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FRANCE , lathe discussion on the address in the Chamber ol Peers , M . Guiiot and his two intimate friends and chief-diplomatists , Saint Aulaireand de Broglie , addressed the Chamber at length , all three echoing the one idea—vir ., a close alliance between France and Austria . The necessity of pleasing Austria was boldly avowed by Count St Anlaire , who declared , 'that nothing stable or desirable could be done for Italian liberty without the consent and concurrence ot Austria . ' The same principle was avowed with respect to Switzerland . In short , the Austrian alliance is the programme and symbol of the Gnizot ministry of 1 S 48 . and Prince Metternich is declared the arbiter of Europe . Almost the entire sitting of Friday was occupied try a speech of Count Montatembert , which sought to prove that the Jesuits were the only true Liberals , and that the Radicals were despots of the same retool as the Emperor Nicholas .
. In the Deputies , the Address was read ; and MOiUlon Buvot has given notice that he should demand , at the earliest opportunity , explanations from the government relative to the sale and purchase of government places , as brought to light by the affair Petit . [ This affair is described in another calunw . J As we expected , the government has decided not to ratify the conditions on which the Dnke d ' Aumale accepted the surrender of Abd-el-Kader , and that the ex-Emir will not be sent to Egypt , but will be Sept in close custody in France . There have been ' alarming' rumours circulated respecting Louis Philippe ' s health . The agitation amongst the money-grubbers is significant !
M . Ferdinand Caussidiere , one of the writers of the Refoehe . lately deceased , was buried on Sunday . The funeral was attended by a precession of three thousand Democrats . The grave was guarded by a strong force of police and municipal guards . The Reform dinner , intended to be holden in Paris , has teen prehibited by the police .
SPAIN . Espartero has been received with greateathusiasm in Madrid . General Linage , private secretary to the Ex-Regent , died on the 10 th . The funeral of the deceased was attended by an immense procession . Sixty thotisand persons , including Espartero , are laid * up ia Madrid with the influenza . The j mpe & chment ot Salamanca has ended in smoke .
ITALY . Latest advices received state that tranqeillity his fceen restored at Milan . It is , however , the tranquillity of determination , and net of despair . The people have discovered the secret of passive resist--snce . Innumerable manuscript billets were scattered about the streets , bearing the following instructions to the people : — - * Courage ! Turbulent andinconsiderate zeal would be destructive tons ! Bewara of being drawn into the snares laid for you ¦ by the police ! __ Learn to put restraint on yourselves . This will be evidence of your strength . At present maintain tranquillity and dignity !'
The proceedings on both sides at Milan have been ¦ very systematic . The abstinence inm tobacco was ¦ commenced with previous notiee in order to enable -smokers to leave it off gradually , and on the 2 nd . the object was accomplished ; not a cigar was to be seen . The authorities began fey hirinz persons to smoke , and sending them through the tewn , followed by police agents and soldiers , to seize any of the people who should insult them . This net proving effectual , the soldiers themselves , were sent out , and filled the most frequent cafes and promenades , places where they were not accustomed to be seen , puffing the smoke in the faces of tha excited populace . The interchanse of angry words can be easily imagined , and indiscriminate massacre ensued .
As evidence of the nremedited nature of this military massacre , it is stated that Radetski and Tor-Ksasi , the chiefs of the military and the police , had previously sent orders to the hospitals on the morning of the 3 rd to prepare all the disposable beds and ¦ litters for the wounded . A letter from Milan says : — The attitude of the people was remarkable . They have Offered the aest energetic resistance to the troops . Men were seen breaking down the roofs of house , in order to throw the tiles at their aggressors . Window frames , ¦ panes of glass , & c „ were thrown at the Austrians . A placard addressed to the liberals was stuck up , read with
avidity , and pulled d-wn on the approach of a patrol . At every step in the street of Milan are found small written notes , invitin- the popnlation to offer resistance . The armourers cannot suffice to the sale of arms . One of ¦ iliem sold ISO pairs of pistols . It is evident the people are preparing for the struggle . We hear by tha most recent intelligence that the lottery ha g been prohibited , as well as the use of tobacco . All those who shall gamble at the lottery are to be dismissed frem their places if ger vasts or men ^ n wage-hire , banished if S 3 ez > of an independent station . It is said , oh the other hand , that tho Austrian agents , Kadetski and Torresani have swern , if tranquillity he not restored , to set the town on fire and 'kill the inhabitants .
Private letters from Milan of thelOth inst . state , fiat the greatest exasperation prevailed in that city . The number of persons killed by the soldiery in the evening cf the 3 d . or who subsequently died of their wounds , was calculated at upwards of 80 . Disturbances have taken place in many cities of Lomoardy . At Brescia the commandant of the place was killed . This officer had said in oneof the public cafes— ' At Cracow the head of a man was worth five florins , at Milan it is not worth more than five sons . ' Oa leaving the cafe he was poignarded . On his body was found a naper bearing the words— ' This has been given gratis . '
Letters from Milan of the llth inst . mention that sir or seven persons bad been killed , and upwards of 30 wounded , in a' conflict between the students and the Austrians . Subsequent to that affair , the celebrated ( University of P & via was provisionally closed , and most of the slndents had left the town . According to the same letter , the police of Milan sent 150 men of infantry and cavalry to surround the house of the Jockey Club , at two o'clock in the morning , and to summon the members present to retire . The es « tablishment was afterwards closed . The grand theatre was entirelv abandoned . The young men belonging to the Lombardo-Venetian Noble Guard , instituted in 1838 , at the ccronation of the Emparor at Milan , had all tendered their resignation .
It appears from reports whichhave arrived , that the league against the consumption of articles trom vrhich tbe government derives a revenue , has not been confined to Milan , but has spread generally through Austrian Italy . At Cremona , at Como , at Lecco , and other chief places , there have heen like movements on the part of the people . Another popular manifestation took place at Leghorn on the 6 ih , the apparent object of which was to express the discontent of the people at the slowness of the government in organising and arming the civic guard . The correspondent of the Daily Isews , writing from Rome , says : —
' We hi » ve had a scene like those that marked the last years of the reign of Louis XVI . in Paris . The mob , headed by Cieeroacchio , brought up on the first day of the year a long demand of rights and concessions , resembling , in wild incoherency , the five points of your O'Connorite charter , The civic guard , to tie number of 9 , 000 men , was called out to meet a supposed popular insurrection at the gates of the Quirinal . The doors were barred , and the rain dispersed the crowd . « Meantime the senator ( mayor ) , Prince Corsini , went through the streets haranguing the mob . He told them that the Pope , whom he had jnst seen , had said , ' lo ^ on con popolo eper popolo' ( Iam with and for the people ) . A mob gathered round the club of theCicolo Romano , from the balcony of which the senator addressed the people . Silensio ! bawled ont a brawnv fellow , and all were silent .
