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VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Jan. 18.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
DICKENS V. BERGER.
In this case a motion was made to dissolve the injunction
granted on the llth inst., restraining the defendant from co-
pying or imitating, in the work published by him, called" Par-
ley's Illuminated Alagazine," any part of the work recently
published by Mr.Dickcus under the title of " A Christmas Car.
rol in Prose." The ground made in support of the motion
was, that the defendant had done no more than he had a right
to do, for that great labour, pains, and expense had been gone
to by the Proprietors of the magazine in re-writing the work
in question. There was no colourable invasion of the incidents
of the story, and nothing had been done which could in any
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tors was stated to be to afford the junior and humbler classes of
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had depicted. The defendant also insisted that he had been for
for some time in the habit of abridging, condensing, and re-
constructing, or re- originating the works of Mr. Dickens, as
they appeared, and until the present application no steps what-
ever had been taken to prevent him from doing so, and the
plaintiff he insisted now had no right in the middle of a work to
ask the interference of the Court by way of injunction. The
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sidered an original work. At all events, the defendant sub-
mitted Mr. Dickens ought to be left to his remedy at law, if he
had sustained any damage.
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the motion ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Baoon appeared
to support the injunction, but were not called-upon to address
the Court. -

His Hosrouu said that the plaintiff's right to protection of
his copyright was not disputed. The defendant had published
a novel, of which the fable, persons, names of characters, age,
time, and country were exactly the same. The language was
in some instances identical, and in all similar. It was laid down
by Lord Eldon, in Wilkins v. Aiken, 17 Vesey, that the ques-
tion in such cases was, whether the alleged piracy was a legiti-
mate use of the plaintiff's publication, in the fair exercise of a
mental operation, deserving the character of an original work.
His Honour thought that, in the present instance, the defend-
ant's book did not deserve the character of an original work,
nor was it a legitimate use of Mr. Dickens's publication. It
was merely and plainly a colourable alteration. 'I he plaintiff
had a right to say whether or not he considered himself injured,
and if he thought so, then he was entitled to the protection of
the Court. The injunction must, therefore, be continued. The
plaintiff must bring an action, and must undertake to abide by
any order which the Court should make, in the event of the
injunction being ultimately dissolved.

COURT OF QUEEK S BENCH, Jan. 18.
(Sittings in Banco. )
The Court took the new trial paper to-day, but no case of
any interest came on.

BAIL COURT, Jan. 18.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
EYTON V. HAAIPDEN.

