their arrange-
ments under the impression that that would be the course acted
upon. If the objection s' as to have been taken at all, it ought
to have been taken when Mr. Whiteside called for the reading
of the letter of Mr. Sharman Crawford. The traversers'
counsel considered that the matter had been sufficiently dis-
cussed, and that the opinion of the Court, acquiesced in by the
Attorney-General, was that the most convenient way for all
parties, and particularly the Court, to take the evidence on that
part of the case, was that each of those newspapers should be
read on the part of the Crown—that then the portions which
the traversers deemed necessary for their case should be read,
and thus the Court and jury would derive information rela--
tive to each publication, so that the matter would not be for-
gotten by them when it was taken up on a future occasion.
Ile did not mean to say that the Attorney-General intended
to depart from his arrangement, but certainly it would em-
barrass the course to be taken by the traversers, and be unfair
and unjust towards them in the conduct of their case here-
after.

The Chief Justice said the Court did not conceive that an
arrangement of the nature mentioned by Mr. Hatchell hid
been entered into by both parties. He believed that arrange-
ment was entered into on the day before, and it was con-
sidered at that time that it would be the moat convenient
way to have the documents for the Crown traversers disposed
of on the same occasion. At the time, probably, that arrange-
ment was agreed upon, it was not anticipated that readings to
the length, and of the unconnected nature and quality they
had heard, would have been resorted to by the traversers.
The Court did not see any great inconvenience in continuing
the plan that had been entered into, and it was to be hoped=
unnecessary advantage would be taken.
The Solmiter-General said the strict rule was certainly with
the Crown, and if it were necessary he would show that they
were not hound by any undertaking, but, of course, they would
adopt the suggestion thrown out by the Court.
Mr. Justice Crampton had no doubt that the strict rule was
with the Crown, at the same time it certainly was suggested
by the Court, and he remembered he stated that the most
convenient course would be to dig:vase of each paper in the
order in which it was given in evidence. He did not antici-
pate, nor would he now anticipate, that that suggestion, which
was acquiesced in by the counsel for the Crown, would be
abused by reading matters that were net relevant to the issue
laid between the parties. It was an indulgence given the tra-
versers, and he was sure, in the hands of the learned counsel,
it would not be abused.

Mr. O'llagan (to the clerk of the Crow•n)—Now: read
page 726, in the third column of the Nation, you have been
reading.
The Clerk of the Crown then read the article headed " su-
perseding magistrates," including a letter from Valentine
O'C. Blake, boasting of being a member of the Repeal Asso-
ciation.

Mr. Smyly—Now read page 2 in the first column of the
Pilot of the 7th of June.
The Clerk of the Crown read the article. It was a deicrip-
tion of the " great Repeal Demonstration in Drogheda.",
The article &scribed the procession, and concluded by stat-
ing that the Liberator's carriage was surrounded by a body of
horse.
Mr. Smyly—Very well, that will do for the present. Go
on to the speech of Mr. O'Connell.
The officer then proceeded to read the speech of Mr.
O'Connell, which was spoken at Drogheda on the occasion
alluded to. He, Mr. O'Connell, impressed on the people the
necessity of preserving the peace, and not to outrage the law
in the most minute respect. He told them not to groan any
person or party. He cautioned the people against secret
societies, illegal oaths, &c. ' •
When the Clerk of the Crown had concluded the reading of
Mr. O'Connell's speech, Mr. Smyly called upon him to read
the names given in the same paper, of those who attended the

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dinner at the Linen (fall. Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Steele, and
Mr. Barlett were present.
Mr. Smyly then called for the speech of Mr. Barrett at
the same dinner to be read. Ile spoke to the toast of " The
People." The clot k read the speech.
Mr. Smyly—Look to the s cond column, and read the speech
of Mr. Steele, which You will find there.
The Clerk of the Crown accordingly referred to the speech
of Mr. Steele, which he read. _

Now read the Chairman's speech.
The Clerk of the Crown read the speech.
Mr. M'Donough—Refer to the commencement of the meet.
ing, taken from the Freeman's Journal and Drogheda
Arqus, and read the names of the persons who were there.
The Clerk of the Crown read the names of those who were
present—B. B. StetEad, N. Boylan, Messrs. Gernan, Ma-
thews, Smith, Jones, &c.
Mr. M•Donough —Refer to the second column, and read the
passage of the address commencing with " We are not those
slaves."

The Clerk of the Crown read the passage, which contained
the following observation :—" There are two modes by which
redress may be hoped for—physical force and moral force. The
first we reject."
The adoption of the address was moved by N. Boylan, T.C.,
and seconded by 13. Finnigan, and it stated that it " conveyed
the sentiments of the meeting."
Reeer to the bth column, and read the commencement of
Mr. Campbell's speech.
The Clerk of the Crown read the moving of a petition to
the Imperial Parliament for a Repeal of the Union by Mr. •
Campbell, the seconding of it by Alr. Gernan, which was put
and carried in the affirmative.
The Clerk of the Crown also read the motion of Mr. Brady
for the adoption of the petition as the petition of the inhabitants
of Drogheda.
Read the names of the persons who sent letters of apology.
The Clerk of the Crown road the names of the Right Rev.
Dr. Cohen, the Most Rev. Dr. Mac Hale, Right Rev. Dr.
Cantwell, Right Rev. Dr. Denvir, Sir William Somerville,
31. P., Maurice O'Connell, sze.

