The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1843, Page 1

‘ Y THE NEW YORK HERALD. Vol, IX, No, 332.—Whole No,;3501. NEW YORK, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1843. Price Two Cente, holders of the British American Land Company, | demurs to that plea as bad in law. To argue the established to promote colonization in the eastern | demurrer,’ supposing the detendants join in it, will townships of Lower Canada, was held to consider takeygome say one, others say two terms; and matters of importance affecting the interests of the | Whe shalf have been decided, still the real undertaking. The Governor, Mr. G. R. Robinson, question remains untouched—and yet that real was in the chair. It appeared from. a statement | uestion must and will be at last decided ; which submitted to the meeting, that the sales of land in | 13+ is this repeal agitation legal or illegal, constitu- The Repeal Association continues to hold its] The great Julien has commenced his winter cam- meetings, but those which haye assembled since 1} paign at London, having collected together an or- last wrote to you haye not been characterized by | chestra, certainly one of the very best that'éan be any very marked measures, except the determina- | heard. tion to raise large tunds for Mr. O’Connell’s “Tes-| | Mr. W. Farren, the actor, is fradually recovering timonial.” This is called ‘the Compensation | from his recent attack of paralysis. Fund,” and Mr. Doheny stated, at one of the meet-| ‘The performance of French plays at the Saint tragedy is likely to be consummated by the death of 24 Waller, who is not expected’ to survive ong. A letter from Naples states, that on the 9th th Duke de Mantobeliey ave a brilliant ball . honar of the Duke d’Aumale, at which the King, the SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROP ——— ARRIVAL OF THE Queen, the ministers, and the corps diplomatique, 7 . i IA. 7 > oe ? | Canada by th 1843, ,716 | tional, or otherwise 7 ings, that Tipperary alone would send £3000. James's Theatre during the ensuing season, which STEAMER HIBERN and upwards of 600peraons of distinction wete pre-| sores value £16/S0) 160 Si. THe ae acer algal |. singe I lust wrote you, on the 8d inst., every | the ‘Atsocgation’ has ‘published an. “Address to| commences on the 224 of January, bide fate to ex- the People of !reland,” praimataing that all the | cell those of the two previous years, during which government offices in freland, from the Lord Chan- | Mr. Mitchell, the present spirited lessee,has catered cellor downwards, are all filled with Englishmen, | for the public amusementgin this respect. and Scotchmen, Welshmen or colonists—in fact by | —Donizetti’s new opera of * Sebastian,” pe. any but Jrishmen. The address states that when | duced atthe Grand Opera in Paris, is said to be a repeal shall be obtained this will take place no | failure. ‘ longer. There are two evils, it goes on to say,to| Clara Novello, was married on Wednesday, the be guarded against in all efforts relative to repeal. | 22d, to the Count Gighucci, of Fermo, in Ro- The first to be guarded against is a separation from | man States. The happy couple left London for the England, and a dismemberment of the empire. | continent immediately after the ceremony. It is The second evil to be guarded against is a Catho- | understood that, on her marriage. she quits the pro- lic ascendancy in Ireland. O’Connell contends in | fession of which she has so long been a distinguish- this address, for he is its author, that there is no | ed ornament. danger whatever of a territorial separation since| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean commenced an en- Treland is attached to the Queen, to her family, g ement at the Theatre Royal, Hawkin’s street, and to the British constitution. And, then, with| Dublin, on Saturday, in the ‘‘Gamester.” regard to Catholic ascendancy, the address main-| The Edinburgh professorship of music is again tains that it is not proposed or desired, and could | vacant. Sir Henry Bish»p, who is now in London, not take place. “ has written to the senatus, stating that his health _ Lam sorry to close this part of my letter by sta- | will not permit him to come down and deliver lec- ting that most sanguinary and desperate outrages | tures, and thatin consequence he resigns the chair. have taken place in the neighborhood of Barriso-| At a recent performance at the Mecklinburg kane, in the county of Tipperary, and a most de | Theatre at Wennar, only seven persons formed the plorable and wicked attack made on the residence | audience; one of these presumed, nevertheless, to of Thomas Waller, Esq. Tipperary has been called | hiss one of the actors, but the members of the corps the “Aceldama” of Ireland, and Y am sorry to say | dramatique gave an unusal turn to matters, for uni- t too well merits that title. ting Pair Feros, they far outnumbered the audi- Lerrer rrom Tue Rev, Sypyey ru, iN Reriy aa gcee ETN EG este ree To Gry. Dory Gaxen, is so dangerous a leap that Carlotta Grisi risks her Sin—Having been unwell for some days past, { have had | |ife every time she executes it, the mal-adresee of a Grete win (auiever bali Cees Topiary a moment in shifting the trap-door, and Carlotta not shown himself a Washington in defence of his coun- | Would dash her brains out against the plank. pei try. The General demands, with a beautiful simplicity, ? A pel Aone this morbid hatred ‘of America? But thik ques-| formance of ballet; he is persuaded that it will i is stolen from Pilpay’ prove fatal to Carlotta, and he would not for the 4 caught by the leg in w tray world be absent on that night. ‘This is the same the farm yard, uttered the most piercing cries of dist man who followed Van Amburgh for three yeare, forthwith all the birds of the farm yard gathered ro ever believing that the moment would arrive when him, and seemed to delight in his misfortune ; the hens | the wild beasts would sup on their master. chuckled, the geese hissed, ducks quacked, and chanti-| “4 correspondent of the Cheltenham Looker-on cleer with shrill cockadoodles, rent their.’ “ Whenee,” | otc from Pari f Donizetti's O “Ma, said the fox, stepping forward with infinite gravity, nd rom & my chee prone ori pera, ‘whence this morbid hatred of the fox? What have i tit di Rohan,” that independent of its musical m: done? Whom have [ injured? 1 am overwhelmed with | it, it was the very thing to take with a Parisian au- astonishment at these symptoms of aversion.” “Oh, you | dience, full of life, death, and duels—with a mar- old villian !” the poultry exclaimed, “where are our duck- | riage force—plenty of love (though not much for lings? where are our gotlings? did not Isee you running | the husband)—with devotion, gratitude and sac away yesterday with my mother in your mouth? did not | fiee—awkward positions, whic! hoked like “damn- you eat up all my relations last week? you ought to die | ing proofs”—sentiment—sorrow—fears—tears ani the worst of deaths—to be pecked into a thousand pieces.”'