The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDO.N, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, .844.

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Years will drain the greater part of the silver out of the
(.I°.nntrY, and raise what remains to a factitious value.
en now, in Canton, the sales are in many instances
la" in exchange for inferior teas ; the price of the
article sold being merely maninal, as it is impossible to
eatealitte up,,, what these teas may realise in the Eng-
lish market :
th"tloNsa-lioNo, 20TH MAY, 1844.—The dispatch of
e An'lux to Calcutta enables us to continue our gene-
mercantile adviees to this date. In Canton and this
neighbourhood businest generally is dull, owing in a
rt'at degree to the unwillingness of foreign merchants
take teas on barter `or their goods, and the equal
reluetanco of the Ci-iiiie;e dealers to forego the advan
I.4gcs of old system. At Shanghai., wh,-.re the trade
Is "nfined chiefly to British manufactures, little is'doing:
(4110 parties, in order to effect sales, have been compelled
to receive tea in barter at higher prices than those pre-
ailing at Canton. At Niiigpo there is scarcely any
market. At Foo-choo-foo no consul has yet been ap-
t"ill:ed, and no business consequently been done thereo.
vs,'ll"oy, though trade is on a trifling scale compared
Canton, matters seczn in a more healthy state than at
ikIY o~iklYther of the new ports, and the place is gradually
r
in importance.
25" Ballast' MANUFACTURES.—CamMs.—Amoy, dlrs.
„t°,2B ; Canton, 23 to 25 ; Shanghae, 25 per piece ;
til dull, owing to the large stock. Chintz.—Amoy,
a
2to 5 ; Canton, 3.:)0. The supply of these goods
Is large everywhere, and the demand slack. Cotton
inr/1.---Anfoy, dirs. 25 to 26 ; Canton, 22 to 25 per
; the little demand which exists is entirely fur low
Ambers, but there is actually hardly anything doing.
it
Cloths.—Amoy, whites, dlrs 4 ; grey 3 ; Canton
Wh
a,s 3.50 ; 2.80 to 3 ; Shangbae, Sze. white,
; grey, 3-50 y
per piece ; these got de are in, fair re
(pest in all the ports named, the supplies of each being
Zerate.- Greys are oftener inquired for than whites.
Ells.—Assorted Amoy, dlrs. 7.'50 to 8 ; Canton,
0,,"•to B'so ; Shanghae, 8 to 9. In Canton we hear of
SRe or two transactions, but elsevvhere little is doing.
panish Stripes.—Amoy, dlrs. U 25 to 1.30 ; Canton,
(12° to I'3o ; Shanghae, 1.25 to 1'35 per yard ; the
:flaand for Woollens generally is falling off, and Spa-
StripesBll are suffering in consequence.
:EXCITANGE.—On London at 4s 3il per dollar. Ben-
ra• 224 for 100 ditto. Bombay, 222 for 100 ditto,
t adras, 224 for 100 ditto. Sycee Silver. 3 and 4 per
ent• premium. Mexican dollars, 4 and 5 per cent.
PIIEIGHT.—To London and Liverpool, y. per ton."

s„egrom the Overland Pr:ce Current, July 19.)
4klE MARKET—OBSERVATIONS.—BOMBAY,
JULY 19.
9s usual at this season, the market is closed for all
I°Perts, and there is little of interest to report with res-
t to transactions since the departure of the last corer-
" Mail. The rains fairly set in about the 18th June
the plentiful supply has since fallen, and the prospects of
illgriculturists are cheering.
metals
have been but few transactions in
ewe
during the past month. Some sales of copper
e been made at our last quotations ; holders, how-
(hi!, look for an advance ; and for the copper 40ir
'esl:_uie„his a rise of 2ir) has been offered and refused, and
r for braziers. Iron is rather dearer, and a disposi-
ittl, is shown to speculate in it. Spelter has been sold
'4-13r; but 15r since then been refused for it. There
thZecahcznge worthy of notice in other articles under
e°ll.ole MANUFACTURES.—Transactions in these are
1-Nrted all but suspended, and the few sales we have to
Zort are such only as are required for local consump-
ll. In prises there is no change to notice.
414'Atites.—The imports have been large in the last
4:4th, but no sales have teen made, and prices are
4411a1 at our last quotations.
kte ooLLENs.—No sales have been reported fer the
Month, and our former quotations are continued.
‘,l44.ktineE SToaes.—There is no change to notice in
we! °f the articles elaesed under this head. Still Can-
-8 COntilitleS very dull of sale, and at miremunerating
Prices.
130.°etteetEal..—Of this article a large quantity has
ilimported of late, but there is no alteration to notice
,ete price.
per,ltrritoN.—There has also been a pretty large im-
pe'ition of Saffron, and the price has fallen about 3r
n Corks and Bottles are dull of sale, and rather lower.
lii"eettß--Allsop's and Bass's maintain their former
thli" %60r to 65r. Of Rees's a sale of 50 hhds at 42r,
be oaunders's a sale of 100 hhds et 52r to 55r have
en reported.
tio„PlßlTs.—Brand still maintains our former quota-
'43. and is in good deteand.
. Cote EASTERN PRODUCE.
-Toee—Our present quotations show a fall of lr to
NI-, candy from those of last month, but the low rates
!hit in England hare checked in a great measure pur-
-1 tor that market, arid but few transactions have,
e"sequence, been mede.
kie„°traE.—Mocha has kept steady at 9-kr to 91r per
Vial, and there has been a large business done in it by
hktive merchants, for shipment to England. The
titllt?rt has been very small, but, we believe, a large quan-
' Yia
of xpected immediately from the Red Sea.
ei r,uanoxe. there is very little here, and prices are
eu as llr per mound.
"s3lB.—Animi, Arabic, and Olibanuma—in all these
;1' business has been doing at our quotations, but
t eeTiPaily by the native shippers to England. There is
ter supply at present in the Bazaar, but prices are
fat high.
et,el'rner is scarce at present, and little has yet been
ly,enl‘.ed, though at this season it usually comes forward
fhielaritikY. Prices are ruling high, and there are few
th to be met with.
et has advanced lOr per chest, and is now
I >4ooe.
`te'e‘r°°L.---There is none in the market, except of Mal-
pl,whieh maintains our former quotation.
klie„-,PI'ER--Prices of Malabar Pepper have advanced
tee.'" 4r Per candy. Some purchases have been made at
te,',,and the dealers are now asking 57r. We do not
kik. of the
transactions in Bhutcoll. An advance of
25 per candy is demanded. There will not be
tele% 11.°13Plies received from the Malabar coast until the
teee'Mation of the monsoon, so that the dealers hold
ayd; stocks very firmly.
ItlctiTs.—Freights may be quoted to London at 3/,
thi to Liverpool at 215 s per ton. The current rate for
.Plk is Ilr per candy.
kkrittla MONEY MARKET.—The following are the pre-
per (Potations of the Government Securities :—Five
eitt'eent. Loan of 1825-26, 109 r to 110 r; Four per Cent.
lea?. °f1832-33, 105 r to 106 r ; Four per Cent. ditto, of
99ir to 100 r ; Five per Cent. ditto of 1841-42,
e Orot 111 r ; Four per Cent. ditto of 1842-43, 991 r
lo
eilt-"Lktecz on England has continued firm since our
kti ittrici We quote the present rate for six months' bills,
Pep 10i to 1-101, and for bills at 30 days' sight at 1-10
IteePee. Exchange on Calcutta, at 60 days, is 101 r,
da~°ll Madras at 6 days' sight, 100 r. On China, at 60
alßht, 214 r to 214ir per 100 dollars.
liteitl"--The Bank of Bombay has declared a divi-
etar at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum for the hale
e„,?nding 30th June. Its shares are at present
tee at 51r to 52r per cent premium. The sh .res of
elealik of Western India are quoted, . Id at 47r to 48r,
plitlew at 49r to 50r per cent. premium.
kot2cE OF BULLlON.—Sovereigns, each at nice ; Bank
Per # et 1 lir.
teko,' learn from t 'alcutta that the' ace, unt.; which had
tlf iced that presidency of the contemplated reduction
*tee e differential duties on :sugar, had put an entire
04,r to all Operations in that article. To make up for
rill • Pumiat loss of the protecting duty (10e. per cwt.), a
eteti° price of about 31 rupees per maund would re-
tie 10 take place; and as the holders were not natu-
RVerery willing to submit all at once to the heavy loss
semen circumstances had thus forced on them, a tempo
suspension of operations was the consequence. The
lioet:°4 market continued excited, and prices were sup-
Nte," by speculation in the bazarr at about the highest
laer obtained at the last Government sale—viz., 1,550
tee,ichest for Patna, and 1,480 for Benares. The
kei:Y market was lively, in consequence of require-
tpe,:a fur opium shipments to China, and agricultural
tli;:ttians in the interior; and, although there was no
ration in the rates of banking operations, there was
►eettlltneard tendency in discount and interest. In Go-
tie4ttlent securities and bank shares there was no altera-
`s '3f importance. Freights had an upward tendency
etirnt there appeared to be little variation from those
kleteel,4 at the time of the departure of the last mail; an
toe,7ee having bet n checked by the unfavourable se-
ll/14 respecting sugar, which at present tend to re-
titee.4 eShipments. Several recent arrivals of the larger
cep t' Shipping had been put up for China, but they
treietteneed difficulty in completing lading. Exports of
mess and emigrant labourers to the Mauritius in some
,sf tyre afforded employment to a considerable amount
Nittli.lll,lge. There was no difference in Exchange on
"°.
mty,
following is the result of the Calcutta Govern-
-1 8 final opium sale of this season i—
►ere-Letrriee., JUNE 24, 1844.—The fifth and final Go-
the I°ent opium sale of the season came off to-day, and
*ll • •
less e quantity oftereea 1, namely, 3,544 chests Patna,
the Iss reserved for the French Government, and 1,106
‘g,si Leuares sold at rates yielding the following aver-
Ntea,
... Highest. Lowest. Average.
4,4„. ..... 1,545
V,res ...... 1,480
to rke Patna opened at 1,495, and graduall advanced
143'0'45, from whence the biddings declined yto 1,520 to

