The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-05 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vutair Optitton.

" Who rune may read."

roir.EIGN.
The French funds again declined on Saturday. The Three.
per Cents. closing at 81f. 75c.. and the Fives at 124 f. 55c.
Orleans Railroad shares closed at 852 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 840 f.;
Havre, 680 f. ; Avignon, 660 f. ; Sp anish Actives, 301.
In consequence of the death of t(tie Duke of Saxe Coburg,
the concert which was to have been Oven at Court on Friday
night, was put off, notices having vee,a sent in the morning
to all the personages who had been invited. The deceased
Duke was father of Prince Albert, of 1. 'viand ; brother of the
King of the Belgians ; uncle of the I Zing of Portugal, the
Duchess de Nemours, and Duke Augu, Itus of Saxe Coburg,
son-in-law of the King of the French.
General Bertrand, the faithful adherent cf Napoleon, died.
at Chateawoux on the Ist inst.
Donna Carlotta, wife of Don Francisco (le Paula, died at
Madrid on the 29th ult. This event will pr,,ibably lead to a
marriage between the Queen and their son, the*.Duke of Cadiz.
M. Angellis, a distinguished Member of the A elgian Cham-
ber of Representatives, died, on Tuesday last, fry am a sudden
stroke of apoplexy.
The boiler of a steam-engine, at the paper-man. ufactcrY of
Messrs. Callaud, Bellisle, and Co., at Veuze, in the .Charente,
burst a few days ago; one man and a boy were kh'led, and
another man was so severely injured that his life is ire.
danger..
The roof of the engine-house was blown off.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, at Paris, the weather was
most tempestous, and on Friday there was the heavies t and
continuous fall of snow that has occurred in Fr .111C4
during thirty years.
The Courrier de Rhone states that the works of the rag-
road from Avignon to Marseilles are prosecuted with inces—
sant activity along the entire line from Barbentanne to Ta-•
rascon. Six hundred operatives are employed on the road,
and the expense of extracting one part of the rocks which
impede the line has been estimated at 83,000 f.
The Commerce says that the Cabinet has at length deter-
mined to bring forward the dotation question. It adds, that
the King considers the question as one of vital impohance
to his dynasty, and that, should it be rejected, he will dis-
solve the Chamber and appeal to the country.
On Thursday, about five hundred students of the various
schools waited on M. de Chateaubriand, and presented to him
an address expressive of their admiration and sympathy.

COURT-FASHIO NAXI
A Court mourning for his late Royal Highness the Duke
of Saxe Coburg Gotha, will, it is expected, be published in
the Gazette to-morrow evening.
The State apartments at Windsor Castle were closed
theft
public by command Of her Majesty, in consequence ofr :
lamented demise of his Serene Highness the reigning
of Saxe Coburg and Gotha.
Viscount Melbourne, since his return to town from Brockettt
Hall, has been suffering from indisposition arising from a collf-
The Noble Viscount was considerably better yesterday.
Lord and Lady Beauvale arrived in town on SaturdaY'r.
from Panshanger.
Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn continue at Panshangerr.
with Earl and Countess Cowper, till the 12th inst., when the.
Viscountess comes to town to enter on her duties as Lady in--
Waiting on her Majesty.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, accompanied by Lord.
Bernard and Lady. Mary Howard, leave town on their return.
to Arundel Castle, at the close of the week.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma CanW"
bell, who- are passing the winter at Rome, intend to leave
that 'city at the close of the month, for Naples, and to return
to England early in May. The Marquis of Lorn, his Grace's
only son, comes of age on the 30th April.
Lord and Lady Stanley entertained his Excellency the,
French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire, Duke of
Buccleuch, Baron and Baroness de Langsdorff, Earl ana-
Countess of Wilton, Duke of Richmond, Viscount and 115"
countess Canning, Lord Ossulston, Lord George Bentinck,
his Excellency M. Dedel, Honourable Sydney Herbert,
at dinner on Saturday last, at their mansion in St. James
square.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Comlnnes
commences his Parliamentary dinners for the sason on Saturi
day next. The levees of the Right Hon. Gentleman are e°
as yet appointed.
Sir Frederick Trench entertained his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge and a select party at dinner on Sattullat"
at his residence in Pall-mall.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. Sotheron, late Member for Devizes, has announct4
himself a candidate for North Wilts, in the room of the late'
Sir F. Burdett, and Mr. Ludlow Bridges, in the same in:
terest has issued an address to the electors of the borough'
claiming their suffrages. They are not, however, to be
allowed to walk over the ground, as Mr. Sotheron is to be
opposed for the county by Mr. Edridge, of Bath,' and Mr'
Bridges, by Mr. C. Temple, Q.C., on the part of the Liberall-
The nomination for the borough is fixed for Tuesday, the 6th
inst., and that for the county for Monday the 12th.
