The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

BUENOS AYRES

Buenos Ayres papers of the 19th of August have come
to hand. According to these, Oribe was on the point of
joining Urquiza, with the vier; of consulting on the plan
of the eusuing campaign, and Riveira was reported to be
concentrating his forces at a respectful distance in the
neighbourhood of Tala. News is stated to have been
received at Buenos Ayres of the imprisonment of the
commander of the French Basques, in consequence of a
discovery that he, with his chiefs, designed to go over to
Oribe. The troops of Riveira had evacuated Moldonado,
and all supply of cattle had been cut off at Santa Lucia.
The number of vessels in port at Buenos Ayres was 130,
of which 34 were British. The exchange on England was
firm at 3 1-32 d. per paper dollar. Wool was 22 to 26
dollars, and tallow, pure, 28 to 30 dollars.

MADEIRA.—From a letter received from Dr. Kalley, of
date ith October, it appears he was still, after ten weeks'
imprisonment, in gaol. He gives in that letter some ac-
count of the attempts being made to prevent the circula-
tion of the Scriptures. Bail, it would appear, was still, at
the date of his letter, denied him. Some of Dr. Kalley's
friends in Madeira deem it almost providential that he is
in gaol, as otherwise attempts might have been made to
assassinate him.—Scottish Guardian.
ROYAL ANIOUR.—We find the following in the Na-
tional:—" There is much talk in the northern courts of
an affair which has sown dissention in a Royal family
hitherto strongly united. A young duke, who has become
the son-in-law of an absolute sovereign, by marrying, two
or three years ago, one of his daughters, has fallen vio-
lently in love with his sister-in-law. It appears certain
that his love is returned, for the august princess has re-
ceived orders not to leave her apartments for one month."

IRELAND.

THE TRIALS

Judge Burton delivered his charge on Wednesday. It
occupied forty-three minutes, and was listened to with
breathless attention by a crowded court

His lordship, after some prefatory remarks, came to the
part of the informations in which it was alleged that the
union was declared to be unlawful. On this head he said
that the legislative union is not only practically, but law-
fully in force in Ireland ; and that jury, in exercising their
judgment upon that indictment—are bound so to consider
it. This is not to be supposed to amount to a denial of
the right to contest the political expediency of continuing
that legislative union, or of seeking by lawful means an
alteration of it. He then went on to say that to adopt
unlawful means for carrying a lawful object was in itself
highly criminal. Adverting to the peaceable declarations
of the repealers, it was for the jury to say if they considered
that the multitudes had assembled for the purpose of in-
timidating by their numbers. The offence charged was
undoubtedly a misdemeanour; and that of tampering with
the army would be a still higher one in itself, and would
tend to confirm the other charge. It remained, he said,
for the jury to say whether they believed the moneys re-
ceived from different parts of the United Kingdom and
abroad were received for the purposes laid in the indict-
ments. He distinctly pronounced the Arbitration Courts
a misdemeanour, as attempting to usurp the prerogatives
of the crown, adding, however, that the effect of such as-
sumption was altogether inferential. He then came to
the case of Mr. Bond Hughes, on which so much of the
whole of the government proceedings depend ; and after
alluding to the well-known blunder of that gentleman as
regards Mr. Steel, he said :—lf it should appear that such
misrepresentation has been made wilfully and de-
liberately, such a misrepresentation justly disentitles him
to any credit at your hands ; and not wilfully, but through
any negligence or inadvertance—the fact may, under all
circumstances, be sufficient to materially affect his credit,
although not sufficient to deprive him of all credit as to
the truth of other portions of his testimony. His lord-
ship then very earnestly besought the jury to disabuse
their minds of all prejudice, and in conclusion said :
" At the present moment the parties are not even, legally
speaking, accused." On the whole, the charge is a very
mild and temperate one, and has given much satisfaction
to all.

HUGHES, THE INFORNIER.—After the delivery of the
charge, his lordship received information against Hughes
on a charge of perjury, though they had been previously
refused by the clerk of thee crown.

On Friday morning bills of indictment were sent before
the city grand jury. An abstract of the indictment, as is
usual in such cases, was furnished to the grand jury, but
some of its members required that the whole document,
with. all its tedious averments and tedious repetitions,
should be read. The informations upon which the parties
were held to bail were sworn to but by one person, viz.,
Mr. Bond Hughes ' • whereas there is a long list of wit-
nesses (upwards of twenty) endorsed on the back of the
bills of indictment. At four o'clock the witnesses were
ordered to be in attendance on the following morning,
when they were again present, but the Grand Jury did
not find the bills on that day, and it was not expected that
the finding of the Jury would take place until Monday
(yesterday).

DUBLIN, Saturday, Nov. 4.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
In the course of the day the Chief Justice said, he un-
derstood that the city grand jury had signified to Mr.

Justice Burton that they had something to say to the court

The Clerk of the Crown intimated that he had received
a communication to that effect from their secretary.
The Chief Justice.—lt would be right they should
come into court.

