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ERB and DUTCH MAZt
riiItrSSELS, JUNE 13.—The journals contain 'manv (104
tails- of the journey of the King and Queen, araa the
Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg.
The commercial accounts from France, ' Germany,
nung,ary, and in short, all the wool- growing countries,
announce a rise of 7 to 12 per cent. on the price of that
article. At the late fair. at Breslau (Ist June) the
buyers were -so numerous, that the whole quantity in
the market was sold before the regular opening of the
fair.
The Chamber; without taking. any- repose, has just
passed from one vast question, which it has iettled to
another equally-important, which it is going to attempt
to solve in a satisfactory manner—we mean the duty on
tobacco. The most serious. objection, in one opinion, to
this law is, that any duty- whatever will injure a branch
of commerce which is important both to our sea ports
and to our manufactories in the interior, Our principal
exportatioat of manufactured tobacco is: far/ France,
chiefly, it is true, by smuggling. This commerce ought
not to be encouraged ; but in the prcsent,stete qf things,
it should be preserved as it is, because it may serve as a
means to induce France one day to modify its system of
duties of customs in respect to us.
TITE HAGUE, JUNE 12.—The Members of the First
Chamber of the States General are summoned Ibr
Thursday, the 20th of June. The sections of the
Second Chamber will commence on Monday the exam:-
I nation of the projects of law relative to the firsOlo,k of
the penal code, so that it may be laid before the Chain-
, htr_very _shortly.
The Government has replied to the observatiyn of
the sections of the Second Chamber r••specting- the pro-
ject of law for the redemption and convex: o;' the
public debt. The explanation given by the Gotlrt-oreLt
is of very great length, and appears. to be.... highly
satisfactory.
The Emperor of Russia. during his short vi,s,it here,
conferred on many persons the insignia
of varlo';fs Rus •
sian orders. His Imperial Majesty gave 400 ducats to
the poor of the Hague, and 300 ducats to the ujit-knieu
in the dockyard at Rotterdam.
AniquEtivr, JUNE 12.—The Emperor of Russia and
suite passed through this town to-day, on his rtstoro to
his dominions.

THE IRISH STATE TRIALS.

MEETING AT 'LIVERPOOL. - .
On Thursday evening a meeting of the friends of civil and
religious liberty was held at the Royal Amphitheatre, " to
take unto consideration the subject of an address to the
Queen, for the discharge from prison of Mr. O'Connell and
the other traversers, until the writ of error be decided by the
House of Lords; and also' to sympathise with those gentle-
men under their late extremely severe sentence." The doors
of the theatre were thrown open a little before half past six
o'clock, and the capacious building began to fill rapidly.
Before the business commenced ' the theatre was well filled,
and amongst the audience were a number of females. •
WM. BLUNDELL, Esq., was called to the chair, and briefly
stated the object of the meeting.
Several gentlemen thee addressed the Chairman, hut,,
owing to the press of matter, we cannot find room for
their speeches. The following addresses were unanimously
agreed to !
" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. "The humble address of the friends of civil and religions
liberty,inhabitants of Liverpool and its vicinity, in pub-
- lie meeting assembled,—
"We assure your Majesty we continue to cherish feelings
of unaltered loyalty to your Majesty's sacred person and
crown.
"With profound grief do we inform your Majesty that
several of your Majesty's loyal subjects ill Ireland are at the
Present moment inmates of a prison for 'a constructive offence,
a mode of accusation always deemed odious in a free State, and
which, in their regard, is altogether tree of moral taint.
" We feel that the law has been strained far beyond its
legitimate grounds, and as interpreted by the Judges cif your .
Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, has treoched
on the rights of your Majesty's subjects to a free and lair dis-
cussion of political matters, and if permitted to become cur-
rent law, will tend to enslave your hitherto free people. ;
" That State trials have generally brought the admir:lstra-
tion of justice into disrepute; and the late trial of ous: fellow -
citizens.
has inflicted a deep wound on it; for alt'aough un -
pleasing to us is the task, we are compelled, ty imperative
duty, to inform your Majesty of our opiniors on the silbject,
and in which opinions we are joined by lt e vast majority of
your Majesty's loyal subjects in England—that the trial was
not conducted on fair and just pfenciples—that the jury
panel, the safety of the innocent, was fraudulently dealt smith,
to the prejudice of the then, accused; and when an oppor-
tunity of testing that fra'ad in Court, by challenge to the
array, was offered to you;; law officer, he declined.- •
" That one of your l'afajesty's Justices in your own court-,
the Court of Queen's,. Bench in Ireland, where your Majesty is supposed to be present, stated, on several occasions, that
this dealing wit:n the jury panel was matter of grave suspi-
cion ; that the Crown Solicitor struck out the name of every
person on tte jury who was of the same religious belief as the
principal prisoner, thus wounding the feelings of your,Ma-
esty's faithful subjects in Englarid, and holding up, the pro-
fessors of that religion, which •- the one professed by the
majority of the inhabitants
she Christian world, as per-
sonsii not deemed worthy of crecl it on their oaths. • .
" That evidence was given against the prisoners which one
of the Judges, on a motion for a new trial, said ought not to
have been received, and which the late decision of the Eng-
lish Judges convinces us, your Majesty's loyal subjects, would
not have been by them submitted as evidence to a jury. .
" By these means has one who was deemed, and justly soy
a benefactor of his fellow-countrymen,—the man who created a public mind in Ireland, and thereby coerced the great mea-
sure of emancipation to become law, and raised his fellow
countrymen to the station of free citizens,---one of the bright-
est ornaments i-. your Majesty's dominions,—and that, too,
pending an appeal to the highest court of justice in the land,—
is now A prisoner in one of your Majesty's prisons ',ll Ireland.
" We therefore approach your Majesty, praying that your
Majesty will be graciously pleased to discharrse the priStthera
from all punishment, resulting from a %Potence which:we,
your Majesty's loyal subjects, believe to 'oe the consequence
of an unfair trial, and that measures be adopted to secure to
your Majesty's . subjects in IrePand the constitutional
right of freely discussing political 'subjects, as enjoyed by the
people of this country."
Loud cheering followed the reacting of this address. .
Mr. Nicirotas Bet:srsoss,s.. then proposed the following ad-
dress from the frienda of civil and religious liberty, residing
in Liverpool and its vicinity, in public meeting assembled, to
Daniel O'Connell, Esq., Thomas Matthew Ray, Esq., Thos.
Steele, Esq., Dr. Gray, Richard Barrett, Esq., and Charles
Gavan Duffy, Esq., prisoners in the Richmond Penitentiary,
under a sentence of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland,
for alleged conspiracy :
" Under the singular and unprecedented circumstances con-
nected with your late trial and your imprisonment, we feel it our
duty to offer you our sincere sympathies. Whatever difference
of opinion there may be amongst us with reference to the po-
litical question which has led to the present results, we have
all witnessed with deep interest, and with considerable pain,
the course of judicialAsroceedings which has terminated in
your imprisonment. We have noticed the disregard of the
usual formalities of justice and the absence of that calm and.
dispassionate exercise of judgment which should al7ays dig
nify the judgment seat, and without which its decisions 1.0613
much of their moral force. We have also noticed with as-
tonishment, that when you prayed for an arrest of judgment
until an appeal could be made to the House of Lords, that
prayer has been resisted by the law officers of the Crown, who
have urged and obtained your immediate committal and im-
prisonment