The heavy falls of snow in different parts of the country
appear to have thrown considerable impediments in the way
of railroad travelling in some instances: but the application .
of the plough and brooms have been found remarkably
efficient in clearing off the snow so as to enable the trains to
proceed.
At an early hour on Thursday morning, the cutlery works
known as the Soho-wheel, Sheffield, were destroyed by fire,„;
The estimated loss is 8001., and there is too much reason '"
fear that it has been caused by an incendiary.
The Government, it is said, has appointed Mr. Carr, solid-
tor of Excise in Scotland, to be solicitor of Excise in Eng"
land, in the place of Mr. Dehany, who has been compelled to-
resign that lucrative office from ill health. This office had
been filled for many years by the father of Mr. Carr.
The organisation of the pensioners in Ireland is rapidlr
going forward. More than 8,000 are already enrolled.
The Royal Asiatic Society met on Saturday, at their room°
in Grafton-street, Professor 'Wilson in the Chair. The'
were present the Earl of Auckland, Sir E. Colebrook%
Hon. Holt Mackenzie, Major Oliphant, Dr. Phillimore, an '4
others.
mßuemckbinergshafamtesrwhira
The annual meeting of the Agricultural Asso.ciationm,sfe
in the chair. About r. The e,
erdswasdinheedldtoagtelyelre,sbury on Satilruast
ant
eighty sat down to manner.
said, in refe-
in returning thanks for his health being drunk,
efullY
rence to the corn-laws, " If gentlemen would only ear
peruse what Sir Robert Peel, as the head of the Government,_a
the Duke of .13 c
ak
had said upon the subject, there would be no difficutly
ascertaining what Ministers really meant."—(Cheers)u.
e of
Rumour says it is the immediate intention of the 1)
Richmond, Viscount Ingestre, M. 1?“ Philip Pussy, eq:
M.P., and others, to form a metropolitam Society for the x-re
tection of British Agriculture, in order to rival the League.
In the course of last week Anti-League meetings lirf""
held at Lincoln, Amersham, Bucks, Camloridge, wethereP
Yorkshire, and Peebles, Scotland.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have proolul;
gated an order that no tobacco is to be issued to seameo
marines on board ship, while in port, in consequence of
enormous extent to which smuggling in that article
lately been carried on.

MARKET ICTEWS.-(TI-IIS DAY')
•
CORN EXCHANGE-MO NDAlr*
The demand for wheat'fresh up was somewlhat active. Ite,
parcels of both red and white were taken o fl'readdY,, att of
advance in the currencies obtained on Monday As the•
fully is per quarter, while the value of
°rod.
middling and inferior kinds was steat-li,-13" B'l:felting
Bonded Wheat and Barley at fully previous rates- 'Grind-
Barley at an improvement in value of is per quaTter• oviotla
ing and distilling sorts quite as dear. In lthdt L'ldreaS
figures were supported. Oats at full prices. Beaus
unaltered.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURS• 635 to
NHEAT—ESSeX & Kent, I MALT—Chevalier....._.
to Q,IA
red 43s to 6ls OATs—Yorkshire • .""": oss -e,..
Ditto white
Norfolk and Lin Potatoe ..... .....,. . .6,
coin, red 42s to 45s Youghall and Cork, 1.75 to
~t„.,
Ditto white 44s to 508 black . .........•••'• Ips 0 !`':
Irish, red 478 to 50s Cork, white ..••••••• 215 to f;c74
Dittos white
RYE—Old
New 36s to 35s huts- Grey . ........... ...• n's to 3..
BARLEY—Grinding 2ss to 29s Maple ................ ... Zs to 51
Malting
Chevalier 32s to 358 Boilers... ...... ~ ..... •15 to b,,,!
MAsr—Suffblk and Nor- FLoun—Town roam ••• 345 to 30:3
folkto 3'3
Brown
Kingston and Ware
FOREIGN GRAIN A)
WHEAT—Dantric
565056
sag tottoo 6518.1
StocktonS uto k ....k. .14..0.1.
ji....th i
t...
34 s
Hamburg h 36s to 40s
BARLEY 3os to 33s
' OATs—New
Feed l4s to 16s1
SMITHFIELD. _t DevollB, 45‘C"'
The demand fort e primest Scotts Herefords,
I to those ob •
was comparatively steady, at prices fully
.er„r beasts lea
tamed on Monday last. the middling and 1
were, „pporteet
sluggish state ; notwithstanding previous rata
, odder
the
Sheep.—Prime Old Downs were in deman,,,d• we pas°.
instances, an advance of 2d per Slbs ; 3 ' 4s 4d per Blb
highest general figure for mutton not to c:cced
5. cf. toe. d.
