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London, England, 1844-01-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE STATE TRIALS.
TENTH DAY.-BY EXPRESS.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTERS.)
DUBLIN, THURSDAY, JAN. 25.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

THE QUEEN Y. DANIEL o'CONNELL AND OTHERS.

The Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Crampton, and Mr.
Justice Perrin, took their seats upon the bench at ten o'clock
precisely.
The jurors and traversers having answered punctually to
their names,
Mr. 'McEvoy Gartlan (agent for Mr. Duffy) applied to the
Court to grant his client permission to retire until two o'clock.
The application was made on the grounds of Mr. Duffy's illness.
The Chief Justice said it was not in the power of the Court
to make any order upon the subject ; but it was for the At-
torney• General to say whether he had any objection to such a
course, and whether be would insist on having Mr. Duffy
called upon his recognizance.
The Attorney-General intimated that it was not his inten-
tion so to do. He would not take any notice of Mr. Duffy's
absence from Court.

Mr. O'Hagan called upon the Clerk of the Crown to read
from the Nation of August 12, page 691, a letter addressed
by the Irish Members of Parliament to the people of Great
Britain.

The Clerk of the Crown complied, and read the following
address :

"TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

" We, the undersigned, representatives of Irish constituen-
cies, impressed with earnest solicitude respecting the present
state and future destiny of our country, and deeply sensible of
its wrong,, and resolved to leave no effort untried to obtain
their redress, feel it our duty, before we reparate, to place
upon record our solemn remonstrance against the fatal policy
which has alienated from your Government and institutions the
minds of a large portion of our fellow-countrymen.
" Deep-rooted and increasing discontent pervades the nation
whose interests are intrusted to our charge. Feelings of es-
trangement are rapidly supplanting those affections which
kindness and justice would have placed at her command. De-
spairing of redress from the Legislature, the people of Ireland
now rely upon their own strength and resolution for the attain-
ment of those rights which they have sought from Parliament
in vain.
" The voice of the civilized world lays to s'our charge the
guilt of having produced this exasperation of national feel-
ing. For centuries our legislation and Government have been
subject to your control(; on you, therefore, lies the res`sonsibility
of having failed to secure the welfare and contentment of the
Irish people.
" Our social condition is replete with elements of disorder.
The connection between landlord and tenant, deranged, as ft
has been, by a long course of vicious legislature, hurts that'
mutual confidence which is essential to the development of pro- '
ductive industry. The labouring population, unable to obtain
employment, live habitually on the verge of extrame destitu-
tion. Notwithstanding our connexion with a nation which
boasts to be the wealthiest, the most enlightened, and the most
powerful in the world, our commerce, our manufactures, our
fisheries, our mines, our agriculture, attest, by their languish-
ing and neglected condition, the baneful effects of your misgo-
vernment.

" A Church establishment is maintained for the exclusive
benefit of one-tenth of the nation.
" Our representation in the Legislature is unjustly dispro-
portionate to the population and resources of Ireland.
" Our Parliamentary franchises are wholly inadequate to
secure a true reflection of the opinion of the mass of the nation.
" Our municipal rights are abridged in comparison with
yours. Our Corporation franchises are limited by needless
and harassing restrictions.
" The pecuniary exhaustion occasioned by absenteeism is
aggravated by the mode in which the proceeds of taxation are
applied.