Read the speech of the Chairman in proposing the first toast.
The Clerk of the Crown read the speech prefacing the toast
of "The Queen." He remarked on the invariable loyalty of the
people of Ireland.
The Clerk of the Crown read the speeches of the Chairman
prefacing the toast of " Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales,"
" The Duchess of Kent," and " The People."
Mr: Smvly—Now refer to the Pilot of the 12th of June;
turn to the third column of the last page, relating to the Kil-
kenny banquet.
The Clerk of the Crown read that E. Smithwick acted as
president,. and that Mr. O'Connell, the Rev. Mr. Carroll,
Mr. Maxwell, Mr. P. S. Butler, Mr. J. O'Connell, and Mr.
Steele were present.
Turn to the sth page, and read Mr. O'Connell's speech to
the toast of " the Repeal of the Union."
The •Clerk of the Crown accordingly read over the speech.
Sir. M‘Donough—Turn to the 3d page and read the com-
mencement of the proceedings at tha Repeal demonstration of
Kilkenny:
The Clerk of the Crown then read, where it appeared that
the account was taken from the Kilkenny Journal and Morning
Freeman.
The clerk also read the speech of the chairman, Pierce So-
merset Butler, Esq., M.P. for Kilkenny county, recommending
peace, order, and the observance of the laws.
The speech of Mr. O'Connell at the same meeting was also
entered as read. /tier the perusal of a passage in which Sir.
O'Connell called on the band to play the National Anthem,
the account stated that a dozen bands immediately struck up
6' God save the Queen," the multitude remaining uncovered to
the close, when they gave three most deafening cheers for the
Queen.

The Clerk of the Crown went on to read thus :—" A splen-
did banquet was given in the evening to the Liberator,' and
the banquet-room was hung around with such inscriptions
as Irvland for the Irish, and the Irish for Ireland;' No
foreign Parliament or domestic slaves ;' Erin Mavourncen,
Erin go Bragh ;' Irishmen be loyal to the Queen and obedient
to the law ;" Fear nut the Saxon ; ' Never despair of liberty
for Ireland,' &c."

Mr. M‘Donough—Read the toast respecting the Queen, and
the short speech of the Chairman introducing it.
The Clerk then read as follows—The Chairman said that
their excellent Secretary having so far discharged his duty it
must devolve upon him to call on them to fill their glasses before
proposing the first toast. In doing so he would merely ask was
it probable that the Irish people, after enduring centuries of
persecution without being shaken in their loyalty, would now
become disloyal towards the best Sovereign that ever filled the
throne ? He begged to propose " the health of her Most Gra-
cious Majesty the Queen." Drunk with the most enthusiastic
applause.—Air, " God save the Queen." " The health of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the
Princess Royal, were also given amid loud applause.
Certain portions of an article from the Times newspaper
on the state and condition of Ireland, copied into the Pilot,
were then read, together with the comments of the Pilot
thereon.

The Pilot of Wednesday, the ]4th of June, Ras then put
in, and that portion of It read describing the Liberator's en-
trance into Mallow, with music, banners, &c., together with
lengthened quotations from his speeches at the meeting and
the dinner.
Mr. Smyly—Now read the report of the dinner at Mallow.
The Clerk of the Crown read tho portion of the report re-
ferred to.

Mr. Smyly--Now be so good as to read Mr. O'Connell's
speech at Mallow.
The Clerk of the Crown complied, and read from the Pilot
the report of Mr. O'Connell's speech in reply to the toast of
" The People."
Mr. Smyly next directed the officer to read the toast which
was given by the chairman—" The Protestant Repealers of
Ireland, with which he coupled the name of Mr. Steele." Mr.
Bourne reading —" Mr. Steele rose amid loud cheering, and
returned thanks."—(Great laughter.)
Mr. M'Donough—Read the speech of Mr. Edmund Burke
Roche at the meeting.
The officer proceeded to read Mr. Roche's speech to the
concluding passage, where the Honourable Member declared
that they had met in peace, and there could be no sedition in
that.

Mr. M‘Donough—That's all I shall trouble you to read.
The Court adjourned for ten minutes for refreshment.
The Court having resumed their seats,
Mr. M'Donough said there was a passage in the last paper
which he wished to have read, and, its the absence of the
officer, he would read it. It was in the fourth page of the
paper—the Pilot of the 4th of June, 1843. The Learned
Gentleman then proceeded to read an extract from a speech
made by Dr. Gray.
Mr. Smyly—Mr. Vernon, now produce the Freeman's
Journal of the 7th of August last?-1 have it here; it. was
lodged in my office, and bears the name of Edward Duffy as
publisher.
I see the third page—read the portion commencing " Great
demonstration in Wicklow."