* Tell " the Pepe , " said he , ' that the people is fer Mm and with him alone , and that if he listens to tbe scoundrels around him !( 6 fr 5 ant ») , if he does not send them to the right about , this plaything ( drawing out hi 3 Roman blade ) will do the business . Imaense shouts followed , and they all ultimately dispersed , on the promise that the Pope would drive through the Corso publicly , which he has just done , amid immense clamour of applause . On . tbe evening of the 4 tb , a grand deEnonstratisn teok place in the theatre at Venice . All the women wore a tri-coloured ribbon . The piece performed vras' Macbeth , ' and in that part in which the Italian operatic version of the great tragedy makes the cherus sing 'The country weeps and oils for you—Hastes , let xn hasten , brethren ,, to save the oppressed : ' the enthusiasm was immense , and the chows had to ba repeated amidst tremendous
It Turin , a mass had been celebrated for the souls of those who had been massacred at Milan on the Srd . Numerous addresses had been presented to the king , signed by persons of all classes , offering their properties aad pereons in defence ef the country Should its independence be attacked . Great excitement prevails at Genoa . 'Death to the Jesuits , ' and ' Viva the independence of Italy , sre the popular cries shouted from the thousands who congregate the streets from morning tin night .
UMIED STATES AND MEXICO . By the arrival of the Hibernia , we learn that little had been done " in either House of Congress . Tha news from Mexico is not important , _ We find reports of tvro steam-boat explosions ; by the one from sixty to seventy lives T * ere lost ; and by the other fifteen people perished . The steamer A . H . Johnson , bound to Wheeling , blew upon the 29 th of December , Kith a tremendous explosion , near Maysville , Ky ., from some unascertained defect in toe machinery . Between sixty and seventy persons wereMlleaoh the snot , and a large number scalded , of whom some thirty sre so horribly injured that their recovery was considered doubtful The gteamor "Westwosd was going down the river laden with cea The fog-was dense , and the boat nnfortnnatelj ran into tie bank and hung there about fifteen rsxsutes The water in the boat ' s boilers was thus thrown aft , the flues became excessively heated , and . "shen tae
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FRANCE . ESTRAORDnfART BEVBLATIONS—ABD-JIrSADEB—QUIZOI ' 3 EOREIGS POL 1 CT . { From our own Paris Correspondent . ) A curious document has just been published and a certain M . Fe ^ it got the place of a tax collector been published by M . Petit himself . M . Petit has been forced to this ; act in consequence of a suit for separation pending batmen himgelf and his wife , and m which action it had been alleged that he had bought
his place by prostituting his wife to a gentleman iatimately connected with M . Gnizot . He now declares m ms publication— Yes , my place was bought , aa all places are bought now-a-day ; bnt it was bought not with prostitution , but with hard cash only . ' Then he goes on to detail how he first aspired to the office of a Councillor Referendary at the Court of Accounts . How the ministry promised him that place , if he only could procure the resignation of one of the council , lors ; how the minister ' s secretary intimated to him , which of the Councillors would most likely sell their charge ; how he then , for 15 , 000 francs , procured the wished-for resignation : how then he was told he must
procure a resignation of a Councillor Referendary , not of the second , but of tho first class , as the government wanted such a one in order to fulfil a promise made by ^ them on their coming into office ; how by makeshifts of different sorts , the difference of price of the two resignations was made up ; how at last the resignation was procured ; how then the ministry wanted notonly a resignation like that tendered , but one of a higher decree still , of a . Master Councillor ; how this new resignation was also procured by the means of cash down ; ' how finally , it was offered to M . Petit to accept the taxcollectorship of Corbel ! , rather than the place in the Court , of Accounts ; how M . Petit accepted of this ; bow then the different resignations were signed and exchanged against the amounts of money stipulated ; and how , two days later , the whole of the royal ordinances were published , accepting the resignations , and promoting and naming the several individaals ' coriesrnetl , to thejoffiees stipulated by the transaction . ~ ,
These , are the principal facts of the matter . There are some others of less importance , proving how . M . Petit , as soon as he was once hooked by haying paid the first sum , was made to pay more and . more : Bat these I pass over . I only mention , ' that in the publication of M . Petit all the names are given in ' full . ' You will easily imagine what a noise this little pamphlet has made in Paris . All papers' ar ? full of it , and the more so , as the Minister of Finance ( to which department the Court of "Accounts belongs ) under whose direction the above , transactiqns took place , bad openly denied anything of the sort ever having occurred , when questioned about it in the Chamber by M . Luneau . M . Luneau , at . the titae ,
deslared the sale of places in the above . department to be a matter of public notoriety . Known ' tojthe majority , as well as to the opposition . Known to . every one , in short , except , it appeared , to ' the minister himself . M . Lacave met this by a flat denial . Now the matter has come out in a manner which makes all barking impossible . And yet , although all Paris has been full of it for almost a week past , the -government has not opened its mouth . We only repeat the words of M . Dupin the elder , pronounced when M . Luneau brought the matter forward in the Chamber— 'It waa hardly worthwhile to make a revolution to abolish the venality of places ; if this infamous system is suffered to lift up its head
again . The next subject occupying the papers is the cap tore of Abd-el-Kader , and the resolution which the government will come to as to his future location . There is no doubt they will confirm and execute the Duke D'Aumale's promise , and send the Emir to Egypt . * It is curious that almost all the papers oi the Opposition , from the National to the Constitutionnel , demanded the breach of that promise . Now , there , is no doubt the promise was granted conditionally , and leaving the government free to confirm , or notto confirm it . The refusal of confirmation would not directly imply , as the Sus has it , an infamy . But there is no doubt , neither , that a similar act on the part of any ether government , particularly the English , would have been treated by those very same papers as the most infamous treason . It is evident , that it being impossible to replace matters in the same state as
they were when Abd . el » Kader conditionally surrendered it would imply a want of generosity of the first order , to refuse to him the confirmation of the conditions of surrender . But in such questions these national papers are blind , and would commit the same acts fer whose commission they blame ethers , The only two papers which have spoken in favour of ccnSrming the treaty with Abd-el-Kader , are the Pkesss and the Refobme . The first , a monarchical paper , wanted it confirmed , because the government could not give the lie to a son of the king , to a son of France ; thus reviving the old title of the princes of Royal blood before the revolution . 'No , ' said the Refobme , * the matter is a delicate one—the honour ot our country is implied ; in such matters we had better be too generous than too narrow , and therefore confirm the word given , were it even that of a prince . ' Again , the Refgbmk alone has taken the right view of the matter .
upon the whole it is , in our opinion , very fortunate that the Arabian chief has been taked . The struggle of the Bedouins was a hopeless one , and though the manner in which brutal soldiers , like Bugeaud , have carried on the war is highly blameable , the conquest of Algeria is an important and fortunate fact lor the progress of civilisation . The piracies of the Barbaresque states , never interfered with by the English government as long as they did not disturb their ships , could not be put down but by the conquest of one of these states . And the conquest of Algeria has already forced the Beys of Tunis and Tr ipoli , and even the Emperor of Morocco , to enter upon the road of civilisation . _ They were obliged to find other employment for their people than piracy , and other means of filling their exchequer than tributes paid to them by the smaller states of Europe .
