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SIGHT AND HEARING

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IRISH STATE TRIALS.
TWENTY-FIRST DAY.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—DUBLIN, TUESDAY..
THE QUEEN V. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND OTHERS.
The following is a fuller account of Wednesday's proceed-
ings, than appeared in yesterday's Morning Sun :
The Court sat at the usual hour, but little interest was exhi-
bited to hear the reply (A. the Solicitor-General. On the jury
taking their places,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL commenced his address and said,

—I am called to stand single-handed and alone—and the con-
sequence of knowing how much your verdict may affect the
law of the land, the peace and tranquillity, and the hazpiness
of this country—all those considerations might well appal a
person far more competent than I am, either in mind or body.
You have sworn by the most solemn of all Obligations to find a
verdict in this case according to the evidence, unaffected by any
other considerations. political, sectarian, or religious—unaffected
by fear, favour, or affection—uninfluenced by any other consi-
derations than the truth and justice of the case. I
ask for your verdict, not by appealing to your
passions or to your prejudices, but by calling on you, as
honest and intelligent men, to exercise your sound judg-
ment in giving your verdict and if you cannot give me your
verdict upon the fair exercise of that judgment on the facts, as
given in evidence, I shall not seek it at your hands. I think I
shall present this case to you in such a light as will relieve you
from the slightest possible difficulty as to the course you should
pursue—so that, in the eyes of every honest and fair man in
the country you will be justified in giving the verdict I con-
fidently anticipate from you. Ours is a plain, straightforward,
and just case ; it needs nothing less than the mere exercise
of sound judgment and an honest heart to arrive at a proper
conclusion respecting it. There has, however, been so much
misrepresentation, both in point of law and in point of
fact—so many irrelevant and extraneous topics have been in-
troduced—so much obscurity and confusion have been heaped
upon the case. by the ingenuity, learning, and the talents of
the various gentlemen who have addressed you, that,
before I can hope to make the case for the prosecution intel-
ligible, it will be necessary for me to divest the case of many,
I may say all, of those topics which do not properly belong to
it, and which could have been introduced for no other reason
than to divert your attention from the real question you have
different,
but traversers.
inconsistent.
to try. You have had no less than eight addresses on the part
of
the several
MIT
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noef
respect, those h have
however,
been
not
there
y
is
a marvellous coincidence among them all, and that is the total
absence of any, the slightest comment—l may say of the least
reference to the evidence in the case. My Learned Friend,
Mr. Sheil, has not often favoured us in this Court by a display
of his splendid talents—his visits have been few and far be-
tween. This was considered an occasion on which some-
thing extraordinary should be resorted to, and accordingly
Mr. Shell has, on the part of Mr. John O'Connell, addressed
you—he must pardon me for saying, not en the case, but on
various extraneous matters to which it will be necessary for
me to advert. He appeared as Counsel for Mr. John O'Con-
nell , and he certainly delighted us by one of the most splendid
exhibitions of eloquence; the execution was beautiful, brilliant,
elaborate—but the matter very meagre indeed. In short, he
threw the case of his client overboard. My Learned Friend the
Attorney-General was actually called the " artful dodger of the
State." I forget the other phrase that was applied to him, but they
all meant just this, that the Crown and the Government had lite-
rally seduced those people into the commission of crime, and after
they had been suffered to go on, day after day, week after
week, they (the Government) suddenly come down on them
and tell them they have violated the law. Why, it is
oionstroas to set up an allegation of that kind on the
question of the guilt or innocence of the parties ? Be-
fore I proceed further to the topics which Mr. Shell in-
