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gj jE AMERICAN AGRARIAN REFORMERS * ifVntinued from the Northern Star , of Nov . 23 th . ) Me ssrs . Windt and Evans had announced in the fir 4 nBm beroftae People ' s Rights their determina-Jj * to form an " Agragrian League , " and to that l _ d invited the readers of their journal to affix their ^ natures to an " agrarian pledge , " binding them jS to vote for any map for any legislative officer , Ij ,,, would not pledge himself in writing to oppose jj far ther traffic i-i the public lands ; and to use his to them to be laid out
influ ence cause in farms and wgfor the free and exclusive use of actnal settlers . 5 li 3 p ledge was adopted by the association formed at r te public meeting on the 20 th of March , 1 SA 4 . Instead , however , of the ** Agrarian Leagae , " the ^ jety took the name of the »| National Reform Ass oci at « on- " Doubtless it was ia consideration of the s ^ pi " * prejudice attached to the word "Agrarian , " that the associationists chose the latter of j _ cse names : we must say , for ourselves , that we slonid hare preferred the title of "A » ramn League" ,
IVeekly meetings were regularly held at Groton Xfall during the spring ; and in the summer onensir meetings were holden in different parts of New Tort for a considerable time the journals tried to stifle { he new movement by-the burkina system . None of the meetings were reported , and not a word said in praise or censure of the reformers . At length , as the party increased in strength , the New York journals began to wake up . The Tribune discovered the exferenee of the new party through the help of a monthly journal , called the Phalanx . The-Erpre «(!) and the Courier (!) made the discovery through some of the papers published in the state of Rhode Island . The Swi got the new * from a Cincinati ^ aper , which
paper got it from our columns ( the AbrtA-ern Star was then publithed . at Leeds )!!! Of course now that the discovery had been made that '' Agrarians * really existed in the United States , a vast deal of Tiriuous indignation waa vomited against the " anarchists " " imitators of French Jacobins , " " transplanters and teachers of English Chartism , " & c , & c . Notwithstanding abuse the movement went on . In less than six months , some sixteen oprn-air meetings lad been held , besides as many more meetings in-door . Messrs . Evans , Windt , Devyr , Walsh , Manning , Gommerford , Beeny . and ihe well-known patriot and philanthropist , Parke Godwin , were regular speakers at the meetings . As the time for the "fall elections" approach-d , the reformers resolved te nominate men pledged to their principles , and to vote for none others . Accordingly Messrs . Windt , Commerford , and Godwin , were nominated for Congress ; and twelve candidates for
the Assembly . Of course none of the reform candidates were elected , nor wan the number of votes " realised" large / , but the object designed was attained , that of commencing practical operations . The early part of the year 1845 witnessed ihe National Reformers actively engaged in enlightming ihe public mind as to the true merits of the Anti-Rent question , with the view of exciting public sympathy in favour of that persecuted party . We have recently explained the objects of the Anti-Reniers , and the history of their struggle . The principles 6 : the Reformers were now spreading through the state of New York , and also through the states of Pennsylvania , Massachusetts , and Ohio . In January , 1845 , the National Reformers of Pittsburgh ( the American Birmingham ( started a candidate for the Mayorship . Alexander Hay , who , tlonsh unsuccessful , obtained more votes than either the " Native" or the " Libert . " candidate .
In April , the Reformers of [ New York proposed Ransom Smith for Mayor . The result , a slight increase of votes on the number polled at the precedins fall election , of course encouraged our friends to further perseverance . __ About this time the Reformers of Ohio succeeded in electing a number ofmunicipal officers in two township . The agitation was continued during tbe ' surrmcrof 1 $ 45 , and the good work was greatly advanced by the adhesion of several new and talented speakers and writers . Amongst these we must single out " Allan E . Bovay , whose lectures in different parts of New Tork hare been productive of immense benefit ; William West , a clever speaker ; Louis Masquerier , a powerful arid eloquent writer ; and M . F . O'Connor , a bold and enthusiastic advocate of real democracy , editor of the Irish TbJunteer .
On the 14 th of October an "Industrial Congress " snmmoned by tbe National Reformers assembled in New York . A great number of delegates assembled , including the following celebrated cJmracters : —Parke Godwin . New York City ; A . J . Wright , Jjoston , Mass . ; L . W- Ryckman , Brook Farm , Mass . ; A . Brisbane . New York City ; Thomas A . Bevy , Albany , N . Y . ; Charle A . Dana , Brook Farm , Mass . ; Francis C . Treadwell . Brooklyn , New York ; Elvan E . Bovay , New York City ; Theophilus Fish , Washington ; Gerrifc Smith , Peterboro , N- Y . ; Cassias M . Cay , Kentucky ; John A . Collins , Skaneatelas , N Y ; Horace Greeley , New York City ; Wm . L . Garrison ; and G . II . Evans , New York . The following were theprincipal resolutions adopted hy the Congress : —
That an inherent and unalienable right of land is the sight of parental protection from society , and that as a member of the human family man has an inalienableright to the use of a portion of the ufiiversal patrimony , tbe soil , as a home where he may exercise his useful industry , whereon he may enjoy his personal independence , which should never be wrested from him by the operation flaw or otherwise . That the proper ohjtct of civilized society is to guarantee to every individual the Bights of Nature , the means of existence and happiness , which are the common inheritance of all . That to secure the right of the soil to all , it is necessary to limit the possessing of families or communities .
That the most practicable measures for a restoration of The soil are , 1 st . to limit the Quantity of land to be hereafter acquired by families or associations , and . 2 d . to Invent all further traffic in land by the government , and to make the Public lands free on the principle proposed bribe National Reform Association , Witreos , The migrant wrongs inflicted upon the useful classes by the false arrangements or usages of civilization , embodied in tbe competitive and antagonistical system of commerce , which abstracts from wealth prodncing inenstry its surplus products , and creates a hostile class of
capitalists and others—wealth consumers but non-pro-¦ facers : A _ d , whereas , these anti-social tvroags , tbese trimes against humanity , have accumulated in number ratil tnt ' ir baleful influence ! affect the interests of all Mankind and : whereas , these complicated evils are most '" lly developed through the deadening influences of the present system of factory labour , which withers life's t & zr & es even ia childhood , producing by excessive toil iajacal deformity , and through lack of opportunity and tie means to acquire mental cultivation , deterioration and degradation , of both mind and body , therefore
That the members of this Convention solemnly pledge uemselres to uje all their means , as men and citizens , to shew forth the horrible ( fleets of this false system of bhour , and endeavour to have adopted legislative acts for protection of youth against excessive toil and to secure efficient education . This Congress also resolved to form an association . to be styled "The Industrial Brotherhood ; " and farther resolved—That a MILITARY ORGAKIZ ATIOS be recommended to the several Associations of Industrial Brotherhood
throughout the United States , which organization shall he limited to the formation of independent companies in ftri : t conformity ; with the constitution and laws of the Isifl . The uniform to consist of a plain citizen ' s dress , * fcich may be worn with propriety ou the Sabbath . And to order that merit alone may be considered in the appointment of officers without reference to peculiar abi-% ¦ it is especially recommended that no difference in kc = s between commissioned officers and rank and tile ^ 1 be allowed , beyond what is indispensable to the Proration of discipline . The arms and equipments to te kept at all times in good order , and the discipline T « Htred perfect and efficient . The general name of ftAatriil Guards is recommended to tbe whole .
