A N ' This P 4 I S R circulates very extensively in every District ofthe County of C, rk ; also in Ihe Counties Keny, Limerick, Tipperaro, WuUrjcrd, lie., ft c.— lt isjiledin London at the Public Club Ileuses, at Messrs. NKWTON'S, Warwick- Square, aud I U « W « . H * B K B * , 5 2 , Fleet- Street, ( Kewt[ aper Agents), In Dublin at the , liferent Public Institutions, and at Messrs. J . K . JOHNSTON & Co's. ( Newspaper Agents)— numerous Club Houses, ftc., iu England and Ireland, where the greatest publicity is given to Advenisem nts, Articles of Intelligencec. ftc. O; C. V N L Y Y Y ( TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS. I A A A . j AND SATURDAYS V C O R K - - T H U R S D A Y EVENING, J A N U A R Y II, It ( r o THE COUNTRY PER A N N ! 2 1 6 OJ 7 ' r n T H ? TOWN PCh r. TTTO ( 2 10 0 v PRICK FIVE PENCE. nvnxxessKeiiswmxMgamaiKMui!, MEETING AT THE CORN- EXCHANGE— MR. O'CON NELL AND THE TRADES. D U B L I N , T U E S D A Y , J A N . 9.. Yesterday a numerously attended meeting was held in the great rooms, Corn Exchange, pursuant to public notice, for the purpose of hearing Mr. O'Connell address the Trades of this c combination, and in reply to several allegations made by the speakers at the aggregate meeting of the Tradesmen, held on the 26th ult. in the old chapel, Townsend street. At half- past one o'clock the hon. and learned gentleman entered the room, and was received with loud cheering. As soon as the applause which greeted his entrance subsided, Mr. O ' C O N N E L L said— I move that Peter Purcell, Esq. do take the chair.. ( Cheers.) The chair was then occupied by the gentleman named. Mr, RAY acted as Secretary. Mr. O ' C O N N E L L observed that, before entering upon the business of the day, he wished to make one or two preliminary remarks, not having any reference to the immediate objects of the present meeting, and to which he begged to call the attention of the gentlemen of the press.. ( Hear.) In the Sun newspaper, which arrived that morning— and every body knew what an interest in the affairs of Ireland that excellent journal took— there was an nccusation made against him, that he had, two years ago, assented to the proposition of the government, for pensioning the Irish Catholic clergy .( Hear.) Now, he should say, this was a fatal mistake ( Hear, hear.) He never did, nor could he ever, consent that the Catholic clergy of Ireland should have any connexion with the state whatsoever, exceptin their capacity as faithful and loyal subjects of her Majesty. Mr. PURCELL then said— Gentlemen, in accepting the disdinguished office of chairman of this highly respectable and interesting assembly, permit me to make a few observations. Allow me to say, that I should have declined the honor you have this day conferred upon me, had I not received the sanction of Mr. O'Connell, that previously to entering upon the regular and important business which has called us together, I should be at liberty to read a document signed by a number of men connected with a trade in this city which has always been distinguished for their good conduct, and by the most constitutional and peaceful demeanour ( Hear.) The body to which I shall allude is that of the coachmakers ( Hear, hear.) I am myself intimately acquainted and connected with that business, having been now an employer for upwards of 30 years.. ( Cheers, and a voice ia the crowd, ' and you are one of the best cf them.'.. Mr. P. ( to the person who had made the latter observation)— I am much obliged to you, and I trust I shall ever continne so— ( Loud cheers.) I wish to explain their views, and to show, that they, at least, are incapable of connecting themselves with any combination which should stigmatize itself with violence or bloodshed.. ( Cheers).. and I should be unworthy of the confidence they have placed in me, did I not now come forward to rescue them from the imputation. ( Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is impossible to separate the interests ofthe operative classes from those of their employers. ( Cheers.) If a mutual good feeling did exist as it ought between them, there would be an end for ever to the name of combination. ( Cheers.) And I will say, that combination on the part of the employers would be more ruinous to the interests of trade generally, than even were it entered into by the operatives themselves.. ( Hear and cheers.) 1 say that if combination was to fall into the hands of n few, this country would be in a bad state indeed ; but we have some security against what might be otherwise an evil, by its being vested in the hands of many. [ Hear."] But whatever may be the abuses which may have crept into the system of any of their bodies, I trust that, after hearing what I now hold in my hand read, there is no really honest tradesman who will not come forward manfully aud boldly to support Mr. O'Connell in condemning and putting down these evils in the social system, which are at once a disgrace to society and a ruin to this country, in its character, prosperity, and happiness. ( Cheers.) I will not trespass any longer on your time, than while I read the document to which I have already alluded. " We, the undersigned operative tradesmen ofthe body, employed in the mail coach factory of Messrs. Purcell and Co., Russell place, cannot regard with indiff reneo the discussion pending before ibe public, relative to the combination of the Dublin tr- riesmen, and we respectfully submit to its attention the fact, that while we recognise and maintain rrsjust as legal and right to combine for the purpose of procuring an adequate, fair, and reasonable remuneration for that labour which is excrcised lor the benefit of our employers, which labour is conditional ott au equitable My( IIent of wages, still viewing with strong feelings of ( lis: approbation any attempt at coercion bv means of brute violence, and denying the expediency of attaining any object, however justifiable or commend ble, by assassination andcrirne, we most heartily coincide with Mr. O'Connell in his denunciations against Ihe instigators and perpetrators of those outrages which hove recently deluged our streets with blood, and which have unhappily, but most unjustly, been the cause of stigmatising the Trades of Dublin generally with the obloquy which is so deservedly attached tit crime of such tearlnl magnitude ; we are there, fore of opinion that Mr. O'Connell is entitled to our thanks for/ and our co operation in, his attempts to put an end to these atrocities, and being fully aware that if his exertions prove successful, and the perperrators discovered, it will be found thin they have no connexion with the recognised body of tradesmen, wt 0 now, and ha* o always, repudiated their s- ts as unpatriotic » nd inhuman, we tender to him all tho aid in our power to render them amenable to the biws." ( Hear, hear, from Mr, O'Connell, and loud cheers from the meeting.) This document was signed by about thirty tradsemen, operatives, belonging to the body. Mr. O ' C O N N E L L then rose and said.. Allow me now to speak to you on the first point, to which I beg your attention. I may premise by saying that I mean to address this meeting at what I am afraid they will consider an unusual length.. ( Hear, and cries of no). AU I desire is that I may be heard throughout without interruption. Let no tradesman who thniks I am stating what is wrong stand up while I am addressing this assemblage to contradict me, but let him keep the matter in his recollection, and reply to it when I have done ; and I p'edge myself that he shall not be interrupted, that he may offer his opinions with the intention of speaking on behalf of that class of opera tives to which he belongs, and no matter how much at variance • with my notions, or those of the meeting, he shall be heard to the conclusion of his address without interruption- ( Hear, hear.) I have given a pledge that no sounds of hisses or groaning shall be heard, no matter how much these opinions may differ from ours, and I tust there is no man in this meeting will break that pledge, and that all are equa[ ly anxious to facilitate the inquiry which we are about, now rise for the important purpose of proposing a series of resolutions, which 1 trust will be unanimously adopted by this meeting ; and I shall state distinctly as I can the grounds upon I seek to have those resolutions passed. ( Hear.) Let me begin, however, by congratulating this meeting ou the considerable degree of unanimity which you have proved to exist between me arid the great masses of the tradesmen on the present state of political affairs. ( Hear.) I have spent in this room, one day four hours, another five, and a third day again nearly four hours 3 • listening to the different tradesmen who met me, discussing variety of matters. They said a good deal from which I differed and a good deal iu which I agreed ; but whether we differed or agreed, they produced in my mind a most powerful conviction of the talent, the ability, and intelligence possessed by the tradesmen of Dublin. [ Cheers. ] I don't mean to flatter them by this observation. I have never stooped to flatter the great or the humble ; but this lean sincerely affirm, that I never met so many individuals from whom I received more instruction, and whose intellects I considered more clear, powerful and discrimi nating than thetradesmen of this city, or who would be more likely to advance themselves, and the condition to which they belong, far beyond the position of that of any similar class in any land, if this country was otherwise politically advancing as much as it was retrograding— if she was rising as much as she is sinking in the national scale—( Cheers.)— The first point upon which we have agreed is, that there is a great depression in the state of trade in Dublin—( Hear)— and that many of the operative class are in great and extreme distress, notwithstanding their readiness to work for small wages—( H e a r )— It is another question, what are the causes of this depression and diminishing of employment ? ( Hear.) I think some of them are to be found in an unreasonable and unjust combination. This is what is to be discussed. I know, indssd, it is not the sole great cause ofthe depression. I know that there are political causes prevailing in this country, which would make its trade a fading one, if labour was to be as sought for, and as free as in any other land ; and if employers were as anxious or enabled to give work as they could be, instead of being disgusted with the dictation of their men ( Hear.) We fully agree in opinion upon this, that the prospects of trade here are not as they ought to be—( H e a r ) and that there ought to be more men employed in the city of Dublin than there are ( Hear, hear.) The second thing we have agreed upon is this repudiating the ex'Vence ofa system of terror, violence or bloodshed —( Hear.) I have before me the resolutions of the meeting of the trades on the 26th of December last, and by one of them 1 finl that they unequivocally repudiate any connexion with this system of intimidation and terror which existed in the city of Dublin. This, then, we have agreed upon, that base, inhuman, nnd unchristian outrages have been perpetrated in this metropolis.. ( I quote the words of their own resolution.) But while they repudiate and disclaim any share in those outrages they must admit their existence. And here I have to regret that in addition to the term " base, inhuman, and unchristian outrages" which, deni ed, though strong enough, they did not ; use the word " murderous" also. I am sure if I had the word- I ng of the resolution I should have inserted it, and I blame I their pen- man for not having added " murderous" to the terms u s e d . . ( hear.) Upon these things which I have stated we are agreed, and that we ought not to remain in this state without makiug some efforts to improve, or ascertain the causes of the city on the subject of | depression of trade in this city—( h e a r . ) We ought to have a parliamentary inquiry into the matter ; and if it. be true that none of this depression is owing to unlawful combination, that truth will then shine forth before the entire British empire. If it be true that this combination has had no influence in the diminution of trade, this fact will appear upon proper investigation, and the accusations made against it will fall to the ground. Inquiry is what every person desires, and ought to desire. Inquiry is neccssary to ascertain whether you can augment employment, and take the operative classes from the state of misery in which they are at present involved.. ( Hear).. But an inquiry also into the cause and nature of these outrages is also necessary. . ( Hear).. And every good man will join with me in looking for such an inquiry-— it is distinctly called for, and challenged by the meeting of the 26th of December ..( Hear).. Having premised these things, I come now to the proceedings of that meeting. I would have been glad to have gone there myself in person, but it pleased God to prevent me.. ( Hear, hear.) I should be sorry to suppose that the sentiments uttered at that meeting were the sentiments of the majority of the honest trades of Dublin— were anything like what the majority of my countrymen entertain towards me.( Cries of no, no, and loud cheers.) It was said to be a meeting to vindicate the trades of Dublin, and any intention of political or personal hostility to me was disclaimed; yet. however, they seemed, or at least most of the speakers seemed, to consider how they could best abuse and attack me.. ( Hear, hear, and oh, oh).. I am sorry that the employer of Mr. Patrick O'Brien, the chairman of that meeting, should threaten to dismiss him from his employment if he attended here this day, as I understand he has done, for I should be glad to have that person present while I advert to the proceedings of the meeting—( Hear, hear). This employer, however, had no objection that he should go to Townsend- street to abuse me behind my back—( H e a r .) A person from one of the side seats here stood up and said, the day of the meeting was a holiday—{ Hear, and cries of sit down). Mr. O'CONNELL— He would not punish his tradesman for the way he spent his holiday, though he might for coming here. But it might be more satisfactory to his employer that Mr. O'Brien should abuse me behind my back. However, he is, I believe, a worthy man, though he and I may not agree, and though 1 have not his esteem I will try to earn it if 1 can— ( Cheers). But 1 do say 1 have reason to complain of that meeting, because it would appear, or at least was made to appear, that the sentiments then uttered were those of a considerable portion of the people of Ireland—( Loud cries of no, no). Every speaker said he did not mean to accuse me, yet every one of them did so—[ H e a r ] , There was a Mr. Richardson there, who I hope may be in this room now. A person here stood up from the. table, and taking off his hat, was undertstood to avow himself as the person alluded to. Mr. O ' C O N N E L L then continued— I have a right to complain of him. He went to read me a lecture on political economy, by contrasting the price of the markets with that of labour ; but if I had no better instructor than him I fear I should be sadly ignorant of the mstter. The hon. and learned gentleman then briefly went into su argument in reply to some of the statements reported as having been made by the person alluded to from a newspaper ( the Morning Register, as it was understood) in his hand. He then went on— What I have to complain chiefly of Mr. Richardson is this : I was unable to write myself, and, being confined to my bed, I got Mr. Ray to write to the meeting for me, stating that fact, and I do say I had a right to be believed by my countrymen.. ( Loud cheering, and cries of yes, yes.) Mark m e — l a m now protecting the honest tradesmen of Dublin, in whose cause I have spent forty years of unceasing labour, from the foul imputation that they supposed my assertion then was a falsehood—( Loud and continued cheering.) MnO'Connell was then understood to refer to Mr. Richardson's speech in the paper he had, and read a portion of it, in which the latter was made to say, in reference to Mr. O'Connell's illness on the 26th of December, and in allusion to the letter, conveying intelligence of the same to tlje Trades' Meeting—" May be he'JJ be well enough to- morrow."—( Much disapprobation followed the reading of this sentence.) Mr. RICHARDSON— What paper is Mr. O'Connell reading from. The Freeman's Journal has the correct report of the meeting. [ Groans and confusion.'] Mr. O'CONNELL— I suppose the gentleman wh reported for the Morning Register is here, and can vouch for the accuracy of this statement—( Hear, hear.) It was a most ungenerous and unfounded insinuation, and here I will ask whether after circumstances bore him out in making it, or whetherO'Connell was well enough the day after as the speaker supposed. Mr. RICHARDSON was understood to deny that he ever said it—( cries of " oh ! oh. from Mr. O'Connell and a majority of the meeting.) Mr. L E V Y ( of the Morning Register) stood up here and said it was he who had reported that portion of Mr. Richardson's speech, and that it was critically accurate and correct.—( hear, hear, and cries of bravo.) A person from the seats at the back of the chairman here stood up andsaid, " Here is the Saunder's News- Letler, and it bears out the same statement."—( hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL— It is useless and idle deny the matter; the entire tendency of his speech goes that way. But why should such an imputation be thrown upon me ? [ hear] When I was making 80001. a- year of my profession, I never avoided tending a meeting at which I could do any good towards alleviating the condition of my countrymen, and it was hardly fair to suppose that I would shrink from it then—( Hear and cheers). Though I don't want to blame Mr. Richardson for his political feelings, I think it too bad that he should thus impeach my character, and more particluarly as he happens to be one of the newlymade freemen of the city of Dublin, who are assisting to put me to the expense of defending a petition, by setting up his illegal claim to the franchise—( Hear, oh, oh). Let him contribste his help to rob me of my money if he thinks proper before a committee of the house of commons, but not dare to impugn my reputation—( Loud cheers and erics of oh, oh). And now Mr. Richardson may go back to an orange lodge if he likes— ( oh, oh). I am the. advocate of the tradesmen of Dublin, and I say he grossly calumniated them when he affixed on them the stigma of being supposed to sanction such a base and calumnious and unwarrantable an insinuation—( hear, hear).— But why was there not some honest man to stand up and vindicate me in that assembly ?—[ hear, hear, and several voices " because we would not be let in, although we thought to gain admission]. Why, I ask, did not some honest Irishman vindicate me in that assembly ? ( hear, hear.) I often stood up for their rights under all difficulties. I battled for them in the King's Bench, while the entire bar were hooting me, and the judges endeavouring to send me to Newgate.. ( Cheers.) But my cause was the cause of the people. It was a great one, and I defeated them all.. ( Loud cheering.) I freely admit I opposed the faction always to which Mr. Richardson belongs, and blessed be God, I have opposed them successfully, * and put them down.. ( Loud and continued cheering.) Butwliy was there not some honest tradesman there, whose interests I have often sustained, to stand up for me in my absence ( Hear, and again were repeated cries of " we would not be let in.") My business is nearly done ; I have vindicated my countrymen from the base stain of ingratitude. I heed not the ar row, because it was an enemy directed i t ; but I am sorry Mr. P. O'Brien is not here, and that ha should have permitted such assertions to be made at a meeting where he presided, without calling the speaker to order. Some person said, " May be he's sick".. ( Laughter.) Mr. O'CONNELL. . I have already said that his employer would not permit him to come. The person who had before spoken when allusion was made to Patrick O'Brien, here said, that his master's unwillingness did not proceed from the fact of his going there, but that he might neglect his work.. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL. . Oh, there are many ways of killing a dog withsut hanging him.. ( Laughter.) The other person a- ked whether or not Mr. O'Connell was informed that Patrick O'Brien's employer was bound in a penalty of ,£' 500 to have the national schools finished within a certain time—( Hear, hear, from various paHs ofthe meeting.) Mr. O ' C O N N E L L . Oh, if that was the only thing to prevent him, he might easily have gotten a man to work in his place for the day. The friend of the chairman of the trades' meeting then intimated that he would go for Patrick O'Brien, and have him there in less than half an hour. He then made his way out of the meeting, amid some expressions of disapprobation. Mr. O'CONNELL. . Mark that. He now undertakes to bring a man here in a half an hour who could not come here before to his knowledge, because a penalty of ^ 5 0 0 was the consequence of his leaving his work. Yet, with full intelligence of this he will bring him—( H e a r ) . I was blaming Mr. Patrick O'Brien fornot having interrupted Mr. Richardson, inasmuch as attacking me was not part of the ostensible business of the day.. ( hear).. But what was the object in putting Patrick O'Brien into the chair, but that the Orange press might assail me the better in consequence. Do the trades know what the Times newspaper has said. Why, it has been asserted that I, having trained the trades to acts of violence and bloodshed, am now afraid of the consequences of my alleged education. and want to prevent them from persisting in the course I have myself taught, [ hear and cries of oh.) Are not the Mail and Packet, and all the orange press of England and Ireland against me ? But God forbid they were for me. ( hear.) After alluding more at length to the observations of Mr. O'Brien at the late meeting. Mr. O'Conany blockhead which may be placed at the head of you to divid* ynu and m e . . ( hear. Jiear.] As to that poor Paddy O'Brien I pitphim. I remember one saying of a great squire in the country that he had a great deal of hair outside his head, and nothing at all inside it—[ laughter.] He was a great man., poor Paddy O'Brien vratsa great man the day he was at the head of the trades' ; but 1 dsimplore the tradesmen of Dublin to fling away frcm them any man who attempts to sever the nell proceeded to state that he had always opposed the people, j friend of Ireland from the objects of his patriotism . ( hear, and when he believed them to be wrong, and referred to his conduct amongst the Terry Alts in the South, when they were in existence, and that district was in a disturbed state. Hethen said, I come now to another charge against me made at the meeting by a Mr. Finiay, an engraver, and I am still vindicating the tradesmen of Dublin from having made this attack upon me. He SRidthat being a governor of the National Bank of Ireland, I got the notes of that company engraved in London instead of Dublin. [ hear.] Upon the fact he was accurate : but although he might have had an explanation, ha did not seek it— but he might, as he had not sought that explanation, I have a right to complain of this ( Hear.) He said I wanted justice for Ireland, yet I did this. Why itwasbecav. se 1 wanted justice for Ireland 1 was compelled to do so. I said on this subject to those con cerned, we must get the paper and the engraving jfor the notes of this bank in Ireland. Mr. O'C. then explained that the' tenders for the contracts of the engraving from on English l^ wse were such as could not be refused by the directors, inasmuch as they had undertaken to give them a note which could not be forged. or at least the forgery of which would be so expensive that it would not be worth any person's while to attempt doing so, in the hope of passing a few hundred of single notes. The word one pound was engaged to be engraven several thousand times in the body of the note, so as to be almost imperceptible except by a magnifying glass, and besides the engravers in London had been enabled to give arunning guarantee to such an amount, involving perhaps a sum of 800,0001., that no Dublin or Irish house could do the same. This was the reason why those uoteswere engraven inLondon; but if, when the contract expired, which wouldbe in 2 or 3 years, any Dublin house could undertake it, he would engage tliat it should be performed in this city. These precautiois it had been necessary to take to prevent the poor Irish people who took the notes from being imposed upon, or being at the loss which they might be by counterfeits and forgeries. Mr. Finiay had said ta him the night before, that he ( Mr. O'C.) had also stigmatised all Protestants as orangemen, and the answer which had been given to this was, that there were 1,400 Protestants in the Catholic Association, ( hear, and loud cheers.) 