troduced, I think it right to divest your minds of anap-
prehension which has been sedulously attempted to be raised
in them as to who it is that we are prosecuting. ou
have heard over and ever again that thisi an
for the
indict-
ment against the people of Ireland—an indictment
purpose of putting down free discusion,
and extinguishing
ntthe
corol
right of petitioning, introducing a sort of arbitrary
over the constitutional exercise of legal rights. Gentle men of
the jury, allow ma to say that this is a prosecution not against
-
the people of Ireland for the exercise of their legal netts
it
is not a prosecution
against those unfortunate and deluded peo-
ple who nave attended monster meetings at the instance of the
traversers—they are not the persons prosecuted. No, it would
have been more just, more fair, and more true to all that this
is a prosecution against the traverser". It is my conviction that
a vei diet which would have the effect of stopping the proceed-
ings of which so many unfortunate people have become victims
xould be the most favourable that could happen with resest to
them, so far as their amelioration is concerned. It is said we are
prosecuting fur the purpose of putting an end to free discussion.
We are not prosecuting persons for entertaining any political
or religious views, audl avow at once that every one of the
traversers have the fullest right to express, in a constitutional
and legal manner, his opinions on any public mestion —nay,
more, to use his best exertions, if he thinks his opinions right,
to propagate them, to have them entertained as far as possible
by all persons in the community, and to use all legitimate and
proper mean' to accomplish his purpose. But I deny the
right of any persons to attempt to bring about an object by
the means which are charged in this • • indictment, and to
which I shall presently more particularly direct your atten-
tisn. Is this a prosecution against the liberty of the press?
It is true there are included in this indictment three gen-
tlemen who are proprietors of newspapers ; but they are
not included as proprietors of newspapers, but as conspirators,
an 1 I deny the allegation that this is a persecution or prosecu-
tion of the press. But it is said, why are not the editors of
other Liberal journals included in this prosecution; you
know that there are proprietors of other newspapers in Dublin
and other parts of Ireland, which advocate the same views on
the subject of the repeal of the union as those entertained by
Dr. Gray, Mr. Barrett, or Mr. Duffy, but they are not ad.
veiled to in this indictment? Why are they not? Because
they have not become the agents or the instruments for carry-
ing out the designs to which I shall hereafter call your atten •
tion. The charge was that Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Gray,
Mr. Duffy, Mr. Barrett, and the other traversers, had
entered into an illegal confederacy to effect changes in
the Constitution. In a popular sense conspiracy might
mean secrecy, but a conspiracy, so far as the acts indicated
its being formed, might be as open as day ; and suppose a
number of tradesmen entered into public resolutions to pre-
vent others from working below a certain rate of wages, that
would constitute ,a conspiracy. The Crown said that the
traversers had entered into a common and unlawful design, to
repeal the union by means of intimidation. The Crown did
not prosecute the millions who assembled at the meetings, but
those who made them their instruments, and called them toge-
ther, in order, by the demonstration of physical force, to inti-
midate the Legislature. The Learnod Gentleman having
commented on the monster meetings, and the evidence offered
upon them, proceeded as follows : —The defendants are ar-
raigned for having each and every one of them co-operated for
the purpose, in the first place, of exciting discontent and dis-
affection against the Government and Constitution, and oppo-
sition thereto, secondly, with having conspired to excite ani-
mosity, illewill, and jealousy, between 4ifferent classes of the
Queen's -subjects, and More especially with e*citing in tip;
minds of. the people of Ireland hostile feelings against their
fellow-subjects in England ; with baying, in the next plago,
co-operated for the purpose of creating discontent and diaafS'
fection amongst divers of the paid sgbjecta, and, amen ethers,
her Majesty's subjects serving in ifee Majesty's army, 4c,

