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Br mfin and a certain number of officers retired into Spain.
This event, though purchased by conditions betraying the
weakness of the government, is still important, as ter-
minating, at least for a time, the armed resistance to the
present cabinet.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, M.
Guizot declared, on the presentation of a petition on the
subject, that it was the intention of the guvernmeat to
abolish negro slavery in the French colonies, and that in
so doing they should be guided by the example and expe-
rience of Great Britain.

The Duchess of Kent and Prince of Leiningen, accom.
panied by the Queen of the French and several princes
and princesses of the Royal family, visited on Sunday the
palaces of Versailles and Trianon. The august party
walked through-the park of Versailles whilst the water-
works were playing, and were everywhere cheered with
lively acclamations. On Tuesday, at noon, the Duchess
of Kent, the King and Queen of the French, and the rest
of the Royal family left the Tuillelies for Fontaitibleau,
where they were to remain until Thursday evening.

IRE LAND.

DUBLIN COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-MAY 6.

All the avenues to the Queen's Bench were- crowded
from an early hour this morning; the listlessness which
had so strongly characterized the public during the de-
livery of the long-winded and time. kill►ng hal angues of
the traversers' counsel, having, now that there appeared
some probability of judgment being pronounced this term,
given way to an intense anxiety to ascertain the result.
By eleven o'clock, the hour at which the full court usually
sit, every disposable inch of room in every part of the Court
was occupied. The front of the gallery was filled with
ladies. None of the members of the Court appeared at
the usual hour, which caused much disappointment to the
Public curiosity. Twelve o'clock came, and still their
Lordships remained absent. The ladies, the gentlemen of
the bar, the press, and those liege subjects who are classed
as the public at large, might be seen in little groups, en-
gaged in the most animated conversation on such topics
as, what the Judges were now actually doing ? Wheth.er
they were, or were not, arranging and discussing their
judgment ?

However, all the various and interesting speculations—
and they were numerous—were put an end to by the crier
shouting " Silence ! " a few moments after which Mr.
Justice Burton entered the court and took his seat, and
in a few minutes was followed by Mr. Justice Crampton,
and at a quarter past twelve o'clock the Lord Chief Jus-
tice took his seat, but Mr. Justice Perrin did not appear.
The Attorney-General and several of the Crown counsel

were present, together with the Crown Solicitor and Mr.
Hodges, the Government reporter. Some of the counsel
and agents for the traversers were in attendance, as also
I were Dr. Gray, the Rev. Mr. Tierney, and Mr. Steele,
O'Connell's head pacificator.
The CHIEF JUSTICE having inquired if Mr. Attorney-
General wished to move any thing,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL bowed to the court, but
had no motion to make, upon which
The CHIEF JUSTICE made the same inquiry of
Mr. BREWSTER, Q. C., who rose and said, that in the
case of Stringer v. Mac Donald, he had been instructed to
apply to their lordships for a new trial. '
The motion was destitute of any feature of public in-
terest.

Mr. Brewster's motion having been disposed of, for the
present, upon a preliminary objection,
The Court proceeded to call upon the Queen's Counsel
present to move, according to their seniority, some of
whom having availed them of the opportunity, one or two
cases were heard, during the last of which Mr. Justice
Perrin, who, it was understood, had been engaged with
the Grand Jury in chamber during the morning, entered
the court, and took his seat amongst his learned brethren.
After hearing two counsel on either side in support of
the application, which was a renewal of a writ of habere,
the Court refused to grant what the plaintiff required, and
gave their opinion at some length on the subject, after
which the Court asked Mr. M`Donough if he had any
thing else to move, who was not at present prepared to
move anything. The same question was put to Mr.
Scott, Q.C., and to Sir Thomas Staples, Q.C., both of
. whom similarly declined.
The Chief-Justice then addressing Mr. French, Q.C.,
said, have you anything to move? upon which the learned
gentleman, making a low bow to the bench, immediately
rose from his seat, and moved himself out of Court,
amidst peals of laughter at the learned counsel's mode
of answering the question, in which the Bench heartily
joined.

The Court, with the most provoking indifference to the
curiosity of the public, said nothing further during the
day on the subject of the traversers' motion.
The Court adjourned at half-past four.

At half-past 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the Judges
having been in consultation together for about an hour
previously, the Chief Justice entered the court having in
his hand the thick volume so often referred to during the
state trials, and, without sitting down, spoke as follows
from the bench ; " Mr. Attorney-General, I am sorry to
tell you that, in the case of Queen v. Daniel O'Connell
and others, the court cannot give judgment this term.—
The Attorney-General sat down, without saying a word,
but bowed to his lordship. The court, which up to that
moment was densely crowded, became instantly deserted.

