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T IIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, MARCH 29, 1845.

LA `V INTELLIGENCE.
SECONDARIES' COURT, March 28.
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
BETTELEY V. LINDSAY.
The plaintiff to the action is Mr. Betteley, a retired
tradesman, living at Waltham-cross, and the defendant,
Mr. Lindsay, is a currier, residing at Islington. The
action was instituted to recover damages, for injury done
to a house and foundry situated in Angel-alley, Skin-
ner-street; the property waspeld by the plaintiff under
a lease. The circumstances which led to the present
proceedings, as detailed in the evidence, are to the fol-
lowing effect :—The premises were let in February,
1844, to an iron-founder, named Hugh Morris, under an
agreement. Morris held the premises till the following
November, when the attention of the plaintiff was called
to a quantity of materials that were in the course of
being removed from the property. An investiga-
tion took place, when it was discovered that
a great quantity of paving flags, oak beams
and sleeper., iron pillars, and other materials had
been removed, at the instance of two parties, Messrs.
Lewis and Lindsay, who seemed to be acting under the
connivance of the tenant Morris. Legal process was
immediately gone into, and an injunction was obtained
against Morris, his agents and servants, to deter them
fro:n further damaging the property. Morris, at this
juncture, got out of the way, and Messrs. Lewis and
Lindsay proceeded with the work of dilapidation without
paying any heed to the injunction. Proceedings were
next taken out against these parties for a breach of the
injunction, and Lewis- was committed to the Court of
Queen's Bench for ten days. No further injury was
done to the premises. The materials which had been
removed were sold by private contract to Mr. Lewis
England, a builder, they having been first advertised
for sale by public auction, which sale was stopped
by the plaintiffs solicitors. The question that
now arose was, who should make good the damage
done? Morris was out of the way, Lewis was a
man of straw, rather noted for exploits of this kind ;
the only party, therefore, left was Mr. Lindsay, who is a
man of some property. The present action was insti-
' tuted to recover the damages, which were laid at
3181. 16s. 9d. The defendant had allowed judgment to
go by default, and the point the jury had now to decide
was the amount the damages shoald be assessed at.
Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for the plaintiff, called
a number of witnesses in support of the facts here set
forth.
The defendant, who conducted his own case in per-
son, entered into a statement that he had bought the pro-
perty from Sir Edward Bate, under the impression that
it had belonged to a lunatic, and that the gentle-
man named had full power to dispose of it.
The defendant further said that he had advanced a sum
of money under that impression ; that the transaction
was a bonft fide one ; and that the reason why the
materials had been removed was in order to make some
improvements in the premises. He was about to call
witnesses in support of this statement, when the Learned
Secondary decided it had nothing to do with the real
question, as the defendant, by allowing judgment to go
by default, had admitted the right of the plaintiff to
bring the action.
A witness was then examined, on behalf of the
defendant, to show that the damages had been over•
estimated.
The jury, however, returned a verdict fur the full
amount-3181. 16s. 9d.

THE REV. MR. MONCKTON.
THE DIOCESAN COURT OF INQUIRY.
Mr. Warren commenced his address on behalf of Mr•
Monckton, whom he stated to be one of the most perse
cuted men ever brought before a court of justice and the
public. The Commissioners had observed the demeanour
of Mr. Monckton during this painful inquiry, and they
must be sensible that nothing could have sustained him
but a conviction of his entire innocence. Everything
was at stake—his character as a clergyman and a gen-
tleman, and, above all, the interests of that church of
which he was a humble, but not an unworthy, member.
He (Mr. Warren) could not only vindicate the character
of Mr. Monckton, but demonstrate that every one of the
charges against him was the result of one of the most
cruel and wicked conspiracies ever brought before an
ecclesiastical or a criminal court of justice. He should
show how that his failings (if the Commissioners thought•
him guilty of any), all which " leaned to virtue's side,"
had been maliciously distorted. Mr. Monckton was the
third surviving son of the late Lord Viscount Galway.
He had several brothers and sisters living. His
father died in 1831 ; a few years' ago his surviving
parent, the Dowager Lady Galway, sustained the loss of
two sons, one assassinated abroad and another drowned,
and she was condemned to witness what her husband
had been spared,—a wicked attempt to degrade this son,
from the effects of which his character might never en-
tirely recover. Mr. Monckton, knowing himself inno-
cent, had met the charges with fortitude and dignity.
From the moment he (Mr. Warren) had been concerned
in his defence, he never heard from his advisers, or from
Mr. Monckton, one single wavering expression; from
the first he had consistently and indignantly denied
the monstrous charges made against him. The charges
were, that he had been guilty of the foul crime of forni-
cation, of taking improper liberties with his domestic
servants, and of intoxication, and that he had " other-
wise misconducted himself." It had been represented in
one of the papers that there had been some remissness
on the part of the Bishop of London with reference to
this matter; but there was no ground for this observa
tiou. As soon as the Bishop had any definite or tangi-
ble charge to deal with, ha immediately gave notice to
Mr. Monckton of this proceeding, and required him to
appear before a Commission. The letter of the Bishop,
which was exceedingly kind and courteous, was as
follows:

" Fulham, Jan. '2 2 , 1845.
" Dear Sir,—A statement of charges against you, ok
which I send you herewith a copy, has now been made
tome, which, I am sorry to say, impose upon me the
painful ditty of instituting a formal inquiry into their
truth. I must proceed under the provisions of the Dis-
cipline Act to appoint Commissioners, and you will be
at liberty to name one to act on your behalf. I need
not say how much I am concerned at being obliged to
adopt this proceeding.
" I am, dear Sir, your faithful servant,
" C. J. LONDON.
" The Hon. and Rev. F. S. Monckton."
It had been said that Mr. Mouckton had heard the grave
charges against him, and made no answer. The follow-
ing was the answer of Mr. Monckton to the Bishop's
courteous and candid letter :
"My Lord,—l am perfectly sensible of the painful
position in which I stand, through the slanderous male-
volence of others, though I entertain no apprehension of
their proving me guilty. I defy them to establish their
calumnious charges, from every one of which my con-
science acquits me. I shall, therefore, do my best to
establish my innocence before the Commissioners ; but
I decline availing myself of your kind offer to choose a
Commissioner on my own behalf, since I have the most
entire confidence in your Lordship's discretion and jus-
tice. Out of regard to my own peace of mind, reputa-
tion, and sacred public character, I trust that your Lord-
ship will not permit the least unnecessary delay to occur
in fixing the period of inquiry.
" Parsonage, Jan. 28."
Was this the letter of a man who knew there were grave
grounds for the charges against him? It was clear that
Mr. Monckton had been consistent throughout ; or why
was he here? Before he (sir. Warren) sat down, he
undertook to demonstrate his innocence beyond the
passibility of a doubt, and that he was the victim of an
atrocious conspiracy. The first thing which struck him
(Mr. Warren) with surprise and disgust was—that Mr.
Monckton had actually been hunted down by his per-
secutors, who had set upon him an old Bow-street officer,
Ballard, who, according to the testimony of their own
witness (Mrs. Pearson) had sought to bribe her to give
evidence against Mr. Monckton. Mrs. Pearson said that
Ballard offered her 501., and said that money was no
object to them. Where was this money to come from?
What the object was he might be able to show in a
future stage of the inquiry. This threw so deep a
shadow over the whole case as to discredit all the
witnesses upon whose testimony it rested. In such a
matter as this, the character of the witnesses was most
important ; there should be an entire absence of all
hostility or sinister motives on their part. Was that
the ease here ? Why, the most gross charges, with
respect to the women rested upon the evidence
of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, who were the
focus of the case; Fanny Fronde, a discarded servant;
and the girl who had been examined yesterday. The
case had, in fact, broken down, and Mr. Monckton had
been exonerated by the very witnesses brought against
him. The Learned Counsel then examined at much
length the evidence which had been adduced in support
of the charges, pointing out its improbabilities and in-
consistencies. With respect to Mrs. Williams, he ob-
served, he wished that the public, which had jumped so
quickly to a conclusion as to the guilt of Mr. Monckton,
could have been present to see the manner in which she
had given her evidence,—he did not think that Dr.
Lushington, in all his judicial experience, had ever seen
such an exhibition before ; her bitter and furious animus
against Mr. Monckton ; the audacity of her demeanour
under cross-examination, and the smiles she interchanged
with him (Mr. Warren), on one occasion indulging in a
joke. The grossest instances of misconduct imputed to
Mr. Monckton by this witness came out in her cross-
examination, under circumstances utterly improbable in
themselves, and which exposed her to contradiction from
other witnesses on the same side. Mr. Warren then re-
ferred to the acknowledgment made by Mrs. Wil-
liams that, notwithstanding the scenes she witnessed,
she never remonstrated with Mr. Monckton. The
Learned Counsel then detailed the circumstances
of the anonymous letter sent to Mrs. Davis,
which that lady, in a letter dated the 24th
of October, 1843, inclosed to Mr. Monckton, inquiring
whether it had come from his house. Mr. Monckton,
in reply, required the name of the person who had sug-
gested that letter came from his house ; and Mrs.
Davis replied, that Mr. and Mrs. Williams were the
persons who had mentions the probability of his ser-
vants being the authors of the Now. this anony •
mous letter was of an indecent kind, and Mr. Williams
had been concerned in a kindred transaction, for he had
admitted that he had been dismissed from the ()Than
Asylum for sending an indecent message to the matroa.
The whole conspiracy seemed to have grown out of a
quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Mr. Monek-
ton's servants. Sarah Huggins had heard some rumours
which had been propagated iu that low and slanderous
neighbourhood against her, and Mrs, Williams con-
ceived a spite against the servants, and, in die sequel,
against Mr. Monckton himself. There never was (the
Learned Counsel observed) a more disgusting exhibition
than had been made by Williams, who was an aban-
doned miscreant on his own showing. He had per-
mitted his wife for 18 months free intercourse with a
person who, according to him, had attempted to corrupt
her. Ho had allowed her t) go 20 times after that, and
to go alone ; he had borrowed money of Mr. Monck-
ton after he had endeavoured, cs, he said, to de-
bauch his wife, who was yet suffered to fI;Q 44,y

