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    Weekly Rey1bw. The Commencement Of Some ...

    or the poor by that detestable law , which , it is to be hoped , will not be permitted to cumber the statute-book another session of Parliament . The political world is remarkably quiet . There area few rumours of changes at the next election , and intending candidates are already putting forth pteUminarv puffs and friers . The Registration Courts seem to have attracted very little attention ,

    andcertamlv have excited no interest . It is felt everywhere that the whole machinery of the hnmbag called the Keforni Act is cumbrous and useless , and , ere long , even the lawyers and agents to whom the svstem of chicanery created by it has given employment , wfll find the game " no go . " People will not pay for so dull and wretched a performance as that which usually takes place before Revising Barr isters ;

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    A . terrific hurricane at -Newfoundland , which has occasioned a great destruction of life and property , and a further account of the continued sufferings of the Gape of Good Hope colonists , and the continued blunders of their Incapable governors , constitute the colonial intelligence of tho week . As regards Jhe Cape , we have some hopes of being in a position to announce , in a few moaths hence , the commence nent ofabetter state of things ; the incapable govern or having been superseded by the appointment of Sir Henry Pottingerto the Governorship of the Ca pe of Good Hope .

    The French journals seem to be at length tiring of the Spanish marriages' question . The concluding acts of this infamous drama we hare reported in acothcr column . We may take leave of the subject by copying the following portrait of Louis Philippe , from Toil ' s Magazine '•—Louis Philippe is a roi bourgeois in a very different sense from what his flatterers attribute to him . He ti .-ts upon France as 3 farm , upon his kingly office as a . . .. ative appointment ; he is bonperede famille ; he will _ 3 _ . zoiliuig that can bring : nizn to rob sboxlders * with . . jallows ; he will make money bj every means that ? .. otmaTcehim incur the risk of being sent to Coven-- he will settle his daughters well , and set up his sous ¦ jood way of business . His every thought centres in

    - .: " . an . lln his children , because they are part of nxxns £ > l & ;¦ ; nly differs from a tallow-chandler in having to do . " . " -: ministerial portfolios and national accounts , instead ci - ; -. nntry orders , Petersburg invoices , and the ledger an " * lay-hook of Melt , Drip , and Co . He has put off a { i . vj ; iter on his neighbour the King of the Belgians ; he isi cot one son a footing in Brazil ; and he is bent on ¦ szzZteg another in a way to get upon the throne of Spain . Lsv . i-Philippe with his homely , friendly ways , has the smirk of a mercer or man-milliner showing off his -wares ; and . with his plain pot-hicfc dinners to all who comes across him , of a Lord Mayor who thinks a good feed is everything . Ko wonder that he , is such a favourite with the Lord Mayor of London ; he is , in fact , the iord Mayor of Paris .

    Louis Philippe , finding that there were invincible oh-Stables to the marriage of his son with the queen , so played bis cards that he has forced her into a marriage with a man who can have no hope of offspring , and manenvres lo mrrry his son to Jieryonn-er sister , the next in the order of succession . There is a callousness of feeling in this procedure , a moral fdthiness , a recklessness of consequences , that is revolting in the extreme . All the moral aberrations which doubtless await the unfortunate joung woman who has heen the viciim of 4 heseplots , may fairly he charged upon Louis Philippe . Bis conduct is tainted with some profligate abuse of natural impulses ; the same disregard of the sanctity of

    the marriage connexion that stained the Court and noblesse of France before the Resolution . Louis Philippe is a moral man in his family circle , after the fashion of old George III . His queen is a pious lady ; fastidious on the score of her female acquaintances ; a great patronness of missions to the Heathen , —ice to sensual affections , of a seraphic glow of devotion . The young Duchess of Montpensier will be brought to a home of the purest sentiment , —a / ac-simile of the Y ^ carage of Wake-£ eld . She will there be taught ; in Cfiristain charity , to late her sister , as that pattern-woman , her mother-inlaw , hated the Duchess de Bern , ana to he equally unscrupulous in the means she takes to lay bare that sister ' s weaknesses to the world . Aud when she and her . husband mount the throne from which her sister has

    been— -removed , Louis Philippe and his queen will say , with the unction of a brace of Tartuffes , Thus God rewards purity and continence . And , perhaps , the pair of shams may not have enough of nnperverted eonscience left to feel that the whole shame and criminality of the transaction Is theirs , and that their motives have been of fia lowest and most sordid character . Theirs is the true morality of a Gcnlis , the decorous mistress of Egalite , who lived in the family with his wife , teaching his children to month moral precepts and be externally decorous . France never can tolerate a king with a Pare an Cerfs ; but neither can that dynasty be permanent which is merely moral in externals , and tampers with the voluptuousness of the former one , not from passion , but as a mercantile speculation .

