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TEE POPE AND THE -AHTOCRAT . pfliANP'S APPEAL TO EUROPE , ¦• Though Poland mourns , She shall not die ; Her watch-fire burns And help is nigh . Her ruffled eagle speeds from shore to shore , Till nations rise to bid her weep no more . " irha important article from oar French , cxmtem iJrl ' Atcfc ' er , which appeared in our last number P mx . know , been read with thrilling « interest by cnf our readers , and , vre doubt not , has been 2 gjd to by all . The terrible , but too true , nes of the martyrdom of the priest Sciegekxt d the patriot Levhoux , cannot fail to excite ^ iflushout Britain the bitterest indignation towards Compressors of Poland , and the liveliest sympathy
ft tie unhappy victims or tuose remorseless oprtssofi' Rightly does our French contemporary vof Nicholas , "He martyrizes the Catholics Defuse fhev refuse to abjure their faith , and to re-!! Uise mm &*** s P iritu ^ l chief ; he puts to death ISpoles because they refuse to acknowledge him as [ heir king , and so his career , as an executioner , * grer terminates . " With the Catholic religion we LJ re no communion nor sympathy ; rightly or lonely , in all sincerity , we hold it to be one of the most pernicious systems of priestly delusion and priestly domination ever invented to keep the minds ^ d bodies of men in ignorance and thrall . But so Relieving , we , nevertheless , respect thesincerity ofthe geatmassofthose who belong to the Catholic Church , £ nd hold as sacred therightof that church' s members to celebrate their forms of worship , and act , in all respects , with the fullest liberty , which a due regard
for the liberty of others will admit of . Opponents of j ] l churches and priests ourselves , we , nevertheless , tkimfor all churches and priests full freedom of conscience . Toleration is a word we despise , imnlving , as it does , a cowardice that fears to be honest , and a tyranny that would , if it dared , exhibit its oppressive character to the full . Liberty , entire and perfect liberty , we claimfor all men ; both in matters aril and religious . We demand that liberty for ourselves , and we demand it not less for others . Not the post zealous Roman Catholic , therefore , can more sincerely denounce the horrible persecution of the Basiliannuns than we do . Hot the most zealous believer in Peter ' s successor could more readily brave an , in defence of his Catholic sisters and brethren of Poland , than we would do , was itin our power to show low truly we burn to aid in avenging their wrongs OTdsufferings . ,
But we cannot say that we concur with out French contemporary in desiring to see a renewal of the crasades directed against Russia . _ Regarding war as one of the rery greatest of evils , we certainly Kgard a whgfons , or what is called a " holy war , " as the most frightful , and the most to be deprecated . We , as well as the writers in L'Atelier , " will do all ia our power to assist at crushing the tyrant of Poland under the chastisement of Ms crimes , " but to wish to see this effected by other means than the stirring up of nations to a war of fanaticism , for , was sneh a war once begun , and the now oppressed Polish Catholics -victorious , the experience of the past warns us that they would retaliate with fearful vengeance m the members of the Greek church , and the devotees of each church would be satisfied with nothing short of the extermination of each other , of course , all "for the glory of God . "
TVTiat ourFrenclicontemporarysays respecting the Tope and his alliance with Nicholas is specially dcservingthe consideration of such of our readers as may belong to the church , of which the Pope is the head . The Italian Pope , as head of the Romish church , declares his to be the only true church of Christ ; the Russian Pope , or Emperor , as head of the Greek church , declares his to be the only true church ; and each anathamatizes the church of the oilier as scMsmatical , heritical , and damnable . The Italian Pope is not in a condition to propagate the tenets of his church by fire and sword as many of his predecessors have done , because Lis temporal power is weak ; but the Russian Pope , placed at the head ef the most powerful , political , and civil despotism in
the world , has ample power to employ the favourite means of priestly propagation , and these means he ifres not scruple to use , as the accounts we have laid fefore our readers of the horrible persecution of the Catholic Poles abundantly testify . As the heads of mal churches , these two worthies of course hateeach ether with all that sincerity of hatred which , the tharapions of rival systems of priestcraft have in all ages exhibited : yet despite this mutual hatred , see how these two scourges of the human race coalesce so Hat they may prop np that tyranny * which , though differing in forms and names , is really lat the same system of fraud and wrong . Tie Catholic Poles in their tribulation and sufferings naturally turn to the Pope as theirspiritual
protector for counsel , aid , and sympathy . The tortured Abbess , Mieczyslawska , throws herself at the feet of "his Holiness , " recounts her sufjferings , the sufferings of her sisters , and those ot the Polish people generally . The Pope , we are told , hearkened io all those details " with , tears in his eyes" ( travellers tell us that even crocodiles shed tears before tearing their victims ); hut Toehold , accompanying this news , raited that theautoor & t was expected to be in Rome k the Tbeginning of December , and that preparations sere making to give him a " grand reception . " Thus the holy Catholic Pope is about to "fraternise" with the " schismatical" Russian Pope . Why ? Because feth tremble for their tottering power , and both , despite their mutual hatreds , hate and fear liberty much more than they do each other . The wholesale
Executions and military barbarities committed on the friends of liberty in Italy by the Pope , are scarcely less monstrous than those committed by Nicholas on the people of Poland . The great difference between the two , is , that the Pope , as temporal sovereign , is apettv contemptible tyrant , whose rule is confined to asmail space , and whose victims are consequently few in proportion . Nicholas , on the other hand , lords it over lands ef almost illimitable extent ; he roles whole nations with his iron rod ; and , conseijnently , instead of scores and hundreds , as in Italy , the victims of Nicholas must be numbered by thousands , even millions . Here is the only distinction between the Romish and the Russian Pope , the tyrant of ^' orfhern Italy , and the tyrant of Norfh-Eastern Europe .
We earnestly entreat the friends of liberty , who belong to the CatholicChurch , whetherthey be English , Irish , Polish , Italian , Spanish , or of any other nation , toponder on the words of our French contemporary I Atelier , they deserve to be repeated : — " Can a more monstrous alliance be imagined ? What I the Pope , the ally of the head ef the Russian schismatics ? ¦ What ! is the successor of St . Peter almost the bosom friend of the executioner of the Catholics ? Verily a strange spectacle ! If the nations lose their faith in Rome , it is because Rome has abandoned itselftotheenemiesofthefaith ! The cause of this unworthy abondonment hy the Catholic clergy and their head , is , that the head is himself also the tyrant of a portion of the Catholic family . AU the tyrannies , all the oppressions , are bound amongst them who in the
insolido : the decrepit old man , reigns Vatican , wants the strong arm of the Petersburg !! despot for his own maintenance . More solicitous about his temporal power than of his Christian functions , he turned king . As king , as an unfit and bad Jang , he oppresses those whom he calls his subjects ; he compresses their insurrections against his tyranny oitlvbykis hangmen and gendarmes ; being accus tomed to see human blood shed around him , how can he feel when a tyrant is about to shed it afar off ? Therefore , good understandings between the Pope and the Czar are officially and regularly earned on , audit is not impossible , that the day may arrive , wumtimttniaan Poatiff will be surrounded by Russian soldiers for the express purpose of annihilating in Italy , every Christian idea of liberty .
