The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-13 00:00:00

JURY.

The cloth having been removed, " The people," " The
Queen," &c., were given by the Chairman with appro-
priate observations, and responded to by the company.
The CHAIRMAN then gave the healths of Lords Den-
man, Cottenham, and Campbell, and in doing so took
an opportunity of adverting to the great question which
these Noble Lords had to decide upon. He contended
that they were clearly right in their judgment, seeing
that the grounds upon which Mr. O'Connell and his co-
conspirators were sent to prison-was in respect to counts
which were declared to be bad even by the judges of this
country. He particularly eulogised the judgment of
Lord Denman, in consequence of that nobleman's vindi-
cation of the independence of juries, and said that two
things were now established by the judgment of the
House of Peers, namely, that it was not a crime for men
to meet in large masses to petition against an admitted
grievance, and that in order to a jury being a good one,
the list from which it was to be selected must not be
tampered with.—(llear, hear.)
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm.

The CIIAMMAN then gave the health of Mr. O'Connell
and the other State prisoners, and full and complete
justice to Ireland ; and in doing so said that the whole
course of Mr. O'Connell's life, as a politician, had been
straightforward and consistent. He commenced by ap-
plying the powers of his great mind to the emancipation
of his Catholic countrymen from religious disabilities,
and he was now using his best energies to make his
country what it ought to be—a happy and contented por-
tion of the empire. This was an honest and legitimate
object, and one in which any man might be proud to be
engaged, and sure he was that no Englishman would
tamely stand by and see a man attempted to be crushed
for such exertions, without entering his protest against
the attempt ; and, if necessary, lending his best aid to
make such an attempt ineffective.—( Applause.)
" Trial by Jury"—the health of Mr. I)uncombe. M.P.
—Sir Thomas Wilde, and the other Counsel engaged for
the Traversers—" The Press," and other appropriate
toasts, were given and responded to ; and the evening
was most agreeably spent. A great many new members
were proposed and admitted members of the Ancient and
Honourable Society of " Cog,ers," who severally returned
thanks for the honour.

IRELAND.

