The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1844, Page 1

Seeeurereenpe THE NEW YORK HERALD. Vol. X., No: 106—Whole No. 3677. NEW YORK, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1844. ANOTHER ATLANTIC EXPRESS. Arrival of the Sheridan. EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Affairs in England, France, Spain, &c.— O'Connell's Speeches—Condition of the Queen, ete. ete. Another Ocean Express Packet, the Sheridan, Captain Depeyster, has arrived from Liverpool. She sailed thence on the Mth ult. We received our papers by overland express from Sandy Hook. ‘This arrival gives us eight days later intelligence from Europe. Nothing later from India—news from that quar- ter having been anticipated by the Herald a few days ago. ‘There appears to be very little news of conse- quence, No change in Cotton. ‘The steam ship Hibernia arrived at Liverpool onthe 14th. She carried out the intelligence of the disaster on board the Princeton. O’Connell had eaten two tremendous dinners— one at Birmingham and the other in London, the latter on the 22th ult. They who profess to have accurate intelligence with regard to court secrets, state that her Majesty Victoria’s accouchement may be confidently looked for about the beginning of July. Louis Philippe and Court are to visit England in September next. Ex-Queen Christina had been received with the utmost enthusiasm in Spain. Dearus.—Sir Henry Halford is dead. Col. O’Rielly, C. B., is also dead. The General Diet of Hungary have adopted, without any discussion, by a majority of forty-one votes against three, a motion for the emancipation of the Jews. ‘The price of potatoes has recently been doubled at Lancaster, in consequence of the injury caused by the late frost. Vessets Loapinc.—We find, by the Custom- house list, that no fewer than 249 shizs, most of them of latge tonnage,are loading for foreign ports, and our own possessions and colonies abroad. Of coasting vessels loading the number is also greater than usual at any one time, being about 100.—Li- verpool paper, March 9. Lireraturs.—Hugh Murray has issued his work on the history, industry, commerce, and in- stitutions of Amerjca. Britisu Partiament.—In House of Commons, March 11, Mr, O’Conngtt presented forty petitions from different parts of Ireland for the repeal of the legislative union between the two countries. He then gave notice that on an early day after Easter, he would move for leave to bring in a billto define the law of conspiracy, (Hear, hear) and the evi- dence applicable thereto; also, that Ire would after Easter move for leave to bring in a bill to repeal all the acts upon the relation of landlord and ten- ant in Ireland passed since the union, and to sub- stitute other provisions upon the subject. Mr. Hume move? for a ‘‘select committee to ex- amine into the present state of the tebacco trade, and to inquire what effects have been produced by the changes in the laws relating to it; ang aruethes any, and what legislative measures, compatible with the general interests of the country, ma advisable, in order to promote the trade orto check smuggling in tobacco; and to report their obser- vations thereupon to the house. ‘I'he honorable member said that his great object was to put an ead to sinuggling, to benefit the trade, and protect the revenue. He had no affection for the article af tobacco. He detested it in the highest degree. He never used himself to it in any way.— {Laughter.] He had no love or affection for the ee but his only object was to prevent smug- gling. ] Alter a few words from the Chancellor of Ex- chequerand Mr. T, Baring, the motion was agreed to. Te American Stream Fricare Muissovrt.— ‘This once splendid, but ill-fated vessel, for a time the pride of the American nation, built at an enor- mous expense, to transmit their first embassy to China, and to strike the minds of the Chinese with the power and magnitude of the Americans, was, as is generally known, accidentally destroyed by fire, in the Bay of Gibraltar, six months since.— The American Consul advertised for parties to un- dertake to raise the wreck, lying in but six fathoms water, and engaged a party at £7 per day ; after two months unsuccessful experimenting, further attempts were abandoned, and the wreck idvertis- ed for sale. At this juncture the Wizard, of Lon don, Captain W. Marshall, entered the bay, re- turning to Scio from England, having been fitted with powerful steam engines, air pumps, and con- senting apparatus, for the express purpose of diving into fathoms water! A bargain was at length concluded for £4500,and the Wizard now only waits the coming fine weather to commence operations It is expected it against the immersed leviathan. will be a most profitable job for the contractors ; the boilers alone, being of stout copper, are consi- dered worth from £10,000 to £12,000 old metal ; and the facilities for operating against the engines and boilers are very great, the decks having been eatirely destroyed.— Preston Guardian. Tue Messrs. Frenpen Brornens anp Tue Iy- come-Tax.—Considerable interest has been created in the commercial circles of Manchester by the sadden Gistraint made upon the Messrs Fielden for about 300/, income tax, alleged to be due from the firm. As it is already ‘known, the Messrs. Fielden returned their Income-tax papers ‘nil;* but the commissioners, not being satisfied with the return, assessed them in about 300/. ‘The Hon. Member from Oldham, as the senior partner of the concern, appealed against the decision of the Commissioners and upon oath at Rochdale confirmed the correct- ness of the return. He was then told that the matter should be further considered. There the matter rested till Tuesday, when, to the astonishment of his brothers, a sherifl’s officer walked into their works at Todmonden, and took possession of the whole premises. This proceeding. created consider- able excitement in Todmorden, Finding the feel- ing that prevailed in Todmorden, they gave up dossession, and went straight off to Man- chester, and took possession of the ware- house. Immediately on their appearance, Mr. Thomas Fielden gave orders that no more bu- siness should be transacted until the aflair was set- led; and with a view of carrying out these orders, refused to allow any goods to p .ss either in or out of the premises. In this state the warehouse still remains, and the officers keep possesvion. Mr. Fielden adheres to his previous resolution, and is determined not to pay the tax; and the officers, by the orders of the commissioners, are determined to sell forthe amount, and have issued the following advertisement in the local paper: «To merchants and others—Exempt from duty—By Mr. Joseph Gale, on Monday, the Lith day of March, 1844, on the premises, Ne. 21 Peel street, Cannon street Manchester, a large quantity of gray domestics and sheeting. May be viewed the morning of sale, which will commence at 11 o’clock in the fore- noon; and for further particulars apply to the auc- tioneer, No. 4 Princess street, Manchester.” The affair bas created much interestin Manchester; but of course does not affect the credit of the firm, as it is Well: known it is one of the richest houses in Lancashire, Tur Income ‘Tax.—The most important event of the week is Sir Robert Peel’s intimation that the Income Tax is to be continued. He gave it on Monday evening. The subject of the Army Esti- mates was under discussion. In the course of it, Mr. Williams observed—“The RightHon. Baronet made a promise that he would give up the Income ‘Tax next year,” when Sir Robert Peel angrily in- terrupted him with, never made such apromise.”” This isenough. We all know what it means. We are in for it. A Tory may promise good, and for- getto doit. But let him threaten evil, and he never fails to perform it. Let the middle classes ponder over the matter.—Liverpool Chronicle, March 9. Livexvoor Corron Srrcubations.