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London, England, 1844-01-20 00:00:00

THE IMPORTANT TRIALS NOW GOING

ON IN DUBLIN ;

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 20,
Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in I hrce Acts, calledTHE
BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borram ; lhaddetis,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Raiulorth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts.
After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Chrotinas
Pantomme, entitle! HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or,
VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum-
bine, Mis Carson; Clown, Mr. T. lt,dgway ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. (3,1.; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.,
!econd Price 3s. ; Pit 38 , Second Price •211.; Maldle ('al:(ry 23.,
Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6,1.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT.GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
GRAND PERFORMANCE OF SACRED MUSIC.
BAND AND CHORUS, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
PERFORMERS.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY W,
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I.
• SELECTION from HANDEL'S MESSIAH.
Between the Parts will he performed the Celebrated MADRIGAL,
" Down in a Flow'ry Vale."
PART 11.
Grand Symphony by Roch Albert, " Tha Last Judgment" (First
Movement).
Air from Hander's Oratorio of " Deborah ;" and
Selection from Haydn's " Creation."
Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock.
Promenade, Is , Upper foxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, ; Private
Poxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the
Tneatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
B sod street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street ; and M. Jullien's Othee,
3, Maddox-street, Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Ms. BENJAMIN W EttsT ER, LESSEE.
RE.ENGAGEMENT OF PBOFESsOR RISLEY
AND HIS INFANT SON.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2A,
Will be repeated th: Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender,
Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe;
Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans' Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page,
Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Ni bett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs.
Glover; Anne Paize, Miss Watley.
Atter which, the Unparalleled Performances ot Professor RISLEY
and his SON.
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FA 111
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Gracetul, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Luchtora,
Miss Julia Bennett.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, fs. ; Gallery, Ss.; Upper
Gallery, Is. .Half.price—Boxes, ; Pit, 125.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
H
Gallery, 6d. Doors openet at alf.p.ist Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Pox-
office, from Ten till Five.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
The Rest Pantomime ot the Season—Gorgeous Scenery.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 20,
The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast,
and Novel Scenic Display, called
THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principa'
CoaracterS by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wielan4, Mayn i• d,
Mrs. Yates, Mi,s E. St in!cy, Mrs. F. Matthews.
After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR-
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD, or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent.
Promiced with Enormous Sclendour and ‘Vot.deriut Effects!
Columbine, Miss Bulien ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable
Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. I'. Matthews,
from the Theatres Royal, Covent-gatdcn and Drury. Lane; Panta
loon, Mr. Johnstone.
Botes, 4s ; Pit, 29.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors
open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY '2O,
Will be presented for the sr and time at this theatre, thi grand
opera of the MAID OF JUDAH. Ivanhoe, Mr. Woos ; Friar
Tuck, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rebecca, Mrs. Wood.
fo conclude with the Sew Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. Lirattan; Puo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe. Leal, Miss R. Isaacs.

LEI'S ROYAL AMPHIIHEA OF AWLS.
Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor.
Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime,
which remains Open a Few Nights Longer.
GRAND JUVENILE FETE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY :0,
Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RLE-
QUIN FAM O'SH A NTER, and his STEEL) MEG; or, The
Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine,
Mdlle. Cushnie; Clown. Mr. King ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews.
New Scenes iii the Circle, and unequ.illeu Feats of Horsemanship.
To conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE V
II-
'roRIES OF' NIU RAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The
General, Prince, and King.
The succession of crowded houses and inc'eascd demands for
Places at the Box-o I ce, tomnels the Proprietor to announce that
this Popular Establishment will remain Open Seven Nights longer ;
a ;d, in compliance with the wi-hes of the Astley's Patrons, and
according to annual custom, for a series of British National Fetes,
pourtraying tho Victo ies of England's Hero—Wellington,
On Monday next. Jan 2, will be produced, the Grand National
Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEA 111 E.
As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY
Will be repeated THE BoIIEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported
by Messrs. Saville Hughes, Hicks, R. Efonner, Johnson, Smith, %;rs.
H. Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in th, Vs orld.
After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, wits
Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks,
every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN
GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AE I 0 U. Harleliiin, Mr.
W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown Mr. Fuller; Pants.
loon Mr. Hawkins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair-
br /Vier and Miss Sharpe.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
o lice, trom Eleven ,o Four.

ROYAL VICIORIA 'IHEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY:A
Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitlte
POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy
Tacit, Mr. Nantz • Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss
Arden; Mary Gr.am, Miss Vincent.
After Which will be produced THE FAIRY LADY; or, the
Ca'Auet of Bronze.

To conclude:with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM
BETH; or, 'I he 'three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin,
Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scatbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli;
Ctiumbine, Miss M. Schmidt.

