The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-14 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES

Their lordships came into court at twenty minutes past
three o'clock, at which time the inner and outer bars
were unusually crowded. The Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, Messrs. Brewster, Freeman, White-
side, M'Donogh, and several others of the counsel re-
tained in the prosecutions, were in court.
At half-past three o'clock the grand jury came into
court, and handed down the bill.
The Clerk of the Crown read aloud—
self and fellows—George Frederick Brooke."
One of the Jurors—My lord, I beg to express my dis-
sent from that bill.
The Chief Justice—What is your name?
Juror—My name is Richard O'Gorman.
The Attorney-General—My lords, I have now to move
that the defendants be called upon by their recognisances
to appear.
Clerk of the Crown—Crier, call Daniel O'Connell.
Mr. P. Mahony said that Mr. O'Connell would be
there in a few minutes, but the court was so crowded that
it was next to impossible to get either into or out of it.
The Rev. T. Tierney, C. G. Duffy, and T. M. Ray
having answered to their names,
Thomas Steele was called.
Mr. Steele rose. and, after one or two ineffectual at-
tempts to arrest the attention of the Court, he proceeded
to speak as follows :—My lords, I stand before your lord-
ships in a peculiar position—one differing from that of
the other traversers, as I, my lords, intend to defend
myself on the present occasion, as I successfully did on a
former trial, and I strongly object to be prosecuted by
the present Attorney-General. (Loud laughter.) It is
no laughing matter ; it is a matter closely connected with
the due administration of public justice. I object to the
Attorney-General, for he has manifestly prejudged my
case, while the jury was sitting in consideration on it. I
do net now speak for the rest of the traversers, nor do I
know what their wishes are, but for myself I sincerely
hope that he will have the sense of propriety, or I should
rather, perhaps, say, the common decency, to retire from
his functions in the present case, and leave me to be pro-
secuted by his highly-gifted, patient, and well-tempered
colleague, the Solicitor-General. (Mr. Steele resumed
his seat amid peals of laughter.)
Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by his son, Mr. John
O'Connell, here entered the court, and was accommoda-
ted with a seat at the side bar. All the traversers having
answered to their names,
The Attorney-General said—l have now to apply to
your lordships, the defendants having appeared, to order
that they do plead within four days from the present.
The 60th Geo. 111., cap. 4, see. 1, expressly provides to
that effect; and I beg to refer your lordships to an exact
precedent in a case which came before this court in Ja-
nuary, 1831, in which a similar order was made—l allude
to the King v. O'Connell.
The Chief Justice—What is the condition of the re-
cognisances?
The Attorney. General—lt is to appear in person. In
pursuance of the recognisances entered into by them they
have all appeared, and now I call on them to plead in the
time I have specified, in pursuance of the 60th Geo. 111.,
which enacts, " that when any person shall be prosecuted
in the Court of Queen's Bench for any misdemeanour,
either by information or indictment, there found, or re- i
moved into the said court, and shall appear in term time
in such court to answer such indictment, &c., such de-
fendant
shall not be permitted to imparl to a following
term, but shall be required to plead or demur thereto A general registry under the new arms act will take
place at the ensuing quarter sessions throughout Ireland.
within four days from the time of his appearance, and in
default of his so pleading, &c., judgment may be entered The extensive bolting mills of Ballynona, near Middle-
against him for want o a plea." In pursuance of that ton, county Cork, the property of it. H. Wigmore, Esq.
act of parliament, the rule in the case of the King V. were on Tuesday night consumed by fire.
Daniel O'Connell will be found to have been entered- on The Dublin Evening Mail says, that it is expected that
the 26th of January, 1831. In that case the rule made the motion for a mandamus made in the Queen's Bench,
was somewhat special, in consequence of the defendant Dublin, on Monday, will be the last, and that the pro-
not appearing when called on his recognisances, and the mised bills of indictment against Mr. Bond Hughos for
terms of the rule in consequence were that be should perjury will never be sent up.
plead in four days from the day on which he should have The total sum of money paid by the State for the main-
ppeared, and neglected to do so, that is in four days tenance of Maynooth College, since its foundation amounts
from the day preceding that on which the rule was made. to £362,893. The following grants were made for Roman
AFFRAY WITH PIRATES. —A letter from on board her I apprehend that the duty of the officer of the court will
Majesty's ship Dido, dated Hong Kong, July 21, gives an be now to state the charges against the defendants. Catholic edifices in 1840-1 ; Nenagh chapel, £500; Kile
rush, £l,OOO ; Agheda, £3OO ; Ballingally. £l5O ; Atty-
