THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



80.1 



J ^' ^^^^^T^ct : '" Admit 

 rrTkTtick** * as *° VV s f the Associa- 

 *>■ !.•:—« to the meetings o 



ES 



W tU timei to 

 ttm * reporte 



" rthat ,h card ovght to have on 

 ** ^» to prevent any misappre- 



—.*.<*— '"" ' eP °. ,t Vas unnecessary, that the 

 -"•*iilirB»y»' d 'L!,,™ and a new arrange- 



—••%". «* soon be open "^ , , He 



ta thtn "J % for the Government .' Mr. 

 tttending tor ent reporter 



*°rl M O f Connell stated that he 

 -"' £ Lament reporter present, and 



, Government repo 



fc«« «■ • ",° ,7 was the reporter ot he 



. ■' ^nTonnel then replied that at the 

 . ,, M o Cob« u reporters were pre- 



3* ''Y'L Gov r ment, 1 to whom every 

 ' ° f ' and he \on!d be happy to acco-n- 



flctekr 



n«*, 





I* * 4riS7de7tm"ed M*'Barrett as the 



- '..Mr- H°S"' ; belie f s „oke at Mullagh- 



*• to ' he ^ . of the Lsoeiation on the 2d 

 At ,be meeting o toe to the 



Re,ieai ^ i . d the 3d f Oct. 



- ? Tof ne A sedation at which the 



•J "T& R« Dr! Grey, Mr. Steele, Mr. 

 O-Coanell, Mr. Ra ) , ur , wu _ 



"♦jSi^Mr" £ fir th7resolut|ns and letters 



^fiLhm" »« d * as referred t0 ° r ' ^' .T ! '° 

 ^^l rtT.m from the newspaper where they 



* to to j &k VX -eting a cop'y of a letter was 

 a ..J bf Patrick Skerret, one of the Gommis- 

 ^^ Cbrea h which he stated .that they were 

 ""^ *2pd »me recusants when the proper time 

 T\i r (Aonnell rend the letter and said " they 

 Hit to tnrn cut any who would not become 

 j U( tee Perrin-Is the letter addressed to 

 SK': "v iesI lThis is a copy which Mr. Ray handed 

 at fat Mr O'Connell said that he had received the 

 to that morning, and he moved the thanks of the 



to the " worthy" town commissioners ot 

 he stated that they deserved well of the nsso- 

 _ >f r . Steele seconded the resolution (the witness 



km rod the often-quoted speech of Mr. Steele, contain- 

 hf tk fines which it had been stated by the friends 

 Afeterersers were never uttered— '« Where behemoth, 

 MQist born of earth, Upheaved its vastness."— 

 Dr. Gaj made a speech, submitting for the approval of 



the names of persons selected as arbi- 

 lr. O'Connell, who was named as one for 

 tne city of Dublin, promised to sit once a week ; Mr. 

 anneU aid u he believed he would live to see the day 

 »n«n the hill of the four courts would be very empty." 

 Dr. 6ny mentioned that before the courts of justice sat 

 in the districts where arbitrators had been appointed they 

 •^Ittowiit tmtil the necessary papers were prepared. 

 The Rev. Mr. Tierney made a speech at the Association 

 ^"sfhnttles and denunciations of the Saxon oppressors. 

 — .>* Mr. Tierney had spoken, Mr. J. O'Connell observed 

 tfcrthehan never been more delighted than with this speech * 

 •d the tf ^respectable clergyman deserved the thanks of 

 Quotation for his bold and eloquent speech, the reso- 

 mm i passed by acclamation ; Mr. O'Connell announced 

 U* he would attend the Clontarf demonstration in his 



1 Government." As the hall was densely filled in every part 

 there could not have been less than 3000 persons present. 

 The meeting was addressed by Mr. Wyse, M.P., Sir Thos. 

 Esmonde, Sir John Power, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. O'Connell. 