An anti-Catholic and anti-Irish spirit of exclusion governs
the distribution of official appointments.
" Our local wants are not duly considered in the Imperial
Parliament, yet adequate powers of self government for local
purposes are not afforded in the constitution of our fiscal and
administrative constitutions.
" We have applied in vain to the Legislature for redress,
Our complaints are unheeded—our remonstrances are
unavailing. We now appeal to that higher tribunal of public
opinion, which creates and deposes Parliaments and Ministers,
and we ask your intervention to enforce our claims.
" We demand, on behalf of our country, the adoption of mea-
sures calculated to improve the condition of the industrious
classes, and to develope the resources of Ireland.
" We demand the recognition of perfect equality, in regard
to ecclesiastical and educational arrangements, between the
several religious communities into which the population of Ire-
land is divided.
" We demand a more ample representation in the Legislature.
"We demand the assimilation of municipal rights in both
kingdoms.
" We demand that Ireland shall participate more largely in
the benefits of the public expenditure.
" We demand, in regard to administrative government, that
the profession of the Roman Catholic faith shall no longer be
made a ground of virtual, as it has ceased to be one of legal, ex-
clusion from official station ; that in the general administration
of the affairs of the empire, Irishmen shall be called to take part
in a proportion commensurate with the extent to which Ireland
contributes to its greatness ; and that the management of our
local affairs shall be confided, as much as possible, to those who
are identified and acquainted with the interests of our country.
" We demand that the principle of self-government, sub-
ject to popular control, shall be applied, wherever practicable,
in the organisation of our local institutions.
" We recognise in you no superior title to political rights.
We demand perfect equality as the only secure and legitimate
foundation upon which the Union can permanently rest. So
long as these claims are denied, so long will continue the
struggle of the Irish nation against injustice and misrule.
" Should this remonstrance be successful, we cannot, indeed,
promise the immediate restoration of those feelings of attach-
ment which, a few years since, had begun to expel from the
national breast sentiments engendered by centuries of oppres-
sion. We can only express our conviction that those who con
fide in the influence of justice will not have misplaced their
trust. It may still be in the power of a Government which
may merit the confidence of the Irish people to win back
their forfeited affections ; but we warn you that every day's
delay increases the difficulty of the task, and gives additional
strength to those who maintain that there is no hope of good
government for Ireland except in the restoration of her national
parliament.
" Should this warning be neglected, on you, not on us, be
the responsibility of future events.
" T. Wyse, Waterford city ; D. R. Ross, Belfast : T.
Fsmonde, Wexford; T. V. Stuart, Waterford county ;
R. S. Carew, Waterford county ; D. J. Norreys, Mal-
low ; W. E. Corbally, Meath county ; J. O'Brien,
Limerick city; M. J. O'Connell, Kerry county; R.
Archbold, Kildare county; R. Gore, New Ross ; H.
M. Tuite, Westmeath county; J. Power, Wexford
county; W. S. O'Brien, Limerick county."
The Clerk of the Crown continued to read the document to
its conclusion.
Mr. Smyley then handed Mr. Vernon the Nation of the
26th of August, which he identified as having been lodged in
his office, and which purported to be printed and published by
Charles Gavan Duffy, at No. 10, Trinity-street.
The Clerk of the Crown having been handed the paper, read
front it the article entitled, " The Crisis is upon us," at page
728, and, in the same number of the paper, the article headed
"The Irish Congress." When he had concluded the articles,
he asked if they required anything further read from that paper.
Mr. Smyly__Ne more from that paper.
Mr. O'Hagan read from page 726, in the third column of
that paper.
The Attorney-General said he wished to interpose. On the
preceding day he felt disinclined to affect the reading of certain
passages at that stage of the proceedings by the traversers, but,
in consequence of the course adopted in the reading of Mr.
Sharman Crawford's letter, and the resolutions of the Members
of Parliament, and other matters which had no bearing on the
documents read by the Crown, he wished the case should take
the ordinary course. The Crown wished to close within a rea-
sonable time, and would be enabled to do so by being per-
mitted to read the important parts for the prosecution, and
when the traverser, came to make their case, they could offer
such evidence as they would consider bearing on the issue.
Mr. Hatchell, Q. C., said on the part of his client, and in-
deed he might say en the part of the other traversers, in con-
sequence of what had taken place the day before, and fully
acquiesced in by the Crown, they were certainly extremely
surprised that there should be any departure from what they
considered the fixed arrangement respecting the reading of the
papers. The counsel for the traversers had made their arrange-
ments under the impression that that would be the course acted
upon. If the objection was to have been taken at all, it ought
to have been taken when Mr. Whiteside called for the reading
of the letter of Mr. Sharman Crawford. The traversers'
counsel considered that the matter had been sufficiently dis-
cussed, and that the opinion of the Court, acquiesced in by the
Attorney-General, was that the most convenient way for all
parties, and particularly the Court, to take the evidence on that
part of the case, was that each of those newspapers should be
read on the part of the Crown—that then the portions which
the traversers deemed necessary for their case should be road,
and thus the Court and jury would derive information rela-
tive to each publication, so that the matter would not be for-
gotten by them when it was taken up on a future occasion.
He did not mean to say that the Attorney-General intended
to depart from his arrangement, but certainly it would em-
barrass the course to be taken by the traversers, and be unfair
and unjust towards them in the conduct of their case here-
after.