—The report ot the Liverpool cotton brokers gives the sales for the week ending last night at 16,030 bales. Of this reduced quantity 4,100 are admitted to have been taken on speculation ; so that the purchases by the trade were under 12,000 bales, not quite one-half of the current consumption at the rate o/ the ave- rage of the past year. We have much pleasure in being able to give an unqualified approval of the conduet pursued by the cotton manufacturers on this occasion, than we have ever experienced in condemning and censuring their proceedings in many other respects, which we have too often felt = Price Two Cents, peasantry in some parts of Ireland. ‘This fact cannot be | placed in too strong u light ; for, it it can once be shown that the wretchedness of the Irish population is without @ parallel example on the globe, surely every friend of hu | manity will feel himself called on to retlect whether | means may not be found for remedying an evil of so as- | tounding a magnitude!’ (cheers) “And, in Ennis, the following statement was made the other day at a meeting, at which Sir Lucius O’Brien presided :—“At a meeting of the Guardians of the Ennis Poor Law Union on Wednes. éay, Sir Lucius O’Brien in the chair, Mr Butler brought forward the resolutions of which he had aca notice, re- to the exorbitant amount of Grand it our duty to do. Perseverance only for a short | form, undefined and indefinite in manner, having nothing ; ever the ear understands its accents my words will be time longer in the same course will be perfeetly | of humanity about it, having nothing of law a ite mon. | conveyed on the wings of the press, and in presence of the certain to accomplish the object of putting down a | Stresity—(cheers) How was it endeavored to be aup- | congregated civilization of the world, in the presence of Monster speculation, which in no shape or form | Potted? By th history of nine months. What plot dil | America, of France and ludiny Sf every clime and coun- could be beneficial to British interests. Vor their | sclose? Why a plot which was carefully committed | try, 1 proclaim the proceedings against me a foul and ritisit interests. Por theit | to those cautious keepers of secrets, the pubic newspa- | dishonest persecution (loud cheers), and 1 hurl eoopnragenent to persevere, we call their attention pers—(cheers.) Not one witness was produced to prove | at the tyrants of the law my merciless scorn to the fact that the plan proposed by the Chancellor | any fact except that A and B were proprietors of news- | and defiance. (Loud cheers.) But it will be asked of the Exchequer for the reduction of the Three: | papers and members of the assoc: fon, and then the news. | what object Jhad in view at those meetings, You may say and-a-Half per Cents, is such as to require no con- | papers were read in detail against us ; the judges deter- | to me, “’t is true you ought not to have been convicted, tinued support from the Bank of England by en-| mined that that was evidence of conspiracy, and here I | but you have an account still to reader to us ; you are ac. larged issues; and the speculators who have calcu- | stand before you aconvicted conspirator—(cheers) ‘I'he | cured of wishing to separate England fiom Ireland.” { lated on that circumnstance as a security that no history of | bave been accused of unnecessarily meddling with an en- check could for a long period be given to they | Manner. actment that took place forty-four years ugo, of needless- Jury Cess now leviable, and which he stated was entirely borne by the ; of them were all vari rhe | ly reviving old causes of complaint, and accumulating | occupiers of land. His object in bringing forward the credit, may find their mistake sooner than they an- | history of me s » umulating | occupiers of land. nj ging ticipated. This very gentle hint may suflice for the eee ethene one Giant meetings was detaited as it ap- | new grievances to make them more nbearable. Now, | resolution way, to call atiection tothe nutter ae the hope inthe public prints, and was italleged that any one of these meetings was illegal?—that there was force, vio Jence, tumult, am quite ready to meet that charge, and should be utterly th present.—London Standard, March 9. worthy of the magnificent compliment you have pct | of the grievance would be redressed by the intreduction of @ provision into the grand jury laws, which would ‘Tue Inpran Bartixs.—The overland mail, which fener, 63 po ieee i“ an} 4 Crh et oon me thi : —— ” : were not ready here, in the aes render the landlords liable for a moiety of the tax, in the i 4 : particle Vsuch allegation that the ma- | senceof you Englishmen, to justify every thing that I in which th e subject t rates. — arrived last week, brings accounts of two hie des: gistracy or'the constables. or the fdleeand the Weil wee y glish justify every thing that same manner in which they are subject to have done, and to rebut every imputation that. has been perate battles, fought and won by two Anglo-Indian cust upon ine. ‘The chairman and Mr. Carrick supported the landlords, armies, under the command of Lieutenant Gene- tues to bal seasons, intimidated or fx any one of these meetings ? (Loud cheers There was not a single allegation of the kind. They were J will tell you why I hav. held these meetings, and | will uf diateres- abide by your disinteres- lures in . . 7. ’ ahon, B. Butler, Mr. Finu- ral Sir Hugh Gough and Major General John Grey, | peaceable. They were admitted to be legal. Hach and ted jndgment. They say there union between the . Kne he entire boord were of opi- at a few miles distance from Gwalior, one of the | every one of them were admitted to be legal. But by | two countries. Intterly deny it. ‘There isa parchment | that the major part of thé population were in a state of most celebrated fortresses in the East, and the ca- the dexterity of judicial magic, the forty-one,though eac! perfectly legal fenereiely whan taken ‘together formed a conspiracy—(cheers) {tis literally so Tam not mock. ing you when I tell boty literally the fact that forty-one legal meetings were held to make an illegal one, Forty-one cyphers would not make a sum, and yet, in point of law, it was decided in our case that 41 nothings made a some- thing, and we are to abide the event. Oh! the scorn and indignation of mankind ought to be poured out on such an abomination of injustice. (Cheers.) 1 arraign the men as conspirators who planned such atrial, 1 arraign, 4s the worst species of conspirators, the men who carried enactment (cheers), but there isno real union. (Cheers.) What is the meaning of a real union? A perfect identifi cation between the two countries (cheers)—that there should be no difference between Englishmen and Iris! men, except a litle in the accent (a laugh) —that English: men and Irishmen should possess the same rights, the i the same franchises (cheers)—that nee between the men of Kent and the men of Cork (cheers)—between the men of Mayo andthe men of Lancashire. (Renewed cheers) ‘Tlut England and Ireland should be one nation, possessed precisely of the same rights, the same franchises, auil dreadful destitution—that pauperism was frightfully on the increase, and thet nothing short of sound remedies should be considered.” Why do | harrow you with these pictures?) Why / for the parpose of culling upon you to exert yourselves in the cause of my unhappy conn. try, and to do all in your power to render her happy once again. Does this misery that J have pictured to you arise from the laziness of the people of Ireland? “No. Do they not travel far ard near to obtain work? Do they. not crowd your streets and your villages in hopes of obtaining work? (Loud cheera) But then it may be said that Ireland is unproductive. Oh! no, ‘tis one of pital of the territory formerly held by the great chief Scindia. The object of the military move- ments which produced these battles was to uphold the regency established at the death of Scindia, and ultimately, the authority of the youthful heir to the Scindian dominions against the intr.gues of Scindia’s widow, the Maharanee, and one of her creatures, who had deposed the regent, and gained over the army, com of many thousands of those brave but turbulent soldiers, who, during the life of Scindia, carried ae gener of Ot Frawecution with all the trickery and chi- | the some privileges Ie not’ that the real meaning ef| the greenest and felrwst flor at aie glote, (rout cheats iui aainar they, Aw Tillis eee eanery of Old Bailey practitioners (Cheers )' What is! a union? (Renewed cheers) I appealed to the Im | Ite grops are abundant ; and its produce magnificent— poor Te a i pq hoe i M fact to- y Jud va call precedent to-morrow, and if this | perial Parliament to make the uustlon what I have de-} (cheers.) Itnas the best harbors and the finest estuaries of the Seindian territory, which borders on the British do:ninions at many points, had been in a state of complete an- archy, and it was to pee an end to this dangerous state of things, as well as to uphold the authority of the regent and the young Prince, that the Bri- tish armies advanced. It will be seen that they en- allowed to repose, if this precedent be once lished, Englishmen, there ia not one of you whose cage it may not be to-morrow. (Cheers) I say not this to threaten or menace you. 1 say not this to instigate you to warmth in support of the people of Ireland; for | would be the most mistaken of huinan beings, if 1 were not aware already, from what I have seen in Iingland, that it in the world. It har all these advantages; and, added to this, it has in spite of all their mistortunes a cheerful, a gay, laborious and affectionate people. (Cheers) Then why is it that this misery exists ? From bad government. Itis impertinent to give any other reason for it. (Great cheering ) Since the union, matters have beceme worse scribed it. but {appealed in vain. “The Tories, of course, refused qad the Whigs were equally complimentary (Cheers and laughter.) J do not wish to weary this us. sembly by the barrenness of statistics. 1 will, however, draw your attention to one ortwo statements. ‘The coun. ty of Cork, which I have the honor to represent, has i ants in its agricultural districts, and up- h peopel — ‘ H anonetey eee f ‘i and worse in Weland. ‘They have given Us, & poor law, . y ceasury to animate you, or togive yon any motives | wahds of 140,090 inhabitants in its cities and towhs,so thet | and thet poor law, I will venture to say, will bring rebel: countered amost desperate resistance at all points, | fey acting hot cone ha ch ne latteln of Gy 13g ms ti af pay re te 4 but that they triumphed over it, and succeeded in ing, but your own generous feelings. “(Chee the population of Cork, taken together, amounts to $0,000 | lion in Ireland if it exists for two years longer. (Hear) [ Tarraign, therefore that prosecution ogainst me, and I te you you are justified in arraigning it for want ike legal form or fixity, for want of any can encounter; for it is‘a monstrous shadow that may be armed with deedly weapons by a miscreant administra: tion of the law, but which has’ in it nothing that is tangi- ble which a rational man can meet in fair conflict of argu ment or ‘judicial discrimination, What ia my next ar- raigament ? The cenduct of the judge (cheers) and here I have ene consolation, that ‘no one human being at. tempts to justify the judge. (Cheers) ‘The usual prac: tice in Parliament is, when any man is arraigned for mis- conduct, the Ministry, if he happens to be. a Miniete, rial man, and thesOpposition, if he happens to be an inhabitants. Now, the inhabitants of Wales are 500,000, being 60,000 less than the inhabitants of the county of Cork, The.county of Cork, with its 80,000 inhabitonts, returna just eight members to Parliament ; and how many members do you think Wales rns with its $00,0U0 ? Why, just 28. (Hear, hear.) One Welshman is not able to beat five Irishmen. (Cheers und laughter) The Welsh are a brave and perhaps sometimes ill-tempered. race. (Cheers and laugliter) But, at the same time, L re. spectfully submit that one Welshman not worth five Irishmen. “(A laugh) Man for man, fam quite content to allow ; but l cannot almit that, as'compared with my own countrymen, they are worth five to one. (Loud cheers and laughter.) “I cannot admit they are entitled to establishing some thing like order in the Scindian territory, which still, however, contains about four millions of as turbulent subjects as are to be met with between the Indus and Calcutta. The Gov- ernor General, Lord Ellenborough, was present at the beginning of the principal hattle, and showed, by his conduct, that a man may be a great coxcomb and’yet no coward, though it says much more for his courage than his prudence, that he should have exposed himself where his presence could do no good and his death (owing to his official rank) might have done much mischief. Ireland. stood alone in opposing it. I was attacked as hard-hearted for doing so. Teed it could be no remedy—that Ireland was too poor fora poor law. It is literally 80, and now the country is breaking up in consequence of Let them send me to my dungeon, let them preclude me from inter- course with the people—the consequence will be awful — ‘They wait in the expectation that something will yet he done for them. They have learned fom me that some- thing may be done for them, and I have told them that he who commits a crime strengthens the enemy—that the only mode of obtaining justice is by being peaceable and puiet—(ch T have trespassed on you long ; but how could | avoid expressing my gratitude and showing you that I deserve at least your good attention, your kindness of the bill authorizing the Government to pay off the Five per Cent stock of that kingdom at par, has created in Paris misgivings that the French Five per Cents will sooner or later be similarly fad off. This impression was further strengthened by the favorable reception of the announced intention of our Government to pay off the Trhee-and-a-Half per Cents, and counteracted the tendency to im- provement which the convalescence of the Duke de | Nemours, and the feebleness and divisions of the > | Opposition in the Chambers, had to a certain extent produced, | The floods were subsiding in Paris; but the ac- counts from the south of France state the occur- rence ot disasters throughout the country from the inundation The Three per Cents, Sunday at 821. Yc The Brest Journal announces that Captain Des- fosses had been summoned to Paris, previous to his departure for Otaheite in the Berceau corvette. Accounts from Stutgardt announce that the King ot Wurtemberg was better. Letters from Gorite announce a sfight improvement in the health of the Duke d’Angouleme, From Stockholm under date July 23, we learn that the King of Sweden was much better. ‘The cold at Stockholm Was intense. ‘The thermometer (Reaumur) marked 20 degrees (45 of Farhenheit) below the treezing point, The Journal du Havre says:—* Persons have a direct intercourse with the Court of the ‘Tuileries inform us that it is arranged that, abont September next, Louis Philippe shall proceed in person, with all his Court, to Nngisha in order to pay a visit to Queen Victoria. ‘The interview will not take place in London, but in the Isle of Wight. It seems to be believed at the Tuileries, that alter his visit to the Isle of Wight, Louis Philippe will paseaade Queen Victoria to make an excursion to Paris.”