account of a terrifick affray with pirates, off Borneo. It Mr. Hatchell, Q.C., said that he was not aware of such
ncoy Dhapel, £l5O.
appears that on the 18th of May, Lieut. Hunt, a mate, a a course of proceeding. He now applied on behalf of Mr,
second master, 1 blue jackets, and four marines, started I Daniel O'Connell, that he be furnished with a copy of the POPISH RAPACITY.—Between the 2d Occtober and
from that ship to cruise off Date Point for pirates. On indictment, under the provisions of the same act of Par- 6th November the sum of £7OO has been scraped up in
the 20th, at 3 a.m., they fell in with two " proas," who liament quoted by the Attorney-General. Ireland for the Popish Propaganda, being at the rate of
came down upon them unexpectedly ; however Lieut. The various counsel for the rest of the defendants made about £B,OOO per annum. Pretty well this for the poor-
Kent swept his craft round, and they were then nearly similar applications on behalf of their clients, and Mr. est country in Europe, fleeced as it is with O'Connell
touching. What took place afterwards will be best de- Steele, on his part, made the same demand. tribute, repeal rent, and priestly dues.
scribed in the words of the letter. " Lieut. Kent let fly The Crown-Solicitor said that copies should be fur- CHINA T*ADE OF DUBLIN.—After a lapse of two
the 6-pounder, loaded with grape, right into her, with nished that evening to the officer, who would transmit years since an arrival from the celestial empire to this
great effect, and having taken the precaution to keep re- them to the defendants. port, the Scotland, a ship of 500 tons, put into dock yes-
duced charges on deck, the gun had no recoil, and she was Mr. Moore, Q.C., said that nothing could he done terday morning, from Macao. Her cargo consists of 6761
worked round nearly as quick as a musket. After the fourth with the copies that evening. The indictment, he was packages or chests of tea. She is for the houses of Dud-
or fifth round the damage done to the pirate was really given to understand, ran to a considerable length, and geon and Co., and Finlay and Co., of Liverpool.—Dublin
frightful ; his two guns were capsized, the fighting-boards there should be no abridgment of the time to which the Freeman.
were knocked up, and the mast and triangle cut away ;he parties were entitled for perusing the charges brought for- THE REPEAL SECRETARY.—We have heard that a COM-
then ceased firing. They immediately turned their atten- ward against them in the indictment. plaint has been lodged with the Board of Trinity College,
tion to their friend on the left, who until now had had all The Attorney-General having again read the words of as to an avowed repealer being on the books of the Uni: the fun to himself. They very soon served him pretty the statute, versity, and that Mr. Ray has received a certain interval
much in the same way as they did the other. Seeing it The Chief Justice said—The act of Parliament is pe- to consider and determine whether he will relinquish re-
was all lID with them many of the pirates jumped over- remptory, and the court has no discretion in this matter. peal or give up the University, as one or the other he must.
board. They then went alongside, but on stepping on his The act requires that the parties shall plead or demur —Dublin Statesman.
gunwale, up the remainder of the rascals sprung with the within four days of their appearance. Ido not say that if .
intention of boarding, but with the butt end of the mus- an application, on special grounds, were made to the W [thin the last five years, 86 inquests have been held
kets they were knocked down, and our proa was instantly court for an extension of time, we would not travel out of at the bridewell, Cork, on the bodies of deserted infants.
shoved off and pulled under his counter, when they gave the act. These inquests, unhappily, do not express the full amount
him such a dose of grape that all hands jumped over- [Mr. Shiel entered the court, and was accommodated of desertion of offspring. At the last Cork sessions—one
board ; some sank, others swam for the shore, and many with a seat by the high sheriff.] single sessions—the churchwardens applied for support
were shot in the water. When they took possession of Mr. M'Donogh, on the part of the Rev. Mr. Tyrrell, for 353 deserted infants!
her they found 12 dead on deck, and several in the hold, argued that the parties were not called upon to plead until We learn with great regret one of those mysterious
but being half full of water, they could only see part of they had been regularly charged, and the parties could not movements, which in other counties manifested them-
their bodies. It was now broad day-light, and they dis- be considered as charged until every syllable of the in- selves in lighting of straws and making bonfires, has corn-
covered a large proa with two sampans pulling in from dictment should be read. If the Attorney-General should menced here. In one district the houses of Roman Ca-
seaward to the assistance of the first proa they had engaged persist in his motion, it was his (Mr. M`Donogh's) inten- tholics have been singled out during the night by two dis-