And if we may regret thatthe liberty ef the Bedouins of the desert has been destroyed , we mast not forget that these same Bedouins were a nation of robbers , — whose principal means af living consisted in making excursions either upon each other , or upon the settled villagers , taking what they found , slaughtering all those who resisted , and selling the remaining * f risoners as slaves . All these nations of free barbarians look very proud , noble , and glorious at a distance , but only come near them and you will find that they , as well as the more civilised nations , are ruled by the lust of gain , and only employ ruder and more crael means . And after all , the modern bourgeois , with civilisation , industry , order , and at least relative en . lightenment following him , is preferable to the feudal lord or to the marauding robber , with the barbarian state of Boci . ty to which they belong .
M . Guizot has laid before the Chambers part of tha diplomatic correspondence relating to Switzerland and Italy . The first proves again that he has been regularly done by Lord Palmerston , and both prove the intimate alliance France has entered into tfith Austria . That was the last infamy which as yet had been spared to Louis-Philippistic France . The representative of tyranny , of oppression attained by means the most infamous , —the country of stability and reaction , the ally of France , as reconstituted by twe revolutions ! Deeper she cannot . " sink . But this is quite well . The deeper the bourgeoisie brings down this country , the nearer draws the day of reckoning . And it will come , before the bourgeoisie think of it . There is a party they do not take into account , and that party is the noble , the generous , tbe brave French people .
The dispute between the Refobme and the Nahosat . has been submitted to a jury selected by both parties . All hostilities are suspended . By the _ end of this month the decision will be given . May it be as it will , we hope the Reforms will continue in the only course which can save the Democracy of France . Brussels . —A few days ago the German Working Men's Society celebrated a festival . The foreign democracies were represented by M . M . Lelewell , lmbert , General Meliinet , Picard , Meskens , and others . The following toasts were drunk : —To the
' Association Democratique of Brussels , ' byDr Marx . To the ' German Working Men ' s Society , ' by M . Pi-Card , ( Belgian ) . To « the Polish patriot Lelewel , ' by M . Bornstedt , editor of the Gbhmah Bbcssels Gazette . To tha union of freed Germany and freed Poland , ' by Lt-leweL To ' the Bbcssels German Gazette , ' by M . Wolff . To 'the two foreign Democratic papers , the Nobthebh Stab and the Rsfohmb , ' by M . Giget . Other speeches were delivered by M . M . Bora , Jnnge , & c . A democratic play was performed , and the banquet ended by dancing , which was continued to an early hour .
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* This letter should have reached bs last week , but was only delivered to us , by the friend who brought it from Paris , on Tuesday last . Before this time onr cor . respondent will have discovered hi » error in imagining for a moment the possibility of Louis-Philippe , or hia man of all work , performing a just or generous action . Abd-el-Kader will not be sent to Egypt ; he is to be kept a close prisoner in France . Another specimen of the Honour of kiog « !—the honour of Philippe the Infamous 1 —Ed . N . B .
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BBAisTRBE-FiBE . -About four o ' clock on Saturday morning last , a fire broke out at Mr West s brush manufactory , in tbe very heart of the town , and adjoining an extensive candle manufactory . Ihehre engines were soon ai the spot , arad although the flames raged with great fury , and threatened for some time the destruction of the candle manufactory , andmuoh other valuable property contiguously situate the exertions of the inhabitants were successful in confining tke mischief principally to the brush [ manufactory and other property belonging to Mr West . Tha damage is roughly ertimated at A 4 . 0 W . Mr West ' s los 3 i 38 aidtv Iw coTereiibyissarancv .
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• - •• EXTRACTS FROM THE . 'EDINBURGH WEEKLY EXPRESS . ' REPRESENTATION OF NOTTINGHAM . Tho presentation of a petition to the [ House of Com . mens against the : return of Feargus OfConnor , Esq . M . P . for-Nottingham , will hare awakened in tlio ^ minds Of all stern Democrats feelings of keen anxiety & t to the probable issue , of tbe base attempt . to unseat him . It will , moreover , have raised a smile of malicious triumph oa the withered face of corruption ; and the enemies of freedom t * 111 he awaiting with impatience the consummation of their devout wish , that the hero of a hundred prosecutions—the unflinching , the undaunted , and fearless aaserter of the rights of man—should be kicked ont of the Commons' House of Parliament , never more to compel the sapient gentlemen composing that anomalous Home to . hear the wrongs of the unonfranohiBed
millions reiterated in . their hearing , with all the fervour aad eloquence of the patriot , fired with o keen sense ot the grievous wrongs perpetrated by the upholders of a corrupt and unholy system of legislation . We douht not but tha machinations of the enemies of Feargus O ' Connor will be frustrated . But while anticipating a victory , we know that he will , along with that victory , incur a heavy pecuniary loss , in the shape of law etpenses , < t'c ., —a lots which it would be an indelible disgrace to any man claiming the name of Democrat to allow him to sustain . The whole of his past history is interwoven with law prosecutions , the payment of
enormous sums of money fjr daring to expose the base acts of base governments , and that , too , in a tone which none other than himself would have the moral courage to give utterance to . ' . The avowed policy of the Whig government has ever been ( when they had censed to have any controlovar his personal liberty ) to 'ruin him with expenses . ? Shall it then be recorded of the Democrats of Scotland , that they suffered such an occasion as the present to pass without coming forward as one man in behalf of not only their tried and honourad friend , but on behalf of the great cause of human liberty itself , which must suffer , grlavously if the present attempt to unseat its champion prove successful . Heaven forbid it !