day to listen to conversation of a ribald and ob-
scene tendency, and to obscene jests. Fanny Froude,
another of the pillars of this case, admitted that
she was discarded by Mr. Monckton (amongst other
reasons) lor her want of veracity. Upon several points
she had contradicted herself. For example: On her ex-
amination in chief she said she had seen Mr. Monckton
sitting in Sarah's bed-room smoking and reading the
newspaper, whilst she (Sarah) was in bed—" only once."
On her cross-examination, when excited, she said she
had seen it three or four times. The scene in which she
swore that Mr. Monckton had attempted to undress her
would be proved to be a gross falsehood, the girl being
at the time drunk. The other statements of this witness
would be either utterly disproved or satisfactorily ex-
plained. Another witness had been called yesterday,
Sarah Levett. She was not summoned originally, but
hail been brought up during the unfortunate intermis-
sion of the sitting of the Corn nissien. She had men-
tioned a scene in the room where she was in bed with
Sarah lluggins which had taken him (Ur. Warren) by
surprise, and he should have been unable to comprehend
one part of her evidence but from a document before
him, which explained the abominable insinuation
intended. One of the charges against Mr. Monck-
ton which had been sent to the Bishop was, that
Mr. Monckton had had a certain disease, and had com-
municated it to his servants.
Dr. LUSHINGTON observed that the Commissioners had
no cognisance, as Commissioners, of anything communi-
cated to the Bishop till the commission took place, and
they knew nothing of those matters.
Mr. Warren said he had, in the handwriting of Mr.
Lake, the solicitor for the other side, a charge against
Mr. Monckton, to the effect that he had communicated
to Sarah Huggins and others, if they had it, a loathsome
disease. Mr. Monckton had dared them to the proof.
The Learned Counsel, after some further remarks, said
one of the peculiar disadvantages under which Mr.
Monckton laboured was, that this inquiry might be re-
newed before another tribunal, where all the deficiencies
of the case might be patched up, and secured in inac-
cessible perjury. Mr. Monckton and his friends had
courted this inquiry. Mr. Lake had pestered Mr.
Monck ton with letters, all of a very bullying character,
persuading him not to stand an inquiry. This he had
constantly, steadily refused. An expression in one of
Mr. Monckton's letters to Mr. Lake, that "indis-
cretion, not guilt, is the term applicable to my con-
duct in this southern region," was thus explained:—
His family was a Yorkshire family, and after
leaving Christ Church, Oxford, and taking
holy orders, he became a curate for two or three years
in Northumberland, and there it was notoriously the
custom for persons to give merry meetings to their ser-
vants at Christmas and on New Year's-day. Mr.
Monckton had followed that custom, and to promote
good feeling and dispel timidity, he sat and carved fur
them. After his return, upon one of these occasions, he
did sing the song of the " Old English Gentleman," and
a very excellent song it was, simple in its words as well
as air; but his intoxication would be denied on oath.
He did sit in his kitchen after working in his garden,
and when his shoes were dirty; but as to taking his
meals with his servants it was a most wicked falsehood.
After detailing the evidence which he proposed to
adduce, which would utterly overthrow the case on the
other side, the Learned Gentleman concluded by ex-
pressing his conviction that the Commissioners would
say, that there was no foundation for even a ximdfacie
case, and would not send it through another agonising
investigation by another trial, which would have to deal
with another mass of perjury.
Mr. Monckton, who sat with his brother, Lord Gala ay,
beside Mr. Warren, was much affected during a part of
this speech.
The folio wing witnesses were then called for the de-
fence :
Lord Viscount Galway, examined by Mr. Warren—
I am the brother of Mr. Monckton, and am in habits of
personal intercourse with him. I have never heard,
since his being in the Church, any tendency to profanity
in his conversation ; I never heard him guilty of obscene
conversation. He may be occasionally familiar with
those about him ; he is as guarded as men usually are.
I have never seen, since he has been in the Church, any-
thing in him inconsistent with his character as a clergy-
man. I have never heard of any impropriety between my
brother and my mother's servant. I have been to his
house four or five times, and never witnessed any levity or
indecorum between my brother and his servants. His
manner of speaking to them I often thought rather
rough. I certainly saw nothing in the behaviour of his
servants inconsistent with the respect due to a master. I
had no reason to suspect any improper intercourse be-
tween them. Miss Monckton is at Hastings suffering
under a pulmonary affection.
Cross-examined by Mr. Doane—l have no town
house. I never stayed on a visit with my brother. I
have dined with him once and lunched once, in the
dining-room. There was no difficulty in dining there ;
no necessity for going into the kitchen. My brother has
stayed with me for a fortnight in the country. He never
sat and smoked in the kitchen there. He would walk
out, or sit in some small room.
By Dr. LUSHINGTON —Was your brother in the habit
of smoking to prevent a disorder of the chest, or for
amusement ?—He told me he had been recommended
to do it.
Mr James Edward Mathew examined—l am a sur-
geon and apothecary, residing in Church-row, De Beau-
voir-square, near Mr. Monckton's parsonage. I have
been the medical attendant of his family for nearly two
years. I first attended Sarah lluggins in June, 1843.
She is liable to hysterics, for which I have frequently
attended her. She is of a decidedly hysterical tempera-
ment. She had an excessively violent attack when I first
attended her, in June, 1843. I stayed a ith her three or
four hours, from eleven at night till three in the morning.
I have been frequently sent for a similar attack, not so
violent. She is subject to neuralgia, a painful affec-
tion of the nerves, which may exist independent of
pregnancy. Hers was connected with the teeth. I at-
tended her off and on from June to Christmas, 1843. I
accompanied her to a dentist, who extracted a tooth
from her lower jaw, which relieved her from neuralgia,
and from hysterics to a great extent. She still had a re-
turn of hysterical affection till the beginning of last
year. I discovered that she was in the family way.
She had a fainting fit. I communicated to Mr. Monckton
the next day the fact of her being pregnant. He was in
the garden. I told him his servant was in the family
way. He said, "If that is the case, she must go away
directly." He seemed perfectly astonished. He had a
spade in his hand, and he dug it in the ground as he
said so. I said, " I think you had better not send her
away for a few days, as her health will not admit of it."
That was on account of her fainting fits. In four or
five days she went. I have been in the habit of very
frequently visiting Mr. Monckton's house. I never saw
any undue familiarites on the part of Mr. Monckton to
his servants or on theirs to him. I never saw any dis-
tinction in his behaviour to Sarah Huggins, except on
account of her ill health. He has accompanied me to
her bed-room, from kind motives. She was always
dressed. I never saw any impropriety of conduct,
levity, or anything which gave me the slightest sus-
picion that there was any undue intimacy between
Mr. Monckton and any of his servants. I never heard
Sarah Huggins speak to him other than servants
ought to speak to their master. I never saw him take a
meal with his servants in my life. I have seen him in
the kitchen half a-dozen times in a year, and then he
was in his gardening dress. I have seen him eat his
dinner in the kitchen; but never with the servants. I
have supped with him in the kitchen; not with the ser-
vants. He is a little supper-eater,—some bread and
cheese or cold meat. Mr. Monckton's constitution re-
quires exercise. He suffers from dyspepsia; that is, in-
digestion, accompanied with disorder of the stomach. I
should recommend exercise for such a habit. I never
attended Mr. Monckton for the disease alluded to. I
never heard Mr. Monckton use a blasphemous or inde-
cent expression, or saw him guilty of an indecent act to
his servants. His manner of addressing them is rather
rough. I have attended Susan Huggins for spasms. I
have observed a misunderstanding between her and her
stepmother, who would not do anything for her daughter
when she was ill, and Mr. Monckton was kind enough
to allow her to go to his house, that her sister might at-
tend her. I never saw Mr. Monckton intoxicated. He
is frequently in the habit of visiting the sick. He ap-
peared to me to be quite an exemplary cleigyman. I
never saw Mr. Sheldrick at church.
Cross-examined—I never saw Mr. Monckton excited
with wine. I would not disbelieve Mr. Patient if he said
so. My bill for attending Sarah Huggins the first year
was 101. 6s. ed. ; the next year 21. or 31. Susan's account
last year was 81. or 101. Mr. Monckton paid Sarah's first
bill. I believe he intends to pay the last bills. Ido not
consider a great deal of smoking good for dyspepsia ; I
know it is one of the worst things. I attended Sarah
Huggins for an excoriation in about July or August,
1843. I did state this to Mr. Oldershaw. When I taxed
Sarah Huggins with her pregnan she said nothing.
When I told her it would be my duty to communicate it
to her master, she made no answer to the best of my re-
collection. When I saw that Sarah lluggins had, re-
turned after her confinement, I was rather surprised, and
I spoke to Mr. Monckton, who said that she had applied
to him to take her back, or, as she had lost her cha-
racter, she would be obliged to go upon the town, and he
had taken her back out of mercy and charity. When I
attended her for an excoriation, I prescribed a lotion of
sulphate of zinc, and pills of mercury and opium. This
was on the 28th of July, 1843. The pill was proper for
syphilis.
Re-examined.—l gave the pills as a precautionary
measure. I left them off the day after. I believe de-
cidedly that she had not the disease. I did mention my
fear to Mr. Monckton that Sarah hail acted improperly.
He said, " I hope not ; if she has, I will dismiss her."
I afterwards told him my suspicions were unfounded.
By Dr. LUSHINGTO:7.—When, on your discovery of
Sarah Huggins's pregnancy you told her of it, did no
observation fall from her ?—I believe her only answer
was, she could net help it. When you said you should
tell Mr. Monckton, did she say anything deprecatory ?
—To the best of my recollection, she made no answer.
Did she show any alarm ?—Yes, by the colour iu her
face, and her confusion. Did she expre is any wish or
desire that it should be concealed from Mr. Monckton ?
—No ; not a word about it. Is it the fact, that you had
a suspicion that she had the disease, and prescribed the
pills as a remedy, and afterwards your suspicions were
cleared up ?--Yes ; it was a measure of precaution ; I
gave her the blue pill, and when I found my suspicions
were totally unfounded, I discontinued it.
Sarah Hugsr.ins examined—l am twenty-five. I went
to live with Mr. Monckton in October, 1812. I left my
former place (Mr. Dunn's) because it was too hard for
me. Mrs. Miles engaged me for Mr. Monckton, as cook.
My wages were 101. a-year. Fanny Froude came in
September, 1843, and left in December. Ifer general
hebits were dirty. I complained of this to Mr. Msncks
ton. She was not honest; ehe lead pilfering and prying
ways. She would take wine, and hnythinie She could
get at. I have seen her intoxicated. She did not tell
the truth always ; I have heard Mr. Monckton say so,
and knew it myself. I know Elizabeth Briggs ; she
was never called Bessy by me, or any one in my pre-
sence. She was in the habit of coining to ace me.