? In almost all the principal streets of Paris, many of the largest shops have been closed through the inability of their owners to meet their engagements; and in the Palais Royal, and other places where formerly there used to be a great competition for the smallest shop, many “boutiques” are, and have been for a long time past, closed and unlet. Spain, We have received Madnd journals of the 4th ult. The principal facts contained in them, and which we are assured is incontestible, is, that the marriage of Queen Isabella to her cousin the Count ‘Trapani was not only pushed with vigor and adroit- ness, but nearly certain. The Neapolitan Ambas- sador had had several interviews on the subject were done in Paris on who Opposition man, suddenly discover that he really was endowed with all possible human virtues, They get up and eulogise him, never having discovered that he had so many good qualities till he was attacked—that is the usual eourse of Parliamentary proceeding. But there is one man of whom men of all class. shamed, a person no one praised, and that man is Chief-Justice Penetather. Nobody has atterspted to defend him—nobody has attempted to eu- logise him, It is admitted that since the hideous days of Scroggs und Jefferys so one-sided a charge was never pro: nounced by judicial lips, (Cheers.) He is taken aback tothe worst days of th tory of the law. It is admitted 23 members for the 800,000 inhabitants, while the Cork, with its $50,000 inhabitants, is ouly to ht members to Parliament, (Cheers) Onght thattodast ? (Cries of “No, no.”) 1, it not a thing that ought to be changed. (Cries of “yes, yes.) ‘hey laughed at me when called for the change. ‘Then, agai, let us look,at the question in another point of view. ‘The parliamentary returns, made seven yeurs ago, on the regi stration of voters, showed that there were 4,000 registered voters for the county of Cork, with a population of 710,000 inhabitants, while in Wales there were 36,000 registered voters. Iwas looking over the Parliamentary returns and support?—(cheers.) Ihave never shrunk from stand- ing by you in any contest—I have slways been at your side—(Cheers.) Thave never given a vote that was cal- culated to increase the burdens of the people— (cheers); but | have invariobly supported every measure for the extension of civil and religious liberty (cheers ) Thave advocated the canse of the slave in America, as wellasthe peasant in Ireland. [care not what a man’s creed or caste, or color be ; no matter, how incompatible with freedom, a southern sun may have burnt upon him— Tcare not whether the despotism of the Spanish tyrant or of the French mocker of liberty pressesin any count In some parts of Connaught,especially in Galway, the humbler classes are suffering great distress—a state of things rather unusual at this season. ‘The Galway Vindicator contains a very afflicting state- ment on this subject. ‘Whole families (says that journal) are without any supportexcept a few stones of potatoes amongst them, and hundreds of others have none at all. What is to become of the peo- ple in summer, if this be their condition at present? An appeal for assistance is to be made to the Giov- Hen manartad Aud not denied—I saw it myself—he bor-| this morning, and I find the number of tegistered | am for freedom for every mancliberty forall, tyranny for ment. rowed Dart of the prosecuting counsel's brief to help him | voters tor Cork is now 1,600—only 1,800!” (Hear, | none. I stood by you it the Reform Bil foemed one Dustin, March 5.—There was “something” in | to make out his charge, and in sicreatirg, the jury he| hear.) The votes for the ‘largest county in Ire-| of your majority, and an influential one it was; for others the transactions at Conciliation Hall yesterday, | showed the bent of his'mind—“out of the fulness of the | lond are nearly extingui voted with me. it promised much. [t was spoiled in its management. "Its nursing mothers were unkindly to their foster child. In another struggle for freedom I also joined you. I shall always be with you in giving the protecti of the vote by ballot, and for ‘the shortening of the du heart the mouth speaketh”—he talked of the counsel on the other side. (Shame) Let it be proclaimed. through. ngland—from the extremity of Cornwall to the high. of Scotiand—let it be known throughout the d breadth of the that there has been a trial Registration Act, while in Wales the number of voters has increased by 2,000. There are 89,000 registered voters in Wales, ana 1,000 for the county of Cork. Now is that common sense ? Is that justice ? Is that fair. ness, or isit honesty ? which serves to showthat the “leading” repealer” will be kept to his trumps, and sternly resisted if he should make the attempt to convert the agita- tion into an article of political merchandise. A (“No, no.”) " Lhave obtained the | tion of Parliaments, recollecting that short accounts muke entleman named Barry moved the following reso- where @ chief-just'ce presiding was admitted to have made | luve and affection of my countrymen. (Hear, hear.) 1] long friends. (Chee tatement to you; ane which was unanimously agreed to: “That | the chargeof an advocate, which was incapable of de-| know what it is to feel the delight of being borne along, | and now I sole hat if I was not tho. the marked thanks of this association are eminent- ly due to the Liberal members of the House of commons, and to that portion of the British peo- ple who, by their reception of Mr, O’Connell, have manifested their disapproval of the arbitary steps taken to suppress public opinion in Ireland, and that, while we are firmly resolved never to relax our efforts for the repeal of the Legislative Union, until the restoration of our domestic Parliament, we are equally determined to preserve in the same aceful and constitutional course that has won for us theirrespect and sympathy.” us it were, on the breath of a people. (Cheers.) Oh! if you saw the stalwart mon leaving their work and flocking to the roadside as I pass by ; if you saw them in the attr tude of firmness, and watched their eye beaming with affection as they looked on me, and their hand outstretch- ed, almost asking me, would you wish that we should strike the blow ? (hear, hear) ; if you saw the aged wo: man greeting me as I passed by, and praying lor my health and prosperity 5 if you saw (he merry children aud heard their chirping cry as I went along (cheers), pray- ing for blessings on the head of him whom they called ue father of their country (cheers) ; oh, if you had se felt this as | have seen und felt it; if you had fence by any party or any government. (Loud cheers )— You see how J am coaxing’ him to pass a lenient sentence enme, (Cheers anda laugh.) What is my next impeach. ment of this proceeding? 1am here to vindicate inyself and countrymen,and you for your Sympathy and support. (Cheers.) “My next impeachment i# the management of the jy Panel. Out of 710 names 63 slipped by accident We had a lottery, out of 773 710 alone remained; 63 were wanting. (Villany) To besure it was villany; it could not be accident. (Cheers) Expecially out of the 63, 27 were Reman Catholics. Perhaps you do not know that 1 am cf that persuasion. (Cheers anda Jangh) And here let me », that when my esteemed and valued friead (your roughly convinced that the establishment of a domestic legisiature was essential to the comfort of Ireland, and thut it was necessary to keep up the connexion betwee this country and Ireland, I would advocate it no loni If I did not apprehend chat when [am gone some one ei will do that which I never will do, countenance the sep ration of Ireland from England, | would not struggle for a local legislature. But to say that a local legisla end ina separation is amockery, Look at Newfoundland Nova Scotia, Canada, Barbadoes, even Botany Bay. (Cheers, So that every dependency of England, except Ireland, has a local legislat We don't want 0 check orcurb England, What want is, that the laws, to be % Ke hairman) awhile ago told you that the Roman Catholics congregated hundreds and thousand: '¥, move than a} obeyed in I \d, should be made in Ireland, It was so Dixwer ro O’Conwent, at Covent Gannex Turarne. were indebted te me for my exertion in favor of théir | million--come at my call and dissolve with my breath, | before the union; it will be so again when wise and good Last night (March 12) a dinner was given at Covent ( emancipation, he might have added with truth—I add men understand the question as Ido. And in th mean time, Task all to aksist us in getting justice for Ir land, and they will draw away the repealing from m Let ts have equal franchises, equal represeutation,§ equ: corporate reform, equal freedom of conscience froin a chureh to which weed not belong. (Renewed cheers )— Let them try the experiment of kindness, and they will soon defeat any plan of further agitation, ‘The life and soul of agitation is the injustice