CALCUTTA MONEY MARKET.
°Pelie'duenares, which, as usual, was sold immediately,
tk,4 ; at 1,480, but gradually declined to 1,450.
"Ltlcti-likRU OFFICE, CALCUTTA, JUNE 29, 1844.
" "our last issue, our Money Market has been steady,
owillks of interest have continued to show a less
14•0114retendency ; the opium purchasers requiring
unds,
verriroent Securities have maintained their value
4104 t-Cs,a9ge had ruled from ls. Hid. to Is. 1 lid. at ten
uate.

tAZIO FOOT RACE FOR FORTY POUNDS.—Be-
-h- '43c and seven yesterday morning, the great race
Nov' above sum, between Warwick, styled the "Epsom
erot,s-,5,'," And another. called the "Unknown of. Charing-
15u ir,c4410 off on Waterloo-bridge. The distance was
`ltettp-,_er of a mile, and th• spot was from toll to toll.
the'" '"e usual preliminaries, the men took ther places
tho tSurrey side of the bridge, and, on a signal, started,
11401Tvioe taking the lead, which he maintained
bout the whole distance, and winning the match
tittor;v,,eral Yards. There was a great number of spec-
- ',resent
, considering the early hour it took place.
llia°11:1,,'""3:0•—On Tuesday last, a young man named
Rarrar, with a young woman, both from Barns-
haße're3ented themselves among other parties for mar-
th, itt the Leeds parish church, but after witnessing
11,4' cer,„""ny being performed for the two first couples,
T"tin t-. lc io his el.: and ran out of the
ttod;, iollowed by the disconsolate young woman.-
-wcl4 Zrarniner.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
EAST SITRILEY RACES.—(YEsTEaDAY.)
Tb East Surrey Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 15 added.
/feats, twice nm!l and a distance. (6 S.tbs.)
At • I ierpl's Lady Fiora, 6 yn4, lOst 31b
Mr. • Wernimk's Patchwock, 5 yrs, 9st 41b
Wile,Ai's Dart, 6 yes, 9st
Mr- Dix, rt's. Capsicum, 4 yr.,, Bst 41b 2 0 0
The firs!, second heats were won easy; third, won by
a neck.

`j11(.: Ttotting Sweepstakes of 3 s,)vs. each and 20 added.
74-.lears, twice round a,ul a diitince. (:3 Subs.)
Mr... Burke's 13!ticktnyd, 1oit
Mr.' Williams's Numbe,' One, lOst 7ib
Mr. Andrew's Merry Legs, 9st
Won easy.
N Tatch against Time, 50 to 20—Burke galloped a
pon; three miles in seven minutes and 34 seconds,
cant ying 10 stone.
LICHFIELD RACES—TUESDAY.
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Two .years-old Stakes of 10 s---o;s7e-a-.Ch, with 20

added. Last half mile.

Ir. Copeland's My Mary .. (Marlow) 1
Mr. A. W. Hill's Salopian
The following were not placed :
Colonel Anson's Piquante
Mr :. .F.. Peel's Frances
Mr.. ffaiford's Outcast 0
Mr.. '.llleeson's b f by Jereed, dam by Bustard
The, Staffordshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 5 ft,
only if declared. Two miles.
Mr. iOngley's Roderick, 5 yrs . walked over
The Members' Plate of 50!. Heats, two miles.
Mr. :Flintoff's Countess of Lichfield, 4 yrs 1 2 1
Mr. Shirley's Nonsuit, 5 yrs
Mr. Barton's Glideaway, 3 yrs
Mr. Wilson's Disowned, 4 yrs 0 dr
ABINGDON RACES.
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The Produce `,-iweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft. One mile.
Mx. Sadler's, Barricade (Brick) 1
Mr. Pry`..e's Jack Cade
Laac Day's f b Buhastes out of Zelinda 3
TEe Cup, by subscribers of 10 soy& each ; three yrs
old, 7st 21b ; four yrs, Bst 71b ; five yrs, 9st 21b; six
7rs, 9st 71b; and aged, 9st 91b. Mares, &c., allowed
31b. Winners of 100 in 1844 71b. extra. The second
to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 500/.
Ifeats, two miles and a half.
Mr. Hook's Una, 6 yrs (Trees) 1
Mr. J. Day's b c by Mazeppa, out of Busk
Mr. T. Clarke's Arcanus, 5 yrs 3
Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh, 4 yrs 4
Mr. Etwall's Mainstay, 3 yrs
The _Roble Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 15
added. Winner to be sold for 100/. Heats, Abing-
don Course.
Mr. Etwall's Venatrix, 4 yrs (Abdale) 1 1
Sir J. Mouro's Sangaree, 5 yrs 3 2
Mr. E. Tull nd Brenna, 4 yrs
Mr. J. Day's Loadstone, 3 yrs
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.

GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.-4 to 1 agst Mickey
Free (t), 8 to 1 agst Rowena (off), 8 to 1 agst Ash-
teaa Pet, 10 to 1 agst Glossy (t), 10 to 1 agst Advice.
Sr.' LEGEIt.-7 to 2 agst The Cure (off), 7 to 2 agst
Ithuriel (off), 6 to 1 agst Red Deer, 8 to 1 agst Princess,
8 to, 1 agst Valerian, 2 to 1 agst Bay Momus, 14 to 1
agst Godfrey and Lightning (0.

nets o' Blue, f by Retainer, out of Purity, Molly Mogg,
The Pride of Kildare, Louisa,Lady Sale, Princess Alice,
Deuce Ace, Sorella, Zenobia, Seaweed, Missy, Strathspey,
Little Fairy, Epilogue, The Boarding School Miss,
Carol, Thais, Lady Sarah, Miss York.
Match, 300, h ft. Itttd House in—Lord Glasgow's
Deerslaycr agst Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude.
The Town Plate of 1001.; fur 3 yrs old, 7st 51b; 4 yrs,
8-t 71b ; fillies and geldings showed 31b, and maidens
31b. Hea's, two miles.

DESCRIPTION OF REMARKABLE
FARMS.
BY ADAM BROWN.
No I.—!fear Chelmsford, in Essex.
A journey of a few minutes less than an hour into
Essex, by the railway from London, will bring you to
a station, where, if you are curious about remarkable
ferns and farmers, you may leave the train.
Having got out and given your ticket to the officer,
go down the winding stair. At the bottom of it you
will find yourself beneath one of several archways,
each raised upon many pillars, bearing aloft the level
railway upun which runs the train you have just left.
It is now on its way to Colchester, and you are at
Chelmsford.

Looking through the pillars you will see passengers
going t) and fro, carriages, carts, and waggons also.
Before you have emerged into the full glare of day-
light, you will observe the end of a new row of brick-
built houses, and on the end of the house nearest you,
on a painted sign-board, the words, " Office of the
Essex Society for Protection to Agriculture."
Should you turn to the right, and proceed to the
north and north-west, you will pass many pretty
little houses with floral adornments around them ; and
you will come to a park of fine old trees and meadow
grass, through which, to the left, there is a footpath.
Enter and proceed by this footpath. You will in
ten minutes reach a small river, over which you will
cross by a wooden bridge. You will then proceed
by the brink of this river for about fifteen or twenty
minutes, if you do not delay. But if you linger and
examine the farm land on your left, and the fences
that enclose it, and the gaps in the fences, and the
weeds in the fields, and all the signs of dilapidation,
including the washing away of the road on which
you walk by the river—not a rolling, spoliating,
reckless river, but a deep, slow, lazy river, which,
even in doing mischief, does it in such a lazy style,
that you are forced to believe that the road is gnawed
away: by the tooth of time, and not by the floods
of one year—if you linger to examine such things as
these you may, likely enough, take another half hour.
And indeed if you do, it will not be the worst spent
half hour of your life. You will see that the river
has not done its little bits of mischief in recent floods ;
no, nor in the floods of recent years. You will, on
more intimate acquaintance with it, find it is an old-
fashioned river that does not like to be put out of its
old way, and which never has been interfered with ;
for on its banks are those who, not liking to be stir-
red up, or turned aside themselves, not even for their
own good, are averse to troubling even the old river
by leading it in a new and more profitable and be-
coming course.
Therefore, on they go ; the water in its course, and
the dwellers on its bank in their courses, as the streams
of water and the generations of men did even in the
days of the kings of the East Saxons.
But, having arrived at that junction of roads where
the river is to be parted from, you may with pro-
priety come to a dead halt. Stand still ; think for a
while. Here is a tol!-bar, there is a village. Behind
you is a farm-house, yard, stable, barns, corn
stacks, haystacks, carts, waggons, wheels without
waggons, one wheel without its fellow, its fellow
lying a hundred yards off, without its ring; its ring
keeping company with a piece of a plough, and a
piece of a plough lying in the most likely place on all
the farm to break a horse's or a cow's legs. Frag-
ments of implements, and implements separated from
the companion implements, present themselves to you
in wondrous confusion.

You may think it worth while to look round the
whole farm-steading and farm fields after this. It
is worth while. I will go with you ; I will show
you. Look here ! A horsepond and a ditch full
of water. "Is the water all of that black colour
in Essex ?" you will ask me. " No, it is
not ; you saw the river ; the river was only
earthy coloured because of the rain." " Why,
then is the horsepond and this ditch full of black wa-
ter ? and that other ditch as well ? and this hole
down in the field where the cattle are drinking ? Do
the horses drink that black water in the pond ? Why,
it has a stench. Ah l how nasty it is !"
Nasty ; yes, it has cause to stink and be nasty. It
contains the urine of the cattle and the washings of
the farmyard dung. You wonder how anybody can
give horses and cattle such water to drink ; but it is
an old custom to do so, and it would incur trouble
and expense to drain the liquids of the yard some-
were else. You are surprised that the horses should
drink this water. Rest assured the horses would
choose good water as readily as any human being
would; perhaps more so, for their tastes are not viti-
ated by strong drinks from choice, they only drink
polluted water from necessity.
You are surprised that a farmer, for his own profit;
does not provide his horses and cattle with pure water.
But you may be still more surprised that the very i
pollution which poisons this water consists of sub-
stances which make poor soils rich, and rich soils
richer still ; consists of substances which are here
utterly wasted, and for the draining of which into
speedy and utter waste those ditches are made ; con-
sists of substances thus wasted at the very threshold
of the farmer's house, though precious as the guano of
Ichaboe, carried to this country by five hundred ships,
over latitudes of ocean measuring thousands of miles.
But, proceed over the farm. We have little diffi-
culty in getting through, so far as gaps can serve us ;
but those undrained bogs, and broad ditches choked
with weedy foulness, let us be careful how we tra-
verse them, lest we sink. And mind the briers that
fill up the wide distance between the old stumpy
hedgerows—distances that would produce ten bushels
of wheat on each four hundred yards lengthways ;
that is to say, if by any possibility one could ever
hope to see wheat sown on so rich a soil as this.

You are surprised. See you not that wheat is not
cultivated here. See you not that, where there was
once cultivated land, as we may see by those ridges,
there i 3 now grass, and that grass is giving way to
rushes and thistles, docks and weedy wastefulness.
True this is good land, the best land in Essex for
wheat ; but if you went all over Essex, and all Eng-
land, you would not see wheat so little cared for as
here.