NATIONAL BANQUET TO MR. O'CONNELL.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 10.—The following notification has
been issued :
" At a meeting of the friends of repeal, held on
the 6th instant, W. S. O'Brien, Esq., M.P., in the
chair, it was resolved that O'Connell, and his late
fellow-captives, should be entertained at a public
banquet, in commemoration of their liberation from
their recent unjust imprisonment.
" The banquet will accordingly take place in Dub-
lin, on Thursday, the 19th of September, 1844.
" By order of the Managing Committee,
" JOHN L. ARABIN,
(Lord Mayor Elect) Secretaries."
" JAMES O'IIEA.
It is likely that the banquet will take place in the
Rotundi, or in the King's-room, in the Mansion-
house.
POPULAR REJOICINGS IN THE COUNTRY.
GALWAY, SEPT. 9.—The most enthusiastic joy per-
vaded all classes here yesterday, on the receipt of the
intelligence of the reversal of the judgment. There was
a numerous meeting of the inhabitants in the square,
at which Francis Comyn, Esq. (Woodstock), presided,
and the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, now Bishop of El-
phin, and many of the leading gentry and traders were
present. All the trades were dressed and had their
flags and banners. Little Christopher French, the
grandson of the Liberator, was out to see the sport.
When the people got a sight of him they would have
him with them. They brought him to the Parent
Temperance-room, placed him in the President's chair,
and cheered him. They then took him out, had the
handsome chair covered with crimson cloth, carried
on their shoulders, and the rine little fellow was placed
in it. They carried him in triumph through the
town. Whilst sitting at the club-house window we
saw the procession pass by, and little Christopher in
the chair, waving his hat, and huzzaing for " O'Con-
nell and Ireland." If he were forty years of age he
could not have acted in a more manly way. They
took him back to his residence, and he then returned
them thanks for himself and his grandfather. They
have invited him this evening to a soiree which lie is
to attend.
Craysisine SEPT. B.—ln this important commer-
cial town the popular manifestation at the triumphs
of O'Connell was the most enthusiastic we ever wit-
nessed. The people seemed almost wild with joy.
But all was order, and the Conservative party are
loud in their praises of the moderation of the people.
Bonfires and other demonstratiims took place on
Friday night. Every hill was blazing. The illumi-
nations last night were on the most splendid scale.
The people were advised that Mr. O'Connell wished
that the slightest insult would not be given to any
of the opposite party, nor the least offence committed
on any house that was not lighted. This advice was
acted on to the letter.
A few of the Conservatives appeared apprehensive
that some outrage might be committed. Up to half-
past eight o'clock, this feeling was predominant. Some
of them, about that hour, ventured amongst the
people ; they saw that there was not the slightes indi-
cation on the part of the people to annoy ; they went
for their families, and almost every COnservative in
town paraded the streets until after eleven o'clock.
About nine o'clock several of the Conservatives—
W. J. Leg4e, Mr. Harvey, Dr. Collett, Messrs.
Prosser, Patterson, and Ferguson ; Mr. Bradford,
Mr. David Hughes, and Dr. Malone, were seen
busily engaged in preparing to light their houses.
Ohl It WM a scene worthy the Liberator, to behold
such a commingling of feeling; in fact, all parties
were vieing with each other, in seeking terms of
gratulation at the happy prospect that the results of
last night would bring about.
Mr. M--, a respectable Conservative, joined us
in the Main-street; he exclaimed, " Can I believe my
senses? no insult, no injury; if I was told on last
night that I could walk the streets with safety, I
would not believe it. This night (said he) lays the
foundation for a state of things that I never dreamed
of. If one were sure that the conduct of the people
would be such at all times as it is this night, I, for
one—and I may speak for the rest of the Conserva-
tives in this locality.—would be repealer's." There
was not one drunken man to be seen.
Diocese OF CLOGHF.R.—Te Deum was sung on
Sunday last in all the Catholic churches of this exten-
sive diocese by desire of the Right Rev. Doctor
M'Nally, Bishop of Clogher, in thanksgiving for the
liberation of Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-sufferers.
LEITRIM, SEPT. 7.—Our hills were all covered
with bonfires, for the triumph of constitutional law
had in the case of our beloved Liberator.
COUNTY or Coax. —The Cork Examiner of yes-
terday contains detailed reports of the rejoicings in
Kinsale, Mallow, Charleville, Fermoy, Kanturk,
Newmarket, Middleton, Passage, and various other
towns in this Yorkshire of Ireland. There were illu-
minations and bonfires in all directions ; bands playing
through the streets, and the people, although in ecsta-
cies at the glorious news, conducted themselves in the
most orderly manner. The Examiner thus closes its
report: —" This morning's western coaches have
brought us accounts from our various correspondents,
of the popular rejoicings on Saturday night. Clona-
kilty was brilliantly illuminated, and the streets were
traversed by bands all night—tar-barrels blazed in-
cessantly. The same enthusiasm was manifested in
the patriotic town of Skibbereen. The sea coast from
Courtmasherry to Dunmanus was in one blaze of
light. Bantry had its rejoicings, and the ancient
borough of Bandonbridge contributed its quota of
tar-barrels. In the latter town disturbances were
apprehended from the Orangemen, but the night
passed off quietly."
POPULAR COMPLIMENT TO LORD CAMPBELL.—One
of the most remarkable circumstances connected with
the procession in Dublin on Saturday was the ap-
pearance, in one of the carriages of the Trades, of
two Highland pipers, in their national costume, who
continued to play, during the whole procession, the
well-known air of " Toe Campbells are co fling"—
this being intended as a marked compliment to Lord
Cambell, one ef the three law Lords who have saved
the British Constitution by the reversal of the iniqui-
tous
Judgment.
DEFENCE OF THE IRISH COAST.
The following strange announcement appears in o
the Cork Examiner I yester lay Great activitythe
putting them in a proper state of defence. At Cam-
den Fort long swivel guns of large calibre are in the
course of mounting, and some furnaces have also been
built to heat balls and shells."

The following paragraph appears in the same
journal :—" Three of the transports, which have been
waiting in Cove for the last month, sailed on satur-
day for India, and three more, the Coromandel, Earl
of llardwick, and Harbinger, followed them this
morning. The loss to the several tradesmen who had
contracted to supply the troops will be enormous in
consequence of the departure of those vessels without
their freights. One victualler in Cove, it is said, will
lose 501. by the provisions which he had prepared
for them being Jeft on his hands."