Calves at full prices. Pigs at late rates-
Interior Beasts ...... .... 82. 8°38'401 Infei.'d°r:uteePhty .......... i 14: 3:110
Second qu4llly ditto... 3 2 3 4, Sec „oiled „oiled ditto.. , 0 4s .
Prime large Oxen i 6 3 8 Coars d-r•
wn blethers 4 9 0
3 0 0
Prime Scots, &c. 3104 0, Seoth Aogs ............ .6 4
Large coarse Calves... 4 0 481 Large -
Suckling Calves, each 18 0 26 0 1 Quarter old Pigs,
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
trline small ditto 4B 5 0 ....zc.b.1.5 0. s 0
Ple
Bitaitut. I Sheep. I Calves. I go
2,705 1 24.400 65
iwaarct.ame AND MEADENZE.A.SaIast re'
Meat at prices about equal to those quoted in our trenoly
port. The quality of the Scotch meat has been el eceivect
good ; and the same remark may be applied to that rates of
from the West of England and Yorkshire, yet the '
such have ruled miserably low.
large N....
per stone, by the Carcase & d. Os. to
s. d. to 9 6 4
13_1f,
r,l
rn:merieolar.r.
32
04
,Pzfuttol,pindfmereio.f......::: 32 0 : 32
middling ........ 2 6 2 is, _ middling•-" 3 6 : 0
22102
- - ~

JD FLOUR IN BOND. 26s
BEANS ........................ 2, to 0
Pdo .... . .....ri.. ..,••••• 235 t° 25$
—Amecan CO 2.
Baltics.
........ 22;
Fi.OUR 0

Veal ..............................
2Uft3IN:
......"'" 3 8 4 101 --saw
Pork,Tzi: l
pa I.': es. .; .
WEER'. ..... . 3 4
Beasts. Sheep. " ef.
riga.
1.......
Scotland SOO
Yorkshire - 700
1p: eevv oi
Totalon
Norfolk - 140
Suffblk is 100 --
21 190 -- .1208°
Cambridgeshire
Essex SO 10J
Surrey 4O 200 140 200130
70 340 00 70
Wiltshire
uahswl r e _2B 60
15 133 100
Other parts
.........._
-- --.----- 2 f'3o
‘275 2,521 870 ~ , ,
eek's arrival
......• ... .....m.....• ......--..:-: Al 9
Difference since our last... 101 :30 67* '
BOROUGH HOP RCARILSTis market in
.
There is only a moderate business doing in this
any kind of hops, yet the demand may be considered firT,
at prices quite equal to those noted in our last report. Me
show of samples is unusually small.
TALLOW. jell
We have nothing new to inform our friends of in cone
with this market. The delivery is again smaller than in the
corresponding week last year, and the price, in consequence'
is steady, at our quotation. In Tallow, for the Autumn.
there is a little business doing at 41s 6d to 41s 9d. Town 131-
low is 42s nett cash.
WOOL IVEARICET.
The public sales have been well attended by the dealers,
who have purchased largely at an advance on combing
qualities of lid to 2d, and clothing, ditto, Id to lid per lb.
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS.
Although the arrivals of Potatoes have been seasonevii
good since our last, holders of the best samples have de-
manded, and, in some instances, obtained, a trifling dvance.
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THE Du OFBORPEAUX.—Accounts frow Insprock.
announce the arrival of the Duke of Bordeaux in that town,
Ile
travelled day and night, but his progress had been but slo, trona
the accumulation of snow in the passes of the Tyrol. HOWas
pected to arrive at Gorits on the 2.3 d ultimo.

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Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Ins the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday a fair busi-
Ves was done, at firm prices. Sales, 7,000 bales=vis.. 200
Surat, at 4id. to 4-Id, ; 40 Egyptian, at 84d; affil the rest
ilini erican, at 50. to Sid.=-The Share Market closed firm.
ryth
22,r1'1410mm and GlouteSter New, 17* ; Grand Junction
iaA ; Great Western, 119 ; South Western Eighths, 17i ;
Midland, 96 ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 13s. ; Rouen and
Tire, 14 ; South Eastern, 351, ; and ditto New,.361.
fi,,, are not any Colonial arrivals this morning, and
tr deliverytj of the morning mails was very late, owing
ile,,:e heavy falls of snow that have taken place. The
LE, Ts from the manufacturing districts continue to read
satisfact( -I
sli 1 "1-Y, as respects the prospects of trade. The
glt increase that has been made in the issues
notes by the Directors of the Bank of England,
de Tars by the returns referred to on Saturday, tends to
a, il.i!onstrate. however, that the demand for accommodation
It the bank and its branches in various parts of the country,
pi not been by any means so considerable as was anti.
Cted• No doubt great caution in this respect continues to be
ii;rry d by tb.e Court of Directors, the more so as the mania
*Peculation in cotton, in railways, and in mining shares
1)1;4i Bto be rapidly on the increase. There is an opinion
-I,,tiellti that before the middle of the year, the Bank will
ry e ev .
.'4, a sum in bullion not far short of 20 millions sterling.
....ie ,ry arrival from South America, large remittances are
iZsected to be received for some time to come, and at the
porf„ll,t moment there is scarcely any demand for ex-
of —"`°". The orders for foreign grain, in anticipation
momentshort crops in this country, do not at the present
oli demand the slightest attention. It is true, that
kti
~t, a month or six weeks back, there were many who
1.,„ Vated a large importatation in the spring, but the high
c that at present rules, and which is likely to con-
kilt% checks, in no immaterial degree, the furor
ateavour of
'' at the time we have referred to prevailed
speculations in foreign grain. At any
8, the Directors of the Bank of England are now in a
tirn to answer demands upon them, for the exportation of
steritrecious metals, to the extent of four or five millions
tu ires g,
screwthere.
r,-ti firm market has ruled for the British Securities to-day.
s';,fistels for Money and Account have advanced, the former from
t'4l;° 9,7 i, and the latter from 97i to 97*. At the present
about rte are scarcely so high. The Commissioners bought
ha :" '1:0001. Consols at 971. The Reduced Three per Cents.
I.o\ e fluctuated only from 98A and 98*. A quota-
-113;1, i 8„. given for the New Five per Cents. namely,
a- • It is some time since any transaction occurred
iiotnis Stock, and their prices were very considerably lower,
',D1.1. Saturday
lir memory serves correctly. Bank Stock was last quoted
at 1934, but now sales cannot be effected above
s4,?* Exchequer Bills remain at 675., 695. premium, and India
;Ws at 82s. premium.
13Z, improvoment must be noticed in most of the Foreign
115'41.,i morning. Austrian Five per Cents. were worth
Co -"eigian, 106 ; Dutch Five per Cents. 1011: Portuguese
uverted, 48 ; the Old Five per Cents. 75i ; the Spanish
Actives. have risen from 23 to 23i A, and the Three per
dents. from 31i to 32* *; Mexican and Portuguese Stocks
N. a trifle higher than they were on Saturday.
811 verY varied market him prevailed for Railway
lisp— es to-day. The most portant features are a
14i to the London and Birmingham Shares to
~- premium • and in the Great Western to 38
kethun. Most of the other Shares are in the shade, under
Itis rates.
namely, London
at 4A premium. and Westminster Bank Shares
.1 rather lower,
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)
Bank Stock 1921
14'
3192
Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
/4.11 3% per Cent. Annuities lOl% 102
ng A.nnuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 13-11%
India Bonds,l,ooo B2
..bitto under 1,000 B2
.-,•onsols for Account 27%%%
.xchequer Bills, I%cl. I X,d
1,0004
5002
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ' 115
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO6
13razihan Bonds 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account.
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent Zr 5
Ditto for the Account 0 A 34
Ditto Three per Cent
Ditto for the Account
butch 2% per Cents 5 IA
Dutch 5 per Cents. lOl%
PRICBB OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.

tint.H RAILWAIE. PAID. PER SHARE.
tri, ighani and Gloucester
~_ tol and Exeter 7O
tern Counties
uDitto New 25 12% to
itlt Western
Or itt° % Shares 5O 72% to
d/21 Junction IOO
4"n"l'on and Brighton 5O .........464 ...... to 45363 i
ta '°ll and South Western
....ncaster and Carlisle
N°T6and Counties 100
rWich and Brandon
lio".!Fastle and Darlington Junct. 15
v....:,trern and Eastern 45 b5%%1... to
1,112 and Orleans
*.!!!sand Rouen
,11:),cnd and Havre.
20 -2% ...... to
Southvre. 8 11;t ...
to
Eastern and Dover
Porth Midland
A/41ft° New Shares `,s
50 S 6 %% t°
20 57 to 58
(Net ,„CIIESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 3.—We have .a
ter an
to-day, but there is no material alteration in
ter ati*—;Nanchester and Leeds Half Shares, 49 ; Dlst.nches-
-32. V Irrninghain, 39# to 4; Newcastle and Darlington,
K,t,-;.,,Ttehester and Leeds Quarter Shares, 9# to i ; South
77 to 77i.