| Seyny" from first to last—wound up by death—de- pears rin Beater sega ene Roni hig spair—and the lovely Maria {Gust clinging to her on the dusty stage in predatory ; Decanse she has ruined so many helpless chil: | husband’s knees, and dragge ren, 80 many miserable women, so many aged men ; be- | a new velvet dress! : ; i cause she has disturbed the orderof the world, and rifled] The editor of newspaper in Paris, bearing the those’sacred treasures which human virtue had hoarded | lugubrious title of Satan, has been found guilty be- for human misery. Why is such hatred morbid? Why, | fore the Tribunal Correctionel of a libel upon Mdlle. is it not just, inevitable, innate? Why, is it not dis: | Tnez Gonzales, a young actress of the Theatre graceful to want it? Why, is it not houorable to feel it?) porte St, Martin, in attributing to her some traits siropeaieit aa ecech Harigen endl at all ree in private life which tended to injure her honor and which my trumpery sphere has afforded, I have ene her good repute with the public. The edi- eee PR TES By Harxvex & Co. ann Apams & Co. State Trials in Ireland-—Thelr Post. Ponement—Arrival of the Overland Mail —Movements of Victoria—Advance In Cot- ton—Great Rise in American Stocks—An- other Crisis in Spain—Bev. Sidney Smith and the Price of Potatoes—Mexico and England—Affairs in all parts of Europe and Asia. The Hibernia, with her usual epeed, reached Boston at half-past seven o’clock on Wednesday morning. She has brought papers from London and Liverpool to the 5th inet. = The news is not important. Cotton is up an eighth. v The Hibernia has brought $180 ,000 in specie. "The Acadia was passed by the Hibernia on Mon- day, sixty miles from Halifax. American stocks have all advanced. Sir Sydney Smith has sold out his Pennsylvania stock at a loss’of 40 per cent. The United States frigate Brandywine was at Bombay, waiting for the arrival of the American Ambassador to China. The State Trials have been adjourned until the 15th of January, and O'Connell, weary of agitation, has retired for a while to Derrynane. The French Chambers are to meet on the 27th inst. The country is by no means ina satisfactory state. The Count de Paris, presumptive heir to the throne, is, it is said, a sickly child—at all events he has been seriously ill of late. Prince Polignac, who recently presented himself in Paris, has been ordered to leave it summarily. Othercircumstances have conspired to render the French funds very feverish of late. It was currently reported in London, that the differences between Great Britain and Mexico, arising out of the alleged insult to the English flag by Santa Anna, had been satisfactorily arranged between Lord Aberdeen and the repre- sentative of Mexico at the Court of St. James. The steamship Britannia, Captain Hewitt,which sailed from Boston on the 16th, and from Halifax onthe 19th ult., arrived at Liverpool 30th ult., hav- ing made the run from Halifax in ten days. A Vienna letter, in the Universal German Ga- zette says: ‘A report is current that, Prince Leo- pold, the youngest son of the Duke of Saze Coburg Cohary, is to marry the Queen of Spain, This report has gained great credit in the upper circles.” Tt is said that the Government are uneasy at the Duke of Bordeaux's visit to England ; and some co- lor is Fen tothe report by a statement, which ap- ay in the Times, that Prince Polignac, who ad come with four children to spend the winter at Paris, had been ordered by the police, on Mon- day, to quit it in forty-eight hours. It is confidently asserted that her Majesty has ex- ssed her intention of payinga visit to the King of Prussia, at Berlin, at the end of the approaching London season, as a return to his royal courtesy at the baptism of the Prince of Wales.” It is likewise stated that her Majesty, contemplates going from Berlin to Paris. The latter event will become still more probable, if report speaks true, and Louis Philippe comes to England to exert his powers of persuasion. Waa. or tue Late “Serr Parxins.”—There are probably very few of ourreadersin this commu- nity who do not recollect to have heard of Joseph Wilfred Parkins, who died about two years since, leaving the whole of his property, personal and real, of very large amount, to Mr. Geerge Best, of New JeNey, at whose house in Newark, the eccentric Ex-Sheriff of London departed this life. Parkins left amongst other relatives, a sister,Mrs. Isabella Find- lay, his next of kin, who commenced a suit in op- ition to the will, but died di its. progress, leaving it to be continued by her id. The opposition to the will originated in Man pp ners of the representations of a person named Beatty or Batty, who had been left in a former will a small legacy, which was omitted in the last one,and who represented Mr. Parkins as having been of unsound mind at the priodat its execution. The case was decided on the 2d instant in the Prerogative Court, London, and in favor of Mr. Best, who is thus se- cured in the possession of this very large property, consisting of a small estate in Cumberland, Eng- land, upwards of 100,000 worth in the jurisdiction of the ye Court in which this action was brought, and besides a large amount in France and this country, the value of which does not appear in the proceedings. It appeared in the course of the trial that Sheriff Parkins had never made in his previous testamentary acts much pro- vision for his sister; the, utmost he had at any time allowed be a life annuity of $500 a year, and by his will of 1827 the residue of his es- tate was given to the General Dispensary, Newgate street, London, and to trustees for forming and en- dowing alms houses, uently, however, he became. quite alienated from his sister. The sen- pepeyment with free passage, had upto the end of | day's post’ from Ireland has brought some September, been 700 acres, at 73 6d per acre, pro- |NEW subject for regret to those who love ducing £262 10s. ‘The Governor,in reply to various | that eountry and sincerely desire her prosperity, questions, stated that the sales of land had been pei A has brought letter upon letters and, made to bona fide settlers, but that payments were | colu upon column, full of narrations _ of deferred for ten years; interest atthe rate ofsix per | the mutual attempts at juggling (for it is nothing cent being charged anda title to the land not being | ¢lse), practiced by the Attorney eneral on the one given until the purchase money was all paid. ‘The | hand, and by Mr. O'Connell and his repealers on company had obtained a great object in inducing | the ota and one has not known which most to the government to relinquish a money payment deplore} the spectacle of the law officers of the equal to £90,000, on the giving up by the corpora- | TOWN resorting to sharp practice and to mean and tion of a portion of their lands. artful trickery, or the other spectacle of leaders _ The general news of the past fortnight isnot very of a great public national movement not having important. It issaid in the city that Lord Aberdeen | courage enough to meet