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in them. He believed the English people acted more 
from ignorance than design ; but it was his complaint that 
they would not take the trouble of being rightly informed 
as to the real state of tne people of Ireland. If there were 
no other topic to urge in favour of Repeal, the fact would 
be sufficient, that the governing people were radically 
ignorant and careless of the state of the country governed, 
As to separation he repudiated it, but he wished to prevent 
the possibility of it by getting repeal. There should be no 
rebellion in Ireland, no civil war, or, what was worse, a 
servile war—a war from cottage to cottage, from town to 
town. The hon. gentleman proceeded at great length to 
meet the objections of Mr. Sturge in regard to a separa- 
ion. He spoke of Arerica, and the offer of reconcilia- 
tion made when too late by the British Government to the 
insurgents in that country, as a warning to Government, 
and advised Mr. Sturge to remember it. He thought it 
would be politic in English statesmen to ask ireland what 
she wanted, and he would answer, that she merely wanted 
the management of her own affairs, and did not desire to 
take anything from the Crown prerogatives. Ireland was 
ig enough for them. She was all they required. They 
would take nothing less. As to war, if Mr. Sturge thought 
they might wish not to go to war when England did— 
that was a royal prerogative, and the only thing they 
could do was to vote against the supplies; he for one 
would be glad of it, as it diminished the chances of unjust 
war, and if there were just cause of war there was no fear 
of the Irish people being backward in supporting it. The 
hon. gentleman referred to Portugal and other countries 
friendly to Ireland, which it would be wise policy in Ire- 
land to refuse going to war with on the sole ground that 
England wished it. Again, making peace was no imperial 
question—it was an act of the monarch. They wanted a 
Protective, not an invasive parliament. As to the army 
and navy, that would be a mere question of length of 
purse. ‘The number of men paid by England should 
belong to England, and those paid by Ireland should be 
reland’s. ‘Thus treaties, dependencies, colonies, the 
making of war and peace, the army and navy, could not 
be considered imperial questions. The hon. gentleman 
then ridiculed the Federalist party, as not knowing what 
they meant, and derided the support likely to be had from 
the north or Ulster men, which, he said, would be but 
small indeed, for on former occasions there had been no 
substantiality about them. As to religious questions, 
there was no fear of difference. In regard to Roman 
Catholic toleration, if any fear were harboured of it, he 
would, he said, be willing to place on the Irish Parliament 
a restriction already existing on the American Legislature 
—namely, that it should be incompetent to them to place 
any restrictive right or to interfere with any one’s con- 
science. Mr. O’Connell then contrasted the treat- 
ment of rebellious Canada and peaceable Ireland. He 
would not give up one particle of Irish interest, but he 
would maintain the Crown prerogatives. After a length- 
ened address the hon. gentleman concluded, amid loud 
applause, by moving the adoption of the following resolu- 
:—‘‘ 1. That the object and purport of the Repeal of 
the Union consists in the Parliament of Ireland having the 
entire legislative control of affairs of the Irish nation. 2. 
That the basis of the Repeal of the Union consists, and 
shall consist, in the perpetual connexion with Great 
Britain, through the medium of their common Sovereign, 
ueen Victoria, and her heirs and successors. 3, That 
another basis of the Repeal of the Union shall be perfect 
equality of civil rights and franchises of every description 
between all Christian sects and persuasions whatsoever, 
and that no power shall be committed or intrusted to the 
Trish Parliament to make any law derogatory to the civil 
rights or franchises of any individual or class by reason of 
his or their creed or religious persuasion. 4. That the 
foregoing resolutions be transmitted to Mr. Joseph Sturge, 
in reply to his communication, and that he be requested 
to specify what the questions ‘ involving the interest of the 
United Kingdom exclusively’ are, other than those which 
come within the range of the royal prerogative.” In 
answer to some observations of Mr. Gordon, a late member 
of the Conservative body, who advocated the rights of the 
Roman Catholic clergy to glebe-houses and lands, Mr. 
O'Connell expressed his disapprobation of State establish- 
ments, for at the present day the efforts of every State 
Church 3 still he would be in favour of a plan for obtain- 
ing glebes for the Catholic clergy, to whom a perpetual 
right might easily be given by a slight alteration in the 
existing laws. But these glebes must be purchased by 
Catholics themselves, and in no other way. Mr. O’Connell 
then announced the Repeal rent to be 1142/. 19s., making 
Upwards of 3000/, received from Saturday to Saturday. 
Tipperary.—The Leinster Express, in reference to the 
mysterious signal fires on the night of the 19th ult., makes 
the following remarks :—‘‘ On the night of the 19th large 
fires burst forth in a simultaneous blaze upon all the hills 
around the country, from Eyre-court and Meelick up to 
Banagher, and thence to Parsonstown, and along the range 
of hills towards Borrisokane. Large bodies of the pea- 
Santry were assembled in many places, and patrolled 
through the country, carrying torch-lights, filling with 
ear and terror the well-disposed and peaceable by their 
Savage yells and shouts of exultation. In several places 
the people thought that a ‘ general rising’ had taken 
place, and sought refuge in the fields and ditches ; others 
betook themselves for protection to the adjoining towns. 
