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A TlhTROYAL polytechnic institution 



A an increase of POWERFUL and BRILLIANT EFFECTS 

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Extracts from Testimonials. 



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The State trials in Ireland, after another unsuccessful 

 attempt on the part of the traversers to obtain a post- 

 ponement to the 1st of February, commenced with the 

 usual formalities on Monday. On that day the jury list 

 had been arranged, and the gentlemen who were selected 

 to form the jury of 12 were about to be impanelled, when 

 the counsel for Mr. O'Connell put in a challenge to the 

 whole panel, on the ground of the omitted names in the 

 Recorder's list. This step appears to have been wholly 

 unexpected on the part of the Crown, and after consider- 

 able delay the Attorney- General demurred to the chal- 

 lenge, and argued at great length against its validity. 

 The whole day was consumed in arguments on the ques- 

 tion, and at length the Court, with the exception of Mr. 

 Justice Perrin, decided that the challenge was bad, and that 

 the demurrer of the Attorney-General must be allowed. On 

 Tuesday another delay occurred in consequence of the 

 absence of two of the traversers, whose counsel argued that 

 there was no absolute necessity for them to appear in 

 person. The Attorney- General insisted on their appear- 

 ance, and the Chief Justice having ordered them to be 

 called on their recognizances, they immediately came into 

 Court. The Jury were then sworn, and the Attorney- 

 General commenced his address. After speaking for five 

 hours it was agreed that an adjournment should take 

 place, as the mere statement of the case would necessarily 

 occupy another day ; and by agreement of both sides the 

 Jury were allowed to return to their homes. On Wednes- 

 day, the Attorney- General resumed and concluded his 

 speech, which occupied the entire sitting of six hours. It 

 comprised a minute account of the Repeal meetings, of 

 the proceedings of the Repeal Association, of Mr. O'Con- 

 nell's proclamations, of the articles published in the Repeal 

 journals, and of various other topics which will be found 

 enumerated in our account of the trials, to which we must 

 refer our readers for the details. On Thursday the ex- 

 amination of witnesses commenced. Mr. Bond Hughes, 

 the GovernmentReporter, was the first witness caMed, and 

 nearly the whole day was occupied with his examination. 

 The chief purpose of his evidence was to prove the 

 speeches delivered by the traversers at the different meet- 

 ings, and to identify the speakers. 



From France we have the particulars of the debate on 



the Address in the Chamber of Deputies. The passage 

 denouncing the late demonstrations of the Legitimists in 

 London has been the principal subject of discussion. M. 

 Berryer and other Royalist Deputies protested against the 

 terms applied to them in the Address, and declared that 

 their visit to London was not the result of any criminal 

 design. These statements however appear to have had 

 little influence on the Chamber, and there is no doubt 

 that the paragraph will be carried without modification. 

 The Right of Search "will be the next subject of 

 discussion, and an animated debate is expected on 

 the present relations between France and England.— 

 The news from Spain announces that the Opposition have 

 succeeded in obtaining a majority in the electoral colleges 

 of Madrid, and that the fortress of Figueras has at length 

 surrendered to the Queen's troops — In Canada numerous 

 addresses have been presented to the Governor-General, 

 approving of his late proceedings in regard to the Executive 

 Council ; while in Nova Scotia Lord Falkland has been 

 deserted by several Members of his Council for reasons 

 precisely similar to those which led to the late resignations 

 in the Council of Canada.— The accounts from the United 

 States relate chiefly to a discussion on Slavery, and to the 

 introduction of a bill respecting the Oregon territory, 

 which was referred to a select committee. 



I Marchioness of Douro as the Lady in Waiting,7,the'Earl 

 of Warwick has succeeded Lord Rivers as the Lord in 

 Waiting, and Captain Meynell has succeeded the Hon. 

 Captain Duncombe as the Groom in Waiting on Her 

 Majesty. — The Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Kew on 

 Tuesday from the Continent, accompanied by the Princess 



Mary. 



The Due de Bordeaux left England suddenly for the 



Continent on Friday night. After the visit of his Royal 

 Highness to Woolwich and Chatham he was about to con- 

 tinue his tour, when letters reached him from Germany, 

 announcing the severe indisposition of the Due d'Angou- 

 leme. His Royal Highness immediately decided upon, 

 abandoning his tour in England, and embarked on Friday 

 evening for Ostend, on his way to Goritz. 



Death of the Marquess of Hastings. — We regret to 

 state that Lord Hastings died on Saturday evening at 

 Southampton, where his Lordship had arrived last wee k 

 from Bournemouth for medical advice. His Lordship had 

 been residing for a short time on the Hampshire coast for 

 change of air, and his health had latterly been getting so 

 seriously affected that it was thought advisable to remove 

 to Southampton. His Lordship is succeeded in the title 

 by his son, born in 1832. 