It will ba seen by a glance at another part cf our paper , that the men of Nottingham have taken rip the subject in right good earnest . j .. ; A ' . 8 they have done tbemselves immortal hpnoucby ^ hegeiec tion of such ' a representative , the daBtarjdlyjittemptto . ' deprive them of his services '; na . tur Uf fi ^ laVt ^ against theabettors of the foul ; pfi ^ 8 ecu ^ j ^ n ,.. ; • We cheerfully pff « r onr j ^ fr ^ icBB in the cause , and beg to-i & te that moai « iB . wtUiBkr ^ ceive ^ by our agent , at the Democratic Reading-Kobm and ^ Publishing Office , 279 , High-street , and . tranimitfed ^ tQ , the proper quarter without delay , • ' '• - : ' ' , " . ' ¦ '• ?^> MR O'CONNOR " .. - . ? . !> ' ¦
Our great- and single-hearted' champion , Feargus O'Coanor , has done us , - as yon all know , tho services of a father and a Irother ; But who , that knows him , could bare expected aught else ? It is not himsdlf that ha lives for—it is not his family that he wishes to aggrandise—it is tbe cause of humanity he struggles fer . It is for his familj— yes , the whole human family—that he sacrifices his pillow , his peace , his ease of mind and body , that their wrongs ' , ' their great and fell sufferings , may be removed from off their bleeding and mangled bodies . And every thing speaks to the fact ' of his being what he appears to be , nnd what he himself says he is , and what he takes his ' whole happiness and glory from the fearless , powerful , and resolved asserter of tberights
and liberties of tho . people . And nothing more' tban another shows this , than tbe puerile and lot antile attempt at present got np by the enemies of the working millions to dislodge him from his seat in " the Commons ' House of ParlUment . But let them try ; the force and strength ' 6 f the assembled country are behind him . And where is the man who wonld not contribute his mite to surround and protect , as if with a golden shield , the patriotic , tbe dieinterssted , and the noble-minded O'Connor ? Up , then , ' and be doing . Lose not one moment ; for , recollect you , your enemies are all vigilant , and quick on the alert , to do by surprise , corruption , atsd mosey , what could never be done in the _ fa ! r field of fight .
FEARGUS O'CONNOR AND THE « WEEKEY EXPRESS . ' It was hinted to us by some ef our well-meaning , but mistaken , friends , that they had fears that our humble journal would entrench on the ground so Ion , ; , bo nobly , and so successfully oceupied by the Nobthebh Stab . The ) also expressed doubts as to tbe reception our labours would meet with from the proprietors and conductors of that fearless journal . Our estimate of the character of Feargus O'Connor has not been such as to lead us fer one moment to coincide with such doubts and fears . We have all along been familiar with the noble disinterestedness of his heart—the entirj absence
of all sordid motives in regard to the great cause of human freedom ; and we well know that he would welcome with open arms any labourer in the Chartist ranks . Need we say that we feel honoured—stimulated ;—and more than eveirdeterrained to pursue with energy the lahoun we have sutured on—by the following cheering letter which appeared in the Nobtuebn Stab of Saturday latt . [ Here follows the letter of Mr O'Connor . ]; We duly appreciate tbe great service which the above letter will effect for our interests in various parts of the country ; and sre deeply sensible of the great obligation under which we lie to its generous-hearted writer .
THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . - : The Express republishes the address of the Fraternal Democrats to the Working Classes of Great Britain and Ireland , and appends the following remark : — ' We quota the above soul-stirriBg address frem the Northern Stab of last week , It is truly worthy of being printed in letters of gold ; and we do hope it will awaken the dormant energies of the Democrats of Scotland , and stir them up to renewed energy In the coming struggle for political emancipation . —Ed . W . E . '
EDINBURSH CHARTER ASSOCIATION The usual weekly meeting of the council waa held on . Tuesday evening— -Mr John Gray in the chair . The secretary read minutes of former meetings and also some correspondence which had taken place witb Feargus O'Connor . The treasurer also submitted his weekly financial report . The following resolution was then moved b y Mr John Cockburn : — Resolved , 1 st— That the present moment appears to us the most auspicious that has presented itself for many years past , for thoroughly organising the Char'ist body of this . district , tbe more especially as we have now an organ of our own in this city , namel y , the WeeW . y Express , through which our acts , wants , and wishes will get full and fair publicity . ' The motion was ably spoken to by several of the members present ; and , being seconded by Mr Eklngs , was carried unanimously .
Mr John Cockburn then ably , and at great length , submitted the following resolution : — Resolved 2 nd— ' That this council appoint from its own body a sub-committee of five to be called the agitating committee , whose duty shall be to get up meetings in the various towns surrounding this city ; and further , that the treasurer be empowerad to hand over the sum of ten shillings to the above committee , for the purpose of enabling them to workout the idea embodied in this resolution , ' Mr A . Walker , in hia usual forcibls manner , seconded the resolution . He was followed up by Mr William Urqahart ( late of Dalkeith ) , in an eloquent address . The motion was put and carried unanimousl y . The following gentlemen were then appointed an agitating committee ;—Messrs . John CecEBtrxN , Johh Eeingb , Wh . Usquhabt .
Abchd , Walker , and Da Alex . HrsiEa , F . R . C . S . E . Mr Wm . Urquhart then brought forward the following resolution : —* That this meeting views' with indignation the base and . unprincipled conduct ot a party of tbe people ' s oppressors in their malicious attempt to unseat that noble and dignified patriot Feargus O'Conner , Esq ., M . P . for Nottingham , Rut while we detest and record our aversion to the proceedings of our llbertp-hating enemies , we would call npon our esteemed champion to bear the threats of his ignoble persecutors with calmness and indifference ; and we pledge ourselves to aid , by our pecuniary and by all other means that lie in our power , the juat ehoiso of the glarious constituency of Nottingham , and will not rest satisfied until the people ' s advocates aro protected , and have a . fair and honourable position In tho House of Commons . '
Tha motion was seconded by Mr A Walker . Various members having forcibly commented on the conduct of the enemies of their tried , persecuted , bnt indomitable friend , Feargus O'Connor , tbe motion was carried amid loud applause . : Mr John Grant moved that Mr John Gray ba appointed treasurer , aad empowered to receive money to defend Mr O'Connor . —Agreed to . Mr Walker moved , seconded by Mr Monro , 'That John Cockburn , and Alexander M'Donald , the sub-secretary , be appointed to draw np aa appeal to the people of Great Britain . and Ireland , to rally round their friend and champion , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . ; and that they prepare a draft of their address for next meeting of council . '—Agresd to .
Mr Alexander M'Donald , of Georgie , suggested th * propriety of empowering a person to receive subscriptions for the above purpose at the Weekly Express office ; tbe consideration of which was delayed till ne » t meeting . A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , after which tha meeting separated .
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Thb word 'SPBCuXAiivB . '— This , ia an epithet in use ambng official persons , for ' the con ciemnation of whatsoever proposition is too adverse to private interest notto be hated , and at the same tifiie too manifestly true to be denied . — Bentham . flow * to Choosb a Wife . —If you are courting a young la ' dy , and wish , before you fake her , as the fashionable prints expresa it , to tha * hymeneal altar , ' to ascertain her temper , tear nfr , ball dress , as if by accident . If she keep heir equanimity lose hot a moment in popping' the momentous question . She will do ; and yea may account yourself a happy man .
The National Iand Compart, To The Eoitob...
THE NATIONAL IAND COMPART , TO THE EOITOB OF TUB SUFFOLK cBBONlCtS , Sib , —In your paper of the 24 th ult ., you gave your readers a short notiee of . Mr . il'Grath's interesting leotnro on the subject of the National Land Company . A subject which , although it has been bofore ' tbo nation rather more than three years , and erclted ; considerable discussion in ether localities , and , with its author , met « itha largo share 6 f abuse , appears tobe little under , stood here . I . take the liberty , therefore , of making a few more remarks , which may not be uninteresting to your readers .