    We agree with the writer in Tait , that the awfully critical state of Ireland much more demands the attention of English statesmen than do the filthy intrigues at Paris and Madrid . The ordinary session of the Dutch Legislature was opened by the king in person on Monday last . The speech contains nothing very remarkable , merely ¦ speaking in general terms of the prosperous state of the country . We have elsewhere commented on the state of affairs in Switzerland . It was rumoured in Paris , on Tuesday , that the liberals of Basle-country bad attacked Basle-city , with what results was not stated . On the other hand , Friburg is armins to resist the liberal Cantons . The London

    Globe ( Whig ) , like the Morxixg Chronicle , gives a sort of half adhesion to the new order of things in Genera , and says : — " The fact is , that , as in Paris in 17-39—92 , there is in the lowest depth a loner deep ; and the insurgent militia of St . Gervais are better fellows to deal with than the grimy faces and hard hands behind them—such classes as came to compose , in Paris , the cannoniers of the National Guard , and completely altered the original orderly composition of that body . " This Whig chuckling serves to strengthen our fears as to the intentions of the new government ; we hope , however , that the Jnen of the'" grimy faces " and " hard hands " will Bot allow themselves to be humbugged by the new , any more than by the old government .

    THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION LN PORTUGAL May be easily explained . The " constitutional government" of Donna Maria having fleeced and ground the people past enduring , wringing from tkem taxes wMeh . the " despot" Don Miguel would never have thought of imposing , some few months since the popular discontent exploded , and those worthy blackguards , the Cabrals , " her most faithful Majesty V duef bravoes , were ignominiously driven from power and compelled to fly from Lisbon . The popular insurrection ,, although it assumed , or lad given to it , a politically " literal" character .

    was at the outseta protest against state-robbery . The peasantry of the province of Minho finding themselves taxed in every coneemble shape , and under every possible pretence , refused to pav , and showed themselves quiteread y to fight rather than pay . These peasants being the best fighting men in Portugal , soon drove the government mercenaries before them , and thus did the work which the "liberals" of Lisbon profited by . Of course "her most faithful Majesty " at once responded to the will of the people , when she found she must do that , or pack up and begone . A "liberal "Ministry was formed , with thatdriyelling Whig-Aristocrat , Paljtklla , at their lead . Imbeciles and humbugs though the new

    aimstera were , they were nevertheless compelled to attempt some good , in obedience to the popular clamour against taxation ; they therefore issued a decree for the reduction of the governmental expenditure , with the view of reducing the burdens of the People , and saving the country from the ruinous expedient of loans . This decree set forth " That , all salaries , pensions , and allowances payable by the state shall , during the present financial year , be subject to a deduction of 20 per cent . The iaterestpaid < m the internal funded or unfunded debt shall , in like manner , be subject to a deduction of 20 per cent . The interest on the foreign debt shall be subject , wing the current financial year , to a deduction of 2 » percent . "

    „ waders will see at a glance that the above reductions" would necessarily excite against the ** w government the hostility of a great variety of

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    public cormorants , who rather than " bleed" for the public good would bail the restoration of the Cabrals with joy , or even welcome Don Miguel , or the devil himself , provided those worthy princes would guarantee the aforesaid jobbers and robbers their old power of public plunder . Of course the loudest in their denunciations of the new-system were the debt men . The lopping off of twenty per cent of their plunder was exclaimed against as " spoliation" and "robbery . " The "foreign" lenderaprincipally Britisb capitalists — and nearly every English paper from the Tunes downwards , denounced the poor Portuguese as rascals and repudiators—in fact little better than Yankees !

    We confess we felt no sympathy for the "foreign public creditor . " In the first place , tho lenders of British money to Portuguese Governments never came by that money honestly ; in some shape or other they had fleeced the Britisb peop le to obtain the money , which if they could spare or afford to lend , they ought to have invested in schemes to better the condition of the millions at home irom whom they bad wrung it . Their object was , however , to impose themselves upon the Portuguese people as receivers

    of Portuguese money to " the > n d of time . " We , therefore , were glad to see the biters bitten . The people of Portugal had nothing to do with contracting the "foreign debt . " and rather than they should be cursed as we are—the fruits of their industry plundered from them to gorge the ravenous maw of the " public creditor "—we would gladly hail their determination to pay neither interest nor principal . " Public faith" is a very good thing , no doubt ; but" public justice "—justice to the peopleshould claim precedence .

    Now comes the counter revolution . The new Ministry , though they could plan " reductions" for the future , wanted money for the present ; 'the exchequer was empty and not a single conio could be had . The Bank of Lisbon were in full conspiracy with the court against the new Ministry , and even the sum of £ 3 , 000 waa refused the government , who would have been content with even that small sum to meet present demands , waiting the incoming of the pablic ' revenne . Added to this , the new government had played a weak and cowardly part in permitting

    the Court to fill the provincial offices with the creatures of the Cabral dynasty . The army too was discontented , the soldiers being without thejr pay . The fruit was ripe , and "her mostiaiihfulMajesty " sbowed herself not wanting in nerve to pluck it . The midnight summons to the palace , the imprisonment of Palmelia and Bomfix , the silent occupation by the troops of the streets of Lisbon before the dawn of morning , with the rest of the acts of the royal and money-juggling conspirators , our readers will find fully detailed in our seventh page .