The whole machinery of this Association appears to have
been constructed, with a view to the proceedings of the
Volunteers of 1782 ; and you will find that, under the pre-
text of precedent, the real design was to form an Association
similar to that adopted by the Volunteers of 1782 ; accord-
ingly the card of a 101. qualification is entitled by them
" the Volunteer Card," and is embellished with the portraits
of Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Grattan, Mr. Flood, 01:arn Fodbla.
and King Nathan. The two last names afforded my -friend
Mr. Whiteside a field for much merriment, and no person was
more amused than I was. He ceded your attention to their
names ; but I will call your attention to some names which he
omitted. We find here the portraits of Brian Boroihme, whom
youef i,ere,nl
fi el eidc t. wwahsettnh e y Irish
you may
king at
recollect th b e att lef C
commanded
ma
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of a
thed
sieve of Limerick. Mr. Whiteside is very discreetly silent
woh regard to their names, and those of Owen Roe O'Neill
and Hugh O'Neill. Now, 1 do not pretend to be able to tell
you what the duties of the several persons who were entrusted
with these cards may have been ; Ido not know what were the
duties of the bearers, or what the regulations of the Association
required them to do, nor do I know what were the duties,
the whole of the duties of the Repeal-wardens, the confidential
emissaries of this body—all I know is this, that by means of
them it has been found possible to collect together, at the bid-
ding of one person, any number of persons at any particular
place—at any distance, no matter how remote. Always bear in
mind the concurrent working of the several agents. Observe
Barrett's design in publishing the poem the " Memory of the
Dead," Duffy publishes it in the Nation, and Gray in the
Freeman, while all the time speeches are being made and meet-
,ings held. The Learned Counsel baying read the first and
second stanzas, said—now suppose we were to give Mr. Fits-
gibbon the full benefit of the allegation that what I have read
is poetical effusion, indicating commiseration for the unhappy
pepple of the time to which it relates, that which follows de-
mands explanation—
The dust of some is Irish earth :
.s.--..s suco own tney rest ;
And the same land that gave them birth
Has caught them to her breast;
And we will pray that from their clay
Full many a race may start
Of true men, like you, men,
To act as brave a part.
Is this commiseration for the unhappy fate of misguided men ;
or is it encouragement to agitators of the present day ? The
Learned Counsel then read the following ;
They rose in dark and evil days
To right their native land ;
They kindled here a living blaze
That nothing shall withstand.
Alas ! that Might can vanquish Right—
They fell and passed away;
But true men, like you, men,
Are plenty here to-day.
How is that rebellion of 1798, which Mr. O'Connell has been
so eloquent in denouncing—how is it characterized in this effu-
sion ? As a struggle of right against might. This effusion is
the production of Mr. Duffy, one of the traversers. [He here
read many passages from the speeches of Mr. O'Connell.] He
then said—l come now to what have been called monster or
county meetings. These were concocted by the Association,
and took place under the pretence of petitioning the Queen ;
and I need not tell you that no meeting could he held without
some object of the kind. It is 'the Mullingar meeting which
took place on the 14th of May. (The Solicitor-General read
from the speech a passage in which O'Connell gloried in hav-
ing held 25 gigantic meetings in Ulster, Connaught, and
Leinster ; and denied that Sir Robert Peel made any
declaration in the House of Commons about her Majesty's
determination to maintain the Union inviolate). You will
find an elaborate endeavour on the pact of Mr. O'Connell
to represent to the people of this country that the
Queen was favourable to his views with respect to the
Union, and that she was only prevented from carrying out
those views from the hostility of the English nation and from
the opposition of her Ministers. jdo not deprecate the loyalty
of those poor people—far be it from me, sorry should I be to
do so, when the loyalty of those proceedings and the cheers of
the people were so strongly dwelt on as evidence of that loyalty ;
but when the people were led into the notion that the Queen
bad the inclination. but she had not the power to accomplish
their objects by restoring a native Parliament, can those cheers
be wondered at—so that we may attribute those cheers and
that expression of loyalty to that circumstance. But you will
find this to be only one of the severaldelusions which were indus-
triously practised on these poor people—a delusion, in point of
fact, as you have seen, and a delusion in point of law, as I will
show hereafter. Mr. O'Connell has corrected the report
of having used the term " ruffian soldiery." It is
plain from that he read the report of that speech ,•
but we do not find any retractation on that occasion of
the other parts of his speech ? Not one, with that single ex-
ception. We new come to the report of the Drogheda meet-
ing, which took place on the 6th June, as reported in the
FUJI newspaper, in which there is given the usual account of
the meeting, the bands, the banners, and the military organisa-
tion; next Mr. O'Connell addressed the meeting. You will
observe, that the speeches at the great meetings are, generally
speaking, of a more mitigated character considerably than
those delivered at the dinners. ( The Solicitor-General then
read the speeches of Mr. Barrett and Mr. Steele at the
Drogheda dinner. At the conclu.ion of the last speech Mr.
Steele bowed very gracefully.) Yes, gentlemen, (continued
the Learned Gentleman), Mr. Steele never disguised his senti-
ments on this or any other occasion. I have known him for
many years, and have respected and honoured his candour.
He said, on the occasion referred to, that if any emergency
should arise, be hoped Mr. O'Connell would place him in some
prominent position.
Mr. Steele—Just so.—( Laughter. )
SOLICITOR-GENERAL—We have included Mr. Steele in
the indictment, for we thought it improper that a gentleman
who had taken so prominent a part in the great movement should
be omitted. I have read his speech at Drogheda merely
for the purpose of showing that he sanctioned all that took
place. I now come to a document which appeared in the
Nation of the 13th of June, 1843. It is entitled " Morality
of War." The Learned Counsel having read the artiele, said,
that as the next document which he had to advert to was
one of very great importance, and one in which he should
comment at some length, he respectfully suggested an ad-
journment.