The Chief Justice said the Court did not conceive that an
arrangement of the nature mentioned by Mr. Hatchell had
been entered into by
both parties. He believed that arrange-
ment was entered into on the day before, and it was con-
sidered at that time that it would be the most convenient
way to have the documents for the Crown traversers disposed
of on the same occasion. At the time, probably, that arrange-
ment was agreed upon, it was not anticipated that readings to
the length, and of the unconnected nature and quality they
had heard, would have been resorted to by the traversers.
The Court did not see any great inconvenience in continuing
the plan that had been entered into, and it was to be hoped no
unnecessary advantage would be taken.
The Solieiter-General said the strict rule was certainly with
the Crown, and if it were necessary he would show that they
were not bound by any undertaking, but, of course, they woul:,
adopt the suggestion thrown out by the Court.
Mr. Justice Crampton had no doubt that the strict r. ule was
whyi t h
the the CCeruorwt, n
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convenient course would be to di-pose of each paper in the
order in which it was given in evidence; lie did not antici-
pate, nor would he now anticipate, tb...t that suggestion, which
was acquiesced in by the counsel for the Crown, would be
abused by reading matters tha . were not relevant to the issue
laid between the parties. It was an indulgence given the tra-
versers, and he was sure, in the hands of the learned counsel,
it would not be abusr,d.
Mr. O'Hagan (to the clerk of the Crown)—Now read
page 726, in 'le third column of the Nation you have been
reading.
The Clerk of the Crown then read the article headed " su-
perseding magistrates," including a letter from Valentine
O'C. Blake, boasting of being a member of the Repeal Asso-
ciation.
Mr. Smyly—Now read page 2 in the first column of the
Pilot of the 7th of June.
The Clerk of the Crown read the article. It was a descrip-
tion of the " great Repeal Demonstration in Drogheda."
The article described the procession, and concluded by stat-
ing that the Liberator's carriage was surrounded by a body of
horse.

Mr. Smyly—Very well, that will do for the present. Go
on to the speech of Mr. O'Connell.
The officer then proceeded to read the speech of Mr.
O'Connell, which was spoken at Drogheda on the occasion
alluded to. He, Mr. O'Connell, impressed on the people the
necessity of preserving the peace, and not to outrage the law
in the most minute respect. He told them not to groan any
person or party. He cautioned the people against secret
societies, illegal oaths. &c.
When the Clerk of the Crown had concluded the reading of
Mr. O'Connell's speech, Mr. Smyly called upon him to repA
the =lei given in the same paper, of those who attended, the

dinner at the Linen Hall. Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Steele; and
Mr. Barrett were present.
Mr. Spryly then called for the speech of Mr. Barrett at
the same dinner to be read. Ile spoke to the toast of " The
People." The clerk read the speech.
Alr. Smyly—Look to the s-cond column, and read the speech
of Mr. Steele, which you will find there.
The Clerk of the Crown accordingly referred to the speech
of Mr. Steele, which he read.
Now read the Chairman's speech.
The Clerk of the Crown read the speech.
Mr. APDanough—Refer to the commencement of the meet•
ing, taken from the Freeotan's Journal and Droglifda
A ryus, and read the names of the persons who were there.
The Clerk of the Crown read the names of tboie who were
present—B. B. Staff,ird, N. Boylan, Messrs. Gernan, Ma-
thews, Smith, Jones, &c.
Mr. Al'Donough —Refer to the second column, and read the
passage of the address commencing with " We are not those
slaves."
The Clerk of the Crown read the passage, which contained
the following observation :—" There are two modes by which
redress may be hoped for—physical force and moral force. The
first we reject."
The adoption of the address was moved by N. Boylan, T.C. ,
and seconded by B. Finnigan, and it stated that it " conveyed
the sentiments of the meeting."
Refer to the sth column, and read the commencement of
Mr. Campbell's speech.
The Clerk of the Crown read the moving of a petition to
the Imperial Parliament for a Repeal of the Union by Mr.
Campbell, the seconding of it by Mr. Gernan, which was put
and carried in the affirmative.
The Clerk of the Crown also read the motion of Mr. Brady
for the adoption of the petition as the petition of the inhabitants
of Drogheda:
Read the names of the persons who sent letters of apology.
The Clerk of the Crown read the names of the Right Rev.
Dr. Cohen, the Most Rev. Dr. AlacHale, Right Rev. Dr.
Cantwell, Right Rev. Dr. Denvir, Sir William Somerville,
ALP., Maurice O'Connell, &c.
Read the speech of the Chairman in proposing the first toast.
The Clerk of the Crown read the speech prefacing the toast
of " The Queen." He remarked on the Invariable loyalty of the
people of Ireland.
The Clerk of the Crown read the speeches of the Chairman
prefacing the toast of " Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales,"
" The Duchess of Kent," and " The People."
Mr. Smyly—Now refer to the Pilot of the 12th of June ;
turn to the third column of the last page, relating to the Kil-
kenny banquet.
The Clerk of the Crown read that E. Smithwick acted as
president, and that Mr. O'Connell, the Rev. Mr. Carroll,
`lr. Maxwell, Mr. P. S. Butler, Mr. J. O'Connell, and Mr.
Steele were present.
Turn to the sth page, and read Mr. O'Connell's week to
the toast of "the Repeal of the Union."
The Clerk of the Crown accordingly read over the speech.
Mr. M'Donough—Turn to the 3d page and read the cora-
-1 meneement of the proceedings at the Repeal demonstration of
Kilkenny.
The Clerk of the Crown then read, where it appeared that
the account was taken from the Kilk,nny Journal and Morning
,Freentan.