1 now come to another charge made against me by a Mr. M'Donogh, viz., that I bought a carriage in London, in preference to Dublin. I was about eight years at the bar when I got a carriage — I bought it in Dublin— I bought it, and paid for it, at Hutton's ; I bought a second carriage at Cooper's, in Mary- street; a third at Cooper's ; and a fourth and fifth at Hutton's, for all of which I paid. Now, I ask, has any single individual, with five times my means, since the Union, purchased five carriages in Dublin ? Nay, more— two of my daughters, when they were married at my house in Merrion square, purchased a carriage each ; so that out of one house in Dublin seven carriages were bought, ( hear, hear, haar.) I have, therefore, bought twice as many carriages as any other family in Dublin ; but that would be no excuse for my getting a carriage inLondon. Do you know what my answer is to Mr. M'Donough ? I mean that individual no harm, but I am bound to say that his assertion is a falsehood.. ( cheers.) I never got a carriage built in London.. I never got a barouche, a britzka, a gig, or anything else built in London.. ( cheers.) I even get my pantaloons, my coats and my waistcoats, made in Dublin. I was attacked by one of the tailors also, and I now ask him does he know any body else, who when he wants a waistcoat in London sends to Dublin for i t ? I don't wear a stitch that is not bought at Jerry M'Carthy's. He is a relation of my own, and I am proud of him.. I have not a better relation living than that tailor.. ( cheers.) Were these assertions then fair towards the employers of Dublin tradesmen ? I remember upon one occasion, when going from Londonto Brighton, and from thence to Edinburgh and Glasgow, in company with one whose society I can never again enjoy, I exchanged a carriage for a second hand light chaise ; butas for buying a carriage in London, I didsoas much as I bought a tower.. ( cheers.] I have run my Dublin carriages against the English made carriages of Irish members from Holyhead to London wjtliout a brace. being strained or a nut moved.. ( Hear.) This carriage was bought at Hutton's, and was superior to the English carriages. This is my explanation, and be kind enough Mr. Chairman to tell the thirty honest men who gave the address, that I would be ashamed to look my fellow- countrymen in the face if I were capable of expending one penny outoi'Ireland.. ( cheers).. and one of my greatest afflictions is, that I am comp< 1 led by my parliamentary duty to spend one shilling amongst the English.. ( Cheers.) This is what honest Paddy O'Brien calls vindicating the trades.. ( Hear.) He made statements, many of which are capable of explanation, and others totally unfounded.. and I say it is not creditable to the trades of Dublin that this man should join the fag end of the worst tories in England.. ( cAeere) the Stephensons and the Orfords, who excited the employed to stick nittingneedles in the work and spoil it. All I ask of tbe people of Ireland is not to take Paddy O'Brien as a specimen of honest tradesmen. I do not feel any personal indignation. Heaven knows if I were indignant at being calumniated, I would have nothing to do but to be perpetually indignant—[ Hear.] I am not indignant for myself, but I am indignant that a man should present himself at the head of the tradesmen of Dublin, and suffer persons to utter calumnies against me. I regret being obliged to speak to such a length upon this point ; but my character is part of the property of the Irish people.. [ Cheers.] It is that which has enabled me to lead them from servitude. O'Brien and Richardson were our masters ; we are their equals now. It was the force of that character that obtained it for us ; for I have always preached to the people what I preach to the world— that good is never to be derived from evil, and that force, violence, or bloodshed stains the very best cause; and I would have abandoned Catholic emancipation if one single drop of blood were necessary to be shed for its attainment—( Cheers)— at least of any body's blood but my own. And is it not too bad that it should go out under the auspices of the meeting that the tradesmen of Dublin disclaimed politics ? Oh, beautiful hypocrisy I Why, how could they talk of me without introducing politics ? I am a living emanation of politics. I drink, eat, sleep, and think upon politics ; and therefore, the act was the management of those who deluded the honest men, for there are some honest men amongst them. I have inquired into the characters of all of them, and I find amongst them several honest, moral, religious, and excellent persons. Why should Carroll, and other good men take a part against me, and bind themselves in a confederacy against me. I am no man's enemy; they sre mine. How ruinous must be the effects of combination when it transforms my friends into enemies, corrupts the head and hardens the heart of man to such an an extent, that they actually accuse me of feigning sickness [ hear, hear.] What concession or apology have they made ? When Mr. Richardson found next day that I was sick, would it not have been becoming of him, or the secretary, to apologise to me It would have mitigated the insult whichPaddy O'Brien not only offered himself, but permitted others to indulge ill. Does not this really show a portion of the system of terrofvrfiich prevails? You hooted poor Staunton ; you hooted me.. and what could it have been for but to drive me from my duty ? Oh, ye little know me [ Loud cheers]. No— the people of Ireland will not respond to it. If you merely wishsd to vindicate yourselves, as you said you did, what part of your vindication was your attack upon me ? What had the children of Manchester to do with your vindication ? I was not there to put any of you into a passion either by my presence or my words, Was there not a deep- rooted malignity allowed to foster and fester coming from the very quarter which has aimed many a blow at my political existence ? I have been induced to say thus much, because no: thing will deter me for the remainder of my life from struggling for the liberties of the people of Ireland ( hear.) 1 want to raise them to a moral elevation— for five years 1 courted the Orange faction— I bated my breath, I exhibited nd triumph when we obtained Emancipation and put down Protestant ascendancy in the Country. You did not illuminate nor did the people light a bush. I did all this, not indeed out of respsct to the orange party, but because, being Irishmen, I wanted to throw them into the general mass of their countrymen; and if I had succeeded in this we would have had a parliament in College- green, and even Paddy O'Brien could be permitted by his worthy employer to go to College- green forthe purpose of being examined before a committee. ( A laugh.) I have been disappointed and defeated, but have I despaired of Ireland ? I have taken another course ; I am now making an experiment which, if it succeed, will be equally beneficial to Orangemen as to Catholic. I am making an experiment to see if England will do us justice.. to see if she will restore the elements of prosperity which will give to our farmers proparty— our operatives employment. . our employers profit. [ Cheers.] If I succeed in it, England will applaud, and Irelandwill not repeat my name, as Mr. Richardson and Paddy O'Brien pronounce it, but as many an amiable mother sobs over it when she whispers it to her darling infant at her bosom, ( cheers.) But should I fail in obtaining that justice, Irishmen do you imagine I despair.. [ Afa.] Hereditary bondsmen know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow. [ cheers.] If I fail I will come back to repeal. Oh, tradesmen of Dublin do not allow any portion of the faction, or cheers.) We now come to the more immediate object of our meeting. I have promised to show the tradesmen of Dublin two things :— The mischief of perseverance in undue combination, the injury to trade of such perseverance, and the fatal effects to themselves of tbat combination— I mean legal combination ; and next, that I should show them what the law of combination is, how far they can legally combine without the fear of law or punishment : and where the limit of the law commences and punishment may follow. Before 1 proceed further, I wish to have alettei which I received from Mr. Grimshaw. of Belfast, read. Mr. RAY then read the following letter:.. Belfast, January 1, 1838. Dear Sir— I have read with much attention, and great satisfaction, your admonition and advice to the Trades of Dublin ; and I feel so convinced of the evil effects of that system of combination which interferes with tho rights of labour, that should you succeed in convincing the trades of the injurious effects of their error, you will render a service to your country, by promoting her wealth which will add lustre even to him to whom she owes her liberties. Every man has certainly a right to sell liis labour in an open market lo the highest bidder, and the law of the Legislature which would fix a minimum of wages, would not be more unjust than that spurious tyranny which tells a workman to quit an cm: ployer because he dares to act contrary to the law of the trades in tbe management of his own affairs. I am not immediately interested in the question ; but. you may. perhaps, have heard that my father and my brothers have beeu for many years extensively engaged at Whitehouse, in the cotton trade ; and my brothers expended upwards of £ 30,000 in erecting as complete 11 concern in Cotton Printing, as any in the Un'ted Kingdom, They understood their business well, were attentive to its management, and kind and just towards their workpeople, and still they could not make money, and they lived in continual conflict with the workers, caused by their constant interference with the management of the business— at one time objecting to work in conjunction with machinery... at another time to the num: ber of apprentices... and above all, compelling them to pav the same rale of wages to the botch that they paid to the workman. Frequently work was imperfect, and when the miserable man was dismissed, they could only employ such hands as belonged to the trade. Occasionally when my brothers asserted their just rights of employing whom they pleased, tho men ofthe trades would immediately strike work, and would not only leave the concern themselves ; but by bribery and intimidation, force off others, who had taken their places. At length the system nf tyranny became not only intolerable, but ruinous, and " they deter mined to make a stand against it— they, therefore, gave their workers notice that they must either have the power to manage business according to their ownjviens, so as to meet the English Scotch Printers ill the market, or abandon the business entirely. The journeymen not only refused to comply, but induced all Ihe apprentices to abscond : and by intimidation drew several families from the concern, whom my brothers had brought from Scotland to work at similar work to that w hich isdene by women in their own country. What has been the consequence ? Not only the loss of a large property to my brothers, but t he tbrowingout of employment of about one hundred families, who were earning about 100/. weekly, and living in. comfort and content. I may remark, that since that lime workmen came to my brothers, and with tears in their eyes deplored tile course tl. ey were obliged lo take in quitting a place where they had lived from infancy, to wander, tliey knew not where, in search of employment ; but such was the power of the trades, that they dare not remain ; and I do assure you that many of those families, who little more than a year ago were living in much comfort, are now wandering about in rags and inwant, andwould willingly now work « t half their former rates. But tho mischicf has been done. Tho printing trade has been driven out of this part of Ireland, and I am ready to prove before any court of inquiry, that the main cause of such a disaster to the country has been the interference ofthe workmen with the rights of employers. Often were the workmen warned of the consequences of their folly ... but to no effect. They ciung to their darling unions, anil vainly thought they could enrich workmen, when they were ruining their employers. Iri this country the number of tradesmen being few compared to England and Scotland, the trades are more likely to accomplish their object of dictating terms to their employers ; but they seom quite to forget that unless Ihey allow employers to make some profit, that all manufacturing business in this country must cease aad be transferreil to other places, where the number of workmen being so gnat and the employers so wealthy, that an effectual stand can always be made against unreasonable demands, and where in almost every instance illegal combination has always resulted in injuring, in the first place, the employers; and in the second, in towering the demands of the workpeople.— I should rejoice to see all operatives earn sufficient 10 support them in comfort, for the labourer is worthy of his hire. But this can never be accomplished by seeking to perpetuate the old system of monopoly, or in any way cramping the enterprize of the capitalist on the one hand, or ofthe most humble aspirant to wora at a traile ou the other. I regret to see by the public prints, that, you have had a B< vere illness, but I trust it will be of short duration, and that you may live long to serve your country, is the sincere wish of Ycur's faithfully. ROBERT GRIMSHAW. Daniel O'Connell, Esq., he. & c. Mr. O ' C G N N E L L again rose and said— I had that letter read to show by authentic intelligence the mischiefs that in the locality at least, have arisen from the very regulations which soma of the tradesmen of Dublin have adopted. Before I proceed further I will take this notice, which appeared in the newspaper, of what I said upon the last occasion. In treating of the number of persons assassinated in Dublin, I am reported to say, " that Chambers, a carpenter, was assassinated in Dublin for breaking a rule." Now I did not say any such thing. Some person in the ciowd said it, and in consequence of the confusion which prevailed, the reporter made the mistake. I have caused that letter to be read to show how injurious such combination is. I am able to produce before a committee of the house of commons the partner of a firm in Dublin, who has authorised me to state that he would have laid out twenty millions sterling, which he has been compelled to lay outelsewhere in consequence of combination.. ( hear).. The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to say . . He heard many instances of persons leaving Dublin, going to Glasgow, amusing themselves there, and saving the entire expense in a single suit of clothes. There had been a battle between him and Curwen, a stone- cutter. Curwen calculated that it was not worth a man's whileto bring chimney pieces from Armagh, and set them up in bed chambers. He ( Mr. O'Connell) could prove that such was thepractice, and that chimney- pieces were supplied from Armagh, carriage and all included, at a lower rate than they could he purchased inDublin.. ( hear). He told the trades these things, and they should not be riding away upon calculations : vulgar arithmetic was good, but no figures was like the downright f a c t . . ( hear). There were six houses in Merrionsquare, the repairing of which was given to Glasgow painters ; the Sackville- st. Club wasalso given to Glasgow painters. Now, those contracts ought to have been given to the city of Dublin, and they should come to the understanding that not one of these contracts should be given to a foreigner, while there was an Irishmau who could do them.. [ hear.] He would take, for instance, the case of the unfortunate shipwrights. There were some worthy men belonging to them, and God forbid he should involvejthem in a by- gone murder. He was incapable of believing that Mr. Doyle, who shook hands with him on the night preceding, would have anything to do with so horrible a crime ; but the murder was committed in the noon- dav. No ship car. penters were engaged in it, for it was committed ina place where they would have been recognised, and no such persons were seen . . [ hear'] He was told it was not the fault of the ship carpen- ; ters. He believed that some of them were honest men. He I would be sorry to say they were not ; but the trade was going to ! Drogheda, and what demonstrated the lamentable effects of combination most particularly was, that the timber used was actually purchased in Eublin.. ( bear.) He would name an excellent employer Mr. Fagan, who was by combination prevented from using machinery in the sawing business, One unfortunate man [ Hanlon] was murdered by the sawyers.. [ Aear.], Four or five persons were chargedfor his murder, one of whom, he believed, was innocent; andeven the other day some unoffending young men would have bee. i punished [ were it not for an alibi,] for an assault upon an employer named Armstrong, while the real perpetrators of the gross outrage escaped unpunished— ( hear.) But with regard to Mr. Fagan, the combination against him was as injurious to the workmen as to himself. Before he established machinery he only employed three pair of sawyers, and he, subsequently to the introduction of that machinery, employed 13 pair, ( hear.) He made two canal boats for the Ulster Canal Company, and they were so much approved of, that he was engaged to make ten more ; but he could not fulfil his contrast owing to the existence of combination. He lumped the two other boats for 421., but the workmen attempted to exact 501., and as this would make a difference of 801. to him in the contract, he was unable to undertake the job, and the contract was transferred to Connell, of Belfast, who procured every stick of the timber from Dublin, [ hear.] Mr. Thomas Wilson wanted a COO ton ship at present, which it was impossible to get made in Dublin, ( hear.) There was one employer whom he could name, who spent 6 or ,£ 7,000 a year in Dublin. His son came and told him that his father submitted to domination which he could not bear ; and his intention was, if he became master, and he combination continued, to cease work. Thus, 7,0001. al w ages would be taken out of the market—( hear, hear') was a fact that, in 25 years, no less a sum than £ 79,733 6s 6 has been expended by the employer to whom he referred n wages.. ( H e a t . ) He ( Mr. O'Connell) had promised to let them know what the law was with regard to combination. The hon. and learned gentleman then read the following clauses in the 6th. of Geo. IV., ch. 129 :— If any person shall, by violence to the person or property, or by threats or intimidation, or hy molesting or any way obstructing another, force, or endeavour to force, any journeyman, manufacturer, workman, or other person hired in any manufacture, trade, or business, to depart from h; s hiring, employment, or work. Or to return to his work before the same shall be finished. Or to prevent or endeavour to prevent any journeyman, manufacturer. workman, or other person, not being hired or employed from hiring himself to, or from accepting work or employment from, any person or persons. Or if any person shall use or employ violence to the person or property of another, or threats or intimiilation, or shall molest, or in any way obstruct another, for the purpose of forcing or inducing such person to belong to any club or association, or to contribute to any common fund, or to pay any fine or penalty, or on account of his not belonging to any particular club or association, or not having contributed or having refused to contribute to any common fund, or to pay any fine or penalty, or on account of his not having complied or his refusing to comply with any rules, orders, or regulations made to obtain an advance or to reduce the rate of wages, or to lessen and alter the bouts of working, or to decrease and alter the quantity of work, or to regukte the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or Ihe management thereof. Or if any person shall by violence to the person or property, or of threats and intimidation, or by molesting, or in any way ob: strutting another force or endeavour lo force any manufacturer, or person carrying on any trade or business, to make any altera: tion In his mode of conducting, regulating, managing, or carrying on such manufacture, trade, or business, or to limit the number of his apprentices, or the number, or description of his workmen, journeymen, or servants.— Every person so offending, or aiding, abetting, or assisting therein, being convicted thereof, in the man: ner hereinafter mentioned, shall be imprisoned only, or shall and may he imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any time not exceeding three calendar months. Now, you see the details of this Act. It is impossible for you to do any one cf the things lhat you are doing without breaking this Act. Now, as to ihe limitation of apprentices, it has been denied that the number of apprentices is limited by the trades.. ( Hear, hear).. I find in the report of Mr. Davis's speech that he decied that it is the case in his trade. Well, but Mr. M'Donagb admitted that it is the case ; and one of the resolutions may be taken as an admission, for it declares that if my opinions as to the apprentices were acted up to it would havean injurious tendency, Mr. M ' D O N A G H . . . I would wish that you would read my admission. I totally forget it. It astonishes me. Mr. O ' C O N N E L L read a portion of his speech in which he de* clared that the number of apprentices was limited in his trade, and that he believed it was the case in a great number of trades. and he could prove that the number of apprentices was the ruin of his own trade. I well know that this limitation is illegal. I regret that my respected friend Mr. Staunton should have winced like a hound under the lash from the attacks that have been made upon him. I am sorry to perceive thai he has stooped to this tyranny. For 1 do say that there is not a more excellent member of community, nor one that performs the duties of life with more integrity than he.. ( Hear, and cheers, and partial cries ot' <( no.' ) From my intimacy with them I know the respectability of his family in the Co. of Clare. But respectable as they are, I know that he succeeded to little . more, as an inheritance, than the burthen ofa family, and that his conduct to them speaks his best praise.. { Hear)., I know him, tos, as a father, rearing in respectability his dependent offspring, in spite o f t h e heaviest combinations among the trades. I mean the combination among the printers. I am sorry to see that ho has not acted with his usual prudence and good'senso in submitting to the system of terror which is in existence in the trade. He has os a good right to his opinion as Mr. Patrick O'Brien. Has he ever flinched from discharging a great public duty when the Attorney- General was closely watching ready lo pounce upon him with ex- officious. :( cheers.) And is it to be endured that that excellent citizen and respectable man( I would have no wish that any son of mine should be more respectable) should have the hound- cry raised against him by such a man as Mr. Patrick O'Brien 1 It is melancholy such a thing should be ; and as I am on this subject, I will come at once to Mr. Bull's letter. I know Mr. Bull He is an excellent tradesman, and as skilful as any, I will venture to say, in Ireland ; and I have this to say, that if the printers gave fair play he would be worth to Mr. Staunton twice what he pays him. The first body that assailed me on the subject of combination were the printers, and they call themselves a legal and constitutional body. I deny it. They are in a position the most favourable for combining togelher. Their combination is eminently successful anil most injurious to the public.. for but for it there would be many more newspapers than there are. It is true that it is a benefit to the printers themselves, for to those who enjoy a monopoly that monoplv is beneficial. But then every shilling which this monopoly gives them over and above what they would otherwise have is a shilling taken from the poor man Well, to come to Mr. Be'l's letter. He says, most distinctly : . . ' • ! must say that within my experience there has been no disposition shown by you to reduce the standard of wages, or to resist a fair limitation of apprentices. When the number was reduced to five, under a resolution of the body, you submitted, without resistance ; and when the standard was subsequently brought down to four, you also submitted, only complaining that ynu had been led to expect that the former arrangements would have been abided by, and that you were not allowed an opportunity of laying your sentiments before the parlies into whose hands the society had committed the management of their affairs." Oh I honest Mr. Bull — there is no equivocation about you. tradesmen of Dublin, look at what he sajs. First, the number of apprentices was limited to five; and then, by a set of men, with u hom at the time, he could not remonstrate, for the th. ng was determined on behind his back, the number was reduced lo four...( Hear.) Is that to be tolerated 1 You have a great open for emigration . .( Hear.) If there were ns business for ihe buy when he would be out of his time he could emigrate to North America or to any other quarter he mightthiuk best. I ask any one of you if you were not belonging to any of the trades how would von like to have a son of yours shutout from all possibility of becoming a tradesman'! By doing so you infringe upon the property of another • you commit a crime in the eye ot the law, and a robbery in ihe sight of heaven. .( Loud cries of no, no, hear, hear, a* id much confusion.) Just as if calling out " no," would aller the nature of ihe thing- What folly ! My friend, Mr. Slaunton, has not acted as wisely as he is wont io truckling to this system. He talks of the reasonableness of limiting the number of apprentices. Why, it is illegal, and it is yet a question whether the laiv can limit them. Mr. M'Donagh admits that in his trade they are limited. Mind, I do not say the regulation is universal among the trades. I know that it does not ex ist in the silk trade. But I take Mr. Bull's letter as a proof that such a regulation exislsamong the printers, and your resolution as a proof tliat it exists among all of you. I have received a letter from the Glasgow Trades, blaming me for charging you with limiting the number of apprentices. Now, I have Mr- Emerson's paper, theULSTER TIMES, . one nol very favorable tu tne, and which my friend Richardson, no doubt sometimes sees, . and he gives in it the scale of apprentices as allowed in Glasgow. If a man who has regularly served his lime becomes a master he is allowed three apprentices, . if two journeymen, he is allowed four apprentices— if 20 journeymen, he is allowed 23 apprentices, and so on. Now, that is not to be complained ot. ( Hear, heat.) A man is not forced to to take a certain number, as Mr. Bull shows to be the case with Mr. Staunton, and which force lias now received the sanction of your meeting. Yes, I turn upon you and say t h a t . . A VOICE . . What were we called here for ? Was it to be abused to our faces ? We have heard nothing but abuse ( Cries of order, and considerable confusion.). Mr. O'CONNELI— Order, order. Let no one attempt to turn him out Let nobody be disturbing the meeting in tlii3 manner. The same Voice.. Oh, we can't stand such abuse as you are giving us. Mr M'DJNACH.. Oh, let him abuse away. We abused him, and we can have turn for turn. Mr. O ' C O N N E L L then proceeded to read Mr. Bull's letter, and then proceeded. . There are three things that I complain of. First, the gross injustice of limiting the number of apprentices— secondly, the gross injustice of establishing a minimum of wages, and compelling the man who isnotworil. 15s. a- week to be paid 28s., and in not preventing of evidence and bloodshed. Oh I if you assisted me in putting an end to the horrid system from which such consequences flow, 1 would care little what arrangements von would enfer into. M r . FINLAY. . W e are p l e d g e d s o t o do Mr. O'CONNELL. . Oh, Finlay, 1 won't take your pledge. ! Mr. FINLAY— I don't want you. Mr. O'CONNELL— You're pledged to something else. Mr. FINLAY — You don't know whether I am or not. Mr. 0' CONNELL. . Oh, I can guess ( cheers). Now, let us taks Staunton as an example, for 1 like to be talking of a friend There's Bull Now, if Mr. Staunton paid the men not 11.15s., for it is the same thing to cut oft' a ce- tain quantity of the work as to increase the payment, but 11. 