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1 FBABGUS AND THBINTEBEiT . BSL * s h asbeenolJ % edtotty'toaiuw « t { rarqne « e ons . dnSUne tget o 5 saying inmetlnng about the money atHaccru ^ a sinterestonthelarre sums [ entrusted hiuhinds ; wMcnlar ^ snn » ar * b ' yIrimsaidtohaTe j Ta ^ -iin & e liankertiandfc Onrouerles wereso r ^ j / and oar ex posure of his dabbling with , the peo-SnfSnsT 10 complete , that be could net afford to pas * rtf , « tf in silence : and although ho has not mended fbwjfbv Us' answer , ' -nay , thopghhe has made coba rr ^ n blysnrebjhisTeij admissions—stOLeven the K 0 fLo thrfofhisiiifetuaied dupes would haveaugurad l t . TiVas not right , had he passed over our searching J -w « -withoot notice . So to say something he = was nSTnr confess himself to he any thing hut a to . deal . deanhanded treasurer has
on hononrable , - « . ' He , as Si tpedto mystifyand bewilder ; and thatmystificae i . « e are now about to examine and clear ' up . In the teitdace , he pleads ' guilty * to ourmain charge . He ot < aot-Jie confesses he has not-from the first hour of is ?« isteneeof hfc nefarious landJotterjischemetothe ^ toianee-sbeet , accounted for one single peony of in-Srt th « m sthave accruedou the many thousands of js ^ to placed in Ids hands , if he has had these lands 1 i « d ia the hank , as he represents . He has notr-he con-% he has not—accounted for one penny of thatinter-[ e « jjehaspi & lishedsix balance-sheets since the month ujem 1815 , and in not one of-them has he placed one omjof taatinterestto the credit of the subscribers , to i W he w * pretending toacconn ^ though every one of bte balance-sheets sets forth that * all their money is in i & hanls . ' To *» charge he pleads « guilty * and what eins excuse T That * up to August 14 th , 1 BI 7 . the maior
« rt of the muds were invested in land , labour , and ^ as sist as thsycame into the treasurer ' s hands . ' bjUbot if that were even so , there was the minor part >& 2 »/ hadsin the hankars * hands : and sn that portion w would be some interest , and that interest ought to IxJrt been given op , Feargus ; It is no excuse for a pilr Su ^ treasurer to tell us that his pilferings have n at been sat If he pilfers at all , he is not honest ; and if he sfers small sums , he will make away with large ones if shas the chance . But it is not true that up to August I 8 i , 1847 , 'the major portion of the funds were invested i land , labour , and stock , as fust as they came istothe oasurer ' s hands f that is , if Fear-gas ' s balance-sheets ksaktrolj . He forgets that he has < pven ' as data wheretth to test his statements ; and that data w » are about euseinaniannerthat will make Feargus and his ' exise'look very queer . By his balance-sheets it appears lit he begun to lodge money in the London Joiat-Sto k
iink en the 4 th of September . lStS , on which date he Irsheplacsd £ 923 . Us . Old . there ; and he continued , it Ones , making such lodgments until 5 th of Dec ., , - , at which date he had lodged in the aggregate ' 15 , 750 . 12 s . S £ d . He had withdrawn during thnt period ajy £ 4 , 550 ; so there was left in the hank on that date If the balance-shseta are to ha heUered ) the sum of 0 , 209 . 12 s . sjd .- Then the sixth balance sheet , published time 4 th of September , 1817 , sets forth that , after all omenta had been made , from December 5 th , 1846 . to lugust nth , 1 st " , there remained in that bank the sum ££ 21 , 310 . 12 s . & L in addition to the former sum of £ 9 , 203 . 12 s . SJd . ; making a total in ' the said bank at that 4 s of £ 30 . 511 . Ss . 9 | d . ; andia addition to this , there was ^ ( according to that said balance-sheet ) £ 6 , 03 l . 15 s . 51 d . ^ geuin the Sloncesterahire Bank , malting * total in the jads of bankers of £ 36 , 543 Is . 3 d . Therefore , Feargus , * e maior part of the funds' war to August 14 th were
gt'inrested in land , labour , and stock , as fest as they saw into the treasurer's hands . ' They werela the hanks , ! st at interest—if yonr balance-sheets were not all fudge ffld fraud ! That interest you would receive , if those jjads were in the bans * , ana that interest you ought to jjtegivenup ! But , then , our straightforward treasurer 3 ts , that when he * made up his balance-sheet on the lith of August last , the banking accounts were not setfed ; ' hat that since that date , namely , on the 15 th Octo . £ > , i « 7 , there is enterediu the London Joint StockBank j # & the sum of £ 1 : 9 9 s . for interest ; aui in the Glouestershire Bank book the sum of £ 9 is , ; maMnginthe Wiethe sum" of £ 13810 s . for interest np to October 15 tb ! Ssdisthisail ! Is £ iS 3 ISs . oSthat is to be turned up ' sinterest on sums making in the aggregate £ 36 , 513 ! and ^ periods varying from 25 months to four months ! Is gcallJ So , Feargus , it wont do- ' Tonmust ' ibrkouf getter than this . Letussee whatyonoiee , and & eavre iiH be in a better position to talk to you a little mors lout this paltry £ i 3 S 10 s . You tell us in this same
• Histrer' which we are now examining , that you receive surest on deposits in banks after the rate of Are per to t We hare gone through jeur balance sheets , and cide a table of the sereralsmns yon hare represented as langlodged in the London Joint StockBank , aBdcalcu j # d the interest from the date of lodgment op to tins jcne 15 th of October last . Here it is : — deposit u BUS . Pate of Amount . Length of time Amount of pigment ia months . Interest . 13 * 5 . tsst . i .. £ 323 12 Oi . 25 £ 95 211 $ it . l .. 591 4 2 23 70 15 9 1516 . Iib . 31 .. 1 , 663 4 9 22 15416 6 ipnl 9 .. 1 , 928 l 4 0 18 144 1 6 i & 18 .. 3 , 021 17 4 15 188 16 S Mf 25 .. 500 0 0 15 SI 5 0 Jr . S .. 1 . 0 S 0 0 0 11 47 16 S . VW . « 5 .. 3 , 200 0 0 II 55 O 0 Ba . 5 .-2 , 556 0 0 10 106 IS 9
68 0 0 ... 19 2 17 0 XSSS 1 7 wrruDBAWJis . 1 S 46 £ t . d . Souths . ' £ s . d . Jfcj 1 S » 2 , 060 O « «« , »^ 17 mm 70 16 8 TJjc . 5 _ 2 , 0 J 0 0 OnnM . 10 mM 4 S 5 0 114 1 8 1516 1817 £ 78319 11 S » 5 to Oct 15 . —Arerage 4 Months . ^ 31 , 31912 6 S 55 0 0 £ t , 138 19 U Sjk , Feargus , that tells & pretty tab when put alongsis jour £ 129 9 s . 1 There are all the lodgments in one Sisi ; and if your balance sheets are not the veriest Studs ever palmed on a cheated and robbed ' propriets % , ' all the sums we hare set forth from these bar sacs shiets were in that Bank on the 15 th October last , atepnngtie two withdrawals for which we fiaregiren jin credit . And what is the result ? That on that said lia of October , upwards of a thousand pounds was due fan ton for interest accumulated in that Bank , while pa only talk of gwing np £ l » 9 s . 1 Feargus , it watnot sidioat a purpose that we put the question so often , I fiere is the money ! ' We repeat it . We do more : we Htou again that you must 'fork out . ' You shall hare Brest or ease until yon do bo . Pretty comeOtt > truly , fat joashould realise £ i , 188 los . lid , as interest on fes monies entrusted into your hands as' trustet ' -o . taa cue ) , and giie up only £ v & 9 s . 1 ^ here is the sst , Feargus ! " ' We hare not , on the present occasion , nil anything about the interest due from you for deposits k the Sloucestershire Bank ; nor on the sums that must ins been realised by yonr dabbling with the people ' s aa ^ yin the purchase of Exchequer BHIs . We have only ts forth from your own accounts , the sums yon say rein the London Joint-Stock Bank , and shown taeintst £ t , that you znusthare received on those sums , accordsi to yonr own showing . Again we ask yon , Feargus , dereiitte money i Sot the interest on the Exchequer Els , or on the sums in the Gloucestershire Bank : for saw we will trouble yon about on another occasion ; but n ask , where is the money realised from the Loudon JabtStock Bank—the £ l , lS 8 19 s . lid . ! Where is-it , Tmrjas ? 'Shellou ^' ioan , and behenest , irhenyonare