She is a washerwoman. Mr. Monckton never took
his meals with us. He would-come into the kitchen
to smoke there, in order not to make a smell upstairs ;
and he has dined once or twice there when his shoes
were dirty, and he was going into the garden again.
I never sat on Mr. Monckton's knee, and never
saw any other woman do it. I never saw Ann Day on
his knee. I never had a quarrel with Mr. Monckton.
I never, when he laid his heal upon the table, covered
it with my apron. He has never carried me up to bed
in his arms. I never recollect water being thrown over
Fanny Froude in the kitchen. I never shut myself up
in my room, nor did Mr. Monckton break open th door.
Mr. Monckton never endeavoured to put me on his knee
and to give me tea to drink. I never heard Mr. Monck-
ton sing " Green grow the rushes, 0," or any light'
tune, on a Sunday after coming from service at the
church. He has been in my bed-room when I have been
ill, and my sister has been with me, and Mr. Mathew.
He never sat in my bed-room smoking and reading a
newspaper. He never used indecent language in my
presence. I never heard him axear. He never placed
his hand indecently on my person—he is too much
of a gentleman ever to insult any one in that man-
ner. I never saw three women sitting in a lot at once
upon his knee. If this has been sworn, and that I was
one of them, it is not true. I never have been on his
knee. About October, 1843, Mr. Monckton on one
occasion came out of his study, and saw Fanny Froude
intoxicated, and desired me to take her up to bed. I
did so, alone; Mr. Monekton did not cone up; she re-
fused to take off her clothes, and I said I would not take
away the candle till she did. She would not, and lay
down with her clothes on, and she had them on when I
went into her room in the morning. I am not aware
that her clothes were wet. I am positive that Mr.
Monckton did not go up to her room at any time that
night. On Christmas-day, 1843, I invited, with Mr.
Monckton's permission, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, my
mother and father, my cousin, and Mrs. Briggs. Mr.
Monckton did not dine with us; he stood and carved, but
ate nothing. lie might have drunk a glass of beer. Mr.
Williams askel him to carve, as he could not, on account
of his hand. Mr. Monckton was not the worse for
liquor when he went to dine with Mr. Wade. After he
was gone, Mrs. Williams sang " the Nice Young Man,"
and some of the songs are not decent to be men-
tioned. On New Year's-day the same party came
again ; they were invited by me the day after Christ-
mas-day; Mr. Monckton did not invite them. He did
not dine with us ; he had his dinner first in the study.
He never endeavoured to put any one on his knee. I
never heard of such an attempt. If he bad attempted to
take Mrs. Williams on his lap, I must have seen it. She
did not go upstairs before me. Mr. Monckton never
called me " Miss Huggins," or " Sally." He never
rubbed my stomach when I was in bed. I should have
thought it a great insult, and would not have allowed
him to do it. I recollect Mr. and Mrs Williams had a
quarrel with me about April; I do not know what it was
about. (The witness then proceeded to deny all the
conversation deposed to by Mr. and Mrs. Williams as
having taken place in the kitchen after they had spoken
to Mr. Monckton in the garden.) I never, on my solemn
oath, have been in bed with Mr. Monckton. He has
never taken an indecent liberty with me. In September
I was Confined at Gravesend of twins—seven months'
children. They died the next day.
Is Mr. Monckton the father of those children?—No
(very firmly). '
Who was the father ?—I will not divulge his name to
any one.
Why not ?—I gave my solemn oath that I would not ;
and I do not think I ought to break such an oath.
I believe I was first in the family-way in April. Mr.
Mathew discovered it in July. He said he would men-
tion it to Mr. Monekton, I said nothing. I was dis-
tressed and alarmed, and that is the reason I did not
answer. Mr. Monckton told me I must leave his house
the next day. I did in three days. I went to Mrs.
Pearson's, at Gravesend. I took with me seven sove-
reigns. It was my own money—what I had saved from
my wages. I made the baby-linen myself. I wrote to
Ann Day to request Mr. Munckton to come down to me,
as a clergyman. I was net well. This was three days before
I was confined. He did not come the first time. He aas
again asked, and came. He talked to me as a clergyman, in
a spiritual way. He did not laugh or joke. He did not
smoke a cigar. I never called him brother. After I
was confined he came again. He stayed in my room
only about a quarter of an hour. lie spoke seriously to
me. I returned to Mr. Monckton's on the 9th of October.
I wrote to Ann Day to ask him to take me back again,
and he said if I acted differently from what I had he
would allow me to return, and he took me back. I have
conducted myself with propriety since. When Lady
Galway was at Mr. Monckton's, in June, 1844, I was
always about the house. I waited upon her a: dinner. I
was never kept up in my own room.
The examination of this witness in chief having con-
cluded, the Court adjourned till to-morrow.
The Duke de Broglie was in Court during some part
of the proceedings.

THE MANCHESTER OPERATIVE
CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.
MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—About 200 members of
this Association dined together in the Corn Exchange of
this town yesterday evening. On the accession of Sir
Robert Peel to office the Manchester Operative Conser-
vative Association was broken up, but circumstances of a
political nature, it appears, have again called it into
existence, and this was a dinner held in celebration of its
re-formation. A number of influential public characters
were invited to attend, most of whom, however, sent
excuses. Amongst these were the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Right Hon. Sir George Murray, the Right Hon.
Stuart Wortley, M.P., Mr. John T. Blackburne, M.P.,
Mr. W. Patten, M.P., Mr. G. C. Legh, M.P., and Mr.
Peter G reen I, M.P.
Lord J. Manners and Mr. W. B. Ferrand, M.P., were
also invited, but they declined accepting the invitation,
for the reasons expressed in the following letters from
those gentlemen, directed to the Secretary of the Asso
ciation " London, March 11, 1845.

" Sir,—ln answer to your flattering invitation for the
25th inst., I beg leave to inform you that my engage-
ments during Easter recess would prevent me having the
honour to accept it, did I fully and heartily concur in the
objects of your proposed meeting ; but I will frankly
own to you that I feel no affection or regard for that
abstract something or nothing called Conservatism,'
and could not, therefore, even were I otherwise able, to
take a part in the festival. In these days more distinc-
tive principles and more decided acts are, in my poor
opinion, required than Conservatism affords, or is likely
to afford. I would rather hear a body of right-principled
Englishmen, such as will be assembled on the 25th inst.,
assert, for instance, their determination to maintain the
integrity of the Welsh episcopate than the institutions
of the country, which may mean institutions of any sort.
I know the frank and honest character of the Manchester
men too well to fear that you or they will resent this
brief expression of my convictions on this subject, how-
ever they may dissent from them.
" With a hearty wish that old Tory principles and
sympathies may once more strike a deep root into the
English soil, I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
" JOIIN MANNERS.

" To Mr. James English."
" Harden Grange, Feb. 14
" Sir,—l cannot possibly say what my engagements
will be so long beforehand, therefore cannot possibly
pledge myself; but if, as the time approaches, I find I
shall be able to attend your dinner, I will do so, on con-
dition that your dinner is intended to extend sound
principles, and not to support a faction—to applaud poli-
tical honesty, and not to sanction political apostacy.
" The Operative Conservative Association were of
immense influence in placing the present Government in
power, and they fought under the banner of the Altar,
the Throne, and the Cottage.' Sir R. Peel intends, in
the present session, to throw down the altar of our
faith, on which the throne has been erected; and ever
since his accession to office he has supported, with all
his influence, the Poor-law Commissioners in their deso-
lating warfare against the poor man's cottage.
" I am, Sir, faithfully yours,
"To Mr. James English. "W. B. FERRAND."
The chair on the occasion was occupicd by Mr. John
Ripley, the president of the society, who introduced the
following address, which, in a printed form, was circu-
lated throughout the Exchange:—
" AN ADDRESS FROM THE MANCHESTER OPERATIVE
CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION, TO THE CONSERVA-
TIVES OF MANCHESTER GENERALLY.
" We think it our duty, in endeavouring to re-orga-
nise the Manchester Operative Conservative Associa-
tion,' and place it on a more useful and solid basis than
it has hitherto been, to lay before the Conservative pub-
lic generally a statement of the principles which we
uphold, and a brief outline of our determinations regard-
ing our local proceedings.
" We declare our fixed determination to maintain the
tried and ancient principles on which the Constitution of
our country is founded; and while we avow our readiness
to promote the reform of all proved abuses, we declare
it to be our object to uphold the necessary connexion
between the Established Church and the State, the just
prerogatives of the monarch, the privileges of the House
of Lords as an independent branch of the Legislature,
and the deliberative powers of the Commons House of
Parliament unfettered and uncontrolled ; convinced, as
we are, that on the united and energetic support of those
authorities depend the continuance of social order, the
security of property, the maintenance of religion, and the
real liberties of the people.
" And we hold ourselves pledged to use all our influ-
ence to return to Parliament, as the representatives of
this borough, such men only as will support the principles
abovementioned.
" We have also resolved upon the determination to
exercise our best energy in carrying out the following
objects, viz:--
" 1. That a Central Committee be 'formed, composed
of representatives from each district.
" 2. That such Central Committee shall form Branch
Committees in each district, which shall meet fre-
quently, with a view to propagate our political opinions.
" 3. That canvassing books be placed iu the posses-
sion of staunch Conservatives, containing the names of
the registered voters; that they attend to the purifying
of the list, and the result of their canvass be reported to
the Branch Committees.
4. That the Branch Committees report the result of
their labours to the Central Committee, and that such
be attended to in the Registration Court.
" In conclusion, we humbly exhort all classes of Con-
servatives to come forward and aid us in our undertak-
ing, and unite with us in our exertions to enhance the
cause of Conservatism in this locality, and place us in a
more formidable position, however momentary may be
the notice, in the event of both municipal and Parlia-
mentary elections.
" We have the honour to remain, on behalf of the
Committee, yours faithfully,
" JOHN lIIPLEy, Chairman,
.TAMES ENGLISH, Secretary."
The toasts of " The Queen." " The Queen Dowager,
Prince Albert, and the Royal Family," " The Army and
Navy," and the " Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese,"
having been given,