Mr. KELLY moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal
information should not issue against Mr. John Hampden, ;by
reason of the publication of a letter, tending to provoke a
breach of the peace on the part of a gentlemen of the name
of Mr. Joseph Walter King Eyton. Mr. Eyton was
a private gentleman of fortune, residing at Leamington, in
the county of Warwick • and Mr. Hampden was also a
gentleman of fortune residing in the same place. Some time
before the transactions upon which the present application was
grounded, these two gentlemen became slightly acquainted, and
their acquaintance lasted until the plaintiff had reason to be-
lieve that attempts were being made, on the part of Mr. Hamp-
den, to alienate his wife's affections from him. It was then
gradually discontinued. This effort, however, to break off all
communication between the two families, failed of its intended
effect. When Mr. and Mrs. Eyton walked about the streets of
Leamington, and especially when the latter walked out alone,
Mr. Hampden took every opportunity of dogging her steps from
place to place ; Mr. Hampden also continually presented him-
self before the house, or in the immediate neghbourhood,
endeavouring to attract Mrs. Eyton's attention. Mr. Eyton
at length determined to take some steps for his own and his
wife's protection, and he applied to a magistrate, with the in-
tention of exhibiting articles of the peace against the defendant.
The matter was accordingly heard before a highly respectable
magistrate, at whose suggestion Mr. Eyton withdrew all pro-
ceedings, upon Mr. Hampden's pledging his word and honour
as a gentleman to abstain in future from every species of
annoyance towards Mr. and Mrs. Eyton. So far from this,
however, having the effect which the plaintiff hoped it would
have, Mrs. Eyton was still followed in the streets by Mr.
Hampden in the same way as before. On one occasion,
when Mrs. Eyton was coming out of a shop, the defendant
tried to induce her to enter into conversation, and spoke of
Mr. Eyton in a most unjustifiable manr.er ; and on her telling
him that she should certainly complain to her husband, he re-
plied that it should cost one of them his life, or in words to that
effect. After this, Mr. Eyton, happening to walk into a
street where Mr. Hampden was pursuing a similar course to-
wards Mrs. Eyton, he charged him with an intention to cor-
rupt his wife, and to alienate her affections. Some
strong expressions passed, and he believed that these
had led to some proceedings in the Ecclesi-
astical Court, in which Mr. Hampden was the com-
plainant. This was the state of things down to the transaction
which had led to the present application. Mr. Eyton, it ap-
peared, had had his portrait taken by a young artist, at Leaming-
ton, named Black, and, at the instance of the latter, he was in-
duced to request Mr. Reeve, the proprietor of a subscription
library at Leamington, to allow it to hang up in his library ; not
an uncommon mode with artists of making their capabilities
known to the public. Not long after the portrait was hung up
in the library, an anonymous letter was written to Mr. Reeve;
it was dated the 13th of December, 1843. The writer of it
expressed his surprise that he should bang up in his library a
portrait of a gentleman who had allowed himself to be called
" liar " and " coward," without taking any notice of
suchhis
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that on the last occasion when Mr. Eyton and Mr. Hampden
met, the latter did so far forget himself as to apply the term
" liar and coward" to Mr. Eyton, and finding that he had
failed to excite a breach of the peace by such means, this letter
was written in the terms which he had stated. It was written
in a highly disguised hand, but the affidavits would leave no
doubt whatever that Mr. Hampden was the author of it. He
was the person who applied the expression " liar and coward'!
to Mr. Eyton. He was a subscriber to the library. It was stated
writer
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followed his htihsnetxbaemfnprlee ;hethpaltael%ediri.tßineeAvier. showed the letter to
the subscribers who were in the library, Mr. Hampden being
latter said, " That is it about the portrait of E;thoann;(l4 and
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that, after reading it, Mr. Hampden said it must have been
written by some blackguard who had come in and seen it.
The deponent also detailed conversations between himself and
Mr. Hampden on the same subject. On one occasion
Mr. Hampden said to deponent, "If that fellow," meaning
Mr. Eyton, " comes to your library, I shall withdraw my name
as a subscriber," and he said that many others would do the
same. The deponent concluded by stating that he had seen
John Hampden write, and had seen a great deal of his writing,
and that he verily believed that the letter before referred to
was of the proper handwriting of the defendant. The Learned
Counsel said there were several other affidavits of the same kind.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—Take a rule to show cause.