Now we come to another farm-steading, belonging
to the same farmer, and again we see the liquids of
the farm-yard running to waste; again we see the
solids laid out to dry in the sun, as if it were good that
the ammonia should go into the air rather than into
the earth.

You ask why it is that one farmer should hold so
much land, and make such a poor use of it. I will
tell you. He holds so much land because he is rich,
and can be depended on for the rent better than a
poorer tenant can be depended on. He is rich while
many other farmers are poor; and he is so because
they are poor. His work is not that of toiling at the
farm to enable him to pay his rent; it is the "selling
up" of other farmers who cannot pay their rents. His
desire is not to get a good system of leases
introduced, that he and his neighbours may
expend capital on their land, and cultivate
well. His desire that the present uncertain
system of tenure may continue. He thrives
by it. He is a land valuer; and each tenant-at-will,
moving from farm to farm, year after year, has his
stock, and farm, and implements valued ; and he pays
the valuer at the rate of six guineas a day and his
travelling expenses.
Did you not read those papers on the walls ? Ob-
served you not that sales of growing crops, sales of
farm implements, sales of work-horses, sales of
household furniture, sales of brewing utensils, and
several other sales of farm property, are advertised in
at least seven different large bills, in large letters,
posted on every side of the highway, and at the arches
of the railway, the sales to take place this week, next
week, and the next again ; one five miles east, several
of them six, and ten, and fifteen miles west ; others
north, and three out of the seven with no auction daty
to pay ?
Have you to be told that "no auction duty " means
by warrant of the sheriff ?—that "warrant of the
sheriff" means a broken farmer being sold off, and
that " broken farmers," when sold off to pay their
rents, contribute also to the income of an auctioneer ?
And who is the auctioneer? Why, the farmer on
whose farm we now stand. And who is he ? No
other than the Secretary to the " Essex Society for
the Protection of Agriculture," Mr. Robert Baker, of
Writtle.

You may stare with surprise that this eminent
farmer, as you would suppose him to be, who has
got a prize of 501. from the Royal Agricultural
Society for the best, essay on Essex agriculture, and
who keeps upwards of one thousand acres of the best
Essex land in that deplorable condition in which you
see it, should be such a very bad practical farmer.
But so he is.

-e he a grocer, and kept his tea and his coffee
in one canister, and sugar in such a place that he
could not weigh an ounce of pepper without letting
sugar and pepper mingle together; were the coffee,
" when newly roasted and ground," put out to the
door in an open tray to allow its flavour to escape
into the air instead of the flavour being preserved to
bring back the customers at another time; were
streams of water allowed to run through the sugar
hogshead and carry the liquid into the cellar to
mingle with the liquors there ; were he to neglect
to have the counter repaired when a panel was broken
in its front; were he to have beam and scales
tumbled over on the floor and covered with verdigris,
and the tea-chests standing where each person who
assisted in the shop must either step into them or
risk breaking a leg by leaping over them ; were he to
have his whole shop and stock in such confusion,

while he was away from it all the year over five days
out of six, who would believe that he was a good
grocer, even though he might publish pamphlets on
the grocery trade, and argue that all the villagers of
Writtle should be constrained to buy such articles
at his own prices at his own shop as he had to sell ?
Would he not be called a very bad grocer? And is
it not beyond all question that competition with
another grocer would have at least two good effects ?
—that while it gave the villagers of Writtle a better
supply of sugar, and coffee, and tea, and spices at a
moderate price, it would cause him to mind his own
shop and improve his own business.
What is here supposed of a grocer, Mr. Baker, of
the " Society for Protection to Agriculture," i 5, as a
farmer. He may be a very respectable, moral man ;
that I know nothing of; nor is it my province to in-
quire ; but, as an agriculturist, he is one of the most
eminent slovens that ever came into distinction.

IRELAND.

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 9.—The Conciliation Hall this morn-
ing presented, within and without, such an appearance as
it never yet exhibited since the day upon which it was
first opened immediately after the suppression of the
Clontarf meeting last year. Between eight and- nine
o'clock, large crowds of persons, of whom the great
majority were decently -dressed women, assembled
around the doors, which after a while were thrown open
to the accumulating masses, and instantly that portion of
the galleries set apart for the humbler members of the
Association, as well as the body of the Hall, was thronged
by the densest assemblage which we ever witnessed
within any building. The attendance of ladies was not
less numerous, and the great pressure which their ardour
urged them to inflict upon each other caused some dis-
tressing scenes around the doors. The whole of the
large circular gallery presented nothing to the view but
a straggling array of caps, bonnets, ribands, and
feathers, whilst a pin could not have been let fall to the
ground in any part of the hall, so great was the crowd
of the associates. The number of persons of both sexes
seeking admission (in effecting which they sometimes
did not seem to overlook the utility of physical force)
increased as the day alvanced to such a degree, that the
whole of the quay, fur a considerable distance, at both
sides of the building, was completely blocked up, the
doors having been closed against all applicants so early
as eleven o'clock, and placards to that effect placed
against them. The unfortunate gentlemen of the press
were obliged to fight their way up to the barriers, and
then submit to be torn through, or carried over the
heads of the multitude into the hall, some two hours
before the time fixed for the meeting. There was much
dissatisfaction evinced that the Conciliation Hall was not
twice as big, and great grumbling was heard from in-
dignant gentlemen and ladies who had brought money
from the country, or who shouted declarations through
the keyholes to that effect, to soften the rigid janitors,
who heard all such statements unmovedly.
About one o'clock the smaller leaders of the Associa-
tion began to arrive, and to force their way up to the
platform. Then came the dii majores. First Mr. Steele
made his appearance, and was greeted with all kinds of
applaudatory noises. Then Mr. Barrett, of the I'ilut,
made his bow amid a similar demonstration. Dr. Gray's
advent was acknowledged in the same way, and at
length, preceded by Messrs. Butler, M.P., Grattan, M.P.,
and accompanied by Mr. J. O'Connell, M.P. the Hon.
Member for Cork advanced to the front of the platform,
and took up his usual place, amid such a display of feel-
ing, and with such rapturous welcome, as may rarely be
seen again. One storm of cheers, blessings, yelling,
and cries in Irish rose around from every part of the
hall, and was echoed by the crowd outside. All the
women in the gallery waved their white handkerchiefs
(which they seemed to be especially provided with),
bonnets, and shawls, with astonishing vigour and perse-
verance ; whilst the men were equally energetic with
their hats, hands, and feet. For nearly ten minutes
cheering and applause, which was not surpassed in in-
tensity either at Tara or Mullaglimast, continued to peal
through the hall. Mr. O'Connell acknowledged it by
repeatedly bowing around him, kissing his hands to the
ladies in the gallery, and placing the crown of his hat on
his heart. As he was thus engaged, Mr. Smith O'Brien
rushed to the front of the platform, causing if possible an
increase in the clamour, and seizing r. O'Connell's
hand, shook it vigorously for some moments. Mr.
O'Connell then caught Mr. S. O'Brien's hand, and placed
it on his heart, whereat the very building trembled and
quaked beneath the redoubled cheering and stamping.
At last Mr. O'Connell seemed to get tired. He opened
his lips again and again to speak, but his words were
inaudible, until a number of uplifted hands and voices
from the platform stilled the storm.