THE WEATHER -SuN OFFICE, JAN. 19.

TuxumomETEn, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 47
BAROMETER, 30.07.-WIND, W.S.V.
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NOTE.—The nu,Ftber 32 on the Thermometer denotes
the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers
fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Sinning ... 10 minutes after 2. I Evening ... 31 minutes after 2.

I dated August 9, 1843. The next is one addressed to
Mr. O'Connell, signed by Patrick Donaghue, dated
Sept. 4, 1843 ; one addressed to Mr. Ray, signed by
Hugh Maguire, dated Aug. 12, 1843 ; one addressed
to D. O'Connell, Esq., signed by J. Brady,
and dated August 31, 1843 ; also one
addressed to Mr. Ray, signed by Henry
Harpur, dated 26th August, 1843 ; also one ad-
dressed to D. O'Connell, signed J. M. Donan, dated
29th August, 1843 ; also one addressed to Mr. Ray,
signed John Birch and Timothy Bestick, dated 15th
August, 1843. The entire proceedings on Thursday
consisted of the examination of witnesse-. Mr. Fre-
derick Bond Hughes, whose testimony went to prove
the various allegations in the indictment, respect-
ing the proceedings at the meetings, commenc-
ing with that at Mullaghmast, on the Ist of October,
and terminating on the 18th of the same month,
when he left for England. Both on the direct
and cross-examination he admitted that peace,
order, and regularity were always observed,
not only at the various meetings in the Corn
Exchange which he had witnessed, but also at
the great monster meeting at Mullaghmast. He de-
posed to the truth of the belief that tranquillity and
order were preserved at this last vast assemblage by
means of the exertions of the men who called them-
selves " O'Connell's police," and who were stationed
in various places for that purpose on the Rath or
Mound, upon and around which the mighty mul-
titude were collected together. Ile declared that from
his experience of public meetings that persons to pre-
serve order were necessary, particularly in such vast
throngs as the " monster meetings," and that " O'Con-
nell's police" effectually accomplished that end. In
giving his evidence respecting the meeting of the Re-
peal Association of the 3d of October, he swore that
Mr. Steele in his speech on that occasion had, when
referring to the monster meeting held at Loughrea, a
short time previously, said, that it surpassed in im-
portance even the meeting at Mullaghmast, where—

-" Behemoth, biggest born of earth,
Upheaved its vastness."
A phrase which, it was very generally stated, Mr.
Steele had never pronounced, but that in writing his
speech subsequently he had introduced it. On the
cross-examination, no allusion to the use of
this language by Mr. Steele on that occa-
sion was made. Laughter was produced
from time to time during the examination
of this witness, who certainly gave his evidence with
great fairness and readiness. Ile withdrew his allega-
tion respecting the presence of Mr. Barrett at the
Abbey-street meeting on the 12th of October, and
also at the dinner at the Rotunda. The count of the
indictment against Mr. Barrett, therefore, falls to the
ground, as far as those meetings are concerned. Mr.
Ross, the London reporter, was next produced on the
table, to use the Irish phrase, and after a brief exami-
nation of the witness, the Court rose at the usual hour.

The Irish ATTORNEY-GENERAL has finished his ad-
dress to the jury, having in the delivery of that address
occupied tn•o days. The speech of the legal functionary
contained nothing new,—it was a second edition of the
indictment, with notes and comments ; and, to the sur-
prise of everybody, contained no solemn announcement
of dire interest, or awful conspiracies with which all the
world was not previously acquainted, such as he had led
us to expect he would disclose. The evidence in support
of the charge has now commenced, and in a few days we
shall see what can he proved of all the mighty allega-
tions against the prisoners.

Before the jury can convict the traversers, they must
have the facts fully proved to their satisfaction, that an
illegal conspiracy did exist, and that O'CONNELL and
his fellow-conspirators intended by illegal means to com-
pass the ends of that conspiracy. Mere fancy, imagina-
tion, probability, or suspicion, will not suffice ; the facts
must be proved, and fully believed by the jury, before
they can find the traversers guilty. The criminal intent
is the crime with v‘ hich the accused are charged—criminal
intention is the mater they have to meet and to repel—
intention pre-existent in their minds, and in furtherance of
which the acts were committed. And until we see it
indisputably proved, that DANIEL O'CONNELL conspired
for illegal purposes, we shall not give credence to tl:e
charge. If the man, who achieved emancipation
for millions of his Roman Catholic countrymen, for so
long 'a period bound by the trammels and restrictions
which religious intolerance had cast around them; if the
man who has earned for himself the proud title of Libe-
rator, a title far beyond that of conqueror; who has in-

cessantly called for justice to his country, and whose
history presents the only instance upon record, the only
object of a national offering yearly made, freely and
willingly tendered, as some recompense for the rank and
Curtune that would, and must, have attended his path
through life, if he had pursued only his own good,
and directed his talents to his own advantage ;—if such a
man shall be proved to have departed from the rule by
which all his conduct has hitherto been guided, namely,
to avoid riot, conspiracy, or illegal proceedings, and to
Use only peaceable and constitutional means, then, and
then only, shall we credit his conviction.

