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THE STATE TRIALS.

FIFTEENTH DAY.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTERS.)

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31.

Mr. FITZGIBBON has occupied the court the entire
day in the Queen's Bench, and speculation is busy in
the hall to account for the great length to which the
Learned Gentleman has drawn out his address.

Among the many rumours prevalent, there is
one to which credence is somewhat generally
attached. It is that he is speaking against
time in order that the speech from the throne may
reach Dublin, and be perused by Mr. O'CONNELL, before
he commences his address to the Court. How far this
may be a correct representation of the tactics of the
traversers lam unable to state. I merely mention it as
a pretty generally believed rumour.
Mr. WHITESIDE it is understood will speak to-morrow,
and then Mr. O'CONNELL will proceed to address the
Court on Friday, and close on Saturday night. Thus it
is most probable the whole of next week will be con-
sumed in those trials.

With respect to the fracas between the Attor-
ney-General and Mr. FITZGIBBON, yesterday, all
parties, of every shade of politics, with whom I
have spoken on the subject, agree in condemning
the • first law officer of the Crown, as one
of the most indiscreet of men. The affair has created
quite a sensation here, and will no doubt furnish much
food for comment to the London journals.

FOUR O'CLOCK, P.M,

..The mail from London has not yet arrived. It is
blowing quite a gale, with a heavy rolling sea, and I
apprehend the mail cannot possibly reach before eight
o'clock this evening.

SUMMARY of the STATE TRIALS.

(FIFTEENTH I)AY.)
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

TUE QUEEN V. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND OTHERS.
The Court of Queen's Bench sat today at ten o'clock,
when Mr. FITZGIBBOIC resumed his address to the Court.
He submitted, that if the speech alleged to have been
delivered by Mr. O'CONNELL at Mallow could bear the
construction put upon it by the Attorney-G eneral,it vvould
amount to high treason, and that the present charge of
misdemeanour would be merged in it—the less in
the greater—and that, therefore, the prosecutions must
fall to the ground. He commented at considerable length
on the sentiments expressed in that speech. The At-
torney-General, in observing upon the words of Mr
O'CONNELL, that they (the Government) should neve:
trample upon him—that they should trample upon hi:
dead body first—said, that Mr. O'CONNELL mean;
that he would resist the civil authorities witl•
guns, bayonets, pikes, &c. Had subsequent circum-
stances, he (Mr. FITZGIBBON) asked, warranted sucl
a construction ? Certainly not. Where war
there a more active and a more intelligen•
police than in Ireland, and yet where had the:
been able to discover those stores of pikes
guns, and bayonets, that were to be thus
employed by Mr. O'CONNELL. NO ; Mr. O'Colottu.
meant no such thing. He meant that in the event
of any violent measures being adopted against him
by the authorities, he would be ever found
at his post among the people making use of those
weapOns which he best could use—the eloquence and the
firmness with which Goo had endowed him. The Learned
Counsel engaged the Court the entire day. The latter
portion of his address was directed to show that no con-
spirator against the peace of the country or the safety of
the throne, such as it was attempted bythese prosecutions
to prove Mr. O'CONNELL to be, could or would use the
language embodied in the very speeches relied on by the
•Crown for their case, and he quoted copious extracts
from Mr. O'CONNELL'S speeches in support of this po-
sition.

Mr..FITZGIBBON concluded at five o'clock, when the
Court 'adjourned.
Mr. WHITESIDE, counsel for Mr. DUFFY, of the Nation,
was to commence his address to the jury on Thursday

ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.

Yesterday evening the weekly meeting of the Anti-Corn-
law League was held at the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden. I
George Wilson, Esq., took the Chair at the usual hour.
Amongst those upon the platform we perceived Sir William
Baynes, Bart. ; John Bright, Esq., M.P. ; Dr. Bowring,
M.P. ; P. A. Taylor, Esq., and a number of other gentle-
men connected with the free trade movement, from the provinces
and the metropolis.
The CHAIRMAN said he had great pleasure in reporting the
progress of the League since the last meeting within those
walls. They had had increased testimony from all sides
'of the general dislike which was growing in the public mind
against the corn-law system, and that there was but one feeling
of hostility to those laws by which industry and enterprise was
skiekled. He then proceeded to enumerate the various
places in which meetings had been held, and the respective
sums collected at those places, and concluded by saying that
nothing should induce the League to deviate from their un-
varying and steady career for the attainment of free trade and
and the abolition of all prohibitory duties.
Dr. Bowanta next addressed the meeting, and apologised
for having to leave them so soon to attend his duty in the House
of Commons, althougk he felt there would be a strong contrast
between the moral darkness and narrowness of mind which per-
vaded that assembly in comparison with the present.—( Cheer 5
and laughter.) Before he came to the present meeting he was
anxious to know whether her Majesty's Ministers would attend
to the suggestions of those heroic gentlemen who called upon
the Goverurnent at the soi disant tenant-farmers' meeting, to
put down the meeting of the League by the arm of the law.
He was anxious to see whether the meeting within those walls
was to be called the Clontarf of the Anti-Corn-law League
--(Lund cheers and laughter)—er whether her Majesty's Mi-
nisters, engaged with one set of repealer., were anxious to come
into contact with another—( Renewed cheering)—or whether
an Attorney-General, armed with the severe dignity of the law,
wnold challenge his legal opponent to meet him in combat,
armed with the weapon selected by the murderer.—(Loud
cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman, after a lengthened and elo-
quent elpositien of the evils inflicted by the corn-laws, said
that there could be no doubt but those obnoxious imposts upon
industry must be eventually abolished, if the Repealer, only
prov:•d true to themselves; and sat down amidst loud and long-
continued cheering.
Colonel Tuostesort dwelt at considerable length on the
result of the expedition into Scotland which he had undertaken
in conjcnction with several other gentlemen connected with
the League, and painted in glowing. colour, the enthusiastic
manner in which they had been received by the people of that
country, and the amount of money subscribed by them to for-
ward the odject of the League. The Gallant Gentleman dwelt
with his usual happy and epigrammatic eloquence upon the
sordid motives by which the landowners were actuated in sup-
porting those laws, and concluded by saying that the time was
not far distant when circumstances would bring those landlords
tothe state of hopeful humility, when they would no longer
stand between the oppressed people of this country and their
deliverance.

JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., next rose to address the
meeting. He alluded at considerable length to the Pre-Corn-
law meetings which had been got up throuehout the country,
and ridiculed them to the most extreme extent which their op.
ponents could desire. He next spoke of the subscriptions
which had been so liberally given by the Scottish people, and,
after a just eulogium upon them, said that, from what he sa
in that country, he felt convinced that those persons who were
anxious for the independence of the Church from secular con-
trol, were, to a man, with the Anti-Corn-law League—
(Cheers)—and in favour of free trade. At a meeting held at
Wakefield Lord Morpeth was present, and no per-
son who was there but must have been sensible of the
kind and friendiy feeling with which he was re-
ceived ; but they must also have been conscious that the
moment he spoke of his late colleagues, and his hesitation is
declaring at once for the principles of the League, least it
might impede them when they returned to office, that a
damper was thrown upon the ardour of the meeting, which his
subsequent liberal and enlightened declaration could not wipe
away. The Hon. Gentleman concluded a brilliant address,
which occupied nearly one hour and a half, by saying that
Britons would have the additional honour added to their name
of being the first nation in the world which recognised the
principles of free trade.
The CHAIRMAN having announced the next meeting of the
League to be on next Thursday, at the same place, the meet
ing separated.
The theatre was crammed almost to suffocation, and the
rpeeclies were of that high and eloquent character which com-
pels us to express our regret that the great press of Parliamen-
tary-matter incident to the first day of session, prevents us from
giving more than a sliort report of what was delivered.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Midford, of Boston, Liver;
pool to New Orleans, Lit. 57, lon. 15, by the City o
Poonah, in the Downs. Pearl, London to Ceylon, 26th
inst., lat. 48, lon. 8, by the Favourite, in the Downs.
Conservative, London to St. Ifeletla, 20th ult., lat. 41,
lon. 12, by the Jane, arrived at Plymouth. .1 ohanne
Caesar, Buenos Ayres to llavannah, Dec. 9, lat. 32 S.,
lon. 47 W. ; Brooke, Buenos Ayres to Liverpool, 16th,
lat. 31, lon. 40 ; Amelia IEII, Rio to Buenos Ayres,
17th, lat. 30, lon. 40 ; Nordan, Lisbon to Stockholm,
29th ult., lat. 49, ton. 7, by the Ocean, arrived at Fal-
mouth. Flora, Sicily to Ocrk, 18th ult., lat. 39, lon. 14,
by the Gilbert Jaalie3ol, arrived at F:mouth. Sancho
l'anza, Cephalonia to Fal;nouth, 10th instant. off Malaga;
do., to do., 11th, off Cape Trafalgar; John Dal-
Ltverpool to China, Oct. 14, in the Java Sea ;
lig, Liverpool to Singapore, 18th, off Anjer ; Ann
ion, Liverpool to China, 20th, at the entrance of the
s of Sunda; Trinandia, Calcutta to London, Nov.
30 S. lon. 20 E. ; Mississippi, standing W., 21st
`..41 N., lon. 31 W.

`,ion has been very rapid thi3 -month, and
-op3 are rather too, forward ; the grass corn is
over ground, and the blades as verdant as
This unusual ptecocity of vegetation is re-
appmhension hy the farmers, who deem
,is season. We learn that the wheat crop
.so supposed to be growing too rapidly.—

‘..10R MACKENZIE, FODPERTY.—It iS
at we have to announce the death of
he Major was an eminent agriculturist,
ye introduced the modem scientific
Ross-shire, and the first who applied
tjor had been ailing some months,
He was universally respected for
e, and his death is greatly de-