^ iie Industrial Brotherhood was to be composed of Relations of actual producers of wealth throughout *« 6 Union , on a p lan of mutual insurance similar to We Odd Feii 0 WSj aj , ^ ^ j ^ ^ g additional object of Wntical action to carry into effect the views above "jsenbed . This " Brotherhood " was not to supersede j ?* Sationsl Reform Asanniation . The National * JWm movement includes all of every class who ! ™ S ! gn the pledge for restoring thefLand to the fWe- The Industrial Brotherhood was constituted
an org anization of labour against capital , to meet manifold combinations of capital against labour . g Ti « e "fall election" approached , National ( , "f candidates were again put in nomination . ' atw ** the Relormers were defeated , but had the f action ut seeing the votes for their side , though * trp ^ dually increasing . Several like attempts * lec ti 1 Dade lu otner parts of * e Union ' At tnis fe at j "* the Anti-Renters elected a senator , and W n a n , v lu 0 era ° f the House of Assembly , in x *^ em ' * , the [ German Communists ; residing < ljj -f ^ . joined ' the National Reformers ; pro-^ ngtiieir adhesion by the following resolutions : ^ h * J *' "" EuleIunly before tit face of the world that i 5 ' auli " - r'JUUUy but the earth , and that all men have fr ^^ to live upo n it . ^ Uta *' ursi ^ v , ! S Americans , and have no other inte-* ** as *! * ° die American P * opie > htcaust America ^« * . < "n of the oppressed every where , and because
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he tuterestof the American people it the interest of tho whole human race . We care net for party names and professions , but will sustain whatever furthers the great cau se of humanity . We recognize in the National Reformers our fellow , labourers in the cause of progress , as pioneers of a better future , as the advocates of the cause of the oppressed children of Industry , and as the only true democracy of the land . We let not ourselves be led astray by the clamorous outcries of selfish interests , and pledge ourselves with joy to sustain the following proclamation of the National Reformers : That all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; am * ng which are the Right to life and liberty : to the u « e of such a portion of the earth , and the other elements , as shall be sufficient to provide them with the means of subsistence and comfort ; to education and paternal protection from society .
In accordance herewith we engage ourselves individually and collectively to co-operate with all our strength with our co-workers , the National Reformers , to bring before the whole American People tbose simple principles , and thus to aid in carrying out gloriously this new reform . The adhesion of the German Democrats brought to the ranks of the Reformers another talented writer and speaker , the Editor of the Tribune of the People , ( German paper , ) well koown to tbe German Democrats of London , where he resided for some time before settling in the United States . ( Tohtoinlinued . )
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FRANCE . The roost important portion of the intelligence contained in the Paris Journals relates to the continued rise in the j » rn markets or France . The National states' Thatthe different journals received from the departments are filled with afflicting details relative to the existing distress occasioned by the hi _ h price of provisions . In some places the population , exasperated by the hig h p rice of corn , have assembled in the market-places , and bx the price at which wheat should be sold . In other districts bands of mendicants compel the farmers to supply them with bread . Elsewhere malefactors attack the millers and cornfactors , and indulge in the mo > t criminal excesses . The distress must indeed be great when the population proceed to such unlawful extremities . " The Journal des Debate states ,
that"Bandsof mendieaHtscontinue to spread terror in the whole of the Bocage . These individuals , dressed in grey blouses , their faces smeared with f coot , six or seven or more together , obtain grain and money , uttering the most horrible threats against those who venture to make any observation te them . They generally apply at lonely farm-houses . They have robbed persons in the night on the highwayamongst others , a miller , whom they threatened with death , after having stripped him of his money , if he denounced them to the authorities . Similar scenes have taken place in the district of Partbenay . " The lYogres du Pas dt Calais states that in tbe northern departments there were at the present moment 2 . 000 , 000 of indigent persons .
The weather in Paris throughout last week was unusally unpleasant—fog , snow , sleet , and irost alternately . On Saturday a smart frost set in , which continued on Sunday . Immense flock of aquatic fowls , coming from the north , passed over the French capita ! on Friday and Saturday—an indication , it was considered , of tbe approach of n severe season . During many years so much snow bad not fallen in France so early in the winter as in the present .
PORTUGAL . The Civil Wab . —The Queen ' s troops have recovered Coimbra .