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REPLY . Dearest , Deadest , Eddy . ^ \ Claiming the privilege of old and intimate HquaintanceSip , I sha !! find it my duty—infeed I shall—to place you under necessary re-Sraint if you coatinue to make an ass of yourslf , by exposing yourself to universal ridicule . Beared , wh y not try Parr ' s pills , as I counsEed you ? I fear , as to all who read it , that Jtrarlast exhibition smells strongly of Josh . < al the " Lucky Boy . " Why , dearest , will pa associate with such degraded and envious j Samps ? and why give that naughty Feargus
^ a triumph and such a hearty laugh at farfolly ? Dearest , I am out of patience with you—that I am—Couldn ' t yon understand , you fool , that erery single sum of which you have demanded fo per cent , interest from Feargus , belonged te & e account of the former treasurer , and to . * iose credit there still stands a ki-ge credit * the Bank , and to whose credit ^ and not to W gus s , the amount of interest with which H charge him will be acknowledged ; and ft me tell you one more feet , and which is % -that " during the whole period of that
, ^ ectahle gentleman ' s treasurership , Mr J . P . Roberts , that though he had money of Lorain the same Bank he never drew one ^ upon his own account for a farthing . ^ . But , tovey , let me show the financial ^ nder that Josh , has brought you into . He ^ distinguish between a current account ^ a deposit , account ; upon a current ac" ^ t , that is , an account against which the debtor can draw at his pleasure , the Bank pays ^ one per cent , interest , whereas , from the !* toe of money , Feargus , as a depositor , lodged iCUW
^ g « sums , ior wmen ne got uve per « » " 7 : * m he covild not withdraw nnder TWO foXTHS . No w , then , spooney , what ^ omes of & ar arithmetic and your 800 A interest , which , " intouched for the whole period to which ta have brought your balance , would not { to a current account have amounted to Jt ? But as you are totally ignorant of J ^ e matters let me instruct yon in one ^ eh of the banking system . If to your ?* ent account you lodge 100 J . on the 2 nd of Jouary and withdraw it on the 30 th of Jatch , you would receive but one shilling and ^ tpence interest for the whole time ,
whereffyou bank it on the 1 st of January , one ^ sooner , and withdraw it on the 1 st of rJfyttro days later , you would have received Saulb gs , or threemonths' interest , because ^ Itank makes no division of months , whereas ? * he deposit account yon receive the stipu-Ninterestfromtheday you lodge to the fr you draw . The difference between the ?^ est to the banker of a current account ^ a deposit accoun t is this , that as regards a S ^ t account he has trouble in keeping that £ > j | nt , and can ' t calculate the certainty of j TOolating npon it , whereas they can specu-
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late to a certainty upon the deposit account which cannot be withdrawn . Now don ' t you wish you hadn't burnt your fingers , as well as your nails , by thus allowing the « biographer and calculator "—Josh—to make a cat ' s-paw of you . Still , in the hope of restoring you to a state of sanity and quiescence , I will subscribe myself , Your disconsolate and broken-hearted Friend , latAtns ^ . !^ . it ' 3 •> .
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• THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS ' ASSBMBHffG IN 10 ND 0 JT , TO » THE DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING THE FRATERNITY OF ALL
NATIONS , ' ASSEMBLING d BRUSSELS . Bboiheb Dbmocrats . —Tour address of date the 26 th of AoTember , IWJ , was rebeired mS a public meeting of the members and friends of this society hoWen on the 29 th ultimo , in commemoration of the glorious , though ill-fated , Polish Ingnrrection of 1830 . Your delegate , our esteemed friend and brother , Dr Marx , will inform you of the enthuBiasm which hailed his appearance , and the reading of yonr address . Every eye beamed with delight , ever * voice
cried' Welcome , ' and every hand was extended with all the warmth of heartfelt fraternity , to receive your representative . The names of your Committee excited the applause of onr members . The human race owe a debt of gratitude te yonr eooneillors fer their cervices and sacri * fices in the cause of Liberty . An Association which includes in its ranks the heroic General Mellinet , and the glorious and incorruptible patriot , { LeIewelI f must command the confidence of the Democrats of all nations . For ourselves , we accept yonr proffered al . h ' auce with feelings of unspeakable pleasure . Our ? ociety has existed for more than two years . Taking for our motto
'Attmettare Brethren ' we have laboured to unite the friends of veritable liberty belonging to all countries . In England onr efforts have created a brotherly feeling on the part ot that great body of the British people , the Chartists , towards the real reformers of all other lands . Oar manifestoes bare circulated in France and Germany , with the happiest results . We hare laid bare theatrocitiesof the tyrannical governments of Europe toirards Poland and Portugal . At a moment when war between Englandand the United Statesappeared to be imminent , we appealed to the people of both nations against the madness or wickedness of their government , and exhibited the folly and crime of national wars for territory , or that phantom folk of the
hideous past called glory . We spoke not in vain . We imw that our words largely contributed towards the creation of a brotherly feeling between the tiro great branches of the Anglo-Saxon family . On the occasion of our late anniversary , ' ( the 22 nd of September , } we recommended the calling of a Democratic Congress of all nations , and we rejoice to learn that you have published a similar proposition . The conspiracy of kings should be met bj the cennter-oombination of the peoples . Whenever the Democratic Congress may assemble , you may rely upon the English Democracy being represented thereat . It most be the work of your society in connexion with ours to assemble the representatives of our brethren throughout Europe .
Your delegate , Dr Marx , will inform you of the arrangements we have entered into with him to render effective the union of the two associations . Theoppreased people of the several European countries may propose to themselves various modes of ac complishing their emancipation ^; they may differ as to the peculiar forms of the freepoliticalsyBtems they seek to establish , and they may not agree on the social reforms necessary to render liberty a reality ; on these points , unity of sentiment and action may be neither possible nor necessary . But there are two poiatsof agreement for the Democrats of all coon , tries , namely , tub sovcasiexxr of the psopls , and the FEATSBHrrr op SiTioRS . That the actual power of the state—the power to make and amend the
poh ' tieaiandsocialinstitutionsofsociety , sha ] l be vested in the entire people , is demanded by Democrats of all lands . All Democrats , too , worthy of the name , acknowledge that the interests of theFsopis of all countries are the same , and that all nations should aid each other in their str aggles for justice . These two principles—Popular Sovereignty and Utuverid Fraternity , may , therefore , bind the veritable Reformers of all countries w one invincible phalanx . Earnestly hoping the success of your association , and the welfare of its members , we tender to you oar fraternal salutation , and pledge to yen our aid in promoting the triumph of the glorious principles our respective societies are established to propagate . We are aware that it ia to the veritable people , the
Proletarians , the men whose sweat and blood are poured out daily under the slavery imposed npon them by the present system of society , we are aware that it is to these we most look for the establishment of universal brotherhood ; It is the interest of landlords and money-lords' to keep the nations divided ; but it is the interest of the Proletarians , everywhere oppressedby the came kind of taskmasters , and defrauded of the fruits of their industry by thesame description of plunderers , it is their interest to noite . And they will unite . ' From the lpom , the anvil , and the plough , from the hut , the . garret , and the cellar , will come forth ; are' even row coming forth , the apostles of fraternity , and the destined saviours of humanity . BUERAH FOEDBMOCRACT . HURRAH FOR CHH
FBATBEHlrr OF xatxojjs ! Signed by the secretaries and members of the committee—Geo . Joiuh Harut \ ¦ fssA [• " »*¦* Thohas Clark / J . A . WiCHELor , France , CasiSchapkb \ Germany . Joseph Men f vre " ' » ¦ Louis Obobeei , Poland , J . ScsiBEurz , Switeerland , Peter Holm , Scandinavia .
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Woodstock—A Box Starved to Death bt his Father . — For some days past the most painful sensa-, tion has prevailed in this town , in consequence of a report which had been circulating , that a hawker , named John Hnband , had starved ms son ( a lad about twelve years of age ) to death . An inquest was held on the body of the lad , when the following facts were elicited : —Ann Cutler said she knew the deceased , and during the past fortnight he had complained of pains in his inside . A few days before his death he told witness that he had not had any food for several days . He said there was plenty of bread in the touse , but t >> at his father would severely beat and kickhim if he touched it . The father was in the habit ef
going out all day and night , and . leaving the boy without any food ; he was also in the habit of beating the boy most unmercifully . 0 a Tharsday last witness went to Habaed ' s house . The boy was lying on some strawon the floor , and appearea to be dying Witness teld his father that he hadstarved the child te death . Mr George Coles , surgeon , _ eaid that on Thursday afternoon , in consequence of information which he received , he went to fluband's house , and saw the boy lying on the floor . He ( witness ) examinedlmn , and considered ho was suffenug Iron the
wantotsufficientfood . OatheioUowmgday boy was taken to the workhouse , where he died the same evening . Witness did notorderhim any nourishment when he saw him , because hisfather hsddacKs and eggs in the house at the time . Thecauaeof death was starvation . Several other witnesses deposed to the brutal and inhnman condaat of the father . It was also proved that he was in the habit of earning upwards of £ 1 per week . The jury unanimously returned a verdict of manslaughter against John Huband , and the jury made ont a warrant for his committal to Oxford gaolto take his trial at the
nextasai-s . Stkctoe of a GisrtEUAK is tub Eatuabkm . — On Tnesday forenoon Mr Frederick Rowle , a gentleman occupying apartments at No . 7 , Haymarket , destroyed himself by cutting his throat , under the following circumstances : —The nnfortunategentle . man had been occupying the apartmento about a month , and from his habits , was supposed to be a gentleman of independent property . On Tuesday morning , about nine o clock , as was his usual enstorn , he rang for bis boots , intending , as was supnosed , to go eut Shortly after , on the servant goignp with the boots , the unfortonate gentleman was found lying up » n the 1 floor witii his head neariy severed from hisbody- In his right hand was firmly grasped aiwrir , the handle oTwhich was fastened with tope , so that it should notslip ; Mr White , surgeon of the Hajmarket , was immediately matf ^ dance . but could render no assistance , the , deceased , in his opinion , having been dead upwards of half an hour .
