The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-17 00:00:00

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DUTCH
,journais contain many de-
king and Queen, and the
10burg.
from France, Germany,
,e wool growing cnuntriee,
. cent. on the price of that
_ Ae late fair at Breslau (Ist June) the
buyers were so numeroui that the whple quantity in
the Market was sold before the regular' opening of the
fair.

The Chamber, without taking any repose,. his
„just
passed from ones vast question which it has settled to
another equally important, which it is going to attempt
to solve in a satisfactory manner—we mean the duty on
tobacco. The most serious objection, in our opinion, to
this law is, that any duty whatever will injure .a branch
of commerce which is important both to our sea ports
and to our Manufactories in the interior. Our
.principal
exportation of manufactured tobacco is to France,
chiefly, it is true, by smuggling. This commerce ought
not to be encouraged ' • but in the present state of thing%
it should be preserved as it is, because it may serve as 4.
Means to induce France one day to modify its system of
duties of customs in respect to us.
THE HAHUE, JUNE 12.—The Members of the First
Chamber of• the States-General are summoned, for
Thursday, .the 20th of June. The sections of the
Second Chamber will commence on Monday the .exami-
nation of the projects of law relative to the first book of
the penal code, so that it may be laid before the Chain.
bar very shortly.
The Government has replied to the observation of
the sections of the Second Chamber respecting the pro•
ject of law for the redemption and conversion of the
public debt. The explanation given by the Government
is .of very great length, and appears to be highly
satisfactory.
The Emperor of Russia, during his short visit here,
conferred on many persons the insignia of various Rua •
sian orders. his Imperial Majesty gave 400 ducats to
the poor of the Hague, and 300 ducats to the workmen
in the dockyard at -Rotterdam.
ARNHEIM, JUNE 12.—The Emperor of Ilusaia• and
suite passed through this town to-day, on his retuen to
his dominions.

THE IRISH STATE TRIALS:

MEETING AT LIVERPOOL.

On Thursday evening a meeting of the civil and
religious liberty was held at the Royal Amphitheatre, " to
take into consideration the subject of an address to the
queen, for the discharge from prison of Mr. O'Connell and
the other traversers, until the writ of error be decided by the
House of Lords; and also to syinpathise with those gentle-
men'under their late extremely severe sentence." The door's
of the theatre were thrown open a little before half-past six
o'clock, and the capacious building began to fill rapidly.
Before the business commenced the theatre was well filled,
and amongst the audience were a number of females.
Wm. BLUNDELL, Esq., was called to the chair, and briefly
•
stated the object of the meeting.
e. •
Several gentlemen them addressed the Chairman, but,
owing to the press of 'matter, we cannot find room for
their speeches: The following addresses were unanimously
agreed to
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majestr.
" The humble address of the friends of civil and religious
liberty,inhabitants of Liverpool and its vicinity, in pub-
lic meeting assembled,—
. "We assure your Majesty we continue to cherish feelings
Of unaltered loyalty to your Majesty's sacred person and
crown.

"With profound grief do we inform your Majesty that
several of your Majesty's loyal subjects in Ireland are at the
present moment inmates of a prison for a constructive offence,
a mode of accusation always deemed odious in a free State, and
which, in their regard, is altogether free of moral taint.
" We feel that the law has been strained far beyond its
legitimate grounds, and as interpreted by the Judges of your
Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench iil Ireland, has trenched
on the rights of your Majesty's subjects to a free and fairdis- •
cussion of political matters, and if permitted to become cure
rent law, will tend to enslave your hitherto free people.
" That State trials have generally brought the aedminietra-
tion of justice into disrepute; and the late trial of our fellow •
citizens has inflicted a deep wound on it ; for although un •
pleasing to us- is the task, we are compelled, by imperative
duty, to inform your Majesty of our opinions on the subject,
And in which opinions we are joined by the vast majoritj- of
your Majesty's loyal subjects in England—that the trial was
not conducted on fair and just principles--that the jury
panel,"the safety of the innocent, was fraudulently dealt with,
to the prejudice of the then accused ; and when an oppor-
tunity of testing that fraud in Court, by challenge to the
array, was offered to your law officer, he declined.
'" That one of your Majesty's Justices in your own court,
the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, where your Majesty
is supposed to be present, stated, on several occasions, that
this dealing with the jury panel was matter of grave suspi-
cion; that the Crown Solicitor struck out the name of every
person on the jury who was of the same religious belief as the
principal 'prieoner, thus wounding the feelings of your Ma-
esty's faithful subjects in England, and holding up the pro-
fessors of that religion, which is'• the one professed by the
majority of the inhabitants of-the Christian world, as per-
sons not deemed worthy of credit on their oaths.
" That evidence was given against the prisoners which one
of the Judges, on a motion for a new trial, said ought not to
have been received, and which the late decision of the Eng-
lish Judges convinces us, your Majesty's loyal subjects, would
not have been by them submitted as evidence to a jury.
"By these means has one who was deemed, and justly.so,
a benefactor of his fellow-countrymen,—the man who created
a public mind in Ireland, and thereby coerced the great mea-
sure of emancipation to become law, and raised his fellow
countrymen to the station of free citizens,—one of the bright-
est ornaments L. your Majesty's dominione,—and that, too,
pending an appeal to the highest court of justice in the land,—
is now a prisoner in one of your Majesty s prisons in Ireland.
We therefore approach your Majesty, praying that your
Majesty will be graciously pleased to discharge the prisonera
from all punishment, resulting from a sentence which we,
' your Majesty's loyal subjects, believe to be the consequence
of an unfair trial, and that measures be adopted to secure to
your Majesty's subjects in Ireland the constitutional
right of freely discussing political subjects, as enjoyed by the
people of this country."
Loud cheering followed the reading of this address. .
Mr, NICIIOLAS BLUNDELL then proposed the following ad-
dress front the friends of civil and religious liberty, residing
in Liverpool and its Vicinity, in public meeting.asseinbled, to
Daniel O'Connell, Esq., Thomas Matthew Ray, Esq., Thos.
Steele, Eeq., Dr. Gray, Richard Barrett, Esq., and Charles
Gavan Duffy, Esq., prisoners in the Richmond Penitentiary,
under a sentence of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland,
fur alleged conspiracy :
" Under the singular and unprecedented circumstances 'con-
nected withyour late trial and your imprisonment, we feel it our
duty to offer you our sincere sympathies. Whatever difference
of opinion there may be amongst us with reference to the po-
litical question which has led to the present results, we have
all witnessed with deep interest, and with considerable pain,
the course .of judicial proceedings which has terminated in
your imprisonment. «e have noticed the disregard of 'the
usual formalities of justice and the absence of that calm and
dispassionaie exercise of judgment which should always dig
nify the judgment seat, and without which its decisions lose
much of their moral force. We have also noticed with as-
tonishment, that when you prayed for au arrest of judgment
until an appeal could be made to the house of Lords, that.
prayer has been resisted by the law officers of the Crown, who
have urged and obtained your immediate committal and im-
prisonment.
" Under these circumstances we consider the sentence •
which has been passed upon you to be void of moral force,,
your imprisonment to be without a stigma, and yourselves
personally to be the victims of an undue exercise of power on
the part of the law officers of the Crown.
"We cannot conclude this address without noticing more
especially the patriotic and laudable conduct of Daniel O'Con-
nell, Esq' He deservedly possesses the unbounded confidence
of his countrymen, and-he has shown himself deserving of
that confidence by having used his influence and authority
in preserving peace and tranquillity under the most trying
circumstances, which, without his interposition, would pro-
bably have led to scenes of bloodshed, and all the terrors of
civil war."