and crippled, which had by this time drifted out of gun- tion to call upon the officer to read that most voluminous tinct white marks. We have not been able to ascertain
shot. The interpreter, Mr. Douglas, felt positive they 1 document at length. The Attorney-General might have the real meaning of these demonstrations, but, no doubt,
would attempt to board ; and our people got ready for i obviated the difficulty, by having copies served at an something political is intended.—Fermanagh Reporter.
them. Lieutenant Hunt threw the guns and arms be- early hour this day. EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.—At a late temperance
longing to the prize overboard, and set her on fire, when ; The Chief Justice—How could he furnish copies until meeting held in Dublin, it was stated by Dr. Yore, that
she almost instantly blew up. This alarmed the other the bills had been found ? he had attended at least one hundred and twenty criminals
proa, who took his crippled companion in tow and made ' Mr. M'Donogh thought it quite possible. to the scaffold, every one of whom declared that drunken-
off to sea; and, although Lieutenant Hunt endeavoured The Attorney-General said it was not his wish, in the ness was the means of bringing them to their untimely
by every means in his power, by sails and sweeps, to get slightest degree, to evade the eighth section of the act. end. Of four hundred and ninety-five persons confined
up with them, they effected their escape, to their great Copies of the indictment, as he had before stated, should in a lunatic asylum in Liverpool, two hundred and fifty-
mortification, and lost sight of them at sunset. The proa • be in the hands of the officer of the court, within an hour, seven were there from intemperance ; and in Dublin, Dr.
first attacked is supposed not to have had a single man
and no delay should occur in transmitting them to par- Crawford stated, of twohundred and eighty-six lunatics
left on board alive. Three days after this they found a ties. If Mr. M'Donogh persisted in his motion to have in one asylum, one hundred and fifteen were deprived of
slave on shore, who had escaped from one of the proas the bills read at length, he (the Attorney-General) should their reason by whisky drinking.
during the action. He said the two proas that attacked not oppose the proposition for reading them. As to hay-
TRAITORS IN THE REPEAL RANKS.—The Ballyshan-
the English had 50 men and two guns each ; and the laree ing copies served at an early hour to-day, that was been non Herald says—" That the Government are in posses-
one that came to their assistance was well armed, and had sible. There was no indicement until the bills had been ion of some frightful information respecting Ireland
. They had the case tried in the Court at Since- found, and ten minutes had not as yet elapsed since the there cannot be a second opinion. The Attorney-Gene-
and the Court have awarded £7OO prize money. jury returned the indictment into court.
sal mentioned last week in court that when the proper
....., ! Mr. M`Donogh said he should be sorry to be driven to , time arrives he'will lay before the jury, on the trial of the
i the alternative of having the indictment read at length. ! conspirators, a statement of as frightful and extensive a
To obviate this, we will take the copies to night, and be
here to-morrow morning. The rule to plead can then be conspiracy against the peace of the country and the con-
THE INCENDIARY FIRES IN WALES.—On Friday at entered from to-morrow.
stitution by law established as ever disgraced any coon-
the Manchester police-court, a sailor lad of the name of The Court—Do you object, Mr. Attorney-General? try. We understand that much of this information has
Markwell been communicated by a few of the leading repeaters,
was charged by a man named Hardman with The Attorney-General—Yes ; and I call on the court
who became alarmed at the height to which the con-
being the person guilty of these outrages. The latter re- to enter the rule according to the terms of the act.
lated several very extraordinary circumstances, but it is Judge Crampton—The parties cannot be called on to spiracy had arrived,
suspected that he has given the information in the hope of plead until they are regularly charged. Perhaps counsel RENT—A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—We have just seen a
gaining the reward offered for the apprehension of the would agree to have the charges read briefly. letter from a land agent in a southern county to one of
Welsh incendiaries. He is, therefore, kept in custody The licitor-General—We propose that the defend- his employers, from which, by permission, we make the
(along with Markwell) until further inquiry is made, and ants should be charged now. following extract :—" Previous to the proclamation putting
If his account turns out a fabrication he will be prosecuted Mr. Whiteside—The indictment is against eight per- down the meeting at Clontarf, it was impossible to get a
for perjury. sons, and therefore the officer must read it eight times— farthing from the peasantry in payment of rents or any-
THE INCENDIARY FIRES IN DENBIGHSHIRE.—An (laughter.) thing else; since that event there is no difficulty about