The clerk also read the speech of the chairman, Pierce So-
merset Butler, Esq., 111. P. for Kilkenny county, recommending
pea te, order, and the observance of the laws.
Th'e speech of Mr. O'Connell at the same meeting was also
entered' as read. Afer the perusal of a passage in which Mr.
O'Conne.'l called on the band to play the National Anthem,
the account` stated that a dozen bands immediately struck up
" God save ti.'e Queen," the multitude remaining uncovered to
the close, when they gave three most deafening cheers for the
Queen.
The Clerk of the Crown went on to read thus : —" A splen-
did banquet was given in the evening to the Liberator, and
the banquet-room was .hung around with such inscriptions
as ' Ireland for the Irish, and the Irish for Ireland;' ' No
foreign Parliament or dorn'eAic slaves ;' Erin Mavourneen,
Erin go Bragh ;" Irishmen be loyal to the Queen and obedient
to ale law ;" Fear nut the aason ; Never despair of liberty
for Ireland,' Sm."
Mr. 111'Donough—Read the toas4 respecting the Queen, and
the short speech of the Chairman ifltrodueing it.
The Clerk then read as follows--The Chairman said that
their excellent Secretary having so discharged his duty it
must devolve upon hira to call on them ,'o fill their glasses before
proposing the first toast. In doing so he' ,would merely ask was
it probable that the Irish people, after e.,Kluring centuries of
persecution without being shaken in their :oxalty, would now
become disloyal towards the best Sovereign tt.‘a t ever filled the
throne ? He begged to propose " the health oi`..her Most Gra-
cious Majesty the Queen." Drunk with the ince enthusiastic
applause.—Air, " God save the Queen." " The ).ealth of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Waieo, and the
Princess Royal, were also given amid loud applause.
Certain portions of an article from the Tintes n euvsp_aper
on the state and condition of Ireland, copied into tbs.' .Pi/ot,
were then read, together with the comments of the .Pilot
thereon.

The Pilot of Wednesday, the 14th of Juno, was then ,nut
in, and that portion of It. read describing the Liberator's en--
trance into Mallow, with music, banners, &c., together with I
lengthened quotations from his speeches at the meeting and
the dinner.
Mr. Sillyly—Now read the report of the dinner at Mallow.
The Clerk of the Crown read the portion of the report re-
ferred to.

Mr. Smyly—Now be so good as to read Mr. O'Connell's
speech at Mallow.
The Clerk of the Crown complied, and read from the Pilot
the report of Mr. O'Connell's speech in reply to the toast of
"The People."
Mr. Smyly next directed the officer to road the toast which
was given by the chairman—" The Protestant Repealers of
Ireland, with which he coupled the name of Mr. Steele." Mr.
Bourne reading—" Mr. Steele rose amid loud cheering, and
returned thanks."—(Great laughter.)
Mr. M'Donough—Read the speech of Mr. Edmund Burks
Roche at the meeting.
The officer proceeded to read Mr. Roche's speech to the
concluding passage, where the Honourable Member declared
that they had met in peace, and there could be no sedition in
that.

Mr.Nl'Donough—That's all I shall trouble you to read.
The Court adjourned for ten minutes for refreshment.
The Court having resumed their seats,
Mr. M'Donough said there was a passage in the last paper
which he wished to have read, and, in the absence of the
officer, he would read it. It was in the fourth page of the
paper—the Pilot of the 4th of June, 1843. The Learned
Gentleman then proceeded to read an extract from a speech
made by Dr. Gray.
Mr. Smyly—Mr. Vernon, now produce the Freeman's
Journal of the 7th of August last ?—I have it here; it was
lodged in my office, and bears the name of Edward Duffy as
publisher.
I see the third page—read the portion commencing " Great
demonstration in Wicklow."
The witness then proceeded to read an account of the Balt-
inglass meeting at great length, the description of the scenery
in the neighbourhood of Baltinglass, the enthusiasm of the
people, and the progress to the place of meeting. After some
time he was told by Mr. Smyly not to read further.
Mr. Fitzgibbon said he required the whole of the description
to be read.