The Colonies The Ministerial papers announce that 



Mr. Davis, who formerly acted for a short time as suc- 

 cessor to the late Lord Napier in China, has been selected 

 by Government to relieve Sir H. Pottinger as the Queen's 

 Representative and Governor of the new British colony, 

 Hong Kong. Mr. Davis will depart very shortly on his 



mission by the overland route. 



The Cabinet.— Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday^ 

 on Monday, and on Tuesday, which were attended by all 

 the Ministers. After the Council on Tuesday, Sir R. 

 Peel took his departure for Windsor Castle. The right 

 hon. Baronet has issued cards for a Parliamentary dinner 

 on Wednesday the 31st hist., at which he will read the 

 Royal Speech on opening Parliament. It is understood 

 that in the House of Commons, Viscount Clive, member 

 for North Shropshire, will move the address in answer to 

 her Majesty's Speech; and Mr. Cardwell, Member for 

 Clitheroe, will be the seconder. 



The Navy.— Sir J. C. White, K.C.B., Vice Admiral of 

 the White, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief at the 

 Nore, in the room of Admiral Brace deceased ; and Ad- 

 miral Sir J. H. Whitshed, Bart., G.C.B., has been 

 appointed Admiral of the Fleet, in the room of the late 

 Sir C. E. Nugent. ^^^^ 



^ome Ketus. 



Court.— Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 

 Wales, and the Princess Royal, retumecUto Windsor 

 Castle from Claremont on Tuesday. Durinf the stay at 

 Claremont the Prince went out shooting daily in the pre- 

 serves, and Her Majesty took her usual exercise in the 

 park. It is said that an addition to the Royal family 

 may be expected in the course of the summer. Since 

 Her Majesty's return to Windsor the following visitors 

 have arrived at the Castle :— the Earl and Countess of 

 Jersey, Lady Clementina Villiers, Sir Robert and ;Lady 

 Peel, the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, and Sir H. 

 Wheatley. The Viscountess Canning has suc-eded the 



jForefp. 



France.— The debate on the address in the Chamber 

 of Deputies commenced on Monday. The draft of the 

 address as prepared by the committee is for the most part 

 an echo of the King's speech, except as regards the allu- 

 sion to England and to the Legitimists. With respect to 

 this country, instead of the term " cordial understanding' 

 of the speech when speaking of the relations with England r 

 the address speaks only of the intimate friendship between 

 his Majesty and the Queen of Great Britain, which the 

 Chamber of Deputies " is glad to hear of," and the- 

 "accord of sentiments" between his Majesty's Govern- 

 ment and that of Great Britain— not generally, but with 

 respect to " the late events in Spain and Greece" alone. 

 With regard to the Legitimists a strong allusion is made, 

 but even that is not as strong as the Ministry would have 

 wished it. It was considerably stronger in the original 

 draft, and it was only at the last meeting of the committee 

 that at the urgent solicitation of M. Ducos, one of the 

 Opposition members of the committee, the phrase was 

 modified as follows :— " Sire— your family is truly national. 

 Between France and you the alliance is indissoluble, lour 

 oaths and ours have cemented that union. The rights of 

 your dynasty remain placed under the imperishable 

 guarantee of the independence and loyalty of the nation. 

 The public conscience brands guilty machinations. Our 

 revolution of July, by punishing the violence of sworn 

 faith, has consecrated with us the sanctity of oaths. 

 On Monday,after some preliminary proceedings of no inter- 

 est, the debate on the address commenced/and M . Berryer 

 rose amidst profound silence. He said that he wished to 

 speak first, because neither he nor several other Members 

 would remain a moment in the Chamber during that dis- 

 cussion, in the position one of the paragraphs of the 

 address had placed them in. The Chamber were called 

 upon to apply to them the epithet -branded and 

 " guilty." What more could there be said to criminals . 

 If guilty he wondered that he and his friends had not 

 been brought to justice. The Chamber had been more 

 generous to him in 1832. They demanded that the pe- 

 nalty of death be inflicted on him. When he and his 

 friends had entered that hall was it fancied that they had 

 renounced all candour and sincerity ? Wm there even on 

 the contrary a more honest and sincere minority ? lneir 

 loyalty for 13 years past had been what their constituents 

 desired, and they had spoken their sentiments. What 

 was it that had passed since 1830 ? Had there been but 

 a change of persons 1 Had there been no change of 

 principles ? He would not enter upon a discussion with 

 those men who had acknowledged every fact and every 

 Government. He would discuss with men of principle. 

 The principle proclaimed in 1830 was that of national so- 

 vereignty ; from that principle many others had flowed. 

 He and his friends had submitted to the laws of their 

 country, and admitted the principle thus P«f aimed - 

 Their language had conformed to it because Jiej ■ ftaa 

 thought that that principle permitted them to retain their 

 conviction*. If they had thought their presence in that 

 Chamber entailed a desertion of all their affections and 

 'convictions they would have blushed to stay m it one 

 moment. In revolutionary times vanquished minorities 