attempted to be done us; to ch they come out now with a wicked pervers the scandalous partiality of the judge, the ing of the jury, and the insulting title of * con- irators.” (cheers.) Convicted ? convicted in their teeth, the renegades. Renegades who have forsaken everyjprinciple—who violently opposed emancipation one year, and cartied it the next. (Hear, hear.) There is the renegade Stanley, who was the principal contriver of the Reform Bill in such a manner as to prevent it from work- ing. (Hear, hear.) There is Graham, too, who was first on one site of the house, and now is on the other, and oes tothe very extreme of renegadism. (Hear, hear ) ‘These are the ceal conspirators ; and let all those of boil whom I have tayght the lesson of which | am an apostie that no political advantage can be of #0 much importance as to justify the shedding of one single drop of human Wood (cheers) ; this is the lesson they have been tanght ; this is the lesson. they practice (cheers) ; aud this as the lesson they will continue to practice until the tri umphunt success of their efforts shall imprint the maxim upon the wise and good of all nations (cheers) ;— it you had seen all things as { have experienced it, you wouk! think me, indeed, the basest of all mankind if I did not struggle to remedy the inequalities of which I have mentioned two, but of which I might cite a hundred, ex- isting between the two conntries. (Cheers.) ‘Che irish nation, to be properly represented, ought to have 160 members at the least; and that is Jess even than her right. We would take less fur a compromise; they wili give us ut set us at defiance, and indict us tor conspiracy avoring to obtain them. (Cheers) Are you e that the Corporate Reform Bili given to Ireland is most miserably defective in every respect. In England, whoever is rated to the poor rate is a burgess, and is en: titled to vote at municipal elections; but in Dublin, in or- den Theatre to O'Connell, “ to show,” as the annou: ments expressed it, the admiration entertained by Eng- lishmen for his constant and consistent advocacy of the rights and privileges of Irishmen, for more than 40 years,” ‘The pit of the theatre was boarded over so as to make it ona level with the stage, and five long tables, with two slips occupying tne bend of the boxes, making seven ta- bles in all, eee that part of the house. ‘There were six cross tables and ten long tabl stage, besides the grand table, at which sat the chairman, the guest (Mr. OConnell,) and several noblemen, m bers of Parliament, and others. ‘The decorations’ of the portion of the arena behind the proscenium remained the same as they were on the occasion of the late Bul Masqué ‘The chairman sat in the centre of the stage, with the chief guests on his right und left. At the back of, and immedi- ately over the chair, suspended from the Ceiling, there was a brilliant illumination of variegated lamps, repre- senting the rose, the thistle, and the shamrock, underneath ich uppeared, in front of the raised orchestra, the word “O'Connell,” in variegated lamps. On the right of the device was the werd “Ireland,” and on the lett the word with prile—that | sought for that emancipation, not by the assertion of sectarian preference or party, but on the great and glorious principle that religion is « matter be tween man and his Creator (cheers ) and that there is 10 {reedom/or justice in any coun'ry where @ min is prohi- bited worshipping his God according to the dictates of his conscience, (Cheers) It was upon that sought for and obtained emancipation, and 1 would not haye taken it upon any other principle. It was upon that rinciple that we petitioned for the Protestant Dissenters in England, emancipation. (Cheers) There is the hand that drew the petition that was signed by 26,000 Catholics praying for the emanc pation of the Protestant Dissenters of England, and, with- in one fortnight after that petition was presented Lovd John succeeded; and Peel wae compelled to i the Protestant Dissenters. (Cheers) Pard digression, but it is important that we should understand each other well. The people of Ireland have waited for their own freedom of conscience; they were three time e the Reformation, und they 1 r perse- J cuted a single Protestant. (Cheers) Let us then contend | «ler to be upon the burgess lists, it is neceseary that a man | countries who wish for rational freedom, those who look “ Justice,” also in variegated lamps. At the back of the | with each other, in the Good, the charitable, the benevo } should be rated at £10, that is, he should occupy a £ for free trade and an unshackled commerce, cheap Jaw chair was the retiring-room, over which was the orches- | lent, generous flow of our feelings, and take no credit for | house, utd that he should have paid uo less than nine and areli intolerable burden of debt-let those tra, containing 30 vocal and ji mental performers, un | particular sectarian advantages, and let us establ rates. The consequence is, that in Dublin not | who desire economical, practical reforms, join with ol der tho direct’on of Mr. bury. ‘The great sulle, | liberty of all on the broad basis of Christian broth above one-third of those who ought to he burgesses are on | Ireland. (Che T! t formed by the boarded pit and the stage, was illuminated | (Cheers) 1 come hack to the trial, $ names slipped | the list ar, h " equality with the Eng: | ful hearts. W. by 30 elegant ormouiu chandeliers, in addition to the great | out. Mark, now, for one toment : s something of | lish Co » Reto 1 call the people to- | friendship. r chandelier suspended from the centre of the theatre, and | technicality in what I am going to tell you, but {think gether that they may insist on the desirable alterations in | valuable by ic legislature, and by a complete c ler chandeliers suspended over exch box in the | you will easily comprehend me. We challenged the array if 4 peaceable, tranqi and constitutional manner, | am in- cted for u couspirae (Cheers) But there is another ¢ in Ireland greater than all these. bination of «loyal, contented, and happy people. (‘The cle, The stage was adorned by mirrors at the amidst loud and on account of the 63 names which had been dro; centre and the side. The whole of the boxes were i pro In that challenge—the document is on record - d hon. and learned gentleman then retice: ¥ it may have | general che priated to ladies, and every place was filled. ‘The galleries alleged that those naines were fraudulently spoli ppearaace of Beste on my part, or of sectarian Duntay, March 11—Rervat Associsrion, The ’ were also densely crowded, About 1,100 person sat down | trom the —we alleged that this was done to thi ‘ism, that I should wdvert to it now; but, ax Ihave | weekly m gj of the members of this association was to dinner, and the effect of the whole theatre when thus | detriment of the traverse: That plea was put on the a f assuiled it elsewhere, | am ready boldly to assail it here, | held to-day in the Conciliation Hall, 1 brilliantly filled was most imposing. Owing to theexcel- | reco d. ‘The Artorney-General had it in his powcr to join and to take your judgment on it. Lallude tothe established | Shortly alter one o'clock, W. 8. O'BU lence ee ee poop tl oe coors whatever took | issue and say the thing had not been fraudulently done. | chureh in Ireland. (Cheers ) Gentlemen, I appeal to you ll, M. P., D, O'Connell, jun, and Mr, SU afew minutes re 6 o'el plac k, the chairman and the'other chiet guests entered the roem, accompanied by Mr, O'Connell. ‘On the honorable and learned gentle- man’s appearance, he was received with ugeneral Lurst of cheering ‘from all parts of the house ‘The toast—"'Health and long life to Daniel O’Connell”— was received with the game enthusiasm that attended the first meution of Mr. O'Connell's name. ‘The cheering and waving of handkerchiefs continued for some minutes. Mr. O’Consrut, (alter the cheering with which he was greeted had subsided,) rose, and spoke as follows :—I pro- tost to you this is the first time in a long and variegated That question