The meeting broke up with nine enthusiatic cheers for Mr.
O'Connell.

POST-OFFICES.—(From a Correspondent.)—By 9
Anne, persons engaged or employed in post-offices are
sworn as to due performance of their duties, but this ob-
ligation does, not extend to restraining them from dis-
closing the superscription of a letter passing through
offices
.so that those engaged, or employed, might, to
any prying friend they could confide in, make disclosures
in this respect. Nor does the obligation extend to the
denying any prying confidential being admitted within
post-office where he might have a sight of letters. No
doubt, if any of these tricks were discovered, dismissal
would follow, but that would be poor satisfaction to those.
who had suffered by disgraceful breaches of confidence.
On these scores tho public have good ground for soot-

plaint.
The hay harvest has now become very general in
this neighbourhood, and that ancient gentleman, " the
oldest inhabitant," cannot remember so light a crop as
is to be found on all the highlands, scare( ly a single
shower having fallen on much of it since the stock were
taken from pasture. Old hay continues to rise in price,
and as there is little in this neighbourhood will probably
be much higher.—Cambridge Chronicle.
Tun MILITARY AM) TILE POLICE.—We are sorry
to hear that an ill-feeling prevails on the part of some of
the military stationed at Exeter and the police. On Sun:
day last, one of the police officers was rudely thrust out
of the barrack-yard, whilst going there to hear the band
play ; and, last evening, one of the soldiers said to our
informant, " only let the other two troops arrive here,
and they would soon find out who were mastera."—.
Western Times.

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Child,itA t
ac FRATRICIDE.—On
eltdays
family, residing at Middle-row, Camp Field, 'had his
earthly career suddenly terminated by the band of his
own brother, John Child, who resided in Pottery Field.
The fearful deed was certainly committed under circum-
stances of provocation, and whilst both parties, under the
influence of angry passions, were engaged in an unna-
tural fight The quarrel appears to, have originated about
something the deceased's wife had said respecting John
Child, but little mention was made of it in the evidence
given at the inquest, of which we give an abstract below.
The inquest was held on Thursday morning last, in the
Grand Jury Boom, at the Court House, before John:
Blackburn, Esq., and from the evidence it appeared that
a quarrel and fight arose between the brothers. During'
the struggle Child stepped aside to a basket, took some- .
thin,", from it, which proved to be a knife, and stabbed,-
his brother three times with it in the side. The unfor-
tunate man fell and died almost instantly. 'The jury re!:
turned a verdict of " Manslaughter.”—Stofford Paper.
Two CHILDREN SUFFOCATED.—On Tuesday last, •
a poor woman living at Costessy, of the name of Ireson, „
between six and seven o'clock in the morning, left her
four children in bed in her cottage, and having made a
fire for the purpose of heating a copper •of water, she
went to a neighbour's. The fire consisted of deal apples
and dead leaves. In a short time, a woman seeing some .
'smoke at the cottage, went in, when she discovered that.
a large quantity of deal apples and dead leaves which '
the woman had collected together, ignited, and the house ,
was so filled with smoke that it was with ditnettjty P3O .
could make her e=cape. She gave the alarm, and setera,
persons entered the cottage, and the four. children *oral
found, to all appearance, in a dying state from the effect% -
of the smoke. Two of the children lived but a shalt
time, and one of the others lies in a dangerous condi4
-; tiou.-!Norfolk Chronick. -