The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-29 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
These Sessions commenced this morning befordlf.
Sergeant ARABIN and the City Authorities. The calell
contained 35 cases of offences committed in London,
281 cases from Middlesex. The greater part of the.-
however seem of minor importance.
At ten o'clock Mr. Justice PARK and Mr. Baron GAS'
Row took their seats on the bench.
George Claremont; aged 27, was indicted for stettlilig_A
on the sth of June last, a quantity of wearing apparelar
some other artieres, value 111., the property of X_Ar'
Nicholson. By the evidence of the prosecutor it appeal.'"
that he went nut of town in June last, and left his pore
rnanteau at his lodgings, the Manchester Coffee-house,
Manchester-street, Marylehone. He hail never 'wen 194
clotho, riore he left town. The prisoner was ledr
ing in the same house at the same time, and, Ile
and t cordingrwit to the
hadevidenicrg
eeonfenttli;
beleanndseeloind,tahkiisngdabuugnhdltogre
front the house, hut never bringing any thing in. Off
he had left these lodgings for some time, the " boots °
the coffee-house saw him, and asked hint if he had bee°
lodging at that house, and he replied that he never boil
he had been abroad lhr eight months previously. The land'
lord of the coffee-house, his son, daughter,
and waiter,
all now spoke positively to the prisoner's identity. „id
The prisoner admitted that he was the person Who "jo
lodged there ; but stated that the bundles he had taleout were articles-of linen and hosiery which he had Pre;
viously taken in. The reason of his answering the w2itie.,
as the latter had stated was, that lie did not recollect sic
name of the house where he had lodged, and was cert°l-
-
that he bad not been in London for the eight months rot
vious to Ain il last, at which time the man accused bin'having lodged there.
The Learned Juror, in summing up to the JurYt
served that the prisoner was indictee' for stealing. to
dwelling-house to the amount of Si. and upwards.
necessary however to prove, that some one article esstolen at eme tierce, that was worth Si. It Wes Joe
enough to prove that various articles to above the 'lto
of 5/. were stolen at different times in quantities oftr
value than the whole. They would therefore, if
thought the prisoner teas the person who stole the, ""
n"
that fact into consideration. itteJ
The Jury after a few minutes' deliberation acll°

the prisc.mr. sly
John Duffy, aged 17, gardener, was indicted for I)
ing and entering ihe dwelling-house of Mr. Greenoo,o
and stealing therefrom a clock value 75., and a shirt

Is. on the 234 September hist. 't jog
The prosecutor stated, that he was a labourer, b apd
at Camdtn Town. On the above day he went 01 00
left the key of the door for his wife, in &secret place; har
window was secure ; he heard that something ha° s the
pened to his house at his return; saw the prisoner°,- hip
same night, and accused him of having broken in'''.,,
left
house. The prisoner denied it; witness WAS sure Moe,
all sife, and the clock was there when he left the b°
Duffy was afterwards searched, and a duplicate of a
and ls. 6d. found upon him. 11/
?ft pie broken open

The prosecutor's wife found the place
the window, and the clock stolen; she identified the

and clock which were now produced. tilg
A pawnbroker depoFed that the prisoner pinned
sLirt with hini for sixpence.
Mary Garrow bought the clock produced of the prisorier
on the night of the burglary.
The prisoner merely denied having taken the thing", °Pe
called witnesses to character. beg°

Mr. Baron GARROW observed that it had for age,
ce' to
the law of the country that it should be a capital °ge gel
rob this who hid no protection if the law did not possil
them. The present was an offence of that characnotor
it remained for them to say whether or not the Po
had committed it.
isotte

The Jury almost immediately found the pri
Guilty.
I før
Martha Geary, aged 66, widow, was indica% of
stealing a quantity of table-cloths and other aftiO-bes•
linen, the property of the Earl of Aberdeen and other".
employers. ofr
Mr. LzE stated to the Jury that the prisoner pri
played as housekeeper to the Athentrum Club, at a 9-501'
of 45/. per year, which was afterwards increased t°
A woman named Gray was employed by the pris°.%itig
charwoman, and she was frequently Yin the habit
-00
bundles away from the Club-house. She WO atoll 014 r
one occas'on, and found to have coffee, soap, an het'
things belonging. to the Club. The prisoner was pre'
wards seen selling a table-cloth to Mrs. Gray, in t,,j-tooej
sence of another servant, named Sarah Pollard- 0,
time some towels were missed from the Club-ho"
the Secretary, on inquiring of the prisoner whe:o's-re
were, was informed that they were at the 101°Jr
Two hundred yards of cloth was then procurell'od
purpose of making 200 towels of one yard each, NO °the
rowels were male, but they were found to Ools tndab
iths of a yard each, mAing a deficiency of 2b r the 'dill
200. Tnis led to an inquiry into the state o' orn!' he
linen, and the deficiency consisted of the articles ,
the indictment, which he (Mc. Lee) had no doubt
could clearly trace to the prisoner.
The trial was not concluied when we went to t

bINNE R GIVEN TO MR. SHELL BY THE

LOUTH FREEHOLDERS.

