The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-29 00:00:00

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blast all the laurels, which it is hiA..- lgtst- , that :ft i-'75..\
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he would drench the land of his birth, of ',iitrention‘--ancl:-:T`as
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would repudiate French assistance, and deriaftiftcerkkerprele I",:im
sent dynasty of France ? Do you think that the ``man who'
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aimed at revolution, would hold forth to the detestation of
the world the infamous slavery by which the groat trans-
atlantic Republic, to her everlasting shame, permits herself
to be degraded ? Or, to come neare;home, do you think that
the man who aimed at revolution would have indignantly re
puiated the proffered junction with the English Chartists?
Had a combination been effected between the Chartists and
the Repeaters, it would have been more than formidable_
At the head of that combination in England was Mr.
Feargus O'Connor, once the associate and the friend of .
Daniel O'Connell. The entire of the lower orders in the
North of England were enrolled in a powerful organization.
A league between the Repeaters and the Chartists might
have been at once effected. Chartism uses its utmost and its
most clandestine efforts to find its way into this country.
O'Connell detects and crushes it. Of the charges pre-
ferred against him, am I not right when I exclaim that
his life contains the refutation? To the charge that Mr.
O'Connell and his son conspired to excite animosity
amongst her Majesty's subjects, the last observation
that I have made to you is more peculiarly applicable. Gen-
tlemen, Mr. O'Connell and his co-religionists have been made
the objects of the fiercest and the coarsest vituperation ; and
yet I defy the most acute and diligent scrutiny of the entire
of the speeches put before you, to detect a single expression
—one 'solitary phrase—which reflects in the remotest degree
upon the Protestant religion. He has left all the contumely
heaped upon the form of Christianity which he professes
utterly unheeded, and the Protestant 'Operative Society has
not provoked a retort ; and every angry disputant has, with-
out any interposition on his part, been permitted to rush in
" where angels fear to tread." Gentlemen, the religion of Mr. •
O'Connell teaches him two things—charity towards those who
dissent from him in doctrine, and forgiveness of those who do
him wrong. You recollect it is from such incidents that we are
enabled to judge of the characters and feelings of men—you
remember to have heard, in the course of the evidence, fre-
quent reference made to poor old Sir Bradley King. The
unfortunate man had been deprived of his office, and all com-
pensation was denied him. He used to stand in the lobby of
the House of Commons, the most desolate and helpless look-
ing man I ever saw. The only one of his old friends that
stuck to him almost was Baron Lefroy. But Baron I.efroy
had no interest with the Government. Mr. O'Connell etrw
Bradley King and took pity on him. Bradley Kin had been
his fierce political, almost his personal, antagonist. Mr. °Von-
nail went to Lord Althorp, and obtained for Bradley King the
compensation which had been refused him. I remember
havin read a most striking letter addressed by Sir Abraham
Bradley King to Mr. O'Connell, and asked him for it. He
could not at first put his hand upon it ; but while looking for
it he told me that soon after the death of the old Dublin
alderman an officer entered his study, and told him that he was
the son-in-law of Sir Abraham, who had a short time before
his death, called him to his bedside, and said—" When I
shall have been buried, go to Daniel O'Connell, and tell him
that the last prayer of a grateful man was offered up for him,
and that. I implored heaven to avert every peril from his
head." Mr. O'Connell found the letter : you will allow .me to
read it :

" Barnett's HMO, Spring Gardens, 4th August, 1844.
" VERv DEAR SlR,—The anxious wish for a satisfactory termination
of my cause, which your continued and unwearied efforts for it have
ever indicated, is at length accomplished. The vote of compensation
passed last night. To Mr. Lefroy and to yourself am I indebted for
putting the ease in the right light. To my Lord Althorp, for his
Lordship's consequent candid and straightforward act, in giving me
mY just dues, and thus restoring myself and family to competence,
ease, and happiness.