FINE ARTS.
viewe were favoured on Thursday last with a private
ador of some pieces of sculpture, which are intended to
artist
Ntvh Pediment of the new Royal Exchange. The
the has undertaken them is Mr. Westmacott,
te,, eminent sculptor, and he has shown great chaste-
ha'ss and simplicity in his designs, and, so far as he
to4l3et proceeded—for the work is by no means
turePtete—great skill in his execution. The sculp-
t()
raconsists of several figures, all bearing reference
9 10 ereantile life, which are grouped on either side a
hoiß•hsal„,figure of Commerce, upwards of nine feet
' groups are for the most part detached;
a foreign mer-
e-h'anZne weeseeseea British and
apparently in conversation with each
Other, whileengaged
close beside them stands a Persian
trade; ; anc in another, a sailor who is tying up a
bale of goods, while an agent is looking on, with a
Den in his hand, as if about to take an inventory of
each separate article. The whole produces a very
gaming effect, and has the merit of being strictly
!PPropriate, and intelligible at the first glance to
;very spectator. Mr. Westmacott deserves praise
''3l,!.liaving rejected all fantastic mythological designs,
AN1;11101 would have been utterly out of keeping in a
la eh
like the Royal Exchange. With it it is impos-
tiiible to associate classic ideas or images. The sculp-
re) We understand, will not be finished till May

I'Lluxi:r LATE CASE OF EXTORTION AND MURDER AT
t Atarihtm).--It will be recollected that. on Thursday last,
his ha for fr(igh-street Police-court, a miscreant, who
olaitceed.
If_lo6ript ;am,
atto be Joseph Burgen Smith, gentle
;geritiiaht
ht•
0:1;14th:el. d-street, Euston-square, was lmyanc. gentleman,
Central Criminal Court, for extorting. money
gdon's butler, under a threat of charging him_a
ulcar avmg cOmmitted a most horrible offence. Since his
e ceration in Newgate, Mr. Cope, the Governor, ha..
took he that the , prisoner has assumed a false name, and
took geeeli,is John,_ Bodle, aged 32, in whose. welfare the public
ia.rio -—e interest a few- years since, on account
mourf his
st pig, it is said, been innocently
'lncharged with
$33 ct
qe, 'II-Instead, near Woolwich. November
.1 ,_ Mr.e
slikt.gef.Bodle, a gentleman residing, and possessing a large
111:'' Property, in that village, was murdered by arsenic
v timstered in his breakfast coffee, and several memh
vartain 'pas family nearly shared a similar fate throug
the ia,, gof the poisonous draught. Suspicions reti
_one
Rat "Ire-named prisoner (the murdered man's grandson,lastedl
41re d!tres‘. ted., and at the Coroner's inquest, which
Illiz ...", evidence was adduced of his having been seen to
la 3, 'oniet o
tt e-
binis- in the coffee-kettle on the morning f the
h e°4 which the murder was committed, besides his u eaar
he Ne''Pressions that he wished his grandfather was dead,.
teßetrid then come into possession of 1,0001. a year, which,
the ' er with other facts indicative of his guilt, warranted
hitoi.l'rlii in returning a verdict of " Wilful murder " against
4edih is trial took place at Maidstone assizes in the sc-
cegynonh, before Mr. Justice Gazelee, Mr. Adolphus_
kill
...,etin,,.
f 6 the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bod-
len;,-!t-ending the accused.' It occupied two entire days, and
cite,,,inatod in an acquittal. The decision of the jury plo-
the ' the utmost excitement in Court, and was hailed with
the 'uost lively excidemonstrations of satisfaction and applause,
Pahl'
Dros ie having a strong prejudice against his re.latives for
tireteicutir% him. Circumstances, however have since trans-
4lt the which further dispel the mystery of the murder,. but
A few Present period it would not be prudent to. detail them.frem
hi,, br Inouths since he was charged with stealing 501. .