    Portugal is now cursed with the rule of an absolutism , a thousand-fold more hateful than the despotism of Don Miguel . That absolutism is the absolutism of the moneymongers with Donna Maria for their head , and Louis Philippe for their ally . How long will this last ? What will the Portuguese do ? We know what they should do . They should bundle Queen , bankers , aristocrats , and military conspirators into the Tagus . Before banking was , and before such an animal as a banker was known , the Portuguese were a great and powerful people . What need then of bankers

    now ? In the days when , as sea-warriors , they rivalled the English aid Dutch , they were great , not by ihe help of their kings , but inspire of them , for their kings , like those of other countries , have been nearly all imbeciles or scoundrels ; what need then of king or queen now ? The once living aristocracy with the priests ruined Por tuagal , why then , allow the galvanised corpse of aristocracy to play its pranks ? now Portugal has but few colonies , and at home has no need of a standing army , why then support a useless and mischievous body of military conspirators and executioners ?

    " The sun would shine the same , The rains of Heaven as seasonably fall , Though none of these accursed pests existed . " Portugal needs neither Queen , bankers , aristocrats , nor soldiers ; she needs'but the labour of her useful children—the workers of her soil . When will the Portuguese , when will the people of all lands , come to their senses 1

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    W . Davis , Manchester . —The report of the meetings holden on Monday last should have reached us before Friday ; we must postpone the report till next week . Joseph Boldest , Hindley , writes that , on the 17 th of August last , he sent a resolution which was not inserted in the Star , of which the following is a copy : — "That the shares be sold at a premium of not less than £ 20 for four acres , and £ 10 for two acres . " We never before beard of the resolution . J . L . T . —If fourteen months ago you were "blamed for a bastard child , " and run away from " a certain town , in consequence , it is pretty strong proof you are conscious that you were rightly blamed . You now want to go back to the " certain town" aud think that because you hare been absent more than 12 months , you are safe against being made to pay for the support of the child . We hope you will find out your mistake . As we never had to run away for bastard children we don't know the law of such a case , but we should be sorry to know that the law could not reach you . T . EvEtEiGH , Loughborough . —It is preposterous to expect us to look through three or four months copies of the Northern Star to find an obscure paragraph of news respecting a drunken soldier . We beg to assure our correspondent that we don ' t know what "waite time , " or " spare time" means . If Ant * Ous of the Stab Readees would forward me a Northern Star of Saturday , the Cth of June , 1840 , 1 should feel greatly indebted to him , as I want it for & very particular purpose ; I would return the value of the same in postage stamps , if required .

    witbam . Chabi . es Fish . Wican . —John Lenagan appeals to the working men of Wigan and its vicinity , to rouse again and rally for the Charter . A Suggestion . —Allow me through the medium of your invaluable journal , to make a suggestion as to the forming of Youths Society in London for the purpose of advocating the glorious principles of the People ' s Charter . Youths' Societies have been formed and carried out with great energy in the teetotal movement ; and I see no reason why they should not be formed in connexion with the Chartist Association , for all must admit , when the preseat generation hav , passed away , it will be highly necessary that a youthful generation should be ready to take their place to obtain , or if obtained to defend , the liberty of their

    country . Trusting that the Chartists generally will take this suggestion into their consideration , I remain , your obedient servant , K . Robinson . We received , on Wednesday evening , a post-offiee order for the sum of 6 s . from Hexham , but we are at a loss to know from whom , or for what purpose it is to be applied . Thomas Stbetch . —We have forwarded your letter to . the Central Committee of the United Trades . Petes . Gxet , Dumfries . —Received ; shall be attended to W . Felkis . —Received too late for insertion this week . T . Allsop , Esq ., ( llasle . )—Received with thanks . J . W . Duffield . —We can see no utility in publishing your lengthy communication , which fully proves that you have acted unwisely , and that the Committee have only acted iu accordance with the rules of the Association .

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    owing instance ( says the Suffolk Chronicle ) ot air Robert Peel ' s unobtrusive benevolence was mentioned by Mr . Wilderspin , in the course of his lecture at the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution , on Tuesday evening . We give it in the speaker ' s own words : —" Some of you have heard of Hay don , the painter , and , no doubt , you have heard that Sir Robert Peel , the late Prime Minister of England , sent that man £ 50 in his distress . It ought te- 'be known , by my moving about the country in this manner —and I never thought of self , for I always had faith that my countrymen would not allow me to die in a union , ' and that the Almighty would not

    allow me to ask for the common necessaries of lifethat I had spent all my money . I was at last reduced to the utmost extremity . I wanted a crust ot bread , yet I kept the secret within my own breast . I set out for an obscure village , where I thought I would end my days . A friend called upon me . And when I had not a single shilling in my house , when I had nothing to offer him , for I felt 1 should degrade my cause by running into debt , when my poor dog was as thin as my children , £ 50 came from the Prime Minister of England , Sir Robert Peel . Thus you see there are two men whom he has . benefited . One is now in the eternal world , and tho other k the humble individual who stands before , joa * - *