The 29 th of November passed by this year without anv other demonstration than the meeting of democratic Poles a notice of which appeared inthe -Star of Saturdav last , and a meeting of another section of Poles , whose proceedings would be of no interest to oar readers . Except these meetings , the 20 th of November was permitted to pass unnoticed , to the enduring disTaceof those " arisiocraiical" and " respectable" " svmpathisers , " who have hitherto monopolised the patronage of the Polish cause . That , however , this vear ' sanniversary of the revolution may not pass without the voice of Poland ' s faithful sons being heard in her defence , we give the following extracts from an address which was adopted at the anniversarv meetin" holden at the Crown and Anchor , on the " 20 th of November , 1 SU . The address not having appeared in any English journal , will be new to the mass of the British people , and , for the truths enunciated , are certainly as valuable now as twelve months ago : —
This very evening , when London , Paris , Brussels , and aisnj a town and village of western civilized Europe are rinsing with shouts for Polandand gladdening the hearts of the exile , there , toward the east , on the stillinandated shores of the Vistula , under the heavy joke of a tyrannical oppression , on a soil profaned hy the foot of an insolent invader , and in homes deprived of the last consolation ofthe wretched ; the safety of family intercourse and confidential outpourings—our old and infirm parents cur orphan children grown np withouthaving enjoyed the cheering embraces and watchful direction of their exiled fathers—our wives , sisters , and those of our hrethren whom infirmity or aosence has prevented from taking an active part in the revival of their fatherland , shed many a silent tear and compress in their hosoms many a sigh over the glorious event which we commemorate publicly , hecanse , although it failed to free Poland , it proclaimed her vitality , and would have attained its object , but for the want—not of power ( every battle was a -triumph)—not of patriotism ( seldom had a people shown more
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energy and ** < ,-d , voteane ») -but of experience , and the ' eon * . Ie , . , wiedgeof men and of parties . t , p '' l * ' tlmt necessary condition of success , eight i :: < , u « s . tVUggie , Of glorious victories , and after earn-, it- e . , > fjL ^ disappoin tm ents , sufficed to give it to i-. e -c < . ,. oi Poland . Old servants of the despots of '" ' * ' •'•' ii om disappointed ambition had thrown into the *" - ' * A tho insurgents ) were driven from their usurped "' - - ' -nfandfledjtoseelsamidstbayonetsashelteragainBt * i ularindignatioii . Audtherealas ! they found means , i notto restore their power , at least to crush that of the patriots . By them twenty-two thousand men of the elite
were prevented from coming to the rescue of beleaguered and stormed Warsaw—by them they were , after its surrender , induced to resist the imperative orders of the commander-in-chief , who required them to join the main body of the army , which then would yet have been able to save Poland—by them they were conducted out of the Polish territory and obliged to surrender their arms to one of the co-partitioning powers : to Austria—and Poland fell again—fell into the hands of a revengeful tyrant , whose sway had been preferred by a few of her degenerate sons to a popular government—she fellwiser indeed than a few months before , hut more op . pressed , more unfortunate than ever !
Wiser than she liad been ! Englishmen ! this is the point we wish to impress npon your minds—because wisdom is power—and because the power of a nation to reconquer and to defend her independence is a necessary condition of her nationality . And this great and fundamental truth was precisely one of those common sense truisms in the minds of the many , which still remain mysteries to the sophisticated wisdom of our statesmen . They looked for help from cabinets leagued together against the rights of the people and of nations—they reposed their confidence in those very courts who had dismembered Poland , and therefore were interested in retaining her in her former subjugation—they shrunk
from any infringement of the liberticide treaty of Vienna , which had confirmed all the former partitions of Poland , and given over to Russia even the last of her still existing fractions under the name of the Duchy of Warsaw . They paralysed the energies of the people , because they believed in its power inasmuch only as it went to harm their interests , and thought it insufficient to save the country —they , in short , had no faith in their country ' s cause , and therefore ruined it . But along with their country , vanished their influence and their power , and were survived by a people , taught henceforth by them how to appreciate their leaders , taught to rely upon themselves , made fitter for the achievement of a new struggle for independence—in a word wiser , and therefore better .
Yes , better—because popular wisdom is not only power , hut justice . Justice to the enslaved millions may , among the privileged , he considered as a sacrifice to duty , as an act of self-devotedness and of virtue ; among the oppressed it is the consequence of a clearer insight into their own welfare , of a more exalted feeling of * human dignity revolting at the infliction of wrongs . Who was it who dared several years ago to say that liberty to Poland would be slavery to the many , and to represent the tyrant of fifty millions of slaves as their emancipator from the bondage of the Polish nobility ! Whena quarter of a century ago the landed proprietors of Lithuania petitioned the persecutor of UielLilhuaniansouth , thepieudoliberal Alexander , for permission to emancipate their bondsmen , they were refused . What has become of the freedom of those Lithuanian , Ukrainian , Voihynian , and Podolian peasants , whom the insurgents of those
countries , their own masters liberated to 1831 ! They are serfs again under the domination of the Czar ; and the good will of their patriotic masters has been of no avail to them . Butwhy talk of this good will T The ' people of Poland will require , no boon from their masters—no granting of what it will be in their own power to obtain . A large majority of our fellow ' emigrants have already proclaimed and pledged themselves to—hot only the liberty of the serfs ( this indeed would have been but a paltry concession of that which could not be refused )—but also to assure to the cultivators the full and unconditional property of that soil , for the usufruct of which they had hitherto performed statute labour : and what the intention of a large majority of the emigrants is , cannot but be the necessary result of the will of the people at large , when once restored to that sovereignty , which the full independence of a Poland re-conquered by the efforts ot her own inhabitants will secure them .
An independent Poland wiU be a democratic , a progressive Poland ; and , as in former ages , she has been the constant champion of the liberty and civilisation of Europe against the slavery and darkness of Hahommedan and Muscovite despot ism , so will she in future he the means of disseminating to the remotest confines of Eastern Slavonia , the social , political , and intellectual progress elaborated in the west « f the civilised world . The above address is important , as being calculated to get right those who may have doubted the veritable patriotism ofthe Polish emigrants , and who mistrusted their aims as to the future .. That address tells truly the cause ofthe failure of the Polish Revolution . The base selfishness of the privileged classes , who would rather see Russian tyranny
triumph than consent to give up their infamous usurpations , and make the revolution a struggle by the people for the -people , was the cause of Poland ' s second downfall . In denouncing these selfish aristocrats , many of whom are to be found in the ranks of the emigration , and are even now plotting to restore the old system of Polish aristocracy , merely changing the masters , but not the tyranny , the name , but not the fact—in denouncing these partisans of . Prince CzABTonrssi , and adulators of Lord Dcdlbv . Stuart , the Bemoeratic Poles do well ; for , most certainly , the " men of the progress" in this and every , other land will never give sympathy nor aid to the partisans of royalty , aristocracy , and caste-distinctions . The most important portion of . the
address is that , where the emigrants declare themselves pledged , not only to destroy serfdom , and establish the civil and political rights of the entire Polish people ; .. but also , " to assure to the cultivators the fuU and unconditional , property of the soil . " These words are what , in this ,, country , we call " plain English , " there is no mistaking them , they announce the veritable deliverance ofthe Polish people fromol * slavery ; they guarantee the only liberty worthy of the name—ihe , liberty toliye , unplundered by tyrants or masters of any description . The lovers of justice are sick of mere words and phrases ; they desire a liberty real and tangible . "Many will seek to persuade you , " says the Abt « Be La Messais , "that you are really . free , when
they shall have written on a sheet of paper the word liberty , ' and shall have posted it up in the streats . But liberty is not a placard to be read at the corner of streets . " No ; liberty is "thesaJeguard of our social rights , and the first of these rights' —the right to enjoy the fruits of onr labour , leaving to those who will not labour the pleasant privilege of starving . "Poland for the Poles" is a phrase we can understand when explained as above by the democratic emigrants ; how different is the phrase " Ireland for the Irish ! " The words are similar ; but their import how different . " Poland for the .. Poles , " we understand to mean equal rights , and equal enjoyments for all the Poles ; but" Ireland for the Irish , ' * means a chanse of masters nothing more ;
condemning the miserable masses to a continuance ef political slavery and social debasement , sweetened by the wholesale pride and selfishness of "nationality . " Give them only an Irish ¦ Parliament , an fris k flag , and instead of Victoria and Peel , the Pope and King Dan for their rulers , and these loud-mouthed patriots ( themselves , instead of the " Saxons , " enjoying the privilege of plundering the working millions ) will be fully satisfied . Will the Irish people themselves be so easily satisfied ? If so— "God save the greens !" The next revolution in Poland must and will be social , as well as political and national . Why should the Polish people fight for a country , all the blessings of which have hitherto been monopolised by a selfish privileged few ? Why should they fight for a land ,
which for centuries repaid their toil with slavery and misery ? "Why should they fight for their Polish lords , who have constantly paid their sacrifices with contempt and humiliation ? So , it will be for the common rights and common happiness of all , that the Polish millions will combat when next they rise against Ilussia . When that day comes , and come it will , when a really national war shall be kindled , when each for his own hearth and homestead , for the rights of himself and the happiness of his family , shall go forth to the conflict , no power on earth can prevent the triumph of Poland , From the Oder and the Carpathian mountains to the Borystbenes and the Dwina , —from the Baltic to the Black Sea , her flag will proclaim a triunphant , free , and happy people , We have said that day will come . It will ;
Poland is neither dead nor sleeping , but anxiously waiting the hour of vengeance and freedom . Even in Prussian Poland , or to speak more properly , for we do not recognise the usurpation of Prussia , that portion of Poland seized by the Prussian despotism , even there , where the people are not outraged by the horrible persecutions waged against their compatriots under the Russian usurpsition , they cherish the hope of freedom , and , it is said , have been detected " conspiring" to cast off the domination of their Prussian oppressors . Some accounts of the discovery of this alleged conspiracy , and thereat number of arrests which followed , have already appeared in this journal , we add the following important extract from a letter from Posen , received within the last few days by an eminent Polish democrat : —
Po « = E ! J Dec . 2 . I must break my silence to tell you something about the new misfortunes of our beloved mother ( Poland ) , whose sobbings reach jour ears from each of her confines . On the Sth of Xoreinher , between eight and nine o ' clock in the evening , we heard suddenly a noise of li < , rse-6 teps , criesof " soldicrs , " anaof the worthy " police . In the course of not more than half an hour , about fifty men of the working class were arrested , not only in the town itself , but in its environs ; and also at Czerwole , if yon still recollect this place . YouunuouMeuly know the bookseller Stefunski , whom they also imprisoned , because tbey found with him ( as it is rumoured ; an exact plan of the citadel of Posen . A mass of noblemen were also arrested , and all the prisons are overflowing with victims , although they emptied for them the criminal jail , of which the inmates ( thieves ) were transported to Itawirz {« small town in the Duchy of Posen ) , besides which they have converted a prirate house , in the neighbourhood oi the police , into a state prison , and residence of the criminal officers . The police director , Jlr . Dunker , has already
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made Ms appearance amongst u « , after hariug first paid one of his greedy visits to the district of Krotoszyn . The soldiers forming ) the garrison are * to be sent into the Hnenish Prussian ' provraces , and their place will be fill » d by others , because they discovered some connivance' Between w « i » and the arrested persons . Vilely 300 individuals from Warsaw were sent to Siberia . Our Gazette of to- ' states that in the territory of Cracow , and In GaUcia ( Austrkn Poland ) , arrests are taking place daily . Threehundred more victimsisentto Siberia ! '' Is there not some chosen curse , ' Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven . Red with uncommon wrath , to blast the man Who owes his greatness to a nation ' s ruin V
Amergst other crimes of the miscreant Nicholas , the forcible abduction of thousands of Polish littl « children ought not to be forgotten . This atrocity took place in 1832 , and was repeated in 1833 . A considerable body of Russian gendarmes , cossacks , and foot soldiers , fell unexpectedly upon the houses of poor families at Warsaw , and seized all the little boys they found therein , and even those they found in the streets . The affliction of the wretched mothers at the moment when their children were seized , thrown into carriages provided for the purpose , and immediately conveyed to Ilussia , no words can describe . Some of the unhappy mothers died broken-hearted , one plunged a knife into the heart of her child , and then into her own . About two-thirds of the poor little creatures perished on the roads , aud the survivors have since sunk , or yet continue to suffer under the miseries of Russian slavery . Alas I that we should have to say it , that
"Heaven looked on and would not take their part . " But , surely if heaven strikes not , at least man's vengeance will yet be terribly manifested . * Ye infamous privileged sycophants , ye vile , heartless she-aristocrats , who hailed as a god this Moloch of the North , when our land was dishonoured by his tread , did ye know of tho above single atrocity , only paralleled by the " murder of the innocents ?" Base and heartless as ye are , we can hardly believe it of ye . Oh ! it was well done . Queen Victoria , " wife" and " mother" as you are , it was well done that you should welcome to your table this emulator of the Jewish Hebod ! And you , Sir Jambs Gba-HAii , your name "Exalted o ' er your less abhorr'd compeers , . And festering in the infamy of years . "
will be remembered by generations to come , as the name of a minister of state , who descended to do the dirty work of a spy , to serve the ends of this , monstrous incarnation of imperial crime and despotism . We must , for the present , conclude our commentary on Poland ' s wrongs . The space we have devoted to this subject for three successive weeks , will , probably next week , be devoted to the consideration or announcement of the state or progress of our brethren in some other land ; but , in taking leave , for tho present , of this subject , we beg to assure the Polish exiles that these columns are open to them whenever they shall have cause , or see fit , to make known to the English people , the wrongs , or vindicate the rights of their country . _ Following this article , will be found a notice of a
meeting , holden j not on the Polish anniversary , but in consequence of no anniversary meeting having been held . / Ihe resolutions only are given , the speeches , owing to peculiar circumstances , we cannot give ; but the resolutions , adopted unanimously , express unmiatakeably tho views of the meeting . That meeting was composed of natives of every European state , with the exception of one or two , yet the most perfect harmony and enthusiasm prevailed . To see so many men assembled , born and trained under such widely varying circumstances , each and all originally strongly imbued with the selfish and blasting vices of national prejudice and religious intolerance , and yet , to see those men meeting in brotherhood , was a
cheering and ennobling spectacle . From London to Constantinople , from Paris to Berlin , from Stockholm to Rome , from the confines of frozen Russia to the southern shore of sunny Spain , brethren had gathered together to declare their sympathy for a suffering but noble people . They were comparatively few . Yes , but they were the voices of many , they spoke for whole nations , to whom speech is denied , but whose hearts yearn for the future . When tyrants conspire , patriots should combine . When despots take counsel together their victims should unite . The absolutists are coalescing and marshalling their forces , and so should we;—we shall best do so by promoting the The Fraternity of Nations .
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THE POLISH REVOLUTION , IMPORTANT FKATBRNAI , MEETING . A democratic fraternal meeting was holden on Sunday evening , December 7 th , in the large room of the Red Lion , Great Windmill-street , for the purpose of protesting against the continued oppression of Poland , and expressing sympathy for the suffering Polish people . The meeting was composed of British , Polish , French , German , Spanish , Italian , Swiss ) Swedish , Norwegian , Danish , Hungarian , Transylvanian ; and Turkish democrats ; The room was crowded to excess . At nine o ' clock Mr . Henry Ross was called to the ehair , and in a brief but truly patriotic address , explained the object of the meeting . Mr . G . Julian Hamey then proposed the adoption of the following resolutions : — 1 st . That the 29 th of November , the anniversary ofthe memorable struggle for Polish liberty , having passed by without those demonstrations of public sympathy usual in this country , this meeting , composed of natives of nearly aU the states of Europe , feel themselves called upon to supply the omission , by declaring their views on the question of Poland ' s freedom , their sense of the present sufferings of the Polish people , and their hopes as regards the future . ;
2 nd . That fourteen years of unmitigated oppression which Poland has undergone since her last revolution , added to the preceding sixty jears of dismemberment and slavery , instead of diminishing , enhance her claims to national independence . The revolution of the 29 th of November ; 1830 , was an act reclamatory of the rights , and demonstrative of the wishes , of thepeople at large ; it was an effort made to expel from Europe the ini dads of Asiatic despotism , audi therefore , not only imposed on all the European nations the duty of assisting Poland in a cause which was equally theirs , but still continues to impose upon them the obligation of co-operating in all her future struggles . Hence , also , none of the sacrilegious treaties concluded with her oppressors , from 1772 to the present t ime , can affect her imprescriptible rights to national independence and freedom . - 3 rd . That this meeting recognises the Democratic Polish Emigrants as the only true and veritable representatives of Poland , and the cause of Polish liberty , they having manifested to the world the purity of their motives , and the comprehensive character of their patriotism , by acknowledging the jusb claims of tlie working classes , not only to the enjoyment of equal civil and political rights , but also te the full and unconditional property of the soil which they havehitherto cultivatedfor the benefit of others . That tlie democratic Poles have alone proved their faithful adherence to their patriotic mission ; and this meeting regards as' betrayers of that holy mission those who have accepted , or may in future accept , any Russian amnesty . And this meeting will regard any attempt to barter thePolish ' nationalsovereignty , in recognition of a would-be royal dynasty , as an act of treason not only to Poland , but to the cause of mankind . wincn
4 th . That the accounts nave norrmeu Jsurope of the persecution ofthe Polish monks and nuns of St ., Basilius , the horrible tortures and cruel murders to which they were subjected to compel them to change their religion , combined with the martyrdom of the priest Sciegenny and the patriot Levitoux , added to the long list of similar enormities , perpetrated by the command of Nicholas , proves the unappeasable cruelty and uname . liorated savageism of the Russian usurpation . That although this meeting is composed of men who hold diversified views on religious questions , each andall solemnly recognise the sacred right of every human being to hold to such faith , or abide by such opinions as each may believe to he true ; thismeetiug , therefore , denounces in the strongest conceivable terms the abominable tyranny exercised against the people of Poland to induce and compel them hy corruption , force , and tortures , to abjure their religion . 5 th . That the Polish revolution of 1830 was ruined by the intrigues and insidious opposition of the native aristocracy , owing to their reliance on foreign assistance , by the conspiracy of cabinets , and by the delusion which the principle of national selfishness , ( under the name of non-intervention ) , succeeded in disseminating among the western nations of Europe . Poland will ensure her restoration hy the exertions of her sons , by eventually realising for herself the final triumph of equality , liberty , and the sovereignty of her people ; and proclaiming the great principle of the fraternity of nations . Such is the Poland this meeting will hail with brotherly feelings , while they now express their unqualified detestation of her oppressors ; the treaties concluded with them ; the treachery arid falsehood of aristocracy and diplomacy ; and above all , the selfish and immoral system of national non-intervention . And this meeting trust that their brethren of the Slavonian race ( of which the people of Poland ore an integrant portion ) groaning beneath the yoke of the two spoliating governments , Ilussia and Austria , wiU strongly sympathise with , and endeavour to emulate the example of such a Poland . They trust , also , that such a Poland will ever find an enlightened sympathy amongst the natives of the third spoliating country , Prussia , who wiU thus repudiate and condemn the infamy of being participators in the despoliation of ancient Poland ; a despoliation perpetrated by their immoral rulers .