This was an aetion brought to recover damn
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TLANCHE nooent.
defendant, who is the proprietor of a theatre at Bath, for repre-
senting a piece called The White Cat, of which the plaintiff
was the author, without his permission, and in opposition to the
es ae,ainst the
statute.
Mr. Platt, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Charnock, appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Thesigcr, Queen's Counsel, for the
defendant.
Mr. PLATT stated the case to the jury. He said be dared say
many of those who were present at the exhibition of the piece in
question, when it was first brought out at Covent-Garden,
probably little expected at that time to' be called upon to
decide the present action. If, however, managers would not
do justice to authors they must expect to be assailed by
the arm of thelaw. In the third year of the reign of William the
Fourth an Act of Parliament was passed for the purpose
of protecting dramatic authors zgainit having their pieces per-
formed without their own consent. It was enacted that the
author's right should continue in force during fourteen "ears,
if he should live so long, and if longer, then for the whole of
his life ; and that every person infringing it would be liable to
the payment of 40s. for each offerce, or to the full amount of
benefit arising to others from such representation, or of in-
jury or loss arising to himself. The present suit was limited
to the 405., which was claimed for no less than ten perform-
ances. Mr. Plauch6, who was well-known as a dramatic
author, had, amongst other pieces, produced an entertainment
called The White Cat, which was performed at Covent-garden
Theatre, while under the management of Madame Vestris, in
the month of March, 1842. The piece was very popular,
and there was an actress in it whose performance was particu-
larly admired ; he meant Miss Marshall, who sustained the
character of The White Cat herself. There was no white cat
like Miss Al arsh all .—(Latightcr.) Wherever she went there
was no manager of a theatre who would not be glad to enlist her
talents for his stage. In the course of a dramatic circuit, this
lady appeared to have arrived at Bath, and Mr.
Edward
who applauded the performance from
Hooper, the manager of the Path Theatre, had the good for-
tune to engage her services. Having done this he took upon
himself, without asking the permission of Mr. Planch6, to
came announce tho performance of The White Cat, and it was per-
formed for
off the ora
acuodniseildweer:ble number of nights to the great
d
entitled performanceto a
all parts of the house. There could be 4o objection to the
t, but
then
the plaintiff was
for the purpose of recovering damages for the invasion of his
right. He felt confident that the jury would feel satisfied, after
they had heard the evidence, that the plaintiff was entitled to
off air Tremuneration, he
White
Ca
and he there that day
their verdict.
Mary Ann Marshall examined by Mr. CIfARNOCK_I per•
formed in the year 1842 at Covent Garden Theatre, in a piece
called The White Cat. The theatre was then under the
management of Madame Vestris, Mr. Planch6 superintended
the production of the piece, and I believe he was the author.
He read it in the green-room, and also attended the rehearsal.
Some alteration was suggested by Madame Vestris, which was
adopted by Mr. Planch6. Last year I was engaged to perform
at the Royal Theatre, Bath. hat is one of the bills of the
performance (producing a bill). I was engaged for Easter
Monday. We played in the Easter week. The White Cat
was produced on the Saturday night following, it being
Mrs. Ilooper's benefit night. I performed in the piece in the
same manner and the same words as at Covent-Garden. It
was not quite so successful as it had been at Covent-garden.
The piece was to have been played on the Monday, but was
reserved for Mrs. Hooper's benefit. It was performed, I
believe, seven nights running, omitting the intermediate Sun-
day. Besides this I should think it was afterwards performed
on six separate nights, It was played on the night when
Fanny Ellsler came down.
Cross-examined by Mr. TTIESIGER—It frequently happens

that the author does not read his own piece, but gets a friend
to do so. I had a great deal to do besides mewing. Mr.
Hooper engaged me by the week. He was represented as the
manager by all persons connected with the theatre. My engage-
ment with him was a verbal one. I played many other parts
besides the White Cat whilst I remained at Bath.

Re-examined by Mr. PLATT—I was paid by the treasurer.
Mr. Hooper first spoke to me about an engagement It the shop
of Mr. Kenneth, who is a theatrical agent in Bow-street, Lon-
don. My brother afterwards went there to settle it. I re-
ceived from the treasurer of the Bath Theatre the sum which
Mr. Hooper agreed to pay.
George Ross Braid, examined by Mr. PLATT—I am a
comedian, and was engaged by Mr. Hooper in the latter
end of 1842. He was the manager of the Bath Theatre, I
performed in The White Cat. It wits acted about ten or
eleven times, and was first produced on Saturday evening, in
Easter week. There were not more than five performances in
each week, and sometimes only four. I was referred by Mr.
Hooper to Mr. Hollingsworth respecting salary. At Bath I
received the salary which had been previously agreed upon.
Cross-examined by Mr. THESIG took the part of
" The Minister of the Court of Never-mind," and performed
that throughout.
William Embden, examined by Mr. PLATT, briefly de-
posed that he was the prompter of Covent Garden Theatre
when The White Cat was performed there, and that he consi-
dered Mr. Planch4 to be the author.