12s. 6d„ then he would be able to allow Mr. Bull such a salary as would enable him hereafter to set up in business for himself, and instead of an operative, to become an employer of operatives, thus, giving him, the greatest pleasure that a man can enjoy— namely, the acquiring a competence, by his own industry, sufficient to enable him to live with moie comiort, and less of trouble. That is the great value of being a subject of the British empire. A man is not chained to the one position in society. He can raise himself by hone9t industry above the place which he first occupied ( Hiar). U it THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER. C O N T I N U E ) FR<"> M F I R S T P A G E. not the greatest glory to Sir Robert Peel— no, 1 will not allude to him as he is my political opponent. Put I heard Mr. Brotherton sav, in his seat in parliament, that he had, in his earlier days, been a working cotton spinner. Oh. that was true pride. J could have embraced him, so delighted was I with his declaration ; may God bless and prosper him. It was real genuine pride of him to declare he was one of the working classes, and he would stick by them. But, how does the matter stand in Dublin 1 A botch gets as good pay as the first- rate workman, and, therefore, that first rate workman could not save so much as would enable him to rise beyond his original rank. I think, from my knowledge with respect to this system, « nd the inferences 1 have drawn from them, that the power of lhat law which is outraged hy such proceedings must be carried into effect to crush this system ( Hear.) By the enactment of the Legislature no oerson engaged in this system can possibly escape punishment ; for any individual belonging to a society of this descriplion must, if called upon to do so. give evidence" against the others ; and if be should refuse io do this he will be sent to gaol himself ( Bar). Let the carpenter or printer, or cooper.. and I understand that the unfortunate coopers of this city are at present suffering a great deal of distress, . let them not think that I am accusing them ; I am not attacking any trade, and Ihere is no trade I would be less inclined to attack than that ; but let any of these trades take into consideration lhat if any of their societies require an oath to be taken by the members of it. that every man in that society can be transported. Nay, more, than that, if you require a mere verbal promise or pledge, every man in it can he transported.. Even the mere as. sertion of anything, no matter how innocent, is in consequence of the strictness of the law. a transportable offence. A Voice cried out: The Billy Smiths. Mr. O'CONNF. LL : I am coming to them presently. There is one point on which we are all agreed... namely, the distressed state of trade, and the existence o f a system of force and violence, hut though this is the case, I don't mean to impute it to the tradesmen ; nor do I impute lo them the unchristian and base outrages lhat have been committed on unoffending persons, and the trades agree with me on this point that the system should be put an end to ( Hear heir.) After some further observations, Mr. O'Connell said, this shocking state of things must not be permitled— and no man being more anxious to support the character of the trades than I, will concentrate the remaining energies of a life spent in battling in the front of the people against their enemies— against oppression and monopoly— 1 protest against an attempt to rob the children ofthe means of future independence and respectability, which i « effected by preventing their becoming apprentices I protest against a system which precludes every man from bringing his free labour to the very best market he con procure. I have, in conclusion, to apologise for taking up Ibe time of the meeting in defending my unbroken character, only valuable to me as the means oi being of service to that country and those people, a few of whom— and thank God they are few— would attempt to fix the stigma of ingratitude on it by their attempts to malign and calumniate me. If I get the trades to go with me, give me the power, authorise me, I will endeavour to have inserted in the contemplated corporation bill the privilege to each trade of electing a representative in the common counril— ( Loud cheers, and cries of " we will assist yon ") A grievance Ihe trades labour under is their not having representatives in the common council or members in Parliament. We should have a petition presented that each trade of two hundred should have a representative in the common council. 1 intend myself to become a candidate, and l am happy to see my friend Lord Mayor Power in the room...( Loucl laughter and great cheering.) Ihe learned gentleman concluded by moving the following series of resolutions : — " That the first duty oi cverv honest and wise statesman is to attend to the interest of the operative classes, and to procure for them adequate remuneration for their skill, labour, and industry, and that we solemnly pledge ourselves to use all the exertions in our power to attain so desirable an object for the tradesmen of Dublin. " That we deprecate and condemn in the most emphatic manner, any system of terror, of violence, or of outrage employed cither bj or'for thy tradesmen to controul their employers, or of the employers to controul the free circulation of labour. " That we solemnly pledge ourselves to use all legal means in our power to terminate the system of terror, of base, inhuman, and unchristain outrages and murders perpetrated in the city of Dublin, and its vicinage ; and whilst we utterly disclaim imputing these outrages and murders to the trades of Dublin, or any of them, we call upon every honest and conseb ntious tradesman to assist us in putting down these frightful crimes. " That we deem a Parliamentary inquiry highly useful to ascertain all the causes that affect the state of trade of the city of Dublin, injuriously to the operative classes ; that by means of such inquiry all errors and misapprehensions will be detected and exposed,' and the real nature of the combinations either of employers or of workmen fully and fairly displayed. Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN seconded the resolutions which were proposed from the chair. Mr. RICHABDSON then rose and said, that he did not use the words attributed to him in the Register, in reference to Mr. O'Connell. It was known that he ( Mr. R.) was politically op. posed to Mr. O'Connell ; but was that a reason that Mr. O'Connell should avail himself of that fact to injure him and his brother tradesmen ? It was stated that the meeting was got up by Orangemen. That was not the fact... Mr. O'Conncll forgot who he ( Mr. Richardson) was. He was not a member of the orange society since 1821, and and he left it then because it was the tool of the government, and he would not continue connected with such a society. ( Cheers. ) He also joined the trades'union, as he understood that it was founded for the purpose of improving trade and obtaining a repeal of the union. He heard Mr. O'Connell upon one occasion soy, that if repeal were not obtained in three years he would permit him and others lo act as he and they liked. Was the repeal of the union obtained? No, it was not. They were as far from it as ever. The question was hushed—( A'o, no.) Mr. O'Connell had a great flow of language. Might I say that the question was not discarded, but in his ( Mr. Richardson's) opinion, he had thrown the question overboard, and for that reason he ceased to support him—( Cheers and hisses.) Why did Mr. O'Connell denounce Ihem ? He was their friend formerly. He had heard accusations against them privately, and then called a public meeting at which he disclosed the information lie received without giving them an opportunity of being present. He blamed Mr. O'Conncll for being their* friend to- day and their enemy to- morrow—( Cheers and uproar.) Mr. O'CONNELL rose to reply— He denied having ever said that he would permit the people to do as they liked, if he did not obtain repeal in three years. Was anything more ridiculous than to imagine that he would give up the people of Ireland. Mr. O'BRIEN, the chairman of the aggregate meeting, begged to be heard. He denied that the meeting was got up by the Orange party— ( Hear, hear.) Mr. O'Connell said that tho trades had calumniated him. Why, did Mr. O'Connell recollect that he frequently calumniated the trades of Dublin at public meetings, and in the House of Commons, bv alleging that they had stained their hands in human blood? If he ( Mr. O'Brien) had half the talents of Mr. O'Connell, be would prove that his. statements were unfounded, and make them appear in so ridiculous a light before the public that they would not be heard or listened to by any impartial member of society—( chcers and hisses. ) He admitted that he alluded to the Manchester children upon the occasion of the aggregate meeting. The trades ofDublin followed his ( Mr. O'Connell's) procession—( hear) How did he repay Ihem ? With ingratitude, by proposing in the house of commons that combination amongst the tradesmen should be put down, and that they should not be permitted to attend any meeting without a public officer presiding—( great uproar.) lie accused Mr. O'Connell of having linked himself with a base, monopolising class of employers. Mr. O'Connell humourously remarked that he was " unfortunate Paddy O'Brien " He denied that— ( laughter)— hee was as fortunate ns himself...( laughter)... He also said that he ( O'Brien) had a great deal of hair upon his head, but inferred from that that he had little brains. If nature had been more bountiful to Mr. O'Connell, he would not have such necessity to purchase London wigs...^ cheers, hisses, and laugh-, ter ) If Mr O'Connell persevered in his opposition to the tradesmen of Dublin, he would find them greater enemies than they formerly were friends., ( hear and uproar.) He was mistaken if he imagined that the tradesmen of Dublin could be put down... ( cheers.) Mr. O'Connell could not nut down the trades as easily as he put down some excellent Irishmen. Mr! O'Connell acoussed them of combination. Was not Mr. O'Connell himself a combinator ? Did he not combine in advising the people in Kerry to paint death's heads and cross bones upon the doors of the persons who voted against the country, and did he not also combine in advising the people not to pay tithes ?—( Uproar.) Mr. O'CONNELL— For Heaven's sake let him continue— let this conspiracy develop itself- Mr. O'BRIEN concluded by stating that he had been a follower of Mr. O'Connell, but he would oppose him as long as he pursued his present course. Mr. O'CONNEI. L said he had just two words to say. He did npt| want Mr. O'Brien to follow him, he was much better without him. As to the factory question he had uttered as base an untruth as ever fell from the hps of any man—( Vehement cheering). He made that assertion only for himself, for it was very manifest Irom the exhibition which Mr. O'B. had made that his words were totally untrue. His philipic was violent, in proportion to its untruth. Nine- tenths of that philippic I had contradicted in rny speech.— / o u say it is not a faction that opposes me, when, after forty years of service in the public cause, I am taunted by the barking of a mastiff ( Cheers) O'Brien talks of himself as president of his trade, and of following in my wake, but did I ever ask any one to follow me ? Never. He says that Lord Mulgrave attacked the trades of Dublin in the House of Lords. Mr. O'BRIEN— I did not say anything of the kind. Mr. O'CONNELL— Let no one believe him. He denies now what he uttered a few minntes ago, He talks of being esteemed by the trade* of Dublin, and then he lic3 in our presence. He has the impudence to deny, in the face of the meeting, what, he uttered only live minutes ago ( G- eat confusion). Why, he brands the liar on his broad forehead, and then says that he is, indeed, president of his trade. Mr. O'BRIEN— It was Mr Richardson spoke of Lord Mulgrave — I did not. Mr. O'CONNELI. continued, and went on to say... A poor man returning from his employment, with his wife leaning on his arm; but some secret society had thought fit to make certain regulations, which be had broken, and the consequence was that two men came up to him, and, in presence of his wile, they basely murdered him. Is not that combination ? Oh, tradesmen of Dublin, 1 appeal to you whether any who would not disavow such acts would not be worthy of being stigmatised with the appellation of assassins ( Load and continued chcers). Can any one imagine that I am angry with that man ? He behaved atrociously ill to me... I gave him no interruption, and he continues to repeat what he said before without understanding either his own words or mine 1 said distinct'.}' that I would repudiate the charges made against myself. The calumny of the Manchester children is amongst the most grievous of those charges, and when I hear it repeated withuut any ground, and the charge made by the tradesmen of Dublin, I cannot help exclaiming... who. after me, would serve his country ( tremendous cheers, followed by uprour). Ami not to be treated with ordinury respect ? Am I not old or venerable enough? Am I to be told thdt is Irish respect; or have I no tradesmen of Dublin to stand round me ( Cries af plenty, and cheers) ( A voice in the crowd exclaimed that it was Orangemen, and none but Orangeu. en, who produced the confusion.) 1 require that that man may hold his tongne; now I put it to every honest Irishman whether he could stand by that man, Mr. O'Brien, ( cries of no)-, by him who has calumniated me . the only person who has never deserted the cause of Ireland—( Loud and long chcers) ... who am doing a painful duty— a duty more to you than to myself ; and is there any bull headed man to be let. loose against, me. ( JVo.) I call on all the trades to witness that this man has made use of the subject ofthe Manchester children as a calumny against me. He has fixed the barb into the trades of Dublin— ( Cheers.) He has calumniated Lord Mulgrave. Every tradesman of Dublin, except himself, hates assassinations ; and for the future you may take assassination iu the O'Brien sense of combination. I am really ashamed of having said so much on this subject.— ( The hon. gentleman sat down amid r enewed cheers.) Several persons having stood up simultaneously, by Mr. O'Conncll said, that as Mr: Staunton had been attacked, and certainly deserved to be heard, he thought that he had the priority of right to be heard. Mr. STAUNTON stiid I will not occupy the time of the meeting beyond two minutes. I was leaving the meeting when I heard that I was attacked by Mr. O'Brien, as to my bringing over printers from Glasgow here. The facts are shortly these :— At a time when I was paying my printers as high wages as any one in my department. they differed with me. and noticed me they would all leave on a certain day. I on that had advertisements inserted in the papers offering the rate of wages I paid them to any one who would accept of them. A number of men, perheps induced by this, came over here. I did not employ them, for my former hands, after some interviews, agreed with me, and proceeded to their business, and went to an expense of 401, I understand, to send them home again' Mr. M'DONAGH did expect from their political father ( Mr O'Connell) more moderation than they had received. The calumnies which had been uttered against them might have been more properly directed against the enemies of the country, than against a mistaken tradesman if he were in error. Although the trades had just reason to be displeased with Mr. O'Connell, they nevertheless had not removed iheir confidence from him politically ; but they were irritated and annoyed, that the individual whom they had regarded with a feeling approaching to adoration, should attempt to deprive them of their rights as tradesmen...( Hear)... He ( Mr. M'Donagh) persevered in his opinion that there should be a limit to apprentices. He apologised to Mr. O'Connell for Ihe mistake in stating that he hod not purchased a carriage in Dublin. He received information to that effect, and he would make the person who gave him that inlelligence apologise for misinforming him. He concluded by saying that in his opinion, Mr. O'Connell might, in the spirit of Christian charity, have treated the tradesmen of Dublin with more lenity in his anger..,( Cheers)... During his speech Mr. M'Donagh made several personalities... amongst others, he alluded to a Mr. Connery, a house painter, whom he accused with beinc a " stickler" to the trade. Mr. CONNERY then rose and said, that he had been accused of being a stickler. What was the reason of it ? He certainly hail been a " stickler," in opposition to combination. He then stated that at a meeting of tradesmen, be and another, out of 80 workmen were the only two who reprobated the " slating system." Every man in work in the trade was obliged to pay three shillings and threepence a week to aid in " slating" persons, or rather " mur: dering their fellow: citizens".. .( exclamations of oh, oh.) In conse: qucuce of his opposition to combination. they actually sentoutmen to assault him, and if he had not escaped, upon one occasion, through a gentleman's garden, he would have been assailed. He was also a " stickler" when he wished to separate good from bad men in the trade...( Hear, hear.) Upon one occasion a party of combinators destroyed 2001, worth of property in Vero's establishment, Bride- street. Mr. O'CONNELL ( to the last speaker) : You have given us highly important and alarming information. If you are not able to establish it upon oath retract it. Mr. O'CONNERY : I am able to prove it upon oath, and if the finger of scorn was not directed against me byM'Donagh I never would have divulged the circumstances. Mr. CERANE, a shoemaker, said that he saw no reason why the meeting of trades recently held was called an aggregate meeting, because he and others were not at that meeting ; he did not in fact, wish to identify himself with the proceedings, and join with those who made a target of Mr. O'Connell to let fly their shafts of malevolence against him. THOMAS HINDS, a locksmith, said lhat he would not join in dragging away the shield which the nation had placed before Mr. O'Connell to render him vulnerable to every shaft of the enemy ( Cheers). He then stated that when he went to what was denominated the " aggregate meeting" and when he cried out " order," a person in the crown exclaimed, " he is hired— put him out" ( ciieers hisses, and uproar.) Mr. O'CONNELL was about moving Mr. Purcell from the chair, when that gentleman rose and said: Before I leave the chair, I think it a favourable opportunity to mention a plan which had occurred to me as likely to mitigate the asperity prevalent and remedy the grievances complained of. Tho proposal I have to submit is the erection of a Tradesman's Hall ( Vehement cheering.) Several tradesmen immediately called out " heart and hand we will join you.'' Mr. PuitcELL continued— I would propose that there should be committee rooms appropriated to the tradesmen, where they could meet to regulate and discuss the affairs of their trade... ( Great cheering.) In this design I should suggest, that employers and men should co- operate—( cheers)— and I will, for my own pait, put down my subscription. Mr. O'CONNELL : I will put down my name for one hundred pounds...( continued cheering which lasted some minutes. ) Mr. PURCELL resumed— Under such auspices. I hope that the prospect will be successful, and as Mr. O'Connell has told you that tbe Government is determined to put down illegal combination, and as their determination is made known, 1 have scarce a doubt on my mind that, possessing aswe do, a vice- regent equally determined to make tbe laws respected and the people prosperous, that if a proper and respectful application bo made to him, he might be induced to sanction this undertaking, and give us his powerful aid. ( Cheers.) This will be a subject for future consideration, meantime my subscription is one hundred pounds. ...( cheering, with cries of Kildarefor ever.) Thh followinggentlemen came promptly forward, and put down their names for the following sqms :— Mr. O'Connell, M. P. 1001. ;' Mr. Purcell, 1001,; Mr. M. M'Carthy an English gentleman, 51. ; Mr. D. Daly, 51,; Mr. T. Welsh, 51. , Mr. Morgan, 51. ; Mr. Nugent, 51. ; Mr. W. Doolan and Son 201. ; Mr. Fitlpalrick, 51. ; Mr. J. Fogarty, 51. ; Doctor M'Carthy, 51. Mr. O'CONNELL then said he would not wish to leave the meet. ing with any feeling of unforgiveness on his mind, and he accordingly freely forgavethe individual who had assailed him. He was lad to find that but one Irishman was found to rush at him.— ' 1 he carpenters had assailed him through their organ, and he little deserved ir from them. Mr, O'CONNELL moved the special thanks of the meeting to their chairman, for his firm, impartial, and gentlemanlike demeanour in the chair. The resolution was put and carried nem con. Mr. O'CONNELL called for three chcers severally, for the Queen and Lord Mulgrave. Cheers were then called for by tbe meeting for Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Purcell, which were heartily responded to. of its being uncontroverted. I trust lhat the honest trades will have sense and spirit enough to resist the attack made upon Mr. O'Conneil by three persons, who made statements at that meeting which they could not support; who made attacks which were false and unsustainable. I trust tho honest trades of Dublin will open their eyes to such statements, that they will see who really are their enemies, and that they will not beany longer hoodwinked by pretended friends, who, though they might stand up with zeal and ability, and cleverness to defend the supposed interests of their body, yet, have been the means of exposing a scene which Ihev did not intend. ( Hear ) He concluded by again call ing upon the trades to join in rescuing their own body from the stain which such a disclosure must affix, to follow the advice of their real friend, Mr. O'Connell, who by his manlv and independent, but honest course, on the present occasion, had risked his popularity, and to whom his greatest foes and political enemies should give credit, for the vast good he intended by his present conduct, if he was even unable to accomplish it .'..( Hear, hear.) Mr. BULLEN then read the address to tbe Queen; which we are obliged to postpone'till Saturday. He then moved that it should be adopted. Mr O'CONNELL seconded the motion, and then moved tbe thanks of the meeting to Mr. Bullen, for the care and attention with which he drew up the admirable address they had just heard. The motion was carried unanimously. PBICE OF IHISH STOCKS, 3 per Cent. Consols Si per Cent. Stock 3i ditto New ( 1830) 3i per Cent. Debentures of ( 921. lis. 2d.) Grand Canal Stock ( of 921. 6s. 2d.) ... JANUARY 9- 9 1 905 07i 4 98M'i J 90i PRICE OF SHARES. Mining Company of Ireland 6J. X ^ e S ) o u t I ) e r n R e p o r t e r . CORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11. 1838. We received yesterday in course the London Journals of Sunday, and, by the Killarney, Steamer, those of Monday. Duplicates, and a greater variety of those of the latter day reached us this morning. THE FUNDS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, MONDAY.— The Quarterly Dividends being paid this morning, ofConsols new 3$, Long Annuities, and India Stock, no doubt will cause a great supply of Money in the Market, as well as for public speculations in Commercial affairs. Consols closed on Saturday 92jti for the Account; opened this morning at 92|# ; and for February Account, 92tli ; Exchequer Bills, 2J I.. .12 prem. ; India Bonds, 10s, those to be paid off — ; Bank Stock, 2041 ? India Stock, 2614. In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing yet. Spanish closed at 19J ; at present they are 19$ 20, with Coupons j Portuguese closed at 293 ; opened at the same. HALF- PAST ONE.— To the present hour we are very dull in the City for want of information, in conseqnence of which, Consols have continued stationary during the morning at 921( 1 f° r the Aocount, at present 92j} ; Mo ney. 92J| ; Exchequer Bills, aid., 52 53 51 prem. ; Bank Stock. 204J India Bonds, not to be paid off, § 3; India Stock, 292. In the Foreign Market, very little doing. Spanish Active improved to 20 with Coupons; Portuguese, 294 , Three per Cents., 1943 ; Brazil rather lower, 724; Colombian, 24i ; Dutch Two- and- a- half per Cents., 51"' London and Brighton Shares, THREE O'CLOCK.— Consols f o r t h e Account, 924. SPAIN. ~' The Morning Chronicle of Monday publishes the following letter from its Bayonne Correspondent. If the statement be true, the defeat would be tantamount to an overthrow of the project so long cherished by the Pretender and his friends. " BAYONNE. J A N . 