POLAND . THE AUSTRIAN DESPOTISM IN CRACOW . ( Correspondent of the Times . ) Cbacow , Nov . 25 . You will have received long before this letter can reach your hands intelligence ot the definitive occupation of Cracow by the Austrian troops , —of the three protecting Powers having declared her independent existence to be at an end . For months a presentment that such a step was in contemplation had taken possession of the minds of tbe inhabitants , but the final sentence , though then anticipated , was when at length pronounced not the less bitterly felt . On Monday week , amidst the roar of the Austrian artillery , the tears of the female portion of the
inhabitants , and the curses of the male , the proclamation was read by which Cracow is declared to be for ever a portion of the Austrian empire . . Since that time the usurpers have been actively employed in administering , first to all the employes , and now to the inhabitants , a most stringent oath of fidelity to the emperor ; the proclamation hinting , in no unequivocal language , the treatment to be expected by thoie who he < itate , but for an instant , to comply with the orders of the Government . As you will readily believe , the utmost consternation " prevails . The unhappy Ciacovians find themselves delivered up , bound band and foot , to Austria . Already the inhabitants have had experience of the nature of the government to which they wil ^ henceforward be
bound to submit ; a military tyranny , no less absurd than odious . To give you one or two of many instances from which you may estimate its character : —It is , according to the Austrian code , a grave offence to smoke a cigar while passing before a sentinel ; though a creature himself rodolent of tobacco for a German mile , his person is considered so sacred that if the unweary passenger does not , on the first summons , remove the offending pipe or cigar from his mouth , he must instantly be admonished by a stab of the bayonet . There are numerous instances of persons who have been grievously wounded on this account . I will name one
only—Mr , Bukowski . Mr , Slizowski , the son of a merchant in that town , succeded in defending himself against the attack of the sentinel ; but he was immediately thrown into prison , where he still remains , though two months have elapsed since his arrest . The police , in order that they may not be outdone by the militaiy , have lately employed themselves in making domiciiary visits in search of a lithographed pamphlet , written by M . Mecuxewski , which has no fault except that ol giving a correct version of the events of February . Several inhabitants in whe-se houses these pamphlets have been found have been arrested . The author has long
languished in an Austrian prison . Nor is the property of the citizens less threatened with destruction than their liberty by the usurpation of the Austriaiis . The moderate prosperity enjoyed by Gracow of late years has arisen entirely from commerce , the advantage of a total absence of imports duties rendering the free city an admirable depOt for the foreign merchandise required by central Europe . But with the other blessings which Austria promises to bestow upon Cracow will come the Austrian tariff ; a tariff no less illiberal than her policy ; so destructive to trade and national developeaient as to be with difficulty endured , even by her German subjects . - ^ The merchants of Cracow wiilseek other lands , but the poor will remain with a diminished field for employment , and the price ofthe few luxuries they have hitherto enjoyed
greatly enhanced . The peasantry > of the republic , till now perhaps the happiest and most contented in the world , being , in fact , proprietors of a great preprotion of the soil , witt receive tbe additional boona of a . grinding taxation and subjection to military impressment from the paternal Government . Poland does well to weep over her fallen capital , — over the wails of her senators , —over the fane which enshrines the ashes of her long line of kings and heroes—where Kosciusko slumbers ; where the deliver of Nienna reposes from tts ungrateful labour , over that temp le which the most indifferent cannot enter without feeling that Poland was once glorious and powerful ; but her tears should flow the fastest for that bold peasantry , so true in war , so gentle and light-hearted in peace ; whose simple virtues will excite distrust and aversion in the breasts of
rulers skilled in the arts of corruption . You will perceive that the pretext by which Austria endeavours to justify the occupation of Cracow is as clumsilv imagined as the act itself is nefarious . The chief charge against the city in General Castiglione s proclamation is , that Cracow became the seat of a central committee , calling itself a revolutionary Government , which afforded assistance to the insurgents in the provinces belonging to the protecting Powers , But the General omits to add that nrMm . mlv to the central committee establishing
itself in Cracow , Austria had made liersel responsive for the tranquility of the town by taking military nosscssion of it ; that her troops afterwards abandSt carrvins with them all the civil functionfriefandalUhe mflitary force of the republic ; that even under these circumstances public order was preserved , and no insurrectionary movement took place amongst the inhabitants ; tbatthecentral committee was supported ^ those very insurgentststran . gersfrom distant provinces not citizens of the republic ) whom the Austrian General considered formidable enough to render it necessary for h . m to retreat into Galicia and break down the bridge over the "Vistula behind him . But , supposing thatall the disorders which occurred in Cracow could be justly laid at the door of the Govlnmont . of the citv . what are tbey in comparison to
th-excesses which took place in Crtlicia * in tne Senate of Cracow he made to answer tor the lormer , shall not the Austrian Government beheld responsible for the latter ? Yet in Galicia m ore than 1 , 40 U persons ^ were pufto death in cold blood , without even ^ e form of a trial-many ot them by processes ot ortur ^ whieh . in their devilish cruelty , have never been exceeded , if they have ever been equaU « Uj the most barbarous nations during the most barna reus nellods . The property of these persons was destroyed , the families , in many install irednwd to absolute beggary . In . ^ mde o ^ ZZnMe there are 800 orphan children , many of them of noble S and nurtured in Iwury , riw are _ *»* " «*
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by the hand of charity alone from absolute destitution . — Yet the perpetrators of these atrocities have not been punished by the Austrian Government ; on the contrary , they have been rewarded . The surviving sufferers have not been indemnified for the losses they have sustained ; their petitions have been rejected without inquiry . And now , though these tacts are notorious as the sun at noonday , Austria dares to come forward in the face of Europe , and , laying her hand upon Cracow , to say , " This city is unfit to govern itself ; it is proper that it should be given over into my hands . " And the Prussian Monarch , too , who , though he does not call himself apostolic , wishes to be considered humane , and just , and pious , ventured to put his hand to the latal scroll , by which he has lowered himself in the eyes of Europe to the j . osition he occunies in the estimation of his subjects .
I can assure you that the last hopes ot the inhabitants of Cracow are fixed upon Lord Palraerston . It is certain that Austria holds her new possession with a trembling , and unsteady hand ; that no arrangements are to be made respecting its government until it is known how England will brook the insult which has been cast upon her . A ustria is , indeed , in no condition to go to war about Cracow . Her finances are in a desperate state ; her troops wretchedly equipped and badly officered ; besides , many regiments are not to be depended upon . I believe the mere rumour of a certain old commodore having received orders to hoist his penant iu the Adriatic would send tho Austrian troops to Podgorze more rapidly than they have ever yet executed the march .
1 he loss which England will sustain in the way of trade , if the occupation is permitted , will be by no means inconsldeiable ; the principal articles imported by ( racow , cotton goods and hardware , being chiefly of English origin . Chacow , Nov . 30 . —The greatest vi gilance appears now to he exercised in respect to travellers at the barrier which they have to pass on the way to the Pru-sian frontiers . The diligence was yesterday stopped by an Austrian police officer . The diligence was surrounded by soldiers , the passengers obliged to alight , and to follow the police officer into a room of
the Custom-house . Here their papers weredemandeil , and minutely examined . A Vole , in whom tho police officer thought he recognised the person whom he sought , was arrested . . The Jews of Cracow , says a letter from that place of the 1 st . were not , before the incorporation , burthened with taxes so heavily as the Jews oi Gallicia , but now they have imposed upon them a tax upon light , for ihey are made to pay a considerable duty upon every candle lighted on Fridays , in celebration of their Sabbath ; they are also to pay three times the amount ofthe tax upon meat paid by Christians The Rabbi of Cracow has had an audience of the
Austrian Commissioner , and petitioned that the Israelites mi » ht be released from these charges . But the Commissioner replied that it would be difficult to grant his amplication , as Cracow now forms part ot Gaiiicia . and partial exceptions and privileges cannot be accorded . A letter from Limberg ( Austrian Gallicia ) states , that all the military prisoners who had been sentenced by the Court Martial for rebellion have been pardoned by the Emperor , with the exception of 34 , who are to be imprisoned in chains for different periods between 8 and 20 year . The sentences on the civil prisoners have not yet been published .
Ciucow , Dec . 2 . —It is stated that the Police Department , When they expected to arrest John Schubert , at the barrier of Zwierzynice , were in the hopes of thereby discoving an important secret . His disappearance has , however , frustrated their expectation . Report points out the s-aid John Schubert as one of the ringleaders ofthe new conspiracy , which is said to be brooding a _ ainst the Austrian Government . Vikn . va , Dec . 3 . —Two days after we received the intelligence that the well-known polish . insurgent chief , Dembinsky , who appeared alter the defeat of the Galician nobles at Lisa Gora , and had not been heard of since , has been arrested in Cilli . He had been kept in concealment on the estate of an Hungarian nobleman , but had latterly obtained a passport for himself and a female , and under a false name had succeeded in getting as far as Cilli , where he was arrested .