He then proceeded to read it to the end. It went on to
describe the enthusiasm of the people, old and young, upon the
appearance of Mr. O'Connell, estimated the number of horse-
men at a thousand, and stated that they advanced with almost
military dignity • that the temperance bands from Athy, Naas,
Newbridge, and the Liberties, were in attendance, and that at
least 150,000 persons were congregated at the place of meeting.
When the reading of the descriptive part was concluded,
Mr. Smyly said—Read the speech of Mr. O'Connell.
The speech which has appeared before was then read
—it was to the following effect :—He (Mr. O'Connell) was
delighted at the merry sound and the loud cheers that came
upon his cars from the mountain valleys. He was born at the
foot of a mountain, and the sounds of to.day were familiar to
his ear. The familiar sounds of the mountain streams flowed
sweetly as if they were set to music. His earliest life was for
the liberty of Ireland, and he was doubly, animated for the
struggle by the scene before him. He said the dawning day
of liberty was rising, and would soon be a full day sun. His
affections, like all the sons of the mountain, were centered in the
land of his birth. The Swiss were mountaineers, and the Scotch
had their Highlands, and in no other country was the love
of father-land more strongly felt. Should it be said that
the people of Ireland were slaves and unfit to govern them-
selves, and that a Parliament removed by fraud ought never to
be restored. He called upon the meeting to promise that Ire-
land should not be a province. He asked did they know Lord
Wicklow, anal desired them not to groan him, as he supposed
the poor man was then saying his prayers. lie said that there
was nothing for Ireland but repeal, and continued to animadvert
upon the conduct of Lord Wicklow. Lord Wicklow bad no-
body to praise him, and therefore he praised himself. Neither
he nor any of his class had done anything for Ireland. It may
be asked what good he had done ? He put down Protestant
ascendancy—he took away the inferiority of the Catholics in
point of law—he got rid of the old rotten Corporation, and he
was now struggling for repeal, which was really the poor man's
question:

• Mr. Vernon having concluded the speech,
Mr. Smyly—Do you see the name of Mr. Reilly there ?
Yes. Mr. Reilly seconded the resolution, which was put and
carried.

Now turn to the report of the dinner—to the toast of the
people.
Mr. Vernon—The toast of " the people, the source of all
legitimate power."
Dr. Gray spoke to the toast.
Read Mr. O'Connell's speech at the dinner.
Mr. Vet non then proceeded to read the speech of Mr.
O'Connell. One part of the speech consisted of the often dis-
cussed passage on the sergeants of the British army.
Mr. Smyly told the witness to turn to the report of the dinner,
and see if Mr. Steele was present.
Mr. Whiteside said that the paper could be no evidence as to
whether Mr. Steele was present or not.
The Clerk of the Crown said that Mr. Steele was mentioned
in the report as having replied.
The Attorney-General rose to apply to what he understood
was the objection, when
Mr. Whiteside said he did not make any" objection ; he
merely made the remark. He was mot counsel for Mr. Steele.
The Attorney-General was nut going to enter into the argu-
ment. All he wished was to be distinctly understood as not
acquiescing in the objection.
The reading of documents continued up to the adjournment
of the Cottrt.

The Haymarket Theatre continues to be crowded
nightly, to witness The Merry Wives of Windsor, Risley
and his sons, and The Fair One with the Golden Locks.
To-night, we perceive, is positively the last night of those
elegant and classical wonders, Risley and his sons, as they
appear at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, on Monday. To till up
the gap thus occasioned, Mr. Webster has secured the ser-
vices of the inimitable John Parry for the ensuing week, who
will sing his songs, famed for fan and laughter, between the first
and last pieces.