3 " Several persons here have received tidings that Basilio Garcia, in an attempt to force the passage of tbe Ebro between Lodosa and Tudela. has been completely beaten, and lost a number of men, not less than 300 being drowned. There arc no official reports as yet. but I have seen a Spanish peasant here, who declares he was witness of the action on the 28th of December. All communication by Valearlos being cut off, would account for the news, if true, not reaching by the regular channel. " I have also seen a letter from Bergara. of the 81st, stating that the other Carlist expeditionary column, under Moreno, which had advanced into the Incartaciones, had been obliged to return." T H E P O L E S - M B . O ' C O N N E L L. The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 3d contains a long article from the frontiers of Poland, attacking with great bitterness the celebration, by the friends of Poland, of the anniversary of thePolish Revolution. It is particularly directed against Mr. O'Connell for having asserted that the Emperor Nicholas has constrained the Poles to change their religion, which it indirectly denies, and appeals to the fact that Rn » sia has now an ambassador at Rome to disprove the assertion. This diatribe shows that the voice of the English public reaches St. Petersburgh, and disturbs the repose ofthe tyrants of Poland. It is accompanied by the following announcement, and is probably meant as a justification of soipe measures of additional severity or cruelty. " POLISH FRONTIERS, DEC. 18. The plot of the Regicides,, the seat of which is London and Paris, has lately again furnished proofs that its traitorous endeavours have not ceased. A few weeks ago two Polish exiles were arrested at Dresden, as wc hear, in consequence of information received from Paris, whose secret purpose is said to have been to go first to Poland, and thence to St. Petersburgb. These individuals being nati/ es of Cracow, have lately been delivered up by the Saxon Government to one of the Protecting Powers ( not Russia), and proceedings have been instituted against them. It is said that the arrests which have lately taken place at Paris, in consequence of Hubert's project, give reason to conjecture that that there is some connexioo between the persons arrested at Paris and tbe two Poles delivered to that Protecting Power." ROME. THE INFIRMARIES. PHYSICIAN TO THE CITY GAOL. The last Grand Jury Billhaving settled that the duties of Medical attendant to the City Gaol must be discharged by the Surgeon or County of the City, a discussion has arisen amongst the several parties concerned as to which of the two Infirmaries— the North or the South— should be considered the Itifi rmary of the County of the City of Cork. The North Infirmary is the most ancient Incorporation, and its right to the privileges of the County Hospital have been so far recognised thatthe Bodies of the Criminals executed in the City have always been sent there for dissection. We are, however, inclined to think that neither the North nor the South can, under the existing statutes, claim to be the County Infirmaries ; in fact that the acts under which these two Charities have been incorporated have been repealed, and that all presentments to them are illegal, and all the acts of their respective Boards are violations of the law, by which their Governors and Treasurers are daily incurring heavy and serious responsibilities. In the 3d, William IV. a local Act of Parliament was obtained by tho mutual consent of these two Corportions entitled " an Act for unitng the Funds of the North and South Infirmaries of the City of Cork, and for Establishing in lieu of such Infir- " maries, one General Hospital for the said City." This act obtained the Royal assent 4th July, 1832, The Preamble of this act recites." " And whereas the Trustees of the said Infirmaries, so establish- " ed in the city of Cork, have found that the support thereof, as " seperate establishments, has occasioned considerable expense. and that it will be bencficial to unite the funds thereof, and " apply the same towards the erection, maintenance and support " nf a General Hospital for the said City of Cork, and tho Court- " ty of the City of Cork ; and whereas a large sum has been sub- " scribed by the SAMPAYO family and other benevolent individuals for the erection of such general hospital." The Act then proceeds to enact that until the two present Infirmaries shall cease to be seperate establishments, the several Trustees of each infirmary shall be Governors of the General Infirm ary or* Hospital of " the County of the City of Cork, and be empowered to take ground, raise money, & c. ; and then goes on." " And be it further enacted, " That when, and as soon as, a " building or buildings, approved of by said Governors, shall be '• erected or provided, and shall by them, or a majority of them, " present at a meeting called specially for the purpose, be declared " ready for the reception of Tatients, the same shall bccome and be the Infirmary or Hospital of the County of the City of Cork, " and thereupon the said recited Act passed in the twenty- fifth " year of his late Majesty King George the Second, and the said " recited Act passed in the, 11th and 12th year of his late Ma. " jesty King George the Third, so far as the same respectively " determine or limit the site for an Infirmary or Hospital fo any " particular place or district; and also as far as they relate to the " appointment of separate Trustees for tbe said Infirmaries, shall " be. and the same are hereby repealed; provided always, lhat " the Trustees of the two present Infirmaries respectively shall " retain the entire and seperate control over the propertyand ma- I " nagement of their respective establishments until tbe said Ge- " neral Infirmary or Hospital shall be completed. At a Joint Meeting of the Trustees of the Two Infirmaries, acting as Governors of the General Infirmary of the County of the City of Cork, it was determined that the Trustees of the North Infirmary should carry into effect the benevolent intentions of the SAMPAYO family and other Contributors, by building such General Hospital upon the ground attached to their old Infirmary. This Building, erected out of the Funds specially recited in the preamble of the act, has been latterly completed, and is now occupied by patients, and such Hospital can alone be considered the Infirmary of the County of the City of Cork. At the last Sessions of the Rate Payers, the presentments to these two Charities were suspended until the adjourned Sessions. The amount of these presentments is Fourteen hundred a year, rather a heavy item in our local taxation, to be given to Charities the Governors of which declare " that they have found " the support thereof, as seperate Establishments, has occasioned " considerable expense, and that it will be beneficial to unite the Funds thereof."— At no moment was vigilance in the appropriation o f t h e Public Funds, especially for charitable uses, more imperiously called for than at present. The contemplated Poor- Law for Ireland embraces two classes of Establishments for the relief o f t h e Poor. Workhouses or Houses oflndustry, and institutions for the relief of the sick. The support of these Establishments must, under even the best regulated system, fall heavily upon the Rate- paying community, and whilst they have the power, they should not hesitate to strike off such Establishments as are declared by their own Governors not to be beneficial but expensive. In the working of the English Reformed Poor- laws, the most economical and satisfactory results have been obtained by creating Unions of Districts and Institutions ; that is, by concentrating the Funds for charitable uses ; by uniting under one Board the several Establishments for administering relief, and by abolishing every Establishment which was not of absolute and recognised utility— Multiplying Establishments in a district, for similar purposes only, multiplies Expenditure, Patronage, Salaries, Appointmeutsand Sinecures, and furnishes a fertile and ne. ver- failng field for the Jobber and the Corruptionist. The Rate- payers, under the existing laws, exercise a strong controul over the public Expenditure, and they should remember that the more strongly they bring the spirit of economical reform to bear upon the Public Institutions, and the more judiciously and sparingly they appropriate the Funds now levied for relieving the Poor, the less heavy will be the demands made upon their pockets when the contemplated Poor Laws shall come into operation. THE ARMY. S E C O N D M E E T I N G OK M R . O ' C O N N E L L ' S C O N S T I - T U E N T S . ( EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED DEC. 1837-) We are here in expectation of the result of the Pope's allocation regarding the affairs of Cologne His Holiness is quite indignant at the conduct of the King of Prussia. Bunsen, one of the King's favourites, and a most inveterate enemy of the Catholic church, has come to Rome to negociate the matter with his Holiness; but as yet the Pope has not received him, and it is said will not receive him at all. On the day on which the Pope published his allocution he received from Constantinople an account that the Grand Seignior had granted permission to the Catholics to open their new chuiches in that city, and sixt » en others in different parts of his empire. The Pope was quite delighted with this intelligence, and be now puts the conduct of the Prussians in contrast with that of the Turks, and all the advantage is on part of the latter. T R O O P S F O R CANADA. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.... Sailed last night the Sampson, New York packet, Captain Sturgis. having on board, as part of her cargo. 1,200quarters of wheat, taken out of this country : she took also as passengers, Colonel Sir George Arthur, appointed Governor of Upper Canada, with Lieutenants West and Arthur, AkIes- de- Camp ; Lieutenants Jones and Coooer, of the militarv force in Canda, and Messrs. Windsor and Warren, of the civil service. Several other military gentlemen went out in this ship, who are intended lo act on their arrival in Canada in the formation of volunteer corps, and generally as circumstances mar require. Major- General Sir Thomas Pearson, who was Lt.- Col. o f t he 23d Fusileers, has been offered a command in Canada, where his knowledge of the country and inhabitants, added to his high military character, must render him an able assistant to Sir J. Colborne. It is now expected that Major- Goneral Sir Wm. MacBean will not go out to C- rnada, in consequence of the recent advices from that quarter, but assume the command of the Limerick district as originally intended ; in which case Major- General L'Estrangc comes to Cork, conformably to prior arrangments. The 43( 1 Light Infantry, Lieut.- Col. Booth, KH. left Fredericton on the 11th December, for Quebec, followed by the 85th, ' under Lieut.- Col. Maunsell, on Ihe 18th of same. They h » vo proceeded in all the rigours of a Canadian winter, through the Hush boundary, part of the journey in sleighs, and with a dreary prospect, at oil sides of the march. Each Regiment, however, is carefully provided with snow shoes, blankets. & c. and thev hsvo. the advantage of experienced commandins officers, Lieut.. Col. Booth, 43d, having seen much service in the armv, and Lieut.- Col Maunsell is not unacquainted with American warfare, having been twice wounded when a subaltern in that country. Lieutenant: General Sir George Arthur, the day previous to bis departure for the Canadas, was presented with a* splendid « ervice of plate, of the value of 1,5001. by the colony of Van Dicmen's Land, the principal articles bearing the following inscription : " To Coionel Sir George Arthur, K. C. H. Tbis service of plate , of the value of 1,5001. raised by public subscription in Van Diemen s Land, is presented as a memorial of the high sence entertained by the subscribers of his zealous and able administration of the government of that colony for upwards ofl' 2 years, and as a proof of their respect & regard for his public and private character. 1837." The transport system, which has hitherto operated feb prejudicially to the comfoit of the soldier and the interests of the piHMie; is likely to undergo tin essential change, as ail experiment is now making of fitting up several of| our men- of- war as troopships,, which will demonstrate the inexpediency of paying a high rate of freight for the conveyance of soldiers in crazy ill- conditioned transports at a period when hundreds of the finest, vessels that ever bore the British flag are absolutely rotting in our harbours for the want of employment. It is said that the vessels fitting up contain the most ample accommodation, and are in fact complete specimens of a Hooting barrack, where every officer will have his cabin, and every soldier a comfortable berth. It is said that the principle on which regiments were formerly kept so long in the tropical climates was not so much the expense of relieving them as the idea that young soldiers died much faster than old ones, and thatthe longer they remained there the less they would be likely to suffer from the climate. The belief has lor many years been so generally entertained in our army that no one ever thought of investigating whether il was astually the case or not, or of inquiring how it could possibly happen that the immutable laws ot nature which regulate tbe increase of mortality with the advance of years, were to be changed merely because a person wore a red coat, or had accepted a shilling in the name of her Majesty. COURT MARTIAL.' Head- quarters, Choultry Plain. July 18,1837.... At an European General Court- Martial, held at Cannanore on the22d June. 1837, Lieut. Oliver Siokes. 4! hN. I., was tried on the following charge': Cbaree... For willful murder, for having at Pooncha, on the 11th May, 1837, feloniously and of his malice aforethhught, struck with a sword, on the left side of the neck, Paupiah, private in the same regiment, and thereby inflicted a mortal wound, whereof he, the said Paupiah, died at same place on the same day. The Court found the prisoner guilty of so much of the charge as amounts to manslaughter. Sentence— The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the extent above stated, doth sentence him, the said Lieut. O. D. Stokes, 4th N. I. to be imprisoned for the space of two years and six months, in such place, and commencing from such time, as his Excellency the Commander- in- chief may be pleased to direct. J Confirmed— The officer commanding the provinces of Malabar and Kanara will, on receipt of this Order, give directions for forwarding the prisoner, under proper escort, to the gaol of Madras, and the period of bis imprisonment will be calculated fiom the date of his reception there. ( Signed) P. MAITLAND, Lieutenant- General, Commanding- in chief. Capt. Mahon, 63d Regt. was tried by court martial at Fort St. George last July, for absence from parade duty, writing a disrespectful letter to Lieu'.- Col. Fairtclough, 63d, omitting to recognise or salute Major General Doveton, his superior officer, and for breaking his arrest. Sentenced to be reprimanded. Lieut. General Maiuand disapproved both finding and sentence of the Court ai inadequate. Lieut, and Adjutant Jackson, 2d Bombay Cavalry, was sentenced to be dismissed the Company's service, hy Court Martial, for attacking Lieut. Loch, his brother officer, with a drawn sword and wounding him Lieutenant Loch also received same sentence for striking Lieut. Jackson with a stick, and abusing him. Lieut. General Kcane has remitted both sentences, and the officers have returned to their duty, but the former has been deprived of the Adin'nnev. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTHERN REPORTER. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10— The adjourned meeting of Mr. O'Connell's constituents took place yesterday at the Corn Exchange, for the purpose of hearing a report on the poor laws, and an address to her Majesty prepared by a committee, At half- past one o'clock Mr. O'Connell entered the room, and was received with loud cheers. He immediately moved that A. SETON. Esq. should be called to the Chair. Mr. RAY acted as Secretary. Mr. O'CONNELL— Before we go into the business of the meeting I want to know if the gentlemen who report for ibcFreeman's Journal are present. ( They are.) Yes, I see Mr, Coffey here... The Freeman of this morning purports to contain a report of the proceedings of yesterday, and to close them. Now, it is astonishing that it did not contain Mr. Connery's speech, in which he made a most extraordinary disclosure. I suppose turs can be explained. Mr. COFFEY said that the speech in question was written out in full, but the printer of the Freeman's Journal took upon himself to leave it out, as well as to cut out several passages of the report —( Hear, hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL— But I suppose it will appear. Mr. COFFEY— Certainly. Mr. O'CONNELL— That is perfectly satisfactory on the part of the gentlemen of the press ; but 1 trust they will now again put before the public the facts of this case, which were brought out by the attack of Mr. M'Donough. Mr, Connery, who was once the great stickler for the trade regulations , abanrloned them, and when he was taunted with having done so the reason came out. Recollect, 1 do not pepeat the facts ' of my own knowledge, but from my recollection of the statement made by Mr. Connery, which I am anxious that all the honest men of the trades should see again and again, that Ihey may connect tho facls with the recollection ofthe four murders which have been lately committed... the murder of Hanlon, the murder of Chambers, and of tbe other two. one nf whom was a ship carpenter, and judge then of what combination has produced. Mr. Connery assured us that the men of his trade paid 3s. 3d. a- week as a " slating- rent !" that is, a fund fur paying men to assault and assassinate others. The one part of Mr. Boylan's men continued to pay while he ( Connery) was connected with them ; another half, the honester portion of course, refused to pay it. This is what is proved against them by one of themselves. I never went tho length of saying that there was an assassination vent among them : but it has appeared, and wc must probe it to the bottom. Every irade that docs not subscribe to it is bound to come forward and repudiate it. Why, Sir, the statement came over rue with sensations of horror and astonishment, which was not decreased when I found that though the discussion lasted several hours after, the statement was not contradicted. Mr. RAFFERTY.. . It could not be contradicted. Mr. O'CONNELL... 1 am sorry to hear you say so, Mr. Raf. ferty ; but it is another reason why the fact should be brought strongly before the public. I trust the gentlemen of the press, who always perform their public duty with independence and integrity, will take care that it shall. 1 will conclude this subject for the present, by giving notice that 1 will call a meeting of employers together, to take it into consideration. Mr. Bullen has prepared an admirable address to the Queen, which he will now read tothe meeting, and 1 shall afterwards move its adoption. Mr. P. PURCELL said, before Mr. Bullen proceeds to read the report in question, perhaps I shall be allowed to say a word or two. The position in which I was yesterday placed prevented me from then stating my opinion upon what took place at our meeting. 1 wish to act wilh the most perfect impartiality in the discussion between those who areaccised an I th s: who have brought the charges against thom...( Hear, hear)... Whatever might have been my previous opinion on this subject, I might have refrained from prejudicing the question one way or another, by avowing it; but it appears from tire statement of Mr. Connery, beyond a doubt, that an abominable and atrocious combination existed amongst these men. This was accidentally extracted from Mr. Connery. He was not prepared to make i t ; it was dragged from him ; and if I am to believe his assertion, which I most sin- H ANOVER— A letter from Hamburg states that a subscription, set on foot in that city for the Gottingen professors, already amounts to5.900 marcs banco, and has at its head the names of some of tlie chief magistrates, ecclesiastics, merchants, and men of literature and science in that place A similar subscription has been set on foot at Lubeck. Subscriptions are also opened at Heidelberg and Friburg. N E W F O U N D L A N D . We have accounts from St. John's to the 19th ult. The important trial in which Chief Justice Boulton was plaintiffand Messrs. Morris, Kent, andNugent were defendants, had been, at least for the present, quashed, under the following clrcum: stance'.— It had been finally decided that the Chief Justice could not sit tor the trial ofa case in which he himself was the party, and the other two Judges, Brenton and Des Barres, had ruled thatthe Court was not legally consti'uted without three Judges — and three Judges could not be obtained exclusive of the Chief Justice. Tho Chief Justice was to sail in a few days for London, to meet the delesates from the House of Assembly, Messrs. Mor: ris, Carson, and Nugent. The Right Rev. Dr. Fleming wasalso to sail immediately after Christmas. With respect to mercantile affairs, we learn that bread and flour are scarce, owing to tbe non arrival of several cargoes from Hamburgh, Copenhacen. and Dantzic. The Hope, Cooper, was to sail for this port in a few days. The John Stuart, which sailed from Cork on the 25th of October for S'. John's was spoken on tbe 20th Dec., 20 miles off St. John's, by the Sarah, arrived at. Cork from St. John's... Waterford Mirror. of yesterday. THE TRADES— COMBINATION— MR. O'CONNELL. Mr. O'CONNELL, it will be seen, is again well, and actively engaged i n the attainment of one of the most useful and important objects, even in a national point of view, that ever employed his time or mind. Let no one be deterred by the length of the proceedings reported in our preceding columns from attentively perusing them. They are of great importance, and will, we are inclined to believe, have, ultimately, a salutary effect throughout the Country. CORK AND PASSAGE RAILWAY. The general meeting of Subscribers, was held at the Company's Office on Tuesday. It was very numerously attended, F B. BEAMISH, Esq, in the Chair. The Report read gave general satisfaction, and the Proprietors expressed their determination to proceed with the undertaking. We refer to our Advertising Columns for the Resolutions. It is said that John B Scott, Esq. of Cabircon, will be High Sheriff of the co. Clare, though not returned on the Judge's list. The Rev. J. N. Lombard is appointed to the living of Carrigaline, vacant by the death of the Rev. Horace Townsend. The funeral of the late Major General Sir Amos Norcott will leave the Barracks at 12 o'Ciock on Saturday nexT, ( and not at lOo'clock as stated in the morning's Constitution,) and will proceed to St. Barry's Cathedral, where his remains will be interred with the usual Military honours. SIR— In one of your late publications, the Rev. Thomas Newenham has authorised a contradiction of his being out with his bailiffs, on tbe occasion alluded to in my letter ofthe 30th Dec. What I stated in my letter of that date was substantially correct. If the Rev. Mr. Newenhatir did not go out actually upon the lands, to make a capture with his bailiffs, ho certainly went near the lands, as far as the town of Kilworth, where he halted, and marshaled his men for the day's campaign, having brought with him, in addition , to . the usual s'. aff. his gardener and work - men. It is not, Mr. Editor, an unheard of or an unusual thing, that the Rector of Kilworth should bo out with his bailiffs be has on more occasions than one signalised himself as a vvorthv soldier of the Church Militant ; and if his Reverence lacked his usual courageuponalateoccasion. it must be that some considerate friend whispered in his ear, that prudence was sometimes the better part of valour. If the Rev. gentleman was not out with the bailiffs, may I ask who sent them out ? who planned their operation, and directed their movements? I did expect, Sir, when my statement, was questioned, that it would be met by something stronger than mere equivocal denial. Evasive contradictions are unworthy the character of a candid man, and to escape from responsibility under mere quibble of words, is. to say the least of it, disingenuous. It matters little whether Mr. Newenham was out upon the occasion refercd to or not.; the real question is had the Bailiffs the Rector's sanction for their conduct, and if they had not, Mr. Newenham stands acquitted before the public. If, on the other hand, Mr. Newenham has identified himself with his Bailiffs, and countenanced their proceedings, he thereby becomes responsible, and must be prepared for the odium which attaches to them. I would be anxious that the Rev. Mr. Newenham could disse: ver himself from the reckless band of desperadoes that are dav and night hunting down the poor Tithe recussant in this parish"; for I can well conceive that connection with the vilest ofthe vilest atonce repulsive to the feelings and humbling to Ibe pride ofa gentleman. Indirect participation in acts of rapacity for filthy lucre sake, is unbecoming the character and sacred calfing of a Clergy: man. and quite unbefitting the Minister of Him who had not where to lay his head upon, who lived in poverty and died on a cross." In my last communication I described to you the highly wroueh feelings of the poor farmers of this parish. This excitement has not since abated, nor w ill it, while the proceedings are persevered in which havenaturallv produced it. Tbe sheep captured on the occasion referred to in my last, were detained in the Kilworth pound, standing up to the middle in mud and water, till some of them actually died of cold and starvation, tho' solvent security wis offered for their release, to have them forthcoming on the day of sale. Will the Rev. Gentleman, who is so sensitive of being out with hisBailifli, disclaim ail participation in this matter, or deny that he was not out with his Bailiffs in Fermoy on the first day of the new year, opening the Tithe campaign for the year 1838 ? By Mr. Newenham's direction, tbe distress was removed, the night previous to the Tithe sale, to Fermoy. and on the day of auction, he was to be seen marshalling his Bailiffs, at. the very lime that the pound gate was thrown open, and when the poor halffamished animals, released from durance vile, gave leg bail, amid the shouts of Thousands ! And lastly. Sir, was not the Rev. Gentleman almost daily present during the last week at the Sessions of Fermoy, v hile the Bailiffs and affidavit- men were swearing divers rescues" and assaults against the poor parishioners of Kilworth, who have, in consequence, been obliged to fly their homes at this inclement season ( if the year. In conclusion Sir, I beg to express a hope, that when Mr- Newenbam again authorises a communication in your respectable Journal, he will be able to explain how it so happened, that the anniversary of the REDEEMER should he profound by the service of processes n the Reeioi's name, against the poor tithe defaulters of this Parish,— With sincere respect, I remain your humble servant, A KILWORTH- MAN. Kilworth, Jan. 10, 1838. ELEGANCE IS NOT O'CONNELL N A I 1 Q . N > L A. NNULT* r u n 1836 A N D 1837. Since our last announcement the following Suma huve been transmitted through Mr. LYONS for this patriotic fund CI. ON. MEEN— Per Rev. E. Murphy, C. R., £ 3 0 . This sum, con. tributed by a strictly ruial and chiefly mountainous district, evinces the untiring spirit of the people in their determination to uphold the great Advocate of their Liberties against the power and wealth of his Tory adversaries— their unrelenting enemies and oppressors — when directed by a patriotic, pious and exemplary Clergy, such as the zealous and indefatigable Pastor of this Parish. CAH ERLOG and the LITTLE ISLAND Per Rev. D. Mutpby. R. C. C.. £ 10, being ihe willing contribution of that portion • t1 o Union of New Glanmirc—( iev. S. Lucey, C. R. From the noitbern district, Kri" ckraba, £ | 0 7s was betore received and acknew. Icdged, per T. J, Clearv, Esq., making a total of £ 2 0 7s. ' lb: present collection includes £ 1 each from the Rev. Mr. Mnrphy. Mrs. Anne Collins, Toiireen Lodge ; the Rev. Dr. Collins of sr m-, and John Cantillon, E- q., of Roekfarm. UNION OF WHITE CHURCH AND BLARNEY, in addition to £ 16 17s 7d before received, per the R e v M. Horgsn, C. R., £ 1 15s 6d — making a total of £ 1 8 13s Id from that patriotic district. UNION OF GKANAGH AND BALLINAMONA— Per R e v . P. D u g - gan, C. U., £ 31 18s 8d, of which £ 27 was the contribution of Granagh, by a willing and grateful population. The remainder from Ballinamona. This sum includes 1/. each from the Rev. Mr. Duggan and his confrere the Rev. J. Kepple.„ 10s from tho Rev. T. Murphy, R. C. C., and 1/. from M. Mahony, Esq., of Glancoume. ® 3T The misprint of a figure in our last announcement caused the collection of Drinagb and Drimolcague to appear as 10/. 10s. it should have been 11/. 