It having been understood that Mr. Sheil would
attend the registry of Freeholders of Dundalk, it
Was determined by a large body of Freeholders to
give him a public dinner, in order to express the
popular feeling in his regard. Accordingly, upon
Thursday last, he was invited to dine at Magrath's
Rooms. Although there were only two days'
notice, 119 persons sat down to dinner, of which up-
wards of 100 are registered Freeholders. Mr.
RICHARD VERDON took the Chair. Mr. Sheil sat
'Ton his right hand, and Mr. Fitzgerslsl, of Fare
Valley, who has given all his interest to Mi. Shell,
sat on the left. After the cloth had been removed,
the following toasts were given
:
" The King—who derives his power from the People."
" The People."
" The Duke of Clarence and the Navy."
" The Duke of Sussex and the rest of the Royal Family."
" The Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland."
" Our guest, Mr. Shell, and may he, upon the next
racancy, represent the county of Louth." This toast was I
received with loud and continued plaudits.
Mr. SHELL said—These proofs of the popular
feeling amount to demonstration. There are up- i
wards of 100 Freeholders in this room who thus
pledge themselves to my support. The gentlemen
to whom I am opposed will never bring to the hust-
ings as many voters as are collected here this night.
But enough upon this topic. I throw myself and
Mr. Bellew out of the scale, saying no more than
this—that as the republicans of the United States,
in the selection of individuals for office, uniformly
gave the preference to men who had been contri
butors to the independence of their country, so the
persons who had signalized themselves in the
achievement of the liberty of Ireland have some title
to the predilection of their fellow-citizens. Whether
I was one of those to whom the Roman Catholics
of Ireland owe some obligation, it is for you to de-
termine.—(Loud cheers.)—The next election will
nut put your gratitude, but my deserts, to the
test. If you should repudiate me, I shall not
conclude that you are thankless, but that I am
self unworthy. But putting all consideration
of ndividuals aside, (and I have, perhaps, ex-
ceeded the habitual limits, wide as they are, within
Which the egotism. of a candidate ought to be cir-
cumscribed), let us inquire a little what cast of per-
t.ioris Ireland ought to return to Parliament.—( Hear,
bear.)'—Let us estimate the qualifications of the
trustees, by determining the exact nature of the
mist. If the measure „ill work its own way, and
the tide of circumstances be so much in its favour,
that no sort of skill or effort be requisite in direct-
mg it, you will not deem it necessary to retain the
mariners
who mantled the vessel in tempestuous
lime'''. Many a storm has been weathered, and we
bave got the ship within the lights, and beyond the
bar, at last ; hut the V% heel is not yet to be placed in
inexperienced hands, and you perhaps stand as much
jq need of pilotage as ever. But I ought to abandon
this cast of illustration. Plain things ought to be
expressed in a plain fashion. How stands the coun-
try ?
%lot has been done, and what remains to
be accomplished ? The first question is not very
:ifneldt to answer—the second is one which de-
serves the attention of the Government fully as much
as it does your own.—(Hear, hear.)—l go back for
a iliOnlent to the preliminary interrogatory. What
&Islas been done ? That which will confer everlasting
14rne upon the man who has achieved it—conceive his
tiatee in the sanctuaries of history—give to his mili-
tary
reputation the consummation of a sacred and
Pacific celebrity, and place him foremost not only
an a
• the benefactors of his country, but amongst
'Hose
who, by the inculcation of lofty principles,
‘8"411 have deserved well of mankind. That has been
"nne, Which, while it rescues the island and its
people from the imminence of the most dreadful of all
dangers, and tears it almost out of the gulf of civil
War, has also tended to impart solidity and perma-
nence to the majestic empire of which Ireland con-
stitutes so important a part. I might pursue this in•
tecrogatory, and the responses to it, but it is untie-
eaessarY• There is little need of expatiation upon what
."asbeen accomplished, w ben seven millions of our fel-
'ow-citizens carry in their own throbbing hearts the ele-
14ting consciousness that they are at last in the
posseftion
of liberty,—that their ignominious thral-
deal has been shaken off, and that they have been
exalted to the majestic level upon which, in the
coatemplation of the law, we all at present stand.
*--(Hear, hear.) A far more important question re-
Mains--what is to be done ? I said that this inter-
rogatory equally concerned the Government and the
people ; let me begin with the latter. To them I
Prietly submit that Catholic emancipation, by open-
ing the avenues of legislation, has afforded them the
theyof doing justice to themselves; and that if
In'eY feel
n , th out of the enal e there arose
abusesat which require p
correction,cod those abuses
' Hot terminate with the cessation of their re-
it ft
call*e, but it will be indispensable to use mea-
tojes of great strenuousness and vigour, in order to
euectuate their removal. It is not necessary that I
:41,_°111(1 go into any lengthened detail of the evils
Qynien remain to be corrected; it is enough to say,
that if the people are truly solicitous for their re-
Mln"al, they will take care to put into Parliament
o en who will at once be able and willing to co-
erate for this salutary purpose.—(Cheers.)—But
e most important question remains. That the
People will do what it behoves them, for they are
seldom false to themselves, 1 make no doubt, but
what part does it become the duty of the Govern-
tneot to perform ?—(hear.)—l have not unfre-
'Newly had occasion to refer to the relative state of
the Creoles and the Spaniards, as illustrative of that
of the Irish Roman Catholics' and the class who
*ere
placed in ascendancy above them. The
aulnity has not as yet completely ceased, and it is
Stated by Humboldt, that although laws were passed
r the emancipation of the Creoles, yet they were
;
•Ploperative, because they were counteracted
tivi a spirit more powerful than the enactments of
, a Government, and rendered virtually void and of
effect.--(Hear.)—Let the men who hold the
tTins of authority, and who superintend the des-
,;llleB of the nation, beware lest they should not
lima
vit to embody in a wise execution what they
tha: ° wisely and benevolently conceived, and
than itteoder our condition more disastrous
mai -"was before. Let me not, however, ,be mis-
to erstonil. I am not imputing any sort of blame
tr anY Member of the local government of this coun-
07arbecause I am firmly convinced that the Duke
Northumberland and Lord F. L. Gower are both
actuated by the best intentions with respect to Ire-
(Cheers.)-1 he recent answer of the Lord
in Lieutenant to the Presbyterian Synod put his feel-
,usout of all sort of doubt. Neither have %ye any
13:e to discredit the assurances given by the mem-
p_rS of the Cabinet, and especially by Mr. Secretary
eael) that Catholic Emancipation should not remain
i_u_,ead letter in the statute book, but should be cos-
i:nu jilt° an effectual and practical completion. I
"inuylot disguise my own surprise and regret, that
(.e the measure has been settled, some exceed-
;,' untoward appointments have taken place;
Mill niter can we hide from ourselves the fact, that
a Yet upon the Roman Catholic has any of the
10anna of patronage casually dropped. But al-
re`‘Toces ought to be made, and are made, for dif-
u.lties, and we recollect that as yet a sufficient
aelcid of gestation has not been allowed to the
theuvernment, to give the conceptions with which
weY oct doubt are teeming birth.—(Laughter.)—
ss _ do net mean to quarrel with men who have
toiresseti themselves to be devoted to the good of
th'e and' because, before the lapse of nine months,
boys
designs with which their minds are pregnant
t_4te not been brought forth;—still I think it tine
s_u, candour to tell them, and to warn the man to
ri‘v.,lttorn the happiness of this great country is con-
d, that they must-1 repeat the word—that
must give some practical proofs of their deter-
It
ation to give to the measure of relief a sub-
, nrtial effect ; or else a deeper, and darker, and
:1e formidable discontent will arise, from the
lotration of the nation's hopes, and men will
"fl be found perfectly competent, and not at