Examined by Mr. THESIGER—I know a Society called "The
Dramatic Authors' Society," and I believe Mr. Manche is a
member of that Society. [The Learned Counsel here handed a
book to the witness.] I believe those are the rules of the So-
ciety. lam not aware that Mr. Crowther, the clerk of the
attorney for the plaintiff, is the secretary of that Society. I
cannot tell whether or not Mr. Planche is aware of this action
being brought. Mr. Shearman's name is upon my subpcena.
Mr. PLATT—That, my. Lord, is the plaintiff's case.
Mr. THESIGER said, his Learned Friend must distinctly
prove the particular nights on which the piece was performed ;
at present he had not done so.
His LORDSHIP said that must be left to the jury.
Mr. Trimmig. then quoted the Act of Parliament to show
that the action ought to have been brought in the county of
Somerset, where the offence was alleged to have been com-
mitted.

His LORDSHIP said that that point might be reserved, and
the defendant should have the benefit of whatever objection ho
could make on that ground.
Mr. THESIGER then addressed the jury on behalf of the de-
fendant. He said he agreed with his Learned Friend, that it
was very desirable that dramatic authors should be protected
against the infringement of their rights, and that those
who invaded them, being pirates, ought to receive a pirate's
fate. It was singular, however, that the last offence
in this case was committed as long ago as the 15th of
May, last year, and that the present action was not commences
until the 24th of November. The jury had, probably, ob-
served, that he had asked whether Mr. Planche was aware of
his name being used in this action. No answer was given.
Now, he believed, in fact, that it was the action of
the Dramatic Authors' Society. The secretary of that
Society was a Mr. Crowther, clerk to the plaintiff's attorney,
and it seemed strange that the Society should choose for its
secretary a gentleman who was interested in encouraging liti-
gation. He had very great doubt whether Mr. Planche was
at all aware of this action. The Learned Counsel then re-
ferred to the rules of the Society, which stated that in order to
obviate the difficulties to which managers would be subjected
by the Act, this Society was established, which brought them
into communication with one recognised agent, and saved
them incalculable trouble and inconvenience ; and also that by
an arrangement of that Society, managers who were willing to
forward punctually to the Society a monthly file of bills, re-
ceived a conditional permission, enabling them to perform any
drama belonging to a member of the Society, without the delay
of first obtaining that permission in writing, and in almost
every instance with a knowledge of the exact expense to be in-
curred. The Learned Counsel then stated that the defendant
had acted on the footing of that arrangement, and that having
done so, he was astonished at the course which had been pur-
sued. He would call evidence to show that this arrangement
had been considered binding.

The Learned JUDGE said that no evidence which did not go
to prove the author's handwriting consenting to the perform-
ance would satisfy his mind.
Mr. THESIGER, said he certainly could not prove a written
consent, and must, therefore, after his Lordship's intimation,
decline to call witnesses. Whatever might be the result, he
was glad that an opportunity was afforded to authors and ma-
nagers of judging how far it was safe to trust their interests in
the hands of the Dramatic Authors' Society.
The Learned JUAGE haying briefly summed up,
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 141.,
costs 40s.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 18.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Learned Judges met this morning in Lord Denman's
room, and arranged that the following Judges should take the
circuits to which their names are attached :

CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES, SPRING, 1844.
Home—Lord Denman; Baron Alderson.
Midland—Lord Chief Justice Tindal ; Baron Gurney.
Norfolk—Lord Abinger ' • Justice Patteson.
Oxford—Baron Parke • Justice Coleridge.
Northern—Justice Coltman ; Baron Rolfe.
Western—Justice Wightman ; Justice Cresawell.
North Wales—Justice Williams.
South Wales—Justice Maule.
Chamber Judge—Justice Erskine.
The cases which came before the Court yesterday pre-
sented no features of interest. The arguments in the cases of
" Mason v. Farnell," and " Vaughan v. Lloyd," occupied a
considerable time, and related to technical points, wholly de-
void of public importance.