Mr. DE HOLLING WORTH, of Hulling worth, rose and pro-
po ;ed "Our glorious Constitution in Church and State."
Having expressed his conviction that the very object and
essence of Conservative Associations was to uphold the
Protestant religion and the institutions of the country,
the speaker proceeded to say, that he had to enter upon
a subject of an alarming character, but which was appo-
site to the toast under contemplation, and to which 11.!
felt bound in duty to allude. It was the concessions
about to be made to the Roman Catholics of Ireland by
the grant proposed to the College of Maynooth.—(Hear.)
A grant for what ? For the education of whom ? Not
for the tried supporters of Protestant ascendancy, whom
a Protestant Government was bound to support, but for
the unscriptural education of the most intolerant set of
priests of the most intolerant religion, and for the en-
dowment of a seminary for " Den's Theology"—(Cheers)
—a theology proclaiming it a s icred duty to exterminate
the rights of the Protestant religion, by confiscation of
property, exile, imprisonment, and death !—(Hear.) It
was impossible to repress indignation and surprise at this
uncalled for proposal, when it was evident to all that Ca-
tholic emancipation itself, as a tranquillising measure, ut-
terly failed. Surely it would have much better become the
servants of the House of Hanover to have proposed the sup-
pression of such an institution than to have encouraged it;
and instead of making daily concessions to expediency,
to have proclaimed, like Pitt, their determination to put
down with the strong arm of the law all further attempts
at revolutionary change.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel
might, amid the hollow cheering of the Papist, the sec-
tarian, and the revolutionist, judge otherwise of the
nation, and deem it dead to all the high ennobling feel-
ings and energies which distinguished it in the time of
Pitt, but he might live to repent his error ; he must not
think that having cast off the armour of Conservatism,
he is invulnerable in the flimsy robe of expediency.—
(Cheers.) He would tell the Right Hon. Baronet that
ha had shaken the very ground from under his feet, had
miscalculated his powers, changed confidence into mis-
trust, his firmest support into determined opposition,
and all by these measures of expediency.—(Cheers.)
He must say, with regard to this Maynooth concession,
that as a matter of mere policy, the measure was mis-
chievous—not merely weakening, but naturally holding
out encouragement to all revolutionists to further their
views by clamour. Even the concessions to the Roman
Catholics, it appears, were not enough for the Minister,
but the disabilities of the Jews were to be removed. Fur
his (the speaker's) part, he did not see where the justice
of the exclusion of Mahomedans from the ermine and
the official robe lay, and why they should not take their
seats in the Lords and Commons, if the Jews were to be
admitted.—(Hear, hear.) He was, indeed, afraid that
the nation had so completely bent the knee to psuedo
liberality, that if the imps of darkness, emissaries from
hell itself, stepped from the caverns through the ground,
madmen would be found to propose their admission
within the pale of a Christian community.—(Cheers.)
After a few other observations, Mr. Hollingworth con-
cluded by proposing for their hearty reception what the
recklessness of the Whig, and the expediency of the
Conservative Governments, had yet left them—" Oar
glorious Constitution in Church and State."
Mr. E. G. EGERTON (the eldest son of Lord F. Eger-
ton) then rose to propose " The health of the Duke of
Wellington and the Conservative Peers." It was, he
:Aid, a toast which would go to the heart of every one
present. They were indebted more to " the Duke' than
to any one living. He had consecrated his life to the
service of his country, and by his unrivalled genius she
had achieved renown as great as was ever acquired by
any nation.—(Hear.) He did not believe that there
could be any assemblage of men calling themselves
Englishmen who would not receive such a toast with
enthusiasm, and they must not forget that as Conserva-
tives they owed him a farther, and more peculiar debt
of gratitude. He had not been content with serving his
country in the field, for he had energetically served it
and their views in the council.—(Cheers.) They must
not forget that at no period of his later years had he
sought that repose which his unexampled services had
so well deserved, but that the consummate ability which
overthrew their enemies in the field had also been em-
ployed in the front of battle for the welfare of the Con-
servative cause and the prosperity of the land. He called
upon them with all the honours to drink " The Health
of the Duke of Wellington (as their great leader) and
his coadjutors, the Conservative Members of the House
of Peers."
The toast was drunk amid the loudest plaudits.
The toasts that followed were, " Her Majesty's Minis-
ters (received very coldly) and the Conservative Mem-
bers of the House of Commons ;" "Lord Lyndhurst, and
the Conservative Bar;" " The Conservative Members of
the county ;" "The Committee of the Manehester Opera-
tives ;" The Conservative members of the Town Coun-
cils of Manchester and Salford ;" " The Chairman ;"
" The Conservative gentlemen who have honoured the
meeting with their presence ;" " The Stewards ;" and
' The Lancashire Witches."
The company separated about twelve o'clock.

The proceedings of the Manchester Operative Asso-
ciation will not be perused by either friend or foe with-
out a degree of respectful compassion. No story of
companion betrayed or maid forsaken ever supplied a
more tragic passage. As successful treachery is the
meanest of triumphs, so abused confidence is the noblest
of calamit:es. The Conservative societies of this and
other classes reposed in the leaders of their party about
as generous and blind a trust as man can possibly repose
in man. Their devotion only ran too far. Cautious ad-
visers suggested that there was no dependence on
princes, and that statesmen were born of women. Pious
men whispered that Conservatism was not sufficiently
exclusive in its materials, and exalted in its aims. But,