COURT OF COMMON COUNClL.—Thursday a Court
was held for the dispatch of public business. After the annual
election of the usual officers appointed by the Court, a discus-
sion of considerable length took place, upon a reference re.
specting the standing orders. Upon the motion of Mr. Ashurst,
a Committee was appointed in relation to the power of com-
pelling traders within the City to take up their freedom. The
Committee will commence the inquiry into this very important
and interesting subject with all possible expedition. The
Chairman of the City Lands Committee presented a Report,
on the Report of the City and Bridge-house accounts to the
Common Hall, on Midsummer-day last. We regret we have
nut space for the Re_port, which was unanimously agreed to by
the Court, and the Remembrancer was ordered to prepare an
act of Common Council accordingly. The Chairman of the
City Lands Committee brought up a Report relative to the
performance of additional works at the Sessions House, in the
Old Bailey, in order to afford increased convenience to the
public. it recommended that the lowest tender, that of John
William Cartwright, at 687/., should be accepted. After some
discussions 'the Report of the Committee was agreed to, and
the Court adjourned.

.\\.r.t understand that an investigation is shortly to
to ;.e place in Dudley into certain charges brought against a
clergyman of long standing in the neighbourhood, seriously at-
) 'letting his moral character. Attempts we betar hitve been made
by some of his clerical brethren to stifle the.iiavestiflatiolli but
1
without success. We may probably have uleitiftb say ou this
subject at a future time.— Worces(srehire CAronicle.

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I• • THE STATE TRIALS.
The
vffoccedine,-, in the QUeen's Bench " drag
their slow, length along," day by day, without any
of those strange and "startling diselo3ure6 which «ere
conliJently -erxpected from the preliminary flourishes
of thg Attorney-General. failure to " fright
the isle from its i)ropriety," by alarming revelations
is nut, however, iu-Any degree attributable to her
Majesty's Irish Government, who are discovered to
have had a regularly organised corps of spies and -
informers, shorthand-writers and policemen, in at-
tendance .at the several meetings for months
But, however industrious these ingenious gentlemen,
it turns out that the sum total of their observations •
amounts to nothing that can serve the purpose of the
prosecution. They have been one and all compelled
to admit . that peace and ,order characterised the •
the proceedings, and that these duties were power-
fully impressed upon the multitudes who attended,
by the Liberator and the other speakers.
We have anxiously sought in the MOrning Howld
some explanation or defence of the rascality. of its
proprietors, in hiring themselves ont,as the paid
of Government. For the honour of the .press we -I
hoped that something could he advanced in the nature
of a palliation, hut -"grandmama" is silent under the
detection of her infamy.
That the.constabulary evidence has signally broken
down, must be evident to anybOdy who has waded
through the direct and cross-examinatiblittb4f,the
gentlemen "in coloured clothes" frOriiiS%lrti,!-.of
Tullamore, to Despard, of Trim.
position to see and hear the minutest word ArAncyleiit.
that could be construed unfavourably agaitefit the
popular leaders they have failed, yiiiestliblisk-ttasiWgle
instance of violent speaking or cotitlVA4-I)%lWhiTilot.'
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SYMPTOMS OF PRECAUTION: ANTI' VlGOUR.—Go-
vernraent is preparing to reinforce the militaiy" establishment
of Ireland. Two companies of the Royal Foot Artillery, and
a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery, are on their aay to this
country. Several regiments are under orders of readiness, to
start at a moment's notice, if necessary. Arrangements have
been made with the railroad directors for this purpose.—Dub-
lin Evening Mail.