 Resolutions were passed condemning the exclusion of 

 Catholics from the jury panel, and a petition to the Queen 

 on the subject was unanimously adopted.— On the same day 

 the reporters of the Dublin press held a meeting at which 

 they resolved, " To declare their conviction that to compel 

 reporters and correspondents of the public press to give 

 evidence in the course of judicial proceedings respecting 

 matters which come under their observation exclusively 

 in that capacity would be attended with great public in- 

 convenience, would embarrass them in the discharge of 

 their onerous duties, and by compromising their neutrality 

 would materially impair, if not destroy, that confidence 

 heretofore reposed in them by all classes of the public."-- 

 On Monday, the weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa- 

 tion took place, Mr. Honan, ex-Mayor of Limerick, 

 in the chair. A letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, 

 counselling peace during the State trials, and assuring 

 the people of the ultimate triumph of their cause. The 

 rent for the week was 904/. 



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SCOTLAND. 



Edinlurgh.—By appointment of, the Free Church 

 Assembly's commission Dr. Burns left last week on a 

 mission to the United States in behalf of the Free Church. 

 He "oes out to America as a companion to Dr. Cunning- 

 ham, for the purpose of explaining the position of the 

 Free Church and for collecting funds for its support. 

 It is said to be the intention of this deputation to continue 

 in America for about four months, and not to return 

 sooner than for the sitting of the Free Assembly in May 

 next— There are now four candidates for the vacant 

 musical professorship in this University— Mr. Donaldson, 

 Mr. W. S. Bennett, Dr. Gauntlett, and Mr. Mainzer.— 

 For some time back workmen belonging to the Duke of 

 Hamilton have been employed boring for coal at Brighton?*, 

 in the vicinity of the Polmont station on the Edinburgh 

 and Glasgow Railway. Their labours have been rewarded 

 by the discovery of a seam of coal of considerable thick- 

 ness which extends to upwards of 3000 acres. In sink- 

 ing the trial-pit considerable difficulty was experienced, 

 as in addition to the other obstructions, such as ironstone, 

 &c a rock of a peculiarly hard nature was gone through 

 upwards of 30 feet thick. The coal has been burned in a 

 small gas-work, and from the quality of the light it is said 

 to be a first-rate household coal.-The trial of Mrs. Gil- 

 mour, who was recently brought from America under the 

 new treaty for the murder of her husband by poison, took 

 place on Friday and Saturday. The facts that Mr. Gil- 

 mour died from the effects of arsenic— that the prisoner 

 a few days before his death purchased arsenic at a 

 drujHst's shop in Renfrew under an assumed name-that 

 the prisoner and her husband lived unhappily together 

 &c. were fully proved. The interest excited by the trial 

 surpassed anything witnessed since that of the Glasgow 



theatre 



presen 



U»«hair; Mr Daniel O'Connell, Dr. Gray, Mr. Duffy, 

 «•• Ijrrell, and Mr. Steele were present.— The 

 it ft* ml c f 0UDSe J re( i Qire d that the whole of the speeches 

 *lE 2V^ be read * The Solicitor-General 

 »U1 hJmZ!\u , WOuld occu Py three hours > but we 



Nik !£? t ';! 1 whole ^ e,ch speech of which any 



5t fcf M r T " UneSS thetl read ^ S P eeCh ° f 



•« the rp'J^ ' the *** after ;thel proclamation, 



l K ^ lull0ns " M «* ^re passed, pledging 

 wves — come Wpal nv « ?f ,» o 



;: "'';*ut:onal 



fa 



the 



«*." A> fi7 owu,uara ot freedom raised by O' 



^ 0c* MrVr^ ,° f the Association on 

 - - TO *«.Uuny handed in < 



V ■ « > handed in various sin 



J Lr 2 T^ Cl ° Sed - here ' aQd the Court then 



fe r «J «l'4 hS 6d in several contributions; 

 " • ' mM m .« n '"» s«m S .-The examination 



Ml lOr 21) mi*i»e. , ? LI1C V^UUIL tllCll 



-■«*. ter'° a i l0W the J^y to take some 

 •?VWionofth P ^ General be gSed leave to ask 



rf *tt w M Z a K^ itaess 1" to whether he had any note 



b y a Mr. Q 



fa 



**■» a l^Zr^^ ° ct - Mr. Hughes 



>n as a 



^jj./^-^- intimated ~th*t \ iVl " 1J " C 'I ,UU1 ' — lvir - 



■*«■■« mean to ?« • he was counsel ^v Mr. Ray, 



^pa* four \? ,n l! )n the P art * f the traversers. 