It is the misfortune of the jury that, up to the moment
of their entering the jury-box, every trick that could be
played, every plan that could be resorted to, had been
used, to prevent the procuring of an honest panel, to try
this great cause. Suppression of the names of jurors,
exclusion on account of religion, and every art that cun-
ning or malice could devise, had been put into requisi•
tion. The twelve men who now form the jury, had
against them all the prejudices of all frierds to fair deal-
ing, and when sworn to try the matter submitted to them
were naturally looked upon as a packed and concocted
body of jurors.

And so the fact is—they are an improperly selected
jury—they are a concoction of trickery and of fraud•
And yet they may be themselves as honest and as indepcn
dent a set of jurymen as ever tried a cause. They were
no parties to the proceedings which resulted in their
selection ; they had no hand in mislaying sheets of the
jury lists, or in excluding their Roman Catholic brethren;
and they ought, now that the issue of this great trial
is intrusted to them, to be judged by their conduct in the
jury box, not by the proceedings of those who have
placed them therein. The officials who have got up this pro-
secution, have, from the very outset of the case, laboured--
if not intentionally, at all events, most effectually—to im-
press upon the public mind that conviction was the only
end aimed at ; and that the law was not to try and
decide upon the guilt or innocence of those vho were
submitted to its ordeal, but that an indictment must be
found, and the parties charged must be convicted ; that
in truth justice had but one meaning in their minds—
prosecution, with certain punishment. tut it does not
follow that the jury will carry out the merciless intents
of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and it is only owing to the
recklessness and mismanagement of his proceedings in
this trial, that any cause for suspicion or distrust in the

jury could have arisen. The prosecutors have, by their

own conduct, put themselves before a jury with public
and private feeling arrayed against them ; and a con-
viction will be to them no triumph—to the accused no dis-

grace.

Governments cannot in these times set at nought the
decencies of justice. Public opinion rules more despoti-
cally, and decides more freely, in all matters between
an Administration and an individual, than between men
placed in the same station of life, whose privileges and
chances are equal. And whenever a Government, even
in former times, sought to stretch the laws beyond their
just letter—to make the law the instrument of vengeance,
and not the wholesome means to restrain crime and
punish guilt, seldom indeed, in the very worst
periods of our history, have juries been found to lend
themselves to the purposes of persecution. Look back to
the trial of HARDY in 1794—a trial commemorated in
every year from that to the present time—and see how a
prosecution very similar to this (save that the offence
which is now called seditious conspiracy was then sought
to be tortured into high treason) broke down under the
indignant eloquence of an ERSKINE, and the brilliant
language of a Gums. Look to the attempted crushing,
in 1817, of IIoNE, who thrice ran the gauntlet of a
Crown prosecution, and came out of the fiery furnace of
an Attorney-General's wrath, unscathed ? And what
was the result of these prosecutions, and their effect
upon the public mind ? To spread in each case the
principles of liberty beyond their former bounds—
to give additional freedom to speech, to writing,
and thereby to thought and action—to make men
the enemies of persecution, and to show to the
world that English juries in 1794 and in 1817,

two of the worst periods of English modern his-
tory, were neither to be cajoled nor bullied into verdicts
which would rivet chains, such as in all ages, and at all
times, despotism has sought to impose upon the thought,
the feelings, and the actions of men.
The result of this second edition of the attempt of JOHN,
Lord ELDON, in 1794, to put down Ifinvy and his friends

in England, revised and corrected by Mr. Attorney-Gene-
t. 1 t.-.;3llTrr, and adapted to the Irish bar, will, it is to be

hoped and prayed, meet in all respects.with a reception
such as the first attempt experienced; and may the ver-
dict pronounced—to copy theilanguage of the immortal
ERSKINE—show that ishatever the Irish may have lost
o f a control in Parliament, they have yet a sheet-anchor
ro hold the vessel of the State amidst contending storms,

that they have still a sound administration of justice
secured to them, in the independence of the Judges, in the
rights of enlightened juries, and in the integrity of the bur.

Accounts from Madrid to the 11th inst., state that the Go-
vernment insisted upon NAAVAEZ retaining the rank of Cap-
tain-General, conferred on him by her MAJESTY. Honours
are thus thrust upon the modest warrior, and he must wear
them. The fact is officially announced in these words.—