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JUSTICE FOR ENGLAND AND IRELAND . j . THE PEOPLK'S CHARTER . . IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING . On Monday evening last , every nook and corner of that spacious place of public meeting , the Nation ?! Hall , High Holborn ,- was crammed to excess long before , the hour fixed . for taking the chair . Mr O'Connor , M . P . for Nottingham ; was to have presided , but hisattendanee in the House of Commons being necessary in opposing the Irish Coercion Bill , the , honourable gentleman could not . attend the meeting . . At eight . o ' clock , Mr George Julian Harney was unanimously called to the chair , amidst loud demonstrations of applause . ..--: ¦ . _
The Chaihhak prefaced his speech by readings catch-penny publication he had - received from Aberdeen , which purported to be a full , true , and partieulsr account of ' a dreadful duel' fought between F . O'Connor ,. Esq ., M . P , and Mr Joshua Hobson , ia Hyde Parle , London . The account stated that Mr O'Coanor had been attended to * the field ' by Mr Roberts and Mr Harney , and that Mr Houses had had Mr Ardilt for his ' second . ' That , Mr Roberts gave the word 'fire , ' when immediately Mr O'Connor fell into the arms , of his friend Harney , mortally wonnded by a shot from Hobson ' a pistol . Hobsonand Ardill immediately made off , and had been seen starting by the Dover Railway , in the direction of France . The police came up , and
Messrs O'Connor , Harney , and Roberts were taken into custody . The aocountadded , that the authorities < fca & refused bail for Harney and Roberts . ' The reading of thishoax ^ accompanied by the chairman's facetious remarks , excited considerable merriment . The chairman said that whereas , according to the veracious statement he had just read , Mr O'Connor had been dead four or five dajs , 6 e could assure the meeting that Mr O'C . was about the jolliest looking ghost ever seen . ( Roars of laughter . ) The chairman then read the placard calling the meeting , and said her Majesty in her late ' royal speech' had expressed her admiration of the ( patience with which the sufferings of the labouring elasses have been generally borne . It was no doubt very easy for her Majesty to admire the patience of other peeple nnder affliction , so long as she had no
part in that sanction . ( Hear , hear . ) There were two animals admired for their patience , the donkey and the Englishman . ( Laughter . ) A costermenger would over-work , over-load , aud under-feed , his poor brute , and by way of encouragement allow his victim an illimitable supply of kicks , cuffs , and whippings ; but the unfortunate beast was the very model of patience , and so earned his master ' s' admiration . ' Jnat so with , the Englishman . He would work twelve , fourteeBt sixteen , or eighteen hours a day . when he could get work , and when not , patiently starve . The Englishmen built palaces , and patiently occupied a garret or a cellar . He wove broad-cloth , and pa * tiently wore fustian , rags . He manufactured warm flannels and rich silks , but patiently saw these comforts and luxuries monopolised by those' who toiled not , neither did they spin , ' realising the lines of
Shelley—* The seed ye sow another reaps , The wealth ye make another heaps , The robes ye weave another wears , Tbe arms ye forge another hears , ' ( Cheers . ) Tbe destitution in the metropolis was appalling . Hundreds were homeless ,, without a shelter for their heads . He had himself seen ; on more than one occasion , more than one score of human beings huddled up against the wall of St Martin ' s workhouse , with no bed but the cold hard pavement , and no covering but the dark curtain of night . Immediately facing that workhouse was ahaee barracks , and oneendofthestreetledto the rearofthe National Gallery . The barracks was misappropriated to the lodrinerof a numerous body of men , in a state of mis .
chieveus idleness ; and the Gallery , though not misappropriated , was certainly not so well appropriated as it might be , by giving shelter to the homeless . He was not opposed to picture galleries and museums , he wished there were more of them , but he asserted that before they built palaces for inanimate pictures , and stuffed tigers , monkeys , and mummies , they were bound to see that every man had his own cottage , and every family itsown fireside . ( Great cheering . ) Then there were the palaces . St James ' s , Kew , Kensington , Hampton Court , and Brishton , never tenanted by the Sovereign , but inhabited by the beggarly relatives of the haughty aristocracy . He would make those hornets turn out , and make way fer the industrious bees , at present deprived of their legitimate hives .
( Loud cheers . ) The chairman next commented on the miserable condition of the labouring classes in the manufacturing districts . He referred to the statements published by Mr Marsden in last Saturday ' s Stab , and to a letter he had received from Sutton-in-Ashfield . From that letter it appeared that not only were the people starving in hundreds , but that scores were being dragged to gaols for poaching , and that the Earl of Scarborough ' s keepers beat the suspected poachers with flails , breaking their limb ? , and tearlag the flesh from their bones I ( Expressions of great indignation . ) The chairman , after some comments upon the tyranny of the millocracy of the north , said he knew it was un ashionable in that
hall , dedicated to the service of genteel Chartism , to say anything in censure of the middle classes ; but he would say that those classes were responsible for the miseries of the people . ( Loud cheers . ) The middle classes had elected the present House of Commons —« house which would give ' soft-sawder * to the English , and military law to the Irish , but would do nothing really calculated to improve the condition ef either people . ( Cheers . ) Bad as Russell and his colleagues were , they were yet far better than the majority of the law makers . He believed the feeling in the house to be generally that of disappointment , that the Coercion Sill for Irewas not a more' base , bloody , and brutal' measure than it was . He believed there was no atrocity
which the government of ' 98 was guilty of towards Ireland . but would be sanctioned by a majority ef their present middle class legislators . ( Hear , hear . ) Could they doubt that when they saw the present measure supported by the very gods of that very hall , orator Fox and Dr Bowring ? ( Cheers and hisses . ) They had heard much of the eloquence of Orator Fox , who had bwn described as a sort of Demosthenes , Cicero , Chatham , Mirabeau , Patrick Henry , and Lamartine , rolled into one . They had been told that if he did not set the Thames on fire with his eloquence , he would do something equally astonishing ; and he ( the chairman ) thought the orator had done something to astonish even his most demented admirers , when , at the outset of his legislative career ; he had voted for the coercion ot Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) Dr Bowring was the patron of the genteel friends of Poland . The Doctor poured out
eloquent denunciations of tbe Autocrat , yet he gave his vote to those whe would fetter and persecute the Paland of the West . But then , Dr Bowring was a great friend to peace—by . the by , the preaching up of ' permanent and universal peace , ' was rather a queer way ef regenerating Poland , Only let there be permanent and universal peace , and they might assure themselves of the permanency , and , perhaps , the universality , of the despotism flf Russia . Well , the Doctor being in love with peace , was , of course , dreadfully shocked at poor Paddy ' s ill manners in refusing to die * aisj '—( laughter)—and so the peaceloving Doctor supported a bill to enable the Whigs to declare war acainst the Irish people . The Whigs proposed t » disarm the people , and to place them entirely at the mercy ef their tyrannical landlords , and those rofiians , the police , compared with whom , the Russian Cossacks were gentlemen—they proposed
to'Make a solitude and eaH it peace * and the Liberal Dr Bowring , the Free Trade Dr Bowring , the pro-Polish Dr Bowring , supported the Whip with his applauding 'hear , hear , ' and his vote . ( Shame !) He bad talked of measures of relief , of turning useless palaces into homes for the homeless . But it was not eharity the people wanted , it was justice . ( Cheen . ) It was not pity they asked for , but their rights . ( I < pud cheers , ) A petition , praying for measures necessary te ameliorate the condition of the people , would be submitted to
them . It would be well to adopt that petition , but he warned them not to hope for much . ' Blessed were they who expected nothing , for they should not be disappointed . ' ( Laughter and cheers . ) No ! said the speaker , yon will get nothing from the House of Commons in the shape of justice , until you reform that House . ( Cheers . ) You must rally for the Charter once more . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) Yon have waited patiently too long . You must now be up and doing . Awake from yonr sleep , and burst your fetters . In the inspired language of Shelley , I cry to
you—• Rise like lions after slumber , In uuTanquiihable number , Shake your chains , to earth like dew , Which in s'etp had fallen on you . TearellAHY ! Ucg are FEW !' ( Buthuiiastic and prolonged cheering . ) Mr Cubs , who was received with loud cheers , said the meeting had been called together by the Ch ' artist Council , to adopt a petition to Parliament , ( a body for which the meeting had doubtleis the most profound respect . ( Laughter . ) Before the petition was submitted tolthe meeting , he berged to more the Mowing reiolu-