— -u Un Ma J!!! de , b y Mr, Greene, who attended 



Mr. 



At 



SWer 



ti^^LTl^ Mr. FlemingMathius Latham was 



nJ*" «utin» to 1 ; eposed t0 the facts stated by 



fM^ 0n tj£ meem at M ullagh mast, Sec. 



" " : ' I! «< the ex'-loH v ln the Gbrponrtlon on 



I ' '"•JOJ that the ^ . y0r for an alldr e« to the 



"" Gained i P roMcu tions may be aban- 



Wi °6the'm n ^!;!? raent ? 7as,noved to the 





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if d i «" uuuuu )i it was tne 



• « : should not be adopted. After 



-^ -'""iflnient lo / n , Vlded ' wh en there appeared 

 , .'^ ,8 ^np Q Q? p \ d ^nstit28. The original 



75^ ^urdayTLVe 0Ug V hemedium of adepu- 

 • ttTSS^^a, * n. ^ ° f the Roman Catholica 



* *5L ^ hich fa- th;T«Tiv iigned re ^ isi tion 



***« Uttr C0Dduct Pu sLd t T t0 dirCCt her 

 Utbol «s subjects k! , towaras ne r loyal and 



1 CtS b y ber Majesty's present 



cotfon-.pinners in January 1838, the Court itself and all 

 the avenues leading to it being densely crowded. In the 

 Parliament- square hundreds were to be seen coming and 

 going, anxiously inquiring as to the progress. Mrfc <M- 

 mour was dressed in deep mourning, and when she took 

 her place in the dock her face was entirely covered from 

 the general view of the spectators by a large thick crape 

 veil, which she partially raised when seated at the bar. 

 The trial was concluded on Saturday. The jury after an 

 absence of about an hour returned with the following 

 verdict :—The jury after a careful and mature considera- 

 tion of the evidence brought before them m this 

 case, are unanimously of opinion that John Gilmour 

 died from the effects of arsenic : but find it not proven 

 against the prisoner at the bar as libelled. This an- 

 nouncement was followed by very deeded expressions 

 of approval by those in Court, which were rebuked by 

 the Lord Justice Clerk, who ordered the prisoner to be 

 discharged.— On Thursday night a League Meeting took 

 place in Edinburgh, the principal speakers being the depu- 

 tation from the League who appeared at Glasgow on the 

 previous day. There were according to a local journal no 

 fewer than 34 Dissenting Ministers in attendance. Ine 

 Lord Provost was in the chair. Mr. Cobden occupied 

 nearly the whole evening in an address, and resolutions m 

 support of the League were unanimously carried.-- In- 

 formation reached the superintendent of the Edinburgh 

 police about a week ago that a young lady of rank had 

 been missing from her family in Ireland, and had pro- 

 ceeded to Edinburgh, having in her possession a consider- 

 able sum of money. The superintendent instantly made 

 a personal inquiry into the matter, accompanied by a gen- 

 tleman from Ireland, and on Wednesday evening succeeded 

 in tracing t'e young lady to a respectable lodging-house 

 in one of the squares. She gave up 426/., and was then 

 removed to a hotel in the neighbourhood, and proceeded 

 the following day in company of her female friend and the 

 gentleman above noticed to Glasgow, on her way back to 

 her friends in Ireland, who have naturally been in great 

 grief at the step which the young lady had pursued. 



Glasgow.— On Wednesday night the deputation from 

 the Anti Corn-law League consisting of Messrs. Cobden 

 and Bright, Colonel Thompson and Mr. Moore were en- 

 tertained at a banquet in the City Hall. The hall was 

 completely filled, there being about 3000 persons present. 