individual who, it is not doubted, is the perpetrator of Judge Crampton had a suggestion to offer. Would the matter, and the rents are paid freely and quickly every-
these cruel outrages has been apprehended at Bala. His there be any objection to enter the rule to plead now, but where." It gives us great satisfaction to be able to cor-
name is Charles Jones, and he has been fully committed not to run until to-morrow morning? roborate and generalise the foregoing statement, so as to
The Attorney-General—l understand the suggestion include the length and breadth of the land. For the last
to take his trial at next Denbighshire assizes. He has
thrown out by Mr. Justice Crampton to be this—that the twenty or thirty years rents were never so easily collected
just been released from Ruthin Gaol, where he suffered a
term of imprisonment for stealing as now, nor to anything like the amount, at this early
choice fruit , such as parties are to be charged now with the indictment—that
apricots, &c. Some of the farmers whose live stock, hay, the rule to plead is be entered now, but not to run until stage of the November gale.—Dublin Mail.
corn, &c., have been burnt, were on the jury who found to-morrow. CURIOUS BARGAIN.—THE CERTAINTY OF REPEAL.
him guilty of the offence; and others had refused to give Mr. Justice Crampton—Just so. —So thorough is the confidence of the Irish people in the
Lim a good character on his trial. Rumour says that he A lenthened discussion then ensued, and it was ulti. eventual success of Mr. O'Connell's labours, and in the
protested that he would make them suffer for it. mately agreed that Mr. Justice Crampton's suggestion I attainment of repeal, that no effort can disturb that settled
should be agreed to. conviction of their minds. As a singular instance of that
FOUR GATES DESTROYED.—On Friday morning week
4 gates, atoll-house, and the toll collectors goods, situate The Clerk of the Crown then read the first count, belief, we may mention a fact which occurred this day in
in and about the town of Rhayader, Cardiganshire, shortly, and having read the names of the parties charg. one of the markets of this city. A certain gentleman re-
utterly demolished. About two o'clock in th mo ed, the discussion terminated, and the court adjourned at siding in Blackrock purchased a piece of beef, at 4s. a
a party, consisting of upwards of 200 persons, entered the five o'clock. pound, for which beef he is not to pay until the passing
town with their leader Rebecca, all armed, some with guns of the act repealing the Act of Union ! This gentleman,
and others with bludgeons and various weapons, and dis. PROCRASTINATION.—The Court of Queen's Bench, we believe, is a pleasant wag, who laughs heartily at the
guised with blackened faces, .I.k.c. They at once proceeded Dublin, was occupied a considerable time on Thursday notion of repeal being ever carried ; but the honest-bearted
to the various turnpike gates, and in an incredibly short with two applications by Mr. O'Connell's counsel, appa- woman with whom he dealt, like all of her class, is not in-
space of time the gates on the north and east side of the rentlyfi with a view to procrastinate the proceedings. The alined to regard the event as simply probable, but certain
town were levelled with the ground, the posts being sawn rst was a motion for liberty to compare the copies of the to take place • and in proof of her conviction, was content
bill.
off about two feet from the bottom. The two gates lead- indictmenti.fio furnished to the traversers with the original to part with her' beef upon the terms set forth in the fol.
parison withs
ing to the bridge quickly shared the same fate, and not copies having been properly certified, a com. lowing strange document :—" I agree to pay Ellen Hayes
respondence
content with their removal, they raised the toll-house,the original, merely to ascertain their cor- the sum of £l2 10s. for 62i pounds of beef, as soon as the
and destroyed the goods of the terrified collector. Having pears to have wereee as
,useless as unusual ; but there ap- repeal of the Legislative Union is granted between Eng.
fired several volleys from their guns, and given three vantage, to wit. been an
' ulterior object" in view—the ad- land and Ireland; but no payment is to be demanded for
cheers for " Becca," the party filed off as disguisedly aso.
.perusing the names of the witnesses the said beef until the act of Parliament is passed for the
endorsed on. the original; and to this the Attorney-Gene. repeal of the said Union.
they had made their appearance. From thequickness 0f.." W. P. HARRIS."
their operations and the systematic mode of their proceed- •
al (conceding the rcomparison) very properly gave a de- Another bargain similar to the above has occurred in the
ings, any one would infer " the Beec " of Radnorshire cided negative. Foiled in this effort, a second motion was town of Bruff, where a side of beef was sold for £l6, to
made, that the traverser should be furnished wits the cap- ' be paid by a gentleman residing in that locality, when the
had been under tuition with the " 0 a'
ne ' of Carmarthe
n- j tion of the indictment, which neither in point of law or Union is repealed.—Cork Examiner.
shire.