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tiwr :-H * that this meeting views with feelings of ; deep eowailsaraaoa ' and alarm , the wretchedaess to which maSHiOftha operative and labouring ' classes ofGreal Britain and Ireland have been reduced , andalbthede . preuloa of the interests of those other , classes who a « engaged , . In , the distribution of wealth , and in coni ducting the commerce of the country ; and this meeting belieylng-that tbe misery and ruin ' which they have thus to de & otei has beencause ' cl by a monopoly of those ha . tional rewurees- WMehitf properly oaltivated and fully developed . , would have rendered such " a state of things impossible , aad made commerce certain . a This meeting is of opihlon-: that . i steps ought to be immediately taken by tbej ## ent government to unshacfchTthe industry ol the S ^ 0 ft . ?* tn' « P ^ those sources of national ..:--
wealth ajia , individual independence wUchare i-nown to eaiit in such profusion in theseUlands ; and this meeting herehy : pledges Itself to adopt such ' mians as will induce this or some , future government , to adopt mea ; sures to open' an unrestricted field for . the profitable and honourable ' employment of all who with to lire honestly by their own labour / Now 'fife expected to see that resolution unanimously . adopted . It asserted that labour , should ; he free and unrestricted ; - and if Itweve tbe great distress and privation , their chairman had to dloqaeatly'd escribed as existing in ' this metropoliBj " and as he could bear witness was equally frightful in the north ef England , would cea « e to be . ( Cheers . ) r He was not there to propose any tnterfermce with what Was called " . the rights of property , ' bathe heldaeverthe ' ess ,
that property should be a secondary consideration ; compawd ^ lrlth human life '; ( Loud cheers . ) Wjersbuman life ^ pire " earedfor , property wouldnbt be . a whit less « o > tHeaY , hear . ) Tbe resources of the British , nation were most ample for the employment' and sustenance of all . There were ^ anffioient m « ans to employ all who desired employ ment , therefore no one who was willing to labour should be permitted to starve , ( Hear , hear . ) They were frequently told' there always were rich and poor , and always would be . ' Now , if for argument sake , they admitted that , did it not seem strange that the poor should be those who produced everything , and the rich were those who prodaca nothing f ( Load cheers . ) The people have shown through the glorious National land Company —( great applause)—that the theory of the
resolution was perfectly practicable , . ( Loud cheers . ) Measures ef amelioration should always precede . coercion . ( Great applause . ) And he thought tbe life of the Irish landlord was still more secure than that of the Irish peasantry —( hear , hear )—who had been allowed to perish by thousands on the way side—( hear , hear )—banco he could not sufficiently admire the patriotism and judgment of Feargus O'Connor , in resisting coercive mtasures altogether . ( Immense applause , ) He was sorry to see tbe views taken of the coercion question by some of tbe press called liberal ; for instance , that truly liberal paper the Weekly Di 8 PAi » H , ( laughter , groans , and laud tbosts ef' Burn it , ') He was sura that that meeting , by their unanimously adopting the resolution , would show their abhorrence of the Whig treatment of their Irish brethren . If there was to be suffering , it was tbe creators of the misery , not tho martyrs of their misrule .
who should endure the misery , ( Iioud cheers , ) Tbe working classes had nothing to do in . the creation of panics , they neither rnled the Banks of England or Ire had ; neither did they regulate tho price of cotton in the Liverpool market ; neither would he charge the government with desiring a panic , but they nevertheless had been the means of bringing it about , by locking up from the people that great source of employmentand wealththe Land . ( Great applause . ) Bnt he did think tbe working clashes deserved a portion of the blame , e $ well as the middle classes , since they had not done all they could ; when journals abused them and their Irish brethren , they still gave their support to such Journals . Still the working classes had done much , ' through tbe National Land Company , to put their theory into practice , and would yet do much more . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr Clark concluded amidst load , cheers , by moving the re « o . lution .
Mr Johh Fcsjeu . , in seconding the resolution , said he was happy to find ( tat another opportunity was about to he afforded to the people of agitating for that darling object—the'Charter '—and he yet hoped to secitob . tained during the Whigs' stay in office , ,. ( Hear , hear . ) They had heard that coercion was once more , proposed for the Irish people , but he thought that meeting would agree with him , that justice would award the means of employment asd remuneration for their laboar , instead of coercion . ( Loudcheers , ) The speaker proceeded to address the meeting at considerable length on the sufferings of the : people , and the Justice and necessity of the Charter . His remarks were much applauded , ''
MrH . Hethebinoton , in supporting the resolution , said ; lie took great interest iu the proceedings of the meeting . He agreed with one of the previous speakers , that the working classes were greatly to blame for having so / long quietly endured their wrongs . He contended that those who would not work should be the beggars , but at present it was the very reverse , ( Hear , hear . ) At the present time , the large firms were discharging two-thirda of their hands , and was it not a shame that the working men should have to bog for leave to toll ! ( Hear , hear . ) He considered the Land and the principle of co-operation , carried into manufactures and trades , to be the only means of putting an end to the present state of things . ( Cheers . ) He was for the Charter—as the right , the just right , of every man . He denounced the attempt to coerce Ireland . He agreed entirely with th « principle laid down in the resolution , andhad , therefore , come forward to give it his support . ( Load cheers , )
Mr WAtroiD after avowing himself a democrat , ant ! highly eulogising Mr O'Connor , moved ' the following amendment : — ' That this meeting is of opinion' that no measure caa , or ever will , benefit the working classes , whilst the present drinking customs are encouraged by those classes ' , this meeting , therefore , pledges itself to use every means in its power to remove the greatest curse inflicted on a nation . ' ¦¦ .-. ' . " The amendment was seconded from tho body of the meeting . .... ¦ ¦ . Mr T , Cube ; said he bad been a teetotaller for more than seven years , yet he felt bound to call on his friend to withdraw his amendment , as being ill-timed and out of place , The question was then put to the vote , and the original resolution carried almost unanimously .
Mr P . H'Obath rose amidst great applause , to more the adoption of the petition . He said parliament was now assembled , and it was the duty of the people to in . struct that body , and the council conrening this meeting bad resolved that even Lord John should not gounacquaiuted with their views , and hence they had prepared the petition , which he had the honour to move for their adoption . Bat where were the representatives of the press on this occasion ! hesaw one gentleman , he did not know what paper he represented , and there was tbetr friend , the reporter of their own paper , the NoaTnsan Stab . ( Great cheering . ) He regretted Mr Walford had pressed his amendment . Had it been put in another
shape , he ( Mr H Grata ) should have , supported it , —( cheers )—althonfh he by no means ttioajht teetotallsm the only remedy . ( Cheers . ) That far-seeing states , man , Lord John Russell— ( Laughter)—was again bringing forward his aniver « al Whlgremedy tor Irish wrong * , coercion , and how was it received by tbe house ? Why , even John O'Oonnell expressed bis adulation of the ml * nistry , and tbe majority of tbe so called representatives . of the people supported it . True , a small , but patriotic band opposed it , ( Loud cheers . ) The working chases who could feel for and sympathise with their Irish , brethren , most be up and doing . With that view he had to submit the followisg petition : —
To the Honourable , the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland , in Parliament assembled . The petition , adopted by a public meeting of the working classes of the metropolis , held at the National Hall , Holborn , on Monday , Dec . 6 th , 1847 , SBIffEXH , — That your petitioners belong to that class of the people , whose only property is labour , and who there , fore suffer more from the imperfect legislation of your honourable bouse than any other class in the community . ¦ That your petitioners , ia common with myriads oi their own order , both in tbis country and in Ireland , hare been for some time past , and are at present suffer . ing most severely from the tfftcts of that depression in trade , which has cauted your honourable house to assem ble at this unusual period of the year .