STROUL.—Last week, in excavating for the rail-
way, a large tusk of an elephant was discovered, 22 feet below
the surface of the earth, imbedded in dry gravel. This ante.
diluvian relic measured 74 feet in length, and was of propor-
tionate thickness. A single fossil tooth of an elephant was dug
up some months since on the same gravel bed.— Wilts Indepen.
THE. LATE MIL JAMES WOOD'S WILL.—The liti-
gation arising out of the will of the late Mr. James Wood, of
Gloucester, is not yet brought to a termination; as a new suit
in Chancery has been instituted by Mr. Hitchins, one of the
parties named in the codicil, against the executors. The case
was mentioned in the Vice-Chancellor's Court the other day,
when it was stated that the Solicitor-General was specially
engaged, and the arguments were likely to occupy a length of
time. Under these circumstances, the Vice-Chancellor said
he would appoint some day to hear the cause which would be
convenient to all parties.
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire arrived at
Chatsworth on Thursday forenoon, and shortly afterwards
visited the several improvements in progress, under the able
superintendence of Mr. Paxton. The great fountain now in
progress at Chatsworth is expected to play to a height of upwards
of 20() feet. The water is conducted by a trench or drain from
the Chesterfield road along the brow of the hill to a field behind
the " Stand" to a reservoir of six acre surface—thence by pipes
to the south front of the mansion. The head of water, or fall
from the reservoir to the nozzle, is 380 feet. All the cuttings for
the water, reservoir, and pipes are going on, and the pipes, valves,
nozzles, &c., are in progress at the foundries. The fountain
that plays the highest jet of any fountain in the world at pre-
sent is, I believe, in Germany, but the proposed fountain at
Chatsworth is expected to surpass it in height about twenty
feet. There are several fountains in France that play to a con.
siderable height, but that which rises the highest (at Ver.
sailles) is far inferior to what may be expected from the in-
tended fountain at Chatsworth, and those expectations are
founded open the results of experiment' made in every possible
way that science could suggest. The great fountain will be
complete about the latter end of summer. Material improve-
ments are in progress in respect to the other fountains, so that:,
the jets may form various devices.
KILLING THE DEVIL.—A young girl from the
country, lately on a visit to Mr. A—, a Quaker, was pre-
vailed on to accompany him to a meeting. It happened to be a
silent one, none of the brethren being moved by the Spirit to
utter a syllable. When Mr. H— left the meeting-house with
his young friend, he asked her, " flow dost thee like the
meeting ?'"fo which she pettishly replied, " Like it ? why
I can see no sense in it : to go and sit fur whole hours to-
gether, without speaking a word, it is enough to kill the devil."
0 Yes, my dear, rejoined the Quaker, " that is just what we
vm.,11

r_eirE ANTI- LEAGUERS. --At at meeting of the
Spalding Agricultural Association, held at that place on Tues..
day last, to get up an opposition to the League, the following
letter %\v as read and adopted :—" To the Right Hon. Earl
Spencer. President of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng-
land.—We, the undersigned inhabitants of Spalding and neigh.
hotzrhcxxl, in the county of Lincoln, interested in the prosperity
of agriculture, viewing with alarm the proceeding-sof the Anti-
Corn-law League—a Society formed for the purpose of de-
priving the agriculturists of the small protection they now
possess_-and finding that your Lordship has given in your ad-
hesion to ti:! principles advocated by that body, respectfully re-
to withdraw your name as President and
quest your Lorol.(biP
Member of the Roan) Agricultural Society of England—a so-
ciety whose views are' so diametrically opposite to those your
Lordship has thought pC^Per to embrace, that we consider the
continuation of your name .sS President, deeply injurious and
and highly prejudicial to tile
TUE AV KENT TRADE.—Aii intelligent writer on
the present state and future prospects of the wheat trade affirms
the late crop to have been a defective one, and is of opinion
that a supply of 3,900,000 quarters of foreign grain will be re-
quired before another harvest can be gathered. To meet this
deficiency there are not more than 350,000 quarters in granary,
so that it follows, as a necessary consequence, that prices of
wheat will, before long, take a high range. To all appearance
the farmers will be run out of their stocks by June. The
crops on the Continent are stated to be worse even than those
in this country.— Wilts Indepenrient.—[Even the clodhoppers
won't believe this intelligent writer,J

A Curious FAcr.—ln a small village in Derby-
shire the clergyman and clerk at the Established Church have
both been Wesleyan local preachers.—Derby Reporter.
'TILE SUN NEWSPAPER.—The spirited proprietor
of this excellent daily journal is out-doing all his former
achievements by giving the earliest intelligence of the Irish
trials, together with spirited illustrations, by first-rate artists,
of the parties who take part in them. Some of the illustration,
are really excellent, and do great credit to the proprietor anti
artist.—Derby Reporter.
There is a healthy little place called " The Beau-
vale," near Eastwood, which contains forty houses, including
Kingatone Lodge and Bromley House, with 240 inhabitants.
averaging six a hone. In this number of inhabitants, there
are sixteen persons whose ages amount to 1,200 years.—Not.
tinghant Review.
l'usnYism.—A correspondent of the Slumlord
says :—" I beg to inform you that Thomas Harper King, an
Undergraduate of Exeter College, has joined the Church of
Rome. This is the seventeenth victim of Mr. Newman's
effort to un-Protestantise the Church of England, and the
second member of Exeter College, that has tamed Romanist
within the last six months."