The witness then proceeded to read an account of the Balt-
inglass meeting at great longth, the description of the scenery
in the neighbourhood of Baltinglass, the enthusiasm of the
people, and the progress to the place of meeting. After some
time he was told by Mr. Smyly not to read further.
Mr. Fitzgibbon said he required the whole of the description
to be read.
He then proceeded to read it to the end. It went on to
describe the enthusiasm of the people, old and young, upon the
appearance of Mr. O'Connell, estimated the number of horse-
men at a thousand, and stated that they advanced with almost
military dignity ' • that the temperance bands from Athy, Naas,
Newbridge, and the Liberties, were in attendance, and that at
least 150,000 persons were congregated at the place of meeting.
When the reading of the descriptive part was concluded,
Mr. Smyly said—Read the speech of Mr. O'Connell.
The speech which has appeared before was then read
—it was to the following effect :—He (Mr. O'Connell) was
delighted at the merry sound and the loud cheers that came
upon his ears from the mountain valleys. He was born at the
foot of a mountain, and the sounds of to.day were familiar to
his ear. The familiar sounds of the mountain streams flowed
sweetly as if they were set to music. His earliest life was for
the liberty of Ireland, and he was doubly animated for the
struggle by the scene before him. He said the dawning day
of liberty was rising, and would soon be a full day sun. His
affections, like all the sons of the mountain, were centered in the
land of his birth. The Swiss were mountaineers, and the scotch
had their Highlands, and in no other country was the love
of father-land more strongly felt. Should it be said that
the people of Ireland were slaves and unfit to govern them-
selves, and that a Parliament rereoved by fraud ought never to
be restored. He called upon the meeting to promise that Ire-
land should not be a province. He asked did they know Lord
Wicklow, and desired them not to groan him, as lie supposed
the poor man was then saying his prayers. He said that there
was nothing for Ireland but repeal, and continued to animadvert
upon the conduct of Lord Wicklow. Lord Wicklow had no-
body to praise him, and therefore he praised himself. Neither
he nor any of his class had done anything for Ireland. It may
be asked what good he had done ? He put down Protestant
ascendancy—he took away the inferiority of the Catholics in
point of law—he got rid of the old rotten Corporation, and he
was now struggling for repeal, which was really the poor man's
question. _ _

Mr. Vernon having concluded the speech,
Mr. Smyly—Do you see the name of Mr. Reilly there ?
Yes: Mr. Reilly seconded the resolution, which was put and
carried.

Now turn to the report of the dinner—to the toast of the
people..
Mr. Vernon—The toast of " the people, the source of all
legitimate power."
Dr. Gray spoke to the toast.
Read Mr. O'Connell's speech at the dinner.
Mr. Yemen then proceeded to read the speech of Air.
O'Connell. One part of the speech consisted of the often dis-
cussed passage on the sergeants of the British army.
Smyly told the witness to turn to the report of the dinner,
and see if Mr. Steele was present.
Mr. Whiteside said that the paper could be no evidence as to
whether Mr. Steele was present or not.
The Clerk of the Crown said that Mr. Steele was mentioned
in- the report as having replied.
-The Attorney-General rose to apply to what he understood
was the objection, when

Mr. Whiteside. said he did not make any objection ; he
merely made the remark. He was not counsel for Mr. Steele.
The Attorney-General was not going to enter into the argu-
ment. An he wished was to be distinctly understood as not
ac iescing in the objection.
The reading of documents continued up to the adjournment
of the. Court.

"SODDEN DEATH OF Ma. RUFFORD, THE BANKER.
--This gentleman, the well known banker in Stour-
bridge, while engaged in writing his address, in the
house of Mrs. Harrison, of Birmingham, where he had
beep.given directions respecting the hiring of a servant,
suddenly dropped down dead. From a post mortem exa-
miriation,,it appeared that the melancholy event resulted
from-osSification of the heart. —York Courant.
CHILLINGHAM PARK.--We regret to see that the
Park of Chillingham is likely soon to be despoiled of
its glory and boast. A writ of execution has
been directed to the Sheriff of Northumberland,
to bring to the hammer the celebrated race of
cattle, so long the exclusive possession of the
Earls of Tankerville. The Chillingham wild cattle
have been as much an object of curiosity to strangers
visiting this country, as many of our national monu-
ments. 'Arid Sir Walter Scott, in his interesting Notes
to the_ Bride of Lammermuir, had added to the celebrity
Of this noble race of Northumbrian cattle.— Tyne Mcr.
cur'.

LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY.—On
Thursday night Mr. Godwin, F. R. S., delivered the first of a
course of lectures on this subject, at the Western Literary In-
stitution under the title of " History in Brick and Stone." The
object of lecture was to show the interesting nature of the
study,.' The history of architecture is the history of civilization,
and in many cases the ruins of a few buildings are the only
records left by once powerful nations. The monuments of the
Druids; the Mexicans, the Indians, and the Egyptians were
illustrated by numerous diagrams, and the singular connexion
apparent in these structures pointed out. Mr. Godwin truly
observed, that by obtaining a knowledge of architecture the
pleasure of travelling is increased fourfold—every stone is sug-
gestive of an idea, and every old building becomes an open
book fun of instruction.

The typhus fever rages violently about Grindleford
Bridge:: Derby Reporter.