BaK ^ iAU . Dec . 6 . —Letters from the Polish frontiers states thac the time in which the kingdom of Poland is to cease , is approaching , and that it is no secret that Prince Paskewitsch has orders on the slightest revolutionary movement to fire on Warsaw from the citadel , and utterly destrov it .
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . The steam-ship Great Western arrived at Liver pool on Saturday evening , after a fine run of sixteen days from New York . Our accounts from New York by this steam-ship announce , that the expedition despatched from the American squadron in the Gulf of Mexico had partially succeeded in its purpose . Two- Mexican steamers , - and a small fleet of Mexican trading schooners at anchor in the river , were captured ; and , having peneirated up the river during the night , the town of Tobasco on the following day was bombarded , guns and batteries were spiked , and tbe Americau forces then returned to Anton Lizardo , the rendezvous ofthe main squadron . Two American vessels had been made prizes for attempting to run the blockade of the coast .
The accounts from the fleet reach to the 8 th ult . inclusive ; but from the interior of Mexico we have no intelligence beyond that received by the West India mail . The American papers publish vast masses of official documents , rumours , and statements of every description with regard to Mexico , her internal position , and the prospects of the war . If we may judge from these , the Mexicans are raised to a surprising degree of energy with ( regard to the American war , In the United States nine additional regiments of volunteers had been called for by the executive .
From Monterey , the head-quarters of the Army ofthe Left , we have accounts to thelthjult . General Taylor was preparing for another movement , and all the regular troops were being advanced up the river . The volunteers were relied up to maintain the line of communication with the Rio Grande , From the Army ofthe Centre we have official despatches to the 14 th of October .
THE BOMBARDMENT OF TOBASCO . The following particulars of the attack and bombardment of Tobasco , by the United States squadron , are from the New York Sun : — "Oar squadron consisted ofthe Mississipp i , Commodore . Perry ; the Yixen , Commodore Sands ; Boneto , Lieut . Com . Benham ; Reefer , Lieut . Steiritt ; Nonita Lieutenant Hazard ; the revenue steamer Mc Lane , Captain Howard ; the revenue cutter Forward , Capt . Nones , ( all small craft , ) two hundred seamen and marines iromtho Karitan and the Cumberland , under the Command of Cap : ain Forrest , Lieuts . Cest . Winslow , Waish , Hunt , Capt . Esdon and Lieut . Adams of marines , They left Anton Lizardo , October 16 th , and arrived at
Frontera the 23 d , and captured two steamers , and several small schooners ; on the 24 th and 25 th they ascended tbe river seventy-two miles lo 'l ' obasco . towed by the 'Petrel and the Vixen . They passed the Devil ' Turn at two p . m ., landed and spiked fonr 2 _ -pounder 3 . They arrived off Tobacso at six , p . M . ; and anchored in line ahead , distant one hundred and fifty yards from the shore . The city was summoned to surrender . The Governor refused , when three shots were ( fired from the Vixen . An officer came off with a request that wc would aparu the hospitals , which was granted . Skirmishing immediately ensued . On Sunday no damage was done . We captured one brig , three schooners , and a large sloop , in all . At tho town and below , there were
nine vessels and many boats captured . On Monday , the 2 Cth , at daylight , there began a sharp fire ot musketry from the shore , which was returned by our guns , and continued for some time , at intervals . A flag of truce came off , beseeching us to spare the town . The Commodore assented , because , as he said , he only wished to frighten the soldiery . The prizes were got under way , and were ready for returning . The enemy ' s white flag was flying all the while , W . A . Parker , the lieutenant , got ashore with his prize vessel , and was attacked by eighty soldiers , whom he beat off with eighteen men only , losing one and getting two wounded . This action lasteo thirty minutes , when Lieutenant C . W . Morris was dispatched to him with orders , and he , passing the heavy fire of the enemy , was weunded in the neck b \
a rausket-ball . He stood up in his boat , and cheered the men on gallantly till he fell in the arm ? cf Midshipman Cheever . The Commodore then commenced cannonading in good earnest from the Vixen , theBonita , the Nonita , and the Forward ; and in three quarters of an hour he almost destroyed the city , sparing the houses of the foreign consuls . Ai mid-day the fleet left , firing up the streets as they passed them . All the prizes were saved except one , which grounded , and was burned by the Commodore ' s orders , to prevent her falling into the handsofthe enemy . The McLane ttrtick on the barai the mouth of ihe river , and did not get over to participate in the engagement until it was ended , 'flu Patriota , on her return , captured the American brit Plymouth , Capt . Packerson , discharging cotton at Alvarado bar . " _ . .
Fkom Mexico . —Another effort lias been made lo produce a revolution iu the city of Mexico , by the attempted assassination of General Salis , who is now at the head of the provisional government . The attempts having been IrequenV , Sails , escorted by a reoiment of dragoons , retired to Tacubaya . Salis , ami as may be inferred from an official letter , Santa Anna also , ascribe these crimes to agents of the United States . The Greatest energy and industry are employed in increasing the defences ot Vera Cruz . The garrison at present numbers 4 , 500 men , and reinforcements are daily arriving . A rich individual at the capital had advanced 50 , 000 dollars to be applied to the uses of the government at this place . The feelings ef the Mexican government and people , judging from the papers we have received from Vera Cruz , arc more thaneyer exasperated against th » American people
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and army . The appeals in the various journals are inflammatory oeyond all precedent ; and these are more than responded to by the authorities . Some ladies ot Zaiapa have asked permission to remain with the rear guard of the National Militia to take charge of the wounded . The convicts of the prisons 7 ^ euWa have petitioned the government to allow them to fight , under a guard , tho enemies of their country .
LATER INTELLIGENCE . SURRENDER OF TAMPICO . LlVEKPOOL , WUD . VRSDAT . The Royal'mail steam-ship Acadia , Captain Harrison , arrived in the Mersey shortly after nine o ' clock this morning . Tampico had been quietly invested by the American squadron , under Commodore Connor , on the 14 th ult . No osposition was offer d , and the town surrendered unconditionally . The Mexican force , as we are informed bv the West India mail , had retired to San Luis de P ' otosi . Commodore Connor garrisoned the town with a force of 150 sailors and marines .
Iivim the interior of Mexico important , though indistinct , advices had been received ; the announcement being made in the New York journals of the 30 th ult ,, by telegraph from Washington , that important despatches had been received from the squadron m the Gulf , thatthe Mexican administration was dissolved , and thai Almonte was going to England . The authenticity of this communication is doubttnl . Ihe elections for the constituent Congress had taken place . Hen-era was one of the elected .
INSURRECTIONS AGAINST THE AMERICANS . Accounts from California , via Mnzatlan , reported that the occupation of the . territory by the Americans was not peaceful ; that insurrections had occurred at several points , and th at the French Consul at the senport ot Monterey had been arrented for having protested against the American usurpations . An attempt of the boats ofthe United States sloop-of-war Crane to seize a Mexican brig at GuHymas had been repelled . The Cyane , it is said , lost twenty men in the affair .
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ALARMING STATE OF IRELAND . SPREAD OF DRS'irFuTION ! DEATHS BY STARVATION ' . ! The reports from the country ara truly appalling . The trustees of the Indian Relief Fund in Dub'in , received in on e day one hundred and seventy lettcre , chiefly from Mayo , and several of them from Lord Ltican ' s town of Castlebar . Tho accounts of the state of destitution are utterly deplorable . A magistrate , wiiting from the neighbourhood of -Ballycastle and Doonl ' ecny , Mayo , states that , there has l > een thirteen deaths from stavation . within the last few days . In those onei hundred and seventy letters thoro are accounts of fortysevt n deaths from actual starvation . There are evidences of utter destitution upon all sides . The Dublin Eveniiw Post says : —
The workhouse 3 all through the country , with the sole exception of Gastlebar , are crowded to . excess , and , in many ca » es a species of out-door , relief it . humanely afforded by the guardians . The workhouse of Kilkenny , on Thursday morning , contained 1 , 391 inmate * , upwards of o hundred morothiin the allotted number , In addition , 1 , 800 persons are daily obtaining a meal of stirabout and milk , which they eat nithin the house , and then go awsy . Our correspondent , a gentlemen of tlie highest character , states that he saw nun , women , boys , and If iris waiting in the cold and rain for that meal , with scarcely a raj to cover them . Tho gunrdians ofthe Kilkenny electoral division , in order to provide this meal ,
are incurring an additional expense of £ 13 10 s . per day , tbey are thus taxing the town division , which already pays nearly double the rate applotted upon the rural districts of tlie union . The same state of things exists in various other unions . The Cashel workouse , intended for 700 , contains 873 inmates ; and , in addition , a pound of bread each is daily given to an average of 520 persons , who corns to the workhouse to receive relief . In the letter of our Ueatli correspondent , and other communications , a . statement of destitution equally afflicting is described ; and but for the vast amount of employment afforded by tlie public works , we do believe that the country , by this time , would have been one terrible scene of starvation , pestilence , and anarchy . "
The provincial journals suppl y details ofthe most affl-ctins hind . The Cork Examiner gives the following in a report of the meeting of the Skibbereen Relief Committee on Tuesday : — Doctor Donovan detailed some lamentable instances of death and sickness from hunger , and n want of pro . tt-ction against the inclemency of the weather , and stated that he had no hesitation in saying that , before the close of the spring , half the population of this portion of Carbery would have been swept off the earth by starvation . J While the doctor was addressing the committee , an applicatibn . for a coffin for a person who had beed dead for the previous four days , was handed into the chairman . Some of the gentlemen present remarked they were not at all surprised at this , for they had known numerous instances in which dead bodies had to be kept over ground for several days f . > r want of colTins .
To my own knowledge , the friends of one poor creature who died from want , were obliged to bury him without a coffin . It is not an uncommon thing now in the neighbourhood of Skibberbeen , Bullydchob , Skull , Castlehaven , Castletownsend , & c ., to meet ten or a dozen funerals in the day . In fact , the niortality here is greater than during the ravages of the cholera . The story is the same all through the Carberies and the barony of Bore and Buntry—starvation is everywhere . I regret to have to add that another death from starvation occurred here this morning . At the hour I writo the eorpse lies about two miles from Skibburbeen , on tlie Cork road . Three young children surrounded the remains of their wretched father on the spot where his strength yielded to famine , and bewail his loss with heartpiercii ! j £ cries . Deceased was a stout , able-built man , apparently about 40 years of age . The same journal contains the following : —•
CkohKHavem , Dec . 9 . —To add to the misery of tlie people , some of the landlords have already canted their cattle for rent . I am sorry to add that the Rev . J . 3 Wrett , rl . C . C , on last Sunday made a collection in the chapel to purchase a bier to take the dead bodies to the graveyard without coffins , as being hitherto tired of making collections towards buying them , As to larceny , there is no limit to it ; sheep , com , or anything they can lay hands on , are carried away by the starving people . Countt of Com ; . Thk Cork Western Districts . —If the Board of Works can feel compassion , or can command the means of staying pestilence and donth , they will instantly direct the resumption and extension of public works in the two parishes of Kilniacabea and
Kilt ' aughnabeg in the West of Cork . We insert two letters , one frcm the respected—the almost brokenhearted , Catholic pastors ot those parishes , and the other from a coircHpon'dent who is intimately acquainted with the locality , and who tells the public what he himself has seen . They are subsisting on sea-weed for the most part , and on field-weeds , eating which they are subject to disease ;! , we will not curdle tho blood by naming . They are , many o them , in a state that physicians could hardly investigate . Raw tainted tubers have been crunched and swallowed with more than a beast ' s avidity by the famishing people ! They are dying iu tens and
twenties ; famine is sweeping them off faster than Asiatic cholera , when'it ' was most malignant , did the inhabitants of lanes and alleys in the towns ot Ireland . Itisucleas toaslf what ire tho landlords doing . The only , and the sufficient , ' answer is , they are not there . There is not a resident landlord in one of the parishes , and in the other they are so lew , or so incomoctent , as to render their presence of no avail . The parish priest and his curate are the only residents who have intelligence and energy enuu ^ h to plead for the people : to assist them with money is beyond their power . —Cork Reporter . The Rev , Joseph Sheahan , T . P ., in a letter dated " Clounties , Glandorc , Dec . 10 , "
says" On Tuesday I visited a man , named Scannell ; the number of his family was nine ; his pay while at work , only a few days , 8 d . per day . From cold and a want of sufficiency of food he was attacked with dysentery , and died in my hands . Numbers are t-irailarly circumstanced . On Saturday , the Rev . Thomas Walsh , my curate , proceeded to the north , about five miles , to the house of Malony , whose three children were on the week before last buried . He went in , and the first object that attracted his notice was the body of Molony ' s fourth child . He s at down between the corpse and the bed where th e father lay , and heard his confession . He , too , is now no zi > rv , Attct riaiting tour others in that locality ,
my curate started for Glandore , and there f nd -ox poor creatures forming one family , the fa th er , tbreesons and two daughters , on a bud of straw , not three l ' ect broad , all in fever , and so exhausted hat he dared not attempt to remove any . lie hatd to hear the confessions of each while the others listened . On this morning again , while on duty , he found the body of another of our people , Pierce liottgin , on the road side ; the body was conveyed to Skibbereen , where an inquest will be held . From his emaciated appearance , my curate has not the slightest doubt he died of want of food . They are even burying some of the poor creatures now without cuilins .