The rent received at the Repeal Association on Monday
was £248. _ _ _

ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS.—Sif Samuel O'Malley,
Bart., was denounced from the altar of the Castlebar
Chapel, on Sunday week, for having an opinion on the
New Registration Bill, and for daring to render it the
support he thinks it merits. Sir Samuel exerted himself
to get up a petition in favour of the bill.
CONVERSION FROM POPERY.—The Rev. Solomon
Frost, Roman Catholic priest, publicly conformed to the
established religion, in the Church of St. Audeon, Dub-
lin, on Sunday week, where he read his recantation before
the Rev. Thomas Scott, parochial minister, and received
the holy communion.
EXTRAORDINARY Romot n.—The Dublin correspon-
dent of tha Times of Friday, says that it is currently
believed in the Irish metropolis that Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell, M.P., is about to be married to the sister of a dis-
tinguished pro'es-or of Trinity College—a lady zealously
attached to high charch doctrines. A very likely story,
certainly.
SERIOUS AFFRAY.—On Tuesday last, the Sub-Sheriff
of Cork went to the lands of Gurranes, in Cecils-
town, accompanied by a party of sixty rank and file, taken
as a matter of prudence, to take possession under habere
of lands held by different tenants, evicted for the non-
payment of rent. On their arrival they found the doors
and windows, with the exception of small apertures, built
up with stone and mortar, and defended from inside by a
number of men armed with pikes on poles of twelve feet
long. Besides the number within the houses, there were
large assemblages of people outside, who gave evidence of
being ready to oppose the authorities. The Sub-Sheriff
demanded possession, but the answer from within was,
that they would never surrender, and that they would kill
any one who attempted to force an entrance. The Sub-
Sheriff then ordered the police to make a breach through
one of the side walls, these being less defended than the
front or rere. The police went efficiently to work, and in
a few minutes the wall crumbled before them, and having
made a breach they rushed forward, but on getting in
some of them were stabbed with the pikes—one in the
right side of the head—another under the left eye—ano-
ther in the thigh, and a fourth in the left arm, while se-
veral received bruises ; others of the police were severely
scalded by two women who threw a large pot of boiling
water on them. Six fellows, each armed with a pike, were
then dragged out and firmly handcuffed, when two others
outside called upon the mob to rescue them. These fel-
lows were also secured. The Sub-Sheriff and the party
then proceeded to the owee houses, from which the in-
mates fled, having been informed of what had taken place.
THE REPEAL RENT ALL GONE.—A correspondent of
the Morning Herald of Friday, amongst other startling
statements makes the following :—" Some have said that
before October the repeal rent amounted to £60,000.
Perhaps the safer way is to follow Lord Chesterfield'.
authority, and to believe only half of what we hear.
Then say £30,000 ; but whatever it was it was lodged in
government securities in the sole name of Daniel O'Con-
nell. This fact is notorious, and can be proved by refer-
ence to the funds, and to the stock-broker who invested
that sum, whatever it might have been, in the sole name
of Daniel O'Connell. If there were one lione,t man in
the Repeal Association whose fears had not completely
prostrated his honesty, would he not have protested
against the investment of the people's money in the natne
of any one individual, however opulent, because on his
death it would be the property of his executors : but sup-
pose such individual to have been long known to have
been in embarrassed circumstances, it was in such case
doubly criminal. If Mr. O'Connell died to-morrow—if
general report speak true—he would die in debt, and the
people's money would become the property of his credi-
tors. This one fact would be, in itself, abundant evi-
dence to prove the trustworthy fidelity with which the
Repeal Association have answered the generous confidence
so blindly placed in them by the poor Roman catholic
peasantry of Ireland. This, in itself, would afford
abundant matter for indignant commentary. But I am
spared all this. The people's money is all drawn out.
Whatever the thousands were, Daniel O'Connell has ex-
pended all : not one penny left in the till. I challenge
the Repeal Association to ar.swer this charge. They are
the self-constituted trustees of the poor people. Have
the people been robbed, or have they not ?"

WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES AND WOOL.—Accounts
of the quantities of wool imported and exported in the
year, 1813, also of the quantities and declared value of
British woollen manufactures exported from the United
Kingdom in that year, have been printed. It appears
that the gross total quantities of sheep and lambs' wool
imported into the United Kingdom in 1843 amounted to
47,785,0611 b. ; and that the net total quantity retained
for home consumption amounted to 46,443,0321 b., of
which 17,736,3881 b. were entered at a duty of Id. per lb. ;
7,804,9181 b at ;cl. duty per lb. ; and 20,901,7261 b, duty
free. The total quantities re-exported from the United
Kingdom in the year 1843 were 2,734,5411 b., and the
quantities remaining warehoused in bond on the sth of
January, 1844, 3,827,5831 b. By far the greatest quantity
of the above wool, &c., comes from Germany and New
South Wales. The total quantity of British sheep and
lambs' wool and woollen yarn exported from the United
Kingdom in 1843 amounted (the former) to 8,179,6391 b.,
and the latter to 7,410,3131 b. The total quantity of Al-
paca and Llama wool imported into this country last
year was 1,558,0321 b., and that of mohair, or goats' wool,
575,5231 b. More than two-thirds of our exports of sheep
and lambs' wool are taken by Belgium, and the remaining
third (on a rough calculation) by France. We also find
that the gross total declared value of British woollen ma-
nufactures exported from Great Britain and Ireland
during the year 1843, amounted to X 9,799,231