• That your petitioners , considering it to be tbe intention , as it is manifestly tho duty of your honourable house to apply the wisdom of your honourable hoase to a searching inquiry into the causes which hare pro . duced so much wretchedness amongst your petitioners and their class ; and so much ruin and insolvency in the class immediately above them ; with a view , not merely to provide a temporary expedient ; but as far as possible a permanent remedy ; your petitioners tog to call the attention of your honourable house to a mode of providing against future similar calamities . d
1 Your petitioners are of opinion , that any propose effectual remedy , based upon the idea of a more extended foreign commerce will prove fallacious ; your petitione r being fully convinced from long experience , that one os the radi cals defects of former legislation has been tool great a reliance upon that source of employment for the people , and too little attention to the profitable de . velapement of the Internal resources of these islands ! your petitioners being strongly imbued with the convlc tion that , had this latter source reccWsd as much oi the attention of yonr honourable house as the former , the United Kingdon would not now be as it is , a renrosch to those who have hitherto had the management of tbe affairs of tbis empire .
' . That your petitioners beg to call ths attention of your honourable house to the very , unprofitable and im . politic manner in which the land of the country is divided : the great extent ot th » farms ; the tenure upon
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which , they are held ; and the insignificant amount of labour employed In their cultivation being in the opinion of yourpetltloners some of the principal causes of that surplus labour , which even , when trade Is ia its most flourishing condition , is known to exist ia this country . . 'That your petitioners do not ask your honourable house to Interfere with what are called the rights of property ; but . ' they are of opinion , that it is the duty of your honourable house to employ national property in a manner the most profitable to the nation ) and your-petitioners , therefore , remind your honourable house of tbe ten millions « f acres of common land originally granted for the especial use of the common people ; nearly the whole of which has ' passed from the nation into the Hands of private individuals ; and thus have the common people been deprived of the only heritage 1-fc them by the nisdom of their ancestors .
'That your petitioners are aware that the transfer of tbe common lauds from the poor to the rich , was made for the ostensible purpose of promoting the interests of the former . ' ; as indeed are all each measures which-re . celre the sanction of your honourable house . "'ThaV ^ dur petitioners .. cannot help stating to your honourabltjheuee that in their opinion all acts of parllament which authorise the enclosure of common land , and their appropriation to private andl . wealtby iBdiriduals , are acts of spoliation aad iraud , and ought to be immediately repealed , . < Tourpetitioaprs are of opinion , that had these com . mon lands been retained by the state , and leased to the working classes in convenient quantities , ' and upon equitable terms , tboword pauper , as applied to labourers would be comparatively unknown ; and the term for the maintenance of the poor would not have been , asit is , a stigma to the institutions of the country .
' That your petitienera have to complain that legislation for their class hitherto , hasbeenmoretopunish them for tho infraction of laws made for the protection of property , than with a view to foster their industry ; and your petitioners de not now approach your honourable house for the purpose of requiring legislative protection for their labour ; on the contrary , . they ara of opinion that labmr , when free and unrestrained , . can protect itself ; but your petitioners feel , that to talk to them about the freedom of labour whilst its sphere is limited by the soil , is an insult , aud cannot be likened unto anything more absurd , than providing a man with the necessary . tools tor the completien of a piece of work , and denying him tho material for such purpose ,
' That yaur petitioners feeling convinced that as long so many of them are depending for their daily bread upon the uncertain and precarious commerce of the coun * try , the casualties of which will subject them to periodical suffering , such as they are at present enduring ; pray your honourable house forthwith to repeal all acta of parliament authorising the enclosure of common lands ; and your petitioners are further of opinion that such lands should be leased to the working classes upon such conditions as will remunerate tho state , and upon such a tenure as will secure the occupants from govern , ment interference .
'That your petitioners call upon your honourable honse to appoint a commission to inquire into , and re . port upsn the date of each grant of common land ; arid as nearly as possible , tbe amount expended by each of the present occupiers , in reclamation , improvement , & c . ; and ia each case where tbe amount so expended exceeds the benefits derived , compensation to he made to the individual in posseisloni < That your petitioners deeply sympathise with the d » - plorable condition of their fellow subjects in Ireland ; and are of opinion that if the wisdom of yonr honourable house cannot devise , - without delay , means of employing tbe people , the fearful calamities of last year will recur with renewed intensity ,
' That your petitioners beg to remind your honourable honse , that there are immense resources yet undeveloped in Ireland ; that among these may be numbered five millions of acres of watte lands susceptible of cultivation ; that your honourable house has the power with , out Injury to any party in the State , to reclaim tbis land and convert it into a rich national domain ; thus open , log up a profitable field of employment for the people ; the productions of which would insure us against that famine and pestilence , which are desolating the labour , ing community of the Sister Island . . ' That your petitioners would intimate to your honour , able house , tbatthe present is not the time to nursae . a temporising-poHoy ; we are in the nildst of a crisis truly awful 1 ' Justice calls loudly for sound , prompt , and substantial measures of relief at your hands ; jou have in abundance at jour disposal the means of granting such measures , and thereby preserving thousands of your feliowcreatures from untimely graves !