in spite of these warnings, country gentlemen and bo
rough lawyers, and young enthusiasts and aged saints,
and rich men and poor men, they who had everything to
lose, and they also who had everything to gain, all sur-
rendered themselves to the generous delusion. Pro
claiming the hero of Waterloo and the Member for
Tamworth as their tutelary heroes, they sacrificed them-
selves, body and soul, their interests and their prin-
ciples, to the advancement of these names. Operatives
quarrelled with their employers, employers dined with
their operatives, public functionaries procured for them-
selves the honours of official martyrdom, quiet men em-
broiled themselves with their neighbours, tenants lost
their farms, tradesmen their custom, and Conservatives
generally their peace of mind, all to restore Sir Robert
Peel to power. They at last succeeded, only to lament
that they have not devoted their energies to some better
master, and say with Wolsey—
" 0, Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my King, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies."
True, nobody well could say what Conservatism
meant, and least of all did the leader of the party hazard
his credit in that difficult question. To do the idol jus-
tice, it was very mute. It moved along on a gorgeous
car, thousands vied for one rasp of the sacred ropes,
and rent the air with their noisy worship. They shouted,
and thought it their wooden deity that had spoken; they
dragged on the ponderous chariot, and saw the image
nod ' • they even perceived its broad sun-lit features beam
with responsive smiles. So, after all, Conservatism was
a very subjective sort of worship. It reasoned in the
vicious circle of all false religions, and imagined the
statesman in whom it believed. So far that states-
man is saved from the damning sin of positive and
deliberate inconsistency. Yet if he did not expressly
countenance their expectations, so neither did he very
plainly repress them. His silence spoke consent. And
he certainly was very complaisant and encouraging.
Confessedly he did smile on Conservatism in the
lump. Most publicly and repeatedly did he assure
the misguided multitude, that the battle of the
Constitution must be fought in the registration
courts. This important announcement might have
some transcendental meaning ; it. may mean anything
in the abstract ; but, interpreted with regard to the
actual state of things, it could only mean that
the Constitution was to be saved by " Conservative" So-
cieties, guided by Conservative principles, getting as
large as possible a proportion of Conservative voters on
the register ;—all these things, viz., Societies, principles,
and voters being assumed in their actual present force
and acceptation. Thus was the notorious creed of Con-
servatism sanctioned by its leader. But after a long;
season of hope deferred, at last the day of fruition ar-
rived. And now let us see how the devout simplicity of
Conservatism has been recompensed For a rather un-
common exhibition of gratefulness, we may be excused
in selecting a rather uncommon illustration. Herodotus
informs us of a certain king of Egypt, who in his earlier
days had been obliged to live on his wits, and appears
in fact to have been a professional swindler. For want
of an efficient detective police, his victims went to the
numerous oracular shrines of the country, or the " wise
men," as our own rustics would call them, to discover
the thief. So well known were the merits of the indivi-
dual in question, that the inquiry seems to have beets
generally made in the definite fora', " whether it
was he who had committed the depredation."
Some answered yes, and others no. When, in
the turn of affairs, he became king of the country,
he, of course, turned over a new leaf, and became
an honest man. Not the least proof of that
honesty was, that he immediately suppressed all the
oracles which had pronounced in his favour, and largely
endowed those which had condemned him. After the
lapse of three thousand years an equal instance of self-
denying candour has appeared. Sir Robert, the conti-
nual theme of Conservative praise and Liberal abuse, at
length arrives at a position which renders praise and
blame matters of equal unimportance. He immediately
sets about to show that the Conservatives were mistaken
in their praise, and the Liberals up to that time justified
in their abuse. Under his candid Government the
shrines of Conservatism expire, and those of Liberalism
flourish with tenfold honour, It is but four or five years
since that the Manchester Operative Association was
one of the most favoured oracles. Conservative gran-
dees, Lord Stanley among others, went down to hear its
favourable responses, and to extend its fame. Its repu-
tation was justified by the event. It was right ; the
Conservatives became the rulers of the land. When, 10,
a strange reverse Immediately every prophecy, every
eulogy, is belied. The Conservative chiefs boldly ac-
knowledge the error of their former ways, and pronounce
their supporters dupes. One after another the associa-
tions break up, or prolong a difficult and inglorious
existence. In vain they implore the attendance of
their former stators with all the tenderness of ill-re-
quited love rescribas, attan:en ipse veni.
Vain the petitivn; for, instead of men, they receive let-
ters; instead of presence, politeness. The penny post,
not the railway, now give wings to Conservative love.
" A number of influential public characters were invited
to attend, most of whom, however, sent excuses:" and
then follows a black list. But the oracle is not merely
shorn of its patronage—it is forced also to curtail its
principles. A few yards of canvass are all the present
stres2 of weatlier nil' allow. fears to pronounce
what may by any possibility be denied, and enunciates
a creed which for ten years at least is infallible. It is
haunted by the vision of another Sir Robert Peel, and is
determined to be on the safe side. Starting with the
cautious proviso—saving your presence—that it is

" ready to promote the reform of all proved abuses," it
declares its wish to uphold the necessary connexion of
Church and State, the just prerogatives of the Monarch,
the privileges of the House of Lords, and the delibera-
tive powers of the House of Commons. Such are thc,,
safe and unquestionable objects for which the registra-
tion courts are agai❑ to be made the field of battle. The
connexion of Church and State, as far as it is neces-
sary, and the prerogatives of the Crown, as far as they
are just ! Who will not join to advance these two ob-
jects? Sir Robert himself will swear to them. And as
for the " privileges" of the Lords, and the " delibera-
tive powers" of the Commons, we may safely let these
alone for taking care of themselves. Such is the shadow
to which our Ministers have reduced the bodies which
brought them into office.— 7 intes.

PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.
Yesterday afternoon a numerous vestry meeting of
the parishioners of St. Clement Danes, was held at the
vestry room, facing the church, to proceed with the elec-
tion of churchwardens, over.eers, Sc , and to audit the
accounts of the churchwardens fer the past year. The
Rev. W. W. Ellis, the rector,, presided.
The VESTRY-CLERK read the accounts, from which
there appeared among the assets that the receipts were
1101. 7s. 10d. for burial fees, 2001. from pew-rents, and
901/. 3s. 2d. from a church-rate of 3d. in the pound, &c.,
the total receipts being 1,490/. 2s. 6d. There was a de-
ficiency of 82/. 18s. Id. for the church-rate, the names of
the numerous defaulters being laid before the vestry.
Among the items of expenditure were 20/. 3s. for ring-
ing the bells, 240/. expenses for a new plan of warming
the church, 6301. 14s. 7,1. tradesmen's bills, Sec., making
the total expenditure 1,431/. 16s. Bd., leaving a balance
in favour of the churchwardens of 721. I Is. Bd.
Mr. Cum.., idle retiring churchwarden, said, in answer
to a question, that the chimes of the church (which had
now been removed about two years) were in the course
of being put up.
Mr. HUGGETT inquirel how many persons had berg
buried in the parish?
Mr. TACKETT replied, that there had been 149 full
fees and 80 half fees, making altogether 229 funeials.
Mr. HuGGETT observed, he was glad to find that so
few funerals had taken place in a parish situated almost
in the centre of the metropolis, and that a complaint
could not be made against them similar to what some
other parishes were charged with.—(Hear.) He hoped
the parochial authorities would consider of the pro-
priety of co-operating with the views of those who pro-
pose to dispense with interment of the dead in towns.
The accounts being received and allowed, a vote of'
! thanks was agreed to unanimously to Mr. Cull, and the
accounts were ordered to be printed.
Mr. CULL having acknowledged the honour in a few
words,
The Vestry-Clerk produced a letter he had received
in answer to a resolution of the previous vestry, ex-
pressing the condolence of the parishioners upon the
death of Mr. Collier, who, for forty years, was vestry-
clerk of the parish.
The letter was ordered to be entered on the minutes.
Mr. W. Wilkins and Mr. Judkins were then unani-
mously, on a show of hands, elected churchwardens; the
former for the parish, and the latter for the Duchy of

Lancaster.
A complaint was made by a parishioner living in
Wych•street, of the existence of a house of ill-fame in
front of 'his residence, and it was stated that latterly
houses of the same description had increased.
Several parishioners stated that the parish had been at
a great expense in the indictment of the keepers of them,
and that if compelled to give up their premises they soon
took others.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that he would willingly
contribute to remove the nuisance. lle knew many
benevolent ladies were prevented from visiting the
abodes of the poor i❑ consequence of the scenes of im-
morality which they were under the necessity of seeing.
Mr. LADY said that they ought to make application to
Parliament for more enlarged powers to put down these
receptacles.
The conversation here dropped; when thanks being
voted to the Rev. Chairman, the meeting broke up.

BURIAL OF DISSENTERS.
TO THE EDITOR► OF THE SUN.

SIR,—To the remarks in your leading article, respect-
ing my refusal to bury the body of a Socinian, with the
use of the burial service of the Church, I do not wish to
offer any reply except these few remarks.
I have never refused the burial service to any Dis-
senter in my parish until in this case of an avowed So-

cinian.
I have even performed, within these last six weeks,
that service over the corpse of a Dissenter of a most re-
spectable family in my parish, who died in London, and
to whom I could, of course, have legally refused the
rites of the Church.

At the same time I ft:el the exceeding impropriety of
the use of that service for any but the members of the
Church.