of fraud would huve been tried by tryers duly sworn; but he declined todo so. He left the allega- tion uncontroverted—it was uncontroverted on the record to this day, and he relied on this, that he had judges who told him and told us that, as we did not know who it was that committed the fraud, we were withont remedy (Shame) It is literaily true. 1 am here talking to the common sense of Englishmen—to their sense of honesty, and to that noble adherence to fair play, which e all things else is the highest and most dignified trait in the English character. [t is & common saying all over the whether the church in England, t ments, is not the cori of * t has the state emol hurch of the great majority of the peo ‘0.") So much the worse; it ought to Well, that is a disputed question which 1 will not gue, The church of Scotioad, until lately, was the church of the great majority; but the church’ in Ireland, which has the state emoluments, is not and never has been the church of the majority, (Hear.) Ido not want the emolamenty of that chnrch for my church—I wo .11 not acceptthem. There does uot live 4 Protestant who would be half so determined as I should be in throwing them a- eetiny J. O'Connell reed the following letter from his father : “ Loxwoy, March “ My dear Ray,—Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of the reception I received at Birmingham, It would be impossible for any person who was not preseat to form an adequate idea of it, This delights me. It consolidates the combination of all genuine retormers in both countries — We have every body with us in England, except the minions of a sordid aristocracy onthe one hand, and the dishonest portion of the Chartists on the othe: u world, when two men are found fighting, people who | side from my church. I would scorn to have my church | ware you that there are some Mhonest men amongst tt life that, with truth I may say, I feel unmanned—I fee) | come vy p are sure to take part with one or the other; but | the vassel of the state,or connected with the state. | th Chartists; not many, to be sure, but stillsome. It is overpowered. The dungeon that my enemie: Key, in England it is proverbial that no two people fight that | such connexion is injurio thestate, and musth melancholy, how. to think how much mischief to the cheers) ; i y those who come up don’t see fair play. I am telling you those things, and Ely a0 to your fair play. ho one word in any other language that can express such acharact and it deserves to have # word comed for itself, The fraud is uncontroverted till the present mo ment ; the only answer we get, as I told you, was, "you don’t know who committed the fraud, and therctore there is no remedy.” Suppose a man is robbed and does not know the name of the thief, if he went betore Sir Pet tri tal to the church. My opinion may be insigniti- cant; butthe Catholic prelates of Iveland have within the last six weeks proclaimed that they would never take ong single tarth ublic money, or any state endowment whatsoeve #) 1 do not think that there isa greater one man should another which he Upon that principle the great oppres- sion of Ireland ix the Established Church, and until cause of reform th artists can still effect. nunerons, they are active, and continne—wherever they can—to tyrannise over public meetings, But more than enough of these men, The middle classes of Society, however, are almost all erely attached to the principle of justice to Ireland There is a better spirit amongst them than—Heaven for pone anes for me has no terrors to my min’ and, if the scaffuld and the rack could be added to it, they wonld not bring such overpowering sensations to my mind as the awful magnitude of the compliment you have paid to me today. (Cheers) Oh! how ardent must be ‘our love of justice. Oh, how steady and severe your Ratred for judicial artiality Mow you must delight in ser of Eee ren with the same intensity that you hate the practice of partiality and injustice! What are 1 Though not ‘There is he compel! did not belie: prosecutions are most int my claims upon your sympathy? ‘That | am the victim | Laurie, or y other of your white witches, and this system is put an end to, it will be in al improvement in this ofinjustice—simply because the law has been violated in | caught this man eceping from my premises w: vain to expect tranquility in Ireland. My friends, an cot my person, simply becanse those in power have practiced | goods,” everybody world laugh at Sir Peter more than | | wish you had seen the fish newspaper inal conspiracy th iniquity, and you who have integrity and manliness know they do ihe were to say, “I cannot listen to your com- | short time since a very respectable gentlem procure political mghts, there is and end, in Mngland, of how to hate them. (Cheers) Yes, you are able to turn plaint ; you don’t know the man’s name.” (A laugh) | Archdeacon De Lacy died. ie was the nephew of a] all future reform or redress. But that which appears to defeat into victory (cheers); and to ke con-} And yet on that most ridiculous assertion we were told hishop, and according to the advertisement ot the sale of] me chiefly and most powerfnily to attract English syin Viction not a source of punishment but of tri | that the fraud must go unpunished, and we must be pun: | h cts, he was an excellent man, he had eleven hunt. | pathy, is the great question ofthe ‘purity of trial by jury.’ uumph. | (Cheers) You make me glad that I have been | ished for mentioning the {rand (cheers, and cries of er excellent pack of hounds, and a splendid cellar of | If that be trampled upon, there is nu farther security. for convicted. It is no exaggeration to use that expression. I} shame.”)_ ‘There remains one more impeachment, and | w (Laughter) But it may be said that these griev. ances of Ireland are sather speculative than otherwise, don’t think it will be said that the last is so. [tis said. that we may he rich, happy, and contented, without these political advantages. Sut is Ireland rich? That she is hot contented is certain—has she a right to be happy ? Allow me to vindicate myrelf by telling you the real state of Ireland. In 1834, 40 ‘years ‘after the establishment of the union, the commissioners on the Poor Law Inquiry reported that they fotnd 2,235,000 in a state of destitution npon a popniation of 4,000,000, more than one-fourth of the life, property, or character. ‘This is what rouses English udignation, and gives to Ireland the most cheering pros pect of support. “Thope tof wever, that we can be gratetul—per- fectly grateful—wfthout involving one Jingle particl: of our fidelity to the cause of Irish regeneration, and without relaxing in our peaceable struggle for that which will be equally beneficialjto England as to Ireland—the restor- ion of our domestic legislature. ‘There is one thing ertain, that—even ifothers forsook Ireland—her cause, her legislative independence use it in all the sincerity of my heart, because you have shown a sympathy in England for Ireland; yon have convinced me, not reluctantly, to be sure, but with some difficulty, that there is a higher mind animating the masses ofthe middle class ini the better part of the higher classes in England, which teaches me that we were born to he united in affection and in Interest—born to be com: bined against the world, and that we but those who are enemies of both. (( delight in the events that have taken place. 