the charge brought has declined to enter into any negotiation with the | @gainst them as repealers should do, by a Mexican minister, Mr. Murphy, on the affront | straightforward manly, plea of Not Guilty. — lately offered to the British flag, and that he in- |For either O'Connell is sincere in. his repeal tends sending oyt anew minister to Mexico in a | Movement, or he is not. If he is not sineere, if he frigate, which will call at Jamaica, where the mi- | nly proposes to bluster and bully, to raise large nister will take a squadron down with him to the | sums of money, and te spend them; to collect an Mexican coast, and require an apology for the | ¢normous quantity of “rint,” and to appropriate it affront before landing. in objects more or less objectionable or qestiona- In the Bail Court, on the 25th ult., a motion of a | ble, then indeed he deserves the exeeration of all formal nature was’made in the case of Heaviside | Christendom. Buti he is sincere 5 if he is consei- vs. Lardner, about the manner of serving upon the | entiously persuaded that the repeal of the Union, as fendant, in America, a copy of a scire facias to | far as the Parliamentis concerned, is essential and ive the judgment which has been ‘obtained | ‘dispensable to the happiness and prosperity of his against him. country—then he should act in harmony with his The. celebrated Barnard Gregory, the would-be | prineiples and convictions, and not seek to delay tragedianyand infamous editor of the Satirist, has | the termination uestion which must be brought, been sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, for | toa fal and which, will be so brought in spite of libels on the Duke of Brunswick, and his solicitor, | all his dilatory pleas and motions. to the contrary, Mr. Vallance; and the publisher of the Age has viz.’isthe agitation of repeal in and by the means been found guilty of the same offence, but sentence | hitherto resorted to, legal und constitutional, or not! is deferred. By the bye, this once celebrated print, | And really one is astonished at the course which notorious for its seurility, is no more, having been | O’Connell xdopts if he be really sincere. For incorporated with the Argus, a paper which was whilst thié indictment is pending against him and started in opposition to it- by Westmacott. A day which contains all the charges which could be or two after he had sold the copyright of the Age | brought together connected with the repeal move- for £10,000, he set up a paper to. run it down, and | Ment, he cannot proceed with his repeal agitation, took an office at the very next door. But this was The people, the great mass of those w! 10 constituted only of a piece with other exceedingly creditable his repeal meetings, do not understand all the (ty literary speculations in which he was engaged. | legal juggling now going on. They want repeal. Another nonentity, the Cerberus, a paper adveca: | O'Connell has convinced them that Ireland ought ting ins three separate divisions, and by separate | to,have her own parliament—and they believe that writers, whigism, radicalism, and toryism, 1s also | With such’a measure would arise peace satisfaction, defunct. Such’ an inconceivable. monstronsity | harmony, national and individual prosperity, and could be hardly expected to find favor with the | every other good which a great nation could de- public, ‘The daily papers have come to the deter-| sire: Believing this they demand repeal—aad now Inination to raise their price 1d, viz: to Gd per copy. | they see O'Connell resorting to sham pleas and mo- Lieut. Munro and Lieut. Grant, the duellists, were | tions for delay. They rub their eyes, and ask, ‘o have surrendered to take their trial on Saturday, | ‘ does he show the white feather 1” ut owing to the illness of the former it has been|, 1 know there are some Fecaia whe take a great stponed to next Sessions. The. conspiracy in | interest in all this “‘apecial pleading,” and who are Routh Wales is said to be on the point of breaking | much amused by the technicalities of judicial dis- up, a great feeling of insecurity prevailing amongst ne and forensic display. They stand, like the the conspirators themselves, and each man fearing | bac! and the bottle holders of prize fighters, and that another may denounce him to the authorities. The trial of Mr. O’Connell and his brother conspi- £ say, it, Dan,” and ‘That’s right, Smith!” Bur, after all, this is sad work when a nation’s in- terests, and a people’s peace and welfare are at ; " * i semnh ards rators has been fixed for the 15th January, as the ¢ D ‘5 ‘The Hottinguer, hence, arrived at Liverpool on | tence of the learned judge occupied upwards of five | traversers urged that they could not get ptheit dec | stake, "It is miserable chicanery at all times, un-| never ceased to praise anddefend the United States; and | tor (M. Borel) is sentenced to three months impri- hours in its delivery, being chiefly occupied with Tg y getup the 5th inst. an examination the eiteede as t us + ver fence before. der all circumstances, and for all causes; but when | to every American to whom Ihave had the good fortune | sonment, and damages to the amount of 500f. to ° sto the state | "TGs not recollect any time since the last revolu- | a grand national question ig at issue, to hhear quib- | to be introduced, I have proffered all the hospitality in my | Miss Gonzales. of mind of the deceased. The decision was, that The Salisbury election is over. Mr. Campbell he was perfectly sane, aad of course the validity of bles made by theAttorney General as to whether he power. But I connot shut my eyes to enormous dishon- Barkions ii Wecieihen: should give a copy of the caption of the indictment fo! peaabopchias oy bask i keira pyr etry SPR peg esty; nor, remembering their former state, can I restrain | Velvets, satins, and all the richer materials of dress are ery part of Southern Europe indicate such an un- has been returned by a majority of 47 over the free i i i ist mes 01 it J D a Tile gniee toate deere Seni eae ous (04a Jemanony 1 ak cul arta sagbomesmied achocl- obeerred ‘hat omer Harare Mert of the indictment to the same parties, and to hear ‘Sotrec ie are the favorite styles for negliges ; for demi-toilettes the “Awake, arise, or be forever fallen.” corsages are lower, with berthes revers of the same ma- Iam astonished that the honest States of America do | terial. A new style of trimming, dentelle de velours, is not draw a Cordon Sanitaire round their unpaying bre- | likely to be very much worn, not only on velvet dresses, thren, that the truly mereantile New Yorkers, and the | for which it is peculiarly adapted, but it will be used om thoroughly honest people of Massachusetts, do not, in | Various other toilettes, mantelets, a fivtey Beryl their European visits, wear an_ uniform with 8. §,, or Sol- | The point de Venise is the richest and most delicate gimp vent States, worked in gold letters upon the coat, and | trimming that rest be appeared, and nine abis often receipts in full, of all demands, tamboured on the waist- | Prettily introduced as q illes on wutered silks, and bas coats, and “our own property” figured on their panta- | a agreeable effect. Spanish buttons are also fashiona- loons. ble ; they resemble small round bells attached to aut But the General seems shocked that I should say the | #nd are equally used for chemisettes, silk redingotes, Americans cannot go to war without money; but what do | Velvet bodies ; they are made in gold, pearls, or enamel, Imean by war? Not irruptions into Canada Not the fences lace tad haya tga batiy sng he ‘ ilitia i : ® | five ounces of it sometimes ornament the velvet or nal embodying of militia in Oregon; but along, tedious, mari dress. Skirts continue long and’ full, and. often: without fellow” of the eccentric Mr. Parkins. (Correspondence of the Herald.) Lonvon, Dec. 4, 1813. American Affairs— Markets as they are—Wind and Steam Packets—Dr. Lardner‘and Capt. Heavy- side—State of the Continent—Deaths, §c. §c. American subjects continue to occupy a great share of public attention. The annexation of Texas, and the taking possession of the disputed ground on the Oregon Territory, which it .appears the effect that her Majesty is deeply involved in debt, and that an pplication to'Parliament may be necessary. The usual monthly meeting of the League took place onThursday,at CoventGarden Theatre There was an immense attendance. The principal speakers were Cobden and Bright. The former treated the abandonment of the sliding scale as certain—as a thing resolved upon. On this head he spoke confi- dently. He then applied himself to the question arguments about four day rules, and half a day not counting in the four—and to see counsel after coun- sel,ambitious to rise to debate such matters—I avow I feel myself ashamed of all the parties concerned in such a system, both of attack and defence, and feel no respect whatever for any one man engaged in the contest. : Thave thus began my letter, because I wish your readers at once to feel that T have no stirring and thrilling incidents to relate or place before them; that the parties are in a crouching or shuffling atti- tude; that there is nothing like a ‘‘plain, stand-up have been proceeded with forthe last fortnight with more than ordinary inile and that the King, at- tended by several of the Marshals of France, has visited them more than once. Russia, ever ambi- tious, ever intriguing, is represented as now endea- voring to found a new Empire in Europe on the ruins of Greece and the Italian States, at the head of which would be a Russian Prince. The Duke of Bordeaux’s visit to this country is looked upon with considerable uneasiness. In Spain Olseaa es after considerable hesitation, has undertaken the arduous task of forming a new ministry, Lopez * , 8] and his colleagues having resigned and Narvaez | fight” going on; and that even the Judges seem to | ¢j f fou: five years! duration. 'ls any men po | dr deli duty, os siete most of the hig are tl be aitnied - very prominently’ in} given w Naan ‘as Captega feo Wee their arpa noes and to decide oe moment | fooli: nate suppote tha Rothechil has athiog te ho paren eet Portes oF yaar men oe guments agai hat proposition. The | your President’s speech, will create a vast sensation ing |this way, and another moment just the opposite. | with such wars as these? and that a bankrupt State,with- | fron pst! - 7 ae The Queen and her husband have been paving } £ve tr eyGovernment, has summoned, since 1 lasi|ont the power of borrowing a shilling. in the w of ribbons in plaids, stripes or pines, are worn ; the sleeves belief is every day extending, that the next session will see a small fixed duty substituted for the sli- ding scale, by which the importation of corn and flour, direct from the United States, will become a feature in the trade of the two countries. Such a me a8 far as the United States are concerned, will seriously interfere with the operation, of the actfor the importation of the same description of produce through Canada—in fact, it will give it the quietus. The Jast English tariff has produced a cores trade in American provisions, but a fixed luty on agricultural produce would at once give ex- istence to an immense traffic in bread stuffs. The only places of worship in Hong Kong are a catholic church aud an American meeting hours. ‘The adyices from Constantinople to the beginning of November, state that the Porte begins to enter- tains serious apprehensions as to the result of the late movement fi Greece. ‘The difficulties between France and Tunis had assumed a still more serious character at the last ac- counts, Gen. Randon, with 4000 troops, was still encamped on the frontiers of the Regency. The French colonists in Algiers have returned to France in great numbers, disgusted and dishearten- ed with the system of colonization adopted by the government. Wales continues more tranquil. There have been afew more Rebecca riotsin Radnorshire, but the military and rural, police are too strong for the rioters. The conduct of the Governor of the Isle of Bour- bon and St. Paul, was severely censured by a por- tion of the British press. The latest accounts from the Cape of Good Hope, in Great Britain, and I fear will not be very readily acquiesced in by our diplomatists. Much has already been written and much is being written on these two topics just now. Captain Marryatt who has essayed to give us a work on Texas, has been sadly, but nevertheless very justly cut up—for it appears in his “ Travels of Mons. Violet,” just out, he has been picking and stealing from others without acknowledgment. Our daily and weekly press for the last fortnight, has been out srampet-tonened against American repudiation, and ane the initiative from the crotchetty canon of St, Paul’s (Sydney Smith) ar showering all sorts of hard names against trans- atlantic credit, honesty, and honor. There is pro- bably some justice mixed with much injustice in this’ wholesale attack on the States, for after all there is no reason why all should be condemned for the. faults of a few.— The self-appointed commissioner, Gen. Duff Green, has kperhiage done more harm than gogd by his crude and tedious letters, which he has been forc- ing on the press. The consequence is, that those insatiable dogs of war,the press, who never leave a subject till they have hunted itto death, and turned and twisted it into all sorts of shapes, have tossed the poor United States so in the blanket of public opinion, that it will take some time before they ean recover their breath and decide whether they have any bones broken or not. The Spectator of the 18th ult. came out with an article headed Bro- ther Jonathan and John Bull, or Faults on Both Sides.” The Atlas of the same date also coin- ments upon and notices, with an especial degree of favor, Gen. Green’s letters and exertions to brin; about a.commercial treaty between England ane visits to Sir Robert Peel, the Dukes of Devonshire and Rutland and other distinguished personages in the midland counties, and the royal progresses haye furnished ample details for the columns of the daily ints, to which I must refer you for particulars.— ter Majesty intends, it is said, to go to Berlin, and thence to Paris, on the breaking up of the London season. 5 Rowellas, one of the country mansions of Lord Nugent, near Exeter, was destroyed by fire on the ult. The damage 1s estimated at three or four thousand pounds. mee 3 the recentdeaths are the Countess of Mayo, the Marquis of Winchester, Lady Sylves- ter, relic of the late Sir John Sylvester; Admiral Sir Graham Moore, G.C. B. ; Com. Douglass, ac- eidently drowned, and Mr. Robertson, the able Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society. A pen- sion of £200 a year has been conferred by the Queenon Sir Wm. Hamilton, Professor of Astro- nomy and President of the Royal Irish Academy. (Correspondence of the Herald.) _ Lonpon, 28th November, 1843. Irish Agitation and Repeal—The Prosecution of O’ Connell—Its Postponement. , When statesmen, chieftains, leaders of national movements, and defenders or champions of great principles and great causes, are accused of having taken this step, or having adopted that measure, and of having spoken or written this or that speech or letter, in order to promote the spread of principles they believe to be true and important, they do not ible and shiuffle upon such matters of high be- heat, but they say, “Yes, we said that; yes, we wrote that; yes, we did this and that, in order to attain ends which we consider of sufficient value rl oni all our measures; and we are prepared to suffer as well as to act—to stand by our banners —to unfurl them to the world—to coine to no com- may not be crippled in such a contest? We all know | i!’ orientale, with the under one of muslin bouillonnee, that the Americans cm fight. Nobody doubts their | is much in favor. courage. I see now, in my mind's eye,a whole army | Fur is now very generally introduced, and ia much ap- on the plains of Pennsylvania, in battle array, im- | Proved for dresses as well as manteaux, which are now mense corps of insolvent light infantry, regiments | Seen in every variety of form; some are entirely lined of heavy horse debtors, baitalions of ‘repudiators, | With fur, and sleeves are very generally introduced for brigades of bankrupts, with Viere sans payer ou mourir | them, | Paletots, pardessus, polonaises, witchouras, are on their banners, and ere alieno on their trumpets; all | #ll in favor ; but the newest form is the valéehe, and ma these desperate debtors would fight to the death’ for | be made of velvet trimmed with lace, satin bordered w: their country, and probably drive into the sea their in- | fur, or of levantine encircled with a broad border of vading creditors. Of their courage, 1 repeat again, I quilting, finished with a fringe. Camails are less worn, have nodoubt. 1 wish I had the same confidence in their | 29d when they are, the corners in front are lengthened to wisdom. But I believe they will become intoxicated by | 4 point, and the material should be of velvet, embroider- the flattery of unprincipled orators ; and, instead of en- ortrimmed with fur. The sleeves for manteaux are tering with us into a noble competition in making calico | the Dadoises, Venitiennes, Isabelle or Spanish, orne- (the great object for which the Anglo-Saxon race appears | mented rtp large fancy silk buttons, branaenbourgs to have been created) they will waste their happiness and | Of silk and velvet. Bonnets are made a little shorter at their money (if they can get any) in years of silly, bloody, | the cars and a little more raised ; ribbon is more worn fooli aad ‘accursed war, to prove to the world that | inside than flowers, and veils are almost indispensable. Perkins is areal fine gentleman, and that the carronades | Velvet and satin are the principal materials in-use, and of the “Washington® steamer ‘will carry farther than | the colors are dahlia, green, violet and black. thove of the Britisher “Victoria” or the “Robert Peel” } bouts and long feathers laid entirely across the front, with vessel of war. wreaths of flowers, blagk lace and birds—not only the Tam accused of applying the epithet entire bird, but often merely a wing—are the ornaments States which have not repudiated. Perhaps m. Some bonnets have noeuds of velvet, lined r States have not Hee But what is the itt. = pupporting bg fo f en aman who says, “I don’t owe you anything, s Gi will not pay you," aud -avother wo says, “"I_do owe | the ornaments, folds, noouds, are placed en toudeat the you a sum,” and ‘who, ay admitted the debt, never | lower part of the cheek. Bugles are still used with coif- sit? ‘There seems in the first to be some slight color we which there is much verery 5 8 Rosine and it, but the second is broad, blazing, refulgent, me- nne are the moat novel. There isa decided incli- ridian fraud. nation to wear the coiffure more forward on the head Itfmay betvery true that tich and educated men, in | and the crownsare larger to admit the mattes.—From the Pennsylvania, wish to pey the debt, and that the real ob. | London and Paris Ladies’ Magazine of Fashion. jectors arethé Dutch and German'agriculturalists, who Ireland. ‘cannot be made to understand the effect of character upon : : : clover, "All this may be very true, but it is a domestic| | The state trials are for the present in abeyance. quarrel. ‘Their churchwardens of reputation must make | An interregnum of some six or seven wee! 3 has a private rate of infamy for themselves—we have Laie been allowed the traversers to prepare the defence. to do with this rate. ‘The real quarrel is the unpaid world | We resume the thread of the narrative where our vermus the State of Penneylvania. last summary eut it off. And now, dear Jonathan, let me beg of you to follow ‘The “O’Connell compensation,” vulgarly called the advice of a real friend, who will say fo you what | «rent,? was collected in the churches and chapels wrote to you, a special Grand Jury, to have new Indiermests laid before them against O’Connell nd others; and then, when they met, abandoned thes announced. intention, and presented none. Mm this state of affairs nothing is certain. The Attorney General of Ireland may, on, some fair moming, change all his present intentions and en tera nolle prosequi, and commence new indictments or informations; and Mr. O’Connell may, on his part, bring an action for damages against the Attor- ney General, and all persons concerned in the indict- ment so abandoned. All this is possible, because the present prosecution is neither conducted on the one hand, or defended on the other, upon high and national {scent The in ictment found by the Grand Jury against Mr. O'Connell is almost avolume. The witnesses were principally official persons, and the evidence they gave was no doubt correct, but technical.