" Under these circumstances we consider the sentence
which has been passed upon you to be void of moral force,
your imprisonment to be without a stigma, and yourselves
personally to be the victims of an undue exercise of power on
the part of the law officers of the Crown.
" We cannot conclude this address without noticing more
especially the patriotic and laudable conduct of Daniel O'Con-
nell, Esq. He deservedly possesses the unbounded confidence
of his countrymen, and he has shown himself deserving of
that confidence by having used his influence and authority
in preserving peace and tranquillity under the most trying
circumstances, which, without his interposition, would
pro-
bably have led to steles of bloodshed, and all the terrors of
civil war."
The meeting broke up with nine enthusiatic cheers for Mr.
O'Connell.

POST-OFFICES.—(From a Correspondent.)—By 9
Anne, persons engaged or employed in post-offices are
sworn as to due performance of their duties, but this ob-
ligation does not extend to restraining them from dis-
closing the superscription of a letter passing through
offices ; so that those engaged, or employed, might, to
any prying friend they could confide in, make disclosures
in this respect. Nor does the obligation extend to the
denying any prying confidential being admitted within a
post•otlice where he might have a sight of letters. No
doubt, if any of these tricks were discovered, :disfnissal.
would follow, but that would be poor satisfaction to those
who had suffered by disgraceful breaches of confidence.
On these scores the public have good ground for com-
plaint. _ _

The hay harvest has now become very general in
this neighbourhood, and that ancient gentleman, "the
oldest inhabitant," cannot remember so light a crop as
is to be found on all the highlands, scare. ly a single
shower having fallen on much of it since the stock were
taken from pasture. Old hay continues to rise in price,,
and as there is little in this neighbourhood will probably
be much higher.—Cambridge Chronicle.
THE MILITARY AND THE POLICE.—Vire arermo
e oyfr r
to hear that an ill-feeling prevails on the part of
some
the military stationed at Exeter and the police,On Sun-
day last, one of the police officers was rude.ly thritst out;
of the barrack-yard, whilst going there to bear the band
play ; and, last evening, one of the soldiers said to our
informant, " only let the other two troops arlive here,
and they would soon find out who were masters."--
Westo h Times.
SHOCKING CASE OF FRATRICIDE.—On Tuesday
night last, Charles Bland Child, a married man with gt
family, residing at Middle-row Camp Field, 'had his
earthly career suddenly terminated' by the hand of his
own brother, John Child, who resided in Pottery Field.
The fearful deed was certainly committed under circum,
stances of provocation, and whilst both parties. under the
influence of angry passions, were engaged in an unna-
tural fight, The quarrel appears to have originated abvut
sonletbiog the deceased's wife had said respecting John
Child, but little mention was made of it in the r.:vidence
given at the inquest, of which we give an abstract below..
The inquest was held on Thursday morning last, in the
Grand Jury Room, at the Court House, before John
Blackburn, Esc,, and from the evidence it appeared that
a quarrel and tight arose between the brothers. During
the struggle Child stepped aside to a basket, took some=
thing from it, which pr ved to be a knife, and stabbed
his brother three tins .with it in the side. The unfor.
tunate man f#ll and died alai ut instantly. The jury re-
turavl verdict of " Manslaughter."—Stafirord Paper.
TWO CHILDREN STLIEFOCATED.—On Tuesday 'last,
a poor woman living at Costessy, of the name of Ireson;
between 44 and seven o'clock in the mcrning, left her
fwohildren in bed in her cottage, and having made a
fire for the purpose of heating a copper of water, she
went to.a neighbour's. The fire consisted of deal apples
and dead I.e.a•ve..i. In a short time, a Woman seeing some
sm,4o. at the cottage, went in, when she discovered that
a large quantity of deal apples and dead leaves which
the woman had colleetedtogether, ignited, and the house
was so filled with smoke that it was with difficulty she
could make her escape, She gave the alarm, and several
persons entered, the cottage, and the four children were
found, to all appearance, in a dying state from the effect
of: the sinolAe. 'lwo of the children lived but a short
time,. and one of the others lies inn dangerous condi-
Chronick.