Mr. OtoNNELL was at length heard to say that he
claimed it as a privilege to be allowed to move that
the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin do take the
chair.

The LORD MAYOR (who was loudly cheered in doing
so) assured the meeting that it was the proudest hour of
his life to be called on to preside over them upon the
present important and auspicious occasion, and that the
distinction was one which he never expected to have ar-
rived at. He congratulated them and the country on the
restoration to liberty of the man to whom they were all
indebted, and to whom he (the Lord Mayor) felt espe-
cially indebted for the high position he held as first ma-
gistrate of the city, and for the high honour he that day
enjoyed of presiding over such a meeting. No man had
ever contributed so much to the liberty of the human
race as Mr. O'Connell.—(Hear, hear.) Even his enemies
admitted that he had given liberty is his own country,
and undeserving of it indeed would they be if they did
not evince their gratitude for such a benefit. And they
did so. The scene which had just taken place—the
scene which had taken place on Saturday, when 500,000
of his fellow-countrymen exhibited as much anxiety to
look at him as if they had never seen him before—proved
that they were grateful ; while he was sure they were
esteemed by Mr. O'Connell as in some degree a compen-
sation for the imprisonment which ho had suffered. On
one result springing from the State prosecution he could
not avoid congratulating the people of Ireland, for he
had no doubt that by that prosecution the system of
packing juries in Ireland had got its death-blow.—
(Cheers.) Within the memory of man there never had
been such a triumph over faction and injustice.—(Cheers.)
Mr. T. M. RAY having then presented himself amidst
renewed cheering, proceeded to address the meeting,
holding in his hand the minute-book of the Association.
He assured them it was with the most thrilling delight
that he resumed the honourable office of Secretary for
Ireland.—(Cheers.) They had had a glorious triumph
of justice over iniquity—a miraculous triumph. After
the father of his country had been dragged by a species of
legal brute force to a felon's dungeon—after the country
had been subjected to the turmoil and danger through
which she had passed in consequence, there they were
again (meaning the ex-traversers) to pursue the same
object with increased energy and determination. Often
in kis prison had Mr. O'Connell exulted in the faithful
conduct of the people of Ireland. It was gratifying to
him to find that his spirit was abroad amongst them, and
that they had shown implicit obedience to his will. He
had heard that amiable gentleman, the Attorney-Gene-
ral, ridicule the Liberator's boast of being able to drive
a coach and six through any Act of Parliament that im-
peded his progress. The Liberator had at all events
proved himself equal to the Attorney-General ; for he
had driven the triumphant car of repeal through the
legal meshes which that functionary had flung around
him.—(Cheers.) He had told the people of Ireland that
he would not lead them astray, that he would keep them
free from the meshes of the law, and he had kept his
word ; for he had come out of prison with his fame
as a awyer unsullied. Let them continue to pursue
his advice, and to follow his directions, and their final
triumph was secure.—(Cheers.) Mr. Ray having then
read the minutes of the last day's proceedings,
Mr. O'CONNELL moved the admission as a member
of the Association of Mr. Somerset Butler, M.P. for
Kilkenny, whose family, he observed, was illustrious
for its antiquity, its valour, and its love of old Ireland,
having bled for her in the field and upon the scaffold.
His Hon. Friend was just as ready to live for her—aye,
and to die for her too.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. S. O'BRIEN said he had to propose the admission
of a member of the Protestant aristocracy of this country
—(Cheers)—and he did so with not the less pleasure
because many of his connexions were strong Conserva-
tives. The name he had to introduce was the Hon.
George Hely Hutchinson, brother of Lord Donough-
more.—(Prolonged cheering.) As aProtestant he thanked
those Protestant gentlemen who were now enlisting
themselves in this great Protestant as well as Catholic,
because national, cause. He hoped that the introduc-
tion into that hall of a number of the aristocracy, was
only the commencement of a new era in the history
of the country. He knew that there were many men
entertaining the loftiest sentiments of devotion towards
Ireland, who, from one cause or other, had been pre-
vented from enlisting in their ranks ; but those impedi-
ments no longer existed, and he doubted not that the
example of Mr. Hutchinson would soon be followed to
a great extent. He felt it right to say that there had
been no conversion in Mr. Hutchinson's case, for that
gentleman had always been an enemy to the anion.
Mr. O'Costsma. having seconded the motion, it was
agreed to.
Mr. H. GRATTAN congratulated the meeting on the
accession of such men to that Association, and moved the
admission of Captain Mockler, of the county of Meath,
an Orangeman, who had been induced by the recent
persecution, for such the State trials had been, to come
forward and join the ranks of the repealers.—(Cheers.)
It was not enough that Peel should vindicate the
course he had taken in having instituted those trials—
he must atone for the injustice he had done by them.—
(Cheers.) They would make no appeal to England or
to Englishmen. The liberties of Ireland were at stake,
and, thank God, there was a sufficiency of Irish arms
and Irish hearts to defend them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CONNELL also seconded this motion, which was
agreed to.
Mr. S. Butler, M.P., Mr. Hely Hutchinson, and Capt.
Mockler, severally returned thanks. The last-named
gentleman in doing so said that he had been dismissed
from the commission of the peace, which he had held
for thirty years in the county of Meath, because ho had
declared himself against the union. He had demanded
an investigation into his conduct as a magistrate during
that period ; the demand was refused, and on a future
day be would read the correspondence which took place
in reference to it.

Mr. O'CototELL, having risen to hand in some money,
proceeded to say—As I am upon my legs, I believe I may
as well proceed at once to address yeu.—(Loud cheers,
which continued for some minutes.) It would be
utterly impossible for me to find language adequate to
describe the sensations of delight with which I once
again address this assembly.—(Renewed cheers.) I had
imagined that my voice was to have been suspended at least
till the month of May next, but the " merry month of
May" has come upon us eight months too soon, and we
can now rejoice as merry as May birds.—(Cheers and
laughter.) But, seriously speaking, we have the most
important reasons for rejoicing. A victory was never
yet more worthily won—a triumph was never yet more
honestly earned.—(Hear.) We have had a triumph
over combination and fcul conspiracy—we have had a
triumph over the crime of packing of juries—we have
had a triumph of the constitution, and we are therefore
entitled to enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of that
triumph. The words of the hymn readily suggest them,
selves to our minds in our present position, " Sit
taus plena, sit senora, sit jncunda, sit decors, mentis
jubilatio." Yes, it is a moment in which the
jubilation of the mind should, with proper decorum,
but with entire fervour, rejoice hi the flood of