There is no use in concealing the fact that the general 
boay of the peasantry are ripe for revolt, and that both 
Priests and Mr. O’Connell will find it a difficult task 
to restrain them from deeds of turbulence. The lower 
orders of the Repealers seem, now that they cannot have 
their monster meetings, to have adopted the mode of tele- 
graphing their feelings and sentiments through the medium 
of ‘bale’ or ‘signal’ fires. These simultaneous fires, 
which, on the night in question, extended not only along 
the places above mentioned, but along the hills and moun- 
tains of Cork, Limerick, Kerry, Clare, and Tipperary, 
require the earliest attention of the Government, more 
especially as they have been, each and all, attended by 
masses of the peasantry, carrying with them torch-lights, 
and halloing and yelling like fiends.’ The same journal 
contains a long list of outrages of a very serious nature, 
perpetrated within the last few days on the borders of 
King’s County and Tipperary. Other papers speculate 
on the cause of the fires, and give the most contradictory 
versions of it, One states that the fires originated in a 
supposition on the part of the people that, to use their 
own words, ‘ the waris over’—the hostile manifestations 
made by the Government with respect to the fortifications 
having been abandoned in certain localities. It is also 
said that a rumour had been circulated very generally 
among the people that large concessions were about to be 
made by Government, and among others, that a domestic 
Parliament was to be given to Ireland. Another explains 
them by stating the belief of the peasantry that ‘* Mr. 
O’Connellhada great triumph over the Lord-Lieutenant for 
daring to issue the recent proclamation ; in fact, that he 
had his Excellency fined to the amount of 30,000/. This 
was regarded by the peasantry as a proof that ‘ monster 
meetings’ could not be suppressed with impunity; and 
that, however Government might be opposed to Mr. 
O’Connell and Repeal, the Queen was on his side. 
SCOTLAND. 
Glasgow.—The Assembly on Monday week took up the 
Dalkeith case, in which a call has been given by the Free 
Church congregation there to a licentiate of the Irish 
Presbyterian Church. The Assembly considered this a 
most important case, as it involved the whole question of 
the admission of ministers belonging to other bodies. The 
Assembly was also of opinion, that it would not be treat- 
ing respectfully the bodies to which these ministers 
belonged, to receive them into communion with the Free 
Church without corresponding with their respective 
churches on the subject. Onthe motion of Dr. Candlish, 
the following motion was unanimously agreed to :—‘' To 
delay the cases of application for admission from 
Ministers of other denominations, and remit the whole 
subject to a committee for consideration, instructing them 
to confer with the other churches interested.’” The Rev. 
Mr, Sym gave in the report of the colonial committee. 
Dr. Buchanan, of Glasgow, in connection with this report 
suggested the propriety of the committee being instructed 
to keep in view the case of Dr. Kalley, of Madeira, which 
was agreed to. Candlish then made an oral report on 
behalf of the Jewish committee. He stated that all the 
Jewish missionaries and agents—some of them conyerted 
Jews—had adhered to the free church; that the money 
collected for the Jewish scheme since the disruption 
amounted to 3,400/.; that at the disruption they left 
3,500 in the hands of the establishment. The report 
was approved of. Dr. Duncan, who is on his way home 
from Pesth to commence his labours as Professor of 
Hebrew in the College, was appointed convener of the 
committee till the return of Dr. Keith, the present con- 
vener, who is at present on the Continent. In the even- 
ing a committee was appointed to consider the relation 
of the Church in Canada with the Free Church, 
and to report to next Assembly. Mr. Hamilton 
read the report of the Building Committee, from 
which it appears that about seven hundred churches 
are either built or building, or about to be commenced, 
On Wednesday some other business having been disposed 
of, Mr. Dunlop moved that the next meeting of Assembly 
should be held in Edinburgh, on Thursday the 16th May 
next. After some remarks on the character of their 
present meeting, Mr. Dunlop concluded by saying, that 
the present temper of their ministers was gratifying in the 
extreme, and that the content with which they received 
the intimation of the small allowance from the sustentation 
fund, and with which they must retire to their homes, 
must have excited the admiration and touched the feel- 
ings of them all. He trusted that they the elders and 
members of the Free Church would feel it their duty to 
make their sacrifices as disinterestedly and as nobly as 
they had made theirs; and he hoped that they would 
soon be able to show that they were worthy to have them 
for pastors by providing adequate sustenance, and in some 
degree at least compensating them for the sacrifices they 
had made. He concluded by moving that the Assembly 
should meet at Edinburgh on Thursday, the 16th May, 
1844. The motion having been seconded, was unani- 
mously agreed to. The Moderator, Dr. Brown, then 
proceeded to deliver his closing address, which was listened 
to with anxious attention and interest by the immense 
assemblage that crowded the hall. The Assembly was 
then declared to be dissolved. 
THEATRICALS 
Covent-GarpEN.—On Monday night the third season 
of this theatre commenced with a most novel succession 
of entertainments, in which it would be difficult to say 
whether the actors or the audience bore the largest share, 
The manager, finding he could not work with his English 
company, had engaged a troop of French juveniles, who 
sing, act, and dance. The audience were dissatisfied with 
which has ever been witnessed in a metropolitan theatre. 