" To you, Sir, to whom I was early and long politically opposed--
to you, who nobly forgetting this continued difference of opinion, and
who, rejecting every idea of party feeling or of party spirit, thought
only of my distress, and sped to succour and support me, how can I
express my gratitude? I cannot attempt it. The reward I feel Is to
be found only in your own breast ; and I assure myself that the gene-
rous feelings of a noble mind will cheer you on to that prosperity and
happiness which a discriminating Providence holds out to those who
protect the helpless and sustain the culling.
" For such reward and happiness to you and yours my prayers
shall he offered fervently ; while the remainder of my days, passing,
I trust, in tranquility, by a complete retirement from public life, and
in the bosom of my family, will constantly present to me the grateful
recollection of one to whom I am mainly indebted for so desirable
a closing of my life.—Believe me, my dear Sir, with the greatest re-
spect and truth, your faithful servant,
"ABRAHAM BRADLEY KING."
You may deprive him of his liberty—you may shut hint
out from the light of nature—you may inter him in a dun-
geon, to which a ray of the sun never yet descended ; but
you never will take away from him the consciousness of
having done a good and noble action, and of being entitled
to kneel down every night before he sleeps, and to ad-
dress to his Creator the divinest portion of our Redeemer's
prayer. The man to whom that letter was addressed, and
the son of the man to whom that letter was addressed, are
not guilty of the sanguinary intents which have been
ascribed to them ; and of this they put themselves upon
their country. Rescue that phrase froth its technicalities
let it no longer be a fictitious one; if we have lost our
representation in the Parliament, let us behold it is
the jury-box, and that you participate in feelings:
of millions of your countrymen—let your verdict afford
a proof. But it is not to Ireland that the aching solicitude
with which the result of this trial is intently watched will
be confined. There is not a great city in Europe in which,
upon the day when the great intelligence shall be expected
to arrive, men will not stop each other in the public way, and
inquire whether twelve men upon their oaths have doomed
to incarceration the man who gave liberty to Ireland ?
Whatever may be your adjudication, he is prepared to
meet it. Ile knows that the eyes of the world are upon
him, and that posterity—whether in a gaol or out of it—
will look back to him with admiration ; lie is almost indif-
ferent to what may befal him, and is far more solicitous for
others at this moment than for himself. But the com-
mencememt of what I have said to you—l told you that I was
not unmoved, and that many incidents of my political life,
the strange alternations of fortune through which I have
passed, came back upon me. But now the bare possibility
at which I, have glanced has, I acknowledge, almost un-
manned me. Shall I, who stretch out to von in behalf of the
son the hand whose fetters the father had struck off, live to
cast my eyes upon that domicile of sorrow, in the vicinity of
this great metropolis, and say, "'Tis there they have im-
mured the Liberator of Ireland with his fondest and best be-
loved child ?" No ! it shall never be ! Ton will not con-
sign hint to the spot. to which the Attorney-General invites
you to surrender him. No. When the spring shall have come
again, and the winter shall have passed—when the spring
has come again, it is not through the windows of this
mansion that the father of such a son, and the
son of such a father, shall look upon those green hills on
which the eyes of so many a captive have gazed so
wistfully in vain ; but in their own mountain home
again, they shall listen to the murmurs of the great. Atlantic ;
they shall go forth and inhale the freshness of the morning
air together; " they shall be free of mountain solitude;"
they will be encompassed with the loftiest images of liberty
upon every side; and if time shall have stolen its supple-
ness.from the father's knee, or impaired the firmness of his
tread, he shall lean on the child of her that watches over
bins from heaven, and shall look out from some high place far
and wide into the island, whose greatness and whose glory
shall be for ever associated with his name. In your love of jus-
tice—in your love of Ireland—in your love of honesty and fair
play—l place my confidence. I ask you for an acquittal, not only
for the 'sake of your country, but for your own. Upon the day
when this trial✓ shall have been brought to a termination,
when, amidst the burst of public expectancy, in answer to
the solemn interrogatory which shall be put to you by the
officer of the Court, you shall answer " not guilty," with
what transport will that glorious negative be welcomed !
will you be blest, adored, worshipped ; and when, retiring from
this scene of excitement and of passion, you shall return to
your own tranquil homes, how pleasurably will you look upon
your children, in the consciousness that you will have left,
them a patrimony of peace, by impressing upon the British
Cabinet, that sense other measure besides a State prosecution
is necessary for the pacification of your country.