The jury were accordingly sent for, and appeared in
their box, when
The Foreman said, there appeared to be a clerical error
in the fourth count of the indictment, in which the names

of two parties, Thomas Tierney and Peter James Tyrrell,
should be mentioned. Those names appeared in that

count as Thomas Tierney and Peter James Tierney, the
word Tierney being substituted for Tyrrell. Some of the

jury thought it was a clerical error, and wished to have
the word Tyrrell inserted in the proper place instead of

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Tierney, and he begged to know if he should hand the
bill down to be altered ?

The Chief Justice.—You had better, if you please.
Has Mr. Tyrrell any counsel in court? _ _

Mr. M`lionagb.—ll am counsel for Mr. Tyrrell, my
lord.

The Chief Justice.—Do you make any objection ?
Mr. M'Donagh.—l object, on the part of Mr. Tyrrell,
to that bill being now meddled with. It is given in charge
to the grand jury, and it is for them to ignore or find it as
they think right. I have every objection to my client's
name (Tyrrell) being put into that indictment.
The Foreman observed that the mistake had only oc-
curred in one count.
The Chief Justice.—All the other counts are right.
The Attorney-General.—l apprehend there can be no
doubt about the matter. The alteration will, of course,
be made.

Mr. Hatchell.—l submit there is no authority to amend
the bill.

The Attorney-General said the document was at present
nothing more than a bill ; it was not an indictment till
it was found, and the jury were quite at liberty, if they
thought proper, to hand it to the clerk of the crown,
from whom they received it, to have the alteration made
by him.
Mr. M'Donagh submitted that the clerk of the crown
had no authority to alter the bill.
The Chief Justice.—He has the informations on which
the bill was founded, from which he can correct any mis-
take.
Mr. M`DorrAGH said the bill was not the work of the
clerk of the crown ; it was prepared by the attorney..
general, who was prosecuting for the crown, and given
through the hands of the clerk of the crown to the grand
jury. The grand jury had been charged with that bill to
dispose of, and the attorney-general or any other party
had no right to withdraw or amend it.
The Attorney-General.--4 believe Mr. M`Donagh is
acting as an atnicus curice in this case; he has not a li-
cense from the crown for defending Mr. Tyrrell.
Mr. M`Donagh said he had a license in Mr. Tyrrell's
case. He had been very guarded in all these cases, and
refused retainers until license in each of them had been
taken out.
Mr. Cantwell (solicitor in the case) stated that he had
taken out a licence for Mr. M`Donogh to act for Mr.
Tyrrell, and he called upon Mr. M'Donagh now to give
him every assistance in this matter.
The Attorney- General expressed himself satisfied, and
Mr. M•Donagh then requested that their lordships
would let the point stand for argument until Monday.
No case had occurred where such an alteration was per-
mitted to be made in a bill of indictment. It was im-
possible for the Clerk of the Crown to have any foundation
to amend ; be had no basis to change the name of Tierney
into Tyrrell in either information or indictment. If it
were wrong in both, therefore, he could not suppose the
, officer would make any alteration. The court would leave

ings, or listened to upon a bill, as long as the proceedings
were ex parte. Until the accused were called upon to
answer the indictment, they should not appear ; and,in-
stead of calling on him for an authority for the court, he
considered that the court should call upon the other side
for authority to object. The grand jury might have made
the alteration themselves, but as the bill came down he
considered that the court should order it to be done.

Mr. M'Donagh wished to explain. The Attorney-
General said he had no right to be heard, but he (Mr.
M'D.) had waited until the court asked if there were any
counsel for the Rev. Mr. Tyrrell present.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—I dare say the irregularity was
originally attributable to me. (Laughter.) After having
conferred with the other members of the court, the learned
Chief Justice said, that at the present stage of the pro-
ceedings the bill could not be considered or properly
called a bill of indictment; it was a mere bill sent up on
the part of the crown by the Attorney-General, through
the clerk of the crown, to the grand jury. So far no
third party had a right to be heard. If the Attorney-
General or the jury had pointed out a clerical error, the
court should give permission to have it altered ; but the
conrt were of opinion that the crown could remedy it
without any application.

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The error was accordingly rectified
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The following intelligence from Ireland, expressed

from our ow•n correspondent, appeared in a Second Edi-

tion of our last publication

Dublin, Monday, Oct. 30th,
Half-past Eight o'clock, pqn.
I send you a report of the proceedings at the usual
weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, at the Con.
ciliation Hall, up to its close.
Mr. O'Connell moved John Molony, Esq., ex-J. P.,
into the chair.
Mr. O'Connell proceeded to read the letter of Doctor
Slattery, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, en-
closing a subscription to the repeal funds. He characte-
rised it as the letter of a pious prelate and true-hearted
Irishman, who bad never before mixed in politics, but
was possessed of a powerful intellect and the greatest pa-
triotism. They had already two of their four archbishops
declared repealers, and he was proud to rank Michael of
Cashel beside John of Tuam. (Hear, and cheers•)
The Hon. Gentleman handed in £lOO from Quebec,
and took occasion to praise the wisdom of the British
councils there. The rent for the week was announced at
a late hour to amount to eleven hundred and thirty-eight
pounds thirteen shillings and sixpence, and the meeting
was then adjourned.

The Evening Mail of to-night contains the following
announcement, which no doubt will create some surprise
when we remember the many boasts of openness and
affections for all, which were hitherto so plentifully
sprinkled through the agitator's discourses :

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD