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THE SOUTHERN STAB SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1849.
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THE COISQSWEALTE : A MONTHLY RECORD OP DEMOCRATIC , SOCIAL & INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS Till ; a . 'MJSOXWSALTn" ttillb ? tho r . cprtser . taiivu o ? the Chaitisis , ijx-ii-. hiti . wiu Tr-dts" Cnianists . in the Monthly Press . CONTESTS : 1 . Gold Region of California . -. Pauperism and Tour Hates . 3 . The Spy System . 4 . Louis Diane 5 . The Ej x-ch of the Revolution . C . Productiveness of Small Farms . Communications for ti : e Editor , Books for Review , & c , to be forwarded to the Onice , 1 C , GREAT WlXDMILL STREET , LOXDON . To be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country .
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AX -vrPEVL TO TIffi CHAETISTS A ~ VPfiPFI ? - slioirin" in what manner the People ' s ^ Kvte' ^& tn . rfff tobeauulealtoDffii-. By ^ ^ rint ^ hv ""^ wanand Co ., vruiamm . street
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IMTORTA 5 T NOTICE . XEW YEAR'S GIFTS TOE THE BENEFIT OF THE WIVES AXD FAMILIES OF TILE CHARTIST VICTIMS . THE PRESENTS ALREADY RECEIYED far exceeding in number and value what was anticipated ( ivith promise of numerous others ) , and as many of the tickets still remain unsold , the committee have fiscided on j . ostjponmg the filial disposal of the Gifts tiU MOXDAY , FEBRUARY 19 m "" Tickets , Sixpence each ( which will entitle the holders to an article of value ) , may be obtained of Mr . James Grassby , S , Noah ' s Ark Court , Stangate , Lanibeth ; Mr . Stallwood , -Hammersmith ; Mr . Greenslade , 21 , AUerton-street , Boxtou Xeiv Town ; Mr . Grey , " Two Chairmen , " Wardour-Street , S ^ ho ; Mr . Knowles , "Globe and Friends , " Morganstrert , Commercial-road East : Mr . Brisck , '" Two Sawyers , " Minories ; Mr Allen , " Crown and Anchor , " Waterloo Tou-n ; Sir . Merriman , 2 S 21 , Strand ; Mr . Saar , " OUve Branch , " Old St Fancras-road ; Mr . Holmes , 1 , Ridinghou « -lane , Por tland-place : Mr . Allnutt , Deadman ' s Coffee-house . Clerkc-nwell-green ; Mr . Collins , South London Chartist Hall ; Mr . Brown , Cartwrigkt ' s Cofl ' ee House , Red Cross-street ; Land Office , 144 , High Holborn ; and of the Secretary . Jclin Arnott , 11 , Middlesex-place , Somers Town , Jior . don , * of wlinm every information can be obtained , if by letter , pre-paid . . N . B . The local members of the Executive , sub-secretaries aad others , are invited to forthwith solicit subscriptions Iron : their friends , and forward the same with name and address , to the secretary as alwve , if by Post Office Orders , Sisde payable at the IJatile-bridge Post Oifice , when tickets trill be promptly returned , and the amount received acknowledged in the Star when fiuaUy closed . In order to make the necessary arrangements for the disposal of the gifts , the namesofthosewhohavetaken tickets , with the amount subscribed , must be forwarded to the secretary , on or before Friday next , February 16 th , or they will be excluded from all benefits arising from the same . It is iniiierative that the above instruction be attended to . CHAKTISTS ! DO TOCK DUTY . SCTPOHT THE WIVES AXD FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS !
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riiHE BEST APERIENT AXD ANTIJL I 1 ILI 0 CS Medicine for General TJse is Frampton ' s Pill of Health , which efl ' ectually relieves the stomach and lioweis by geiitie relaxation , without griping or prostration of strength . They remove head-ache , sickness , dizziness , pains in the chest & c , are highly grateful to the stoinucli , promote digestion , create appetite , relie-e languor and depression of t . pirits : while to those of a full habit and free livers , who arc continually suffering from drowsiness , Iieaviness , and singing in the head and ears , they offer advantages that will not fail to be appreciated . This medicine has for many rears received the approval Of the most respectable classes of society ; and in confirmation of its efficacy , the following letter has been kindly forwarded to Mr . l ' rout , with permission to publish it , and , ii reoulsite , to refer anv respectable person to its author : — "ToMr . Front , 223 , Strand , London . —Sir , —I feel pleasure in l > ein : r al « le to Ijcar my strong and -unsolicited testimony to the excellence of your 'Frampton ' s Pill of Health , ' ¦ which I consider a most safe , efficacious , and very superior Reneral medicine . The widow of an officer , an elderlylady , and near relative of mine , 1 ms used them—very rarely liaving recourse to other medicine for a long period of years . She has recommended them extensively , and in one instance in which she induced a person to adopt them , and supplied the first box herself , they have proved of extraordinary efficacy . I think that , perhaps , there is scarcely any other of the many patent medicines before thepnblic of equal value as a - friend in need ; certainly none possessed of superior daims . I shall be happy on * all occasions to give theni my individual recommendation ; and am . Sir , your obedient servant , * . —Heavitree , Exeter , April 24 , 1 S 44 . " Sold by T . Trout , 22 D , Strand , London , Price , Is . lid . and 2 s . 9 d . per box Also by Heaton . Land . Hay , Haigh , Baines and Sewsome , Smeeton , SeinharJt , JI «> nier , JJushirorth , Siavclly , and Brown , Iced ?; Brooke , Hewsbury ; Bolton and Co ., Walker and Co ., Hartley and Duuluil , Doncaster ; Judson , Ripon ; Fojritt . Cuates , and Thompson , Thirsk ; Wiley , Easingvroid ; Spivey . Hud . lersfield ; Ward , Richmond ; Sweeting , JKnaresboKiusili : Harson and 'Wilson , Darlington ; Dixon , Metcalfe , and Langdale , Xorthallerton ; Rhodes , Snaith ; Sninks and I'anuett , Tadcaster ; Rogerson , Hicks , Sharp , and Stick , Hradford ; Arnall and Co ., Wainwright , Brice , and Priestly . Pontofract ; CardweU and Smith , Wakefield ; Sutter , Leyland , Hartley , Denton , Dyer , and J » fthouse , Halifax ; Booth , R .-ehdale ; Lambert , Boroughbridge ; JDalltT and Smiles , Wethcrby ; Wnite , Harrogate ; Wall , Barnsloy , Atkinson . Brighouse ; and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom . Ask for Fjiampion ' s Phl of Health , and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout , 22 » , Strand , London , " on the Government Stamp .
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JTO MOKE TILLS , nor any other Medicine for Indigestion , Irregularity of the Intestines , Flatulency , Palpitation of the Heart , Torpidity of the Liver , persisting Headaches , lferrousnes =, llilionsncss , General Debility , Despondency , Spleen , ic . Price ed ., or 3 d . post-free , royal , gilt , 2 s ; or free by post , 2 s . Oil ( in stamps ) , Fifth Edition of DTJ BAERY'S POPULAR TREATISE ON' INDIGESTION and CONSTIPATION ; the main < - > -i *> s of Nft-ousneSK . Billiui ' . ' ^ ss . ^ -vMula , Liver Comli :-iiuts . Spicen , < ic ., ; and theh ' . iadxcalilemoval , entitled the *• Natural . Regenerator of the Digestive Organs , "' without pills , purgatives , or medicines of auy kind , by a simple , pleasant , economical , and infallible uituus ; ada ;>* ed to the general reader . Du Barry and Co ., 75 , Kew Bond-street , London ; also , of Gilberts ; and all other booksellers . Sent post-free at the same price to Prussia .
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J ODER ROYAL PATEOXAGE . PERFECT FREEDOM FROM COUGH " , In Ten Minutes after use , and a rapid Cure of Asthma and Consumption , and all Disorders of the Breath and Lungs , is insured bv DR . LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS . The truly wonderful powers of this remedy have caUed forth testimonials irom aU ranks of society , in aU quarters of the world . The following have been just received : — ANOTHER CURE OF SETEX YEARS ' A STHMA From Mr . Edwin Squire , Corn-market , Loughborough , March 10 , ISiC . Gentlemen , —A lady ( whose name and address is below ) called , at mv shop yesterday , and made the foUowing statement respecting the beneficial effects produced by your popular medicine . She has been severely afflicted with asthma for seven years , until about three months ago , ¦ when , hating received a letter from a friend in Louth , recoinmendiiur Dr . Locock ' s Wafers , she purchased a box , and although she had not been able to lie down for twelve or fourteen weeks , the first dose enabled her to do so , and take a comfortable night ' s sleep , and she is effectually cared hy live sa . xes . The lady added , that since her wonderful restoration to health , * she has walked a distance of eirht miles in one day without being particularly fatigued . And whenever sfie ' takes cold she has recourse to a dose of the Wafers , which afford her instant and neverfailing relief . I can prove the genuineness of this case , and furnish the name and address of the lady , which is , llrs . Martha Haven , St Laurence , near Yentnor , Isle of Wight . ASOTIIER CURE OF COUGH AXD HOARSENESS . To Mr . P . Roberts , Ranelagh-strcet Sir , It is with much pleasure I bear testimony to the cstraordinaTV -powers of Locock ' s Pulmonic Wafers . I had lieen troubled nidi a coush ai . d hoarseness for nearly two years , without relief , when I was induced to try Locock ' s Wafers , the effect of wliich wa ^ soon visible , for one large box ( 2 s . Sd . ) has quite cured me . I have since recommended them to several of my friends , and they have ; also experienced the greatest reUcf from them . —John WuvtiAMS . Parliament-street , Liverpool , Jan . 1 , 1847 . CURES OF rULHOVART CONSUMPTION , GenUemen , —I can speak of your Wafers myself , with the greatest confidence , having recommended them in many cases of Pulmonary Consumption , and they have always sdnirded relief when everything i-l-e has failed , and the patients having been surfeited -with medicine , are delighted to meet witliso efficient a remedy , having such an agreeable taste , & v . —( Signed ) Jonx Mawsos , surgeon , 13 , Moseley-strect , Newcastle-on-Tyne , December 5 , 1817 . IMPORTANT TO ALL WHO SING . From S . Pearsall , Esq ., Her Majestv ' s Concerts , and Vicar Choral of Lichfield Cathedral Gentlemen . — A lady of distinction having pointed out to me the qualities of Dr . Locock ' s Wafers , I was induced to make a trial of a hox , and from this trial I am Happy to give my testimonial in their favour . I find by allowing a few of the wafers ( taken in the course of the day ) tograduaUy dissolve in the mouth , my voice becomes bright and clear , and tone full and distinct They are decidedly the most efficacious of any I have ever used . —Lichfield , July 10 th , 1815 . Dr . i ^ cwk ' s Wafers give instant relief , and are arapid wre of asthmas , consumption , colds , and aU disorders of tlie breath ai : d lungs , itc . To singers and public speakers they are invaluable , as in tw .. hours they remove aU horseness and increase the yower and flexibility of the voice . They have a most nleasant taste . r Price Is . lid . ; - ' s . M . ; and lis . per bos ; orsentbvpo » t or Is . od ., 3 s ., or Us . Gd ., by Da Su . va and Co ., 1 , Bridesi : e . Fleet-street London . -,- Sold V . y aU Medical Tenders . Buy-axe of bnnno-r—Unprincipled persons ( Chemists a nd others ) pr . > ; ure Counterfeits of that popular rcmedv « ' nx Lo-ws ' s l ' t > . M -vi - Wafjss . " Purchasers are the-el tore . . ar . one ' l a . i' »> j . u - . - .-liase auy " Pulmonic" Medicine or ' Wafers * u'i ! .- ~ the words "Da Locock ' s Wafers" appear in Wlri ,: L i ? .-vs on a Red Ground , on the Government S- imp ou t * - ! , ]* -:, i Uo 3 j without which aU are counter Itit and an imposition .
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THE XaTIOXAL " GUARDSMAN , ± imblishcd this day , may be had from aU j **^""* ¦ rier . Tliree-lialfbence ; containing powerful lowiLat Articles for the People : also , two contmuous Tales ot an hl wI ^ of puSr > , Queen-Jiead ^ sase , Paternoster-1 VrtV _
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-The Parliament , what it hasdone ; what it has not ' done ; and what U shoidd do . The claims of Lord John- Rnsijkt , bejc-amlv Disbaelli , Esq ., . and Richakd Cobde . v , Esq ., considered . " * PUBLIC MEETING wM be held in A the LITERARY INSTITUTION , John-street , Fitzroysqnare , on the Eveslvo of Tuesday , the 13 th inst , to consider the above subject Messrs . Julian Habsev , P . M'Gsath , W . Dlxos , T . Claek , E , Stailwood , and S . Kydd , will take part in the discussion . Chair to be taken at half-past Seven o ' clock . Admission to the Body of the TTall , Id . ; Gallery , 2 d . Jf . B . —Free Discussion . All parties invited to attend .
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Q TANDARD THEATRE . — AU persons ^ holding Tickets or Cash on account of the late Benefit held at the above house , on the 7 th inst , are requested to settle the same on or before Thursday evening , the 15 th inst The Secretary , pro tern ., will be in attendance at the Committee-room , lli , High Holborn , to wind up the affair , on the evening of the 15 th inst , from eight till ten . E . Stallwood , Secretary pro km .
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SHEFFIELD THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE SHEFFIELD BRANCH of the NATIONAL LAND COMPANY wiU be held at Mr . Cavill ' s , Temperance Hotel , 33 , Queen Street , on Monday evening , Feb . 12 th . Chair to be taken at Seven o ' clock . By Order of the Committee , Geo . Pocles , Chairman .
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PRIZE . TO BE DISPOSED OF , FOR £ 15 , A FOCR-ACRE PRIZE CERTIFICATE , drawn b . the November ballot in 1847 ; also , a PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE , for £ 310 s . As the above prize was drawn in the second unlocated ballot , the purchaser will be entitled to an early location . Immediate application to be made to A T ., at Middleton ' s , South Stockton , county Durham .
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A BARGAIN ! rjlO BE SOLD , bvaparty aDout to emi-JL grate . TWO TWO-ACRE SHARES , ONE TIHIEEACRE SHARE , and ONE FOUR-ACKE SHARE , each paid up in the National Land Company . Price , £ 10 ; or may be had separately at the most reasonable offer . Address ( post-paid ) to Mr . Joseph Swot , Hope-street , Wigan .
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TO BE SOLD , A TWO-ACB . E ALLOTMENT , on tne CHARTERVILLE ESTATE , MINSTER L 0 VEL , pleasantly situated on the high road to Cheltenham , partly cropped with wheat Company ' s demands paid up . For particulars , inquire of Francis Cauls , Minster Lovel , Oxfordshire .
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FOR SALE , TWO PAID-UP TWO-ACRE SHARES in the NATIONAL LAND COMPANY ! Price £ 110 s . each . Early applicationis requested , the party being about to leave the country . Apply to B . Eooeus , Cooper , China-square , Lambethwalk .
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SOUTH LONDON CHARTIST HALL , Corner of Webber-street , Blackfriars-road . rj"OUR ORATIONS will be delivered at - * - the above-named Hall in aid ; of the Fund tor the support of THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE CHARTIST VICTIMS . On Wedsesdat Evenings , Fehbuabt Hth and 21 st , By THOMAS COOPER , Author of the " Purgatory of Suicides . " On WEDHE 3 DAT EVENING , FeRWJAST 23 th , By PHILIP M'GRATH ; And on Wednesdat Evening . Mabch 7 th , . By THOMAS CLARK ; On tte / otfowing suty ' ecU : — Feb . 14 th , 1 S 49 . THE WRONGS OF IRELAND . —Sketch of the early history of the Irish People ; the Conquest by Henry II . ; Struggles of Roderick O'Connor , the last King- of all Ireland ; Feuds of the Barons , and Oppressive Rule of the English Kings ; O'Neill of Ulster ; Government of Henry VIIL and Elizabeth ; of James L and Charles L ; Oppressions of Strafford ; CromweU in Ireland—his Barbarous Massacres ; Seizure and Division of the Lands of the Catholics ; Injustice under Charles IL Feb . 21 st THE WRONGS OF IRELAND . ^ Tames H . in Ireland ; Battle of the Boyne ; more Injustice under William III . ; Ireland under Anne and the Georges ; Lord Charlemont and the Irish Volunteers ; the " United Irishmen ; " Wolfe Tone , Arthur O'Conuor , and Lord Edward Fitzgerald ; the " Irish Rebellion , " Castlereagh , and"tli 3 Union ; " Robert Emmett ; the Agitation under Daniel O'Connell : the Recent "Insurrection ; " MitcheL Smith O'Brien , ic , ic ; Proposition of a Remedy for the Evils of Ireland . Feb . 28 th . The Impolitic , Unjust and Anti-Christian Character of DEATH PUNISHMENTS . Mabch 7 th . Life and Character cf THOMAS JEFFERSON , the Third President of the American Republic ; Comparison between Washington and Jefferson ; Democratic Tendencies of the Latter ; Jefferson considered as the first man of his time and country . To commence at Eight o'Clock . Admission-—Twopence .
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S . Sacsdebs has received 2 s . Gd ., for the Victim Fund , from William Swalley and others , and requests the Chartists in Jiis nei g hbourhood to come forward to support the victims of oppression . John Vixcest . —We have no room for reports of Emigration Societies . Female Chartists , Manchester . —We have no room for your address . Somersetshire . —We repeat , we cannot answer questions respecting Emigration Societies . People must inquire and judge for themselves . AsrnasT IIaich , Hawick . —No room . To Cobeesposdests . —We have received several communi . cations from the suh-secretaries of the Land Company , calling upon the members to pay their local and general levies ; the addresses of Land and Chartist sub-secretaries to whom communications are to he addressed—and announcements of meetings : we cannot insert such notices unless they are paid for as advertisements . J . H . Cbooe—Received . Mr . F . Caulk , Ckartervule . —The charge is is . Gd .
The Southern Stab Saturday, February 10,1849.
THE SOUTHERN STAB SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 10 , 1849 .
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DJELAED AND THE ENGLISH . During the long and complicated struggles which have taken place between the English and the Irish people , from the time that Daniel 0 ' Council measured his value to a Whig Government , by the standard of that ungenerous dissension created between the English and the Irish democracy , and upon which Whig strength depended , we have throughout discriminated between the English people and the English oligarchy . We have shown—and not without effect—that the labouring classes of England are as much oppressed by that oligarchy , as the labouring classes of Ireland
arc . However , the question of national dissatisfaction , arising out of class-legislation and unequal representation , is one which requires deep thought before the needed correction can be applied ; and being a subject novel to the people of both countries , it required long and continuous training to bring the mind steadily to bear upon the monster evil . We were always prepared to go with any party whose mere professions were calculated to confer the slightest benefit upon the labouring classes ; determined , nevertheless , to use any slight advantage for the furtherance of the cause of Democracy .
We opposed the Free Traders in their agitation , so long as it was confined to a mere reduction in the price of bread ; while the fact remains upon record , that at every Free Trade meeting attended , by Chartists , at which an amendment was proposed , that amendment in no case repudiated the principle of Free Trade , but merely proclaimed the necessity of extending it beyond the mere question of bread ; and , as soon as the Free Trade party directed their attention to the further question of the extension of the Suffrage , though not reaching the popular standard , we gave them our support , still adhering firmly and consistently to the WHOLE ANIMAL .
Again , when Mr . Cobden proposed his Financial Budget , in it we saw the gleam of Chartism , through diminished patronage occasioning Whig destruction . And now , in the first week of this important session , when nothing is proposed for the improvement of the condition of the English , and the Irish are once more compelled to bear their sufferings without a murmur , and to die without complaint ; we now—having fiequentl y forewarned the oligarchy and great gentlemen of England—tell that party that their support of the policy of a Ministry to whose principles they
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are repugnant , but of Avhom , nevertheless , they are the most active coadjutors when tho i'i « hts of the people are to be invaded—wo tell that party , that our battle now shall he
BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THE ARISTOCRACY . We have stood up for the rights of that aristocracy , so far as the just exercise of those rights might confer a benefit upon the people w e didhopetliat they would bid , under changed circumstances , for popular favour and support , while we find them , at the commencement of the Session , not only the subservient tools , but the inciters of the Whig Government to acts of tyranny and oppression . They do not require to hear any argument , for or against the mosttyrannical propositions of Govemmen t : then-mind , trained from infancy in the school of old
Tory principles , cannot be warped from the support of those princi ples , except by the pressure from without and the very fact of Air . Disraeli , and others of that school , repudiating the right of the people to influence the decisions of that House , of itself proves that they are incompetent to legislate in accordance with the requirements of this age of progress ; while their adherence to the old system of corruption , constitutes the chief power of the Whig Ministry . So that the necessity of placing all parties in the House of Commons in their own distinctive positions , must at once strike the mind of every thinking
man . ^ The Whigs in office repudiate Whig principles , and merel y hold power b y the connivance of the Protectionist party , who , conscious of thefr own inability to regain their former position , are urged on to acts , which must ultimatel y produce a most calamitous conflict , by mere hatred of Sir Robert Peel and his party . Since the return of the Whigs to office , we have called the attention of our readers to tho
fact , that the country , until awakened from its lethargy , would be governed upon the maxim of hatred to Peel , We have shown that the character of Whig and Tory has now merged into "IN" and " OUT . " Tories in , and Tories out trying to get in . And not only does this anomalous coalition apply to thoso parties in Parliament , but it equally applies to those out of Parliament , as is most characteristically illustrated by the fact of Mr . Baiitesthe New Poor Law official—at his recent
election for Hull , being proposed by a Conservative , and seconded by a Liberal . Perhaps , our readers ask , how this anomalous coalition of parties in the House can be successfully destroyed ; and with the fear of the Gagging Bill before our eyes , it may be difficult to answer this proposition , were it not for that divine veneration entertained for precedent , and that constitutional maxim recommended by a Whig representative of monarch y in Ireland . That Viceroy said , —
" AGITATE ! AGITATE ! AGITATE !" and now that the law , the Constitution , and all authority , has merged in viceregal perception and omnipotence ; in the loyal words of the loyal representative of the constitutional monarch of England , who repudiated the title of divine right , and preferred to base his title upon the blood of Englishmen , we say , in conformity with the recommendation of . the representive of that monarch— " Agitate ! agitate !! agitate !!!"
England—notwithstanding the Whig snares set in every political path and track—has still preserved her right to free discussion ; and as Mr . Canning proposed the English stage as the fit arena for the adjustment of Irish disputes , we call upon the Irish members and tho Irish people resident in England , to transfer Irish agitation from the Viceroy's sea-bound dungeon to the open field of English discussion , and we pledge ourselves that the much-reviled English Chartists will throw no impediment in the way of such a movement .
The Chartists , though schooled in adversity , still adhere sternly and steadfastly to then * principles ; their folly of to-day will be the accepted policy of all upon the morrow ; and the Irish agitators , pursuing such a course , will not hear so much of physical force as they did when the advocacy of the principle was necessary to secure patronage for the propounder ; while , upon the other hand , they will find it difficult to play fast and loose with
English opinion and English resolution . We have ever contended that the Repeal of the Union , unaccompanied by the principles of the Charter , would be a curse rather than a blessing to Ireland ; while the present state of Irish representation in the House of Commons , convinces us that there is no hope for that country , except in the pressure from without . Can any Irishman reflect without horror upon the fresh onslaught made upon the liberties of Ireland ? and can anv fact be more
conclusive of the weakness , the tyranny , and incompetency of the present Ministers to govern that country , than the proclaimed necessity of damming up the only source through which the required information to correct national grievances could be communicated ? And can any man doubt , after the weak and impotent speech of Sir George Grey , so graphically described and pungently satirised by Mr . O'Connor , that , as regards Ireland ,
the policy of the English Minister is to tickle the tyrannical feelings of his Tory supporters 1 If it is not legitimate or natural , it is politic , for those out of office to acquiesce in measures which one day , in office , they themselves may be compelled to apply for , and how cheering to their feelings that , when that day arrives , they can flash the measures and the speeches of Lord John Russell and his colleagues in the face of opposing Whigs—but how ready
the answer . [ " Yes , sir , " says the nohle lord , " I admit aU that the right hon . gentleman says , but then I contend for it , that circumstances were different in the two cases . As regards our policy , we urged—and , I must say , with a full concurrence of the House—those exciting circumstances passing around us in Europe , as a justification for a resort to a temporary Suspension of the Constitution , as the means of preserving domestic tranquillity , and , thereby , proving to turbulent nations and disaffected agitators the power , the strength , and efficacy of English law , as a substitute for hrute force . " ] Such , no doubt , would he the response ef the noble lord , but yet the answer would be ready : —
" Theso convulsions and this turbulence only existed in the mind of the Queen's Viceroy , and the electric spark from his haunted imagination communicated portentous forebodings and revelations to the susceptible mind of the English Minister . " Why , Lord Burleigh ' s nod was insignificant and equivocal , compared to this optical illusion , operating upon the mental faculty of Lord Clarendon . Butenough , Englishmen , in Ireland , you who havebeenbanishedfromthelandof yourbirthby English oligarchical oppression and misrule , and not by popular tyranny and indifference ; rouse yourselves—throw off your apathy—in the words of Mr . Canning—make England , the free stage of England , contracted by
THE SIDE WINGS of Whiggery-makethis England—the reviled of your great leaderthe stage of Irish agitation ; thercviled English people will not he an unwilling or a cheerless audience ; keep within the narrowed limits of Whi g law , or rather caprice , until the confluence of English and Irish minds shall create that flo od of knowledge which will break down all the dams and harriers of bigotry , intolerance , and ignorance ; and establish for that seabound dungeon—where noughtis now heard but weeping , and wailing , and gnashing of teeth—a Constitution whose principles no tyrant will dare to invade ; a Constitution , in defence of which all Irishmen would cheerfully offer their lives as a sacrifice .
Irishmen ! your rights are not destroyed , but invaded . Englishmen ! the blow at Ireland is aimed at you . Irishmen and Englishmen \ you have one common interest— " United , you stand ; divided , y ou fall . " Cast aside every national prejudice , no matter whether you he
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Catholic or Protestant : enter the list in Freedom ' s cause , and hear in mind , that " Freedom ' s ' battle once begun , Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft is ever won . Up , then I English and Irish , and let your battle-cry be— " The erection of Freedom's monument upon Tyranny ' s ruin !"
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PARLIAMENT ARY REVIEW . Ministers had a narrow escape in the House of Lords , in the dehate on the Address . Theii whole policy—foreign , domestic , and colonial , —was assailed by Lord Stanle y ; and hh amendment was only lost by two votes . ^ This is a significant intimation of the estimation in which they are held by one branch of the Legislature . In the Commons , Mr . Disraeli proposed a similar amendment , hut after two adjournments withdrew it , without going to a division . Attacking , as he did , the Free Traders and Financial Reformers , as well as the mere Whigs , he would have had Peelites , Cobdenites , and Treasury hacks , all against him ; and , therefore , exercised a wise discretion in not pressing his amendment to a vote . With few exceptions , however , the speeches in both Houses were neither worth hearing , nor reading . Not that there were no able ones among them , but because the subjects debated were altogether irrelevant to those questions in which the people feel the deepest interest , and by which they are most , nearl y affected . For instance ,- in the Lords , a very great portion of the debate turned upon Lord Minto's intervention between the King of Naples and
the people of Sicily ; and the same subject constituted a very large portion of the discussion in the Commons . Now , no doubt , it is quite right that the foreign policy pursued by a Government should ho duly criticised , hut we submit , that its home policy should occupy tho primary position , and challenge tho closest scrutiny . Not so , thought our legislators , in both Houses , Great Britain sunk into insignificance beside Naples , Sicily , Brazil , & c ., & c ; and our own vast and wide-extended Colonies were not deemed worth y even of an allusion in the Royal Speech .
Of course this omission was intentional . The Whigs had the selection of then . ' own topics , and they were scarcely likely to choose one in which their administrative incapacit y has been more injuriously , and more flagrantly exhibited than in almost any other department of the Government . Earl Grey , as head of the Colonial-office , has , like a true Whig , acted in the teeth of every principle he laid down on Colonial policy when he was Lord
Howick , and bidding for office . He has crammed the Colonics with his relations and dependents , whose incapacity and ignorance the colonists have to pay dearly for , not only in positive salaries , but the mischief inflicted thereby , and , as far as any chance of the establishment of constitutional aud representative government in the Colonies is concerned , they have much less now than when the management of affairs was in the hands of the Tories .
Mi * . G-eattan moved an amendment with reference to that part of the Address which threatened a continuance of the deprivation of Constitutional Ri ghts in Ireland ; but of course that was speedily disposed of . About a dozen members only could be found to sympathise with the political rig hts of Irishmen , and the question was settled the first night . The present Parliament has quite acquired the knack of dealing arbitrarily with
Ireland , and seem to like it . There was an evident gusto in the manner in which they proceeded , on Tuesday evening , formally to re-enact the tyrannical Bill of last session , for the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act . One would have thought that prostrated as Ireland now is—with its lands lying waste—its landlords impoverished—its tenant fanners either fled to America , or in the workhouse—and its peasantry stricken by disease and famine—there could have been
small need for coercive and repressive measures . But the Whigs know that we hold Ireland by force alone . Our occupation of that country is a military one , and the slightest withdrawal of that power by which the natural feeling of the people is suppressed—and all hut stifled , would be immediatel y followed by an insurrectionary explosion . Such are the melancholy results of centuries of English rule in Ireland . The Lord-Lieutenant himself , in that letter which forms the basis of this renewed Suspension of the Constitution , gives what " we have no doubt is a faithful description of the popular feeling in that country ;—
On the part of thoso engaged in the late treasonable movement no indication whatever of sorrow or repentance for their misdeeds has been observed . Their regret is confined to their failure , and their hopes are directed to a move favourable issue on the first opportunity ; nor does the orderly conduct of the people proceed from any improved feeling as regards the law or the executive government . A pleasant prospect , truly , to look forward to , is the future government of Ireland ! But repressive and arbitrary measures cannot last always . They are , to say the least of them , extremely expensive , as well as
unsatisfactory m their operation . It is no slight matter to think of a large army , and an expensive staff of civil officers and constabulary , being maintained for the purpose of making a whole island into a desolate waste—of driving its landlords to beggary—its farmers to emigrate to other lands with their capital—and its peasants to death in workhouses or fever-hosr pitals . Yet , that is practically the result of our policy . The paltry loan of fifty thousand pounds , proposed on Wednesday for the socalled relief of Irish distress , is simply ridiculous in such circumstances . Lord Joun
refused to promise that more would not bo asked for , and so we may make up our minds that more will bo asked for ; hut is it not time that a stop should be put to this horrible system of plunder and injustice by which the Whigs first create wide-spread destitution aud discontent , and then call at once for money to maintain a large organised force for repressive purposes , and to feed in hopeless pauperism the people , who are compelled to become idle burdens upon this country 1 The real truth is , that Ireland is completely under the government of one of tho most pestiferous and mischievous sects that ever cursed
any country or age by their doctrines and their practices . The Political Economists destroy whatever they touch . They are unchecked and uncontrolled in Ireland , and wc see the consequences . In England , as far as they have succeeded in getting the working classes , or any portion of our industrial system under their power , they have produced similar results . Destitution , pauperism , discontent and crime follow surely on their track . They inflict misery and wretchedness more widely , and
quite as deep as the conqueror , who marks his way by flame and devastation—though by different means ; and unless the wise and good of all parties unite in resisting them , they will , in a few years , reduce this country to the same condition as they have unfortunate Ireland . It is owing to the influence of the doctrines of this sect , that such self-evident and practical propositions as Mr . Scrope ' s , for the employment of the people in reproductive labonr , are rejected , almost contemptuously , by the Legislature . What can he more demonstrable than
that the labour of the able-bodied Irish , applied to the now uncultivated lands by means of a loan upon the security of the produce of their toil , would supply the means of at once sustaining the people in honest industry in future , and repay the capital originally advanced ? But because this would violate some of the absurd and false canons of the so-called "Science" of Political Economy , we are doomed to see millions wasted annually in producing poverty , desolation , and despair , in a country whose natural resources are admitted to be the most abundant of any country in Europe , of equal surface extent .
n \* A with the subject of Ireland , which it SSftS t X >? - large portion of the fessU we W "otS to W *» £ « Z « Committee to inquire into tho Opoajion oi the New Poor Law in that comrhy , ^ e cannot tell what there is to inquire a » lM evils and the abuses of the law are ™«»** £ all who have paid the slightest attention to the subject . In the reports of then' own officer , and in the communications from other parties , Ministers have all the materials for an immediate and definite measure . All that will do done by the appointment of a Committee , win be to cause the examination , at a great
expense , of a number of persons , whose evidence will be printed about the end of the session , in a Blue hook , accompanied by a vague Report , neither of which will be read by anybody ; and there the matter is likely to rest , until the depopulating and desolating process has been carried so far , as to render any further legislation unnecessary . But this mode of dealing with important matters is , as our waderaare aware , an oldtrickwith the Whigs . It is a convenient " Dodge , " and while it has a wonderful air of liberality—as if it gave those
interested a voice in the settlement of difficult questions it—saves them the trouble of attemptingthat settlement themselves . Amidst the general ignorance of sound principles , and the absence of everything like practical views of the real position and wants of the country , in the present crisis , it is quite a relief to fall in with a true idea , or one that goes to the root of the evil . In referring to the last sheet anchor of the middle
classesreduction of taxation—the Marquis of G-RANuy hit the rig ht nail on tho head in one short sentence— " What the people wanted was more more profitable employment . " True , my Lord ; and until tho means of providing that are devised and sot in motion , all the other talk in Parliament is but " leather and prunella . " If the Protectionist party—of which Lord Granby is not an undistinguished
member—would devote their attention and energies to this question , instead of fig hting about the abstract merits of the defunct system or Protection , they would take a practical , and , we believe , a speedy path to the restoration oi their party to power . There is a proverb in Lancashire , very applicable to their case"Its o' no use crying o ' er shed milk . " Let them accept the doom of Protection as definite
in the meantime , and betake themselves earnestly , as beseems the owners of the soil , to the working out of measures by which the people maybe fed and employed at home , and we predict that the mere hypocritical pretensions of the Whigs , and the vulgar fallacies of the " cheap and nasty" pedlars , whose whole wisdom is comprised in pounds , shillings , and pence , would speedily be at a discount . If the Protectionists do not take this course ,
somebody else will ; for nothing but that can save Great Britain from sure decline and destruction . Among the business talked of , have been some alterations in the Sessional orders , with the view of economising time . It will be remembered that at the close of last session , Mr . O'Connor gave notice of a motion to restrict speakers , with certain exceptions , to a limited time . A strong leaning in favour of that course was also shown in Mr . Evelyn
Denison ' s Committee , which sat and reported on the subject last year . But Lord John and his colleagues , in their usual timid style , were afraid of adopting any plan really calculated to effect the object aimed at ; and therefore proposed a few unimportant alterations , the principal one being a partial waving of privilege in regard to the House of Lords , who at present are precluded from originating any
Bill of which money clauses form a part . In future they are to have that power under certain restrictions . The great and crying evil , that most urgently required reforming , was , however , left untouched . Long and useless speeches — in which dull common-place speakers repeat for the fiftieth time , arguments that have been worn to rags by previous orators , as common-place as themselves — are to have no limit
assigned them . The House may cough , talk , and in other noisy and contemptible ways show its desire to get rid of a bore ; but , if the bore have only a tolerable share of vanity , and pertinacity sufficient to withstand coughing , shuffling of feet , and " cries of' divide , ' and ' question , ' " he may , as far as the rules of the House are concerned , go on spouting until his lungs or his legs fail him . There was , to he sure , a general understanding that short speeches
would be best , and most advisable for all parties ; hut the habit of spinning out the most meagre and attenuated materials into diffuse and wordy harangues , has taken too deep a root in the Legislature to he easily eradicated . We heard a German recently say , that in the new Legislatures in that country—say the Diet at Frankfort—half-hour speeches are considered long ones , an hour would he a wonder and a monster , and as for three hours , or three hours and a half—which is not unusual in our
House of Commons—the mention of such a thing is set down unhesitatingly as a fable—a trial upon the credulity of the party to whom so monstrous a fabrication is told . Happy Germans , who have not yet acquired the art of word-spinning . A second evil of considerable magnitude , was the number of times the question has to be put upon every measure before the House . It is , no doubt , most desirable that every precaution should be taken to prevent Government from hurrying measures through Parlia ment before
public opinion can he ascertained upon them , when such is necessary . But many ot these forms seemed expressly constituted to waste time , and , however it mi ght have suited our ancestors to proceed at a dignified , slow , and stately pace , the business , both public and private , now brought before Parliament is so vast , that acceleration has become a paramount necessity . Above all , the practice of " counting out" a House upon an
"inconvenient" motion , and thereby losing a whole evening , ought to have been put an end to . Frequentl y , does this take place just at the very time when public business most requires attending to . Upon the whole , we see nothing in the alterations yet made to induce us to hope for any material improvement as regards the debates , and the business generally , and we shall , probably , have the Session protracted till the end of August with the same beggarly results as last year .
Defence And Victim Fund . It Is Especial...
DEFENCE AND VICTIM FUND . It is especiall y requested that in the tran « n « mission of monies to tho above funds , tljia strict attention be paid to the following inini structions : — All monies for the Defence Fund must bib " forwarded to William Eider , 5 , Macclesfieldldl street , Soho ; by Post-office order ONLY , madid payable to Feargus O'Connor , at thhi Charing Cross Post Office . All monies for tho Victim Fund to bo sera to John Arnott , 11 , Middlesex-place , Someier Town , London ; hy Post Office order , ( stampipi not being available ) , and made payable to hinht at the Battle Bridge Post Office . William Rider . John Arnott .
Receipts Of The National Land Company/,,...
RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY / ,, For the Week Ending Thursdav , FEBituAttT : 8 , 1849 . SHARES . £ a . d . £ s . d . d ., Mountain .. 0 5 0 Leicester , Astill 1 5 ij iji Plymouth .. 0 10 2 Preston , Brown 3 3 5 Si Hominghold .. 0 11 6 Newton Heath .. 3 6 q m Uxbridge .. 0 18 0 Neivbury .. 8 3 o Ol Winchcomb .. 0 5 0 York .. 0 15 0 Oi Winlaton .. 15 0 Bridport .. 0 IS 88 i Birmingham , Tunhridge Wells 0 10 <)<) Ship .. 0 5 0 Knaresuorough . 015 oo
Bury .. 7 0 0 Hawick .. 2 0 III South Shields .. 4 15 0 Warwick .. 0 8 OC Stalybridge .. 2 10 0 W . Baillie .. 0 1 6 C Rotherhum .. 1 18 0 R . Pattison .. 0 1 oi Coventry .. 012 0 P . Trumhle .. 0 1 l ) l ] Boston .. 0 4 0 W . M'Lean .. 0 S 0 C Stroudwater .. 10 0 J . Vigors .. 0 1 66 Helper , Gregory 0 10 0 C . Moivl .. 0 1 00 Nottingham , J . Tarpenter .. 0 1 UJJ Sweet .. 0 17 a J . Arthur .. 0 2 00 Hull .. 2 0 0 J . Hefferuan .. 0 1 01 } Manchester .. 1 17 6 Welch Kover .. 0 10 0 U Northampton , " * Kaii-ison .. 014 4 £ 50 7 11 EXPENSE FUND . Birmingham , York .. 0 1 6 > Ship .. 0 2 0 J . Gilder .. 0 2 0 ) South Shields .. 0 5 0 S . Francis .. 0 2 G ! Coventry .. O 4 O P . Jackson .. 0 1 G ; Stroudwater .. 0 2 0 — •¦ Nottingham .. 0 13 £ 1 t o \ Preston , Brown 0 2 3 - - > TOTALS . Land Fund 50 T 1 Expense ditto . . ••• \ ' <>' Bonus ditto 31 J 6 2 Loan ditto ... — 114 i Fransfers ... ... ••¦ o 13 o ¦ £ 365 7 7 Erratum . — In last week ' s Star Edinburgh should have > een £ 3 , not 3 s . The 3 s . count for £ 3 in the sum total . W . Bixos , C . Dome , T . Clark , Cor . Sec . P . M'Grath , Fin . Sec .
EXECUTIVE FUND . Per S . Ktdd . — Preston , J . Brown , 8 s . ; Preston , for Cards , 4 s . ; Wallingford , C . Phillips , 5 s . ; Per S . Kidd , 10 s , 6 d Per Land Office . —Marylebone , 2 s . Id . ; Mr . Merry , Gd . VICTIM FUND . Per S . Kidd . —Lynn , J . Twaites , 5 s . ; Wallingford , C . Phillips , 8 s . Per Land Office . —It . G . Bland , Is . ; Mr . Knowles , per Mr . Giles , 2 s . ; Two Friends , ditto , Is . ; Limehouse , 10 s . DEFENCE FUND . Per Land Office . —R . G . Bland , Is . Per Wm . Rider . —W . Land , Newport Pagnell , Is . ; Holmfirth , proceeds of Soiree , per H . Marsden , 8 s . ; Derby , per W . Short , 10 s . ; Sheffield , J . Ward , per G . Cavill , Is . ; Sheffield , II . Pashley , per G . Cavill , Cd . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , Gd . ; Rouhdale Chartists ( to pay M . Kixon ) , per A . Cralrtree , as . ; j Rudders , Dunfermline , 6 d . ; Cigar Makers , 15 s . The sum received from Belford , per J . Kobson , for Defence Fund , was announced in our last as being 3 s . 5 d . It should have been 9 s . 3 d .
Nl ' DOUALL'S CASE-FOR WRIT OF ERROR . Per Wm . Rider . —Elland , per T . Broadbent , 3 s . ; Holm , firth , proceeds of Soiree , per H . Marsden , 9 s . ; W . Z . Bowley , Malmesbury , Is . Gd . ; F . L ., Sheffield , per G . Cavill , Cd . ; Nottingham , per 3 . Sweet , 18 s . lid . ; J . Ball , Mansfield , Is . ; Mr . Ford , baker , Berwick-street , 2 s , 6 d . ; Collected by Mrs , Trickey , at Leicester , 3 s . 4 d . FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . PcivWm . Rider . —Holmfirth , proceeds ot Soiree , per If . Marsden , 8 s . ; W . Z . Bowley , Malmesbury , 4 s . ; Mrs . Marshall , Sheffield , per G-. Cavill , Is . Gd . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , Gs . 3 d . ; Kentish Town , per Osmondie Martiens , is . lOd . ; Oldham , proceeds of Lecture by the Rev . J . Bar . ker , per T . Tristram , £ 5 .
NATIONAL VICTIM AND DEFENCE FUND . Per Jonjf Aitxorr . —The Female Democratic Silk Society of Keighley , £ 4 ; William Lane , Newport Pagnell , Is . ; Kentish Town , per Mr . Lunn , 5 s . ; Coventry , per George Freeman , 7 s . 6 d . ; Finsbury , per Mr . Salmon , 4 s . 6 d . ; Westminster , per James Grassby , 4 s . 2 d . ; Mr . Rider , as per Star , £ 6 4 s 7 d . ; Cigar Makers , per Mr . Finch , 5 s . ; Mr . Harrison , per Mr . M'Grath , Is . ; Whittington and Cat , per Mr . M'Grath , is . Id . ; Carhvright ' s , per Mr . East , 2 s . ; Cartwright ' s , per Mr . Brown , Is . ; Crown and Anchor , per Mr . Pelteret , £ 1 ; Mr . Kydd , as per Star , 13 s . ; Ernest Jones Locality , per Mr . Harrap , 3 s . 3 d . ; Land Office , as per Star , 9 s . Cd . The committee present their thanks to tl : « men of Oldhani and the Female Democrats of Keighley for their kind and valuable support
Disastrous Flood.—We Reported, In Our Fa...