6 th . That this meeting regards with" distrust and anxious suspicion the visit of the tyrant Nicholas to the despots of Italy , including ( it is believed ) the Pope of Rome , who , both in his temporal and spiritual capacity , has scourged and betrayed the friends of liberty and pro . gression iu Italy and Poland—both Catholic countries . That regarding the visit of the Russian tyrant to Italy , as intended to Strengthen the combination ofthe enemies of liberty , this meeting appeals to their brethren of all the European states to repudiate national prejudices ,
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aspenUes (! and- ambitious , folliesi and to promote to the utmost of their p , wer the fraternity of nations , that so they may present a combined and fraternal phalanx to achieve their own-freedom , combat for the oppressed , and establish thr oughout Europe the reign of equality and happiness . a HARSEy spoke at great length on the merits of the resolutions , after which they were seconded by Mr . i nomas Ireland , ' and supported in eloquent and heart-stirring speeches by Dr . Berrier Fontaine .
Oan-Si \ , 2 » Uolonel Oborski , the citizens Sehapper , MicheIor , Pruszynski , and Mr . C . Keen . The speeches were delivered in English , French , German , and lolish , and excited an indescribable enthusiasm . The resolutions were adopted unanimously , and a vote of thanks to the chairman , moved by citizen Sehapper , seconded by Captain Stolzman , closed the proceedings . The meeting throughout was most admirable and inspiring , and exhibited that true fraternal spirit which each and all present so ardently desire to see universally triumphant .
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# A lithographic print , representing one of these barbarous scenes , was . published in Paris in 1834 , and ought to he re-published , the first edition being ( we believe ) quite exhausted .. Its re-publication , at the present time , would he of great service , and owinjf to the public mind being just now occupied with the new crimei of the Czar , the sale , we think , could not full to at least pay the cost of republication .
§ Extensive Plunder. Notices In The Fren...
§ EXTENSIVE PLUNDER . Notices in the French language , to the following effect , have been forwarded to the various police distncts of the United Kingdom . For some time past , but particular y during the close of last summer , two Englishmen , described as below , one named Henry King , supposed to be a Jew , and the other named Greorge JNeae , have transacted business on a large scale , as well m this city ( Frankfort on the Maine ) as m other parts of the Continent , paving for the goods in the first instance partly in cash , and partly by bills oiexchangeon London . whichweredulyhonoured . Towards the middle of last October , by representing themselves as agents to large houses , they obtained , partly through personal credit , and partly by bills on London , a quantity of property , consistine of choice
jewellery and other valuable articles , to an immense amount , together with a quantity of hard cash and notes , ihe whole proceeds ofthe fraud havo been ^ S'SnfLn . ore > U Proper tribunal to amount to lo 5 , 70 o florins , to which there is still to be added 100 , 000 florins , supposed to be due to various tradesmen who have - not as yet made any declaration of their losses f he goods procured in this way during the latter portion of their practice principally consisted of . wine , Eau de Cologne , & c . King set out for Pans on the evening ofthe 18 th of October , under the pretence of meeting his wife , and on the morning of the 19 th Neale took his departure for Wisbaden , where they had both stayed for along time , apparently with a view of winding up their affairs . Their late bills on London having been
returnea protesteu , no remittances hating been made to cover the amount , it was considered that they had acted the part of fraudulent bankrupts , and the criminal jurisdiction of Frankfort issued warrants for their apprehension as follows : — . "Under the treaty of reciprocity , we request all the authorities of the various nations to render us such assistance as it is in their power for the earliest apprehension of the two persons hereafter described , with all the property in their possession , consisting of jewellery , merchandise , apparel , and money . To such persons as will give information leading to the apprehension of these parties , and the recovery of the goods , a reward of 25 , 000 f . will be given , together with whatever expenses may have been incurred . Should only a part of the nronertv
be recovered , the reward will be proportionate , but at the same time it will not be less than 5 , 0001 " . It will , perhaps , assist in leading to the apprehension of the parties to state , that a woman , who passed as King's wife , was confined some weeks since at Paris , and of whose person a sketch has been issued with this notice . Some of the jewellery has also been lithographed , and copies issued . To judge by the lithograph , the woman appears to be about thirty , five years of age , with masculine features , high cheek bones , animated expression of countenance , and with the . intellectual part of the head not forming full one-third of the whole . Her person is large , and her appearance stylish . Neale had a passport belonging to Jacques Hahn , of Frankfort , dated August 18 th , No . 1 , 696 , and one available for a six
months pleasure tour through Bavaria , Austria , Italy , and Switzerland . Mr . Hahn is a banker of Frankfort , and in age , person , and complexion , not unlike Neale , who is described as follows : —Between 26 and 30 years of age , five feet five inches high ( Rhenish measure ) , hair deep black and curled , eyebrows very black , eyes small , dark , deep , and swimming , pug-nose , mouth middle size , lips full , with handsome white teeth , beard and whiskers black arid bushy , covering the chin , complexion fresh and generally warm . He speaks with a thick and rather heavy tongue . Neale represents himself as having been born at sea , as having travelled through various parts of the world , and long established in business at Calcutta . Both he and King were on habits of intimacy with the family of a person named
Walton , an English Jew , who represents himself as having lately arrived from Canton . King , who is between 50 and 60 years of age , measures five feet Rhenish , wears a round grey short wig , his forehead is low and flat , eyebrows bushy and greyish , eyes small and supposed to be greyish , nose sharp , mouth common , teeth small and well-formed , no beard , face and chin round , complexion tawny . He is particularly remarkable for a short neck , fleshy flabby hand , and walks with a short quick step . On the inside of his wig there is a pink circular label with the name of the maker , G .. Evaudre Hayden John , coiffeur Frankfurt a M . He nevertheless wears his own hair underneath . Neale has been in the habit
of daily dyeing his hair , whiskers , and moustachios , with a black colouring mixture . The signatures of the parties , fac-similes of which have been issued , aro widely different . King's , is a bold hand , whilst Neale ' s is cramped , narrow , and timid . Fac-similes of some bracelets , which form part of tlie plunder , together with a drawing of Neale's favourite breast-pin , have been forwarded to the various police stations . It is to be observed that Neale had a passport from the British Consul at Frankfort , dated May 18 th , 1845 , and countersigned for Paris on the 18 th of October . As the jewellery was regularly forwarded by post in paid parcels , that fact may assist in leading to the discovery of the delinquents . "
Suspected Mukdek.—On Tuesday Morning The...
Suspected Mukdek . —On Tuesday morning the town of Merthyr was thrown into considerable alarm by the news of there having occurred , on the previous night , and that morning , three separate deaths from drowning . One of them appears to have been connected with circumstances that require explanation . Ann Meyrick , aged 23 , the wife of John Meyrick , living at Rhydycar , a small village inthe vicinity of Merthyr , was , on Tuesday morning , drawn out ofthe Cardiff and Merthyr canal , within a short distanee of her own house , quite dead . On being taken to the house , the body bled profusely , and the blood was found to issue from two frightful gashes in the lower part of her abdomen . The bank of the canal was literally covered with blood , from the place whence she was taken out to the archway over the canal—a distance of forty yards . She was last seen
in the company of her husband , with whom she left the Heathcock tavern about one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , both of them very much intoxicated . He was seen coming home aloue , and though inebriated , was not so far gone as not to be able to go and place some hay for tlie cow to eat . In the morning he was found asdeep , his head resting on the table , as he had evidently not been to bed . When he heard of his wife having been drawn from the canal ,, he began to cry ; but to the spectators it evidently appeared more feigned than real . He accounts for his not having noticed her absence , by stating that she frequently slept at her father ' s house ; and states that on his way home in the early part of the morning he bad turned on one side to obey a call of nature , while she went on , and that lie had never seen her since . A coroner ' s inquest was postponed to Thursday , with what result we will hereafter relate . —Cambrian .
Fatat , Railway Accidekt . —An accident of a very frightful character occurred on Friday evening last on ., the works of the Shrewsbury , Oswestry ^ and Chester Junction Railway , between _ Cresford and Wrexham , by the overturning of a train down a steep embankment , by which one man was killed on the spot , and several others were seriously injured . The workmen and stone-masons employed on the works at Gvesfovd , it appfiavs , were in the practice , on leaving their work in the evening , of getting into the earth waggons , and being propelled up the line to Wrexham . On the evening in question about forty of them had taken their seats in the trucks , and were proceeding at a rapid rate , when on arriving opposite the race course , near Wrexham , the fireman's waggon got off the line , and ran down the
embankment , dragging with it the remainder . One man , Peter Edwards , was found among the lower trucks , frightfully mutilated and quite dead . Another labourer was discovered with his left leg severed completely . A third poor creature had his left leg broken in three places , while seven or eight others were more or less injured . As soon as possible the sufferers were placed in a truck and conveyed on to Wrexham , where they were received into the Hope public-house , and met with every medical and other assistance . On Saturday an inquest was held at the above on the body of P . Edwards , which occupied a considerable time , in the course of which it was shown that the accident arose by the rails sinking into the earth below tlie level of the road , the rails not being properly laid on the sleepers . The jury returned ft verdict of " Accidental death , " with a
deodand of £ 5 on the carriage . Serious Accident at Newbury . —As Mr . Wm . Somerset , Marlborough , Wilts , a large grazier , farmer , and dealer , was going to the cattle show , held hereon Friday , driving a spirited . horse in his gig down the hill approaching Speenhamland , there meeting a carriage , Mr . Somerset ' s horse took fright , running furiously into tho town of Newbury , dashing with frightful speed until he ran the wheels of the chaise against a lamp-post , throwing out Mr . Somerset . Upon his being taken up and conveyed to a surgeon ' s ( one happening to be near ) , it was discovered the fall had caused a fearful wound on his head and other parts of his body . He was taken up quite insensible , with but little hopes of his recovery , and is still remaining in a very precarious state . The chaise was dashed to pieces , and the horse also much hurt .
The Murder Of An Aged Female; In Westmin...
THE MURDER OF AN AGED FEMALE ; IN WESTMINSTER . , ; Monday being the day _ appointed for the examination of iVIartha Brownrigg . a girl twenty-four years of age , who stands charged with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Mundelj , an aged female with whom she resided , the approaches to the Queens-square policecourt were at an early hour crowded with persons of all classes , anxious to hear the proceedings . At half-past three o ' clock the accused , who had been privately brought into court , was lifted into the dock , apparently in an insensible state , but
whether feigned or otherwise it is difficult to say . She had , on her first examination , the appearance of a pretty , fresh-coloured country girl , but was yesterday much altered , and had evidently been suffering great mental anguish . Ann Gaze , the daughter of the deceased , was first put , and in answer to inquiries from Mr . Edwards , the chief clerk , witness said , as soon as I discovered my mother lying upon the box in her room , I ran for a doctor , and I should think that it was not twenty minutes after I first saw her in that position before he came . The cord which had been found round my mother ' s neck was cut off by a baker ' s boy before the medical man came .
The woman Cheshire , who resided in the noxt room to the deceased , and who , proved on the last examination that she heard the deceased cry " murder" twice , and also heard her say , "What are you doing to mo ? what are you doing to me ?" was then put into the witness box in order to finish her evidence , which had only been taken in part on the previous occasion in order to justify the remand of the accused . . Mr . Bond : When you went to the door of deceased ' s room to inquire what was the matter , did you find it locked I— -Witness : Yes . I tried the handle and could not open it .
Examined by Mr . Edwards : After I had been to the room door , and inquired what was the matter , I returned to my own room and went to bed again . In about a quarter of an hour after I heard the prisoner unlock the door of deceased ' s room , and come out and go to the cupboard in the passage ; and then she knocked at my door , and came to my bed side with some wood in her hand . She said that the old lady was very poorly , and had begged of her to go to her daughter ' s , and fetch her . I said she had better do so assoon as she could . She stopped for a minute or two , and then she said she thought she would . I begged of her again to run and letch the old lady ' s daughter , and then she left my room . Mr . Edwards : Did you then go into the deceased ' s room to see how she was ?— -Witness : No , I did not . Prisoner never asked me .
Witness continued : Prisoner , after leaving my room , went into deceased ' s , and shortly afterwards came in to me again with her bonnet on , and said that If "I heard any noise in the room , ( deceased's ) would I go in . Mr . Bond : Did you hear any noise after prisoner went out ?—Not the least . The room was as quiet as it is now . Hearing no noise I did not go in . Edward Gaze said I am the husband of Ann Gaze . Oh Monday night , after the inquest had sat , I was in the deceased's room when they were about to lay her out . ( Witness here described appearances in tho bed such as are consequent upon dissolution . ) The female on seeing this refused to lay her out untd I fetched a doctor . Mr . Bond : Was the prisoner present ? Witness : She was and shuddered , and ever since the inquest has been afraid of being left alone .