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    THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! PUBLIC MEETING IN BERMONDSEY TO ADOPT THE NATIONAL PETITION . A Public Meeting in support of the Central Registration and Election Committee , and also to adopt the National Petition , was held in the largo room ot the Ship Tavern , Long Lane , Bermondsey , on Monday , October 19 th ; Mr . James Knight was unanimously called to the chair , who in a few brief emphatic and appropriatesentencps introduced Mr . Samuel Kydd , to move the first resolution , as follows : —

    " That this meeting is of opinion that the present system of registration is exceedingly unjust to the working classes , inasmuch as it entails on them great trouble and loss of time , as well as exposing them to the contradictory op inions of barristers , whose dictum so far as they are concerned is final , whilst Parochial officers , and the more trealthy classes , having funds at their command , employ legal talents , thus escaping personally such petty annoyance , and if needs be " gets a case and thus obtains a decision iu the superior coui ts , this meeting , therefore , emphatically calls upon the working classes to combine , end by their co-operation enjoy those advantages , now monopolised by the middle and upper classes . "

    Mr . Kvdd said , the resolution put into his hands complained that the present system of registration was unjust—true , it was . There was no House so lax in its morality or more profuse in words , than the present so-called reformed House of Commons , ( hear , hear , ) and the consequence is , that Acts Oi Parliament are so mystified that no one can understand them . The Reform Act based the Borough franchise on a rental of £ 10 a year , but the taxing clauses , and the want of clear description as to what constitutes " House or other Building , " so mystified it , that an appeal to the Barrister became necessary ; and what was law and equity with one Barrister was any thing but law and equity with another , ( hear , hear , ) consequently amendment after amendment

    was proposed , until it reminded him of the childish story of " The House that Jack Built , " so imbecile were the laws that were formed . He could not help thinking there was a purpose in all this , for if Jaws were plain and simple , as they ought to be , no Barristers would be required —( hear , hear . ) Those lawyers forcibly reminded him of two dogs quarrelling over a bone , they did not appear to care which won , as grist came equally to their mill —( hear , hear . ) He repeated , the Jaws of a country should be written so plain that everybody could understand them . He would have them like the notices to vagrants , stuck up at the entrance of provincial towns , and these were so comprehensible that you never or rarely found mendicancy carried on within the reach of a

    beadle , constable , or policeman . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution spoke of the system being an injustice , it was unjust ; for time was money to the working man . It was also a rude annoyance to ask you , do you pay a rental of £ 10 per annum ? have vou paid vouv taxes : ? It was literally a turning but of your ' cupboards , and shewing to the world that you have neither jam nor jelly , that you are in point of fact a jmere brown bread sort of man . ( Laughter and great applause . ) The present state of things was well adapted for keeping colonial offices , " church livings , asd all other slap up p ickings , for the younger branches of aristocratic families . ( Loud cheers . ) Labour deserved protection , seeing that it is the most valuable of all property ,

    producing , as it does , and rendering useful every other description of property , ( Great applause . ) Tho Reform Act was , from beginning to end a mere farce , hut he remembered the time , when if you had ventured to doubt the Patriotism of its authors , Lords Grey and Russell , you would have stood an excellent chance of being ducked in a horse pond , or being tarred and feathered , ( hear , hear . ) but the delusion was now manifest , the errors of the Reform Act was acknowledged on all hands . ( Cheers . ) The principle on which the Reform Act was based , was the vicious one of money ; thus a wealthy shopkeeper might at night go to bed comparatively wealthy , and consequently an Elector , but during the night a barrel of turpentine or oil takes ( ire , his

    shop or warchou-e is burnt down , his property is destroyed , and with it his intelligence , for the morning finds him poor . and consequently too ignorant to give a vote . ( Great cheering . ) The resolution called on them to combine , co-operate , and "centralise" their power , but in the letters of Richard Oastler in the Northern Star of Saturday last , he perceived that the principle of" Centralisation" was condemned , now he told Richard Oastler , and them , that it was not " Centralisation" that was bad , but its misdirection . ( Hear , heir . ) He would illustrate his arguments ; under the New Poor-law , wealth and power had " centralised" for the oppression of the poor , this was undoubtedly bad —( hear , hear)—but on the other hand , the Operative Coal Miners of the

    North , had combined and " centralised ' their power , and had thereby been enabled to employ their attorney , Mr . W . P . Roberts , who by his legal acumen , ability , and perseverance , had thrown down oppression , " trampled on injustice , and upheld the just rights of Labour ; this was undoubtedly good . ( Immense applause , ) Again , the Charaists had " centralised" their power in the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , they had subscribed their pence , which grew to pounds , until in its agsregation itnow amounted to the noble sum of £ 10 , 000—the result of which was the pretty state " O'Connorville , " and the once degraded , despied Chartists , were now admitted to be a portion of the landed proprietory of this great empire .- ( Vehement cheering . ) Believing that the adoption of the measure asked for in the resolution , would tend to the comfort , convenience , and happiness of themselves , their wives and families ,

    he had much pleasure in moving its adoption . — ( Great applause . ) Mr . John Gathard in seconding the motion related the trite anecdote of the musici » n and the organ blower . The musicians said . "Did we not perform that piece of music well ? " "Tes , responded the organ blower , we did . You said the musician , what had you to do with it . On the next occasion when a fine magnificent piece of music was to be performed all at once the organ ceased , in a most difficult portion of the music , the musician shouted out most lustily , " blow up ! " The organ blower coolly put out his head and very quaintly said , " then shall it be we ?" ( Loud cheers . ) Now , he thought they had been organ blowers to the aristocracy long enough , and that the time had arrived when wo should let them know that the industrious portion of the people are somebody . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was carried unanimously .

    Mr . Edhuxd Stallwood then rose to move the second resolution as follows : — Resolved , That whereas the system of representation as established under the Parliamentary Act of 1832 , commonly called the Reform Act , excludes from the rights of citizenship six-sevenths of the male adult population and whereas such exclusion is not less injurious to the best interests of the community than unjust in principle , this meeting considers that right and sound policy combine to demand a veritable radical reform of the representative system at present existing , therefore this meeting resolve to petition Parliament for the enactment of the People ' s Charter a measure which embodying Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , Ho Property Qualification , Equal Representation and Payment of Members , will restore to the people the active exercise of their inalienable rights and thereby afford them the means of correcting all grievances and enacting all necessary measures of Reform .

    Mr . Stallwood said the resolution embraced the principles contained in the People's Charter , and as those principles had been explained so frequently in that portion of the metropolis , he apprehended they were tolerably well acquainted with them ; but it was nevertheless but right to suppose that there was something like one-fourth of a meeting like that , that might not understand or even have heard of them ^ except from the tongue of slander —( hoar , hear)—and as the Anti-Corn Law League had carried their measure by the iteration and reiteration of their principles , he would venture to enter into an exposition of those great principles . Mr . Stallwood then lucidly explained the principles of the People's Charter , evidently to the satisfaction and delight of the meeting , as evinced by the attention paid and the applause elicited .

    Mr . Ernest Jones then addressed the meeting at considerable length , setting forth the necessary tendency of class-government , as leading to the gradual declension of the working and shop-keeping classes , and establishing a numerous body of rich paupers , living on the industrious , while it fills the workhouses with daily increasing numbers of their victims . Mr . E . Jones then expatiated on tiie form of government beat calculated to ensure a just system of legislation , and proved that the Charter was the document best calculated to produce such a result . ! iMr . E . Jones then set forth the advantages which would follow the adoption of that measure as the law of the land , and demonstrated by the clearest

    argument that it would heal all tliose wounds under which our body politic was now suffering . The most marked applause was bestowed on the speaker during his address , which he concluded amid the reiterated cheers of the meeting . The resolution was put aud carried unanimously . Mr . William Hewitt read and moved the adoption of the National Petition . Mr . Stkatton , in a few words shewing the advantages of united efforts , seconded its adoption , and it was carried unanimously . A committee was then formed . A vote of thanks was given to tho Chairman , ami the meeting separated .

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    ter , presiueni me Association , declined to act as a member of the deputation appointed to wait on Mr . Bright . Mr . F'otter has since tendered bis resignation of the offi ' joof president , on the ground that he cannot cordially concur in tho nomination of Mr . Bright a ^ the future candidate for the borough .

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    RENEWED AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER IN SCOTLAND . MR . DOYLE ^ S MISSION . LANARK . On Tuesday the 13 th , a numerous and highly re-? S mS M me n wa » u » l « in «» Town ilaU Lanark , nhin / tf t ' ! P > r Doyle expound the principles ot the Land Society . nir

    . james Scott filled the chair , and opened the business in a brief but impressive speech , and then called upon Mr Doyle to address the meeting . The lecturer s speech occupied an hour and a half in the delivery , and was listened to with earnest attention ; at the conclusion he received the hearty applause ot his hearers . We believe Mr . Doyle ' s address will be productive of much good in the town of Lanark . There was given three cheers for Mr . O'Connor , and three for Frost , Williams , and Jones .

    HAMILTON . _ Mr . Doyle delivered a lecture on Monday the 12 th ins * - * e a most respectable audience on "The Rise and IroercM of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . The lecturer elucidated the principles of the above society , in a masterly and eloquent manner , shewing it to be the only plan under cxistin « circumstances for bettering the condition of the industrious classes . The lecture occupied nearlv two hours , at the close of which several questions * were put and answered in the mostsatisfactory roaneer .

    EDINBURGH . Mr- Doyle addressed a largo and enthusiastic meeting of the Edinburgh Chartists on Monday evening last , with tho best results ; a great many of the democracy , old and new , having joined the Chartist Association . We have had the promise of a lull report of this meeting , but up U the time oi going to press , the report has not come to hand .

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    MESSRS . M'GRATH AND CLARK'S TOUR . CHATHAM . Tub Land ! The Lam » !!—On Thursday evening , a public meeting of * the inhabitants of the three towns of Chatham , Rochester , and Stroud , was held in the large room of the Five Bells Inn , Rochester , to consider the objects and means of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . At the hour for commencing business , Mr . Paine , a working man , was unanimously called to preside , and after making a few prefatory observations , introduced Mr . P . M'Grath who explained the nature of the land plan

    in a clear , lucid , and eloquent manner , and much to the satisfaction of the numerous meeting . —Mr . T . Clark followed , and proved beyond the possibility of a doubt that the Chartist Co-operative Land Society was q ' . iitcequal to the accomplishment of the object , which it , contemplated—He quoted some of the most eminent agricultural authorities , showing that the amount of land , which the society proposed to uive was amplysufticientfor the ' mnintenance ' of a moderate family . Both speakers appeared to give the highest satisfaction .

    SECOND MEETING . ADOPTIOX OP THE NATIONAL PKTITIO . V . On Friday evening , at eight o'clock , a second meeting was held in the same room as the previous night , and was more numerously attended . Mr . Paine again occupied the chair . A resolution condemnatory of class legislation , was agreed to , bavins been ably and eloquently supported by Mr . M'Grath , who was rapturously applauded during his lensthy address . The National Petition was proposed by Mr . Willis , master tailor , seconded by Mr . Williamson , and supported by Mr . T . Clark , who propounded the theory of Chartism in a manner which convinced all present of the benefits which would result from its embodiment in the form of law . The petition was unanimously adopted . After which , three cheers were given for the Charter ; three for Mr . O'Connor and the Northern Star ; and three for Messrs . M'Grath and Clark .

    SWINDON . Glorious Meeting . —On Monday evening last , ihe " Odd Fellows' Hall , " was crowded to hear Messrs . M'Grath and Clark deliver addresses on the benefits to be derived from joining the Chartist Cooperative Land Society . Mr . Clark first addressed the meeting and was listened to with breathless attention , all seeming anxious to learn the particulars of this labour redeeming Institution . Mr . M'Grath supported his colleague in one of his usual and effective speeches . At the close of the proceedings several questions were put and satisfactorily answered . Mr . D . Morrison proposed a vote of thanks to both sp ? akers and in so doing challenged any man to come forward and discuss the question with him . The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation and the meeting saparated .

    BATH . On Tuesday evening last-, the large room of the " Porter Butt Inn , " was crowded to suffocation to hear tiie Land plan of the Chartists explained by Messrs . Clark and M'Grath , two of the directors , who had conic from London tor that purpose . Both gentlemen delivered Icnghty addresses which were loudly applauded . A second mectin <_ ' is to be held to-night ( Wednesday ) for the adoption of the National Petition . - " —^«^ f r *

    Great Meeting At Nottingham For Tiie Ado...

    GREAT MEETING AT NOTTINGHAM FOR TIIE ADOPTION OF TIIE NATIONAL PETITION . On Monday evenins ; a meeting waa held in the Town Hall of this town for the purpose of adopting the National Petition . The Hall waa crowded to execss-On the motion of Mr . Sweet , Mr . Charles Roberts was called to the chair . He opened the meeting by readimr the handbill convening it , and requested a fair and impartial hearing for all who might address them . Mr . J . Barber proposed the first resolution : — That this meeting is convinced that the elective franchise is the natural right of man ; and therefore considers the exclusion of six-sevenths of the male ndisAt

    population from the rights of citizenship to be grievously unjust ; and determines that every legal agency shall be immediately put into operation to effect such an organic change in the constitution of the Commons Housh of Parliament as shall guarantee to every adult male inhabitant of this empire , of sane mind , a voice in the election of that body . He said , —It had been affirmed that when the Whigs were in oifice the Chartists commenced an agitation , and when they were out , the Chartists were still . This was not true . He thought there had been as much agitation during the administration of the Tories as during tho administration of the Whigs ; but suppose it was even so ; what did it all amount to ? Why to this—that the Whigs were the

    professed friends of the people—tho professed friends of an extension of the suffrage , while the Tories were the avowed enemies of all reform ; and , therefore , the people were justified in commencing agitation durinq the administration of the Whigs , in order to show to the country , that the Whigs arc not really tho friends of the people . He was , in opinion , opposed to petitioning . He would not petition if there were any other means by which ' , the people eould make themselves heard in the House of Commons ; but as there was not , he was willing to give up his opinion for the general good . He believed , that if the whole of the working classes were to sign petitions to Parliament , the Government would take no notice of them . Why ? because they were not

    powerful , thpy were not wealthy , they were not capitalists ; and , therefore , their petitions were treated with contempt . Wealth , now-a-days , is power . There had been an illustration of that during the last session . The Anti-Corn Law Leage forced the Government into a compliance with their wishes because they were wealthy . He contended that the working classes , if they were well informed—if they were united—would produce wealth for themselves instead of for those who used it to oppress them , and then they could force their claims upon any Government . This was a land of Bibles and parsons . There were whole armies of parsons going forth to teach man his duty to his fellow , yet the greatest amount of misery and destitution existed . If the parsons were

    sincere , why did thuy not set about in real earnest to bring about a better state of things ? why did they not set about remedying the social condition of the people ? They preached against worldly riches ; but they take the . " dangerous stuff themselves , and leave the heaven lor you . " If tho people had political power , they would nofc have bishops with their tens of thousands a-year composing prayers for the people to offer up to Almighty God , to avert a famine they themselves had created . It was said that property would be insecure if the people had the franchise . 'This was all nonsense . In democratic states property waa as secure as in England . lie thought that if the people had political power all classes would bo banished .

    Mr . Gregory seconded the resolution . Ho said , that truth was " mighty—it was all powerful ; truth was j making rapid strides , and ha was confident would ' . ; ultimately prevail . The people wore becoming moral sober , more thinking ; a better spirit existed amo- « g them . He wished thoy would forsake the pub'jw * house . He did not like iings , but ho should lih » to see Foargus O'Connor king for one month , in . ordcv that he might level tho " gin palaces . " -Mr . Sweet proposed the second resolution :. » - That it is the opinion of this meeting , that t '^ e Bill en . titled the People ' s Charter is an embodiment of the principles of equal representation , with details for securing their beneficial operation ; this meeting tb jerefora agrees to the presentation of a National Petitic / ., praying Parliamcut to render the document aforesaid a statute of

    this realm . He said , —We have met en an imryortant occasion . Petitioning is the only means by w > iiich wo can make our cause known . All underitood the People's Charter ; but if there should be some who did not , he trusted they would before t '^ ey left the meeting .

    Great Meeting At Nottingham For Tiie Ado...

    The Whigs formerly advocated the same principles which we now advocate ; wo had carried them to power when they were driven out during the agitation of the Reform Bill . They had promised if we would support them , if we would strengthen them while they had got their pet measure—till they got the wedge in—that they would , when they had got the wedge fairly in , take care it should be driven fairly up ; but when they got in what did they do ? Why , they gave the people bullets and cold steel , and to Ireland a Coercion Bill . It was the duty of every honest man to oppose the Whigs ; for his own part , he would oppose them to the death . We ought not to ; give up the advocacy of our opinions it ° it should lead to the dungeon and the scaffold . Tho right of cit-zenship ought not to be withheld from

    any man . It we are deprived of the ris-ht of citizen ship , we have no right to be called upon to perforin citizen s duties . He would now read to them the opinions of tho judges of the law in reference to the People s Charter . Mr . Sweet here read the opinions ot Baron Rolfe , Judge Aldcrson , and others , commenting on them as he proceeded ; and lastlv , the opinions ot O'Conueil , who said , that one who v . as not a Chartist was either a knave or a fool . He believed that twelve months was long enough to keep a bad servant . As to Payment of Members—why , it any one , when we had got the Charter , could do without his salary , he could give it to the poor of the parish , it there should be any poor at that time , lie would advise the people to rally round the members

    torl-insbury . Let them support them . Let them send at the next general election twelve staunch men to support their own Duneombe , and then he imagined we should be able to do something in the House ot Commons ; then we should be able to drive in the wedge ourselves . Our Duneombe . with his » alhmt band , would be « ble to stop ail business , if the Government did not attend to the desires of the people . l hey would bo able to move amendment after amendment ; each speaker might occupy six or jpv eu hours , and if the other members did not like it they might goto bed . He advised the people to keep out of the alehouses , and buy land with tho money—to join the National Chatrist U-operative Land Society , and then we should suon be in a position to bid defiance to our enemies .

    Mr . Topham briefly seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously . _ Mr . Souier then came forward to m ve the adoption of the petition . He had made a solemn vow never to petition again ; but circumstances ompclled him to petition once more . The Barons of Runnymede petitioned with their swords in their hands ; he did not wish to advise the people , to do likewise . He believed that the people could gain their object without any such means . The bishops and parsons told them to put their trust in God , while thev roobed . The press could do nuic / l for tJjcn ) , jf f & were honest ; if the press would advocate the cause oi toe people , we should not be long without the Charter .

    Mr . Woodward then asked , whether the petition emanated from a National Convention , or from onlv a traction of the people ' s representatives . Mr . Woodwardi . also made some observations relative to some remarks made by Mr . Barber about the Stockingers Ticket Bill of last session .. Mr . Barber , in endeavouring to show the hurrying sort of legislation for the working classes , made remarks about the bill ¦ md its inefficiency . Mr . Barber , ' in reply , said , that if the petition did not emanate from a Convention of the whole people , it was their own faults , as they might Have sent delegates if they would . The petition was no less a

    national one on that account . It was before the whole people , and therefore was , in the truest sense , a national petition ; the whole people had the power , if they had the will , to sign it . With respect to the Ticket Bill—if the Government had received proper information , it only showed the more their incapacity to gov-.- ™ . The Ticket Bill was like all other laws , it required hundreds of lawyers to explain it . It the people had the power to make Jaw ? , he had no doubt they would be plain and easy , and would not require any vampires , such as lawyers are , to explain them . There was the greatest good feeling towards Mr . Woodward .

    A vote of thanks was then given to the mayor for the use of the hall , and one to the Chairman ; three cheers were given for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; three for F . O'Connor and the Northern Slar : am ! three for Duneombe . The greatest enthusiasm prevailed during the proceedings . We never had a meeting better attended in this place , though only addressed by our own townsmen .