 One of the galleries was set apart for the ladies who 

 seemed to take great interest in the proceedings, ine 

 Lord Provost was in the chair. Mr. Fox Maule, M.r\, 

 proposed " the Principles of Free Trade, and the Lout 

 Provost -ave the " Health of the Deputation. Mr. Lob- 

 den, Mr! Bright and Col. Thompson afterwards addressed 

 the meeting at some length in behalf of the League. 



Cromarty. — On Wednesday and Thursday last the 

 Ross-shire rioters were put on their trial in the Justiciary 

 Court. There were three convictions, two of the con- 

 victed were sentenced to six, and one to nine months' im- 

 prisonment. 



Haddington. — A requisition signed by 227 of the 

 " noblemen, gentlemen, commissioners of supply, justices 

 of the peace, tenant-farmers, and others connected with 

 the county of Haddington," has been addressed to Lord 

 Elcho, Vice- Lieutenant of the county, requesting his 

 Lordship to call a public meeting of those favourable to 

 protection to agriculture. The requisition contains the 

 names of the Earls of Wemyss and Lauderdale, Lord 

 Ruthven, Lord Blantyre, Sir Thomas Hepburne, M.P., 

 Mr. Balfour, M.P., &c. The meeting is to be held on 

 Friday the 19th, and has for its object a petition to Par- 

 liament against any further change in the Corn-laws, and 

 the establishment of an Association for the Protection of 

 Agriculture. 



Hafo. 



Rolls' Court.— The Duke of Brunswick v. the King of Hano- 

 ver.— Lord Langdale gave judgment in this case, which occupied 

 the attention of the Court for several days during last term, and 

 observed that it came before the Court upon demurrer for want 

 of equity and for want of jurisdiction. The bill was filed by the 

 Duke of Brunswick against the King of Hanover, who was de- 

 scribed as Duke of Cumberland and Tiviotdale and Earl of 

 Armagh in Ireland ; and the bill prayed that an instrument dated 

 February 6 and March 14, 1833, the first being the date of execu- 

 tion in England and the second in Brunswick, appointing a guar- 

 dian of the person and estates of Duke Charles of Brunswick, 

 might be declared void, and for an account of the rents, profits, 

 and produce of the estates which had come to his hands or been 

 received by any person for bis use by virtue of the instrument, 

 including the personal estate and aiso the rents and profits of the 

 real estate, which had been received by the Duke of Cambridge, 

 the plaintiff offering to make all just allowances. In 1830 the 

 plaintiff was Duke of Brunswick, and he was entitled to real and 

 personal property in England, France, Brunswick, and Hanover. 

 At that time his late Majesty William IV. was King of Hanover, 

 which was governed by the Duke of Cambridge as his viceroy. 

 In this year a revolutionary movement took place against the 

 government of Duke Charles, and on the 2d of December, 1830, 

 William, now reigning Duke of Brunswick, was invited to take 



upon himself the government of the duchy provisionally, and in 

 February, 1631, the King of Hauover caused a declaration to be 

 published, that the throne had passed to Duke William ; this was 

 sanctioned by the Duke of Cumberland and also by the Duke of 

 Sussex. In 1833 the instrument in question was signed by his 

 Majesty William IV. as King of Hanover, and by William Duke 

 of Brunswick, stating that •« We being moved by the interest of 

 our house, and yielding to a painful necessity, think it necessary 

 to consider what measures the interests ot our house rightly un- 

 derstood (the Duke of Brunswick) may require. The powers of 

 supreme guardianship over the princes of the empire after the 

 dissolution of the German empire devolved to the heads of sove- 

 reign states. We have therefore decreed that we have arrived 

 at the conviction, that Duke Charles is at this time wasting the 

 fortune which he possesses in enterprises alike impossible and 

 dangerous both to himself and other persons, in seeking to 

 damage the just claims which certain persons interested now 

 and hereafter may legally have upon this property. We have 

 considered that the only method of preserving the fortune of 

 Duke Charles from ruin is to appoint a guardian over him. ^ e 

 decree that the Duke of Brunswick should have a guardian over 

 him. and that the guardian should be chosen from amongst the 

 noble male scions of our house. That \vs Royal Highness the 

 Duke of Cambridge, as Viceroy of Hanover, shall be guan.ian, 

 and having accepted the guardianship that he should be empow- 

 ered to take upon himself the duties." This instrument was 

 siened by the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex. His Lorcship 