IRISH LAW CHANGES.
The Evening Post of this afternoon states that
Chief Justice Pennefather was in London on Satur-

day last, with the object, according to report, of ten-
dering his resignation to the Premier, who had been
so suddenly hurried to Drayton Manor by the me-
lancholly intelligence of the illness of Miss Peel. The
same journal contains the following :
" JUDGE BURTON.—It is said that this venerable
judge retires from the bench in a month or two. He
will leave behind 11-m the character of an amiable
man and a sound,lawyer, notwithstanding his sanction
of the sixth and seventh counts of the monster in-
dictment."
The Post adds that the Attorney-General is spoken 1

making myself master of ; their cross fire cut off the r of for a judgeship, and asks, " Can this be possible?"
communications of the town with these forts. Under REGISTRY or MARRIAGES.—The office of Regis-
this protection, Commandant Hernoux and Captain E. trar-General under the new Act for the regulation of
Bouet headed a column of 600 men for lauding. But
everything had been deserted at our approach, and the Presbyterian marriages, has been conferred upon
William Donnelly, Esq.
landing was effected without resistance. All that re-
mained to be done was to complete the work of destruc-
tion which had been commenced. The result of the day
was the spiking of the guns, and throwing them over
the ramparts, the demolition of the embrasures, the
inundation of the powder-stores, and the taking away
three standards and nine or ten bronze guns as trophies.
I have left entire the vast warehouses of the customs,
which are full of merchandise of all kinds ; we must
otherwise have burned them, and I was afraid that the
fire might reach too rapidly the immense stores of
powder and shells in the casemates of the forts. I then
sent back the troops and the crews. We were masters
of the island and fort ; the town batteries were no longer
to be feared, and I considered our operation as termi-
nated. After our departure the town, being without
defence, was taken by the Kabyles of the interior, who
set fire to it. The sack of this unhappy town is com-
plete—the inhabitants have fled in all directions. In a
few days there will remain of the beautiful Souerah,
which Muley-Abderrhaman called his beloved town.
only the walls, riddled with balls and blackened by fire.
The lesson is a severe one. I will not name any person ;
for to name all who did their duty with courage, intelli-
gence, and devotedness, would be to name everybody. I
will merely call your attention to the families of the men
who were killed and to the future fate of the wounded,
and also to the comfort of all who, at the sole name of
France, hare so nobly accepted the hard duty of keeping
garrison in the island of Mogadore."
A postcript to this report, dated the 25th, says .
" On the 23d our establishment on the island was
completed, and I sent away to Cadiz a part of the aqua
drop. In the course of the day a gun was fired from
one of the towers of the town commanding the country,
and the ball having fallen in the midst of us in the port,
we destroyed with shells the houses near the tower. I
then sent Lieutenant Touchard, the chief of my staff,
with 160 men, to fix scaling ladders against the tower.
The detachment scaled the wall without opposition, and
spiked the last gun that could play upon us. From the
height of the tower the town could be seen ; it appeared
deserted and horribly devastated. This operation,
which was not absolutely necessary, has had the advan-
tage of showing the garrison of the island that, with its
own forces and the resources of the local station, it keeps
the town completely at its mercy."

MR. O'CONNELL AND TRIAL BY

®On Wednesday a dinner took place at Cogers'-hall, to
celebrate the great principle involved in the reversal of
the judgment by the llou,e of Lords in the case of
" O'Connell and others v. the Queen," especially as re-
garded the sacred character of tho jury list. The
attendance was such as to prove that the feeling of the
public generally sympathised in the reversal of the judg-
ment in question, for the room was crowded to excess.
The company consisted chiefly of the gentlemen who
take an active part in the politics of the district of St.
Bride's—a pretty good proof that if the opportunity
were afforded, many thousands of the citizens of London
would have been happy to manifest their feelings in the
same way. Mr. Wood occupied the chair ; and Mr. W.
R. Williams, one of the members of the Common
Council for the ward of Farringdon Without, offiPiated
as Vice-chairman. Amongst the gentlemen present we
noticed Mr. Low, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Burnard, Mr. Bur-
nett, Mr. James, Secretary to the Middlesex Reform
Registration, &c.