Star.
London, England, 1829-08-15 00:00:00

OF TIII FLOOR OIDITIXOL.

JUDGE JEUR'S CHARGE.

COUNTY ARMAGH ASSIZES, AUG. 6.

The Hon. Justice Jinn arrived in this city from Mo-
naghan at 10 o'clock. and took his seat in the Crown Court at It.
Judge Jess. after some preliminary remarks on the state of tie
calendar. said, I have been happy to obsetve a very gradual dind-
nutien of crime, both in enormity and extent. This shomed an
improved state of society, a great part of which is attributable to
the industrious !milks promoted so much by the linen and cotton
manufactures. Buck is the general character of your county ; and
front which I ant surf there should exist the slightest drawback. I
allude, Gentlemen. to that unhappy spirit of party statiefsbas been
the cause of so much tumult and outrage ice this and tuber counties
in Ireland. I hope that in making a few obterratiort on this
subject. and with respect to the jurisdiction of the Pilagistrate..
it will not be considered I am exceeding the limits of my
proper duty. My anxiety for the wellbeing and peace of this
county (and I am sure you arc all, equally anxious in this respect)
induces me to make these observations, at the same time that I feel
lam treading on dangerous and slippery ground. I would again
express a hope that wit aaaaa t observation may sow proceed front
the Bench. it will be attributed entirely to as anxious desire to
make all acquainted with the law as it really is, and an earnest
wish, at the same time, to promote the interests and w -11-being a
this county. Nor, be assured, do 1 speak from any distrust that
I have of you, Gentlemen, either as Magistrates or Grand Jurors.
My object is that what I am now going to say may be conveyed by
you to the people, fur whom it is more particularly intended, and
I wi.h It to be so deeply impressed upon their feelings, as that
the Magistrates may hereafter have less difficulty in enacting
due obedience to the law. You are all awue that the re-
cent mischiefs originated with certain processions customary in
this country—processions, which it is my duty to declare are not,

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in themselves. utilawlul. They were _
event dear to every real fiiend of religious and civil liberty, and of
the last importance to these united countries : to put a violent stop
to than would therefore be acting iu direct violation of our free
Constitution, for, abstractedly liken, they are, I repeat. lawful.
History. we may all remember, informs us that, at former periods,
all classes—all, from the highest to the lowest in the land—ceedi-
ally joined together in publicly commemorating the evens to which
I allude—and, clearly, there was nothing unlawful In this. lint
circumstances have since been changed, and the present aspect of
the times renders it necessary that prudence should be consulted.
Such public commemorations, at one time unobjectionable and
even praiseworthy. now excite feelings of the most unpleasant and
exasperating nature in others; and k was said such celebrations
alone constituted the ground of °Seem Until very lately it hal
net been considered unlawful in people to manifest their opinions
in this way; now, however, k was so considered by others, who
seamed to take it an insult to their feelings—irritation is thereby
produced words generally ensue—recourse is nest had to
blows-4ben follows a confused scene of riot and outrage, and the
affair too often eventuates in aprofuse shedding alumna blood.
lly "Woo. then. decidedly is. that the mere act of publicly
commemorating • legal event is sot in itself unlawful ; but if such

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COMlNlMOratiimi have a tendency to riot, or it a breach-of the peace
be apprehended to result from it, then indeed it becomes unlawful.
I will add further, that if persons commemorating even a legal event
are attacked by as opposite party, and an engagement ensues, t►ey
are equally liable to ho Indicted for riot, though not equally guilty.
So much for these comoseasorations.
Now, by the other party—you, f3endemen, will understand
whom L mean by the other party—have meetings and assemblages
for the purpose of preventing and resisting the consmerneratitms
I have mentioned. Such meetings, the °hint et which Is to
disturb the public peace, are unquestionably in themselves un-
lawlui. None but the constituted Authorities have a right to
interfere in the dispersion of any such assembles, ; and this
they should do wherever they would Ind them ; at the same
time the law should be equally administered on both sides.—
It is the duty of Magistrates, whenever an assemblage in
procession is cootemplated, and where they have reason to
apprehend a collision of parties, to use every entreaty to induce
them to desist, and also to warn them against the consequences
of so assem►ling ; and if, notwithstanding this caution, they do
assemble, the Magistrates will then act in such a manner as may
best contribute to preserve the peace, and to punish eves),
infraction of it. If the authority of the Magistrate be disre-
garded by the assemblage, and there be a reasonable ground fur
expecting riot and outrage, the Riot Act should be read, and
the people ordered to disperse. [The people should know that
those who do not obey the statute law incur a charge otfeluoy.
The Riot Act being read, it will then be a matter of discretion
with t►e Magistrates tuber to resort to force for dispersing the
assembly, or to acquaint themselves with the names of the hotels.
/sly advice to the Magistrates would be, to be very cautious
before they resort to lure ; and the much better way, in use
'Odes. would be for them to satisfy themselves with 'AMg down
their names. It should be at the very last extremity they would
resort to force. As to the opposite meetings, they are in themselves
clearly unlawful. The Magistrates should tell those persons they
are not to take the law into their own hand■ ; and if they do out
at once disperse, force should be resorted to. From the experisoce
and knowledge I have of this county, I am of opinion t►at the
sentiments I have expressed cannot be too often inculcated upon
people ; and, in this respect, I count much, Gentlemen, upon the
'oftener which you individually possess as Magistrates and Land-
lords: and I doubt not that you will always act upon that sound
and equitable principle on which the law is Wooded, sod by which
alone you may expect a ready obedience to the laws of the land.—
His Lordship then called the attention of the Jury to the state ut
the gaols, roads, &c.

FAMILIARITY.
Old Nick, who taught the 'Vbs. school,
Had wed a (maid of homespun batik ;
He was as stubborn as a mule,
And she was playful as a rabbit.
Poor Jane bad scarce become a wife
Before bee husband sought to make her
The very pink at polished lUe,
And trim and formulas a Quaker.
One day the mule, went abroad,
And sadly simple Jenny missed him :
When be returned behind her lord
She gently stole, and fondly kissed him !
The busband's anger row—and red
And white Ms face alternate grew ;
" Less freedom, ma'am !" Jane hung bee bead,
And said," I didn't know 'twee you !"

The average wages paid to agricultural labourers ha
Devonshire are 7s. per week, with the understanding that they
shall be provided with suck quantities of wheat as they may require
at ss. per bushel, and of barley at is. per bushel. Other lahourers
receive only 41s. per week, and obtain their wheat and barley as as.
and 3s. pet bushel. The general allowance of cider is three-plots
per day. The prospects of the cider crop are greater than for mans
years, and it may already be bought in retail, clandatinely, at ed.
Per Puler*
A farm of 150 acres in Devonskire let, sixty years
ago, for one hundred pounds per annum, sod the landlord paid all
the rases and charges on it. la fact, at that tonal it was long
wkliout a tenant. The same tarns now lets for two hundred and
seventy pounds per annum, the tenant paying all the charges
on it, and the poor-rates nearly amount to the former rent. I
the situation of the landowner were compared with that of the
naansfacterer here, it would be found that the tendency of things
has been towards the of the laadMrd and the ruin
of the manufacturer. To eragisrealfilect any other result from Legislators,
who are, with very few eaceptians, the landed aristocracy of the
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country, would show
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