Sydney papers to the6th of June have arrived, but
their contents were anticipated by the advices received
last week by another ship. Business appears to be still
in a languid state. the want of credit and confidence pre-
vailing to an alarming extent, even among the best and
oldest merchants in the colony. An abstract of the
official accounts of the quarter's revenue, ending in March,
had been published, and from these accounts it seemed
the total revenue was £77,979 6s. Sd. The chief items in
which the falling off occurred were imported spirits, im-
ported tobacco, post-office collection, and auction duty
and licenses.

Before the arrival of the Liberator,
Mr. CLEMENTS, in an eloquent speech, moved the fol-
lowing resolution on the subject of the O'Connell Com-
pensation Fund :

Resolved—That the Loyal National Repeal Association
hold it a paramount duty, at this moment, to apply all its
weight and influence to the suceessful furtherance of the
National Collection for the O'Connell Compensation
Fund, fixed for Sunday, the 19th instant : on that occa-
sion the Members and Associates of this National Body
are especially expected to co-operate personally and ener-
getically with the respected and patriotic Clergy of their
several parishes, in securing results for this imperative
measure worthy of the crisis and the cause.
Dr. GRAY seconded the resolution, which, after a few
words from Mr. Steele, was carried amidst the loudest
acclamation.

" A True Bill for

The SOUND.—The number of ships that passed the
Sound in August, 1843, was 2,369, viz,—From the North
1,198; from the Baltic, 1,171. Of these the English
were, 635, viz.—from the North Sea, 390 ; from the Baltic,

The Paris correspondent of the London Standard
states, that there will take place, in the course of the en-
suing month, an extraordinary creation of peers. The
list is already decided upon, and presents no fewer than
twenty-four names.

A very lengthy address to the people of Ireland, signed
" Daniel O'Connell," was agreed to. It exhorts the
people to judge calmly of the position in which Ireland is
at present placed, and represents the giorious results that
are to flow from a repeal of the union. It deprecates the
idea of any intention on the part of the repealers to esta-
blish Catholic ascendancy, in such language as the follow-
ing :

SPEED OF AMERICAN STEAMERS.—The steamers that
ply between Kingston and Montreal, when passing through
the Cedar Rapids, runs at the rate of sixty miles an
hour! The new steamer Knickerbocker, made her first
trip from New York to Albany (160 miles) in seven hours
and 33 minutes.