10s. erelv QO, from the manner in which he made it, and the fact Newport-, The private business of the House of Commons ' his year will amount to one- half of what it did last, as there are scarcely any railway bills, and very few private bills of any kind of much consequence. TRADE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MAURITIUS— The declared value of the exports from the United Kingdom to tho British West Indies, in the year 1836, was £ 4,288,0- 33 ; and to tho Mauritius, £ 315.9361. The total quantity of tea dutv paid to the 5th Dec. last, for 1837, was 29,104,7301bs. viz London, 20,357,098lbs. ; Liverpool, 2,685,7291bs ; Dublin, 2,013,8761bs ; all other ports, 4,048, 0271bs. The demand for iron during the last fortnight has been extremely brisk, and there has been some advance in prices. The present price of common bars is 91. per ton, shipped at Cardiff or EXCLUSIVELY P A T R I C I A S . — S o m e peo pie talk of the higher classes as if ihey invariably possessed more elegance of manners than their plebeian neighbours. 1 presume to differ from those who think so. The most elegant woman I ever saw, and the most commanding in appearance, was ihe daughter of a grocer at Bristol. 1 saw this lady, who did not seem to be more than two and twenty, examined at great lengih as a witness upon a trial at Gloucester; and the first Peeress in England might have been vain of such a deportment. She was very handsome, certainly ; but 1 was not misled by that circumstance ; for her younger sister was produced in court afterwards, who had to tbe full as much beauty, but nothing at all of ihe same style. The question was one of bankruptcy. This girl had been accustomed to keep her father's books, and I dare say, to serve in his shop and had certainly never received any olher education tnan such as a country boarding school could afford.... On Mariners. INSOLVENT DEBTORS The following are to be heard on their petitions at the Couit, Lower Ormond quay, Dublin, on the 31st inst :— Denis Burke, late of Clonreague, county Cork, farmer. Samuel Welply, late of Macroom, county Cork, baker.. REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK. From the Mark- Lane Express of Monday. The country markets have experienced little animation the past week, but the supplies continuing limited, and the quality of Wheat much affected by the weather, has enabled holders to realize full prices for all the better descriptions of corn, while the previous dulness pervades the trade in all other qualities. In Scotland, however, the reports are becoming much more prevalent oi the failure in the produce of the last crop, both in quantilv and quality, now that the test of threshing has been more generally applied ; farmers seein becoming impressed witb this opinion, and knowing the exhausted state of the old stocks, are unwilling to bring their samples to market at the present current rates, which even now. compared with the English prices, msy be estimated as ranging high- Respeciiag Oats similar complaints arc raised, and tbe feeling appears in tho more northern district* to be becoming unanimous on the part ot the farmers, not to qu t their produce unless advanced terms are granted by the consumers. The markets consequently have been kept in very limited supply, and purchasers in some instances have resorted to the novel expedient of importing from Ifeland, w; hich. as regards the northern ports of Scotland, is a nev feature in the trade, on wnich a correspondent remarks " how long ihis [ unnatural course will continue it is difficult lo say." in Ireland, all proceedings, as well as in England and Scotland, have been favoured by extraordinarily fine weather, with less appearance of grub and worm than could have been anticipated considering the mildness of the season. The Wheat trade remains dull, and the selected parcels alone remain firm in price. Good shipping qualities of Oats have been in moderate demand at former rates, but as much of the supply has at several markets been of secondary and inferior quality, difficulty has been experienced in maintaining prices. For immediate delivery, rates do not exceed 9s 9d per brl , but for future shipment 10s 6d. demanded. The supplies of Wheat, to Mark Lane, both Wednesday and Friday have been very moderate, and the dampness of the atmosphere materially affects the condition, rendering it difficult for millers to select parcels fit for immediate use, and who arc therefore willing to give the top quotations for any dry tine parcels, while the other descriptions have hung heavily on'hand, at fully Monday's depression. On Friday, however, the market was not only thinly attended, but the density of the fog precluded the few purchasers w ho did appear, from judging of the quality of either Wheat or Barley, and the extent of business was therefore necessarily very contracted. Bonded Wheat meets with partial enquiry, principally lower Ballic red qualities ; but no transac. tions of any import were reported, prices remaining unaltered from our previous quotations. The Flour trade has continued steady, ship qualities being in fair demand. Rather less business h is been transacting in bonded qualities, but former quotations are supported. There has been rathera liberal supply of B. rley, and the trade less animated for all de'eriptions. Maltsters, owing to the heavy state of their trade, buy sparingly, and the principal sale has been, therefore, to the distillers, who have barely granted prices equal to those of the previous week, with less disposition shown to purchase. Grinding sorts were also dull. Little has been passing in free on board sales with Ireland, the prices demanded for immediate shipment are 9s to 9s 9d, for delivery up to April. 10s to 10s 6( 1 are asked for Limerick, Waterford, Derry, and Sligo qualities, and 8s 9d to 9s 3d for Galway. Freights are still ruling high, a circumstance which acts disadvantageously to the trade, and it is stated " that in instances high, er prices are being required by shippers than vessels ire the regular course are to be freighted, and in some cases Is. per qr. more being charged than reallv naid." t * l _ really paid." Beans as well as Peas of all descriptions have moved off slowly at their previous reduction. The only alteration in the duties is the advance of Is 6d per qr. on Beans. THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER. I INDIGENT ROOM- KEEPERS' SOCIETY. -* HE A N N U A L SERMON in aid of the above most useful Institution, is fixed for SUNDAY. January 28, 1838, to be Preached in ST. PETER'S CHURCH by the REV. WM. COTTER WILLIAMSON, of Passage. The extreme severity of the last Spring, obliged the visitors lo continue their regular supplies to the utmost extent oftheirfunds, until they were totally exhausted. A meeting of the Subscribers was then publicly called, and appeals made to public benevolence, but the Donations which were responsively sent in to the Treasurer are now being exhausted likewise ; many humane individuals also by the resolutions of that meeting, paid their next year's Subscriptions in advance, but these are not all yet gathered in. The receipt of the Sermon will therefore form tbe principal fund for the entire of the ensuing year until November. The Governors sincerely trust their fellow- citizens will remember tbis, and not only afford a large collection now, adequate in some degree to the pressing wants of the indigent and deserving Roomkeepers on the lists, but will add their names as Annual Contributors to the steadv and regular support of a Society so valueble tothe Poor, as tbe " Cork Indigent Room- keepers' Society.".. There are 173 Families on tire Lists of the respective Visitors in the Parishes of the Citv. Donations will be thankfully received by the Rev. C. Leslie, the Rev. J. N. Lombard, Rev. J Forsayeth, l t e i . Samuel Harman, Samuel Abbott, George White, Rowland Davies, Grand Parade, E. Tottenham, by Dr. Wilies, Treasure', and J. W. Popp, Secretary. A U C T I O N S . AUCTION OF SUGAR. TAMES, NICHOLAS, & JEREMIAH MURPHYwitl Sell " by Auction, on TUESDAY next, 16th Inst, at HALL'S, One o'Clock, 45 Hhds. Trinidad Sugar. . Duty paid. Jan. 9. E X E C U T I O N SALE. TH E Sergeants at Mace jwill Sell by P U B L IC AUCTION, on FRIDAY, 12th inst., at the House of ROBERT GOING, North Main Street. A Quantity ot Dye Stuffs, Roman Cement, Vitriol, Lampblack, & e.. and Two Pipes Sicilian Red Wine in Bond, ALSO, H O U S E H O L D F U R N I T U R E, ( i f Sale at 12 o'Clock, R. B. EVANS, Jan. 10, 1836. Auctioneer. SALES- S H I P P I N G . I N T E R E S T ON I R I SH OLD AND REDUCED U PER- 7 T l CENT. GOVERNMENT STOCK / * J UE in Dublin the 5ih, andPay C O R K A N D P A S S A G E R A I L W A Y. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of Ihe Cork and Passage Railway, pursuant to Advertisement at the Company's Office, Llapp's Island, on TUESDAY, 9th inst. to receive the report ofthe late committee... FRANCIS B . BEAMISH, Esq., M. P., in tbe chair... The report having been read by the Secretary, it was moved bv Dr. Haines, seconded by G. R. Pain, Esq. and unanimously * Resolved. . That the Report now read be received ami entered on the minutes. Proposed by Wm. Fitigibbon. Esq. seconded by JamesSmith, Esq:, and unanimously Resolved. . That the Report be printed, and copies sent to each subscriber. Proposed by Alexander Deane, Esq.. seconded by R. L. Jameson, Esq., and unanimously Resolved... Thatthe best thanks of this Company are due, and are hereby given to the membersof the lale committee, for their zeal and exertions in forwarding the interests of ihe s ibscribers, and bringing this great project to its present stale of perfection. Proposed by Dan Meagher, Esq., seconded by Sir Thomas Dcane, and unanimously Resolved... That Carden Terry, Esq., our Solicitor, is fully enttled to our best thanks, for the zeal and professional ability he shewed in obtaining our act of parliament. Resolved. . That a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Subscribers be called for FRIDAY, 19th Inst., to considerthe remuneration to be given Mr- Topp, for his Great Services to the Company ; and to elect a Secretary, F. 15. BEAMISH, Chairman. M. H. CONWAY, Acting Sec, Mr. Beamish having been removed from the chair, and Thos. Lyons, Esq., called thereto, The thanks of tbe meeting were given by acclamation to Mr. Beamish, not only for mi6 conduct in the chair to- day, but for his exertions at all times to forward every project that may be useful or beneficial to the Citizens of Cork. THOS. LYONS, Chairman. M. H. CONWAY, Acting Sec. AND 3 PER CENT. CONSOLS. J able the 8th of January, 1838. and BANK OF IRELAND STOCK DUE THE FIRST OF JANUARY. ALSO. ON ENGLISH 3 PER CENT. CONSOLS AND") NEW 3i PER CENT. AND 3 ( D u e in London at the same PER CENT. ANNUITIES,— f period. 1765, J RICHARD EXHAM Begs leave to inform thos? persons who have authorised him to receive the Dividends on any ofthe above Stocks, that same are now in course of payment at his Office, No. 65, SOUTH MALL. CORK, Where Orders are received for the Purchase, Transfer and Sale of all kinds of Government Stock, Debentures, English and Irish Bank Stuck, Public Securities, Railway, Canal and other Shares by wbich the trouble of writing, and the risk and expense of remitting to and from London and Dublin are avoided. D I V I D E N D S are received under Power of Attorney, and remitted for those who have invested Money in Government and other Public Securiiies, and all transactions executed in the most expeditious, confidential, and secure manner. City Wide- street Debentures bought and Sold, Life and Fire Assurances effected at the Lowest Rates. Daily Lists of the Prices of Irish Stock and Public Securities; and also a London Daily Publication from the Stock Exchange, containing the course of Exchange, Prices of Government Foreign Stocks, Assurance Companies' Shares, and every other description of English and Foreign Security, to be seen at the above office, as also the Government Tables for the purpose of Annuities..." Immediate... Temporary... or Transferred." B NOTICE, 1 hereby Caution the Public, not to give Credit to my wife CATHERINE CORKORAN, otherwise MURPHY, as I will not pay any Debt she may contract. Jan. 11 1838. JOHN CORKORAN. YORK AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ASSURANCE COMPANY, High Oaregate York, and King William- street, London- CH R I S T M A S Renewals for Fire Policies came due on the 25th instant ; these should be paid before the 9th January ensuing to- oreserve the benefit of the Policies. ON FIRE ASSURANCE. The rates of this Company are particularly reasonable on all Mercantile, Manufacturing and Mill Risks ON LIFE ASSURANCE. The rates are more favourable than those of any other respectable Office in the Kingdom. JOSEPH DUNBAR, Agent at Cork, Who will feel obliged to his friends for the transfer of their policies which fell due at Christmas. 13, Patrick- st. Jan. 1, 1831. L O N D O N H A T W A i - E - H O U S E, 114, PATRICK- STREET. J S T E P H E N ' S respectfully informs his friends • and the public that he has just received a very large Stock of the newest and most Fashionable WATERPROOF LONDON H ATS, from first rate M a n u f a c t u r i n g Houses. — Also, LADIES' V I C T O R I A " R I D I N G C A P S , & E. J, S T E P H E N S begs to remark that as every article in his Stock has heen purchased within the lost, month he can offer advantages to the Public that few bouses in tbe Kingdom can. tg^" Gentlemen's Stocka, Umbrellas, and Walking Sticks in great Variely. Dec. 16. S U P E R I O R L O N D O N S A D D L ES AT THE MILITARY AND HUNTING SADDLERY, WHIP, SPUR AND HARNESS WARE- HOUSE, N o . 1 1 0 , PATRICK- STREET, RIAN SMITH begs leave to inform the Nobility. an< l Gentry ofthe Ci'y and County of Cork, and those of the neighbouring counties, that he has received a large supply of the above beautifullyfinishedLONDON SADDLES, from some ofthe most Eminent Makers. P F A T & SON, Piccadilly. LAURIE and Co., Oxford, St. & e., with a large supply of every article connected with Saddlery and Harness, all of the first quality— His Stock of Whips are from SWAINE Co., Piccadil ly. SKINNER & Co. Finsbury Place, comprising a most fashionable assortment ; a large supply of very fine Horse Clothing, Blankets, Bugs, & c. B. SMITH has also received the following Articles, not in general use, but which no Gentleman's Establishment should be without, The Patent Probang for admistering Balls to Horses, Balling Irons. Horse Injectors aud Drenching Thorns. Singing Irons used in place of Clipping. Patent Clipping Scissors with Combs attached. Steel Clipping Scissors with Combs unattached. Drawing Knives for Horses Hoofs. Tail Dockers. Horse Phleams and Mane Pulls. Yates' Anti Crib Biter. Green's Patent Jockey. Purden's Patent Sponge Boots. Cherry's Pads Dr. Munroe's Flexible Tube for Cattle. India Rubber Girths, Goodman's Ptaent Saddle Cloths. Anti- attrition for Greasing Wheels, JARVIS'S INDIA RUBBER WATERPROOF POLISH, in great repute in London for Harness and Carriages. With a supply of most Fashionable London HUNTING CAPS, Servants do., and Postillions with Gold and Silver Tassells and Bands. Jan. 6. ' F H E ST. G E O R G E Steam Packet Company If intend despatching their splendid and powerful Steam Packets as under :— F O R B R I S T O L . The K I L L A R N E Y , J. BAILY, Commantler. on To morrow, F R I D A Y ' , 12th instant, at 4 o'Clock. inthe Afternoon. FOR PLYMOUTH AND LONDON The SIRIUS, S. S. MOWLE, Commander, on SATURDAY, 13th inst., at 4 o'Clock in the Afternoon. For Freight or Passage applv at the Company's Office, Penrose's- Quav. LECKY & BEAL13, Agents. Cork, January II, ia37. F O R K I N G S T O N , JAMAICA. ' | 1 0 Sail about the end of January, the Fine Bri- 0- tish Built Brig " SWAN," 203 Tons, Register, William Errington, Master. For Passage apply to MAURICE DALY; Ship Agent, Merchant's Quay. I EMIGRATION TO NEW SOUTH WALES. P H E First Class Ship AMELIA THOMPSON, of 500 Tons, will sail from the Thames on the 14th, and from Plymouth on the 26th March, direct for Sydney A regular succession of first class Ships, well appointed, from 500 to 700 tons; with very superior accommodjtions, supplied ill the most liberal manner— and each carrying a skilful Surgeon, will be despatched with strict punctuality every seven weeks for tbe years 1838. Persons engaging their Passage by these Ships may make their arrangements with absolute certainty as to the time of their departure, a point ofthe first importance to all who intend emi • grating. They can join iheships on fixed days, at a trifling c o s t, by steam, at Gravesend or Plymouth— from all parts of the Three Kingdoms, where they can embark at once— and incur no further expenses. The Subsfiber's connection with the Colony enables him to afford parties wishing to emigrate much useful information— Maps ofthe Country, & c. i; c. can be seen at his Office. Post- paid Letters only will be answered. JOHN BESNARD, Jun., 19, Church St., Cork. THE MARKETS 207 Red Wheat lSs 141 Ditto 043 519 Barley ~ 8s 348 Ditto 12s o Bere 00s 141 Oats 8s 676 DHto., 9s Od 00s Od Od 2d nd Od 00s M 2 d \ 6d ( Average. Od— 20 Stone CORK MARKETS, THURSDAY, JAN. 11. Barrels. THIS DAY; 24 White Wheat... 22s 6d ( a) 28s Od @ 24s Od ( a) 27s Od Cd) 12s 2d ® 14s Od @ 00s Oil ( d) 9s 2d @ 10s O R, , Q " , A N T I T T S0L11 AT THE HIGHEST RAICES. 9 Barrels White Wheat. 28s 0d... 20 Red. 27s Od... 27 Parley, 14s Od... O Bcre, 00s 0d... 28 Oats. 10s 6d per barrel. Barrels. - Od— 20 de. 2d— 16 de; 9s 2d— 14 de. 86 White Wheat... 26s 14" Rod Wheat los 119 Ditto 24s 205 Barley 8s 183 Ditto ] 2s o Bere 00s 648 Oats 7s 472 Ditto 9s YESTERDAY. od an Od ( cr) 24s Od @ 27s Od ( a) 12s Od ( a) 14s Otl ( a) 00s 6d Cd) 9s Od ( a) 10s Od 0 d \ od r 0d\ Od J Od 0( 11 6dJ 27s 24s 12s Average. Od— 20Stone Od— 20 Od— 18 do. 9s Od— 14 do. IN R, , , « " A N M Y S 0 I - D " HIOHKST PMCES. l l n j r , Wheat. 28s Od... l I Red, 27s 0d... 28 Barlev, Us Od... O Bere 00s 0 d . . . l 3 Oats 10s 6d per barrel. MERCHANT. First Quality Second do. . . Third do .* Fourth do. ... Fifth do Sixtl. do T H E Y O R K S H I RE F I R E AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY". £ 200. •^ M^ ANTED, at Interest for which a MORTGAGE will be * given on PREMISES in the City of Cork, subject to a Low Head- rent and yielding a Yearly Profit of upwards of £ 7 0 . Apply to JAMES DOW. V1AN, Public Notary. Jan. 11. 38. South Mall. MR, MOORE STACK RE S P E C T F U L L Y announces his intention of opening Classes and giving Private Instruction, in all the branches of Elocution. He deems it unnecessary to advert to the claims of this Science on the attention of those witb whom it is a necessary medium for communicating knowledge, or exercising professional talent To the member of the Senate or tbe Bar, the Lecturer, and the Minister of Religion, it is a qualification indispensable for the efficient discharge of duty, rather than an accomplishment dependent on individual taste. Bul its effects on geneial education and menial culture, though not so obvious, may well recommend it to the study and patronage of all anxious lo promote ihe woik o intellectual improvement. Tothe Youug— whose physical organs ran be so easily mould ed,— whoare so susceptible of sensible impressions, and wbo are so prompt in acquiring those arts and accomplishments which are principally dependent on imitation,— it must be a matter of the first importancc. iin an intellectual point of view, to acquire habits of distinct articulation, pure enunciation, and harmonious modulation of the voice. with graceful and appropriate gesture ; as well as a familiar and satisfactory development of the principles on which they were based. To those who labour under natural defects, or who may have contracted a vicious manner from negligence or bad training. Mr. S takes the liberty of suggesting, that these impediments to delivery can be removed in a shorter space of lime, arid wilh greater facility than they may anticipate, hy an ordinary diligence in attending to his instructions. The experience of seven years teach ing in his profession, and the flattering testimonials ol some of the first scholars and literary characters in tbe Kingdom, both as to his capabilities and efficiency, are the credentials wbich lie offers t f i r the satisfactory discharge ofthe engagements he undertakes. Schools and private Seminaries attended, on terms proportioned o the number of Pupils. King- Street, Jan. 8. « HE DIRECTORS give Notice that Mr. 1 JOHN RICHARD DEVONSHIRE HARVEY, of Queen Street, Cork, has ceased to be the Agent of this Company and that as no other has been appointed in Cork, all persons who have renewal Premiums to pay to, or other business to transact with the Company must communicate directly with the principal office in the Citv of York, England. W. L. NEWMAN, Secretary. Y'ork, lst Jan. 1858. SHIP NEWS. COVE OF CORK— JAN. 9, 1838, WIND N. E. Arrived.. Brisk, Hobbs, Newport, coals. Favourite, Hegarty, do. do. Ann, Butt. Swansea, culm. Adelaide, Godfrey. London, general cargo. Sarah, Dawson, Liverpool, do. Sailed... Novo Diligcntc, Antonio, St. Ubes, butter. Bomtim, Musquito, do. do. Invezia, Crazia, do. ballast. Atlas, Schmydtt, Lisbon. do. Eliza, Brian, Jamaica, general cargo. Royal Adelaide. Lee, do. do. Cornubia, Bell, Cape, troops. Wm, Miles, Kindley, Barbadocs, troops. Prince Regent, Transport, for St. Andero. Simeon Hardy, Barclay, Barbadoes, general cargo. Fair Acadian. Rogers, Leith, mahogany. Dominica, Proctor, London, do. Mary Laing, Sharer, do. do. Lively. Spittle, do. linseed. Wm. G. Anderson, Mitcalf, do. timber. Lcander, White, do. general cargo. Wm. Salthouse, Burr, Trinidad, do. Chieftain. Deavcs. Savannah, ballast. Levant, O'Brien, Barbadocs, & c , general cargo. JAN. 10— WIND N. E. Arrived... Anne and Mary, 74. Shanbrack, Llanelly, coals. Ceres, 77. Tliomaf, Bangoi, slates. Acnes, 76, Woodrolfe, Liverpool, general cargo. Favourite, 183, Garrison, Honduras, mahogany. Sirius, Steamer. London. Sailed... Alert, Muir, Alexandria,. general cargo. Catherine, Driscol, Jamaica, do. Larinia, Hicks, Southampton, do. Ann and Elizabeth, Lewis, do. do. Victory, Steamer, Bristol CORK N A T I O N A L B A N K OF I R E L A N D. • H E LOCAL C O U R T hereby give Notice, that Pursuant to a Resolution o f t h e Metropolitan Court, making a further call of one pound ten shillings per share in the Capital Stock o f t h e Cork National Bank of Ireland, the same becomes payable at the Bank's office, South Mall, on or before the 10th day of February next ; after which date, interest at the rate of 5 per Cent per annum, will be charged onthe amount of said call, in all cases of default of payment up to, and not exceeding a period of, three months longer, when, as provided in the Deed of Settlement, shares, on which any call remains unpaid, are liable to forfeiture. Jan. 10, 1838. C O R K A N D P A S S A G E R A I L W Y. S P E C I A L General Meeting of the Pubscrik hers, pursuant to the Act of Incorporation, will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, LAPP'S I S L A N D , o n FRIDAY tbe 19th of Janoary, 1838, at the Hour of Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, for the purpose of considering a proposition to remunerate R. W, TOPP, Esq., for his services, and to Electa Secretary. F. B. BEAMISH, Chairman. Cork, Jan. 9, B' THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY, Bv Sir Wm. Jardine, Bart., F. R. S. E., & c. I R D S OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, the New Volume, being the XXtli, embellished with 36 Original Plates and 40 Wood Cuts, Drawn, Engraved, and Coloured from Nature, with Memoir and Portrait of Sir ROBERT SIBBALD, Bart., M. D. Extra Morocco Cloth Boards, Price 6s. In this Volume the EGGS of the leading families are represented, which will be done in the remaining portions devoted to this branch, by which means both tbe OOLOGY" A N D ORNITHOLOGY OF BRITAIN will be embraced. * t ' Any of the former 19 Volumes may be had separately, each illustrated by between SO and 40 Coloured Plates, Memoirs P o r t r a i t s , a n d Wood Cuts, Price 6s Boards, 9s 6d Morocco, 7s 6d Roan or Silk, Gilt Leaves full bound. W. H. Lizacs, Edinburgh ; S. Highley, London ; W. Curry, Jun. and Co. Dublin, and all Booksellers. GOVERNMENT I'REE EMIGRATION TO SYDNEY O T I C E is hereby given, that the superior first Class Ship MAGISTRATE, 518 Tons Register, Chartered by Her Majesty's Government, and fitted expressly for the Free Conveyance of Married Mechanics and Farm Servants, under the superintendence of Doctor SAVAGE, R N., will Sail from COVE on the ' 20th of February next. Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Wheelwrights, Stone- masons, Stonecutters, Quarrymen, Bricklayers, Gardeners and Farm Labourers, are most wanted, and they are hereby informed that no future demand will be made on them, whatever, but they will be at perfect liberty to follow their own views on landing in the Colony. Applications, with Certificates of Age, Trade, and Character, must be made ( if by letter, post paid, or under cover, to th Under Secretary, Dublin Castle,) to Dr. SAVAGE, Surgeon. R. N. or Lieut. CHAS, FRIEND, R. N., Her Majesty's Emigration Office Warren's Place, Cork. Dee. ' 27. ON S A LE ' H E Fine Brig " A L E X A N D ER STEWART" of Halifax, N. S., Burthen per Register, 173 Tons, new measurement ; built in Port Wallace, o f t h e best materials; launched, 31st October, is well found in every respect, and will bear the closest inspection. She is now discharging in the South Channel, Cork. Apply to . JAMES SCOTT 8c CO. BUTTER. COUNTRY; T - 92s First Quality 82s 90s Second do. ... 79s 79s Third do 6JS. 69s Fourt do 59s 58s Fifth do 49s 48s Sixth do 38 » TO BE SOLD. rHE Materials of a W I N D M I L L of the best construction, and as good as new. If in a good situation it would be very powerful. It can be taken down and erected rate expense. Apply at John- street Distillery at a mode. J a n . 