The Leicester Mercurg informs us that " a Pro-
Corn-law meeting was recently held at Atherstone, to receive
subscriptions towards opposing the " League." At the close
of the meeting the munificent sum of five shillings was sub-
scribed ! It is all over with the League.—Derby Reporter.
MAIDSTONE BRANCH IiAILWAY.—The workmen
began to work on the branch to the South Eastern Railway on
Thursday
,last, in a field at the north side of Nettlestead
Church. It is said to be the intention of the Direct Ors to
make the railway first complete to Wateringbury.
MELTING OF A WATCH IN THE POCKET OF A
MAN STRUCK IT LIGHTNING, WITHOUT HIS BEING INJURED.

—During a violent thunder-storm, a fishing-boat, belonging
to Alid)ell, in the Sketland Islands, was struck by lightning.
The electric fluid came down the mast, which it tore into
shivers, and melted a watch in the pocket of a man who was
sitting close by the side of the mast, without injuring him.
Not only was the man altogether unhurt, but his clothes also
were uninjured ; and he was not aware of what had taken place
until on taking out his watch he found it all fused in one mass.—
Janieson's Journal.

LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY.-011
Thursday night Mr. Godwin, F. R. S., delivered the first of a
course of lectures on this subject, at the Western Literary In-
stitution, under the title of .' History in Brick and Stone.' The
object of the lecture was to show the interesting nature of the
study. The history of architecture is the history of civilization,
and in many cases the ruins of a few buildings are the only
records left by once powerful nations. The monuments of the
Druid., the Mexicans, the Indians, and the Egyptians were
illustrated by numerous diagrams, and the singular connexion
apparent in these structures pointed out. Mr. Godwin truly
observed, that by obtaining a knowledge of architecture the
pleasure of travelling is increased fourfold—every stone is sug-
gestive of an idea, and every old building becomes an open
book full el instruction.

THE \l' AT THEY DO IT.—A peculiar faculty which
is called " smartness," is pe4sessed by the hack and cabmen of
New York to perfection. One evening last week, says one
of their city papers, a gentleman and lady, comiug out of
the Chatham theatre, at the close of the performances, were
astonished at finding the flags before the house wet, indicating
a curious change of weather—a curious change, as be
an hour before the stars twinkled with unusual brilliance,
and the heavens were as calm and serene as the counts..
nance of a sleeping infant or a slumbering young wife.
" Cab, Sir !" shouted a score of drivers. " Yes," answered
the gentleman, alarmed for the safety of the lady's silks
and satins, which had arrived from the mantua-maker's
shop only a week previous, bundling into the first cab he en..
countered. Upon alighting opposite his own door he noticed
the dry and dusty state of the pavement, and felt more puzzled
than ever. " Why, it could not have rained mach," said he,
handing the driver of the vehicle his fare. " Hasn'trained at
all to-night," said Jchu. "No ?" said the gentleman interru.
gatively. " No," responded the driver.. 44 bow cline the
walks wet, then ?" inquired our anxious-seeker after slie truth.
" You won't blow, Sir ?" " Blow ! mtfiricithe gentleman, not
exactly comprehending the meaning, ofithroverb,ultised by his
interlocutor. 44 Yes, Sir, expose mebitswe..)leveektahsly not."
44 Well, Sir, we got a watering-pot tripprialtilthe walk."
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR: RUPPORD; THE BANKER.
—This gentleman, the well known •19finker in Stour-
bridge, while engaged in writing his address, in the
house of Mrs. Harrison, of Birmingham, where he had
been given directions respecting the hiring of a servant,
suddenly dropped
_down dead. From a post mortel4.eia-
tnination, it appeared that the melancholy event resulted
from ossification of the heart.—York

SUBLIME.—The shades of night gathered thickly
around ; dark masses hung portentously over the earth
the wind whistled mournfully over the. horizon ;
the deep-toned thunder, in muttering tkents4inclainsed
the fearful tempest's near approach big
drops of rain began slowly to descenit, §l(tr,epig,
with a look and manner not to be mistaken; 'clArreuup
its tail and ran like the —. • . that the
CIIII.LINGIIAM PAIIK.—We regret. to see 0 _
Park of Chillingham is likely soon to be d.etpko)nledhasi
its glory and . boast- .A . writ ."1•7 extletiumberlaid,
been directed to the Sheriff -of, or
to bring to the
cattle, too lona
tliech(l„lllinexrncehir
exclusive
possession
nd Tor.
Earls of Tankerville. The Chillingham wild cattle
hav,e-ticen as much an object of curiosity to -strangers
%-fsii,ing this country, as many of our national monu-
ments': And Sir 11 alter Scott, in his interesting Notes
to the Bride of Lammermuir, had added to the celebrity
of this ihible race of Nortlitunbfitiii
cury.

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