our triumph, end in the victory that we have
I obtained. I am, as I have stated, utterly unable to de-
scribe the sensations that overpower my mind. The
first thing that comes upon me with all the force of an
absolute certainty is, that the repeal must be carried—
! (Cheers)—that nothing can impede the repeal but mis-
t conduct on our parts—that recent events prove that the
repeal is in its progress too awful and too important to
; be retarded by any means but by our own misconduct
I alone.— (Cheers.) It is not by man's effort that we have
! achieved this victory over fraud, and conspiracy, a d in •
justice. It is not by man's means that so great a change
has taken place in one week. Last week everything
Iwas triumphant on the part of the prosecutor and the
oppressor—lie 113i1 been until then allowed to enjoy his
triumph ; but the shout of exultation is now on our
side.—(Loud cheers.) No, it was not man who did it.
case.\V
ew defeatedeTreheji ie s
iei
in every
s part of the progress of our
everything that we demanded
for conducting our defence. Every motion that was
made on our part was sure to be negatived by the bench.
Every attempt that we made for our defence was coun-
teracted by the judges. Every right given to us to in-
sure an acquittal was taken away by the selected jury.
—(Loud groans.) We appealed to the House of Lords,
but even there we found the same unfivourable auspices.
We found seven out of the nine English judges giving
the 'most astoundingly absurd opinions that ever wet%
pronounced by mortal man ; but they were not the less
against us for being absurd.—(Hear, hear.) If I eve)
entertained any hope—and really I did nut—it ha:l
been long since banished away ; and when the account
came to me of the decision in our favour, though
the atterneys rushed into my presence, and one o
them did me the honour of embracing me, still, notwith-
standing that kiss and the words that accompanied it,
and with the full knowledge that it was so, or the attor
neys would not be:there, yet for a full half hour after-
wards I did not believe it.—(Cheers.) Yes, I repeat it
is not the work of man. It is a blessing bestowed by
Providence on the faithful people of Ireland.— (Elea:,
hear, and cheers) There is no sup!rstition in repre-
senting it as the gift of Providence ; no submission in
bowing be,fore the throne of God and accepting it as hi:
act. I would not introduce such a topic here if it wer•
contrary to the principles or doctrine of any religious
sect represented here. But it is not. It is the doctrine
of the Protestant Church, as well as the Catholic Church,
that God interferes with the concerns of man. A-
Christians they all believe that ; and the Book of Com-
mon Prayer contains, in every part, proofs that it is
one of the tenets of Protestantism, for it contains prayer,
fer fair weather, for rain, and for other variations in the
seasons, as well as for every temporal advantage. I
cannot, therefore, hurt an individual prejudice by refer
ring to this subject ; and I would not do so, if it wer,
Possible that any such prejudice could exit. What I
have been describing is clearly the doctrine of the Ca-
tholic Church also. And let us recollect that millions
of the faithful people of Ireland had lifted up their hands
to God—that the priests of God offered up the hol)
sacrifice of the mass—that the holy secluded Sister:
of Charity united their prayers with those of the priests
at the altars. The Catholics of England joined with us
on the occasion. The entire Catholic population of Bel-
gium offered up similar prayers, and along the shores of
the Rhine the same voice of supplication has been
heard. Oh yes, it has been heard, and we stand fret
before you, thankful to God, and blessing all good men.
—(Loud cheers.) It is a glorious triumph, and it is
fitting that such a cause should have had such a triumph.
For what was 'Ale cause ? There was nothing selfish t
individual in ir. There was nothing in it that involved
the fortunes of particular persons ; but it was a caust
involving the great principles of the British Constitutiot.
and the interests of liberty. By that prosecution the
Government attempted to prevent peaceable meetings se
peaceable persons to petition for the redress of grievances,
or, if it did not profess to take away that right altoge-
ther, it would, if the attempt had proved successful, have
left scarcely the shadow of a right remaining. For what
was the case made out by the indictment ? It was that
great multitudes of persons, assembled together even for
a legal and proper purpose, necessarily produced intimi-
dation, and that we, having so many people together at
the meetings which we attended, were guilty of a con•
spiracy, because those large assemblages must necessa-
rily have intimidated those who were opposed to us. It
that attempt of the Minister had not tailed the conse-
quence would be, that the more people you had concur-
ring with you in the progress of public opinion—and
you would not be entitled to alter the law without hav-
ing a considerable portion of the community with you,
for the more you had with you the more would it ap-
pear were the public convinced of the necessity of the
alteration which you advocated— the more criminai
would it be for you to look for the alteration or im-
provement you required.—(Hear, hear.) The onl3
chance which exists of procuring any redress of op
pressive grievance arises from the weight of public
opinion that was brought to bear upon it, and that
chance was to be thus taken away for ever ; for
when the popular voice was poor and pitiful it was
only sneered at and laughed at, and when it was
swelled to be the voice of the people generally—which
in our case was the voice of God—every foul means was
to be taken to violate the popular right to petition, Is:,
rendering it criminal for that popular voice to make it-
self be heard.—(Hear, hear.) I say, therefore, that
ours is a triumph of the holiest and best of causes. It
is a triumph without which the throne of the monarch
would be insecure. It is to public opinion that Queen
Victoria owes her throne. But for it, the family of Sa-
voy, or of the Stuarts, would still be upon the throne of
these realms; and their fate shows that even the monarch
himself is not safe from the influence of the populism
voice. As the gigantic accession of man to man could
not be prevented without the misconduct of the govern
ing power, it becomes treason against the safety of the
Queen, or her throne, for any Government to attempt
preventing the popular mind from being heard. When
I come to talk to you presently on the subject of the
present Government, I shall be able to demonstrate t
you that they did meditate treason to the throne, when
they resorted to such an unconstitutional attempt to
suppress public opinion.—(Hear, hear.) Well ; but
there is also another branch of our triumph that cannot
be doubted—it is the vindication of the principle of trial
by jury.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) There is now neg
fear that you will have another selected jury ; or, at
all events, there will be no precedent for it in our
case. Here we had the panel fraudulently constructed
—I will not say by whom.—(Hear, hear.) We had the
jury list fraudulently diminished—l will not say in
whom ; but this I say—if I get the voice of public opi-
nion to support me, I will be able to ascertain by whom
that fraud had been perpetrated.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) The trial by jury was in its purity put an end
to, and a packed jury substituted—but we stand here
triumphant over those who would substitute a bad
principle for a fair tribunal to adjudicate on the lives and
the liberties of the Queen's subjects.—(Cheers.) Trial
by jury and the right to petition have, then, been
triumphant, and we stand here to-day rejoicing in the
vindication of botb.—(Cheers.) I rejoice in being one
of those to announce to the public and to the world our
,joy on this great triumph achieved in our persons. But
it is not for these alone that we should express our gra
tulations. Another great cause has also obtained a
triumph. What chance, I ask, would the repeal cause
have if these proceedings hail been affirmed ?—(Cheers.)
It would, to be sure, have some chance from the progress
of public opinion ; but now, in our peaceful majesty and
tranquil might, united, but determined to violate no law,
we remain, without a particle of intimidation, as in our
monster meetings, but with a continued and thorough
conviction, that repeal is absolutely necessary fur Ire-
land.—(" Hurrah," and loud cheers, which continued for
several minutes.) There is no impediment now in the
way of the peaceable and triumphant termination of the
repeal movement. There is nothing to prevent us, by
keeping ourselves within the law, from meeting, and re
solving, and organizing, and fortifying ourselves by the
increase of our strength at the registry, and by every
other legal means, to bring petitions before the Legisla-
ture until we make the table of the House of Commons
rock beneath the load of the collected complaints of the
people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) The constitutional right is
free—the guarantee of trial by jury is secured, and will pro-
tect us, and, standing on one and on the other, I here an-
nounce that the universal feeling of the Irish people, from
the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, and from Connemara
to the Hill of Howth, is in favour of the great national
cause of repeal, and must to any man of common sense
and common honesty appear too strong to render any
amount of resistance to it permanently successful.—
(Cheers.) Well, we have been successful, and, what is
better, the success has been achieved on the merits. It
has been said, and it will be repeated, that the decision
'in the House of Lords was a crotchety decision founded
on technicalities. It was no such thing. It was a deci
sion upon the merits, and I will prove such to be the case
to any man in less than three minutes, even though he
may not be a lawyer. The sixth and seventh counts
charged us with holding public meetings for the purpose
of intimidating. These were held by all the judges
here, including even Judge Perrin, to be good counts,
and the judgment of the Court was given upon them
The judges of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench gave
their judgment on these counts, declaring that they con-
tained charges or offences of a most criminal nature.
Judge Burton, in passing the sentence of the Court, used
the words "on these counts,"in allusion to me expressly,
and to the other traversers also, but ho directed himself_cetl
to me in that part of his address. He referred. directly
to o these
judgese() u n t counts
have, without
asg
an good excopticn, xceoeupnttiso,n: declaredand ee t
Englishll the
firstasked what he
Justice them
to be bad counts.—(Hear, hear.) In fixing
rgeorrinnt,haessetine-
tence that was to be imposed, Mr.
junior judge of the Court, erasas
thought the sentence ought to be. Hejsuadidge ehertahmoupgt(hmt
six months should be the time fixed.
criestlte sentence noche,solvill,d)
was
an annedxt heasskaie'dd twwiolasttehaersc.f(iLdoeruedd
Judge Burton was then asrudstieheis
roepninnioint,l and he
said one year ; and Chief e a ler was
finally asked what he thought the sentence should
be,
years.—(Oh, oh.)
Thusl'iwheonof jsuadidges nal-seore ftowrotwo years' imprison-
ment, one of them for six months, and one for twelve
months. Judge Perrin very properly, on finding that
he could not do better, joined with Judge Burton, and
the Court then condescended to pass a sentence of 12
months upon me ; but I had as good a right to send
them to gaol as they had to send me there.—(Great
cheering for some minutes.) Let us now come to the
decision of the seven English judges. These wiseacres
said, " There are some of the counts good ; the Gth and
7th counts are certainly bad ; but we;will presume that
the judges did not intend to fix any sentence on the bad
counts." Why, the judgment of the Irish judges had
been before the public—they- had been printed, and were
in circulation. Every one had read them, every one
was reading them. The judgment had been publicly
announced, and was in everybody's hands. It was used
by counsel at the bar—so that, in point of fact, it Wll f; as
clear as the sun at noonday that the judgment had been
pronounced against us on the bad counts ; but the seven
wiseacres of judges in England presumed otherwise, and
, decided against us on that presumption. Their decision
is, in fact, founded on a lie.—(" Hear, hear," and cheers.)