The primary object appears to * . be to improve the social position of the large working population of our great townil by providing small landed estates of two ' ,-three or four acres ; and such is tho growing desire on the part of onr papulation for allotments of land , that at the present time there are about 60 , 000 members . The books how-Over are , I believe , now closed against further additions . The Company now is in full operation , directing its attention to the purchase of estates , clearing , allotting , and building upon them , as it will be seen , with Rreat rapidity . The first estate of 104 acres , ' Herringsgato , ' has been purchased about two years , and nith all the dim . cutties and disadvantages of inexperience attending the first experiment , waa taken possession of by thirty-flve families about twelve months back ; but as I shall refer to this again hereafter , I will proceed . The ntxt estate purchased was ' Lowbands , ' in Worcestershire , of 164 acres , upon which are located forty-slx families .
The next was « Mineter lovel , ' near Whitney , of 300 acres , upoa which are erected eighty-nino detached houses ready for their proprietors in February . The next estate purchased was 'Snig ' s End ' and ' . Moat , ' of 274 acres , upon which there are about eighty houses in the course of erection . Besides these , Matbon , ' near Great Malvern ^ Worcestershire , of 500 acres , and ' Fllkln ' s ¦ Hail . * Oxfordshire , of 611 acres , arein the course of preparation . The third estate or ' Minster Lovel , ' will ho , balloted for in . . allotments by its members , on the 24 th of this month ; the onlj qualification necessary being , that their shares sheuld be paid up . An acre is considered one share , and the sum required for each is 26 s . No member allowed to put in for less than tiro , ormore than four acres . Estates are purchased as fast as the ; present . themselves to advantage , and there appears to be at present no other obstacle to the upeedy allotment ot the vast number of aspirants for freedom . -
Tbe possessor is at once a freeholder , and qualified for that which he might have lived and died in our largo towns without possessing , viz ., the privilege of voting . in Parliamentary elections . Liberalising- and extending the county franchise being an important element of the scheme . The mode of borrowing money to allot the whole of the members , appears te have been the part of the business least understood and most misrtpresentad . , This is effected by means of Savings' Banks opened in the large towns , paying interest at four per cent ., the land of tho company affording the bestofsll security . These banks hiive become the depots for the accumulations of benefit societies , clubs , and tho careful of all claases , and especially of its own members who are looking forward to the possession of their inheritance , when these sums will bo transferred to the reduction of their mortgages , and , consequently , their rental or interest .
It « ill be seen also that many of its members may have been more provident or fortunate than etbers , and enabled to purchase their freeholds at oaee , In nhlch case the money is available by the Society . I had the good fortune te hear Mr M'Orath ' s lecture when be was in Ipswich , and from the interest I felt in tho subject have since paid a visit to tbe ' Herriogsgatc ' or ' O'Connorville Eitate , ' as it is called , and if you will permit roe to encroach so much upen jour apace , 1 will give your readers a brief description of it . It is situated about two miles from Rickmansworth , in Hertfordshire . The first appearance on approaching it , is that of a colony in miniature , It has a naked appearance at present , the wood having been all cleared
from the estate ; but , upon a closer scrutiny , every pre . paration was being made by its industrious occupants to make it ornamental as well as productive . A road-way is formed up the centre of the estate , at the top of which is cructed a neat red-brick school-house ; consisting of a residence in the centre for the master , each wing forma iag a echool-room for hoys and girls respectively ; 'here are three acres of land attached to this . On each side of the road the cottages are erected , fronting to , and a short distance from it , the allotments of land running back to the extent af tho estate , which is irregular , These cottages present a very neat external appearance ; I entered several , and found them equally so iuside , as well as convenient .
Tbe two-acre cottages consist of a g 90 d sized keepingroom in the centre , with ran ge , oven , & c ; , for domestic convenience , and opens on each hand to another com . fortable room on the ground floor , which form the wings of the building . Behind are erected , barn , outhouses , piggeries , sheds , & c , and present the appearance of neat Utile farms . The ihree-acre allotments have tour rooms , oiia being upstairs . The four-acre allotments have five rooms , t ko being upstairs . In a few instances two cottages are built together ; but I found the detached houses invariably preferred ; and it appears in all future estates they will be so erected , and the wishes and tastes of the owners consulted respecting the conveniences . Six of these small estates have changed hands , the original occupants realising ; sums varying from . £ 60 . to £ 100 , profit , which has pufthem in possession of a little capital to follow various pursuits in towns more congenial to their tastes .
Among tbe residents I found all classes and tradesweavers , one of wh « m camo from Nottingham , direct from the Union House , to his estate ; and , although he is taunted with having little elae but potatoes to eat the first year of his residence , he was healthy and happy , and the appearance of the young wheat on his land intimated that something better awaited him for the next . Another weaver , from Manchester , whose wife was putting down a large pig they had just killed , and who told me she would not live in town again upon any consideration . There was a shoemaker from Northampton , an Irishman ; a toll colh-ctor from Worcester ; a chairmaker ; a mariner ; a cutler ; a tailor from Reading , who told me he worked twenty years for Letchwortb , Morris , and Co ., clothiers , and had little else but tbe union house staring him in the face in bis old age . There are three cows upon the estate , two horses , about 150 pigs two goats , besides poultry .
As far as I saw and conversed with the occupants , they expressed themselves contented and happy ; and , although some of them may have endured privations and inconveniences tbe first year , coming as they have dene from towns where they have a bare existence , I could not learn that it approached in severity to tbe sufferings of multitudes of our most industrious and high-minded artisans , who emigrate to Canada and the United States of America , to escape a degrading position in their native country . Here tbe land is ready for them , and a market at hand ; there they may settle in the busb , erect a shantee of rough legs and mud , and labour for two or three years to clear an acre or two before he could realise the homely potato-fare of our reviled union house friend .
In conclusion , I congratulate that portion of the working classes who are excluded from the benefits of thij company , that there is a kindred society getting into operation ! and althongh differently constituted , will afford every facility fot the industrious poor man te obtain small estates and independence—I mean the Electoral League . I am , Sir , your ' s respecfully , A Tbue Englishman .
Overcrowding Op The Metropolitan Grave-Y...