Disastrous Flood . —We reported , in our fast number , the destruction of the bridge at Inverness . The Inverness Courier says : — " We have this week to record a series of floods unexampled , according to oral and written testimony , in the north and west Highlands . Long-continued and heavy rains , accompanied by a remarkable prevalence of lightning , had fallen over the various districts in which our principal rivers have their sources , and from which they derive their ordinary supplies . The floods extended as far west as Lochourn-head , and included the districts watered by the Quoich , the Garry , the Arhaig , the Oich , and lesser streams , whence they were precipitated into Loch-Oich , Loch-Lochy , and Loch-Ness . The river running from the first of these lakes has carried off the
bridges of Aberchalder and Fort-Augustus , besides occasioning several breaches in the banks of the Caledonian Canal . The streams entering the Lochy have broken up the roads and devastated fields and plantations , including the picturesque grounds of Aclmacarry , the seat of Lochiel . Loch-Ness , over its wide expanse of twenty-four miles , rose about fourteen feet—a height unprecedented in the district . On its banks various land-slips took place , and much damage was inflicted ; but these have been trivial compared with the effects of its waters on tho river and towns of Inverness . Never was the Ness seen in such fearful volume and flood . It attained its full height more rapidly in consequence of meeting with the waters ot
the Canal . All were placed on one level , and a breach was made in the canal banks , above the lock at Docehgarroch . By unremitted and strenuous exertions this breach was prevented from widening ; but the accumulated waters rushed down their course of five miles , overflowing the adjoining grounds , and finally destroying the important stontf bridge at Inverness , and submerging nearly onethird of the town . The alarm of the inhabitants was indescribable , the losses and privations have been great , but in the whole circuit and course of these floods we have heard of no loss of life . Turning from our own severe calamity , we find that , further north in this country , the district of Strathglass also suffered . Glen-Affrick , Glen-Cannich , and
the course of the river Bcauly , were inundated . On the estate of Lord Lovat farms have been destroyed , embankments carried off , mills and steadings ruined . In Ross-shire , the sources of the Orrin . the Garve , and the Conan rose to an unprecedented height . Several houses wore thrown down in the village of Conan , and roads andfields much injured . The high grounds of Badenoch , in which the Spoy takes its rise , have also been flooded , and much damage done to embankments and farms . In all parts of the north , indeed , floods have been rife , but it is in the course of the principal mountain rivers that the results have been so remarkable . The loss in many instances will be irreparable—in all severe ; and years must elapse before thev can to obliterated . Private charity and benevolence must be freely exerted , but much will still remain undone . A correspondent at Lagan says : — " The rain fell torrents in this 25 th
m quarter from the 20 th to the ult ., without any intermission . The Sucy rose to an unprecedented height—covering the whole g len to the depth of several feet . To a stranger the whole district would have appeared—the water tossed into foam by the fearful winds—to be a gre & t arm of the sea , or outlet from it . At Ardvorikie great damage has been done . The Marquis of Aber * corn ' s lodge was surrounded with water , and inn" ? to tho amount of about £ 500 inflicted . The boat was shattered , and the chain-bridge broke to piece * . The property of Cluny has escaped ; no part ot P » embankment is injured . On the estate of u ' e" truim the embankment has given way in * arl < ! i places , and the meadow is wholly covered wi « water . The Spey is half way up the Baddcn , niue " higher than ever it was known before . Two 0 "vS . —one on the burn of Breachy , and the other a Htn to tho east—are destroyed"
. , German Brotherhood . —A society is being \ otja ^ in Berlin for uniting in one commercial , unl 0 n , ' ; n the natives of Germany , scattered as emigrant * America , Australia , and all other countries oi ' world . It is called the " Cosmopolitan Gernw Brotherhood , " and has already from 500 to o members in Berlin . A systematic emigratio n . colonisation is to be attempted ; a treaty < H c ° ' mercc is to bind all Germans , wherever they »^ be , to consume , as far as possible , German mn facturea ; tho profits of a . barter trade witht & o " ^ man colonists is to bo divided among tuc ? ° v members of tho society .
Robberies On The Great Western Railway. ...
Robberies on the Great Western Railway . —On Wednesday , at the police-office , Maryicbono , 11 . Frost , a guard on the Great Western Railway , was finally charged with having stolen a quantity of haberdashery , Ac , from a package which was left at the Reading station , also property belong ing to the Earl of Craven . The evidence given upon the former occasion has already appeared in this journal . The prisoner , when his guilt was made known to him by March , the chief guard , who discovered tho stolen things in the prisoner ' s basket , threw himself from the- train while it was going atthe rate of twenty miles au hour , and received severe injuries A gold musical seal , forming a portion of the prop erty belonging to Lord Craven , was found to have been in the prisoner ' s possession , and it was nrodre dby MrJ Collard , and identified b v the Earl of
Craven ' s steward ; it had been pawned at a Mr Crawley ' s . —Mr . Justins called additional witnesses in support of the charge , and no doubt whatever couldT exist with regard to the prisoner being the guilty party m both of the robberies alluded to-Air . Collard . superintendent of the company ' s police , remarked that four other trains , of which nri soner was guard , had lately been robbed of property -The prisoner was asked if ho had anvthtne to Ith Y , £ " . or ^ wb be was defeated , S ' , ? ° f " ° thlngto . » y . hi exculpation of him-¦ u 5 Z ^ l \ V )""?* 1 with » ° w , but I am JJJ bytatortrtetliit he means tocriminSLan ™ 0 f ^ ewnpaay ' s officers who is now present . -Mr . Broughton observed , that he would have an opportunity of doing so at the Old Bailey , and committed him for trial . —We have been requested to state that the prisoner is not Robert Miles Frost , in the service of tho Great Western Railway .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 10, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10021849/page/4/
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