— They were few in number, but proved the leading facts to the satisfaction of all the Grand Jurymen except one, and that one afterwards declared in Court that he was not satisfied with the finding of his brother jurymen, f The counsel engaged by the Crown. against the defendants, are the Attorney General (Mr. Smith); the Solicitor General (Mr. Green); Mr Sorat ‘Warren; Mr. Brewster, Q.C. ; Mr. Tomb, g .; Mr. Freeman, Q. C., as well as Messrs. Holmes, Napier, and Smiley, They are certainly able and distinguished men, but, the host of talent opposes, to them is very great indeed. tis said that O’Connell and the leading mem- bers of the Repeal Association will ze be prose- cuted for belonging to that society, and that incase of a verdict of acquittal, Sir Robert Peel would in troduce a bill next. session, at the yery first day, to wat down that, and all similar societies, by law.— represent the Caffre frontier as ina state of great! the United Si I Judi < ise, bi Jessi forward in th here are indeed reports of indictments for high | Wat Tyler had not the virtue to say, and what all speak fxeitement and alarm, on account of the contisued | te, United States. It concludes thus: “Honesty | promise, but fearlesely fo press forward in the ea. | Tiers a Macc very inuch, indeed, whether | ers inthe eleven recent Pennsylvanian elections have cau-| OM Sunday, the 19th. |The produce, so far ae hostilities:end inroads of the natives. and common sense are after all the best diplomat. | reer we have adopted.” Such men do not, resort esi altsesdatier Mt presented ooeaa round tlously eaten Gam wrth yieavake a great effort, | KNown, is immense—about three times the average; to dilatory pleas, to measures of a pettifogging na- ture, to chicanery and ruse worthy of Old Bailey lawyers and political trucksters and jugglers. Oh, no! —but they say, ‘‘ we have embarked our hearts, our convictions, our judgments in this matter—and we will not abate one jot or tittle of our convictions and decisions.’ Such men as these are giants. But there are other men who undertake to lead the people without being able to do so when arrested, accused, charged with conspiracy, and brought un- der the control of tribunals, judges and juries.— y can speak well at large assemblies. They can drink well, and laugh well, and toast well at public bouquets and dinners, especially when the wind is favorable and when prospects are smiling ; but when the day of adversity or of gloom arrives, then they are at their wits ends—then they forget the “cause,” in order to attend to their own pri- vate views and interests, and they resort to the le- ists, and a straightforward answer to a stnghtfor- ward atte agi dap desire a closer commer- cial alliance with the United States, or do younot?’ would, in the present situation of affairs, be worth all the parliamentary palavar that will be poured forth between this and the end of next session.” In the same strain follow the Age, Argus, and other of the weekly papers ; and the reverberation of these canonical attacks is now manifesting itself in the provinces. ‘i It appears certain that a vast commercial inter- course must always. be kept up between the two countries, and thé imports of flour and visions which we are receiving directly from the States and indirectly through Canada,are rapidly and daily increasing. From Canada there were reported last week at Liverpool, 877 quarters of wheat, 4768 barrels of flour and 171 barrels of peas. The book up at once and pay.” You have no conception of | in the Dublin district it amounted to more than the obloquy and contempt to which you are exposing | £4,000. ; yourselves all over Europe. Bull is naturally dispose: At the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal As- to love you; but he loves nobody who does not pay him. | sociation, on the 20th, Mr. O’Connell began the Hr imaginary pardig te some met of punctust py; [proceedings by saying, ihat,not ‘a moment should od r ; ¢ before they expressed their veneration for discount are unknown, A¥ forme, as soon as Thear that | Ue lost be y eed their the last farthing is paid to the last creditor, 1 will appear | the Ri a Creag es Petes ae of “ga on myknees at the bar of the Pennsylvanian Senate,in the | !and. Ie read the resolutions recently passed by plumeopician robe of American controversy. Each con- | the archbishops and bishops repudiating a state pro- script Jonathan shall trickle over me a few drops of tar, | vision, and proceeded to eulogize the hierarchy :— and help to decorate me with those penal plumes, in} -T1js was emphatically the period for the Roman Catho- which the vanquished reasoner of the transatlantic world | tic Bishops to speak out. They hed done so manfally.— does homage to the physical superiority of his opponents. | rhe thing that people refused feast was monied provision And now, having eased my soul of its indignation, and | for their wants ; but their prelates would have none of it. told my stock at 40 per cent discount, I sulkily retire | (Cheers) What had religion to do with the mammon of from the subject, with a fixed intention of lending no | the world? What connexion had been discovered with it more money to free and enlightened republics, but of em- | and the Bishops and Fathers of the Church of old? Yes ; ploy ine iy age eee ue Teeter toah Abyssinian | there had been the connexion of antegonism—(Cheers )— nds, and purchasing into the Turkish Fours, or the Tu- | Their prelates were too much Uevoted tothe altar they The inhabitants of Messina were ina constant state of alarm, at the last accounts, from the repeated shocks of earthquakes, Mount Etna was in a state of unusual commotion. A dinner took place at the Palace of St. Cloud on Saturday, on the occasion of the thirty- fourth anniversary of their Majesties’ marriage. M. Dupin, senr., the father of the celebrated de- puty and advocate of that name, died recently, at a very advanced age. The Moniteur publishes the official royal ordi- nance convoking the Chambers on the 27th of De- cember. La Siecle asserts that the government has aban- doned its intention to ask of the Chambers a ‘‘do- nation” for the Duke de Nemours. There ure a variety of calculations made and afloat as to the time which the trig! of this prose- cution will take. Some say as long as Warren Hastings’ trial—eight years. Others annouece that O'Connell will probably subpeena some thousands of witnesses, composed of those who wete pfesent at each of the “monster meetings,” in order to show that they were not seditious or treasonable meet- ings, and that the object proposed to be accom- plished, and the measures adopted to secure the end, were at once legal and constitutional. O'Connell is not well. He ismuch annoyed and harrassed by this prosecution. Instead of goading the government and attacking it, he has now to de- fend himself from the charge ot conspiracy. His health is affected by this, and he has been advised to leave Dublin. and. proceed to the house of his son John for fresh air and exercise, quiet and re- Accounts fi Rome announce the death of ‘ " ” i nis Three-and-a-half per cent fund need Dei Col -| flour has met with a ready sale. Some hundreds | gal ‘‘ finesseing’ stem, now bet ursued by | laxation. iree-and-a-half per cent funds, . served gand regarded too much the purity oftheir robes, Cardinal Pedicini, Dean of the Sacred College of | of hyarrels of United Statue flour have been sold in,t Daniel ‘O'Connell and the Repeal srocration.