The first piece, a new comedietta, called Quits, or War 
versus Law, was unsuccessful; and the performance of 
the French children in a dance which followed, seemed to 
strike the audience as an exhibition altogether unsuitable 
to a national theatre. The storm, however, did not come 
until the production of a ballet pantomime, in which M. 
Laurencon was the principal performer; and after this 
had been condemned, a vaudeville in the French language 
completely exhausted the patience of the audience. The 
piece was speedily stopped, when Mr. Wallack came for- 
ward and made use of language which was ill-judged and 
offensive, and the uproar increased tenfold. At length the 
audience, as if to show that no part of their wrath was 
intended for the poor children, suffered them to proceed 
with their parts, with scarcely a moment’s interruption, to 
the end. The ballet of La Fille Mal Gardée contained 
some pretty dancing by this infantile corps de ballet, which 
almost restored the house to good humour ; and a pretty 
Pas de Deux, between Malle. Leontine and M. Victor, 
was applauded as generously as if nothing unpleasant had 
occurred throughout the evening. Mr. Wallack has since 
addressed a letter to the daily papers, stating that an or- 
ganised oppositidn was got up on Monday night by rival 
and interested parties, who, by signals and other precon- 
certed means, gave a determined opposition to every part 
of the performances. Mr. Wallack, however, in giving 
this explanation, brings charges of conspiracy against 
various individuals, including ladies. Mr. Wallack admits 
that the French company ‘thas not come up to the point 
of excellence which he was assured it possessed, and also 
that the public is not so favourable to that nature of per- 
formance as he had hoped.”’ 
Yak. 
CentRAL Criminat Count.—Alleged Trafficking in Slaves.— 
On Friday the trial of M. Pedfode Zulueta, an opulent mer- 
chant in the city, on the charge of Slave-trading, came on gt 
The indictment 
January, 1825, 
The third charged the object to be to trade 
reated as slaves. In three 
Augusta, which 
named Bernardos, and the crew were all Spaniards. The case 
Court at Sierra Leone, butas the vessel was sail- 
sian colou:s, and had Russian papers, the Court 
doubted whether it had the power to condemn her, but resolved 
npon sending her to “land with her crew, the vessel being at 
the time fully equipped as ver. Upon her arrival in this 
country, the Russian Consul claimed her as a Russian vessel, and 
she was eventually sold for 600/., and the amount was handed 
rt to the captain, Bernardos. After this, a n: gotiation for the 
nosal of the vessel to M. Zulueta took place. Ip a letter 
essed by the priso! eventn- 
indictment, he expressed his intention not to give m 
5002. for her; but a short ti 
accordingly 
still in the v 
Besides this, there were also the means of placing what were 
called *slave-decks” in the vessel. These decks, as the jury had 
perhaps heard, were false decks, about 32 inches apart: and in 
hich, of course, the unfortunate beings placed there could 
neither sit nor stand. A quantity of bolts were on board, and 
the holes for them remained, so that these decks conld have 
been fitted up in a very short time, when they were required. In 
addition to these facts, 2 aman had been applied to, at Ports- 
mouth, to enter on board 
i s M. Zulucta had admitted before a commi' 
the House of Commons that he managed all the business in 
connection with this voyage, it would be for the jury to say 
intended object. The a r t 
addressed to Jennings by M. Zulueta, in which he complained 
of his not having asked for sufficient money to enable him to 
nouth, and requesting to know, by 
had been cut out. The jury would also see, that, although 
it was subsequently to appear that the vessel belonged to , 
nings, and was purchased in his name, that, in point of fact, it 
vas land paid for by M. Zulueta. After this proceeding 
‘seel sailed to Liverpool, and he should have to direct the 
articular attention of the jury to what took place there. 
charterparty was entered into between the captain, Jennings, 
and Pedro de Martinez, described as a merchant at Havannah, 
a dealer in slaves. By this charter. 
party 
apr yi month for its hire, and pay all port dues and charges ; 
the vessel to be freighted with legal goods, and proceed to the 
Gallenas, on the coast of A and from thence to any port of 
the West Indies or the United States that Martinez might direct, 
and the amount of freight tha would accrue was to be held as a 
lien for the repayment of the sum advanced for the purchase of 
ne vessel; andin the same document Jennings admitted the 
receipt of the sam of 1, and Co, 
through Messrs. Z! ings was the 
who 1 sel, yet, in point of fact, M. 
Zulueta W e real and responsible partyin the transaction, and 
cho was the party to this agreement. The case for the prosecu- 
tion, therefore, was that the whole was merely a colourable 
transaction, that Jennings was put forward as the man to 
creen M. Zulacta in the transaction, and that, in point of 
t, the ] Of the vessel, and Jen- 
tr 
nings was merely the caj 
bond fide one, and the 
should thi have been 
the vessel proceeded to the Gallenas, on the coast of Africa. As 
was instructed, this place was entirely devoted to the slave- 
trade, and no other cemmerce of any kind was carried on there, 