There is no other way of calling it. They called it is
presumption of law. I will not waste so much of my
breath :23 to describe it in so roundabout a manner. it
was a lie, and I will call it so. It was known to be a lie,
and yet the judgment so founded was sought to be sup-
ported by Lord Lyndhurst and that indescribable wrete.s
Broughltn—(Groans)-- on this footing, that the lie was
supposed to be true, and that we were to be punished
againq the fact, and in contradiction of the rer,o7d itselr;
fur the sentence was set forth in the record, " for the
of-
fences aforesaid." That, of course, included all tile
offences charged, and, of course, the two bad counts
among the rest ; so that the record told the truth, but
Loris Brougham and Lyndhurst said it told a lie ;
but then, blessed be Heaven ! there were found

three men honest enough to speak the truth, and
therefore it is that I call upon you to rejoice, be-
catise judgment has been given in our favour oti
the merits, and the technicalities were on the other
side.—(" Hear," and cheers.) They attempted to con-
Sound truth with a fiction of law or a lie ; but truth and
justice, and the record were with us, and we can make
hem a compliment of the lie for their portion.—
(Cheers.) And now I am going to make an atonement
to a class of public men whom I have often assailed, and
who, certainly, in some things deserved to be assailed—
naeiely, the Whigs. But, after all, how infinitely supe-
rior are they to the Tory party. The principle of Tory-
•sm is doublo. It. takes away as much of public right
from each individual as it can, and it amalgamates all
ogether f;r the benefit of the aristocracy ; but where
.l'oryisin is most terrific, is in its anxiety to do the great
mjtistice of putting partisans on the bench of justice.
i'he opinion forc•el upon us from history is, that in 99
!ass out of 100, the most prejudiced men had b?en
made
turiao
cotarty
untry
rtgeirte3l:9
strbitp:3,r
approaching
ap- Irb party,ittr,fyytTears w and nhda though
seenugh in England,
little of
huerybeisnmehr,
eum-eaianleldkinnoflivilltlltiafet.—in
Hear, hear.) I ask you, if the support that I gave the
Whigs could have been effective for one year more, whe-
,her a very different state of things would not now be
ebs?rvable on the bench in this country ? Should we
tot have Chief Baron Brady at this moment the Chief
fusice of the Queen's Beech, with Mr. Pigot the Chief
iliron, and Mr. Moore and Mr. Monaghan in the room
)1. Jacks in and 'Afro) ?—(Hear.) Nov, I ask any mart
rho might be inclined to blame me for having supported
the Whigs, whether he thinks, if Chief Baron Brady had
ice's the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, would we
lave ever heard of this prosecution ?—(Loud cries of
Heir, hear.") I am satisfied that we never should
lave heard of this prosecution if we had had Mr.
Monaghan, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Hatchell sitting on the
tench, instead of the Littons, the Lefroys, and the
faeksons, with the present Chief Baron of the
Exchequer occupying the station; now tilled by Chief.
Justice rennefather.—(Cries of '• Hear, hear.") You have
this distinction, that the Whigs gave good judges ;
whereas the Tories were anxious to give partisan
iudges in former times.—(ilear, hear.) I was for this
eeason anxious to support the Whigs, but I never gave
_hem a vote inconsistent with my public principle. I
left' the Tory press of England to point out one single
instance in which I gave a vote inconsistent with public
mineipl... All I did was to attend at my place in the
,louse to assist in creating a majority by my vote in
cases not inconsistent with public principle, and I now
•ender my gratitude to them for the judges that have
'seen appointed by them. They made Lord Cottenham
Lord Chancellor.—(Loud cheers.) I was going to say
hat there never was so good a judge, but I never can
orget, in his cold grave, my lamented friend, the in-
meiparable Sir Michael O'Leghlen. But a better judge
than Lord Cottenhara never existed. He was like Brady
n this, that he possessed the same fulness of judicial.
piality, though he might not have had the power of
Flunket as an advocate. B.t, oh, how superior has
either one or other of them been to him as judges !
(Hear.) Next to him I place the Lord Chief Justice of
the Que.en's:Bench in England—Lord Denman.—(Great
cheering for some minutes.) There have been many
;rest men from time to time on the English bench, but
rho among them has shown himself what Denman
has ? He talked of this trial by jury, and said if a
similar course were continued, that trial by jury in Ire-
land would become a mockery, a delusion, and a snare
—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Take that, Mr. Attorney-
General Smith. Read that, Mr. Chief Justice Penne-
father. Write that on a slip of paper, and use it as a
mark in your Prayer-book, Mr. Justice Crampton.—
(Hear and laughter.) The Chief Justice of the Queen's
Bench in England pronounced a repetition of the course
sanctioned by you to be a delusion, a mockery, and a
snare.—(Hear.) We are come to great times—we are
come to times when, if a similar course to that taken
to insure a verdict against us be again acted upon,
it must be regarded as " a mockery, a delusion, and a
snare."—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And, oh, how
thank the Chief Justice of England for the words! Next
to him is a nobleman who has been at the head of his
profession for years. Lord Campbell told me that on
his visit to Ireland as Lord Chancellor, he had not been
more than a week in this country before his heart be-
came thoroughly Irish, and thank Heaven his shrewd
Scotch head remains to guide it, and his recent conduct
does honour to both by the manliness with which he
trampled under foot the attempt at argument which was
made by the opposing party.—(Cheers.) We owe a
debt of gratitude to the Whigs for such appointments,
and it will be hard to get me to abuse them again.—
(Laughter.) We owe them that debt for the principle
by which they have been actuated in their selection of
judges, and if they had selected bad judges they
would find me assailing them as readily as I
now tender them my praise.—(Hear, hear.) Lord
Denman had been labouring for many years as a bar-