-.| The plea of abatement of O’Corinelt: tothe in- SYDNEY SMITH. | to accept the paltry pay of any government (Cheers) — wi that. these resolutio: Theatricals, me O'Connell hn * hy way we tthe di ini i is adi ofno recent growth, but some of them were o} Dearth bento (gad Relite danced: their adieu at \ toy) when ‘ke Whigs were in power. However, at A “new opera by ‘Balke called “The Bohemian thentic information existed that some such attempt wot Girl,” was produced at Drury Lane on Monday. | ther tee tn their Hatements‘on the eunjest) the prelates Itisreported in the theatrical circles that Charles | were right in reiterating them. ‘That press said, " We Kean has offered £600 for an original tragedy in | don'twant the priests to, preagh religion, but we want them which he might perform the principal character. not to preach rebellion.” (Cheers.) The Times sneered A new amphitheatre is now in course of erection | # him for saying that £600,000 would be too little, and Y akenite S ; that it should hea million, and raid, '* Well, let it be @ mon ne Marylebone. Mr. Allen} ithion.” (Cheers and Iaughtor.) ‘Thus a’ million of Herr Staudigl will open the English Opera House, | RoUns stey ing was, Held OM to them ilere’s x mil London, after Christmas, with a German com | lion for you—you are preachers of rebellion; had you pay. rape . been quiet loyal men, we should never have thought of Mr, W. J. Hammond is still playing at home in paying you.” ‘That was the way to make rebels. (Laugh- f and © nothing ag aged 74. He was raised to the purple in dictment is, that ag by the act of 56 George Sd, . witnesses examined before agrand jury were to be sworn in open Court, and inasmuch as those sworn in this case were not so sworn, that the indictment is null and void. ae ‘The Irish Temore Commission has not yet got to work. I know not howit is, but so it is, that there appears to be a sort of fatality about every thing connected with Ireland. When the Welsh Com- mission Was named it got to work instanter.— There was no delay, no mystification, no doubt or difficulty ; and most searching will be ite inquiries. But when the Lrish Commission was appointed there were diflerences at once as to who should be chairman—and now there are differences as to how the object to be accomplished is to be set about—so that infact nothing is done; and instead of a good, sound, able report ready to be presented to Parlia- ment on the first day of next session. i which some great practical measures could be founded, it is very probable that the whole of next year may be lost in eonairy, and no bill be brought for- ward until 1845, if even.as soon as that. In the mean time “ destitution” 1s increasing, the tide of poverty is rolling rapidly onward, the people be- come more hungry, more naked, more houseless and fireleas every month, and consequently they are less and leas disposed vor of British rule.— ‘The monster evil of Ire! s destitution ; and if Sir Robert Peel’s government wonld provide food and labor, clothes and coals, Mr. O’Connell would soon be compelled to abandon his repeal agita- tion, for he would have no followers, But when on of the poor in Ireland is taken into on—when it is remembered that there are six millions of people ape PP a condition ‘They prove by their conduct that they are not great men, even though their cause may be great. hen great men lead a great cause, the success of the cause is eventually certain, first because the men don’t undertake a weak, a doubtful, or a bad cause; and second, because the men will only re- sort to such means as are worthy of it, and are worthy of them. But when little men, selfish men, second rate men, with mixed views and oie take up great questions and causes, they ie bond at 22s to 22s 6d per barrel—at the same period last year the price of the last named article was 26s 6d to 2786d per barrel. The supply, how- ever, as winter approaches, will cease. ‘The increase in the stock of Cotton at Liverpool a to last week was about 222,970 bales over that of last year. The increase of imports 425,233 bales, and on exports to the same date last year the de- crease was 12,908 bales. The first cargo of the new crop arrived at Liverpool on the 17th by the ship Kelly, Capt. Maie, from New Orleans. Speaking of New Orleans, I may call attention. to the fact of eight vessels being now on the berth at Liverpool, loading for that port—the tonnage of which may be stated at 6000 tons. Two other vessels of 1700 ton- nage sailed also last week from thence. There are one or two loading in London for the same port. American cheese begins to be in much request, 300 barrels and boxes sold readily at public sale on the 24th ult., and fetched fyen Prices. | ¢ merchants of Liverpool are determined to ford every facility to the shipping trading to that port. I see it stated that a capacious tidal harbor and a vast floating dock are to be formed at Bir- kenhead, on the Cheshire shore of the Mersey.— The tidal basin isto have an area of forty acres —three times the extent of Princes’ Dock, Liver- pool ; and it will never have a less depth of water than twelve feet ; the gated dock will have an area of a hundred and twenty acres, a space ex- ceeding that of all the docks in Liverpool. , The Oxford and the Adirondacke, which arrived at Liverpool on the 20th and 2ist respectively, brought news to the Ist and 3d November, from New York, and the’steamer Britannia at Liverpool, on the 29th, has brought news of a fortnight later. It will give some idea of the loss sustained by the holders of the shares of the United States Bank when we state, that 100shares, which sold on Saturday in London for £900, originally cost the holder Itis decided by the Postmaster General of Great Britain, that a newspaper stamp will not frank a magazine, or any similar publication, but that the privilege of these stamps is confined exclusively to newspapers. Commercial men who have just visited the large manufacturing towns in the northern and midland counties, a state of activity such as has not been seen in them for some time, Wages, how- ever, continue low. The Patrie mentions a report that the Pope is se- iously indisposed. The health of the young Prince of Wales ix still in a delicate situation, though his physicians do not seem to apprehend any immediate danger. The hirth of a danghter to Lady Villiers has Sir Robert Peel a grandfather. There is a isper that the Queen will stand sponser for the magnify themselves by being connected with the cause, but they degrade the cause by their being connected with it, The truth of these general statements is most painfully, though forcibly, confirmed by what was going on in Treland with regard to the prose- eution of O'Connell and the other alleged conspira- tors on the repeal question. The repeal question in itself is a