fielti„l;),tiler-in-law who resides in St. John-street, Smith-
heard 4s, but he managed to abscond, and had not beens
chargeelf until he was apprehended on the present infamous
even
• 1,,,,
t‘enini,.4°X TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—On Friday
a D,Z,a,bout eleven o'clock, imam having the appearance
e43at,"'"l"entan, wrapped up a rge brown Chesterfie.ld
Ny, ins who stated he had arrived from Reading, per !ail-
tteibe ucluired at the bar of the Bull and Anchor, 92, High-
4ot, wralk• if he was too late for a bed, a told he was
tteht r --:e4 into the parlour, and afterpartakingof refresh-
eloo etired to rest. In the morning, between nine and ten
he sheK,the landlord met him on the stairs, when he sated
be takiteld return to dinner, and left a brown. paper parcel to
Viarohen care of. Previous to his leaving the house the
1,7,11/n1 o,rtnaid, on examining the room in which he had slep ,
N'"e la . erYtiling correct. Within an hour after his departure
, udlord's wife on going to a drawer in, her bed-room,
artiertrPrised to find it in disorder, and the under-mentione.d
°F dee", stolen :—a new velvet vest, a satin vest, and a pair
nf b:E'ln trousers. On making a further search the wholea
aiew
.upper. part of the house had been ransacked, and
It
ptiA.tuA n-piece stolen from one of the servants' boxes.
114,,,::-.! the fellow mt have been disturbed, or he would
f•eet nTken more. Hess about thirty-five years of ago,
.five
L ,lairll and a halt' inches high, fair complexion, straight
iiein I
verY fresh coloured ; his boots were remarkable,
torisg lea
half-boots to button inside, one without but-
imiiept the other with onl three on. Information was
tit, f._,`,lately given to thepolice who are on the look-out for
to yliow. . . ,
I,coniainFxamming the parcel he had left it was found
, ' i'll art: ) a striped cotton shirt and two pamphlets.
..e, -ok,urg Got
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by the inclemency of the weather, which accounts
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Times.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE—The House of Commons was last night
principally occupied With a debate on the outrage upon
decency, and contempt alike of the law, its Judges, and
the dignity and duties of his high ffice. which the
Attorney-General of Ireland showed on Tuesday last.
If the conduct of the chief law officer of the Govern-
ment in that country has provoked universal con-
demnation, the defence set up for him by Sir Robert
Peel—followed, of course, by the subordinate mem-
bers of the Government—has drawn down upon the Ad-
ministration, whose servant be is, a similar ex-
pression of public disapprobation. The Attor-
ney-General for Ireland is a fortunate man. He
escaped committal for contempt of court from the
Judges; and he is now kindly screened from dismissal
from his post by the Premier. The former would have
consigned any other individual to the prison of the Court
for contempt ; and have directed the Attorney-General
to prosecute for the high offence, in order that all per-
sons might be warned against a similar interference
with the calm and dignified administration of the jus-
tice of the country. The latter ought to have merged
party considerations in what the public interests impe-
ratively demanded at his hands. The offence committed
was of no ordinary description. To incite to a breach
of the peace, which may involve the commission of a
capital felony, is invariably treated by the Court as an
offence that calls for severe punishment ; more es-
pecially when the alleged provocation has refe-
rence to any act which the party challenged
has performed in connection with his public duty. In
the Irish Attorney-General's case every imaginable
ingredient heightens the enormity of the offence. The
challenger is the highest Law-officer of the Crown ;
engaged at the time he pens and transmits the chal-
lenge, in prosecuting a number of parties for conduct
tending to disturb the peace of the country. The
party challenged is one of the counsel for these defen-
dants. At tl e time he is challenged be is in the midst
of his address to the jury in behalf of his client. That
he may be able to discharge his anxious duty with
effect, it is requisite that his mind be unem-
barrassed, in order that he may apply himself
with unclouded judgment and fervid zeal to the cause
he has undertaken to defend. At such a time, in such
a place, under such circumstances, the Attorney-General
—taking personal offence at something which the advo-
cate had uttered respecting the mode in which the pro-
secution had been conducted—pens, and causes to be
conveyed, a challenge to the Counsel so engaged. He
thus necessarily distracts the attention of the gentle-
man he challenges, and diverts it from the subject-matter
of his argument, to the obvious injury of the party
whose conviction the Attorney-General has employed
all his professional skill and power to secure. The cir-
cumstances of the country, out of which the prosecution
has arisen, called for the most careful abstinence from
everything which could detract from the cool and im-
partial administration of the law. The Government has
deemed it necessary to impress the public mind with a
conviction of its determination to put down agitation.