Coiwty or WnsTiiEATn . —AiiiLONi :. — Some landlords , either residents or possessors of considerable property in our neighbourhood , from which they derive large revenues , refuse , at least they have as yet refused , to contribute a farthing , and remain inexorable in the face of a gre » t national calamity . Such conduct , particularly at a time like the present , when hundreds are dying from actual starvation , and pestilence aud death ravages the land , is deserving of censure , and we shall feel bound , in the discharge of a public duty , to publish the names of those to whem we allude , should they persevere iu refusing
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to discharge a duty which we consider incumbent on them . Death from Starvation . —A man named Dolan , residing in Connaught-atreet , died on Tuesday evening last , in consequence of utter destitution and hardship . On the night of Wednesday last , about eighto ' clock , as some carts of flour were coming from Clara to Mr . Mnlachy Nolan of this town , they were attacked by some persons at Bunavalley , within a short distance ofthe police station , who forcibly carried away four bags , despite of the resistance of the carmen .
On the night of Saturday last , tfree heifers , value from £ 15 to £ 16 each , together with a fat sheep , the property of Mr . Mathews , were killed on his hinds near Ballitlahown The parties did not take away tlie meat , but cut it up in pieces , and attached to each a piece of paper , on which was written , in a legible hand , the words "here is meat for the poor . " —Alhlone Sentinel . Countt of Leitmm . —There is , afc . present , a fenr fui mortality raging in the poor house of Mohill-tho number of deaths , in little more than a week , amounted to 15 l—Ballinasloe Star .
County op WatkbforI ) .. —Duxgabvax . —There wero 186 persons received into the workhouse on Thursday la « t . Ot this number were several ofthe poor fishermen , with their wives nnd children . The house now is over-crowded , having in it 600 persons , thoogh having been built to accommodate only 600 . Over eighty other applications for nrlmissinn wore rejected , as the house could not contain them . A rate of tenpence in the pound has jnst been levied , though a ' conderable portion ofthe former rate as yet remains uncollected . J Vaterford Freeman . GOVTXTY OF J ' lPPKRARY . —ltODIiERr OF SlIEKP AT Knockdottt . —On Wednesday night , last five sheep , the property ofthe Earl of Donoughmore , were killed at Knoeklofty , and the carcases taken off . The skill ' ofthe sheep were left , behind . Our readers-will recollect that it is not very long since Lord Donoushmnre ' s agent was robbed of a considerable sim > on hi * way from Knockloftv to Clonmel . There is no lande
proprietor who gives more employment than the nobV earl , or who has been mora kind to the people on his es t ate , and therefore such acts of depredation are . if possible , the more disgraceful a ? d ungrateful . On Friday morning as tbe servant of E . Mulcahy . E-q ., J . P ., was returning to Ballymackri'o from Clonmel . after getting change for a ten pound n * te , he was attacked by an armed party near Rus « eltown woiul They placed him on his face and hands and robhci ' him of tho money . No man is safe now in travelling through this country . —Tipperary Constitution .
County of Wexford . —Wpxford . —Our accounts from the northern parts of this county are deplorable . Since the extreme cold set in , sickness and death have accordingly followed in its train . Many died in th .-course of lait week , and the illness , in every case , traceable to the want of clothing and'firing , 'if not of sufficient food . Complaints against the relief committees are very general . Mr . Bnys' \ of llannow . has expended £ 1 , 000 in the purchase of corn , to guard against the alarming contingency before us . County of Clare—Mr .- J . IIill , of Miltown
Maihay , under dite 6 th December , writes to say— " Three dea'hs from starvation have taken place in this village within the last ten days ; oa woman of the mmio * Mary Flaherty , another a po r woman of the name Ellen Dolcby ; she died on the side of the roa between Miltown and Liskchone during a dreadfu storm of hail . It is now no unusual sight to see three or four persons faint from exhaustion each day , for when they are brought into some house and that restoratives ore administered In the form of food , they n'U'illy recover "
Coustt of Kilkenny . —The Kilkenny Moderator contains a lengthened detail ofthe outrages which took place in Kilkenny a few days since , upon which occasion several shops were broken into and plundered . The military were called OHt to protect the city , and it was only by the vigilance of strong patrols , and the presence of a lrirue force , that the property of the inhabitants ofthe city was preserved Robberies on an extensive scale are prevalent in that county , particularly in the colliery district . Cavas . —Tho Anglo Celt says : —'' Our table this morning is literally covered wiih accounts of outrages perpetrated in this county and Meath , none of them , it Is true , attended with bloittahed ; but the subjoined catalogue is , notwithstanding , indicative of a . state of society but onl v too likely to lead to it .
[ Here follows a long list of highway robberies , cattle-stealing , and various other outrage ? . ] Increase of Crime in Tyrone . — -We aro sorry to remark that the fears which we formerly expressed ot evil disposed persons taking advantage of these times of comparative distress ns a pretext for deed « of robbery and outrage , woaM appear t » be justified even in our own county . On Tuesday last four persons wenlodged in the gaol of this town , on a charce of felonipiisiy entering some houses in the neiglibnurhotdo Fintnna , from which they stole bread , whiskey , and tobacco . On thesame day ninemen and woman « frtransmitted from Dungannon bridewell toom-raoi charged with having stolen oats , turnips , yarn , an ( ! several other articles , It is feared that our calender at next assizes will be unusually heavy , —Tyrone Con stitulion .
County of Westmeath . —The sale of fire-arms stil ! continues throughout the country , and as a consequence , armed parties are to be nightly met with in all directions . Dublin , Dec . 14 . —Reproductive "WonKS . —The Board of Works have just issued a circular to county engineers and surveyors , conveying instructions t < . the effect , that no more public works ( such as new roads , cutting down hills , & c .., ) are to be commenced . while those in progress of execution are to bi finished with all possible speed ; as in future the money is to be expended on works of a reproductive kind , —v > z . drainage and subsoiling . The circular also specific . - * how these works are to be executed , and lavs down fresh regulations for the employment or the labourer . * engaged upon tnem .
An adjourned presentment sessions for the barony of liaphoo was held on Friday , at which tho Marquiof Abercorn and all the leading proprietors of the d istrict were present . Presentments were passed to tin amount of upwards of £ 15 , ( 300 . £ 10 . 946 of which wa > for drainage . Before the meeting separated the following resolutions were agreed ; o : — That we regard the present system of . expending tin public money , whether under the letter of Mr , Lahouchere or ur . ' . ler the Labour-rate Act , as completely dei ' ec . tive , altogether unsuited to the circumstances , wholly insufficient for the wants of the country , and so encumbered with dilliuulties as to be incapable of practical application .