9 . T O B E SOLD, THE Interest in the F A R M of LAIIAGH, containing 315 Acres, situate within a mile and a half of the Town of Bandon, on the Road leading to Dunmanway. The Farm is exceedingly well circumstanced and in good conoition, and has upon it a capital Dwelling- house and Garden, a Threshing- mill with Water power, Barns, Stables, Coach- house, the Cow- houses, wiih every other office necessary for working and Farm on the most improved system of Agriculture. Proposals ( post paid) will be received by Mr. A . SWANSTON. Latagh, Bandon. Laragh, Dec. 13, 1837, M E D I C A L P R O F E S S I O N. T a M E E T I N G of the Munstcr Provincial L Medical Committee, held on TUESDAY, the 2rl of January Instant, it was resolved— That a General Meeting of the Medical Profession of the South of Ireland be convened for THURSDAY, the 25th day of January instant, at One o'Clock at Lloyd's Hotel, Cork, for the purpose of taking into consideration the following subjects, viz.: 1 The intended legislation for the Medical Charities; 2 The present state of the Medical Profession ; 3 The Petition from the Dublin college of Surgeons, which aims at a fundamental change in the privileges of the Profession, and which is deserving the serious attent'on of the members of the Profession at large. Signed bv order of the Committee, RICHARD CORBETT, M. D.. Jan. 4. Secretary, M. C. TO THE S U B S C R I B E R S OF T H E D O U G L A S D I S P E N A R Y, LADIF. S AND GENTLEMEN, THE Office of Physician to the Douglas Dispensary having become Vacant by the lamented death of the late Doctor EVANS, I beg leave to offer myself as a Candidate for that Situation ; and should I be elected, I hope by a conscientious discharge of its duties, to afford that satisfaction given to you by your late Medical Attendant. I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, WM. KEARNS TANNER, M. D., and Surgeon. Cork, Jan. 11. WATERGRAS- S HILL AND GLENVILLE DISPENSARY. THE Committee and the Subscribers to this Institution are requested to meet on Tuesday next, 16th Inst. at 12 o'clock, at the Court House, Watergrasshill. HENRY BRIZER MITCHELL, Treasurer Mitehtllsfort, Jan. 1,1838. ORDNANCE BUILDINGS AT TULLAMORE T O BE SOLD. P| 1HE Ordnance Premises at Tullamore comprise -*- Powder Magazine, Store Rooms, Office. Guard Room, Workshops, & c. situated on the Grand Canal, and admirably adapted for a Distillery, Brewery, Corn Store. Slaughter House, or any bussiness requiring ample space, and facility of water carriage... the Grand Canal affording the means of communication with the cities of Dublin and Limerick, and the productive Districts, irrigated by the Shannon. The Buildings are substantially constructed with Stone, covered with Ton Slates, and the Premises, which include a space of 3 Roods 9 Perches, more or lessenclosed with a well built stone wall, 9 feet high. ' IT- t whole Rent free in perpetuity. Tenders to be transmitted addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, Pall Mall, London, so as to be received on or before Monday the 5th February, 1838. The Premises can be viewed on application to the Barrack Master at Tullamore. Bv order of the Board. Office Qrdonance. Dec. 15. R. BYHAM, Secretary. ON SALE. MIE B r i g " MARY" of Mirimachi, Burthen per Register, 180 Tons, new measurement— 190 old measurement. Colonial Built, only a few months old; a strong well- built Vessel and admirably adapted for Ibe Trade of the Port. Now lying at Cove. Apply to JAMES SCOTT & CO. " ON SALE, ~ S C H O O N E R V I C T O R I A , of . S i S a . " HALIFAX, N. S., Burthen per Register, 100 Tons new, and 128 Tons old measure, Colonial built, a few months old, a strong Vessel, and well found. Length aloft 65ft. 7 Breadth of Beam 19 7 Depth of Hold 11 1 Now discharging Sugars at the Custom House Quay, Apply to ' JAMES SCOTT & CO. E D U C A T I O N . LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 8. There was a good supply of Wheat this morning, large of Barley from the East coast, aod four large cargoes ofl rish Oat? from- the South- west. There has been a free sale of Wheat at fully Is per quarter advance on superfine new and nearly as much on other kinds. Barley is Is per quarter cheaper at which reduction much of the supply is unsold. There is scarcely any but Irish Oats in the market, of these the sale has not been as extensive as last week, owing to the factors holding for 6d per quarter advance, which in some cases has been obtained for middling quality. 50. Mark- lane. JOHN ASHLIN& SONS. Corn Factors. MARK LANE, MONDAY, JAN. 8. ' We were again very indifferently supplied with Wheat by land carriage samples this morning, but the condition has generally improved. Ourmillers showed more disposition to purchase than of late, and the stands were cleared at an advance of Is per qr. on the middling and inferior, and Is to 2s on the old and finest dry new parcels. In bonded there was no business doing. There was an abundant supply of Barley, and fine qualities are unaltered in value, but distilling and grinding must be Written Is lower. White Peas come freely to market, and are Is cheaper ; Maple and Grey remain the same. There is no alteration in the value of Beans, There is a good demand for Oats, at improving prices— Kings, fordand Lay. MARK LANE, lst MONTH, 8. The arrivals of Wheat ar. d Flour are moderate, and this, combined with hard frost this morning, has caused considerable, firmness in the Wheat trade, and our millers are free purchasers at Is per qr. advance, since this day week. Flour sells slowly, but prices are maintained; The supply of Barley is again very large, and more than equal to the demand ; the best Malting qualities are taken at the prices of this day week ; but to make progress in sales of distilling and grinding qualities, rather less moneymust be sub. mitted to. Beans and grev Peas sell slowly at last week's currency. White Peas sell more freely. Owing to the short arrivals of Oats, and cold weather, we have more firmness in the trade for this article, and a good demand this morning at 6d per qr. advance since this day se'nnight... Hunter and Coventry. MARK LANE MONDAY, JAN. 8. We had a fair supply of Wheat, Beans, and Peas this morning, from the home countries, with a large arrival of Barley from Norfolk, Suffolk, & c. Wheat met a ready sale at an advance of Is per qr. over last Monday's prices. White Peas were Is perqr. cheaper. Beans and Grey Peas were in request, and full as dear, Choice Malting Barley scarce, and select samples maintained the rates of this day week, but the general runs of Malting and Distilling Barley were full Is per qr. lower. We had not many fresh arrivals of Oats this morning, and the late large supply was nearly cleared off the market last week. We experienced a good demand for this article to- day, and in many instances an advance of6dper qr. over last Mohdaj's prices was obtained, but the sales were uot extensive at an advance... Giles, Son and Co. GOV R N ESS, AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC YOUNG LADY, who, is about to leave her present situation as GOVERNESS in a gentleman's family, inthe King's County, is desirous of entering into another similar engagement in this country. Applications to the Office of the SOUTHERN REPORTER, addressed to A. B. will be attended to. Letters post paid. TO BE LET. COMFORTABLE FURNISHED LET on Harbour How. Apply to Lodge, Cove. A HOUSE TO BE Mr. Hodgson, Hill T O B E LET. FO R such Term as may be agreed upon, the House and Demense of Lucv- ville, with good offices, Porters Lodge and garden, and beiween five and six Acres of Land beautifully situated, and within a short walk of the city. Application to Major Wallis, Clifton, or Thomas Barry, Attorney, 7, George's Quay, Cork. T O BE LET. For stick Terms as may be agreed upon. r p i I A T part of K I L L E E N S lately held by Pa- I trick and John Callaghan, containing 29 Acres, 3 Roods, 2 Perches. Possession will be given as soon as tbe Tenant is declared. Written Proposals to be made to the Earl of Cork and Orrery .. Marston House, Frome, England ; and to Daniel Leahy, Esq. Shannakiel, Cork. Jan, 2, 1838. T O B E LET, From the 25th March next, and immediate possession for such Term as may be agreed on, given H I L L L O D G E , C O V E . R. H O D G S O N A. B.. begs to inform his Friends and the Public that Business will be Resumed in his Establishment on MONDAY the ISth January. The limited number of Pupils, the kind parental treatment and strict attention to the morals and principles of the Boys, together witb the beautiful situation of the premises, extent of Play Ground, and convenience for Sea Bathing, render this Establishment, in every respect, calculated to meet the wishes of Parents and Guardians. The Course of Fducation comprises English in all its branches French, Mathematics, and the requisiteCourse for the University, ( ggj^* Terms— 40 Guineas per annum. E D U C A T I O N . Fermoy School, Dr. FA HIE, ( Ex- Scholar) T. C . D . Principal. BU S I N E S S will be resumed on T U E S D A Y tho 16th Inst. immediately after which the several Classes will be formed. From situation, extent of Play- ground, Ball- court, and well aired Dormitories, this Establishment enloys peculiar advantages, while Dr. FAIIIE, ever watchful over the comforts and health of his Pupils, keeps his GYMNASIUM in tbe most perfect order. As a mental recreation also after, the severer Studies, be has opened a Reading Room, stored with select English Works, and appropriated solely to the use of the Boarders. The several departments are filled by the most competent and experienced Teachers, and that importance attached to the cultivation of the modern Languages, which the rapidly increasing communication beiween the several countries of Europe so im peratively demands. During the ensuing half- year French Conversation Classes shall be formed twice a week, at which the Resident French Master, a native of Paris, shall preside ; and, to afford the young Gentlemen every means of forming their style on the most modern and the purest models, one of the French Journals f without any extra charge to them) shall be received per Mail, direct from the French Capital. To Young Gentlemen intended for the Naval or Military Colleges or Professsion of Engineer, peculiar advantages are held fortn, the useof Instruments being taught & c., and as far as possible, particularly in the Surveying department, Theory accompanied by Practice. Half yearly Examinations are he'd in the Sacred Scriptures' on set portions of which tbe Rev. Gentlemen of the Town lectur ® and examine every Saturday. Cards of Terms, & c., to be had at the College, Fermoy, at Mr. Ridings' 34. Patrick- St., and at Mr. Hickies, Bridge- St, Cork. Fermoy, Jan. 9th, 1838. BIRTHS. On Sunday, at Cork Barracks, the Lady of H. Connolly, Esq.. Roya Engineer Department, of a son. MARRIED. Monday last, by the Rev, John Westropp, at Tulla Church, Henry Townsend, Esq., Sub- Inspector of Police, County Clare, to Annabella, youngest daughter of the late Robert Westropp. of Fort Anne, Esq. On Tuesday, by the Rev. Dawson Massy, at Bedford Row Temporary Church, Francis Parsons, Esq., of Carrig, in the co. Limerick, to Frances, daughter of the late Francis Fosbery, of Castle Widenham, Esq. On Sunday evening, by the Right Rev. Dr. Foran, Mr. Patrick Tobtll to Marcella, fifth daughter of Mr. Robert Kent, both of Watererford. On the tlth instant, at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, by the Provost of Trinity College, Thomas Beasley. Esq. of Seatiel 1 and Fltzwilltam- square, Dublin, to Grace, ( laughter ofthe Rev. Mountifort Longflellt, of Churchhill, aad niece to Colonel Longtield, of Longuevllle, county Cork. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.— Vise j u n t E a r l s f o r d . e l d e s t s o n of t h e E a rl of Clonmel, will shortly be united to the Hon. Annette Bnrgh, daughter of Lord Dmvnes. The young Viscount attained his majority towards the end of last month. The bride is in her eighteenth ear,— MORNING POST. A G O V E R N E SS JU S T disengaged from a highly respectable Family, wishes for a similar situation ; she instructs in English and its different branches, Writing, Arithmetic, & c., French, Music, and different kinds of work ; is a Roman Catholic, but has lived with Protestant Families, with whose Religion she never interferes, as may be known from some of her unexceptionable references. Please to address E. P. H, at the Reporter Ofice. Jan. 6. W A N T E D , \ M I S T R E S S to Superintend the Female National School of Macroom— She must be competent togive instructions in Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic and Geography. . She must produce satisfactory references as to good conduct. Macroom, Jan. 11. THE HOUSE, OFFICES, and DEMESNE LANDS of ROCKVIEW, the residence of the late Mr. James Fitzgerald, situated in the centre of a sporting country within a mile of the Market Town of Cloyne, and about the same distance from the sea at Rostellan, containing 50 acres, or more if required. The House is newly built and commodious, contain. n g 3 sitting rooms, 5 bed rooms, besides Servants' apartments, i& c. The Grounds are in the highest state of cultivation and handsomely planted, with an excellent^ walled- iii Garden, fully cropt, and a Farm Yard with every " accommodation. Apply on the Premises, or at No. 6, Grand Parade, Cork. N. B. The Furniture is nearly new, and if required can be had at valuation. L I V E R P O O L C O R N E X C H A N G S - J A N 8. The week's supplies are light of Wheat, but of Oats, Fionr and Oatmeal, they are to a liberal amonnt. ' the improved feeling in the Wheat market, which we had occasion to note in last week's report, has been followed by a further advance in prices ; good Limerick has been sold at 7s 8d to 7s lOd, and the choicest runs of Irish red are worth 8s per 701bs. Pr. me marks of Flour have sold at fully previous rates. There i3 no change in the value of Oats ; choice Newry, of which there has not been a sample on the market, would bring 2s 9£ d to 2s lOd ; fair mealing qualities having been sold at 2s 7J< 1 to 2s 8^( 1 per 451bs. Oatmeal 24s to 24a 6d per load. Beims arc Is per qr. cheaper , Peas as last noted, and very little passing in either article. The market has been so bare of Barley that prices are almost nominal. A large quantity of bonded Wheat, probably to the extent of 10,000 quarters, hat been bought for exportation ; Russian and other low qualities at 3s to 3s 3d up to 4s 9d to 53 3d per 70 lbs foe fine runs of Baltic. Some parcels of sweet Flour under lock have also been sold at 25s to 26s per brl. TUESDAY, Two O'CLOCK.... At this morning's market all descriptions of what were held at an advance of fully 2d. per 701bs. at which a very moderate extent of business bad been transacted. Flour, which is offering at comparatively lower rates than Wheat, met a better sale, at an improvement of fully Is. per sack. There was a little done in Oats, but we cannot vary the quotations; very few for fine quality - offering. Oatmeal was in limited demand, at late rates. P R O V I S I O N M A R K E T S. DIED Yesterday, at an advanced age, Mr. Garrett Barry, formerly a respec able Grocer in this City. At her father's house on the 5th Inst., at the early age of 17. Mary Purcell, eldest daughter of the Rev. J oseph It. Cotter, Rector of Charleville. At her brother- in- law's residence in the Adair School, Fermoy, of'couaumption, oB Sunday last, Mary, youngest daughter of the late Mr Richard Foster. At Kinsale, on the 5th last., in the 40th year of her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Barry, daughter to the late James Clerke, of Beaulad, Esq., after a protracted Illness, which she bore with Christian patience, and resignation. She was a Member of the Wesleyali Methodist Society for nineteen years, and possessed in a high degree all those rare virtues and graces, which adorn the Christian character. Those who knew her best, esteemed and loved her most. Her end was peace. At Bristol, on the 6th instant, Henry George Head, of Fitzwllliamsquare, in the City of Dublin, Esq , late one of the Six Clerks of the Court orChancerytn Ireland. November 16, at Port St. Francis, Lower Canada, universally lamented, Guy Carleton Colctough, Esq., late Captain in her Majesty's 103d Regt., and agent to the British American Land Company, second son of Major Colclough, and grand nephew of the late Lord Dorchester, Governor of Canada at four different periods. His death was in consequence of a gull • hot wound through the lung., which he received at the storming ofFort Krte in Upper Canada. His body was Interred with military honours at Sorel. December 31, of fever, John Perrin. Eiq., brother'of Judge Perrin. AT a Meeting of the President and Assistants of the House of Industry, on TUESDAY, the 9th of January, 1838— The MAYOR inthe Chair Resolved Unanimously— That the very grateful thanks o f t he Board be, and are now given to Sir THOMAS D E A N E , for his humane and zealous exertions in collecting from several benevolent individuals, the sum of £ 1 1 2 for the purpose of clothing the Poor in the Institution, and which has enabled him to relieve 1160 destitute paupers, by issuing to them no less than 4829 articles of wearing apparel. The Governors feel a further satisfaction in being able to state that ihe entire of this Clothing has been manufactured in the house, which, with the addition of Clothing supplied for the Lunatic Asylum, has kept all the Inmates capable of being employed, at work, and who have, exclusive of other industry, woven within the past year, the large quantity of 16,043 yards of various materials. As the collection made was not a general one, the Board do not deem it right to publish the names of the kind contributors, but Sir THOMAS D E A N E will forward an account to each. statinj the names of the Subscribers, and every particular respecting the Expenditure of their contributions. By order, HENRY HARDY. ( S^" Number in the House, 1320. T O BE LET, From the 25th March next, r j", HE House and Demesne, with an extensive 1 Square of Slated Offices, of the Lands of WOOD VIEW, otherwise KILDONOGIIUE, containing 72A 2R. 20P. of excellent Ground, the greater part of which is now irrigated, and might be partially so continued throughout the year if approved of by the Tenant. The Lands lie within five miles from Cork, on the Dublin Road, beiween Riverstown and Sarsfield's Court and very convenient to the Quay of Glanmire, from whence manure may be carried at very little expense. A Lodge on the present new plan adjoins the Lawn. There is also an excellent Pump in the yard of the best water, which was never known to fail during the dryest Summer. The out Offices would answer well for the receipt of many hundred barrels of Corn, as they are both lofty and extensive ; 200 young Apple Trees, engaged of the best table fruit, to be disposed of. If the above Lands are disposed of, ail the Implements of Husbandry will| be given at the value. Application to be made to Mr. CREMEN, Mr. Dawson's, No- 14, Patrick- street, Cork. ( T o be continued only three posts.) OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. 22n. NOV. 1837.^ THE P R I N C I P A L O F F I C E R S of Her MAJESTY'S ORDNANCE, do herebv give Notice, that they intend to Sell by Public Tender, an ESTATE, in Three Lots, situate at, or near the City of Cork, beingpart of the Lands of BALLINCOLLIG and CQOLROE. Conditions of Sale, with a description of the Lot*, and a Plan of the Estate am exed, may be seen on application at the Secretary's Office, Pall Mall; the ORDNANCE STOREKEEPER, at Dublin Castle, and the BARRACK MASTER at Ballincollig. any day between Ten and Eleven o'Clock, ( Sunday's excepted) on or before Thursday the lst February, 1838, on which day Lenders are to be delivered, addressed to the Secretary to tho Board of Ordnance, Pall Mall, London, and Addressed " 2>„. dersfor Purchase of Laud at Ballincollig. By order of the Board. R. BYHVM, Secretary. LONDON MONDAY, JAN. 8. The arrivals last week from Ireland were, 2,875 firkins Butter. We had a firm business doing in Batter during last week and today, owing to the severe frost which has set in ; dealers are very anxious to purchase, but holders refrain from offering, feeling confident prices must advance some shillings per cwt. The accounts from Liverpool this morning state that prices have advanced Is. to 4i. per cwt. At the following quotations holders are not willing to sell. Carlows, 90s to 93s on board, 90s to 9bs landed. Corks. 90s to 92. landed. Limericks, 8' 2s to 85s. do. Waterfords, 86s to 89s on board, Dublin, 82s to 84s landed. Sligos, 82s lo 84s lauded. The bacon market remains dull, and little change to notice in prices. Tierce and bale middles have declined in prices, 42s 46s ... Lard tamains dull, 65s to 66s. STOCK BUTTER BACON ' Stock Delivered Stock. Delivered E N N I S COLLEGE. REV. DOCTOR KING, formerly SCHOLAR T. C. D. MASTER. AF T E R the Half- yearly Examination in all the business of the preceding five months, comprising classes with composition in Greek, Latin, French and English, and an unusually extensive course of English Literature and Science the following honors were adjudged :... N. B...' 1' he numeral following the name denoes the number o best marks of each Pupil. f The Lord Bishop of Limerick's Premium to Donovan 17, for distinguished good conduct and best, general answering in the whole School. The Silver Medals of the Lord Bishop of Killaloe, for English composition to Mullins( W) 11; for best answering in French, to Galgev 5. King 8, and Kerin 9. His Lordship's premiums for second best answering to Woodsl4 Whitestone ( J ) 10, and Leech 14. The Silver Medals ofthe principal for best answering at weekly repetitions in every branch, to Smith 18, Meridyth ( W) 13, Donovan 17, Weldon ( J ) 13, Weldon ( T P ) ll. Bunton ( T) 7. Certificates as best answerers, and having obtained premiums at the Summer Examinations, to Meridyth ( W ) 13, Donovan 17, Brody 13, Weldon ( J ) 13. Weldon ( T P ) U . A'aluable Books from the Principal, for distinguished good conduct, assiduity, anil gentlemanlike demeanour, to Woods 14, Chester. 13, Wrixon ( C) 11, Meridy'h ( VV) 13, Weldon ( TP.) 11, King 8. For best answering in their respective classes, to Woods 14, Smith 13, Chester 13, Meridyth ( VV) 19, Synott 15. Bentley ( W) 13, Kerin 9, Butler 13, Brewester ' 9, Whitestone ( F ) 9, Fraser ( R ) 8, King, 8, Fraser ( L ) 5, A'ickers ( R ) 4. For composition in Greek, Latin and English Verse, to Meridyih ( W ) 13 ; for I. atin Verse, to Smith, 13, Bently ( W ) 13, Weldon, ( J) 13, Weldon ( T P ) 11 ; for English Prose, to Wrixon ( C ) 11 ; for Latin Prose, to Woods 14. TESTIMONIALS for second best answering, to Meade 9, Leech 14, Short ( J ) 6, Stackpoole 11, Davies 13, Bunton ( T ) 8, Morris 7, Job 8, Fitzgerald ( T ) 6, Bunton ( T ; 7, Wyatt 5, Keane 4. The following obtained the number of best marks attached to their names : — Bunton fJ) 12. Whitestone ( A . ) 12, M'Inerney 8, Haire 6, Mullins ( E.) 9, B, Browne 5. Malion ( J.) II. James ( J . ) 10, Bagot 10, Vic'kers ( W) 9, M'Namara ( D) 4, Sadlier ( W ) 5, Naghten. 13, Kenny 8, M'Namara ( J ) 6, Sadlier ( T ) 5, Bentley f H) 7, Russell 6, Iagoe 6; Vickers ( J) 5, Darcy 3. Meridyth ( T ) 6, Col- Hs 5, Lahiff 4, M'Donogh 3, Ryan ( D ) 2 , Hanna 4. De Ruvynes 4, Ellis( G) 3, R v a n ( W ) 3 , Knox 3, M a h o n ( T ) 2 , Studd e r t l , Shortt ( J ) 3, Sadlier ( D ) 5, Sadlier ( B ) 4, Wrixon ( B) 4, Brew ( W ) 3, Ellis ( R ) 4. Burke 3. TERMS for Tuition and Board, & c. on an acknowledged liberal and parental plan, £ 3 5 16s. 8d. N. B— The Extensive Buildings and Play Grounds are at a short distance from Ennis. Vacation ends January 20, 1838. Jan. 3. 1836 1837 20200 34100 ... 5450 I ... 5000 IMPORTS Irish Butter Foreign, do. Bacon 2500 6600 400 2350 2,870 9,060 1,550 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET. MONDAY, JAN. 8.— We have had a moderate supply of Beasts at market to- day, and the quality middling, with little or no variation in price from our last week's quotat. ons, but the demand was chiefly for those of good quality, consequently there were a few rough beasts left unsold. Of Sheep we have had a consider, able increase in number from our last week's supply, which has caused them to sell for a shade less than the preceding week Good Beef may be quoted at from 5Jd to 6d ; some of ordinary quality 5d. per lb. Good Wether Mutton was sold at from 6Jd. to 7d. ; some of very inferior quality and Ewes at 6d. per ib., and the market pretty well cleared up at three o'clock in tho afternoon. LIVERPOOL PRICE OF BUTTER, BEEF, & c. MONDAY, JAN. 8.... There has been a fair demand for Batter since our last, both from town and country dealers, for immediate consumption, and an advance of Is. to 2s. per cwt. has heen oh: tained on tbe good and middling descriptions only. In Bacon, Hams and Lard, we can note no improvementin price or demand. Butter. Belfast ... Derry Colerain ... Banbridge Newry Sligo s. d, s. d. l 90 0.. 80 0... 90 83 0... 87 82 0... 88 80 0... 82 , 84 0... 87 01 s. d. s. d. Kilkenny .. 93 0 .. 95 0J 96 0| Butler Carlow ... 80 0... 94 O Waterford 00 0... OO 0 Carrick .. 92 0... 93 O Dublin ... 84 0 .. 87 O Limerick 83 0... 85 o Cork pk, 2d 90 0 . „ 91 0 ... Dry 3rd 78 O... 80 0 THANKS. £ 5- Sir Thomas Deane acknowledges the receipt of the following sunn towards the completion of a School House, at Ballintemple, by Card en Terry, Esq. :— Her Most Gracious Majesty ( when Princess Victoria) .. £ 5 0 0 Her Royal Highness the Duchcss of Kentt 5 0 0 The Rev. Robert Daly 10 0 0 l e - The Governors of the House of Industry return their most grateful thanks for the following aid :— Sir William Wrixon Becher, Subscription .. £ 1 2 0 George R. Payne, Esq. ditto .. 2 0 0 Messrs. Todd and Company, Donation .. 5 0 0 High Sheriff's additional Collection .. .. 1 0 0 James Denny, Esq., Foreman ofthe Sessions Grand Jury, lines, & c. .. .. .. 3 9 0 Number in the House of Industry this day 1320. C3- Surgeon Wherland and Doctor Roche, return their most gratefu. thanks to Mrs. W. H. W. Nevvenllam, Coolmore, for her kind subscription of a guinea to the South District Lying- in Hospital and Dispensary for the diseases of women and children. Union Island. ERATA.— In the Advertisement of Lismore scliool which appeared on Thursday last, 3rd Paragraph, middle of 6lh line, read " ore Of the tirst order," not one of the first order ; 5th Paragraph, end of the lst line, read " are daily exercises," not one daily exercises ; 6th- Paragraph " are extensive play grounds, & c., ndt is an extensive play ground and b all court; in the refences read "• Very Rev, Dr, Cotton," not Catton. THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER. P O E T R Y . APROPOS TO THE GOOSE. ( From the Comic Almanack.') Dear Uncle.— accept our best thanks For your wry nice Michaelmas treat' Such a beautiful bird I ne'er saw,— So tender, so young, and so sweet! My wife and myself both declare, Since we tied the hymeneal noose, We never before clapp'd our eyes On so fine so delicious a goose ! The brats are all well. Little' Sam Is a Solomon quite ofhis age ; Such a mimic ! We've serious thoughts Of bringing him up to the stage. He already takes off you ar. d aunt, Her way of exclaiming " The dooce !" He can imitate cocks, hens, and ducks. Apropos— many thanks for the goose. Our eldest we've chrtstened at last, After you and my uncle at York— John James Paul Ralph George Job Giles'Mark j And Eliza's beginning to talk. Little Arthur has lost a front tooth, And another is getting quite loose : They both Want to know when you'll come ; Ahd thank you, dear sir, for you'r goose. Little Hal's as like you as two peas.— So lively, so smart, and so jaunty 1 And dear little Emily Ann Is grown quite the moral of aunty, Selina's translating in French The voyage of Mister Perouse ; And Amelia has knit you a purse ; And thank you, dear sir, for the goose.