Overcrowding op the Metropolitan Grave-Yahds . —Accurate returns Inm ) been made of the superficial extent of the parochial and some other burial-grounds of the Metropolis , and of the numbers of bodies annually interred in each . The annual average number of burials per acre , for the seven descriptions of burying-placea comprised \ in the intramural grounds , is stated by these official returns to be 2 , 271 . Now , if we divide this by 1 , we have the average for each , which gives 324 burials annually to the acre . From the total , we may fairly abstract the burial-places of tho Jewa , and those of theSociety of Friends , which are well conducted . This will give us five species of grounds , with an annual average Of 2 , 130 burials to the acre , or an average of 420 for each . The proper number , you will remember , is 136 to the acre ; in Germany , the average is only 110 burials per acre per annum-Thus , at tho first glance , it is evident that our
parish grave yards are made to receive every year three times as many bodies as they ought , and four times as many as are permitted by the laws of wellregulated Continental states . The inevitable crowding of our graveyards may be illustrated in another way . The annual mortality of the Metropolis , at a low _ computation , ia 50 , 000 . Now , supposing the burials to be renewed every ten years ( and this is the shortest period that should be allowed for the decomposition of the human body ) Hi acres would be required , whereas we have only 209 . But this is not all . There are 182 parochial grave-yards in London . Of these ; only 48 are confined wijthin the proper limit of 130 burials to the acre ; the rest exhibit various degrees of saturation , from 300 up to 3 , 000 per acre annually . This is scarcely credible , but official returns confirm the truth of what Iassert . In very many the annual average | per acre fexceeds J . 000 . —From Hr G . A . Walker ' s Fourth Lecture on the Metropolitan Qrave-Yards .
Pian ion thb Sewerage op Lqsdon . — A dock plan for the sewerage of London j and of the suburban districts included within a radius of eight foliles from St Paul ' sj is abiut being ' executed under thell'direction of the Ordnance Survey Office , the ' estimated cost of which will bfr-iexecutlon of the plan with a proper system of levels , £ 24 , 215 ;¦ the cost of haying it engraved upon a scale ot five feet to the mile ; 'and upon 901 plates , of double elephant size / ^ including the copper , £ 12 , 014 ; total , £ 36 , 829 . Steerage Passage to Eternity . —The- congregation who worship in one of the most gorgeous churches in New Yovkave about to construct a separate and cheaper piatie of ' worship for the poor ! This , sayathe Niw Wobld . is making steeraga pa £ sengesa oi the poor ea their voyage to eternity ;
Hush Democratic Confederation. This Body...
HUSH DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERATION . This body continues" Ita usual weekly meeting , steadily and unassumingly pursuing its course , and notwith . standing the statement of the Nation some time bach ( i . e . ) that it was an ' English body , ' continues to enrol men into its ranks In whose vtins flow , not the icbor of some venomous reptiles ; but the pure Celtic blood oi the Irish nation : that there are a few Englishmen amongst them is true ; and this seems to be tbe greatest pride of the Irishmen themselves , who will never allow a committee to be formed without having one or more of their English brethren on it . This is as it should be , and clearly demonstrates that tbe Irishmen ivi England sympathise witb their fellow toilers The Democrats met on Sunday , January the 9 th , nnd were ably addressed by Mes $ : S Gannon and Hanlon , tno new mem . btra , who seem to take ' s vtarra interest in the welfare and prosperity of the body . The meeting was also ad . drea » ed by Messrs M Carcby , Tucker , Joyce , aad other members of the body , till a late hour . The usual letter of Mr O'Connor was read and commented on . Several
ladies attended , nnd socnud to take a good deal of in . terest in the proceedings , The Democrats met again on Sunday last , Mr Garnon in the chair . Mr Price brought forward tbe following motion , which was seconded by Mr Joyce , and unanimously adopted : — 'Thatthe weekly meeting of this Conftdemtion be called in future for seven instead of eight . '—Mr Clancy commented at great length upon the letters of Messrs Duffy and Mitchel , which Were read from the Stak . He had been the first Confederate to denounce thepolicy of The Natwk newspaper . He stood alone ! ho would never stand by and see an injustice done to his countrymen , if he got well abused , vilified , and calumniated for it . lie had been asked how he dured to differ with the taleiited " gentlemen of the Confederation ; but his answer had been that he would never w « ve his common sense to eloquence , or talent most refined . The gentlemen had now dared to differ with themselves . When hundreds of poor working mta in Dublin had been insulted in Dublin by John
O'Connell , and they claimed a corner of The Nation to express themselves on the insult , did not The Nation close its columns to their complaints , and week after week deny them the privilege , till they had such a mass of communications , that tho Edi'or could make a boast that he was ebliged to burn tbe lot ? ( Cries of ' Shame /) The Nation has tried to burko ub , and our principles , but it has failed , utterly failed —Mr Tucker , next addressed the meeting in his usual atlr * tyle , and wag fo ? r lowed by Mr Charles M ' Cartby , who ably dilated on tbe folly of the doctvine , ' Divide ¦ and conquer , ' showing what might be done by a united , and determined people . He agreed with Mr O'Connor , that the Irish people were in the first stage of agitation , and it should be tbeir object to endeavour to spread all the information amongst the people possible . He highly approved of the plan for this , and propounded by tbeirsecretary , and trusted that all geod men would back bim up in his undertaking . Thanks having been voted to the chairman , the meeting broke up .
The London Confederahsts. The Soul-Stirr...
THE LONDON CONFEDERAHSTS . The soul-stirring policy of Mr Mitchel and the passive obedience of Mr O . C , Duff / , of tbe Nation , has engrossed much attention here ; though very little is said either one way or the other , it is evident that a strong feeling exists in favour of the former . Tho conduct of the English Confederate delegates ( if the law will allow them so to be culled , ) at tha late aggregate meeting of Irish Confederates in Dublin is beyond all praise , they showed at once by tbeir line of argument that tbey were practical and experienced men . And Mr T . Daly , of London , at once boldly avowed that it was to Feargus O'Connor alone was the credit due for the high position tbe question of Repeal bad attained among the workingclasses of England :
At a meeting ot ' the CoREiN Gonfedee & te Club , held on Sunday evening last , at the Blue Anchor , York-street , Westminster , Mr Lomasney in the chair . Mr Reynolds said , that the perversion of the funds of the association waa enormous , usd thut all those who took an active part in that association , and remained silent , were as guilty as those who did it . The evils that now existed in Ireland would shortly exist in England , Already had tbe poor rate swelled up to an enormous amount , and to what waa tbat to be attributed ? Why to tbe infamous act of Uaion . All classes in Ireland were disorganised . —Mr R . Hussete said , he fully agreed with the last speaker , that a great number of those who were iu
the Confederation had neglected theirduty when , in connexion with Conciliation Hail , in allowing the funds to be perverted , when they were received for greater and nobler purposes . —Mr Reading , in an able speech , called tbe attention of the meeting to-the able letter of Mr F . O'Connor ' to tbe Irish p : ople , 'in the last number of the No & the & n Stab , which he said ought to he read by every Irishman , and that the opinions of the Continental press with respect to that Stirling patriot ought not to be passed slightly over , they contained matter which would show the feeling that existed in the several parts of . Europo with respect to Ireland . —Mr Hanson deprecated the whole policy of Mr O'Connell ' s life as one great delusion . The meeting thru adjourned .
Tub Davis Confipbbate Club held a large meeting in tbeir Lecture Room , Dean-Ureet , Soho . Mr J , J . Fitagibbon in the chair . The report of the late meeting of the Confederates was read by Mr Laoney ( secretary . ) Tbe chairman then called upon Mr Daly , to give an account of his late mission to Dublin . Mr Daly then proceeded to state that it was with great pleasure he had to inform them , that tho council of the Confede . ration wero deturaiiued not to desist until Ireland had Her legislature . Ho bad visited several of the Dublin clubs , and he was highly pleased at the great progress they were making with respect to native manufacture . He was happy to state , although the London press had endeavoureJ to impress on the mind of the people of England that there was a split in the Confederation , that the council worked harmoniousl y together .
and tbat if Mr Mitchel bad propounded doctrines that were deemed illegal by counsel's opinion , that he would at once withdraw iivm the Confederation , rather than place tint body in jeopardy , The council brought forward the new rules of organisation , and Mr Mitchel moved an amendment to tb . m , which amendment was lost . He ( Mr Daly ) moved that tbeoriginal motion and the amendment should be sent to all the clubs , for their adoption or refusal , which was carried . Although he differed with Mr Mitchel nnd Mr Devin Reilly , he believed there were not two truer men in the Confederation ; he believed it was the heart-rendiog scenes witnessed by Mr Mitchel , throughout Ireland , tbat had led him to form the opinion he had done . He ( Mr Daly ) did not deny tbe right of the people to possess arms . The council ef the Confederation had come to tbe wise
determination of throwing overboard tbe Irish landlords , who had joined the government to oppress the people . The Confederaionare not bound by the principles of any one man . But the Confederation are determined not to desert Mr Mitchel , if set upon by tbe bloodhounds and harpies of government , and ultimately workout the salvation of Ireland . He was sorry that great apathy existed among the working classes in DufeliB—more to their shame , they seemed to distrust one another . He sras sorry to say that though their proceedings were open , th * re were some Jemmy O'Briens amongst them . He was happy to say that Mr Mitchel would not be expelled the council . Ho knew tbat Mitcbel , Mea . pher , and Barry were bol 4 men , and he admired them ; and there wore bold men to meet any emergency . Ho had one fact to inform them of . which was not scarcely
known , that Mr Denis Shine Lalor , late High Sheriff of the county of Ksrry , had written to Mr Duffy to propose bim as a Confederate at their next meeting in Dublin , ( Loud cheers followed this announcement . ) Ha had met Orange and Protestant operatives in Dublin , who informed him tbat they would join tho Confederation but from their dread of Catholic ascendancy . Now he ( Mr Daly ) f- » r one , should like to sea a declaration signed by all Irish Catholics , denying that tbey wire looking . for ascendancy . There were many men in the Confederation that required to be looked after , who were not to be trusted , but who were on the balance , Mr Leech , the deputy from Manchester , ' stated , that the Kepealers and the Orangemen had merged their differences , and they wtru now strongly imbued with principles of nationality . The Confederation were strongly determined to lay hold of the first opportunity ,
whether legally , morally , " it otherwise , to gain the object sought fer . —Mr Kenc-aly moved , and Mr O'Connor steonded , u vote ot thanks to Mr Daly , which was carried unanimously . —The Chairman then announced that a large number of Orangemen in London were about to join the Confederation . —Mr John Lindsay then moved the fallowing resolution : —r' That we hail with delight the patriotic exertion of the council of tho Confederation for the encouragement of Iiish manufactures , and we htreby pledge ourselves , individually and collectively , to use every tstrtion in our power to as . ¦ 1 st them in euch a noble and praiseworthy undertaking . —Mr Loonet seconded thu resolution in an able speech , which was carried . Meetings were also held in Chelsea and Marylebone . A Confederate' Club will be opened on Tuesday , Jan . 23 ( h . at No , 15 , Grenville-atreet , Seymour-sireet , Somera Town .
Pcimrosbiiill Park.—At A Recent Meeting ...
PcimrosbIIill Park . —At a recent meeting of the committee of the West London Anti-Enclosure As . sociation at Clark's Rooms , 114 , Edgeware-road , January 10 th , Mr . Sawera in the chair . Various letters were read from the Commissioners ef Woods anii Forests , under two administrations , concurring in the general opinion that , this park ought to be enlarged . The secretary said he hai hia attention directed to the footway leading trom tho Park-road into the Regent ' s Park , through the Windsor Castle Tavern , Park-terrace . He . had visited tbat spot ,
and found there really was a , footway through such tavern , and that it existed wholly through the parkkeepers exacting an annual tax of half-a-guinea from all who used the proper footway through the enclosure between the Kent apd Park . terraees . He thought such jobbing in footways ought to be looked into . After the transaction , of . the business , Mr George Wiggall moved , and Thomas . Wiggall , secohded , a vote of thanks to the Press for services rendered , and with'a hope for the continuation of them . . '
' The army in Ireland is about being augmented One hundred and thirty horses are to be added to the present strength of the Queen ' s Bays , now stationed in the south of that country .
National Defences.-.. A Ndineroiislj Flt...
NATIONAL DEFENCES .-.. A nDineroiislj fltteniea meeting was held last evening at the Bridge House Hotel , for the purpose of sanctioning a petition to parliament agairat any augmentation of the military and naval establishments . Mr Apslry Pbixatt took the chair , and stated that the meeting had fceen summoned for , the purpose of obtaining an expression of the public voice in the borough of Southwark on the subject which had been so prematurely called into . public notice by the Duke of Wellington ' s letter . The principles upoa which the Peace Society were founded were well known to all who were present , and those principles were no less popular than notorious anionijst those by whom ho was surrounded . In Southwark he , however , was prepared to assert there was no disposition to surrender the liberties of the nation until they had made a vigorous effort to preserve England
from being subjected to military sale . Was it to be supposed that after thirty years of peace the natiea was idly , and without the slightest cause , to b © plunged into a statu of alarm on the subject of invasion , and hurried into taking a defensive attitude for no purpose whatever but to swell the amount ® f the yearly expendituie ? lie had mixed muih amongst the commercial and social classes of life in France , and his own experience ot the jonliments 0 / that people taught him that they were growing more in friendly feeling towards England , and becoming much better acquainted with her institutions and inhabitants than they could ever have been under the state of things which Buenapartc maintained between the two countries . Foreign merchants of experience with whom he had conversed , had expressed themselves to bim to be utterly at a loss to conceive tke grounds upon which the Duke of Wellington had excited so much alarm as to invasion by the French .