Witness continued : On Wednesday I went to deceased's room accompanied by the prisoner , who actually kissed the corpse ; and putting herself in an attitude of prayer , said , " God knows all . " After this , whilst in the room , prisoner said she had a £ 5 note , and offered to lend me a sovereign . I then asked her to let me get it changed as I knew the landlord but she said she'd go herself . She then went to a public-house close by , and immediately returned , saying the gentleman had played a trick on her , having given her a Bank of Elegance note instead of a Bank of England . I told her she had better go back immediately . She asked me to go with her , and I asked to look at the note . She hesitated , and at leneth eave it to me . The moment I saw it , I knew
by the grease it was one I had frequently seen in my mother-in-law's hands . _ After this I suspected her of the murder , and I insisted upon , accompanying her to see where she had obtained the note . As she went along she said she wanted to go and see "Jem , " ( a comrade of his ) with whom she is acquainted , which I opposed , and persuaded her to come along with me . On getting through the Horse Guards , she fell back on my arm , and said she was so ill she could not go further that day . I told her I must get the assistance of a policeman , if she could not go further . Mr . Bond : Did you say anything to induce her to suppose that you suspected her of the murder ?—Witness : I had my suspicions , but I did not tell her .
Witness continued ; " Good God , " she said , " do not get a policeman , and I will try and go a little further . " I assisted her across the road , aiid after she got on the pavement she fell back in my arms . Mr . Bond : Be particularly careful to say , as well as you can remember , the precise words she used . — Witness : She said , " I can't keep it any longer ; 1 murdered the poor old woman , and deprived your wife of a good mother . " She then caught hold ol me , asked me to pray for her guilty soul , and to forgive her . I then gave her in charge . The note produced is the same which the prisoner showed me , having had it in my hands frequently during the deciased ' s life .
Mr . John Charles Atkinson , of 16 , Rodney-terrace , surgeon : I had known the deceased for two years , having attended her late husband , and I have had occasion to remark that she generally was in the possession of good health , and equally level , and at all times in good spirits—a circumstance which I remarked from her spirits being neither depressed or excited during the changes which occurred in licr husband ' s illness . I was called upon at about twenty minutes past eight on Monday morning , and ray assistant went , aud on his return at a little before nine , in consequence of the communication he made tome , I went myself . On my entering the room I found the body of the deceased on a box about two feet six , the whole of the spine and head being deposited there . I examined the place to ascertain whether her death had been occasioned by hanging or strangulation .
Mi * . Bond : Was the cord at that time round her neck ?—Witness : No ; it was on the floor by her side . Mr . Atkinson continued : Observing some pegs over her head I examined them to ascertain whether they would bear her weight . I found that they had no power , and were such begs as a bonnet might be hungon . I then examined her neck , and I was satisfied that she had died from strangulation . There were two identations in front of tho neck , and only one at the back . There was also a vacuum at the back ofthe neck . Mr . Atkinson here illustrated the view he took of the matter with a piece of cord , by showing that the power used to tighten the rope must have been from behind in a right line . Mr . Bond : —Could such appearances as you have described havo been produced by a person strangling themselves ?
Mr . Atkinson : It is doubtful , certainly not probable . To have made such appearances as- the neck presented , a person must , in my opinion , have fastened the rope from behind to a peg or some other thing which would bear them in a right line with the neck , and keep up the pressure on the front . Mr . Atkinson continued : On examining the room I found no place on which she could have been suspended . Had she hung herself , instead of the marks of the rope being horizontal , which they were , and from the left to the right , they would have been
slanting . I examined the deceased ' s hands , to ascertain whether tbey were marked with the pressure which the form of strangulation required , and which it would have produced on them , and I found they were not . There were some slight marks above her mouth , which in my impression were , or might have been , made in the agony of death by strangulation , from a desire on the part of the person to open her mouth and breathe . Witness added that the cord marks were on the lower or tougher part of the neck , and made some observations to show that her death had not been occasioned by hanging .
Mr . F . Partridge , an inspector of the A division , said : On the 3 rd inst ., at about half-past one in the afternoon , the prisoner was brought to the station in Gardencr ' s-lane , in a fainting condition . I entered the charge against her on the police-sheet , " that of causing the death of Mrs . Mundell ; " and having read it over to her , cautioned her that she was not bound to say anything . On hearing ihe charge , she observed , " All I can say is , that it is all right . I am an unfortunate creature . You may do with mo what you like . " And she then commenced tearing her hair . I had her thoroughly searched , but nothing was found . On the day after she had appeared at this court I went with the soldier , Gage , to 1 ,
Providence-place , where , on searching a box pointed out to me as belonging to the prisoner , I found some rope , exactly corresponding with that round the deceased's neck ; as also two duplicates of trifling articles pledged on the 24 th aud 28 th of November hist , the one for a shawl , for Is . Gd ., and the other a gown , for 3 s . [ This evidence was produced to show that prisoner , who bad represented herself to be in possession of some money , which she had saved in service , and which she pretended to go to Bedford-street for — was in distress ; a fact which leaves the inference that the murder was committed to get possession si' the sham notes , which were supposed to bo genuine . ]
On the case for the prosecution being completed as above , Mr . Bond said : Does the prisoaer wish to say anything ? Prisoner iu a calmer voice : " I have not done the murder . " The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute , and the prisoner was committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial .
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"ll ^^ iiiri-BTON .-This eminentBritish vocalist is now on a professional tour in the United States ; ana from tho tone of the public journals on Ins UrsS appearance , his visit must turn out a most succcssiiu
one . The Coast Defences . —Captain Addison ' s invention for heating shot red hot , which was recently tested in the marshes at Woolwich , having boon ap . proved by the board of officers appointed to ascertain and report on its advantages , the inventor has been requested to state the amount he would require to supply 200 furnaces similar to the one approved of , but placed on higher and stronger wheels , to enable them to be moved with greater facility , and without being liable to break down when employed on actual service . This invention will prove a great acquisition to the coast defences , as its power of rendering 32 * pounders and other shot red hot in a limited time has been fully and satisfactorily tested , and the object is attained at a much less expense than by any other mode hitherto adopted .
Dickens ' s forthcoming Christmas Work , " The Cricket on the Hearth , " is being dramatised for the Adelphi . "Will op the late Dr . Wade , which was in his own handwriting : — " Saturday , August 13 , 1842 . —I , Arthur Savage Wade , D . D ., vicar of St . Nicholas , Warwick , give and bequeath to Miss Mary Anue Crafer , third daughter of the late Mr . Thds . Crafer , of East Dereham , Norfolk , all my property and effects , and monies in hand and due to me , and all my shares in Cornish mines , money in annuity offices or banks , and also church stipends and fees , and all other effects of what kind soever , of which she is my sole executrix . " His personal estate for the payment of probate duty was valued at £ 1 , 000 . Witchcraft . —A Wick newspaper gives the
following recent instance of gross ignorance and credulity : — " Not far from Louisburgh there lives a girl \ riio , until a few days ago , was suspected of being a witch . In order to cure her of the witchcraft , a neighbour actually put her into a creed half tilled with wood and shavings , and hung her above a fire , setting the shavings in a blaze . Fortunately for the child and . himself , she was not injured ; and , it is said , that the gift of sorcery has been taken away from her . At all events , the intelligent neighbours aver that she is not half so witch-like in her appearance since she was singed . " The Militia . —In anticipation of the calling out of tho militia , tho " militia clubs" for providing substitutes have commenced making arrangements ' for their reorganization .