THE CLOCK OF ST. CLEMENT'S.—P unch has been
accused of hitting this clock very hard when it was down; and it
certainly must be admitted that it was wholly unable to strike in
return. We are happy to say that the wound has been followed
by the clock being at last wound, and we now offer to take it by
the hands in a spirit of friendship. We bave been told that the
long stagnation has been caused by the absurd scruples of the pen-
duluna, which refused to go from side to side, lest it should be ac-
cused of inconsistency. The public may not, perhaps, be aware
that Alderman Gibbs' accounts were published on the same day
that the clock of St. Clement's church was set going. It is a sin-
gular coincidence that two pieces cf such intricate machinery,
which had been behind time for so long, should have been wound
up on the same day.—Punch.
SALE OF LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS OF EMI.
NENT AUTHORS.—Yesterday, at one o'clock, a public sale took
place at Fletcher's Auction-rooms, No. 191, Piccadilly, of letters,
autographs, and MSS. of authors well-known in the past and pre-
sent history of the country, connected with the drama and litera-
ture, the whole having been a collection, as stated in the catalogue,
in the possession of " a lady of title and most popular writer."
There was not a numerous, but a very select attendance of con-
noisseurs in manuscripts. There were 229 lots, of which the fol-
lowing were the most distinguished:—No. 42, a letter from Mrs.
Jordan, dated 1798, Bushy Park, 30s, ; No. 41, a letter from
George IV. to Mrs. Robinson, 245. ; No. 58, a letter from David
Garrick to Mr. Newcomb, 225. ; No. 64, a curious letter from
Edmund Kean, 31s. ; No. 73, a letter from Quick, the cele-
brated comedian, Os. ; No. 109, a letter written by John Hel-
vetius, the astronomer, in Latin, 17s. ; No. 110, the
autograph of Sir Isaac Newton, being his signature to a re-
ceipt, 20s. ; No. 114, Sir Christopher Wren's signature to a
receipt written on the last day of his life ; No. 154, a letter,
written by Edward Lord Herbert, the poet, 1645, 255. ; No. 157,
a letter from Matthew Prior, the poet, to the Secretary Braith-
waite, 255. ; No. 167, a letter from Shenstone, the poet, to the
Hon. Mr. Knight, relative to his poems, 345. ; No. 169, a letter
frown the poet Bloomfield to a friend, relative to his poem "the
Farmer's Boy ;" No. 172, a letter from Mr. Southey. the late Poet
Laureate, to Sir Walter Scott, 12s. ; No. 173, a letter by Mr.
Southey to Captain Southey, relative to the Westmoreland elec-
tion and the Catholic question, IBs. ; No. 178, a letter from the
Chevalier Ramsay to the Pretender, 13s. ; No. 184, a letter from
G. Scott to the Earl of Buchan, the patron of the literature of his
day ; No. 196, four letters from Mr. G. Byng to the Duke of
Portland, 18s. ; No. 200, a letter from the Duke of Wellington to
Madame d'Etienne, 16s. There were also letters from G. Colman,
the elder, Horatio and James Smith, the authors of " the Rejected
Addresses," C. Young, Munden, Liston, Mathews, Mrs. Billing_
on, Madame Vestris, and various painters and musical composers.
Mr. James Giles, gardener, of this town, on Wed-
nesday last, found a bird's nest in a fruit tree, in the garden of
Mrs. Bull. It was the nest of a fly-catcher, and had three eggs
in it !--." Worcester Chronicle."

It appears, from a Parliamentary paper, that there
is an increase in the importation of sherry last year of 4,217 butts, the
importation being in 1842, 25,096 butts, and in the year just ended,
29,313.—" Brighton Gazette."

MILDNESS OF TILE SEASON.—A. gentleman travel-
ling in the neighbourhood of Kirkby Malzeard, near Ripon, on
Saturday last, heard distinctly more than once the note of the
cuckoo.—" York Courant."