— Little Ellen's begun to sol fa, And her master, the Chevalier Baull, Declares that he never yet heard Child sing so exceedingly small. Little Tom's quite a sportsman become ; He has caught a young- hare in a noose, Aud sends you the skin to be stuff'd ; Andthankyou, dear sir, for the goose. Your godson's beginning to draw— You remember the rogue— little Mike? He has chalked you and aunt on the wall, An: I really they're laughably like, Such spirits 1 never yet saw ; He's just like a tiger let loose ; And Sue means to work you a screen, And thank you, dear sir, for t he goose. Your museum, T. hope, goes on well: Bu, t, uncle, take care of your eyes ; . And pray don't, with microscopes, look , So much at those very small flies. 1 send you the horn of a deer— I believe it's a species of moose— And the quill of a real black swan ; And^ thank you, dear sir, for the goose. I hope you ride out every day— It's the first thing on earth for the health ; Without which, as I've oft heard you say, What's honours, and station, and wealth ? But, dear uncle, pray never more mount That wild thing you. bought of Lord Roose : But you are so exceedingly bold ! Did I thank you before for the goose ? P. S.— Can you lend me ten pounds ' Till Christmas ? My lease is just out, , And I've no one to fly to but you : Dear sir— By- the- byc. how's your gout? The interest, of course, I shall pay, Five per cent — Is your cough getting loose ? „ You can send it. per post— and, dearNunks, Many thanks for that duck of a goose." the treachery - to'tlfe most unhappy heroine of its story, it exhibits a curious portrait of the moraL obliquity of the party, whoever she be, that dictated it. In every page there is some uncalled- for revival of b e g o n e scandals, some unnecessary wound inflicted on private feelings, some wreckless display of individual vice in high places, such as has been most unjustly attributed exclusively to plebeian malignity, or to vulgar radicalism; and all this is set down with a seeming insensibility to the atrocities related, while the whole is discoloured by a sickly sentimentality of morals, content to dwell in'' decencies forever. Nothing, for instance, can be more detestable, thau the revival of poor- Shelly's opinion, which, however mistaken, weie honestly entertained ; nothing more unchristian and presumptuous, than the reference subtlely conveyed in three notes of admiration, that his death was a direct judgment of heaven for his imputed impiety. This reference, so calculated to give pain to a living father, widow, and son, is the more wanton, because the letter in which it is introduced, written by a very young man, has no possible connexion with the argument of the volume. By the way, this corre spondent, perhaps for the purpose of mystification, is made to figure on one occasion as C. R., and on another as C. K. S.— " What again can be advanced in justification of the allusions to Lady O- Lady H , or the private and family anecdotes of Lady W. R. and numberless others ! Or what can be said dcr, ard that was in yielding lo the ei y- of the day... the Emancipation of the Roman Catholics. The sensible part of that persuasion of Christians themselves say, the English Constitution was uprootet^ by the measure." What! save arid destroy the Constitution in the same sentence 1 Such welcome andftnwelcome news at once ? The truth is t h * this writer is not mistress of two ideas for two minutes together— " It had been ordered that the Princess Charlotte should not see her mother alone for a single moment, ; but the latter went into her room, stuffed a pair of large shoes full of papers, and having given them to her daughter, she went home." What did she give to her daughter ? The shoes she had filled in her daughter's own room ? The papers she had procured there ? Commenting on one of the witnesses at the Queen's trial she says— " Another curious inadvertency escaped him. One night, when the weather was so insufferably warm as to oblige him to leave his bed and goto the window, he swore that he saw Bergami, in died. The next spring1 Cartier returned, with the remains of his crew, to France. Between 1540 and 1549 a nobleman of Picardy, De lalloque, lord of Roberval, made an attempt to found a colony in Canada, but perished, on his second voyage, with a great number of adventurers. At last Henry IV. appointed the Marquis de la Roche Lieut.- General of Canada and the neighbouring countries. In 1598 he landed on the Isle of Sable, which he absurdly imagined to be a suitable place for the establishment of a colony, though it was without any port, and produced no other crop than briars. Here he left about 40 malefactors, the gleaning of the French gaols. After cruising for some time on the coast of Nova Scotia, without being able to relieve these unfortunate settlers, he returned to France. His colony must have perished, had not a French ship been wrecked on the island, from which a few sheep were driven on shore. With the boards of the ship they erected huts ; and while the sheep lasted, they lived upon them, feeding afterwards upon fish. Their clothes wearing out, they made garments of sealskins, and in this miserable condition spent seven years, when Henry IV. ordered them to brought home to France, and, on that hot time, goto the Princess. Where was the need of swear- I seeing their miserable appearance, was so much moved that he ing the weather was SO insufferably hot ?' fr* r&, » v « thfiir nffmfiftS. nnd nrf> spnt*> d enrvh with an crnwn « tn LITERATURE. D I A R Y illustrative of the Times of Gxoaas THE FOURTH, interspersed with Original Letteis from the late Queen CAROLINE, and from various other Distinguished Personages. 2 vols. — COLBURN. ( From the Athencehm.) From the first announcement of this - work, and after reading the trumpeting paragraphs, so rich in their promise of scandal, we looked forward to the publication with apprehension ; and our worst fears are amply justified. From the names, alone, which glitter in * t the rubrick," it was evident, that " a show up," as it is called, was in contemplation ; and we were fully prepared either for a fabricated catchpenny,( the least evil of the two,) or a betrayal of confidence in some quarter in which treachery would be most revolting. So much has been made public, concerning the life and misfortunes of the late Queen, concerning the wrongs heaped like coals of fire upon her head, and the fatal re- action they were calculated to excite inherweak andfroward disposition, that fresh information concerning " her faults and her 8orrows" could oply come from some individual domiciled under her roof, bound to her by the most sacred obligations of hospitality and of trust, and, in all likelihood, by every tie of gratitude for favours conferred and distinctions accorded. From the legitimate sources of historic data, nothing either piquant or original could be expected— and we cannot say, we have been disappointed in our prophetic estimate of what the work would be, admitting that it was genuine. Genuine, we must acknowledge that it is ; and it would be difficult to say, which of the parties concerned, the King, the Queen, or the numberless third persons. here dragged before the tribunal ofthe public, has been most deeply injured, by the indiscretion, or worse than indiscretion, of the writer of the MS. or its owner. Touching the genuineness, there is this singularity to be observed, that, whereas in works of like character great effort is usually expended togive them an air of tu- aisemilance, which they are not entitled to, in this, as much pains have been taken to confer on it an appearance of fraud and infidelity. ' The reader, however, cannot fail to notice the descrepancies' ( sayeth the advertisement with a praiseworthy candour,) which occur in the work, and more particularly in the earlier portions of it, by which it would most unquestionably appear to have been the intention of the editor, who first undertook to prepare it for press, to disguise, by assuming the masculine style in the journal, and substituting the feigned for the real sex of the personage addressed in the letters, the evident fact of the former having been written by a female, and of the latter being communications to one of the same sex." Without pausing to examine whether this forced admission is true in all its parti— whether two hands really have been employed in bringing out the work, or whether the attempted mystification was abandoned in the progress, as untenable by the party who commenced it— we shall only remark, that, " for the better carry ing on of this plot," such liberties have been taken by the altelationof the MS., the substitution of passages, or the introduction of matter evidently fictitious, as would leave the guilty party without claim to credibility. But there is in every page such internal evidence, not only that the testimony is that of an eye- witness, but, as we think, of the individuality of the deponent, that we do not hesitate to take it as a fair transcript of impressions honestly formed, and to believe that truth is told, as far as the journalist was capable of perceiving or appreciating it. Of that capability we have considerable doubts ; for whether we regard the author as recording in unsuspicious simplicity, the disgraceful habits and conduct of the parties, whom she has so deeply compromised, or to take her as one who knowing what she was about, yet consented to retain a situation which exposed her to such scenes, and to sanction by her presence such levities, we must equally consider her as very weak, or something mueh worse. Between these doubts the reader is maintained in f requent oscillation : for if, sometimes, scandals are related with a cool cynicism, that looks like inapprehensiveness, in others the text is corrected by a Mrs. Candour- like annotation from the soi disant editor, though it makes the matter worse than before, at the same time betrays a full consciousness of the impropriety of the revelation. As to the question of authorship, every page identifies itseli as the work of an inmate, nbt merely of the royal residence, but of the royal drawing- room ; and we naturally ask ourselves for what purpose this revelation has been made. Was it to serve and to protect the memory of a benefactor ? That memory is most uselessly betrayed. Was it to revenge an injury long rankling in a vindictive mind ? The frequent proclamation of the Queen's wrongs, and the just and indignant reference of her foibles to the right cause, prove to the contrary. Was it in the interest of truth, and in a spirit of philosophic indifference to all other considerations ? No ; notwithstanding all theauthor'a" opportunities of private observation, th ere is absolutely no new light thrown upon the great outlines of the Queen's case— nothing illustrative of thc public history of the events, or calculated to clear up any disputed points in theordinary narratives of the transactions. Amidst endless details of the Queen's inconsiderateness, folly, obstinacy, wilfulness, and improper levity, ( natural fruits of neglect, ill- treitmcnt, and inveterate persecution, on a mind feeble, and right royally mis- educated), there is no fact related which goes conclusively to criminate her— none to demonstrate her innocence. While the work helps to substantiate many trifles against the Queen, or the woman, it discloses nothing to redeem her opponents. For the interests of truth, then, it does nothing ; to those of humanity it does much evil. Again, was the publication a reluctant sacrifice to pecuniary necessity? Can it be possible, that one so elevated in rank and station, as were all the ladies placed about the Queen, should . ' be so abandoned by her noble relations, as to be reduced to such a necessity ? or, being so, is it possible that she should sink under the temptation ? It will be clear, even on a hasty perusal. of the volumes, that the number of females who could Have obtained the information there communicated, was very small; and a closer inspection of dates and places must bring the authorship home to one special individual, with all the force'of Circumstantial inference ; and that, too, notwithstanding the mystification employed to conceal her, ami some occasional passages, borrowed apparently from other authorities, ai\ d engrafted into the journal, probably as a blind. At that lady the public finger will be pointed j and it would be an absurd affectation of delicacy to conceal from her, that to her all eyes will be directed as the author. If— which we sincerely hope-^- this is the result of the malicious contrivance of an enirraj, or if, by a felonious attack on her escrutoire, she has been involuntarily committed by the publication, it behoves her promptly to vindicate her character, and denounce the traitor. There are two persons prominently put forward, as present on very many occasions with the narrator at particular scenes. Those ladies must know, whether any such third female was thBTBTandif so; who she was. The fact of authorship may then bs reduced to an absolute certainty, if those noble ladies will but take pains to tax their memories. We pause for a reply. for the revival of an absurd libel ou the b irth and privileges of^ r the House of Lordsnoble duke ? If the daily journalizing of the worst faults of a protectress and a friend be a deliberate infamy, this indiscriminate raking into the mud and mire of aristocratic scandals, aprocryphal and orthodox, without purpose, and independent of end, is evidence scarcely less revolting of a corrupted nature.— Then, fortlie qualifying notes, they are, or are not, the work of the author of the text ; and in eithercasethey are basely hypo- I critical. How much easier and better would it have been, ! to have cancelled all unjustifiable attacks on cha- j racter, if filthy lucre had not required their preservation. A i large part of the work is made up of this episodical matter, j having no possible relation to the Queen, nor any obvious end, | except the propagation of scandal. Against those parts which really concern the Queen and her companions, ( bating the impropriety and perfidy of the narrative), there is nothing to be said ; the veracity ( we repeat it) is naive to unfeelingness. The character of Caroline is brought forward in its strongest and j worst light;, and the worthlessness of the associates she so unfortunately adopted, is made the subject of unsparing comment. But if the narrative is deficient in a generous candour, it is not wanting in vivacity, nor in that knowledge of oourts, which experience must, instil even into the least observant and dullest of their inmates. Had we been less disgusted, we might have been amused by the perusal; and even when we most reprobated, we could not always avoid a smile at some trait or sketch of a well- known character, which recalled scenes and personages of auld lang syne, with a mischievous fidelity. The sort of mixture of truth with base and dirty scandal of which the " Diary" is altogether made up, may be seen in some sort in the following extract. The Princess is here giving her faithful waiting woman an account of one of those incognito rambles by day and by night of which, according to the writer, she was passionately fond. She has met soma gipsies on this occasion.. " ' What do yon think Ihey told me?' The Princess looked fixedly at me, and rotted her eyes with that quick, penetrating glance which seemstoexamineail the folds of one's thoughts at the same moment. ' 1 am sure, madam, I cannot guess.' ' Why they told me that I wasa married woman, but that I should not be married long ; and that my heart was a foreigner's, and that 1 should go abroad and there marry the man I loved, and bo very rich and happy... they did, hy G—, tell me so, and how could they knoio that ?'" Now it was notorious, we believe, and would certainly have been known to this writer, that before the Prince of Wales sroposed for Caroline of Brunswick she had pledged her faith to a German prince in her father's household, and for him, with all the determination ofa frank and decisive character, refused the dull and decorous King of Prussia. It was the proved hopelessness of her first passion just as much as the brilliancy of the Prince of Wales's offer, which brought her to England. What more likely than that some playful allusion to these things should have formed the groundwork for the above scandalous imputation ? The misfortunes of the Princess of Wales, according to the opinion of the friend who has written this diary, are attributable to her fondness for low company, and for the nursing of little children. The first imputation we can well believe, seeing that but for' such a taste the present writer could never have given us her experiences of the Princess, and we must really be allowed to observe that the fidgetty way in which the " low company" in general is spoken of savours too much of the marry come up style— the vein of Mrs. Honour— " Chanticleer dined there. I read a novel all the evening, but yet his very presence is horridly degrading." Chanticleer the reader must guess at— " I was for several days mueh alarmed by a change that I saw in the shape of the Princess's figure, and I could not help imparting the terrible. fear I felt to Latly -. She also had noticed it, but I was much relieved by her telling me she knew for certain it was only caused by tbe Princess having left off stays, a custom which she is very fond of... and she ought to be warned not to indulge in this practice, for it might give rise to reports exceedingly injurious to ber character. Lord H. F. asked Latly—- manyshrewd questions ebout. young Chanticleer? He smells a rat; the sweet odour must soon spread far and wide. Mrs H—,— talked openly to me of this sad and disgraceful stort... l felt very awkward and very much ashamed for my poor roval mistress " — The Princess's other fondness is thus prettily stated, and con: trasted, ingeniously enough, with one of her husband's foibles : " She had particular enjoyment, in nursing children, and was denied the gratification ol embracing her own. To he sure, tickling an innocent little one may not be so dignified as holding a conclave with tailors about the cut of coats; but it is quite as important, a duty in a Prince." — A well known and well remembered youth, one of the objects of this innocent passion, is thus referred to.. " She swore to trie ns she was standing by the fire the other day. apropos des bettes, that Willikin was not her son. .—" No." said she, " I would certainly tell you iI be was. No,' she contined, ' if such little accident had happened, 1 would not hide it from vou.' ' Why, to account for his having left his hed and gone to the window, to be sure. Then we have this outbreak about the Queen's appearance in No occurrence, where I was only a spectator, ever affected me so much ; even the finest displays of Mrs. Siddons in all the pomp and prolligality of ber Lady Macbeth, was as volgar bacon to this acidulous ambrosia, convincing me that there is ever a'superiority in Nature which art cannot attain; however like lo the aroma of genius, but transccndently liner." — A pleasant sweetening, we presume, ., to such expressions of opinion as we find immediately before it— V The innate ' randy' conduct of the Princess I never hare doubted, nor doubted that It. would be made palpable. But the certain'y of her being a ' randy,' renders her guilt the more diffi, cult of being proved." The lively attempts at the diary style ( we need not say that we believe the pretenqe of having kept a diary mere fudge— the whole tliinghas been cooked for the occasion) are particularly stupid. The Germanbaron who kicked about tables and chairs by way of learning to be lively, was nothing to our lady in waiting— " It was one o'clock in the morning before I was dismissed.— O ye gods anil green geese 1 I wish I was one upon a goose green instead ofa court 1" Again— " He sang with so much feeling and so much nature, that 1 have had him in my head all night. What a ridiculous way of ex pressing myself! Shan. e oil Mich slip slop language I I ought rather to say, the sound of Major Andreossi's voice is still in my ears, and his sentiment and feeling touched my heart." She travels from Calais to Hautbuisson— The first enlivening object, or appearance of husbandry 1 be: held was a woman helping a man to spread dung. She seemed to set about the occupation con amore." Stime civet, good apothecary I And such a course woman as this presumes to set herself up in judgment on an English Queen whose hard lot during life should have won her the more indulgence in the grave We shut the book witli a feeling of intolerable disgust, having only to say in explanation of the ample notice we have given in exposure anti reprobation of it, that we were too well aware that the gossiping and scandalous nature of such a work relating to a court would rescue it from the neglect it merits. The case, therefore, which does not allow of the treatment of contempt calls for chastisement. THE CANADAS. What follows, purporting to be said on the same occasion by her Royal Highness, is an admirable answerto avery filthy scandal— " Then somebody ask me who Willikin is do child of. Dc person say to me,' Deij do say, he is your Royal Highness's child.' I nnswere. d, ' Prove it, and heshall be your king.' The person was silent." Our authoress, however, adds- - a s if afraid to leave too good an impression— • After a pause, she said, * Poor dear Willikin! I am so sorry he is growing big, but I am determined to have another little boy; lmust nlwnvs have a child in the house.' I lifted my eyes to hen person ,• I really fancied I saw the full meaninglof herwoi ds ; bu she mef my glance with a steady composure which reassured me. Modest writer of diaries 1 Charitable and religious woman 1 Amiable friend 1 With what delicate forbearance and most considerate decency you seek to diminish every possible scandal 1 Again— how kind and well meaning is this— " Mrs. L. told me Laby E. Whitbread appeared shocked when she looked at the Princess's figure. Mrs. L. ascribed this to tlie Princess's wearing extremely siiort pctticoats, but I thought, with fear, that perhaps Lady E. Wliitbread's disgust was occasioned by other ideas ; although, considering the legs and feet which the short petticoats display, there is more than enough to shock a woman like Lady E." — The following is intended as a friendly illustration of the usual after- dinner amusements of the Princess of Wales ( the wax figure wilh the horns being meant for the Prince) After dinner her Royai Higbnes made a wax figure as utual nnd gave it an amiable addition of large horns : then took three pins out of her garment and stuck them through and through, and put the figure to roast and melt at the fire." — And of her conciliatory style— ' If he gives me good reasons, I will submit,' said she to me, ' but if he does not, d— n me dm I go ' " But then it was unnecessary, for the interest of the volumes and the bookseller, to state these things— see what fathomless charity there is at the bottom of all— " I am sometimes tempted to wish Lord H. F d had continued to love ber. for 1 am sure, poor soul, ha, I any one been steadfast to her, she would have been so to them ; and though, as a married woman, nothing could justify her in being attached to any man, yet it is a hard and cruel fate, to spend the chief part clone's existence unloving; and unloved. How few can endure the trial I It requires strong principles, and a higher power than mortals possess, to enable tbem to bear such a one ; and when 1 hear women silting in judgment on the Princess( many of them not entitled bytheir own conduct as wives to comment on tl e liehnvi. ur of others) mid dechfimitig against ber with uu- ' christian severity,... some from a tocling of self righteousness,' others from polical or party motives,... it is all I can do to forbeai from telling them how uuamiable I think such observations." Unamiable 1 The lington says 1 Yet the writer of such filthy stuff cs this can talk of indulg. ing a wish for fame 1— " Yes, they breathe the spirit of departed genius, and will continue to do so, to apes yet unborn ; but I_ I— shall leave nothing to exc. ito one emulative sigh wben I am gone? I Shall die, and nothing will tell of my existence I But happier far are those who have never indulged a wish for fame ; if a few who have loved us in life mourn us when dead, that is the only tribute to our memories which is, in fact, worth seeking for. Down then, proud thought, of living in after ages— lie that wlrch you ate destined to be— fulfil thc course whicli is pointed out by Providence, and be content." — And prates of politics with an oracular and most ludicrous assurance— " Who can say where discontent may cnrl, if it once lift up its hydra head ; or whether redress of public grievances, even if they be really such, and not innovations, may not lead to the ultimate subversion antl overthrow of the constitution ?'' If redress of real public grievances is an overthrow of the Constitution, it follows that the Constitution is in fact made up of nothing but grievances— as good a definition of it, perhaps, as Lord Eldon ever conceived, ous still— LOWER CANADA. Lower Canada is bounded N. by New Britain ; E. by New Britain, and the gulf of St. Lawrence; S. E. and S. by New Brunswick, and the states of Maine, NewHampshire, Vermont, and New York ; and S. W. and W. by Upper Canada. The Ottawa river forms a great part of the boundary between Upper and Lower Canada. Above. its source the line runs due north to Hudson's Bay, about long. 81 Y - Long. 62— 81 W. lat. 45— 52 N. The inhabitants in 1763 were 70,000 ; in 1814, 335,000, of whom 275,000 were native or French Canadians, the remainder being a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, and emigrants from the United States. It has about 800,000 (?) inhabitants : but, owing to the constant influx of emigrants, it is difficult to come to any very accurate conclusion. It is divided into five districts, viz. Montreal, Three Rivers, Quebec, Gasp e, and St. Francis, which were subdivided, in 1792,' fnto twenty- one counties. The minor divisions are— 1— fteignorie. s, or the original grants of the Freneh government under the feudel system ; 2, townships or grants of laad made by the English since 1796, in frfee and common soccage. The principal towns are Quebec, the capital, Montreal, Three Rivers, New Carlisle, William Henry, St. John's, Chambly, aud Le Chine. The government is modelled on the principles of the British constitution. The executive power is vested i n a governor, with a council of ten members, all appointed by the King of Great Britain. The legislature, or provincial parliament, is composed of a council of 28 members, appointed by the King, and a house of assembly of fifty members, elected by the people. About nine- tenths of the inhabitants are Catholics; the majority of the remainder are Episcopalians. The descendants of the ancient colonists retain the politeness, sprightliness, and easy manners ofthe old French, from whom they sprung. Their houses are built of stone and plastered, seldom, except in the towns, of more than one story, and made extremely warm by means of stoves. Their furniture is generally of their own workmanship, and very simple. During the six months of winter, a great portion of the time is devoted to amusement, of which the most prevalent is dancing. The climate is healthy, but the extremes of heat and cold are very great ; the thermometer sometimes rising, in summer, to 100 deg. Fahr. and sinking, in winter, to 40 deg. below 0. The great river St. Lawrence forms a striking feature of Canada. The other principle rivers aie the Ottawa, or Uttawas, Richelieu, or Sorel, St. Francis, Claudiere, Saguenay, St. Maurise, Black, Bustard, Betsiamit. es. Harricanaw, and Rupert. The principle lakes are St. John's, St. Peter's, Abbitibbe, Mis- i tassin, and Manicouagan. Lower Canada is intersected by ridge of mountains, which generally extend from the coast into tlie interior, with intervening valleys of a fertile and pleasant ap pearance. The valley through which the St. Lawrence flows is enclosed on each side by mountains, It is mostly level, o f a rich soil, and is thickly settled. The country lying upwards of fifty miles north of St. Lawrence has been but little explored, and i s only known to be covered with immense forests. The productions are grass, wheat, peas, rye, Indian corn, bar ley, and culinary vegetables. The commerce has been progres sively increasing since the country came into the possession of Great Britain, forgave their offences, and presented each 50 crowns, to begin the world anew. In 16' 00 M. Chauvin, a commander in the French Navy, made a voyage to Canada, from which he returned with a valuable cargo of furs. The public now began to turn more attention to this country. An armament was equipped, and the command given to Pontgran. He sailed in 1603. In 1608 the city of Quebec was founded, and from this period the establishment of a permanent French colony commenced. Tha early French settlers, like those who • camp out' in the present day, invariably erected their first and temporary houses of logs, and this was readily effected owing to the abundance of tine timber. The settlement was for many years in a feeble condition, and often in danger of being totally exterminated bv the Indians.. The French, however, concluded a treaty of peace with them, and finally, by their address, obtained entire control over them, to the great inconvenience of the neighbouring English settlements. In 1638 a company of French merchants obtained a patient for the exclusive trade with Canada. The next year an English expedition under Sir David Keith, took possession of Quebec.. but it was surrendered again to the French by the treaty of St. Germain's. In 1663 the charter of the company of merchants was taken away, and new privileges were granted, for a period of forty years to the West India Company.