The majesty of the law was to be exhibited—its autho-
rity was to be upheld. With, or without, sufficient cause,
the Government had determined to teach this great lesson
to the Irish people. Intemperate speeches had been
delivered at the Repeal meetings ; and, as intemperate
words may incite to intemperate acts, and thus the pub-
lic peace be broken, O'Connell and his co-defendants
are indicted, and are put upon their trial for this alleged
offence. The Attorney-General is instructed to conduct
the prosecution ; and, to say nothing more, has stretched
his prerogative to the utmost of its limits—we think
beyond them—to carry out the purposes of the Go-
vernment. In the exercise of his functions, this
functionary evinces a temper the most irascible, and
adopts a conduct the most illiberal, towards the prose-
cuted parties. Restrained at length by the strictures of
the press, he for a time conducts himself with pro-
fessional decorum. But he has only " nursed his wrath
to keep it warm." At length it explodes. The concen-
trated violence of his irascibility is discharged. A three-
cornered note is the missile emitted from the volcano.
The counsel, who has applied the match to the combus-
tible matter pent up within the brain of this irate func-
tionary, is required instantly to apologise for some-
thing Ile has said in his speech, or to " name his friend,"
and vindicate the Attorney-General's fame and feelings
by reciprocal perforation with pistol-bullets ! Brought
under the notice of Parliament, the Prime Minister,
if he does not positively justify, so pares down the
offence as to represent it as a mere accidental ebullition
of ill-temper on the part of his Attorney-General—a
peccadillo so trifling as to be unworthy of notice. The
Attorney-General is a man of warm temperament. He
is easily excited, and ought therefore to be excused.
" The Attorney-General for Ireland had, it was true,
been betrayed, by a momentary irritation, into the act
which the Hon. and Learned gentleman (Mr. Roebuck)
had referred to, and which could not be justified ; but
for this he had been reproved by the Court." Reproved
by the Court ! The* reproof was of the gentlest cha-
racter. A fond and foolish mother endeavouring to soothe
a wayward child could scarcely have expressed herself
more mildly. The Chief Justice really seemed as if
he feared he should draw down upon himself the ire of
the Attorney-General, and become the next victim of
his passion for pistols. The whole scene was scarcely
more creditable to the Judges than it was to the At-
torney-General. The Chief Justice descended from his
dignified position, and actually suspended the admi-
nistration of the high functions of his office, out of
tenderness to the delinquent before him. Without
solicitation or a single expression of regret from him,
he positively coaxed and fondled the offender into
a qualified admission of error. "His Learned
Friends told him (be never once admitted that he
concurred in their view of his conduct) that he had
been betrayed into something wrong 1" And then this
venerable and thus easily propitiated Chief Justice
" trusted that the proceedings would be carried no
further." Sir It. Peel says that which is scarcely
be out by the facts, as reported. The Attorney-
General did not " withdraw the latter." It was " tossed
back" to him by Mr. Fitzgibbon. The only circum-
stance by which Sir Robert Peel's assertion can be
explained, being, that the Attorney-General did not
" toss it back" to Mr. Fitzgibbon, and thus intimate
his continued determination for " trial by battle" with
that gentleman. The close of Sir Robert Peel's speech
en the occasion is decisive in favour of the Attorney-
General's retention of his office, for which he has given
such irrefragable proofs of unfitness—especially in the
perturbed state of the country in which he is the.first
law officer of the Crown :—" As to the suggestion of the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman, he (Sir R. Peel) begged
at once to say that the Government had taken no
step for the dismissal of the Attorney-General for
Ireland, and had no such step in contemplation." This
declaration was received by loud cries of " Hear, hear !"
from every part of the House. We also say, " Hear,
hear !" "He that hath an ear, let him hear " the
practical lesson which the Premier has given to the
country, and especially to the people of Ireland. By
them it will not only be heard, but understood—and,
we fear, acted upon in a way by no means likely to im-
prove their civil and social state.
STANDARD.—A foolish motion of Mr. Sharman
Crawford, to the effect that the House should abstain
from offering any opinion upon the inviolability of the
union with Ireland, and thus leave the question of the
integrity of the empire an open question, gave occasion to
Mr. Roebuck to allude to the late correspondence between
the Attorney-General for Ireland and Mr. Fitzgibbon,
the counsel for one of the traversers, Doctor Gray.
Now, we do not pretend to know or to guess
the motives which urged Mr. Roebuck to dis-
tinguish himself from the other 658 Members of the
House to whom the subject was open, by coming for-
ward upon this occasion. Perhaps it was a burning zeal
for the Constitution and the integrity of the British
empire that has " grown with his growth, and strength-
ened with his strength ;" perhaps it was an ex-
cessive devotion to the interests of the profession
of the law—such as is apt to grow upon men
in the case of a profession in which they are very
eminently distinguished ; perhaps it was an in-
tense horror of the possible resort to personal
encounters, such as we may expect to find in a man
who has through life studiously avoided them, and
eschewed all occasions of offering personal offence.