The Court acquiesced, and will resume its sittings to•rnor-
row, at ten o'clock, when the Solicitor-General will resume his
address.

TWENTY-SECOND DAY.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—THURSDAT.
At the usual hour, the Judges took their seats on the
Bench.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL resumed his address, and
said—Since addressing the Court on the previous day,
he had looked more particularly into the case of the
King against Hunt, and found it was an authority in
support of that part which charges as conspiracy to
excite discontent and disaffection among his Majesty's
subjects, and of hatred and contempt towards the
Government and Constitution. He then proceeded to
comment on the evidence on the part of the Crown.
The next meeting was that in Kilkenny, on the Bth of
.June. The prooeedings of that meeting are published
in the Pilot newspaper of the 12th of June, 1843.
There is first a long description of the number
of persons who attended, next the banners, the
flags, the music, and so forth, and then Mr. O'Con-
nell made a speech, to a part of which he
would call attention. " I suppose you have heard
of the Duke of Welllington and Sir Robert Peel
would
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but we are in
non, but by certain Members of the Administration of
that time. He had stated yesterday what appeared the
fair construction of Sir Robert Peel's declaration.
Being asked whether it was the intention of the Go-
vernin:mt to introduce any measure into Parliament for
the purpose of putting a stop to agitation, Sir R. Peel
expressed the reluctance of the Government to apply for
any a !ditional poser until it should first be ascertained
whether the existing law was not in itself snfficient to
enable them to conduct the administration of affairs in
Ireland. This was a plain and intelligible hint to those
persons engaged in agitation that -
Mr. SHE'', here observed that the Learned Counsel
not only yesterday %%ent very far out of the eyidence,
but was now a,lvertng to topics which had not the
slightest refer?nce to it.
Ihe SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, he was not aware that
had been alluding to any topic, or to any fact which
had not been pr:ved in evidence.
Mr. Justice CRAMPTON—You introduced something
abflit the year 1834.
Mr. SHEIL said, he admitted that great indulgence
had been extended to him by the Crown; nevertheless,
he could not avoid observing that the Solicitor-General
had no light to advert to the motives of Sir R. Peel;
And, as i egarcled yesterday, the Learned Counsel had no
right to tell a jury that, unless there was a verdict for
the Crown, coercion would be introduced.

Judge CRAMPTON observed that allusion should only
be made to that which had been given in evidence.
Mr. SIIEIL said that the Solicitor-General wanted to
advert to a speech spoken in Parliament, and from that
speech he would draw an inference for the jury.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—What I intended to site
with respect to this speech, was this :—Mr. O'Connell in
sonic of his addresses, which I have had occasion to read
to the jury, having justified, or attempted to justify,
his acts, adverted to what had been said or uttered
in Parliament as to civil war ; my intention was to
show that there was no well-grounded reason to ap-
prehend any such consequence. Mr. O'Connell was not
warranted in using the language he did, the observations
referred to having been made in Parliament ; and no-
thing was further from my intention, than to hold out
to the jury a threat, that if they did not find a ver-
dict for the Crown, it would be necessary to resort
to any additional powers. I really do not think I stated
that which the Learned Counsel has imputed to me. If
I did, gentlemen of the jury, I beg leave to retract it.
All I can say is, that if I did use the words capable of
the construction given, I think the observation of my
Learned Friend was perfectly justifiable, and any inter-
ruption, for the purpose of duly guarding the pry, is
also perfectly justifiable, What I meant to convey was
this—your Lordships will recollect that during these
proceedings it has been asserted over and over again
that no law was violated. Mr. O'Connell has repeatedly
in his speeches asserted that he would keep his fol-
lowers from the meshes of the law—that no law should
'be violated. What I meant to convey was this—that it
shopht.be decided by an appeal to 0, it?pl tribunal whether
the law had been violated or not. The question between us
and-Mr.G'Connell is thiswhether what has taken place is
reeoileilealile with the common law of the country-. That
is,the only Itlestion which I think criOtIP(I 41 raise.,
and a itiOtll4r tQ wiliest I two LETiI all along anxious

to confine myself. At Tullamore Mr. O'Connell made
' a speech in which he commented, at great length, on the
course that had been pursued with regard to the union.
' Having done this •he proceeded to hold out to the
people whom he was addressing, the advantages which
they might expect would accrue from a repeal. Having
read a passage from the speech referred to, the Learned
Counsel observed—Now you will observe that one of the
means employed in fostering what I call the
delusion, was the laying down the mistaken authority
of certain men. The people were told that there was
no di tficulty,in point of law, in repealing the Act of Union.
Mr. O'Connell then says—" The Irish Parliament was not
dead—it only sleeps—the Royal prerogative remains
unimpaired, and the Queen might come and restore it
without troubling us at all." Now, the people who at-
tended this meeting were instructed by Mr. O'Connell
that " the Queen was anxious for them, and favourable
to them," and he then lays down the law that it is not
necessary, in order to effect their object, that the English
Parliament or the Saxon Parliament should be resorted
• to—when she is convinced that it ought to be done
there is no legal objection to issuing writs, thereby call-
ing together the Parliament again." Now, gentlemen,
this brings me to the consideration of the proposition
whether it is consistent Ai ith the law of this land to I
, say that the Queen can reconstruct the Parliament of
Ireland by the mere exercise of the Royal prerogative
in issuing writs to such places in Ireland as her Majesty
may think proper. When my Learned Friend, the
I Attorney-General, in his very luminous statement,
' arrived at this part of the case, he threw out a challenge
' to the counsel on the other side—he asked how far they
were nmared—to -establish or support tho opinion of
their clients at this point. Ido not exactly know, at
this moment, whether they mean at all to insist on the
legality of that proposition, or if they do, to what extent
they will rely. Now, I think, I shall have very little
difficulty in demonstrating to their Lordships, who I
take for granted will duly lay down the law, that that is a
total perversion of the law, is altogether unsupported by
legal principles ; it is directly adverse to the best
estublished principles of our law, it is wholly unintel-
ligible, and the result would be to render void all
the acts which have been passed since the union.
The defendants do not exactly say that the union
was void, but passages were read to show, that though
binding in point of law, it was not binding in point of
conscience or constitutional principle as contradistin-
guished from law and precedent. It was said that King
James issued writs for 40 boroughs in one day, and that
the Crown had now the right of exercising the same
power. There is an explicit enactment that no meeting
shall be convened, or any persons elected or considered as
representatives of those places either in the United Par-
liament or elsewhere, except as the Imperial Parliament
shall determine. It has been said that the Queen
has the power to issue writs to call together an Irish
Parliament, for this reason that that Parliament, as Mr.
O'Connell alleges, is not dead, but sleeps—that it is still
in constitutional and legal existence, though not actually
exercising its functions. That supposes the Act of
Union to be altogether void. Mr. Whiteside, one of the
counsel for the traversers, went the length of saying
that it was not meant by that that the Act of Union was
not binding in point of law, but merely that it was void
in constitutional principle. I can, however, give a very
good answer with respect to Mr. O'Connell's meaning,
and the meaning which he intended to be conveyed to
the people of Ireland, by referring you to the docu-
ments which the traversers gave in evidence the
day before yesterday. Among the documents put in
by them, was an address of the National Associa-
tion at its first establishment to the people of Ire-
land. It contains a dedication to the people of
Ireland by Mr. O'Connell. "I dedicate," said he,
" these reports to you; they are written by one of your-
selves for the benefit of you all." Now, in this publica-
tion I find the doctrine respecting the union laid down
thus:—" Besides all this, it is perfectly clear that the
Irish Parliament had no right whatsoever to vote away
their country's independence." He then states Plunket's
words, and thus continues :—" Such were the means
by which the union was carried, and such was
the inherent radical defect, in point of law and
conscience, in that measure." What will be said
of that ? Is that, or is it not, a deliberate asser-
tion circulated among the people of Ireland, that by
reason of the inherent want of legal power the ca-
pacity of the Legislature, and particularly of the Irish
Legislature, which passed the union—the union was
void in point of law and conscience ?—" It is right
to see how this inherent defect in the union," and
so on, " was exhibited by another lawyer?" I will say
that this assertion of Mr. O'Connell's, as to the right to
call together an Irish Parliament without the sanction
of the Legislature, is -not only seditious and unlawful,
but is also delusive. I say it is one of the means by
which the objects of this combination were attempted to
be misled ; and Mr. O'Connell misled them as to the
nature of the act, in order to create discontent and dis-
affection with it, and to induce those large assemblies to
unite with him in getting rid of the statute. I hold this
assertion to be further delusive, because it pretended
to be founded upon what has been represented to you
as the opinions of those eminent men whose names you
have often heard of in the course of this trial. Well,
gentlemen of the jury, so far as relates to the doc-
trine that the Queen, by virtue of the Royal prerogative,
can, independent of Parliament, issue writs for calling
together a Parliament in Ireland, also to the proposition
that the union is not binding in point of law, I am sure
you will be satisfied that both are unfounded, being
based upon unfair and unjust misrepresentations of the
opinions of eminent persons, and I will now assume, in
the remainder of my address, that you are perfectly
satisfied there is not any solid foundation whatever for
that which has been repeated over and over again, and
circulated through the country for the purpose of mis-
leading and deceiving. (The Solicitor-General com-
mented very ably on the formation of the arbitration
courts.) There was a regular judicial commission issued
to the arbitrators to act for a certain district, and
the summons was headed, " Arbitration Court,"
just like the title of any other tribunal ; as for
example "Insolvent Court." It was idle to say that
there was any analogy between those proceedings and
what took place in awards, which were made rules of
Court, to be carried into effect by the constituted autho-
rities, while the judges sanctioned by the Repeal Asso-
ciation were only responsible to that body. Having re-
ferred to other proceedings, the Learned Counsel went
on to remark that during all this period the corrupting
of the soldiery had never been lost sight of, and accord-
ingly, after the Nation had published the article entitled
" The Morality of War," Mr. Barrett, on 28th August,
published the article, "The Duty of a Soldier." The two
traversers had the common design of inducing the soldiers,
when called upon to check an outbreak, to decline doing so.
Mr. O'Connell declared in several of his speeches, that
while he lived there should be no outbreak, but that after
his death he left to others to pursue their own line of
conduct. This was a pretty exposition of his opinion of
the state of the country, and of the danger which would
be the result of the agitation. Mr. O'Connell had
thought fit to put in his address to the people to tell
them he had the authority of the " Tory Lord Chief
Justice for saying that the law had done everything for
the landlord." A more monstrous perversion of the
real facts of the case could not have taken place, because
on the authority alluded to—Delap v. Leonard, the
Chief Justice only alluded to one particular Act as being
in favour of the landlord ; and even there the decisiion
of the Court was in favour of the tenant. The Learned
Counsel then animadverted on other meetings of the
Repeal Association, but his speech possessed little in-
terest. He had not finished at five o'clock, when the
Court rose, and will consequently resume his address on
Friday morning.

PETER PARLEY'S NEW WORKS.
Our readers will be gratified to learn that the in-
imitable Peter Parley, whose works for the young have
long enjoyed an unprecedented popularity, lately en-
tered into an engagement with Messrs. Darton and
Clark to produce a series of new works, to be published
exclusively by them. The following is Peter Parley's
own letter on the subject :
" Gentlemen,—lt is now understood between us that
I am to prepare a series of books, of which you are to
be the publishers. I undertake the task with pleasure,
because it is my wish to be judged in England by what
I do write, and not by what has been written for me. I
have been much vexed, since my arrival in this coun-
try, to see the name of Peter Parley attached to a num-
ber of books which I never saw or heard of, and which
contain much of which I wholly disapprove, and con-
sider to be contrary to good morals.
"It is, therefore, a real satisfaction to me, that my
future works are to make their appearance in England
in a genuine form. I shall not fail to keep in view that
I am now writing for English readers, and I trust I may
thereby render what I write more worthy of the kind
reception which, with all their disadvantages, my pre-
vious works have met with.

" I am, Gentlemen, yours truly,
" S. E. GOODRICH."
Four New Works from the pen of Peter Parley, de-
cidedly the best he has yet written, have been published
by Messrs. Darton Ad Clark, in terms of the above en •
gagement. The titles of these charming productions are-
1. Persevere and Prosper; or, The Life of a Sable
Hunter.

2. Cheerful Cherry; or, Make the Best of It.
3. Wit Bought; or, The Life and Adventures of
Robert Merry,
4. What to Do and How to Do It; or, Men and
Manners.
To be followed by others.

FIRE IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.—On Thursday
a fire was discovered to have broken out on the extensive
premises in the occupation of Nous. Cook, Gladstone, and
Co., calico printers and Manchester warehousemen, situate
on the §o4th-fide of St. Paul's Church-yard, facing the
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Acker', James Fuller. A. E. Nicholls Right Hon
A'Court t apt. Gaskell, James M. Norreys, Lord
Aldarn, William Gladstone, W. E, Northland, Lord
Alford, Viscount Godson, Richard Oswald, Alexander
Allix, John Peter Gordon, Captain Owen, Sir J.
Antrobus, Edmund Gore, Montague Packe, C. W.
Arbuthnot, Hugh Goulburn, Henry Paget, Lord W.
Arkwright, George Giahain, Sir J. Pakington J. S.
Bagot, Hon. W. Greene, T. Palo. er, Hobert
Bantle, Colonel H. • Gregory, W. H. Palmerston, Vint,
Baldwin, C. Barry Grimston, Lord Patten. Wilson
Balfour,/J. M. Hale, R. B. Peel, Sir Robert
Baring, VV. B. Belford, H. I'eel, Jonathan
Barrington, Viscount Hamilton, J. Hans Philips, M.
Baskerville, 'l'. B. M. Hamilton, Wm. J. Pigot, Sir R.
Beckett, William Hamilton, Lord C. P.illington, Viscount
Bell, Matthew Hanmer, iir John Pollock, Sir F.
Betitinck, Lord G. Harcourt, G. G. Freed, WT.
Beresford, Major Hardinge, Sir H. Pringle, Alexander
Berkeley, Hun. C. Hayes, Sir E. Protheroe, Edward
Bernal, R. Henley, J. W. Pusey, Philip
Blakemore, R. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Rashleigh, William
Boldero, H. G. Herbert, Sidney Roid,pir J. R.
Bottleld, Beriah 'Linde, J. H. Boebuck J. A.
Bradshaw, James HobhouseVir J.C.
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Bruce, Lord E. Aods,wo,, it: Joh*
Bruen, Colonel Ilohnea, W. A'Court Russell, J. 1)
Buckley, Edmun I Hope, Charles Ryder, G. D.
Burroughes. 11. N. Hope, G. W. Sandon, Viscount
Cardwell, E. Howard, P. H. Scarlet'. R C.
Charteris, Francis Hussey, Thomas Scott. F.
Chetwode, Sir John Hutt, W. Shaw, Right Hon. F
Cholmordeley Hugh James, Sir W. C. Shirley, E. J.
Clayton, Rice R. Jernayn, Earl Sibthorp, Colonel
Clerk, Si, George Johnstone, Sir J. Smith, Abel
Clive, R. H. Johnstone, Hope Somerset, Lord O.
Colborne, W. Ridley Jones, Thobaki Standish, Charles
Colebrooke, Sir T. Kemble. Henry Stanley, Lord
Coivile, C. R. Ki.atchbull, Sir E. Stanley, Edward
Compton, H. C. Knlghtley, Sir C. Stewart John
Connolly,. Colonel ',ascent's, W. S. Sutton, lion. H. Da.
Copeland, Alderman Law, i harks E. Tennent, J. E.
orry, Right Hon. H Lawson, Andrew 'Thesiger. F.
Cresswell, Baker Leader, J. I% Tollemache, F. J.
Cnpps, W. Lincoln, Earl of Toaaline, G.
Dalrymple, Captain Lockhart, William Towneley, John
Darner, Hon. Dawson Lowther, John H. Trench, Sir F. W.
Darby, George Mackenzie, Thomas Trevor, Hon. R. -
Denison, EB. MacKenzie, W. F. Trotter, John
Dickinson, F. H. Maclean 1) Tumor, Christopher
Douglas, Sir Howard M'Neill, Duncan Tyrrell, Sir J.
Douglas, Sir C. E. Mahon, Lord Vane, Lord Harry
Douglas, J. D. Manners, Lord C. Waddington, H. S.
Douro, Marquis of March, Earl of Walsh, Sir J.
Drummond, H. H. Marjoribanks, S. Wilshere, W.
Dund r. s, Admiral Marsham Viscount Wodehouse, EdraOnd
Du Pre; C. G. . Martin, t.. W Wood, Colonel
Eaton. R. J. Marton, George Wood, Colonel T.
Egerton, W. T. hlaxwtll, Hon. J. P. Wortley, Jas.
Eliot, Lordr • Meynell, Captain Wortley. Hon. JohaS
Eacott, Bichkam Miles, P. W. S. Wrightson, %V. B.
Farnham; E. B. Miles, William Wyndham, Colonel
Fitzmaurice, W. Milnes, Richard Yorke, Hon. E. T.
Flower, Sir James Morgan, Octavius Young, John
Follett, Sit William Murray, A. 'CULLERS.
Ffolliott, John Neville, Ralph Fremantle, Sir T.
Forster, Matthew Newport, Vi count Baring, H.