Mr 5 . SiunoB moved tho first resolution as follows : — That this meeting believing war to be utterly at vari ance with the prectpts and spirit of Chrhtiaiiity anfi the true interest of mankind , deeply regrets tl o attempt * made , and maliing , to excite In tho public mind a belief tbat war and invasion are imminent , and to ground to that belief an addition to the naval and H . ilitary establishments of the country . MrG . W . ALErAf . » BB seconded the resolution , and observed that for himself be considered war ought not to be tolerated amongst a Christian people . England had fortunately escaped the visitation of a foreign invasion , but she had sacrificed the lives of some hundreds of thousands of her sc ns in the
continental wars into which her rulers had plun » td her , and to this sacrifice must be added that ; of eigto hundred millions of war debt , independently of the cost . ofher warlike establishment ? , which , since the peace of 1815 , amounted to upwards of five hundred millions sterling . Ic hnd bern most unwisely and untruly stated by Lord Ellesmere , that ihe Preach and English were natural enemies . This waa , in bis opinion , a most false and unchristian sentiment , for there was nothing in the mere separation of two people bytho English Channel , to cause them to ba enemies , and there was no other ground for the assertion than was afforded by the prejudices ef education . The resolution was then put , and carried unanimously .
The Rev . J . Bunwarr moved the second resolation : — That this meetirg desires to record its delib rate coni victlon ihat the apprehension s respecting war are altogether unfounded , and that the increase of the navy , or of the standing army , as proposed , would tend to destroy tbe existing peace , to retard the moral progress of reform , to burthen the nation already so heavil / taxed , and aggravate the commercial difficulties of tho nation It might be asked what did he know about ships armies , forts , and such matters ? lie would ansee frankly , nothing . He would be called on to leaveafl that sort ef knowledge to the great man who waa no intimately versed in the science of destruction . He readily agreed to do so ; b-. it he would not agree to follow the ipse dixit of the Duke of Wellington , or to
admit that it was to be the law of society . It might probably be observed that it would he useless to combat the dnke on the point of national defences , seeing thathe was so used to victory , lie ( the speaker ) would reply no to this proposition , for the duke had been beaten—yes—by public opinion , which he discovered had more power than all the French armies He ( the speaker ) did not say this to disparage the Duke of Wellington , but to encourage the people t » enter the field once more against him , and if they did their duty on the present occasion there was every reason to hope he would be beaten again as he had been befare . What was the real object of the move ?
lie feared it waa in order to stimulate the savaga and tiger propensities of the people , which were becoming lost in tbe peaceful pursuits of tra ^ e , commerce , and agriculture . But , if the bull-dog spirit were to obtain prevalence , what was to become of commerce ? It might be said there was plenty of commerce during the war , and that will ai ; ain be the case . But let him remind his auditors of the nature of that war commerce , which was the trade in gunpowder , muskets , provision , and clothing for tha army ; the commerce , in short , of the commissariat , based wholly en the wants created by war , and ending with it .
Mr a . B . Stevens seconded the resolution , which was carried . Mr J . Barrktt then moved the third resolution— : That the following petition be adopted and s ' gned by tbe chairman on behalf of the meeting , and that it ba confided to John Humphery , Esq , to be presented to tbe House of Commors , and that Sir W . Jlolesworth bo requested to support the prayer thereof . Mr J . Kent seconded the resolution , which was carried . Tho Chairman then read the petition , which embodied the sentiments of the resolutions , after which a vote of thanks was passed to him , and the * eetiti" ' separated .
The National Alliance.'—Under Our Englis...
The National Alliance . ' —Under our English head we give a report of the meeting of the Rational Alliance , held in London . We rejyice at the efforts making by that party , or any other party , by what , ever name they may be called , so that theytend in the right direction , and have for their ultimate aim the securing of the ' People ' s Charter . ' But while thus avowing the catholicity of our sentiments in regard to our fellow workers in the great cause of poli » tical equality , we feel sorely afraid that that spirit ia not shared in by the parties who were instrumental in getting up the meeting in question . It will strika everybody that there ia something unaccountably strange , that in the returning of their thanks to those gentlemen who had stood forward in behalf of
universal suffrage principles at the late election , they should have stinted the measure of their thankfulness to Henry Vincent , Colonel Thompson , W , J . Fox , J . Sturge . ^ J . II . Parry , Dr Epps , and E . Miall , and have wiHully omitted the bright names of Feargus O'Connor , Ernest Jones , Julian Harney , P . M'Grath , T . Clark , S . Kydd , M'Crie , and other noble spirits . ' There ' s something rotten in the state of Denmark , ' we fear ; for on the greatand broad principle of man ' s political equality , it w not possible that men of great breadth ot soul , of expansive mind , of fraternal feeling , could have committed so flagrant a violation of the law of gratitude , as to exclude from the toast the honoured names we have alluded to , because of some petty feeling of rivalrv—some matter of
strawsplitting—something anti-democratic , and enough to stamp with insincerity their love of the £ r ? at cause itself . On no one point , in respect to the parties thanked , and the parties passed over , will the latter suffer by any comparison with the former ; but the rather if their actions , qualities , and consistency were weighed in the balance , the scale would turn immeasurably in their favour . We say not this in the spirit of party feeling ; but are the ratter painfully conciissed into it by the evident manifestation of bitter animosity which dictated the policy we are castigating . In such feelings we know the Chartistsof Edinburgh do not participate . They love and honour all men who love their cause , and show by their actions that they have . that cauee firmly engraven on their
hearts , whatever name they may choose to be called by . They fondly cling to theic own name ; for it is a name consecrated and endeared to them by the suffering !) and blond ef those who sacrificed home , family and friends , for a clorioua cause , and any departure from which would be as a condemnation of the dead and the living ; and they cheerfully acknowledge and accord thesame liberty to others , ' in this spirit , at a meeting he'd in thia city shortly after the recent elections , tney recorded their warm thanks to Gewrgo Thompson , Mr Miall , Henry Vincent , Colsnel Thompson , « fco ., in the same breath with Fear ^ ua O'Connor , Esq ., Ernest Jones , P . M'Grath , & c . Ns > so with the expansive-minded National Alliance democrats of the great metropolis . ' Fie on ' t , oh fie 1 ' —Edinburgh Weekly Express .
Popular Feklimi in Italt . —The Presse 'has tie following from Trent , in the Tyrol : — 'As a dealer in images was hawking bis wares about the streets , a fhort time ago , an Austrian officer approached him and perceiving a statue of the Pope crowned with a wreath , angrily asked him if ho could not expos * other statues than those of that man . ' A man . cried the image seller with groat naivetS , ' he is tho man—he is the immortal Pope—our father—tlw friend and protector oi Italy ! ' 'Scoundrel ! ejaculated the Austrian officer , in a fury , « he is a revolutionist , and this is what ha merits ! ' As he spoke he drew his sword and swept off the head of tha statue . A crowd assembled , and taking the part Of the image dealer , laid violent hands on the Austrian officer . He would no doubt have been torn to pieces had not a patrol come up and rescued him . By a superior order laced in arrest . ' ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22011848/page/7/
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