" A Catholic religious ascendancy is, if possible, more
easily demonstrated to be futile. In the first place, the
very principle of the repeal of the union would allocate
to purposes of charity and education the ecclesiastical
state revenues as each of the present vested interests
should terminate. The value of a state church ascendancy
is to get at the state revenues, and, as those revenues
would, as they fell in, go to the state for ascertained pur-
poses of education and charity, there would be nothing to
make the Catholic hierarchy desire an ascendancy for
their religion over any other. The money being disposed
of, the ingredient of ascendancy 'could be blotted out for
ever.

The New York papers contain accounts from the San -
wich Islands, which state that Admiral Thomas had ar-
rived at Honolulu, when he had annulled all the acts of
Captain Lord Paulet. They have also a notice from
Senor Granja, Mexican Consul-General there, that by
decree of the Mexican government the frontier custom-
houses of Taos in New Mexico, Paso del Norte and Pre-
sidio del Norte in Chihuahua, were entirely closed to
commerce.

MARRIAGE OF THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. —This
event took place on the 4th of September last, at Rio de
Janeiro • the Brazilian-Neapolitan squadron having ar-
rived the day before from Naples. Rio de Janeiro was
very gay on the occasion ; for, having been some time
looked for, almost all the respectable people in the empire
bad congregated to partake in the festivities and general
rejoicing. The city was illuminated at night, and fire-
works resounded through and bespangled the sky. Her
majesty's brother accompanied his sister ; and the Princess
Januaria, the emperor her brother. People began to
her princely wedding taking place.—

" In the second place Catholic ascendancy would be ut.
terly impossible—for this reason, the Irish Legislature
would be, two parts out of three, essentially Protestant.
It is true that a majority in the House of Commons might
be Catholic; but there necessarily would be a very great
number of Protestants in that house. The Corporations
of -Ireland, having Catholic majorities, have returned
almost all the liberal Protestants who sought to be elected.
Besides, the Protestant portions of Ireland would return
Protestants. On the whole, therefore, no measure inju-
rious to Protestants could possibly pass the House of
Commons unless the Catholics in that house were false—
basely and shamefully false—to the principles they have
ever avowed; and even then no such measure could pass
that house without a vivid resistance from all the Pro-
testant members, and from all the Catholic members, who
were liberal and conscientious. In short we are deeply
convinced that any Catholic ascendancy measure would be,
of necessity, rejected by a majority of the Irish House of
Corn mous."

speculate on ano
Globe.

The packet-ship Switzerland, brings dates from New
York to the 22d of October. The commercial advices
possess no peculiar novelty. The stocks were rather
heavy. The return of Mr. Ryan, one of the Illinois
commissioners, to Europe, is announced in the papers now
received, and great satisfaction expressed that he had
succeeded in the object of his mission for raising funds to
complete the Illinois and Michigan canal. The acces-
sion of Messrs. Barings, Hope, and Co., Maigniac Jar-
dine and Co., and Rothschild to the proposals made, was
accompanied, however, with certain conditions which have
to be ratified and carried into effect by the Governor of
the state of Illinois. In the meantime those houses have
agreed to advance 121 per cent. on the canal bonds held
by themselves, and on fulfilment of the conditions refer-
red to 191 per cent. more. It may be noted, however,
that probably not a cent. of the 121 per cent. will be so
advanced until the agent they have sent out shall have
reported. For the rest the compact of these houses is not
pretended to be binding on the other holders of these
canal bonds. But they reserve the option to themselves
of hereafter registering canal bonds to eight times the

The amount of rent was upwards of thirteen hundred
pounds. A deputation of the Law Clerk of Dublin
waited upon Mr. O'Connell to-day, and presented an
address to Mr. O'Connell, accompanied with £lOO, to
help to defray the expenses of the approaching prosecu-
tions ; the deputation, who were received most cordially,
intimated to the learned gentleman, that they intended
contributing a further sum tor the same purpose.

amount of their actual subscription. That is, should
they see an advantage to be obtained they would purchase
in the market bonds held by those not parties to the pre-
sent scheme, and so increase their interest. The certifi-
cates representing the new advances are of course and of
right to take precedence in the order of payment of the
original canal bonds.

100 men

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