Death of Towssend , the Pedestrian . — The " veteran , " so well known in sporting circles , ! . ? » pired lately in the Cliffe workhouse , Lewes , and was buried in Southover churchyard . He was fifty-four years of age . Townsend was considered one of the first pedestrians of his day , and from his possessing great powers of endurance was able to perform extraordinary feats , particularly matches against time . Fortification of Jersey . —Things are now proceeding in earnest towards ensuring the complete security of Jersey against the dangers of foreign invasion . Clothing was received a fortnight ago from
London for the use of our island militia , together with twenty-four brass nine-pounders . The whole island militia force is divided into five different regiments . Altogether it may be considered to be about 4 , 000 strong , and in any case of emergency 1 , 000 more could be brought to the field . Another " Interesting" Nuisascb ior Poor John Boll . —We have great satisfaction in being enabled to announce that an event , calculated to strengthen the affectionate attachment of the people to the throne , and at the same time increase the happiness of her Majesty ' s domestic circle , may be expected to take place early in April next . —Post .
Unequal Taxation in Jamaica . —The planter pays two shillings and sixpence for a mule ; the negro is charged eight shillings for an ass . This is as bad or worse than it is in the mother country , where the poor are pauperised by the burthens of taxation . Thirtt-one founds of Shropshire iron have been made into wire upwards of one hundred and eleven miles in length : and so fine was tlie fabric that a part of it was humorously converted , in lieu of the usual horse hair , into a hamster ' s wig . Warlike Editors , —The editors of the National and Presse ( French papers ) being at variance , a list of six editors of the National , all ready and willing to fight , was the other day presented to the editors of the Presse , but he politely refused to make any selection .
Watches , remarkable for their extreme thinness , are now manufactured at Geneva . They are not thicker than a line and the sixteenth of a line ( little more than the twelfth of an inch ) . This change does not , however , militate against the Ml play of the movement , for that remains the same , the thinness being obtained by placing the hands at the side , instead of over the works . This arrangement makes the watches rather large in circumference . A Pleasant Place . —Eighty-nine outrages have been committed in the county Limerick within the last six months , as reported to Government . President Polk completed his fiftieth year on the 2 nd November .
Rare Discoveries . '— The Allgemeine Zeitung announces three new discoveries , which , should they receive confirmation ; will be hailed with much triumph by the literary and musical world . Of the first , a hitherto unknown epic poem of the great Ariosto ,. called " Rinaldo 1 'Ardito , " we have before heard a rumour ; the second is the concluding canto of "Don Juan , " by Lord Byron , alleged to have been found in Geneva ; and the third , a posthumous opera by Weber , which is said to have lain perdue in London since his death . A Cure for Profanitt . —A schoolmaster , as a punishment to one of his pupils for using profane language , ordered him to take a pair of tongs and watch a hole in the earth until he caught a mouse . The boy took the tongs , and demurely waited for his victim . Directly after , he saw a mouse peeping out of the hole . Cautiously placing a leg of the tongs on , either side , he grabbed Don Wliiskerandos by the nose , and triumphantly exclaimed , "By . ! I ' ve got him . "
The Stocks . —De Foe lived m the ago of Justice Midases and Parson Trullebers , aud about the year 1700 , he assails them both thus : — "The parson preaches a thundering sermon against drunkenness , and the justice sets my poor neighbour in the stocks ; and I am like to be much the better for either , when I know that this same parson and this same juetice were both drunk together but tho night before . '* Fire in Barbican . —On Sunday evening , shortly before twelve o ' clock , an alarming fire broke out in Graham's-buildings , Barbican , which has resulted in the total destruction of Shrewsbury Academy , the property of Mr . Allen , and the printing-office of Mr . Ford . The damage done to Mr . Ford ' s property we understand will be covered by an insurance in the Imperial office , but Mr . Allen is uninsured . The origin ofthe fire is not known .
" Incendiarism . —Tuesday ' s Government Police (?«• sette contains the offer of a reward of £ 50 for the discovery and apprehension of the person or persons who on the night of the 1 st instant maliciously set fire to an out-building , containing about six loads of unthrcshed wheat , the property of John Shaud , Esq ., of Rcny-Birn Hall , near Ruabon , Denbighshire , by which the building and its contents were consumed . Andrew Snvder , a soldier of the revolution , died lately in Lancaster county , Pennsylvania , aged 113 years , the oldest man in the state . Nomlng else to do . —Some person , who had nothing else to do , has ascertained that there are 550 , 000 grains in a bushel of wheat , 520 , 000 in barley , 1 , 260 , 000 in oats , 37 , 000 in horse beans . —New Fork Gazette .
The Militia . —We understand that the rolls of names are prepared in this immediate neighbourhood , preparatory to the re-organising and probably to the calling out of the militia , iu the spring of next year . —Liverpool Times . Windermere Lake has not been known to be so high for the last fifteen years , owing to the heavy rains which have fallen within the last two or . three weeks . The late Editor of thf " Nation . "—The friends and admirers of the late Thomas Davis , editor of the Nation newspaper , have subscribed a large sumamounting , we believe , to upwards of £ 500—for the purpose of erecting a testimonial to perpetuate his memory ,
The Ciultern Hundreds . — A piece of land ia Buckinghamshire , formerly known as the Chiltem Hills . They afforded shelter to banditti , and abounded in timber , which is the reason of their being chosen as a retreat for those members of Parliament who wish to cut their sticks . —Punch . Cooke ' s Circus , at Glasgow , which was erected two years ago at a cost of about £ 1 , 200 , was last week totally destroyed by fire . It is only about three weeks since the Glasgow City Theatre was burnt . Caution to Wives . —Mrs . Chapman , the landlady of the Ship public-house , Hammersmith , was on Wednesday brought up at the police-court , and fined Is . for slapping her husband on the face .
Iiollowav's Pills And Ointment.—Edward W...
IIollowav ' s Pills and Ointment . —Edward White , residing at 45 , Clement ' s-lane , Strand , was an indoor patient at King ' s College Hospital , with an abscess in tho thigh , and a wound nine inches long on the same limb . He could neither bend his knee or put his foot to the ground " . He remained there for five months in bed , when he was informed , " that nothing more could be done for him . " He was then carried to his home , and commenced using tho above invaluable medicines . Ho can now walk about all the day long , and is quite cured by the means of these wonderful medicines , and this to the astonishment of all who knew him .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 13, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13121845/page/7/
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