rister in the Queen's Bench, and if the Tories had con-
inued in power, he never would have been a judge to
the present hour.—(Hear.; Lord Cottenham would
aever have been a judge, and Lord Campbell would
!lever have been elevated to the bench. It as owing to
the exclusion of the Tories for a time from power
ehat we have acquired the glory, the honour, and I will
add, the security of the administration of justice, arising
from having such distinguished personages on the bench.
[ confess we should be also grateful to another quarter
to which lam anxious that justice should be done ; for,
though I attribute our delivery to Providence, still it
should be remembered that Providence acts in all its
decrees by means of agents, and therefore I do not con-
sider that I speak inconsistently with the gratitude
which I have expressed to Heaven for our deliverence,
when I acknowledge that we are deeply indebted to the
exertion's of the Morning Chronicle.—(Hear, hear.) For
this, again, we have to thank the Whigs, as it is the great
organ of their party, following honest principles with
consistency and powerful ability.—(Hear.) Never in
die entire history of England has there occurred
such another instance of a public journal exposing
with such clearness, with such talent, with such energy,
and with such perseverance, and I will add, with such
effect and utility, any public injustice, as that afforded
by the Morning Chronicle, in the manner in which it
showed forth to the world the defects of the judg-
ment in the State trial, and the various iniquities by
which every step of the prosecution had been marked.
I am glad to have this opportunity of paying a just tri-
bute of gratitude and respect to the conductors of that
excellent journal. While the Tory press of England
laboured to distort everything that could be made of use
to injure the cause of the traversers, and to throw an
unjust and unfavourable colouring over their case, the
Horning Chronicle, day after day, persevered in bring-
ing forward arguments and facts that served to place
their cause in a proper and favourable light before the
public., and in publishing statements and suggestions
valuable for their defence. Even if we had been de-
feated in our application for justice, it would have been ,
some atonement and gratification to us, to think that we
had so valuable and able an advocate • and now, in the
hour of our triumph, the Morning Chronicle ought not
to be forgotten, but ought to receive as it so well merits,
our loudest and most animated cheers.—(" Hear, hear,"
and loud cheers.) I have but one remark more to make,
and that relates to an excellent friend of mine, who, I
think, has been spoken of a little too bard. I allude to .
may beloved friend, Richard Sheil.—(Hear.) I confess
I was angry at his asking a request for me from 1 el
hthaavtelkonokosedn lmikeehdetrteerqutihrainngto think a he ought
t. ao
u ld
possibly
re-
ceive anything having the appearance of a boon front
such hands. No, I would rather have rotted in the .
gaol than owe my liberation to the pretended clemency
tainvokuP could
of Peel.—(Cheers.) From this spot I told you, before •
entering the prison, that there should be no compromise
or shrinking, and there has been none.—(Renewed
cheering.) The entire of us would perish in gaol rather .
than receive as a favour the slightest concession from .
the present Ministers.—(Cheers.) My friend Richard
Shen was wrong in that, but he is one of those men
who can afford to be once wrong in their lives. His
country owes him a deep debt of gratitude. He omit-
h•
mented and made interesting by his eloquence the
struggle for emancipation. When I was going on with i
•
my dull speeches, wearying the public mind with my
tiresome repetitions, Richard Sheil burst upon the public
view with the brilliancy of some sudden and refulgent,
star, by the corruscations of his genius, and the majestic .
ebullitions of his powerful mind.—(Loud cheers.)
But in the very speech for which he is blamed, Mr.
Shell elicited from Sir R. Peel a statement which must
damn him in the minds of every honest man, namely,
the assertion that we had had a fair trial. That asser
tion is, as I shall show you presently, worth much, anti from this spot I thank Mr. Sheil for having drawn it .
forth.—(Hear, hear.)Well,
of
east tweour
ehasaz
hs;ctcheeedpedra,
prayer
that, too, upon the merits ,
and merits of faithful Christians—as we have boasted of
our success, not as anything of our own, but as an act .
of that Power who regulates nations—let us next see,
how we are to conduct ourselves on the present occasion.
It is of the utmost importance that we should act dis-
creetly—it is absolutely necessary that we should act
firmly. 'We ought to act in the full spirit of conciliation.
--(hear, hear.) We ought to endeavour to succeed in
augmenting our numbers by every becoming
treehearnes..
We ought to struggle with renewed energy for
..
either end in our graves or in 4.,
basin an Irish Parlia-
mentd cheers.) Wo
peal cause by such means, and that struggle should
once more in College-green.—(Loud (Lou
ought to be encouraged by what has passed, and we are
encouraged.—(Cheers.) The anti-Irish party—l will.
not call them the Orange party any longer—should Iceik.
with forget-
selves from our ranks. They should look
for tl
with hope on our efforts, and nu longer absent them •
fulness on by-gone views, and unite with us now_ -
be first
shall we act in future ? Conciliation should our .
and I think the best way of our insuring it is by
good of our common country.—(Bear,.. hear.) But, how
duty,
asking those who absent themselves from us, to look to
the manner in which we have acted up to this period.
Have we in this struggle injured a single human being? ,
alas a single assault been committed ? Has the least
violence been done to any person ? No ! Miraculous
millions have met and assembled together. .
atLspye,eatk it,
ti
even an accident has occurred. Such is tbe
spirt •'t of forbearance towards each other that has bet .
exhibited by the Irish people, that that moral - miracle
has been witnessed, of countless multitudes meeting
i together without a single act of violence, without a single
accident occurring to man, woman, or child.—(Cheere.)