IRISH HIGH SHERIFFS for 1844.
The Lord Lieutenant has appointed the undermen-
tioned gentlemen to the office of High Sheriff for the
following counties, and counties of cities, and towns in
Ireland, for the year 1844:---
ANTRIM—John M`Gildowney, Esq., Clare Park,
Ballycastle.

ARMAGH—John R. Irwine, Esq., Carnagh House,
Beady.
CARLOW—Sir R. Paul, Batt., Ballyglare, Waterford.
CARRICKFERGUS TOWN—W. Burleigh,, Esq., Carrick-
fergus.
CAVAN—The Hon. Somerset R. Maxwell, Arley Cot-
tage, Mount Nugent.
CLARE—William Butler, Esq., Bunahow, Gort.
CORR—Sir Edward Singe, Bart., Lislea, Bandon.
Corm ClTY—William Rogers, Esq., Lota, Cork.
DONEGAL—T. Batt, jun., Esq , Rathmulleu, Lisburn.
DowN—J. R. Allen, Esq., Mountpanther, Clough.
DROGHEDA TOWN—Thomas Carty, Esq., Drogheda.
DUBLlN—William E. Caldbeck, Esq., Kilmastiogue ;
Sackville-street Club.
FERMANAGH—John Grey Vesey Porter, Esq., Kiln-
creeny, Trillick.
GALWAY—Hon. Standish P. Vereker, Loughcooter
Castle, Gort.

GALWAY Towtr--Chas.Blake, jun,,Esq., Merlin-park.
KERRY-J. Coltsman, Esq , Flesk tastle, Killarney.
KILDARE—O'Connor Henehy, Esq., Stonebrook, Bat.
lymore Eustace.
KILKENNY.-- 11. St. George, Esq., Balief Castle,
Johnstown.
• KILKENNY CITY—Sir John Blunden, Batt., Castle
Blunden.

KING'S COUNTY—Thomas Hackett, Esq., Birr.
LEITRIM—James Johnstone, Esq., Kinlough abuse,
Bundorixi.
LIMERICK—Rd. Quinn Sleeman, Esq., Cahera,
LIMERICK ClTY—Samwel Dickson, Limerick.
LONDONDERRY, CITY AND COUNTY—. hOMELS Scott,
Esq., Hillsborough, Londonderry.
LONGFORD—Thomas Hussey, Esq., Ballyno.cor, Bally.
mahon.
LoUTH—Sir R. Robinson, Bart., Rokeby Hall, Dunker.
Mavo—COlonel James M'Alpine,Windsor, Castlebar.
MEATH—EarI of Bective, Headford House, Kells. •
MONAGHAN—John Lentaigne, Esq., Tallaght House,
Tallaght.