That our proceedings at this sessions hare not origin uteii from any expectation that it will be found to work satisfactorily , bu-. because we consider it preferable , ,-ind some mitigation of . tlie evil effect , rather to apply the money necessary for the employment of the people to gome purpose that may , posnihly . give a productive re . turn , n : id , so fur , assist the country in meeting its diui . cultit'S , than to squander vast sums in road and other works , useless in themsolvei , and sure to weigh it down heavily hereafter . Agricultural Socikty . —At the general halfyearly meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society . The SucriETArtr having reaa the minutes of former proceedings , and the report of tho council for the half year . The Duke of Lkinstkr moved that the report should bo received and adopted .
The Earl of Clah'carty , in seconding the adoption of tho repart , said he cordially responded to the opinion unanimously expressed by the council , that one of their fundamental rules , which had been recently rescinded , should be restored to its original integrity . It was essential to the Society that the members should act in perfect harmony —( hear , hear );—and in order to preserve that , harmony which substantially existed in the council , he acquiesced in rather than approved of the resolution , bv which tho l'lth rule would be restored in its oriuir . al integrity , lie hoped tho measure of restoring that rule w-ujil have the effect of inducing Lord Dawnshire to return to them , and that his noble friend would not adhere to the opinion he had expressed "f not joining a hociety except upon the ruins of the present .
Mr , Lamkbbt moved the second resolution , which was to the effect , that the 14 th rule , which had been partially rescinded , should be restored to its original integrity . Sir G . IIodsos , Bart ., seoondei ^ the resolution , which was unanimously adopted amid loud cheers .
MUW SOCIKTY OF LANULOKD 8 . The Evening Mail publishes the following in a second edition : — " A most influential meeting , including men of all parties , assembled ( Friday ) , to take into consideration the propriety of adopting some energetic step on tho part ofthe landed interests of this country , in reference to the present alarming state of affairs . The proceedings were strictly private , but we have reason to think that they will lead to combined exertion on the part oi those whose interests aro so deeply involved . "
the nissKxsioxa in the repeal party . The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the seceders lrom the Repeal Association , residing at Dublin , nsscmb ' cd at the office of ihe Nation , on the 11 th Dec , James IlaughUin , Esq ., in the chair : — Moved by Richard O Gorman , jun ., E * q . ; seconded by Charles Taafiv , Esq , and adopted : — 1 . That wo have read with satisfaction the overtures to a reconciliation made hy Mr . O'Connell , ou behalf ol the lU-peal Association , on last Monday ; r . nd that we believe the Oisscussion by a confm-iu-e of all the points of difference between us and the association to be the best and most judicious course towards tffecting that re conciliation . Moved by John Mitchell , Esq ., seconded by the Reverend Mr . Mehan , and adopted : —
2 . That inasmuch as all these points of difference have been repeated !} placed before , and distinctly known by the Irish' people , we deem it unnecessary to reiterate them at length on this occasion . Moved by T . F . Meagher , Esq ., seconded by T . D . M'Gee , F . nq ., ( on behalf ofthe committee of the Dublin Uomoustrants ) , aud adopted : — .
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3 . Thait although we might insist on our evident r ight to nominate the persons to represent our opinions ini that oimfcirrnce , still , influenced by a d .-sire of settling the real questions at issue , wo are willing to waive that right , ami assent to the nomination of those gentlemen already suggested hy Mr , O'Connell , with oue qualilication . Moved by Charles Gavan Duffy , Esq . ; seconded by P . J . Smythe , Esq ., and adopted : — *> That inasmuch as Jfr . O'ffagnn has publicly sign * fied his det-rmination not to interfere . ' in the settlement of any question relating to thefuture p » liey ar , d management of the association , anil ina-miueh as w ,. believa such questions to be the material points at iwnc , we are of opinion that some gentleman should beyubstttnted ( to he mimed on behalf of the speeders )' , whoso p » litie » l posi . tion will not prevent him from entering upon the consideration of all the matters at issue between tho parties . Mr . ©* H ? fran to lend his assistance to the conference should anv legal difficulty ariae .
Moved by William Bryan , Esq ., Rahony ; seconded by Dr . Duffy , Finglass , and adopted : — 5 . That , with a view to malic th » " rcroneilintion ' universal and lasting , immediate steps be taken by personal communication , to . ascertain the opinions of the seceders residing at a distance upon the questions prope ? to he submitted to theuroiiosed conference .
REPEAL ASSOCIATION Tllft weekly meeting of ( he association , held on Monday , was very numerously attended . The chair was taken by Nicholas Maher , M . P . for Tipperary . The Chairman- sa d he had intended to have alluded to some of tlie proceeding connected with Young Trelaridism iii the county of Tipperary . and lo have corivctrd soni » errors which had crept , into the press -with r-aard to that county , hut as there was a shadow of hope that a reconciliation might takeplace with Young Ireland , he should not then dtscu-s them . - Mr . Stkelk . at the re . qiio » t of Mr . O'Conne'I , mad n letter from Mr . Dohe-ny , barrister , si leadii ff member ofthe Young Ireland party , apologisi ' mr br snme expressions he made use of at the rprent meeting of ' the " seceders" at the Rotunda , reflecting ; on Mr . O'Connell . b *
Mr . O'Connki . i , could assure Mr . Daheny that the ' xpressirijis'he re erred to did not hurt his ( Mr . C'Coniit-li ' s ) fei-lincs . If his feelin-js wero to b > iuirb y the abuse which was so constantly heaped upon him , he did not imagine that he would then be in existi-nce . ( Laugh'er . ) ^ A letter from Mr . Fowther , Town Clerk ofthe Corporation , having been read of a complimentary nature . Mr . Pat . Costki . i . o said that for his part . be did r . t fc ¦ ' . ire a straw whether the Young Jrelandrrs rejoined the Association or not ' .. The time had come for -ractical work , and ho believe !! Mr . Ford , who was lately appointed crown prosecutor for Meath , had ass much work in him as all of them put together , with un « or two exceptions . ( Hear . ) *• After the receipt of several sumsof monev .