• all unwilling, to administer to the passions of
the people that aeitation which they know so
well how to apply. It will be asked of me what I
mean perhaps ; toy answer shall be perfectly frank.
The Irish Catho!ics expect to see an utter extinetioe
of the ascendancy system. They expect that no prefer-
ence shall be given to men upon account of their rea
ligion, in any profession or walk of life, excepting
those which are associated with the religion of the
State. They demand that all distinction between
Cathac and Protestaut shall, in the eyes of Go-
vernment, disappear, and that neither at the bar, nor
in any other purauit in life, any sectarian differences
I should be remembered.--(Loud cheers.)—l repeat
I that I do not attribute to the Government any deli-
berate design to perpetuate the system of exclusion;
but I would strongly admonish them that they
should have a care not to relapse into their former
habitudes, and from either carelessness, or allowing
the underlings of authority—men of red tape and
sealing wax, to assume too much controul, and
abusing of the official nonchalance of their superiors,
to become the virtual, although they be not the os-
tensible distributors of the honours and emoluments
of the State. Matters must not he permitted to go
on in their old fashion. The political Pactolus must
be diverted from its ancient channels, and for this
end an effort must be used, for, if left to itself, it will
continue to flow on in the course which it has won
for itself. If lam asked what proportion of the pa-
tronage of Government ought to be extended to the
body which is now no longer alienated from the
State, but which cannot be strongly fastened to it
except by the links which have human nature for
their rivet, I answer that the measure of distribution
should be a mean between the property of the party
and the numbers and the power of the others.—
These observations may be regarded as indicative of
a great thirst for office on the part of those who
made it their vaunt that they looked only to eligi-
bility. To this insinuation, so far as individuals are
concerned, I pay no attention. I am not referring to
individuals, for whether certain men be passed by, or
others be promoted, is of little interest to the nation ;
all that I intend to convey is the abstract proposition
that, in order to conciliate a community which has
been so long kept apart from the constituted au-
thorities, the impression that they are still under a
ban, and that a fall at present exists between them
and the class to whose level they have been legally
raised, must be utterly effaced. Of this lam con-
vinced, that if the system of sectarian preference is
to be still either purposely or from inattention al-
lowed to be carried away, the old animosities will
be revived with greater force, and the Catholic body
will look upon the injustice practised in their regard
as embittered by the mockery of a valueless and
abortive law. But let it not be thought that it is
only by a just allocation of patronage that I conceive
that the effect is to be given to emancipation: al-
though I have mentioned it as one of the ingredients
of conciliation, I am far from looking upon it as the
main one. There are many other measures which
are still more indispensible. The education of the
people, through the medium of the Catholic clergy,
and a proper application of the Parliamentary grants
for instruction of the peasantry, would lead to the
most beneficial results; for while it would tend to
diffuse better habits among the lower orders ;it would
also attbch a powerful intellectual co-operation to
the Government, by the honourable confidence
which would be reposed in them. Many other means
cf giving reality to Catholic emancipation might be
suggested, but the matter which beyond every other
deserves the deep consideration of the Irish executive,
is the administration of justice. There are many per-
sons who imagine that whets the manner in which jus-
tice is administered is impeached, it is intended to assail
the judge to whom it is committed. Nothing of the
kind is intended. The Catholics in their complaints
of what takes place in our public tribunals mainly
object to the exclusive Protestant constitution of the
juries. This is a great evil, because it excites sus-
picions almost as baneful as the actual impurity upon
the part of those who ought not only to be above
guilt, but above surmise. The Government are
bound to adopt efficacious means to get rid of this
source of matured injury. It will not be difficult to
have it remedied in other parts of Leland, but in
the city of Dublin it will require no ordinary energy
and determinetion. The Corporation of Dublin is
the seat of great evil. The power of nominating
Sheriffs gives that body the appointment of juries,
and thus the most important of all public tribunals
where political cases are necessarily tried, is con-
verted by a ferocious faction into the means of per-
petuating their ascendancy.—(Hear.)—Lord Plun-
kett, when Attorney-General, had some experience
of this dreadful domination ; to obviate it, he intro-
duced an Act of Parliament, enabling the law offi-
cers to lay the venue in the county instead of the
city, and thus to escape from the corporation. But
to the defendant there is no privilege afforded. Let
men cavil as they will, I fearlessly assert it, and I am
convinced that DO unbiassed men will contradict me,
that not only is there a general conviction amongst
the Catholic body that there is unfair dealing in
their regard, in the nomination of Dublin juries,
but that in point of fact a factions spirit influences
their appointment, and men are often selected
who are not only exclusively Protestants, but emi-
nent for the ferocity of their partisanship. What,
let me ask, has Catholic emancipation done to re-
move this cause of deep and festering animosity ?
Nothing whatever. The strongest political antipa-
thies now rage in the heart of the corporation. The
sheriffs are compelled to pledge themselves to offer
a periodical insult to the feelings of the people.—
(Loud cheers.)—Witness the late orgies, in which
the officer intrusted with the return of juries took
so conspicuous a part. Is this system then to lie
endured? Are the Government to stated by the
passive spectators of those enormous abuses ? Will
they allow the Corporation of Dublin to continue
the arbiters of our rights, and to make their awards
upon our characters, our properties, and our free-
dom ?--(Cheers.)—ls this Corporation to he per-
mitted to stand as a hold from which the Orange
flag is still to be unfurled, as the emblem of an
ascendancy which has been only nominally im-
paired '?—(Cheers.)—ls it—in the name of con-
sistency, of decency, of truth, and of honour,—is it
from the Corporation of Dublin that justice is to
flow, and in place of the pure fountains, to use Lord
Mansfield's expression, from which it ought to be
drawn, are its streams to be derived from this reser-
voir of the basest faction, which is to be kept