TILE LAscAßs.—The unfortunate Lascars brought
over in the Thames East Indiaman, whose case has been so often
before the public recently, ate now fairly on their way to India, their
wages having been paid and a passage secured for them by Captain
Baker, in the Sophia Indiaman, now lying off Portsmouth, outward.
bound. The men, 72 in number, under the care of Mr. Luke, one
of the officers of the Fast India Dock Company, were conveyed yes-
terday in a steam.tug from Blackwall to the Nine Elms station of the
Southampton Railway en route for Portsmouth, to join the Sophia.
DEPARTURE OF THE PENINSULAR, MALTA, lONIAN
ISLANDS, AND WEST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 18.—
The Peninsular Company's steam.ship the Pacha, Capt. Wilson,
left the docks, on her outward voyage for Gibraltar, at four o'clock
this day, taking out the Peninsular, Malta, and lonian Islands mails ;
also six passengers. The Royal West India Mail steam.packet the
Tweed, left this port yesterday with the mails for the West India
Islands, and 21 passengers, and a small quantity of money.
LONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION.—The annual
meeting of the members and friends of this institution took place
yesterday afternoon at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill.
Mr. D. W. Wire presided. The Secretary read the Report of the
Board of Management, together with a statement of the accounts
for the past year. The annual subseriprions were 356/. 9s. 6d., in
addition to which 50/. had been granted by the Corporation of the
City of London, and 1001. by the Directors of the Hon. East India
Company, making a total of 5061. Vs. 6d. The expenditure had
been 5551. I Is. 4d. The report stated that nit-Prank it was sup-
posed that the Vaccination Act, which had cost the country
33,0001., would have rendered the institution unnecessary, yet it
was proved, by the continual applications for vaccine fluid, that the
provision made by the Act was wholly inadequate to the demand.
The remains of the late Mr. Strutt will be interred
in the burial ground of the Friar.gate Chapel, to.morrow morning;
the service will be performed by the Rev. Noah Jones, the minister,
of whose congregation the deceased was a member. —Derby
Repot ter.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mr. Charles Kean, who,
it is said, has been reaping a most abundant harvest in the pro-
vinces, appears here on Monday next, in Richard the Third, which
will be produced in a style of extraordinary splendour. There arc,
we understand, upwards of 200 people at work upon the costumes,
coats of Mail , banners, and other paraphernalia of tins performance.

A new mail communication has been opened
between Salisbury and Swindon, thus establishing a direct commu-
nication, without delay, between those places and Southampton,
Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Weymouth, Dorchester, Ring-
wood, Poole, Shaftesbury, Yeovil, Reading, Oxford, Cirencester,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, &c., Bath, Bristol, Taunton, Exeter, and
the West of England.— Wiltshire Independent.

A DELICATE STOMACH.--On Thursday, a man at
the Robin Hood, Arnold, voraciously devoured a sheep's head raw,
windpipe and all, and offered to bet a wager of five shillings, that
on the following Monday he would eat another in the same state,
and the pluck likewise; he came from Basford.—Nottingham
Review.

IRELAND.

THE STATE TRIALS.
THIRD DAY-BY EXPRESS.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTERS.)

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

THE QUEEN V. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND OTHERS.

The Court was again thronged this morning to hear
the continuation of the Attorney-General's opening
speech.
At five minutes past ten their Lordships took their
seats on the bench.

Mr. O'Connell and his son, John O'Connell, attired in
the bar costume, were in punctual attendance.
The Clerk of the Crown called the Traversers, who se-
verally answered to their names.
The Jury having been called over,
Mr. Rigby (one of the Jurors) rose, and addressing the
Court, said he felt it due to himself to observe to their
Lordships, when he was asked yesterday how many Chris-
tian names were inscribed upon the door-label of his house,
he replied that the inscription was " J. J. Rigby." On re-
turning home, however, last night, he was greatly sur-
prised to find that there was only " John Rigby " on
the door. When he made the assertion yesterday he
was under the impression that the fact was precisely as
he had stated it ; but, having found it otherwise, he
thought it necessary to make the present explanation; for
he did not wish that any misconception concerning any-
thing which he had inadvertently stated should exist in
the minds of his fellow-citizens.—(Loud laughter.)