Mr . 0 'Co . VNM . L came forward to make his speech ofthe < lay . _ ' He said he had come there to effect a reconciliation , if possible , and if he . could , not do 3 ° , he would , nt least , show the wnv'd who it was that receded from the proposition . ( Hear . ) There was a < ri'eat secret in political lifn , and that wa « to be honest' and in the ri « ht . and he ( Mr . O'Connell ) was in the riiiht . and . th' -refore , could .-iffird lo make an ffer of conciliation . ( Hear , hear . ) I p . had been iilmsed for doing so , and he was told the Young Irelanders had a triumph . NoV , on tho contrary , he considered that it was he who had a triumph , for the real question was , who would first cmr ><» forward and ait most kindly towards old Ireland ? ( Hear . ) He hal made an offer of a conference to consider a legal question , but he had conceded nnthins—all he wanted
was to seo if he c-inld concede any thin" —for princip le he would never concede . ( Hear ) What was the Youmr Ireland party , after all , with the except inn of Mr . William Smith O ' Brien . They , were the scribblers for ^ a newspaper ; in fatt , tbe spUt vrith the-Assoc ' ation was between it and the compositors ' room of a newspaper . The Repeal Association had . •• et at defiance the Crown lawyers , a partial Judse , and a packed Jury ; and was it to be birked at by the yc ! ping of a compositors' room ? ( Cheers . ) No , certainly net . As be said , he was willin-. 'to make ¦¦ very . concession short of principle , and to receive biiftk thow young gentlemen upon aleaal f ooting , blithe would never admit the doctrine of physical f ' orco . ( Hear . ) His plan was simple . lie had proposed a con'f erenee , not an arbitration—a discussion , awl not adissensinn . He proposed that the law of the ease should bo ascertained , and how wa * he met ? Was he met by a irenerous { acceptance of his terms ?
He regretted to say , he was not met as he ought , illear . hear . ) fie had proposed that him-elf , Mr . William Smith O'Brien , and four others ( three of whom he did not agree with ) , should meet , and settle the law of the case -, but his proposition was not acquiesced in ; on the contrary , they had passed resolutions quite foreign to the subject . ( Hear . ) The Learned Gentleman then read a letter which he had received from the Rev . Dr . Miiey , whom he had sent down to Limerick , to Mr . O'Brien , to endeavour to inducehini to join in the proposed conference . ( The letter stated thatthe reverend negociator h-id totally failed in his attempts to induce Mr . O'Bnen to accede to the proposition of a conference , except upon such forms aa he ( Mr . O'Brien ) would prescribe , ) Now he ( Mr . O'Connell ) had doneall in hi * power to effect a conciliation , and it was not his fault if it were i-ot effected . ( Hear , hear ) The rent for the week was announced £ 101 .
HKl'RODUCTIVB WORKS The Board of Works have issued an important cirfliilar respecting the commencement and continuance if reproductive works . The Board says" The employment of the destitute on road < and other public works must aoon terminate , and reproductive works be substituted for them . To render iuch works ivally benefisial and morally useful , the lauded proprietors must join band in hand with the Board of Works , " The Cork Examiner says : — "The Indian cornsellers are making a whacking profit at the expense of the poor . Indian corn was selling at £ 10 lo £ 17 a ton on Friday and Saturday , although a cargo * ad been just received by ship at £ 10 15 * . a ton . To the fortunate buyer the . market price would leave £ 7 a ton , or seventy-five perc-nt . This is the legitimate course of tradu , so lauded and protected by the "Whig iircmier . "
The other correspondent alluded to by the Cork Reporter says"On the 15 th of September laafc , fhe gentry and cesspayers ot the barony of Bere passed presentments to the amount of over £ 0 . 000 , to secure the employment for three mon hs of these miserable people . Of this pretty larre aan . the amount of 2 J days ' labour to 100 individuals , at 8 il . per diem , is all the . die ! " which has reached the parish ; this was due seven weeks previous to its being paid . In it are 1 . 050 families : of these 800 are in a state of absolute r ' Qitittition . 400 being in an actual state of starvation . I attended muss on Sunday , in tho Clinlauroi : ce
chapel of this parish , where I was surprised to see a number of coffins ( rather shells ) ranged at the bottom of theai * le . This I understood to arise from a custom among the people of having any bodies intended for burial on a Sunday present at the celebration of the sacred mysteries on that day . Before the last Gospel , the parish priest , Itev . Jeremiah Slicahan , told the congregation that during the twenty-five years lie was in the parish , he had never seen such a numb , r of bodies there : that they were all cases oi * undoubted starvation ; that on the pvevinu * day he had been called to visit an old man named Cooolly at Coolireagh , who had not tasted any loud fjr fourteen days , some sea-weed , excepted . "
COUNTY OF LOKGFOEr , ItOBBKltY OF A PaTMA'THR OF 1 ' uill . lC Wof . K « . —Ob Wednesday list , at mid-may , about h-i'f past , two ve o ' clock , as James Boyce , Esq ., paynvisicr of tlie Drainage Oommisidoncrs , una pr ' -oTc ^ t-ig i-n n a : of Mr . Sutcliffe ' s carts from this town , w ' . wy he is res-iding , to Strokcstown , two men , : irm < nl v .-Jih pistols , came up to him ; one presented his p " Mol at the car driver's bead , the other present cd Irs pi ; -tol close to Mr . Joyce ' s breast , an- ! demanded bis money . Finding resistance , under the cireumsiaiiec * . useles * . one
of the fellows took hh rarpt-t bay out of the well of the car , and finding it heavy , ami henriii !! tho jingle of tho silver , he decamped with it . think ' ug ho had the whole booty , but fortunately Mr Joyce , had £ 200 in notes on his person , with which he escaped , the robbers not waiting to search him . There were between thirty and forty men working in a quarry on the roadside , not twenty perches from ihe spot , but ; they took no notice of the attack The bag contained £ 101 in silver , with which he was eoing to pay the men employed on drainage works in the Strokcstown district . —Longford Journal .
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Andovek Usiox . —In the Union , this year , the annual Christmas dinner is to be dise % ncinued ; therefore , instead of the poor inmates having good roast best' and beer , as in former years on that day , this year they > vili hive a cheerless meal of bread and cheese . Tdk Wnnw Pavkjibnt i . v thk Citv . —On Monday , by order of the Commfrsionvra of Sewer . * , the wood pavement in Qneon-street . Cheapside . waa taken up , for tho purpose of having the ih-. iroughlare paved with stones . Shout Timb . —This is tho sixth week that the cotton mills in Stockport have been working four days por week , and except wo can see a much better prospect than at present , it is very likely that tho spinners ami manufacturers will bu compelled to work onlv three days per weak . — Stockport Paper .
Omnibus Accidbst . —On M-md . iv evening , between four and live o ' clock , ns Mrs . Gardiner , the wife of a wood cutter , residing at Deptfcrd , was mounting an omnibus in Wellington-street , Strand , sho slipped from the stops , which were slippery by the frost , and pitching on her head , she sustained a concussion of the brain . March of tiif . Cholera . —Private correspondence , dated Trebizonde . Nov . 20 . announces the further progress of the Cholera to Diarbekiv ,
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