as a cistern for foul toads
" To knot and gender in ?"—(Loud cheers.)
This system cannot be permitted to continue, or if
it be, farewell to the good effects of emancipation.
If the Government act with a strenuous sincerity in
carrying it into operation, it will, before much time
goes by, have accomplished a complete reconcilia-
tion, and achieved all the good which the prophets
of prosperity had announced ; but if, upon the other
hand, its spirit be not embodied in the measures of
the state, and if it be not stamped upon the whole
proceedings of the Government,—if it be not recol-
lected that the great 7,000,000 arc still the natural
objects of conciliation, and that they constitute the
people of Ireland, then, instead of an improvement
in our condition, I foresee an augmentation of our
antipathies, and a renovation of our national disasters.
The consequence will be, that the Catholics, with-
out having been reconciled, will have acquired new
means of enforcing their complaints. They will
rally under their old leaders, who will have been fur-
nished with new weapons from the armoury which
the Legislature will have supplied. They will enter
again into the coalition,—not religious, perhaps, but
Anti-anglican,—in which they have in their former
organization so formidable a model, nor will they be
in want of standard-bearers. Individuals who would,
under other circumstances, be di .posed to adopt a
different course, will be driven by the Government
itself into the receptacles of intemperance. Those
who believed they had escaped from the vast whirl-
pool of faction will be sucked back into the tremen-
dous vortex. There will the same appeals be made
to the popular and religious passions of a commu-
nity, Whose power will have greatly increased, while
their sense of their wrongs will have proportionably