The ATTORNEY- GENEILAL then rose to resume his ad-
dress to the Court and Grand Jury. He said that on the
Gth of August, 1843, a Repeal meeting had been held in
the town of Baltinglass, in the county of Wicklow. At
that meeting three of the traversers were present—
namely, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Steele, and Dr.
Gray. The meeting was attended by an enormous
multitude, whose numbers were generally calculated
at one hundred and fifty thousand ; Mr.
O'Connell addressed the populace, and amongst
other observations, used words to the following effect:—
" And I am to be told that the Parliament which by
force and fraud was extorted from us, is never to re-
vive again, and that Ireland alone is to be condemned to
perpetual serfdom. I deny it. I call on you all to
deny it with me, and to give me Your universal promise
that Ireland shall be a nation." I es, he called on them
to give their universal pledge that Ireland should be
a nation—and this addressed to the unthinking popu-
lace—to a multitude of 150 thousand souls ! At
a subsequent period of the same day Mr. O'Connell
made a second harangue, in which he used such expres-
sions as these—" Itl want you again will you not be
ready at my,i word ?—(Cries of ' Yes, to be sure we
will.') Let any man who is determined to meet me
again on a future occasion, when I shall require his
presence for a peaceable purpose, hold up his hand."
And the report then went on to state that thousands of
hands were upraised, amid loud demonstrations of ap-
plause ; and, therefore, Mr. O'Connell expressed a wish
that that cheer might rend the ears of Bog-trotting
Fenton,' that ho might be taught to understand
what was the true state of popular feeling in Ire-
land." It was well now to inquire what was the effect
which had been produced upon the minds of those who
had listened to this exciting and most inflammatory
address, and eloquent evidence of this effect might be
gathered from the various results which fell from the
lips of several of the peasantry after the conclu-
sion of the speech. One man was heard to declare
"we are determined to get repeal, for we are all
sober now, and we will not be put down as we were
in '98." Another said, " Let us wait with patience
for a few months ; the time is nearer than you
think. Ireland was trampled on, but she shall be no
longer so." Others exclaimed that they would turn out
and die for repeal ; but they were afraid the sea-side
fellows would not stand to them, and that Father Lalor
told them it was too far gone now, and that they would
not get it without bloodshed. Some among the lower order
were heard to say, " that unless repeal was granted
there wouldn't be a blow of work done in Ireland, and that
the people would rise to a man." Others contradicted it,
by saying, that " the only way they wanted to get their
rights was by peace, but that if they did not, foreign
Powers would strike the blow." That was the way the
people of this country were instructed by those agitators,
who were destructive of its peace and prosperity—this
was the effect of those instructions and exhortations to
keep the peace—" The time is nearer than you tilink ;"
that accounts for the manner in which the remarks were
understood. "If I want you again, won't you be
ready at my word?" These were the expectations
of a future day, of receiving that intimation for
which they were prepared, when the organisation
was completed in every portion of Ireland—when
the Repeal Wardens had done their work, and every
part of the country was, in the language of Mr. Duffy,
ready for revolt. A dinner took place on the same
day at Baltinglass, at which three of the traversers,
Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Steele, and Doctor Gray were
present. Mr. O'Connell, on that occasion, said—" Re-
member' my motto is, whoever commits a crime gives
strength to the enemy ; that is the doctrine which
I have preached everywhere, and I will soon have
three millions of men to preach and practice it, and
no statesman that ever lived could resist a popula-
tion of that kind ; but we must persevere. I intend to
go on with these meetings until such time as every part
of Ireland shall have ' pronounced,' as they say in
Spain, or shall have declared its adhesion to our cause.
The revolution in Spain was brought about by the mili-
tary, and the tyrant Espartero was turned ,from power by
the spirit of the army and of the nation. The sergeants of
the Spanish army are a fine set of men, but those of the