QUEEN'S COUNTY—Henry Pierce Pigot, Esq., Cap-
pard, Mountmellick.

RoscommoN—Thomas G. Wills, Esq., Willsgrove,
Castlerea.

Smoo—Alexander Chrichton, Esq.. Sligo.
TIPPERARY—WiIIiam Ponsonby Barker, Esq., Kil-
cooley Abbey, Johnstown
TYRONE—James M. Stronge, Esq., Tynan Abbey,
Tynan.
WATERFORD—John Palliser, Esq., Carnagh, Kilmse•
thomas.
WATERFORD ClTY—Samuel King, Esq., Mount-
pleasant, Waterford.

WESTMEATH—Sir Montagu L. Chapman, Bart., Killas
Castle, Athboy.
WExFonn---Mathew Ford Beauman, Esq., Hyde
Park, Gorey.
WlCKLOW—Francis Synge, Esq., Glenmore Castle, -
Ashford.

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THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.
THE ADJOURNED INQUEST,
The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of
James Hanney and Proctor William Scott, the engine driver
and stoker who were killed by the accident which occurred
on the railway, at Springfield, on the 28th ult., was resumed
at Springfield on Monday last, and closed on Thursday.
Most of the evidence has been already given.
The CORONER, in summing up, observed that the evidence
was very contradictory, and would require great attention.
and he had no doubt it would receive it at their hands, so as
to make the result satisfactory to themselves and the public.
He then read the whole of the evidence, and the jury, after
a deliberation of upwards of an hour, returned a verdict of
" Manslaughter against some person or persons unknown,"
with the following addenda—" The jury desire to express
their opinion that, in order to insure the safety of the public..
it is expedient on the part of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company, and every other Railway Company, to appoint a
trustworthy person, under their immediate control, to super-
intend the arrangement of the points and cross-rails, both by
night and by day, but more particularly by night."
The inquiry terminated at seven o'clock in the evening.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU2'. •
Srn,—As politics have nothing to do with sportirw,
this English amusement being pursued by Whig, Radi-
cal, and Ter), I trust your columns will be open to a
refutation of a letter signed " N;of Eltham," a short time
since, wherein a charge of wanton cruelty is made against
the " Surrey Stag-hounds." I am not about to take up
your valuable space with a defence of hunting, or
whether it is more cruel than fishing, shooting,
coursing, driving, or any of those pursuits which, from
their Universal practice by energetic men in all states of
society, would seem to be inherent to our natures. Such
an attack as that of "N." tends to cast an undeserved stigma
on a set of men of as generous and humane feelings as
any other. The answer to his individual attack, however,
is best given by the following extract of a letter
from the Master of the Hounds, which will show " N.'s"
statement to be incorrect. G. B. W.
London, Feb. 5, 1844.
EXTRACT FROM THE MASTER'S LETTER.
" The simple facts are as follow :—The deer was un-
carted on Hay's-common, and when the got to
Lewisham, every endeavour was made to take her, but
without success, and she went away and was not seen
again till they got to Eltham, when she ran into a yard.
but there being a gate open on the other side, she passed
through and went into a pond, when again every ono
connected with the hunt was most anxious sh© should
be taken, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful, se
the foot people drove her from the pond before she! .
could be secured, and she went to Woolwich, where she
was taken without injury of any hind, and would
.have
been fit to hunt two days afterwards if required'; but
we have a great number of deer, and very few have been
hunted more than twice, some only once, during the
season. You will therefore see the deer did not die on
Woolwiebreommon."

OVERNMINT ADVERTISEMENT.—Watited for Ire—
land, an Attorney-General, who will be ready to challenge not cagy
jurors but counsel themselves, and who will be prepared to ligbt tbs
battles of the Crown with pistols—the question of a dettisdarst
being " worth powder a'td shot" having a strictly literal zooming.
which may be resolved on application to the defendant'S adcocaall
The applicant for the office must be willing to give every one es.
tisfaction by means of pistols—but not otherwise;—a disregard lo
the dignity and authority of the Bench, evincing an indepenclumee
of spirit, will be liberally treated with ; and any one against wboas
the public, on all sides, may have been calling out, will not bee/.
jected to, if he calls out one of his learned brethren.—Pone,A.
PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS ErritAoRDINARY.
Bill to be introduced this session : —A Bill tit grant compeasatbas
to the " frosen-out gardeners," on account of the ?MUZAK be
season,—Punch.

The mortal remains of the late Earl of Besborough
will be Interred in the tamily •ault, at Roehamptou, in Surrey, or
be taken to Ole &wily seat, Besbotough, in Ireland.