1 think they will tend to great good in both branches of the country. that is my imyeachment of the jury that was sworn. In int of law Provestant and Catholic have equal right to eon that jury (cheers.) In point of justice it ought to be so—in fair play it would be so ustice Fairplay would have ded for me at on Yet what was the first step? FE n Catholics were on the reduced list— every one of them was struck off by the Crown Solicitor. ‘They say, to be sure, they were repealers, In the first place, it is not tru hat is one answer In the next place, if it were trwe it would be no reply; becatise, being i will never be forsaken by arepealer might be a great folly, but it is not ac oly population ; and Captain Larkom has reported “ Yours sincerely, Tam sure of this, that the people of Ireland will Near with | i not a crime whiclrmakew & man an outlaw ( that 70 per cent. of the rural population were living in “DANIEL O'CONNELL gratitude, to bo extinguished only with their lives, of the | and if being a repealer would make a juror favorable to | int none rn popniation fa instances se m only—that 20 per cent. of the town ilies were living in one room, and in some ‘al families in that one room —(Hear, “'T. M. Ray, Eq.” On the motion of Mr, O'Brien, seconded by Mr. Steele, the letter of Mr. O'Connell was ordered to be entered on manner in which I have been received lately in more po- pular assemblies than one, and in that balliant assem Giage that ta now before ‘me. (Cheers) me, Lark you whether my most rancorous and violent opponenis—men who had Voted three times against me— could be considered @ fair and impartial jury egainst me | hear.) Nothing shows greater misery than a de. | the minutes. scene Js here to-night. When I see the rank and ‘This is their own argument. J convict them out of their | crease in the population, An increase in the popula | 8 ions having been handed in by han | contemplate the wealth and the importance, when | gwn mouths. 1 appeal to common sense, il a repuatcr | tion tea favorable sign, but the retrogression of a pop. ell, and O'Brien, the secretary I see the manly determination, and the k lly the friendly eye, when | behold ‘thoee beings that see turn itto fairy land, those syiphs and celestial beings ani mating and smiling upon us,l do rejoice that at any incon venience to myself ha held such @ transcendant spectacle. (Cheera.) ‘1 e convicted me; but you ask how and of what? I am here to tell you of what They have convicted me not of a crime defined or de- finite—not of anything you can read in law books, but of something the judges have spelt out of those law booke, and put together to form a monster indictment. It iv lite- rally 80.—(Considerable interruption here took place owing to the great difficulty of hearing Mr. O'Connell in the more distant parts of the house. The confusion con- tinued until Mr. O'Connell, advancing towards the centre would be favorable to me, isnot y sacily favorable to another 1 (cheers) But recollect this, it was the more important to have a fair jury in this case, because the crime was not a distinct one. If it had fi a charge of robbery, or murder, or forgery, any human intellect would have understood the nature of the c rime, and would only have had to decide the fact whether the party charged was guilty or innocent, But here was an imaginary crime, participating more of ideality than reality—here was something that was to be «pelled ont of the recesses of the criminal law, 4 it emphatically called for a thoroughly impartial as well as a’ thoroughly intelligent jury to investi. gate it (loud cheers) One Protestant they struck off nr aniti repealer neces- a sum than 371. 103 on! hat they had received no le during the week from the wards in London. J O'Connell alluded to a resolution which had passed upon the last day of meeting, removing several repeal, wardens in Glasgow, for introducing a placard which grossly attacked the Protestant religion, and said that } had since received several very strong remonstrances {rom the parties concerned (four in number), who had proc: ed a Presbyterian gentlemen to state, in a letter, that h did not take offence ac the doctiment in question After some discussion the dis dwardens were aguin placed on the roll of the associ , after which JT Dunne brought forward a long report upon the subject of the borough franchise, which waa entered up- lation of 70,000 a hoa iv a most convincing proot of misery, distress and wretchednees. Now, justto show you that what I am stating is correct, 1 will read you, the tion of Mr Kobl, a German, who has been travel- ling all over Europe, who has visited Ireland, and lately eda book, in which is the following statement : er, When I saw the poor Lettes in Livonia, | used to pity them for having to live in huts built of the unhewn logs of trees, the crevices being sto; ped up with moss. I pitied them on account of their low doors and di- minntive windows,and gladly would J have arranged their chimney for them in a more suitatle manner, Well, hea- ven pardon my ignorance I knew not that { should ever see a penpleon whom Almighty Goil had imposed yet her- — aa respectable an individual ay ever lived—almost the | vier privations. Now that | have seen Ireland, it seems to | on the minutes. of the house, mounted on a table, and thus continued his | only liberai Protestant in the entire panel. The man | mo thatthe Lettes, the Esthonians, and the Finlanders, | Dillon Browne, M. P. (who had just entered the meet aidross}—Iwas endeayoring te vindi the judgment you | whose intellect was of the highest order, the intelligent | lea! a life of comparative comfort, and poor Paddy would | ing), and Mr. §. O'Brien, then addressed the meeting. had formed. My task, I may say, waa that of vindicatin Protestant, they sent to keep company with the Il Cathe- i Yet they call this a fair trial, ‘I call it not proses tion, but persecution. (Cheers) [call it not a fair ¢ fg, scheme, and management. feel like aking with their houses, their daily fare~ (Ch to top up its erevic their habiliments, and 1) A wooden house, with moss . would be a palace in the wild re ‘The amount of the week's rent wil] be abont 300! Trave or Duntiy.—The Freeman’ s Journ morning has the following paragraph Lf you to yourselves, of endeavoring to prove that you are perfectly justified in the ardor of your enthusiasm in sup porting my cause and that of the Irish people.— (Cheers) ; i (Cheers) 1s ions of Ireland. | Paddy's cabin is built of earth, one shc- | the stats of iit The accusation that has heen made egninst me, and om ot the person convicted by the due course of law. | vellul over the other, with a few stoned mingled Love onal lt pad i ee which J have been convicted, is of that enormous nature, | fn, prison | shall feel that I aim a victim, and in that prison | there, till the wall is highenough. But, perhaps, you will y } “ 1091 ; fhe corres: that it is interesting to every human being, whether he for customs’ Ishall have the feeling at heart that will raise me supe | say, the root is thatched or covered with burl, luties and bonded goods i i AY, in| ponding period of last y duced 197,911; increase in be himsolt liable to a similar machination or not, te un- | rior to the paniehment. (Loud cries of “Hear.") Oh’ 1 | deed! A Tow sody of era eaten cighboring bog are | hevonr ot an “ae derstand distinctly its hearing, its form, and its pressure. | geo! have plenty fhere to open the prison door. (Lond | tis only thetehe Welle tat a cei a eegeborin bog are | favour of this year, 21,194. It iv not a crime defined by the law, or definite. -Itis not cheers) But it would be very ile to suppose that 1am not thoroughly prepared for an event of that kind Whatever I suffer for my country 1 rejoice in that suffer. ing, and she is rendered doubly dearer to me by any. in fiction imposed on me for acting in defence of ‘ Fens Our advices from Paris ari The dispute between the ( versity Was assuming an exceedingly serious cha- xed in the wall, or the be seen ina Jusnry wer thie? ‘There hich not a trace of a window acrime respecting the evidence for which there is any possible resort to law books, or to the conjurations of men of my trade. It is called, to be sure, a conspiracy ; but there is nothing of private agreement—there is no he only a pate of gla » the 10th ult iwreh and the Uni- her fr isto be seen. Nothing but a little square hole in front, | racter. ‘The Moniteur contains a letter trom the thing of arrangement—there is nothing of plot or plan in | Jom and happiness, and they mistake much who ima, whe’ doubles the duty of door, window, and chimney Mint i of Sietie eto the Archbishop of Paris, con- it. Tt is sornething that the jndges imagine