I granted burial to the daughter of this same Ilaines,
who died, under circumstances very diffc rent from what
you imagine, in the union workhouie, a year ago. I
was not compelled to permit her burial, having died
without the boundary of my parochial district. I did
not take the fee to which I am entitled for such inter-
ment.
I have warned Haines repeatedly of the wide and es-
sential differences between the Socinian creed and that
of the Church, and have received the strongest testi-
mony to show that Ilaines, as well as the few poor who
attend the Socinian meeting, are actuated by wordly, and
not conscientious motives, and to this fact I refer in my
note. _ _

I have acted from a conscientious scruple, and neither
the persecution of the public press, nor any punishment
by su,pension, can alter my determination to act up to
the dictates of my conscience, which forbids my blas-
pheming God by reading the burial service over one who
has openly denied the creed of the Church, and to whose
friends, of the slime persuasion, that service must be a
vain repetition of words, in which they do not agree. As
regards my conduct to Haines personally, I have lavished
kindness on his family, and one of my last acts. ere I
lett my parish three weelci ago, to attend a bed of afflic-
tion, was to bestow charity upon him.
I conceive, if you value the rights of conscience, as
your paper is supposed to do, your proper line of argu-
ment would be to defend me, acting as I do, at all risks,
upon conscientious principles, against those who would
force compliance with a most unreasonable demand.
I am, ypur obedient servant,
ARTHUR FANE, Vicar of Warminster.
Torquay, Devon, March 28, 1845.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Kitten 2S.—Two of her Majesty's carriages and e4,,,ht
horses arrived by the Malmsbury steamer this afternoon,
and a number of packages of wine, &c., by the Gem.
West Cowes Castle is fitting up for the Earl of Errol,
who is expected, with his family, on Tuesday next.
Mr. Knox has taken Gotha Hall for the season.
A company has been formed at Cowes to light the
town with gas; the works arc to be proceeded with im-
mediately.
The Siam Indianian, wrecked at the back of the
island, is gone to pieces. Three sloops were laden from
her on Tuesday and on Wednesday. It surprises every
one that her masts were not cut away ; had they been,
she would have held together much longer, and all her
materials would have been saved. Wind W.N.W., strong.

SINGULAR CASE.—VERDICT OF
WILFUL MURDER.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an in
quest (adjourned from the 4th instant), at the Northum.
berland Arms, Isleworth, on the body of a female child,
which was born under the following circumstances :
Thomas Whapshot deposed that he was the landlord
of the Crown beer, shop, Isleworth. On the 28th of
February the body of the deceased child was taken,
about a quarter-past ten o'clock, out of the privy of wit-
ness's house by a man named Gundry. Saw no marks
of violence upon it. A person, named Anne Pendry, is
servant to witness. She is about thirty years of age. Just
before the finding of the body she went to the water-
closet, where she stayed about eight or ten minutes, and
when she came out witness saw her wiping her hands as
she came up the garden. She appeared to be in a weak
state, and when witness spoke to her she answered in a
weak voice. Witness's suspicions being excited, he went
and looked down the privy, and saw something
black; he moved it with a broom-stick, when he saw
the head of a child. He then sent immediately for Pen-
dry's mother. Had reason before to believe that Pendry
was pregnant, but she always denied it. On that morning
she had got up as usual and done all, her work, and wit-
ness saw no difference in her until she had been down the
garden.
1)r. Mackinlay said, after the body of the child had
been taken from the privy, he went to see it, and on exa-
mining it found no marks of violence upon it, except
that the umbilical cord was torn off. Had since examined
the body internally. The internal organs were healthy
and natural, presenting no disease in any part. The lungs
were also healthy, and had been inflated, but not fully.
Witness was not prepared to say from what cause the
child died. Could not form any decided opinion on the
subject.
Anne Pendry, who was present at the ingairy, having
been brought from the workhouse for that purpose, was
then questioned, after being cautioned by the Coroner,
as to her version of the circumstances, when she made
the same statement as that made by her to Dr. Mac•
kinl ay.
It also appeared that she had not made any prepara-
:non for the birth, and that it was her fourth illegitimate
child.
The CORONER said, after the evidence of Dr. Mackin-
lay that he could not state th&cause of the child's death,
it would be useless to carry the inquiry further, as no
jury would convict of murder or manslaughter after such
medical evidence. It was even to him a question if a
charge of having concealed the birth could be sustained.
The jury, who appeared to entertain a different
opinion, asked to retire to consider their verdict.
After an absence of nearly an hour and a half, the
jury returned to the inquest•room, and
The Foreman said, we find a verdict of " Wilful mur-
der against Anne Pendry," and we beg to record our
opinion that had the law given to the mothers of such
unfortunate children a g,reater facility to make the pu-
tative father pay towards the support of their offspring,
such cases as this, and many others of a similar charac
ter, would not occur.
The Corm:lea immediately directed Anne Pendry to
be taken into custody, which was done by police-ser-
cieant Plume, T 12,

The rate of money in the discount-market is called
24 to 3 per cent. The payment of money on account of
the railways, and the collection of the revenue previous
to the time for the dividends, have ov,',...asi.lmed the ad-
vance, by witlidrawjn ;,IL-..ige number of Bank-notes
from circv.1,44.41A.,

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, MARCII 26.—The Rev. Henry Griffin, who
is represented to be a stanch Liberal in politics, and a
decided supporter of the national system of education,
has been appointed one of the chaplains of the Lord
Lieutenant. Taking this appointment in conjunction
with the recent promotion to a similar dignity of the
Rev. Daniel Bagot, vicar of Newry, it is now quite mani-
fest that the friends of Scriptural education need expect
but little encouragement from Lord Ileytesbury.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—(THIS J)AY.)

CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.—Three per Cent. Consols,
; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 1021 mo. ;
Three-and-a-half per Cent. Debentures, ; Bank
Stock, 211:1.
RAILWAYS.—Great Southern and Western, 16i ;
Ditto, Scrip, 15i ; Ditto, Extension, 101 1.1 114
Dublin and Bellast Junction, ; Irish Great
Western, Dublin to Mullingar and Athlone, 2 2 ; Bel-
fast and Ballymena, 4 ; Irish Great Western, Dublin to
Galway, 24- ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2,2,- 3 ; Water•
ford and Limerick, 4,-13-; Wexford and Carlow, 2i 3;
Kingstown and Bray, 9 ; Cork and Bandon, 4 ; Lon-
donderry and Enniskillen, `2l.
TO MR. O'CONNELL AT KILKENNY.

KILKENNY, MARCH 25.
The Hon. Gentleman left Dublin yesterday, accom-
panied by Messrs. Juhn O'Connell, M.P., W. S. O'Brien,

1). Browne, M.P., Richard Barrett, Rev.
T. Tierney, T. Ray, E. Clements, &c., and
arrived at Castlecomer at an early hour last
evening, where he and his friends remained for the
night. at the house of the Rev. Mr. Butler, parish priest.
Mr. T. Steele joined the party in the course of the
evening, having posted across the country from Tippe-
rary, in order to be present at the proceedings of to-
day. At ten o'clock this morning a vast number of
persons started from Kilkenny for Castlecomer, preceded
by the members of the town council in open carriages,
dressed in their robes, and attended by several tempe-
rance bands. Upon their arrival in Castlecomer the mem-
bers of the Corporation immediately waited on Mr.
O'Connell, anl proceeded with him and his friends to hear
mass. From an early hour of the morning the town
was crowded to excess with the country people, who
loudly cheered the party in its progress to and from the
place of worship. Upon their return from hearing
mass, the procession to Kilkenny was formed, and soon
after one o'clock it began to move towards its destina-
tion, headed by the trades of that town, and many of
the members of the corporation.
The proceedings of the day were conducted in a similar
manner with those of most of the " monster" meetings of
the year before last, but were on a smaller scale. Instead of
a muster of some hundreds of thousands, as at those meet-

ings, there were probably some 30,000 of the peasantry
present on this occasion, mingled with large bodies of
tradesmen, preceded by banners and bands of music,
and all attempting a military regularity in their march
and bearing. Then came a large cavalcade of equestrians
and finally some hundreds of overloaded vehicles of
every kind, from the smart jaunting car of the shop-
keeper to the rough cart of the cottier. The sides of the
read along which this multitude passed were lined with
the aged and feeble of either sex, and with children, all
loudly invoking blessings on their " beloved leaders," as
they came within view.
The procession reached Kilkenny about five o'clock,
and occupied something more than half an hour in
passing through the town. Mr. O'Connell immediately
proceeded to the residence of Mr. Smithwick, an exten-
sive merchant, whose guest he is to be during his stay
here.