augmented. The peop!e will 1i ro'l that cm.ree'.
pation has only given 'h. Incites of re‘ires;, and thr-:
will be invited to its attain:nem. Ti;ey w'll then
he taught that by admi,sion to the Howse of Com-
mons emancipation has only thrown open the door,.
of the Augean stable, and opened the inlet by which
the great tide of popular emotion is to he turned
into it, and !;I:, Lirdened 'leaps of utxesei-nee are
to be swept away. It is, then, for the Go,.ernmero
to determine, for it depends on them whether they
will excite those sentiments in the country, and raise
up another and a still more powerful confederacy
than that which had existed, and the recollection of
which is sufficiently alluring to unite a second of the
experiment, and let not the individuals be condemn-
ed. The latter only follow the public feeling : wise
measures will produce amongst the people a dispo-
sition which would render the efforts of the roost
vehement and adventurous politicians quite abor-
tive ; while injudicious and exasperat ilia. proceedings
would force even the moderate into violentr courses.
For my own part (for I should revert to myself ),
if you shall select me to represent you in Parliament,
you will find me always anxious to contribute to the
pacification of my country, but determined at the
same time to follow the dictates of our constituents.
—(Cheers.)—On no other principle could I offer
myself to you. I cannot select a better model than
Alexander Dawson, and in fidelity to your interests, '
as well as in compliance with your wishes, I shall
endeavour to emulate him. I need say no more
touching myself than that my opinions are his; upon
the question which occupies the attention of the
empire, we have no difference. I should find it
difficult to stand in the town of Dundalk, and. to
bear the name of Roden in my remembrance,
without being a zealous advocate of reform. It is
in my judgment monstrous that we should be told
that the 40s. franchise was justifiably abolished, but
that the pious proprietor of this most putrid borough
cannot be disturbed in his Parliamentary possessions.
But I have trespassed at too great a length upon your
patience; I thank you for the kindness with which
you have listened to me, and conclude with the as-
surance that you shall always find me the devoted
and enthusiastic servant of my country. Mr. Shell
sat down amidst loud cheers.

After Mr. Sheil had concluded, several other toasts
were drank. The health of Mr. O'Connell was drank
with reiterated cheering. Mr. Sheil pronounced a
high panegyric upon the Liberator of Ireland.
The health of Mr. Fitzgerald, of Fane Valley, was
drank with great acclamation. He declared himself,
in a short but emphatic speech, to be determined to
give all his interest to Mr. Sheil.
We have not space to report the rest of the pro-
ceedings, and we mealy state that Mr. Anthony
Marmion made a very able speech upon Parliamen-
tary reform, which was loudly cheered, and that the
description given by Mr. William Sheeran, of Major
Frood, the agent to Lord Roden, produced repeated
roars of laughter, at the expense of the worthy dis-
ciple of the apostle of Dundalk.