— From this period Canada appears to have remained in a state of tranquillity until 1690, when a bold attempt was made by thepeople of New England to reduce it to subjection to the crown of England. An armament was equipped for this service, and the command given to Sir William Phipps. The effective men, to the number of 1,200 and 1,300, landed a little below the town of Quebec, and were fired on from the- woods by the French and Indians. Having found the placc too strong for them, they re- embarked with precipitation, and returned to Boston. The attempt was renewed in 1711, by a powerful force of British veteran troops, issisted by about 4,000 provincials and Indians. Such were the difficulties and losses, however, experienced in passing up the river, that the design was abandoned by the British officers^ to the great mortification of the provincial troops. Canada continued in tbe occupation of the French, without any further molestation, untill the breaking out of the war between France and England in 1756. Great preparations were then made on both sides for attack and defence. In 1759 the British governmentformed the project of attempting the conquest of Canada by three different but simultaneous attacks. One division of the army was to ascend the St. Lawrence and lay siege to Quebec, The central and main body was to be conducted against Ticonderagtftmd Crown Point. The third was to proceed against Niagara, and after the reduction ofthat place, to descend the St. Lawrence to Montreal. The division which ascended the St. Lawrence was commanded by General Wolfe, and was defeated in its first operations by the French. The English, however, finally obtained possession of Quebec, after a gallant resistance on the part of the French, whose brave commander, Montcalm, had been killed in the action. The English General, Wolfe, was also killed. In 1755, Canada was invaded by a body of provincial troops, under Gen. Montgomery. Montreal wtjs taken, and a gallant but unsuccessful attemptw as made on Quebec, in which the brave Montgomery was killed. No other attempt was made on this province during the revolutionary war. We have few records of Canadian liistoryfrom this period, until the late war between this country and the States. UpperCanadabecame the theatre of a sanguinary contest. The American troops were unable, however, to make any permanent conquests, and the province has sir. ee remained: subjget to Great Britain. In 1825 the restrictions upon its commerce, under which it had laboured with the other colonies of Great Britain, were principally removed, and its trade has since greatly increased. DEPARTURE OF THE GUARDS. FROM THE SPECTATOR. " Go where glory waits thee " There is weeping and wailing at the West- end. Piccadilly is the picture of affliction, and loud is the lament in Mayfair. Eight: hundred of the Guards are goingto Canada, to fight those savage rifle- shooting rebels 1 And what makes the desolation more dreadful— the horror of the thing more horrible— the sweetest, young creatures in tbe Array are to be sacrificed' 1 " Wc understand," says the accurately- instructed Globe, " that: the brigade of Guards to be sent out to Canada in to be composed of young men, who have heen in tho service under seven years ;; an, i that both the officers and soldiers are well pleated (?) at the, prespectof seeing a little active service." The fusty old fellows are to remain at home as fusty as ever, swilling their claret, and gaping at the windows of the C l u b s .— Why, exclaims the despairing Angiolina, did they not send out old Colonel Fogrum ? He is of no sort of use here— he can't waltz— a swamp in Canada is good enough for him : but he ia to remain, and Frederick is to go I Mrs. Colonel Fogrum protests that it is too bad : when she prevailed upon the Colone3 to get Fred, a commission in the Guards, it was on the clear un.-. derstanding that he was not to leave London, except for an o c - casional trip to Brighton or Paris ; and she wishes the Colonel1, would let Lord Fitzroy Somerset know that: but Radicalism, seems to have infested even the Army, and the gentlemen ofthe: Guards are put on a par with the plebeians of the Line. Such, as we learn from the best authority, ( having " for thin week only," engaged the Post's fashionable intelligencer,) ia a sample of the talk in the exclusive circles. There is another class of persons who are exceedingly troubled by the announcement of the intended departure of the Guards;; and these are the worthy folks who supply young gentlemen: with cash on post- obits. Why, the chances are that the seniors: will outlive their offspring 1 There never were such adepts at picking off officers as those hunters of the back- woods. And! then there will be Yankee riflemen, amateurs of forests and fighting, who, to use their own elegant phraseology, will join the rebels " on their own hook"— that is, will do- a bitof warfareon their own account. Thesechaps disdain to k i l l " men" when, officers are to be had, and marvellous is their knack of putting bullets through embroidered jackets. Aware of this unhappy propensity, the Israelites are besieging the Horse Guards to countermand the order for despatching their aristocratic debtor to the American swamps. Meanwhile, the Guardsmen can think of nothing but glory. Eager and earnest are their preparations for " service." It is said that Greenwood and Cox are at their wits' end to meet the drafts that come thick and fast upon them in payment for lavender - vater and cigars. Tne quantity of pink kid gloves sold is inci edible, and double- footed silk shoes are snapped up in a l directions. Bond Street was never in such a bustle. The jewelers are busy from " night to morn, from morn to dewy eve," in getting up lockets and scent- boxes, and vinaigrettes,.. the first for mementos to desolate fair ones, the others for use in tha bsok- woods. Padding never was in such request ; for what is a soldier without breadth of burst ? The shooting gallery is filled with future heroes, who as yet have never pulled a trigger against any thing more formidable than a pheasant- The riding- school ® exhibit ttembling tyros on horsemanship ; who foresee, that for pacing ponies they must substitute hard- trotting chargers, that snort and rear fearfully. To gentlemen evidently so well prepared for " service," advice is probably superfluous ; but our zeal in the noble cause, which they go to defend must be an excuse for any thing that, may seem officious ' * fallowing suggestions. It is to be appi ehenaedtnatthewas will endure for soma time. There will be summer and winter campaigns. The summer campaign is that which our young heroes will first encounter; and it is strongly recommended to them to take out a large supply of gauze handkerchiefs, and musquito nets ; otherwise their fair faces will be so scratched aud blotched that the lovely A n g e l i - nas will scarcely recognize t h e remnant who may return. Another piece of useful advice is, always to sweep tbe rattlesnakes out of the tent before going to bed at night. So much for the summer. The most necessary caution to be observed in winter is, to thaw frozen noses in snow. Probably nothing will save noses and ears frozen.. but the best plan is to hold handfuls of snow to tflem for two or three hours,— unless the hero prefer losing his nose to his fingers, for it will be extremely difficult to preserve both. When a feature has once been frozen, and recovered, for a long time afterwards it looks red and raw both in hot and cold weather,— a charming anticipation for a Guardsman and his lady lore" naughty, naughty man 1" as Maria Dar- Upper Canada is bounded 13. and S. E. by Lower Canada, S. by the United States, from which it is separated by the St. Lawrence aud the chain of the great lakes. New Britain lies on the north and west; but the limits are not well defined, the regions on these borders being unsettled. Long. 74 to about 98 W. lat. 42 to about 50 N. The population in 1783 was estimated at only 10,000 ; in 1814, at 95,000 ; and in 1826 at 231,778. The country has been settled chiefly by emigrants from Great Bri tain and Ireland, and the United States. It is divided into 11 districts, viz. Eastern, Johnstown, Midland, Newcastle, Home, Niagara, London, Western, Gore, Bathurst, and Ottawa. These are subdivided into counties and townships. The townships contain, on an average, about 61.600 acres each ; total, 9,694, 400 acres. Of these about 3,000,000 ncres are granted in free and common soccage ; 2,769,828 reserved for the crown and clergy, and 3.924,572 still remain to be granted. The country wbich, in 1818, had been laid out and surveyed, extends about 570 miles along the north shore of the St. Lawrence, lakes Ontario and Erie, up to Lake St. Clair, varying from 40 to 50 miles in breadth. The soil consists, generally, of a finedark loam, mixed with a rich vegetable mould. The whole country presents a great degree of sameness, an almost uniform level, rising only a fewfeet above the banks of the St, Lawrence, and finely intersected in every direction by numerous streams. The productions are grass, wheat, Indian corn, flax, hops, & c. The climate is healthy, and considerably milder than in Lower Canada. Farther north the country is covered with immense forests. The principal rivers are the St. Lawrence, Ottawa, Niagara, Trent, Ouse, Redstone, and Thames. One have of the lakes, Ontario, Erie, St. Ciair, Huron, Superior, and lake of the Woods, is included in Upper Canada. There are, besides, lakes Nipissing. Simcoe, St. Joseph's, & c. The principal towns are Yjrk, the capital, Kingstown, Niagara, Broekville, Queens Town, and Chippeway. The Ricleau canal is one of the most important public works in Upper Canada. It was commenced in 1826, prior to which period nearly the whole line of ground was one vast uncleared wilderness. The original estimate was 196,000/. but it has considerably exceeded that sum. The French appear to have availed themselves of the information derived from Cabot's voyage to North America before any other nation. We hear of their fishing for cod on the banks of Newfoundland very early in the sixteenth century.— About 1506 a Frenchman named Denys is said to have drawn a map of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and, two years afterwards, Aubert, a master of a vessel belonging to Dieppe, carried over to France some of the natives of Canada. Several years, however, passtd away before public attention was again turned to it. In 1524 Francis I. sent four ships, under Verazani, a Florentine, to prosecute discoveries in this country. The particulars of his first expedition are not known. He returned to France, and the next year undertook a second, which appears to have produced no beneficial result. On a third voyageheand all his company perished. In April, 1534, James j Carrier, of St. Maloes, sailed, by commission from the king, with two small ships and 122 men, and on the 10th of May came in sight of Newfoundland; but the earth was covered i with snow, and great quantities of ice were about the shores. I T H E L A S T N I G H T OF THE P A R I S G A M I N G H O U S E S . . In conformity with the law passed the session before last for the abolition of gambling- houses in France, every house of the description in Paris was punctually closed at 12 o'clock on Sunday night, that being the last hour of their pernicious existence. A notice had been previously put up in all the rooms, stating that no one would be allowed to play a moment after the expiration of thc old year. The Cerclc ' des Etrangeres, the most aristocratic of all tbe gaming houses, whieh it was not customary to open until eleven o'clock at night, and not to close till three or four in the morning, on this the last night of its existence opened at nine. All the principal frequenters had been informed of this arrangement by letter. The crowd at all the houses on the last two days was very great, and particularly so at No. 154, iu the Palais Royal, and at Frascati's. Several scenes which may be described as dramatic signalised these last opportunities for public gaming ; and a labouring man was killed coming out of one of the houses. It is stated that two young men lost enormous sums, and have not since returned to their homes. Other scenes of a ludicrous, and many of an amusing character also occurred. One well- dressed individual, who had been very unfortunate in play, risked the last note of a thousand francs which he. possessed, and lost it, but before the croupier could get the unlucky note within his grasp, the player * seizedit and bolted out of the house. A cry of ' stop thief!' was raised; the inspectors, the proprietors, and waiters all ratlin pursuit ofthe fugitive, and when he saw himself in danger of being taken, be rolled up the note and swallowed it in the face of his pursuers. l i e was threatened and scolded, but the note being fairly gone he was allowed to depart, and we have not heard o f t h e unlucky wight having taken any ulterior means to regain possession of this precious piece of paper. No one was allowed to enter any of the houses after ten o'clock ; indeed it was almoet impossible for them to do so, so densely full were they previously to that. hour. Crowds lingered outside the doors however, and in the Rue Richelieu numbers assembled to witness the sortie at 12 o'clock.. Paris Corrsepondent of the Morning Chronicle. With tbe old year terminated the license to hold public gaming houses in Paris. Laus Deo! It was painful to see theplayers, for the lessees of those hells were not the only mourners for their expiring privilege. The consciousness that with the last stroke ofthe clock at 12 would cease every chance to recover that which they ought to have known was lost, added to the anguish of seeing literally their last stake wrung from them. The events of the week just closed at the gaming- houses were appalling. One person whom I shall not designate, lost within that time i.' 10,000 ( British) in the more recherche of the hells ; while tens ofthousands of working men, servants, thieves, and labourers, were stripped of every farthing they could raise, rap, run, or rob at the pandemonium, No. 113, Palais Royal. A person well known on the Bourse won 10,000 franesat Frascati's on Saturday night 23d ult. He said he was then sure of " breaking the bank." He did not keep his word or his money, however ; for he lost 10,000 f. on Saturday, 20,000f. on Tuesday, 10,000 f. on Wednesday, 20,000 f. on Thursday, and 10,000 f. on Friday, and is, they say, a defaulter of the Bourse. Another wretched man ( for he must have been wretched) threw down, at Fraseati, on Saturday night last, a bank note of 1,000 francs. A " 31 apres" turned up. In a paroxysm of despair he seized his half- lost billet, thrust it into bis mouth, and swallowed it. He was instantly made prisoner, and given into the hands of the police ; but either from policy or humanity, the lessees of tbe gambling- houses, who have never proved themselves harsh or severe with the thousands ot unhappy people who from time to time have attempted frauds upon them, caused him first, tobe helped to a glass of water, ( for he was suffocating),.'* then set at liberty. 1 shall close my reference to this hor ible affairs by stating, that rumours are'afloat that government will be empowered by theChambers to license two gambling houses. I doubt it; although there can be no question that privategambling will increase beyond calculation.— Paris Correspondent of the Times. A N EW YEAR'S WONDER. From the Spactator, A poor Peer has refused a pension ! The reader looks incredulous, and asks for the name of this singular personage— observing, that all the poor peers of whom he ever heard, or are anxious to be, pensioned. George Thicknesse Tuchet, Baron Audley, is the mau. The Times and the Post record the fact as follows :— ' We believe Hint the house of P - ers, on its reassembling, receives an addition in the person of Baron Andlev, who will then be of age. Though the influence which results from wealth itiii't, with regard to this young nobleman. be at present extremely cir cumscribcd. vet if we mny calculate upon advantages from good e x - ample. the country may look forward to much benefit, from his lordship; for, tn the midst of financial pressure. he has declined any augmentation of income in shape of pension.& has declared his determination not to adhere to any political party in any manner which mav cramp the exercise of his better judgment. Lord Audley will put his brother Peers to the blush by his marvellous virtue. He will indeed be a rara avis in the lordly collection. We can fancy the looks of astonishment which he will attract on his first entrance into the house. Some will think him absolutely crazy. Others will say, " H e knows whit he's about— the pension offered was too small." But this reason will appear as unsatisfactory as malevolent, to tha great majority of the august assemblage ; for their rule is to take wh'atthey can get, on the " instalment" principle. Nothing in the shape of booty comes amiss to them ; and if they cannot obtain much, they are thankful for a little— not allowing even the odd shillings and pence to slip through their fingers. Lord Audley will be stared at as a prodigious ass, ignorant » r careless of the chief privilege of the Peerage, that of appropriating public money to private expenses. It is to be feared that the " benefit" anticipated from his " example" will be as " circumscribed" as his fortune. They who will admire his disinterestedness, are out o f t h e reach of the temptation which he resisted. They who might and should profit by it, will not. A question occurs, which Mr. Spring Rice, who boasts that public services alone are rewarded by pensions under the virtuous Whigs, ought to answer. Upon what grounds was Lord Audley offered a pension 1 How, when, antl where did tbis young nobleman, whose entrance into public life is trumpeted by the Tories, establish his claim to a pension ? Did not his avowed " determination not to adhere to any political party" point him out to Mr. Rice as one whose vote was in the market? Was not the pension offered as the price of his vote? TEMPER.— Of all qualities, a sweet temper is pet- haps the least ^ cultivated in the lower ranks of life. The peculiar disposition is not watched ; care is not taken to distinguish between the passionate child, the sulky, the obstinate, and the timid. The children of the poor are allowed a latitude of speech unknown among the higher orders ; and tbey are free from the salutary restraint imposed by what is termed " company."— When in the enjoyment of full health and strength, the ungovcrned temper of the poor is one of tbeir most striking faults ; while their resignation under affliction, whether mental or bodily is the point, of all others, in which the rich might with advantage study to imitate them. Tun LOVE OF TIIE MA& VECttibg.— The propensity of the human species to be humbugged, is one of the most interesting problems in ethics, and a valuable book might, be compiled from a record merely of the more monstrous fallacies which have been sivallowed within the last twenty years. It is but a short time since a fellow in Lonaon hired a masquerade uniform— ran awav with it.— and so walked un and down for eight davs before Ii , , . e , i • - , was seized up > n. lie lived at four different hotels in the town. Having sailed to the 51st degree of latitude, in the vain hope , ftom t h r e e £ w h i c h U e ( l e p a r t c d w i t h o u t ,,; r , i n„. , l c obtained of passing to Ch. na, he returned to France without maKmg a c„ , ( ' m f r o m m o r e l h a n a ( 1 ( ) Z e n d i f f e r e n j k t r ^ . a e n > w h o a c t u a U y But to return from the author to the work : independently o f ! saved the constitution. He never committed but onegreat blun- j settlement. Ir. the following year he sailed a second time from France, with three ships, proceeded up the St. Lawrence 300 , leagues to a great and swift fall, built a fort, and wintered in But the following is more iiigeni- \ the country. | The French were well received by the natives, but were soon It was the Duke of Wellington who saved the couutry, who I infected with the scurvy, of which disease 25 of their number waited upon him quarrelling lor his orders; and were at last * nosed" only hy a horse- dealer, from whom lie went to purchase wo valuable hunters ; arid who chanced to see ( there was a chink even in the armour of Patroclus j... that his customer had the whimsical fancy of going about without a shirt.— Beaumont on Police, PIRACY.— The Thomas Crisp ; chooner, J. Crisp, master, arrived at this port ( Bristol) on Sunday last, after a most disastrous voyage. She left Cardiff, laden with iron, on the 2 Oth May last bound to Constantinoble, and, on the 28t| i June, brought up in the Dardanelles, about two miles from the village of Yeueeliea, set the watch, and went to bed without the least apprehension of danger. About 10,30 p. m. the watch was alarmed by seeing a boat under the bow filled with armed men, who immediately jumped on deck, and pursued ' lie man aft; the skylight was off, for the purpose of giving air, and the man jumped down into the cabin, but while in the act of doing so one of the ruffians struck him a blow with a cmlass, which nearly severed his arm from his body. The Captain was awoke by the criesof the wounded man, who rushed into the state room crying " Pirates .' pirates. Captain ! get your gun ; they are aboard, Sir; 1 am wounded . . they have nearly cut my arm off." The Captain instantly seized bis gun, and made towards the door, which, was burst open by the pirates, who seized the Captain by the throat, and demanded his money, shouting " Danario 1 danarie !'* There was no alternative— defence was impossible ; he made them understand that lie would comply, and proceed to get down a box, containing a number of dollars, which tliev immediately seized, and demanded more ; his watch was next delivered to them. The Captain's wife, who bad gone out for the benefit of her health, was all this time standing trembling, and nearly up to her ankles in lite blond of tile unfortunate man they had so barbarously wounded ; they then too k her cabinet containing a great quantity of money and jewels; but they were, uot satisfied, . loud and vociferous were their demands, with pointed blades, for mare money. Whilethis horrible scene was being enacted in tbe cabin others of the piratical party had seized tlie firearms, and had pinioned the mate and all others of the crew who came in their way ; lliey then brought tbe cabinboy into the cabin, and after passing a knife round his throat, in order to make him confess if there was more money, but to no purpose, they decamped. The man who had been so severely wounded was left in the country; and a'bnut a week before the vessel made the land, on ber passage home, one of tbe crew fell from the yard- arm on tlie de. ck, and was killed on the spot... Bristol Mirror. A numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Hackney and the neighbourhood was held at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, ou Tuesday night, to petition Parliament for the immediate emancipation of the Negro apprentices in the West Indies. One of the speakers said that the restitution of the 20,000,000/ should lie demanded ' in a voice of thunder. anti with an aspect ot lightning.' Mr. Liiing. tlie Magistrate ot liatton Garden Police- office, received a communication from Lord J. Russell on Wednesday last, that if he sent in bis resignation of office it would be accepted, he lias taken the hint ; and Mr. Laitig is no longer a Magistrate.. C/ ii'imtc/ e. (' Thank you, Lord John, thank you !'.) Mr. Wedgwood, one of the Police Magistrates of Union Hall, has resigned his olfiee ; and we hear that he lias been induced to take that step from a conscientious feeling tbat it is improper in him lo be a party to the administering of oaths. It is not ihe intention of Lord J. thn Russell to fill up the vacancy caused bv the resignation of Mr. Wedgwood, until the Committee of the House of Commons on tbe Metropolitan Police- office shall have made its report ... Times. CORK— Printed and Published for ihe PROPRILTOR, No, 4 Patrick Street.