We will suppose any good motive rather than imagine
that he was imitating the party journals in an
attempt to obstruct the course of justice by " abusing
the prosecutor." But whatever the Learned Gentleman's
motive, we must think that his zeal carried him a little
too far, in his reprehension of the Irish Attorney
General's conduct—carried him the length of pro-
pounding (unconsciously we are bound to believe)
two fallacies ; first, that the Learned Attorney-General
delivered a challenge ; secondly, that he delivered this
challenge (we quote the Morning Chronicle's report).—
" In the presence of the chief judges of the land, the ad-
ministrators of the law, the maintainers of the peace,
there had been one of the most gross—he would use no
harsher word, for this reason, that the English language
did not supply a stronger one for the purpose—one of
the most gross violations of common decency perpetrated
by the Attorney General for Ireland, that had ever been
perpetrated." Now we deny that the Attorney-General
delivered any challenge, although we are aware that
Sir Robert Peel, Lord Eliot, Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham, and the other speakers who defended the absent
gentleman with a generous fidelity worthy of them, and
one which we respectfully assure them attaches even
their humblest adherents by new ties, seem to have
admitted that the note to Mr. Fitzgibbon was a challenge.
The whole history of the affair will be found in an
article which we have borrowed from our excel-
lent Contemporary the Dublin Evening Packet, and
whoever reads that history will, we think, agree
with us that no challenge really was delivered. We do
not deny that a man of a very high but perverse spirit,
and of more sensibility than discretion, might read the
note as a challenge, but we certainly should not inter-
pret such an address to ourselves as a summons to the
field, and we are not willing to yield to Mr. Fitzgibbon
either in the sense of honour or respectability of station.
We sometimes get such notes—we consider calmly the sub-
ject of them—and "if right we smile, if wrong we kiss the
rod." It would be a most dangerous doctrine to lay down,
that every demand of an explanation, though expla-
nation through a friend should be suggested in it, must
be treated as a cartel, a fatal Gematria, that would
extract the word pistol from every combination of
letters in which complaint of a gross insult should
be made. Let us rather adopt the benign rule of
legal interpretation never to presume a crime
where there is no express evidence of guilt.
What passed in the mind of the Attorney-General
when he wrote his note, within three minutes
after some months' baiting with systematic and premedi-
tated insult had been consummated by that gross per-
sonal outrage which, as Mr. Wyse has very properly sug-
gested, was probably put by some of the traversers into
Mr. Fitzgibbon's brief--what was passing in the Learned
Attorney-General's mind during this agony of intellectual
tt mment, it is impossible to say. He probably then re-
flected—Human forbearance cannot endure this longer,
if it go en I shall be betrayed into some unbecoming

violence of language in the face of the Court ; I will
seize this interval of adjournment, and use the opportu-
nity of this retired place, to put a stop to it sine stopiut.
I will call upon Mr. Fitzgibbon to retract his insults, or
at least to name a friend, with whom a friend of mine
may remonstrzte against such an intolerable persecution.
There is not a syllable in the note of the Attorney-
General which will not bear this interpretation ; and
why should we presume that a gentleman, unpractised in
the affairs of duelling, must have designed a challenge
in writing it ? We, indeed, are happily ignorant of
the " conclusions" of " the code," and little read.
in Caranza or Pareccio ; but though we have
never shuddered at a "three-cornered note," Mr.
Roebuck's acquaintance with the signification of
the ill-omened rectilinear proves that he is aware when
men are " tremera murmure Trinacria," and a Con-
naught friend assures us that he is altogether wrong
in presuming a challenge, for that to write in such
a case as the Attorney-General's, would be the
most irregular thing in the world. In all such
cases, says our friend, the gentlemen of Galway,
Mayo, and Sligo, always proceed in the first
instance by the vole de fait, of course with all considerate
delicacy—or if the practical retort be not altogether proper
by reason of the place or any presence, as in church, a
drawing-room, or in the company of a man's wife—they
always send a friend to apologise for not having ap-
plied the usual remembraneer, and to arrange a,
comfortable meeting ; but they never write, for a
written note is open to a written reply in accommoda-
tion, and this of course is not what a gentleman wants.
It is not our province to pronounce an opinion in such
delicate matters, but we must think that the Attorney-
General, who may be as ignorant of etiquette in these
affairs as ourselves, has had hard measure in
having his note considered on all sides as a challenge.
But, a challenge or no challenge, it is untrue to say that
it was delivered in the face of the judges of the land. It
was not delivered in Court at all, but in a room many
yards distant from the Court ; and the Court was ad-
journed at the time when it was delivered.