The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-13 00:00:00

PUBLIC XEETINGS IN YORKSHIRE.

[TRAM THZ LSSDS MERCURY, NOV. 10.]
The " Hunt Club," in imitation of the " Pitt Club,"
met on Tuesday last, at the Union Inn, in this place,
to celebrate the birth-day of Mr. Hunt. About 70
persons sat down to a good substantial dinner, Mr.
Wass, in the Chair, and the proceedings, as we hear,
very much resembled those which are annually acted
at the Music-Hall in Leeds, and Merchant Taylor's
Hall, in London, in memory of •' the great man now
no more," except that there were no lawyers waiting for
office, no merchants longing for contracts, nor any par.
sons singing for preferment. The hilarity of the day
was kept up till a late hour, and the Huntites, unlike
their exemplars, the Nukes, separated without break-
ing each others heads.
On Tuesday, the Birth-day of Mr. Hunt was cele-
brated at Bradford by a public dinner, given by the
Radical Reformers. Mr. Edward Fearnley was called
to the Chair; after the usual toasts hail been given,
it was unanimously agreed to form an Union of the
Reformers upon the plan suggested by Mr. Hunt, and
proper persons were elected as Trusty-►nen and Centu-
rions. We understand that the Meeting was conduct-
ed in a very orderly manner.
A meeting of Radical Reformers, male and female,
anonymously convened, was held in the Musir-room,
Wakefield, last Monday evening, to form " a Branch
of the great Northern Radical Union, recommended
by Henry Hunt, Esq." Mr. Pearson, from Sheffield,
presided, and Messrs. Mans and Mason. of Laal&fil•
dressed the meeting, strongly recommending itilrbb-
ject to the favourable consideration of the assembly.
61 The meeting," says the Wakefield Journal, 64 was
pretty numerously attended, but it did not appear to
excite much interest in the town." A number of re-
solutions were proposed and adopted' unanimously,
the gist of which was—That a Branch of the great
Northern Union shall be formed at Wakefield—That
the members shall subscribe a penny a week towards a
fund to obtain the return of 61 just and honest repre-
sentatives to Parliament."—That the members of the
Union shall form themselves into sections consisting
of twenty-one each, out of which number a " Trust,-
man" shall be appointed to collect the subscriptirtas,
which when paid, are to be deposited in the hands of
a " Centurion," and ultimately paid to the general
Treasurer, Sir Charles Wollesley, Bart.

COURT OF C031.510.N PLEAS, DUBLIN, Nov. 9'

CUTIIBERT v. BROWNE.
The Court gave judgment on the demurrer setup, in
this case, by defendant's Counsel.
It will be recollected, that this was a special action
for deceit. The allegation contained eleven counts,
and the defendant had demurred to the first five. The
remaining six which were for slander be 'notified.—
In pronouncing judgment yesterda , Lorj Norbury
spoke at considerable length, dwe ling meh on the
cases which had been cited by the .fferent !AMNIA at
the bearing of the argument on tlsg e-demurier, during
the sittings of last Term. " I was quite captivated,"
said his Lordship. " by the eloquence of Mr Sequent
Joy, who 4ressed up this sin so religiously, that tte
author of sin could hardly recognise it for his own.
The Learned Serjeant argued most poetically on the
subject. One would have Imagised that the Miry!
griefs and virtues would have made a ' holiday Is
Heaven ;' however. I am not prepared to argueagiiast
poetry. She sat like ' Patience on a snosunsest;
smiling at the griefofher husband ; and the defend's;
it seems, thought he had nothing to do but laugh at
them both."
His Lordship then gave it his judgment, that thPb-
mnrrer could not be admitted.
Judge FLITCHIR fully concurred is the opinion pro-
nounced by Lord NORIBURT.
1 Judge Moons followed ; his Lordship coincided
with Lord Noasuar and Judge FLIMSIER.
' The demurrer was then overruled, and the trial
> will proceed of course.

A tumult took place at a Theatre in Paris, on Wed-
nesday night last, in consequence of the omission of a
passage in The Marriage of Figaro. The 'passage
was the definition of State policy; and is as follows:—
To feign ignorance of what one knows; to pretend
knowledge of what one is ignorant ; to attend to • what
one dues not comprehend ; never to listen to what one
does understand ; to affect power beyond one's means ;
to be often making a great mystery of concealment
where there is nothing to conceal ; to abut one's self
up, to mend pens, mid to appear profound, when, is
fact, one only thinks one's thinking ; tn dietribute
spies and pension traitors ; to open seals, to interospt
letters, and to endeavour to dignify the poverty of
ore's means by the importance of owes objects; let me
die, if this is not the whole art of Statepolicy