when they smoke, pigs, an eines ; that my influence will be diminished, or my power of p station over my country men will be lessened hy ‘ tence they may possibly inflict on me. (Cheers.) “ffi we ever, I will not dispute ‘with you on the natave of the ene tence. [have shown you the culpebility of the prov eed- ing. 1 have arraigned the parties to it here, where my voice, unconfined by these walls, will reach all ow ® thy world wherever the English lenguoge is spoken~wh ve children all must pass in and he same aperture! A French anthor, Beaumont, who had seen the Irish peasnnt in his cabin, and the North A can Indian in his wigwam, has assured ne that the savage fer provided for than the y man in Irelahd 1, the question may be rai whether in the whole world a nation is to be found that ig subjected to such physical privetions ay the ‘rea, and make the public suffer when they are awake —(Cheers.) One of our female authors of celebrity in the fulness of the feminine imagination has depicted to the world an imaginary being of extraordinary dimensions, and of voracious capacity, and denomin.ted it Frankeuste'n. ‘The conspiracy tried in Ireland was th» Frankenstein of the law, uncouth of limb, unsheped in demning in the strongest terms a memoric!, nd- deegeed by him and four of his suffragans of the Arch diocese of Paris to the King, on. the subject of pablic instruction, and the publication of that document in the newspapers. The unanimons vote of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies on ‘Thursday last, approving the principle with Senor Gonzales Bravo, who had expressed his approbation of the. project; and the Duke de Rivas, the anish Minister now on his way to Naples, was. said to be a stanch partisan of a ma- trimonial union with Naples. The inscriptions and other embleins commemo- rative of the revolution of the Ist September, 1840, had been removed from the facade of the Town- house in complimentto Queen Christina. The last despatches from General R oneali, dated Villa Franquesa, the 29th ult., state, that early in the morning of that day, the insurgents of Alicant to the number of 300 infantry, with 60 horse, and two pieces of artillery, madé a sortie in the direc- tion of the Cruz de Piedra, for the purpose of des- troying the batteries in progress of construction on that side. They were, however, bravely charged by detachments of the regiments of Savoy and Lusitania, who occupied that point, and beaten back into the place, with the loss of six killed, and a large number wounded. The siege artillery had not yet been landed, owing to the boisterons state of the sea The Three per Cents were di cash, and 30} at 60 days; the Five per Cents,, at 22; at GO days ; the Coupons not to be capitalized, at 28 at 40 days; and the floating debt, at 50 for the 19th of April. The Madrid journals and letters of the 2d inst. 1 principally on the journey of Queen Maria tina, whose progress through Spain excited deep interest, and was viewed as a political event of great moment in the present¥situation of aflairs. The many. enemies to the Cabinet. predicted that on her arrival at Madiid, M. Zales Bravo and his colleagues would make room for another Ad~ ministration; but it was affirmed, with much more certainty, that the tte would soon publish a decree reimstating in their offices all persons ap- pointed by her to the day she left Spain. A rumor prevailed in Madrid on the 3d instant, that the Spanish Government had, on the requisi- tion of that of Lisbon, sent aid in the shape of cash and artiflery for the suppression of the revolt in Portugal. at 30 3-16ths for Austria, We learn from Vienna that preparations are mak- ing at the palace of Scha@abrun for the reception of the Emperer of Russia in the month of May. It issaid that the Kings of Bavaria and Prussia and the Prince Royal of Wurtemburg are also expected. Rassia. The Silesian Gazette informs us_that large may forcements are being sent’ by Ruisian Govern. mentto the army the Caucasus, and that the ef fective force of Russia in that quarter, will soon amount to 200,000 men. Greece. Advices from Athens, of the 10th ult, state that Kang Otho has had a narrow escape trom being poisoned, owing to the carelessness of his cook, who prepared a dish in a vessel in which verdigris had been allowed to collect. The illness, howey- ever, soon gave way to proper remedies. Turkey and Circassi According to letters from St. Petersburgh, seve- ral ‘Turkish vessels, loaded with armsand ammuni- tion for the Circassians, have been taken by the Russian blockading force. It is said the Russians® have found papers in those vessels which prove that the Ottoman Government was not unacquainted with the forwarding of the stores. The Russ Government has made a very energetic representa- tion on the infraction ef the treaty of the Darda- nelles. The Divan replied very humbly, that te: sures would be taken to prevent the transmission of any warlike stores in future. The Augsburgh Gazette contains a letter from Constantinople, Feb. 14, which states that a letter from Adrianople had been received there, an- nouncing that a sudden thaw had pd a great inundation, which had destroyed 3,000 houses, and carried away a considerable quantity ot goods ‘The loss is estimated at 3,000,000 piastres, Syria. Letters from Beyrout, says the Presse, received by express, bring the following important intelli- gene Lount Lebanus is in insurrection. Twelv thousand Maronites are under arms, and named for their chief Francis Cezeno. The Druse chiefs, who were as hostages at Beyrout, escaped during the night, and returned to the mountain to make common cause with the Maronites. The authori- ties of the Porte paid no attentionto. The in- ins had declared that, after for a length of time demanded fromthe Porte that the exactions of thé Turkish {unctiona- ries should he puta stop to, they have no longer any hope but in arms. ‘Theatricals, Sheridan Knowles was lecturing in Manchester on the genius of Shakspeare. Arrangements have been made with Mr. Hullah, by the National Society, for a systematic course ot musical instruction in all the training institutions of the society. Mons. Collinet, after fulfilling some engagements in Edinburg and Glasgow, has lett for Paris, to make bis arrangements for the fashionable season, and is expected to return to London in the course of next week. ‘i Tt is said that a plan is in agitation to give ase- ries of Italian performances it one of the large theatres in the metropolis during the ensuing sum- mer, and that Rubini, Tamburini, and Madame Viardot Garcia have been applied to onthe sub- ject. Mr. Mac n, the messenger of the Princess’s Theatre, was to have a benefit 15th March, The bill of tare embraces Lucia di: Lammermoor, with the whole of the music; Gone to Texas, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear; and the new grand ballet of Leola, Here is sufficient attraction ; but, were that to fail, Mr. Maclean’s estimable personal qualities would be sure to fill the house. Ap attraction of no ordinary nature was given at Drury lane onthe 13th March, for, in addition to M. Dupre, in Guillaume Tell, M. Albert, M. Vestris, and Mademoiselle Fleury, will appear in the new ballet of the Beauty of Ghent. The drama ot Josephine, which lately succeeded at the Haymarket on account of the acting of Mrs Fitzwilliam, and which want of space prevented us from noticing, is a version of La Fille du Regiment —originally produced with Donizetti's music atthe opera Comique, in Paris. Afterwards it was trans- lated into ftelian, and the spoken dialogue which stood in the. French original was converted into plain recitative, a seena being intredaced for the entrance of a tenor, Salvi. A correspondent sug- gests that this Italian version might with propriety be played at Her Majesty’s Theatre with Mario for the tenor. The opem of Corrado d*Alvamura, which isthe last Italran novelty at Paris, and was composed by Frederico Ricci (not the composer of Scaramuceia, but his brother) was originally played at La Seala, Milan, where the principal