great question; for it is a great ques- tion to seek to repeal sre union of Treland with England, and to do this by parlia- jbentary and constitutional means, without vio- lence, illegality, or bloodshed. The Programme of such a question and such amovement isa great one, and is entitled to respectful attention, But at Jast the moment of difficulty arrives. The le- gality of this proceeding is disputed. The consti- tutional character of the movement is denied. The leaders have to find bail on a charge of conspiracy, and the whole world looks on with anxiety to wit- ness the cause and the conflict. But what do the see? On the one hand, a perverse, bad spirited, severe Attorney General, seeking by every means in his power to drive the individuals accused of conspiracy to unworthy acts, in order to obtain time, to quibble, and to disgrace their cause. And “Punch,” at the Strand Theatre, London. heers.) As long os you are . you shall have etre states that the Keeleys, Anderson, and Bieta porns Bye Rg tiocaay Pe te e i je) are to commence operations as lessees o| x 4 Govent Garden Theatre. There is also a rumor Presbyterians by the regum donum. How quiet they were: that Van -Acntvargt is to take possession of the es-| He moved resolutions, which were carried tablishment at Christmas. nnenininey expressive of the veneration and Mr. Rees, the celebrated actor, was found dead (raitade 9 the Catholic iaiy, of Ireland to the in his bed on Thursday morning, at his lodgings, in | hierarchy for their refusal of he ‘filthy mammon Old George’s street. He dined. with a friend on | of this world.” : Wednesday evening, and returned to his lodgings | Mr. O'Connell handed £103 15s. from Provi- at one o’clock on Thursday morning, in company | dence, Rhode Island ; £24 43 4d.*from Canada; with Clement White, a brother actor, who saw | £21 from Maine, Portland, and £23 lls. 6d from him safe in bed, and heard no more of him until Mexico: (first remittance.) At the close of the nine o’clock, when the servant announced that she proceedings the Repeal rent for the week was an- found him with his head on the floor and his legs | nounced to be ‘£930, pi in the bed. His head and face were swelled to an], All other accounts are mere repetitions and un- enormous size, and are quite black. The Coroner | important. had been gent for in order to hold an inquest. Spain. noe A portrait, in full anh, of Mrs. Siddons, has} ‘There has been a “Ministerial crisis” in Spain. been recently placed in the first room to the left of | After the ceremony which gave a parliamentary the National Gallery, presented by her friend Mr. | confirmation to the Queen’s majority, S. a Fitzhugh, his cabinet somewhat ostentatiously tendered their ri M. Engerran,deputy of the National Convention, the Council of Five Hundred, and the Corps Le- islatiff, died on the 27th ult , at Avranches, in the Sad year of his age. The Prince de Joinville is to take a long cruise i January, in command of a squadron from Tou- jon. ‘The father of Fanny and Teresa Elasler died a t Vienna, He be to ft f The Great Western has ie to Li to] onthe other hand, we behold the accused fallen | equal to the poor in the Union of Houses of Eng- i We P have Esterhasy was the wes ~ lay up for the winter, and audes 0 her veatigalieg into the trap or the lure, and resorting to pleas in | Iand—and that two out of those millions are in] ‘There isa rumor afloat in theatrical circles,to the | resignation, on the ground that, their intment. whee hauling previous to her resuming her station on the | abatement in answer to an indictment for conspi- | un actual condition of starvation—it is of no use | effect that Mr. Macready has become the lessee of | had hitherto been only provisional. ey were musicians, M. Elssler was his copyist, ied for him almost all the works” of Jaydn. Lady Frances Egerton gave a grand dojuner ala Sourchette, in Belgrave square, after the age ‘of her neice, Mise Greville, to the Earl of Mare! 4 The trousseaw of the lovely bride (who was to be a away by the Duke of Wellington) cost near- ly £3,000, the English Opera House, Should this statement | requested by the Queen to retain their places; but be correct, he cannot enter upon the undertaking | it was understood that S. Lopez would ultimately until September next, as his engagements in Ameri- | retire. . ‘ ca do not terminate before July. At this point another resignation excited a good Benjamin Wrench, comedian, for so many years | deal of speculation. On the Mth instant General a great public favorite, departed this hfe on Friday | Narvaez resigned his offices Captain-General night, at his house in Pickett-place, Strand, Lon-| New Castile. The cause is said to be offence at don. ’ He had been confined to his hed for the last | some censure which he had incurred by « strange month, but he had rallied considerably. breach of decorum, in taking to the palace a num- Miss P. Torton, the Ariel of Drury Than, and the | ber of drunken officers whom he had treated, and universal favorite of all playgoers, has given her | insisting that they should kiss the Queen's hand. hand to a Mr. Wheatley, a respectable wharfinger. The resignation, probably, was the finishing mineing words or matters—for there are two mil- lions tarving people in Ireland—then there are two millions who exist on about half nuch po- tatoes as they ought to eat—and who never see meat, beer, or bread—the third two millions have portions of potat pread, and butter milk—and that’s all—now when there are. six millions of peo- ple thus left in destitution, who ought to wonder that they ery for repeal! Nothing can be worse than their condition, and they hope without know- ing why, that repeal might improve them. Hence the secret of O’Connell’s force. racy, and praying that the indictment may be quashed because the witnesses were not sworn in a certain form and manner. Besides this, there are motions resorted to to ob- tain delay ; copies of this, and copies of that de- manded, which are never applied for ; and diseus- sions carried on by the hour and the ey, as to whether the court shall, or shall not, follow its usual practice. Mr. ’Connel pleads that because the witnesses to the indictment were not sworn in a certain manner, therefore that he is not guilty under the indictment, and the Attorney General Joseph | New York line in the spring, in connection with the Great Britain. Capt. Thosken has written a letter to the Liverpool Albion, on the subject of the trial of speed between the Princeton and his vessel, tn whieb he disputes the distance stated, and exj his opinion that the Great Western would have passed the Princetonif the vessels had been ng into, instead of coming out of port. He also differs with Mr. Ogden as to the strength of the tide. He however re-asserts that it is a great triumph for the serew or propeller. On the 30th ult. a half yearly*meeting of the share- , The murderons assault upon Mr. Waller’s family inT 'nperary, has, besides the death of Miss Vereker, eventuated in the death of that gentleman, and the