At the conclusion of the Right flon. Gentleman's speech, a
suppressed murmur of applause ran through the Court, which
presented a very excited appearance for some time before he
sat down, and several of the auditors were seen to shed tears,
and amongst them Mr. O'Connell himself.
The Lord Chief Justice intimated, that if it met the appro-
bation of both parties, the Court did not feel disposed to hear
other counsel that day (it was then three o'clock).
Mr. MoOre, who was to address the Court the second in •
order of the traversers' counsel, said that he felt grateful fur
the kindness manifested by the Court in that intimation, as he
felt unwilling to address the Court after the speech which had
been delivered by his Learned Friend. If it were not tres-
passing too much on the time of the Court and the public,
lie would feel it a great pleasure not to be called on to
address the Court till Monday. But, if his Lordship had not
thrown out that suggestion, he would not have felt justified in
asking the indulgence. If their Lordships thought that they
could consistentlywith the discharge of their duty postpone the
further hearing of the case till Monday, he should be most
happy to avail himself of the indulgence thus accorded.
The Lord Chief Justice said, it was now three o'clock, and
without unnecessarily infringing on public time, as Mr.
Moore's speech could not be finished by the time the Court
would rise, if the Attorney-General had no objection, the
Court was desirous to afford ()Very indulgence to the
Learned Gentleman, if postponing the further hearing to
Monday morning would do so.
The Attorney-General haying intimated that he had no
objection to the course proposed,
The Court then adjourned till 10 o'clock on Monday
(this day).

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Rev. A. Dice, Mr. Otley (of the Morning Chronicle), Mr.
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DRURY-LANE T HEATRE.--The plenditl manner in
which Richard the third has been produced here, aided by
the reworful acting of Mr. C. Kean, has crammed this theatre
each evening of its performance; while, on the other nights,
the Bohemian Girl bas continued its successful career, having
been already played 41 nights, to the most crowded audiences
ever assembled in the theatre.

The Second Part of the Marchioness of London-
derry's Narrative of her Visit to the Courts of Vienna, &e.,
which will appear in the February Number of " Celburn's
New Monthly,lllagazine," will camprise a description of her
voyage upon the Danube, from
.Vienna to Constantinople, in-
cluding notices of Pesth, Sembn, ()nova, Galatz, and other
plaCes of note, with her adventures in the Turkish Capital ;
also a highly interesting account of her visits to the Harems of
Reschid Pacha and the Seraskier, when Lady Londonderry was
entertained by the fair inmates with all the state and luxury due
to so distinguished a guest, and was allowed opportunities of oh'
serving the social life of Turkish ladies of rank in their own
homes, such as no European lady had ever previously enjoyed
TIIE EDINBURGH PROFESSORSHIP OF MUSIC.—
The chair of music in this university is again vacant. Several
candidates have presented themselves, the principal of whom
are, Mr. Donaldson, a member of the Edinburgh bar, bet
formerly a teacher of music in Glasgow ; Mr. William Stern-
dale Bennett, well known as a good pianist and composer; Dr.
Gauntlett, the organist ; and Mr. tslainzer, author of the
popular system of vocal instruction. From the popularity of
the latter gentleman in Scotland, as well as in the south, and
from the extraordinary success which has attended his efforts
for the diffusion of musical knowledge in the three kingdoms,
we are not surprised to hear that he is the favourite with the
Scottish public. If it is intended, as we have recently been
informed, to organise a plan of general musical instruction in
Scotland, we should think Mr. Mainzer eminently qualified fur
the place at the head of it. It must be admitted on all hands
that be has shown extraordinary talents for communicating a
knowledge of his art, and the experience which he has gained
by his public teaching in Paris, as well as in this country
must be of the greatest value in such a situation. 111,s labours
in Edinburgh will
.have given opportunities to the Senate fi)r
testing his qualificattons.
The funeral of Mr. Holder, the clerk at the Man.
skin-house for nearly half a century, took place on Saturday at
the Highgate cemetery. It was strictly private.