The entertainment to which Mr. O'Connell and his
friends were invited, took place in the new Roman Ca-
tholic Chapel of Kilkenny, the shell of which is just
completed. Tables, to accommodate 600 persons, were
laid in the interior, which was fitted up with a canvass
awning, and lighted with gas. The walls were hung
around with banners, bearing inscriptions either compli-
mentary to Mr. O'Connell and the other " Repeal mar-
tyrs," or having reference to incidents connected with the

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Repeal movement.
Soon after six o'clock Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by
Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. O'Brien, and the other gentlemen
who came with him from Dublin, entered the dinner-
hall, and were received with loud cheering. They all
wore the costume of the newly-fledged 'B2 club—a mili-
tary uniform of green and gold, resen.bling that used by
the French commissaries of police.
Dr. Cane, the Mayor, who acted as Chairman, was at-
tired in a similar manner.
The cloth having been drawn,
The Secretary read a number of letters from Roman
Catholic Bishops and others, expressing regret at not
being able to attend the dinner.
The CHAIRMAN having given the customary loyal
toasts, proposed, amid loud cheering, " O'Connell, long
life and repeal." •
Mr. O'CONNELL said, that he had enjoyed many a
delightful hour in breaking the chains twined round his
countrymen, but he had never spent a day so happily as
the present. lie assured the men of Kilkenny that his
spirit walked abroad disenthralled and free.—(Cheers.)
lie had seen and heard them that day, and their
enemies should hear them too, for the shout they bad
raised that day, would echo from one end of the Bri-
tish dominions to the other. Kilkenny had begun the
repeal agitation in 1842, she had taken the lead in
1843 also, and she had commenced the agitation of
1845 by the magnificent procession of that day, and the
splendid banquet of that night. And yet he was told
that the agitation for repeal was subsiding.--(Cries of
" N s.") How dare they say "No ?" lied not the
present Ministry told them, through the Queen, into
whose mouth they had put the words, that the repeal
agitation was on the decline ? (A voice, " They were
eaming.") No ! they were not dreaming. They were
wide awake, but they were lying.—(Loud cheers and
laughter.) lie told them that 50,000 voices had pro-
claimed that day that the agitation for repeal was only
beginning. They had done nothing yet; all their work
lay before them—and they were there ready to do it.—
(" Hear," ar,d cheers.) Ile was delighted to have had
an opportunity of corning there, in order to show the
Ministry how untrue was the assertion they had put into
the mouth of the Queen—to show that they had physical
force as well as mental energy; and that if they did not
hold monster meetings, they refrained, because it was
unnecessary to do so.—(llear, hear.) After stating
several reasons for being dissatisfied with the manner is
which England governed Ireland, the lion. Gentleman
went on to say that he had come amongst them to begin
a new campaign with the same face as ever, but in a
new dress.—(Laughter, and cheers for '82.) He came
there to talk, amongst other things, of the club of 'B2.
When a man of his age ventured to wear such a dress,
it was not unlikely that younger men would soon be
generally clothed in it. For his part, he wanted to see
500 of the young blood of Ireland attired in the same
costume, and he would leave it to the jury of ladies pre-
sent to say whether it would become them or not.—
(Laughter.) And out of that club of 500 he expected to
be able to select a Conservative senate of 300 gentlemen
to act as mediators between the Repealers and their op-
ponents. Having praised Mr. W. Smith O'Brien for the
zeal exhibited by him in the cause of Repeal, he vented
some hearty abuse on the Whigs, whom he denounced as
the most worthless party that ever existed. lle promised
them from that spot that henceforth no pseudo Liberal
should get a seat in Parliament for any Irish county
unless he declared for Repeal. They were beginning a
new era ; they were determined to make Repeal members
active and sincere, and quasi Liberals—Repealers. He
warned every Irish representative that the sound of Li-
beralism would no longer suffice, and that for the future the
only Liberalism in Ireland should be Irish nationality.
They would have none but genuine Repealers, and those
who were not so, should " cut " or turn their coats.
(Cheers and laughter.) having detailed some of the
incidents of the state trial, which he denounced as a
crime of the greatest magnitude, equalled only by the
alleged massacre of certain Wexford women by the sol-
diery of Cromwell, he complained that the prosecution
had been suffered to pass by without ars:), manifestation
of sympathy from England for the ‘!rrong inflicted by the
mockery of a trial to which tliey had been subjected ;
and concluded with a gl,:;wing description of the natural
advantages of the country, and an earnest appeal to all
to join him in his struggle to obtain for them their un-
questionable right—the privilege of legislating for them-
selves in a domestic Parliament.
The CIiAIRMAN proposed the '6 Health of Mr. John
O'Connell, M.P., and the other Repeal Martyrs."—
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL returned thanks, and said that if
he had pleased the men of Kilkenny as their representa-
tive, he had been enabled to do so only by following in
the footsteps of his father.—(Cheers.)
Mr. T. Steele and Mr. Barrett severally returned
thanks.
The Rev. Mr. TIERNEY, parish priest, next spoke to
the toast, and said, that the imprisonment of O'Connell
had created a deep feeling of hatred in the Irish mind—
an undying thirst of vengeance. It was an insult offered
to a whole people in th person of their chieftain and
liberator—an insult never to be effaced.—(Hear, hear.)
Although his enemies did not redden the scaffold with
his blood, yet they thought that a twelvemonth's impri-
sonment would prove his martyrdom.—(Hear, hear.)
But the hand of Providence had protected him from
their fell design.—(Cheers.) Let them recollect that
Jezebel decorated herself with her choicest jewels when
she showed herself at the windows of her palace, but
that next morning she was thrown into the street, and
her flesh became as filth upon the earth. He trusted
that the fate of that wretched being might prove a salu,
tary warning to her followers in blood and infamy.__
(Loud cheers, and cries of " Amen. )
The next toast was the " Repeal hierarchy and
clergy," which was spoken to by the Rev. Mr. O'KEEFX.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed the "'B2 Club and
Smith O'Brien, M.P."
Mr. S. O'Baies, in returning thanks, said that the
'B') Club was established in order to give to a number of
gentlemen who were anxious to serve Ireland an oppor-
tunity of meeting in social intercourse and making
efforts to nationalise the country.— (Hear, hear.) Eng-
land was doing her best to provineialise Ireland, and
they wished to counteract the design. It had been sug-
gested that the dress of the club was somewhat military
in its character, and, for his part, he was not sorry that
the Government regarded the dress as requiring nothing
but the sword to enable its wearers to act as the officers
of the Irish people. lie by no means held out the likeli-
hood that the Irish people would go to the extremity of
physical force, for they could not be justified in usug
it, unless deprived of all hope of redress by constitutional
means.
Several other toasts were given, and the company
not separate until a late hour.

TIIE CURRENCY. We have been informed. in the
highest quarters, that the Government have determined
upon abandoning their interferenee with the system of
Scoteb banking, as far as that interforenre meditated
the extinction of the one-pound notes. Our ono-pound
notes are not to be meddled. with. Some restriction will
be proposed upon the amount of notes which the various
banks shall be entitled to issue; but no further mischief
will he dace,—Bcrwich Warder,