! 'In conclusion—we Implore with the fervencies of philanthropy 1 we call upon you with the solemnity of justice ; to prove your abilities to meet the exigencies of tbe times ; and for oace to gire your sanction to measures really beneficial to your poverty stricken and downcast fellow creatures . ' And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray . ' Here then , said the speaker , are the remedies we propose : —There were in Ireland five millions . of acres of land called waste , At such a crisis as tho present , the people ought to be put in possession of that land . ( Loud cheers . ) If . it were for a railway that land was required , private property wonid not stand in the way . '* ( Hear , hear . ) It would be taken , and the owner compensated for it ; and why ' not so in the present case , when so
many thousands are starving for the want . of it ! ( Hsar , hoar . ) Wby should not the parliament decree that those five millions of acres of waste lands were henceforth public property , devoted to the profitable employment of the Irish people , ( Immense npplause , ( At five acres to a farm , there would be one million ef profitable small farms , which 1 st at tbe rent of one pound per acre , would produce a rental of five millions per annum to the government . Had not the practicability of such a scheme been fully illustrated by the working ef tho glorious Land Plan . ( Great cheering . ) Yet with this fruitful element of wealth lying idle , tho Irish bad been reduced to beggary— -and had received alms from all nations ; even the black slave , who was denied tbe blessings of personal freedom , out of hie stock of provisions , hadfurniehed food
for the poor , unfortunate , starving sons of Erin . ( Great applause . ) Heaven had been mocked , and Ireland insulted ; her soil had been fruitful , anther starving sons bad seen the fruits oi their labours exported from her shores , to feed in luxury her wealthy absentees , Ireland ' s genial soil had now sent forth an abundant harvest—yet behold her sons were again famishing for want , ( Hear , hear . ) He was one of these who held the opinion that not 0 hat should leave England , so long , as there was a head without on «^ -not a coat , so long as there was a back that required one ; and as regarded Ireland , not a potato or a p ig should leave her shores , so long as a single person on that soil was in need of either . ( Great applause . ) He had heard Free Trade eloquently advocated , but still he' believed that the Chartists were the only real Tree Traders , as they were for sweeping away those two
great tax traps—the Customs and Excise—and they were for trusting for a government revenue to a tax upon ^ the land . ( Immeasa applause . ) He believed it was far better for them to trust to their own resources , to cultivate their own soil , than to . look to either Russia or America lor a breakfast ; as it would give emplojment to tbe poor and spread the advantage of comfort and happiness from the labourer to all other grades of society . Then , he said emphatically , put the people on the land . ( Great ' cheering , ) And this was . only calling on the parliament to do an act of justice . There was the land , end the petition clearly pointed out the means to effect tbatpnrpose . Tie speaker showed the immense quantity ef land called Crown Land , and called on the meeting to adopt the petition . Mr M'Grath concluded an eloquent speech of great length , amidst enthusiastic , and oft-reiterated applause .
Mr Jis , GKABSBi seconded tho adoption of tho petition , which was put and carried amidst the loudest accla . matlons of the meeting , Mr Stauwood moved , — ' That the petition just adopted be signed by the chairman and forwarded to Mr O'Connor for presentation to tha House of Commons , ' which was seconded by Mr Almond and carried unani . mously . The Chairman then introduced—Ebhsst Jones , who was received with protracted applause and after alludiag to the benefits accruing te the cause from such meetings , proceeded to move the fol . lowing resolution : —
' That whilst this meeting approves of every attempt to bring under tbe notice of parliament tbe immense social wrong to which thepeopleare subjected , and sympathise with erery effort made to remedy them , thfiy are , nevertheless , of opinion , that any reform short of that proposed by the People ' s Charter , will not secure full and ample justice to all classes , and , therefore , we pledge ourselves to ceaseless efforts to obtain the enactment of that document as the law of the land . ' I look upon this Hall , ' coutraued the speaker , « as a tribunal , and you ( addressing the meeting ) as a British jnry . Before you , then , as a humble advocate of tha people , I arraign our governments of the design of
decimating the people—that a few rich may reign over a nation of emaciated slaves . ( Cheers . ) Machinery is rising la perfection and amount—deer parks and preserves arc increasing—and new palaces and maasione are insulting the miswry of the people . Mark , then , the plan of aristocracy :. fow hands will work theirmaobinery and create tkslr wealth ; few eyes suffice to watch their game , and tend their flocks ; let the atllionsemigra ' olettaamilltonsdieJ they are in the WOy-their numbers are an obstacle , therefore , the aristocracy ef land and money slowly murders them . We are a commercial nation ; they cry ; machinery will fire us wealth to buy our luxuries , —while faunae and emigration are removing opposition . ( Hear , hoar , and cheers . ) I will not
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pause to ^ ow how the . curie must Mmehbin ^ s " atlast ^ rtteir ruin will not restore what th « V 4 : d 8 Btroyed ,-but I will eh & avour to " show : on ^ Ke grounds I have made so ^ serious an accusati » ri . ' iTb » speaker then showed how tho government had originated Irish , misery , sending , from time to time , cbmmis * slons . ; to investigate the state of the country—and , afterisaph report , instead of remedjlngthe evil , adapting the most skilful measures to aggravate its effects ; until , at last , one million perished of hunger ia one year—while the fever-stricken emigrant ship and tho open grave awaited the survivors , '( Loud cheers . )
The speaker next adverted to Scotland — aad showed bow tho clause had been decimated—how the peasantry had been evicted—their cottages actually pulled down and their wheatfieids destroyed , that the aristocratic savages of England might turn the country to a hunting ground . Her Majesty , in her hunting . ex . cursibns around Ardvickie , might have seen the grey stone foundations ol those cottages ! ( Shamir , } To give some idea of the extent of those forests , ho would tell them that that of Lord Breadalbane was sixty mlljes long by forty . ono broadl ( Shame . ) Where no ware the gallant clans ! Asks Peto and Stevenson—seek them . ^ in tbe Canadss and on the Mississippi ! ( Hear , hear . ) Thna , continued tbe speaker , they have stricken tbe
weakest and most distant first—the outposts cf liberty , Ireland aad Scotland , are being taken , theso once destroyed they will be more than a match for the English , people , and , closing in oa them , say : ' Now it is your tura i ( Hear and cheers . ) Mr Jonc » then traced the ffeet of gorernment policy on England—and how it inevitably tended to general ruin—and called upon bis hearers to stem the torrent of oppression , and atenda manfully to say : 'Down Monopoly ! ' 'Perish Class Legislation ! ' ' The Charter and . no Surrenderl' ( Loud cheering . ) But how are we to gain the Charter ? Not by sitting still ! Not by patience and submission ! Bally , your millions J Organise your movement ! . ' Ton csn~—the milUoas are there—and every man who is injured ,
ifhehasa soul beyond slavery , will join your rankr * ( Hear hoar . ) Recreate your moral and physical forcethe . ona without the other is folly . Do not think I exhort you to violence . By , no means . Break ho law-itransgwis 00 itatuea . But , If you want to preserve th . e peace—to . prevent outrage—and repress vlolenco , " yO « . must be strong enough' to punish those , who would conv mitit . Rest assured ; when a man is about to strike another—it <> nloojring > at that other he . sees he is no bigger and stronger than be , fee will turn his fist into an open band—and say : ' My dear friend ! I 'wish you a very good morning , ' ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Thus ,
whea the little Whig pugilist on the Treasury Beach , Lord JohnjRusstll , preparesjto strike a blow at the Charlists , if ho finds they are strong enough to knock liim off his perch of place , pension and patronage , ten to one but what he throws up his cap and cries : ' The Charter for ever " ( Great applause . ) The speaker then alludsd to the organisation ef the metropolis , and forcibly impressed on his hearers the necessity of creating a great movement in the very seat of aristocratic power , —and in all peace and legal order , let them see what the Charter was from the windows of St Stephen's , Buckingham Palace and the Horseguards . ( Protracted cheering . )
Mr Tapps seconded the resolution which was carried unanimously , - Mt Lr / cis , after ' paying some high compliments to Julian Harney , as an old Chartist in the days of danger , moved a vita of thanks to tho Chairman , which whs seconded by Mr Ernest Jones , and carried by vec ' ama 'ion ' . The compliment having been acknowledged , three cheers were given for the Charter ; three for Ireland an Repeal ; three for the Land ; and three for Feargus O'Connor , and tbe meeting was dissolved .