British army are the finest, the bravest, the most intelli-
gent and trustworthy anywhere. In every other service
the sergeants aro made officers of, but in the British
service they have not yet learned to do that act of justice.
If our cause go on," that means if we get Rapeal, " we
will do them that act of justice. The Government will
alter their plans, and appoint sergeants to commissions
for fear they would pronounce, and I give them
a truce to do so from this spot." He makes use of
that language calculated to inflame the non-
commissioned officers of the British army against
the Government ; to represent them as treated with
injustice, and to persuade them that that injustice
would be remedied and removed as the Repeal advanced ;
and they would find when ho (the Attorney-Ge-
neral came to some publications just now, con-
nected with the British army, that it was part
of the object of these persons who are charged
with this conspiracy, of having organised the popula-
tion, to create discontent among the army, and
thereby render the Government powerless against
that organisation. In another part of his (Mr.
O'Connell's) address he stated—" I have thrown
it out more than once, and I now repeat, that a pre-
servative Association should be formed to preserve every-
thing that is worth preserving, and to obliterate every-
thing that ought to be obliterated. Every member
of that Association should find or produce 1001.; and I
will take care to provide against their being committed
to the meshes of the law, and that there shall be
no opportunity of indicting or prosecuting them. I
trust that before Christmas comes we will have
that Association sitting in Dublin, and drawing up
Bills, which they will call on the British Parliament
to approve of, and if they refuse to do so, then re-
spectfully calling on her Majesty to summon her
Parliament together in Ireland again." This was the
dictation used to the organised hundreds 'of thousands
who assembled. To call on the British Parliament to
pass those Bills which had gone through the Preserva-
tive Society, and if they did not obey that dictation
of the Preservative society that they would call
on her Majesty and hand her over the sceptre of
this country on such terms as that Preservative Society
thought tit. Ile thought it would not be necessary
now to advert to anything that intervened between the
date he had last mentioned, the Gth of August, and the
12th of August, and, as he stated yesterday, he
had abstained a good deal from commenting on
the general state of organisation through the country,
and the effect of those multitudinous meetings, because
it would be more closely pointed out in the language of
one of the traversers. He should now beg to call their
attention to a very important publication by Mr. Duffy,
in the Nation of the 12th of August, six days after the
meeting at Baltinglass, and he thought they would
find that publication of importance, as throwing light
upon the objects of those engaged in the conspiracy for
which they were now indicted. The article was headed,
" The March of Nationality," and was as follows:
" How beautiful our country is I How full of cautious
energy. How sure a hope lies under her anxiety. How
fiercely she springs upon what 'tis right to strike. How
temperately she avoids all needless bye-battles. And 'tis
beautiful —lovely, with that piercing beauty that pains the
heart which worships—to see her calming down, and
soothing, and repressing her hungry and bruised children,
while she prepares for them retributioa and relief. Iler
brow is pale—most pale ; and well that peaceful mien be-
comes her. Oh l 'tis well to see her preparing for the
strife without rude boasting or hot noise. It becomes the
heiress of suffering centuries. It becomes a memory laden
with a thousand transient glories and baffled hopes. It
were unseemly in her, fur whom an army of unrevenged
martyrs garrisons her soil ; it were unseemly in her,
whose children feel such pangs and woe ; and most un-
wise and unbecoming would it be for her, with so trying
and so vast a contest before her, to wear one rude or
reckless look.

" Let us see what has been done, and what remains.
What were we a year ago ? The squabbling and
impotent serfs of England. Here a master mind,
and there a heart prophetic with enthusiasm, foresaw the
time when a people, owning all that gives the power to
be a nation, would scorn to serve. They foretold that
eight millions—with all that enforces independence upon
man, with the oldest and most varied history in Europe,