 then stated the whole of the plaintiff's bill, and that the guar- 

 dianship was on the death of his Majesty given up to the Duke 

 of Cumberland, who became King of Hanover. It has been 

 argued that tiie appearance entered by the King of Hanover 

 was an admission that he could be sued, and that the refusal 

 of the Lord Chancellor to discharge the letters missive was a 

 decision that the defendant was liable to be sued. An appear- 

 ance had been considered as a waiver of objection to the juris- 

 diction ; but it was not *o here. The defendant claimed an ex- 

 emption from being sued, and his appearance was only for the 

 purpose of having that claim considered. It did not seem heref ore 

 that any opinion had been given upon the jurisdiction. Tne plain- 

 tiff admitted the defendant to be King of Hanover and as a sove- 

 reign prince, not liable to be sued ; that the inviolability attended 

 him everywhere; that it was not altered by his being resident 

 here.** by his being also sovereign prince and subject. It was 

 also said that if he was liable to be sued in iscountry s ill he 

 ought not to be sued here in respect of matters of state m his 

 owl country ; and assuming that he could be sued here, yet the 

 Tesent was not matter over which this court had any jursd c- 

 tion, since it could only be considered in a court of special jun*. 

 tion, similar to those appointed to decide cases ot lunac>,&c, 

 and 'adjudicated upon in those courts upon the special arcum- 

 stances The present case did not appear to be one between 

 subect and subject. The plaintiff was domiciled here and the 

 de SndaXtS born here, and had taken the oath of allegiance , a. 

 an FnirlisU subject: but this made no difference, as it did not 

 wnderhSHabtetabe sued in the courts here. The Queen of 

 E."gland could be sued in the courts here and it was not admis- 

 sib^ that a foreign sovereign should be wholly exempt ; if that 

 weri so he would be in a better situation than the Queen, which 

 would be absurd. The general proposition stated was that a 

 s "reign .n^cvas exempt fro^lne jurisdiction of the courts 

 here b^t 1 here was also a limited proposition, which was that 

 e was exempt for acts done by authority ma foreign country 

 and I independent of his character as Duke of Cumberland bup- 

 Sng a foreign prince to sue in the courts here, he subjected 

 h in self to the jur sdiction of the court, and it he was sued and sub- 

 m ted he was bound to put in his answer, and upon Ins personal 

 orth. The refusal of his right to sue might possibly be a just 

 cauVc of war; but it he does sue he must submit to the junsdic- 

 tfon His Lordship then referred to the piotection to which 

 ambassadors arc entitled, and said that an argument had been 

 founded on it, that if the ambassador was protected protection 

 colt not be 'refused to the Prince himself, trom whom alone 

 he obtained the right to exemption. It certainly was light that, 

 the peSon of an ambassador should be bnrtaWi^Mdioo^U 

 the person of a sovereign prince; but the plaintiff insisted that 

 the reason of the law should be looked to. The ambassador was 

 accredited here on special business, but it could not even in this 

 case be inferred that he was exempt in all cases; there certainly 

 wa no English law applicable to the subject, but it there was 

 Tny general law of nations upon the point, it was a part ot the 

 common law of England. In the absence of ^yj.^ 

 reason was the only guide ; a remedy might ^ ^»acU ^erejlOT 

 acts done out of the countr) J and arrest ^for ,, " ^jad ^een 



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 satisfactory, ^ if yon e^e^ the iinceh^m ^ 



fused to do justice on ^J™™*^* alwavs pressed by this, 



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