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INDIA . ' -, There have been some disturbances on tbe Boogtie frontiers , and in the Goomsoor country . The muchtalkedof Ex-Kajahof Sattaradieiiat Benares , oil the 14 th of October . FRANCE . Tbe Reform Banquets continue . One has been held at Amiens , attended by seven hundred guests , at which M . Odillon Sarrot took a leading part .
SWITZERLAND . SoBMissiosoyiflB Calais . —Close op tbb Fab . — On the 1 st inst . deputies arrived at Lucerne , ftum the Valais , bringing the submission of thatcanton to the Federal government . The Federal troops occupied the . cantons of Uri , Untorwalden , and Sohwytz . In conformity with resolutions adopted in a popular meeting held on November 27 , the provisional government of Lucerne passed a decree on the 30 th excluding the Jesuits for ever from the canton . . General Dufour has returned to Berne . The war is at an end .
GERMANY , AntiJeauit disturbances bare taken place in Styria . Bbehn . —Thb Poush Tbials . — Accused and found guilty of high treason , as originator , Ludwig yon Mieroslawshi , to be deprived of the rank of noble , to forfeit his possessions , and to have his head struck off by the . axe . of-the executioner . ' The same sentence was passed on Wladislaus Eusebius v . Koainshi , Stanislaus Felix !*; Sadewskij Severyn v . ; Elz » nowski , Joseph Albrecht ,, Stanislaus Lodidzki , -Stanislaus Florian Coynowa , Joseph v . Puttkamnie ^ KleszesinBki and AppollomuB'v . Kurowaki . Eighty-two prisoners have been condemned to hard labour / in a fortress ; some for life ; others for a term varying from twenty five to eight years . Sixteen of-the accused are sentenced to imprisonmeuCfor one year . . The remaining 137 have been ordered to be set at liberty .
: .. ; .. SWEDEN .- ; : The Swedish Diet was opened by the King in person , on the 23 rd ult . . The ultra-democratic party hasgained a complete ascendany in the diet .
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Babkslby . — Deuccba'iio CoNPiDEBAiEs . — The . conduct of Mr John O'Connell and the Irish members in the House of Commons on the Coercion Bill , has called forth the just indignation of the Irishmen in this town . Many of O'Connell ' smpst zealous supporters have during the past week heaped curses ' loud and long on the head of the ' leader' of Conciliation Hall ; yet some say that Jack is but a half traitor , and that on the second round he will pluck up and knock the many-headed monster down ; but the majority of the Irish Celts know him to be a chip of the old block , and neverwill forget his letters , written to Lord John Russell , in opposition to MrScrope ' s intended measure of out-door relief , that would have saved tho lives of thousands—nayj a million—of theit !
countrymen . The Irish DemocraticConfederates assembled as usual , at Mr' Utley ' a large room , oa Sunday evening . Mr Patrick Ward occupied the chair . The debates in the House oi Commons were read from the Stab , and also the leading article , which elicited the plaudits of the meeting . Mt Sogravc denounced the conduct of the Irish members on the first reading of the damnable Coercion Billfor Ireland , and showed the unjust power it would place in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant to put down public meetings , by proclaiming a district in a ^ disturbed state . He particularly referred to Mr John O'Connel ' , who said in Dublin , he would die on the floor ol the Honse of Commons sooner than allow his csuntry to be coerced ;; but he believed John . would be found to be equal to his father , who joined the hated yeomanry of Ireland in 1798 , and took up arms to fight against the patriots of his country . —Mr O'Leary followed in a similar strain , and contended
that it was the duty of every Irishman to denounce the place-hunters of hia country . The speaker ' then explained the leading clauses of the bill , and showed the evil effect it would have by bringing the people of Ireland in contact with the ruffianly brigand police of that country . He considered it a more tyrannical measure than the Arms Bill . He concluded by moving , that the false liberal Irish members should be denounced by every lover of liberty , and particularly by every Irish democrat , as traitors to their country . —Mr Coyle seconded the resolution . —Mr Clarke , an Englishman , considered the conduct of John O'Connell , and the Irish members , was base ia the extreme . He abhorred ever ; measure of coercion , and would sincerely detest every member , whether English or Irish ) who would vote on the side of the government . —A vote of thanks , on the motion of Mr Deane , was given to the chairman , who in an appropriate speech returned thanks , after which the ' mceting dispersed .
Thb FiUTERjui , Democrats will assemble on Monday evening next , December 13 th , at the German Hail , White Hart , Drury-lane : chair to betaken at eight o ' clock . An Address to the people oi Switzerland , and an Address to tho Chartists of Great Bri « tain , will be submitted for discussion , jar Members in town and country who have not yet paid their annual subscription of one shilling , due from the 22 nd of September last , are requested to pay the same forthwith . Salford . —A tea party in honour ol Mr O'Connor will be held en Christinas Day , in the National Charter Association room , Bank-street , Great Georgestreet . Tickets may be had at the above room . * The following gentlemen have premised to attend : —Mr Roberto , the miners' attorney-g eneral ; Mr James Gooper . and Mr James Leach . Tea on the table at four o ' clock
. _ . Sakobd .-Oh Sunday evemng , December 12 th , Mr W Stork will lecture in the Chartist Association Room BaKree , Great George-street ; chair to beSenTatsix o & . On Tussday evening , Do-2 mw uth Mr T . Cooper will lecture in the above CCmber ltKL taken at eight o'doek . Subject : t «»™ WARM * . — Mr Tomliuson will lecture at this PC ? n Sunday , December 12 th , at six o ' elocJc W aMT ! -Messr 8 Webber and Wilson will address
the Chartists of this place , on Sunday , December 12 , at six o ' clock in the evening . Elland . —MrHanson will lecture at this place , on Sunday , Deo . 12 th , at six o ' clock in tho evening . Olbham . — The members of the National Laud Company of the Oldham branch are hereby informed that the half-year ' s local levy will be due on the 21 st instant ; also , those paid-up members who have not brought their certificates to the secretary are requested to do so , or they will not be entitled to the text ballot .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1847, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11121847/page/1/
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