    The Great Britain'.—All The Attempts'whid

    The Great Britain' . —All the attempts ' whid

    Have Been Made To Float, The Groat Brita...

    have been made to float , the Groat Britain having failed , the general conclusion seems to be that tho total loss of this splendid vessel is now inevitable . Lieut . Gabriel of the Royal Navy , is , however , differently impressed . He thinks she may he released irom her present position . Having taken an active part in the rescue of her Majesty ' s steamer Gorgon , the opinion of this officer is entitled to respect . ' There can be no doubt , " he says , in a letter to the Northern Whig , " in the minds of any scientific men , but that she may be saved , and that without

    trusting to the treacherous spring tides . Every person who hns visited her has expressed his douots aa to her ultimate fate ; and the general opinion appearing t- > prevail is , that she may be give nup as a total loss . From the first moment I was made acquainted with the exact position of the Great Britain , 1 stated that she could be got off ; since which , my opinion has not been altered one iota ; and the more I see , the more I am convinced , that it ' it is the general wish of the parties concerned in her fate , she may be again afloat . My plan of proceeding with respect to this ship is founded on purely scientific principles . "

    Storm is r kaxck . —The Marseilles mail of the 16 th arrived in Paris one day later than usual . There was a violent storm on the evenings of the lfth and 18 th , and the rising of the Loire carried away the suspension bridges of Saint-Just , d'Aiidrezicnx , and Montroad . Several houses were washed down , and it is said that many persons perished at Andrczieux . The communication was interrupted at llelbigny ( on the road from Paris to Marseilles ) and the plain ot Forez inundated . Suicide . —On Tuesday , a middle-aged man , name unknowm ran down itobert Street , aud deliberately plunged himself into the water in the lock at the north end of the Prince ' s Dock , Liverpool , He was taken out almost immediately and conveyed to the receiving-house , where he died in tho course of half an hour .

    BuiiGiAny . —Between eleven o ' clock on Tuesday night and seven o ' clock on Wednesday morning , a daring burglary was committed in iBird-court ,. Walbrook . The robbery was effected by opening the door of the room on the second floor , in the occupation of Mr . Needle , the landlord of the house , which is let out in offices , and the thieves succeeded in carrying off a brass bound mahogany writing desk , upon which was a brass plate , engraved with Mr-Needle ' s initials , " W . N . " , and which contained notes and gold to the amount sf . £ 300 , as also valuable memoranda . It is supposed that the robbery has been effected by some persons well acouainted with the premises . Unfortunately , the numbers of the notes have not been at present ascertained . Oldham . —On Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) Mr . Daniel Donovan will lecture in the school-room of the Working Man's Hall , at six o ' clock in the evening .

    Ireland

    IRELAND

    The Repeal Association.. The Weekly Meet...

    THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION .. The weekly meeting at Conciliation (!) Hall was . very thinly attended , the chair was taken by . J . M . M'Donncll , Esq ., M . P . for Mayo . Mr . John O'CosmklIi submitted- the usual letter from his father to the meeting . It requested " My . dear ltay" to add to the subssriptions of the week . £ i for himself and his three sons ; utrg ' ing the necessity for the national committee iu Dublin , vsdiich . he regretted had not been taken up by the landlords ; and gave the usual cut at the Young , Ireland r ^ arty . The Hon . Wt . Lawless & ien defended himself ,. in reply to certain charges levelled against him . by . Miv O'Neill at ? , former maeting .. After which My ., O'Neill made a speech , declaring his perfect satisfac tion with the- cxplanationof Mr .. Lawless . The two worthies then went through the fare * - of shaking bands . The reni waa annoaneed to . be M 7 A

    r-OPUiAB . DISeONIBST . Dubun , Oct . 1 &— -The proceedings of a baronial sessions , held this week ia the country of Wexford furnielL another instance- of the difficulties , which beset * even the best mentioned proprietors , and Wffieford can boast of a more than avarage sharo of such , in their endeavours to ameliorate the condition , of tha peasantry .. At the sessions in question a sum , of 4-30 , 00 ft- was passed , half of which for work ? calculated to afford immediate employment , and the remainder for drainage . Liberal wages wore promised , and all went off satisfautorialy until the day . ** business had concluded , and magistrates mid other gentlemen assembled had gone away , when , savs the report in the local paper , — ;

    A numbur of poor men who remained became loud in complaining of their privations , and desiring to know from the public officers what had been done for their relief . One man spoke at some length , mingling menaces with expressions of disappointment . They were not , ho said , in a condition to wait any longer for employment , They had no food for themselves or for their families . They were honest men , and were willing to earn the price of food , if they could get it for earning . But , if thoy could not get it for earning , they must take it where they could find it . The gentlemen were now gone , without having done anything to afford them support for this day or the nest . But they could follow them , aud tell them that th « y must have support in one way or anotherthat , unless they got it for their labour , they must have it at all events , Mr , Doyne was now gone .

    The Repeal Association.. The Weekly Meet...

    A Voice jjbehind . —He slipped away before the da k ame ; and . 'o did Bolton . Another Voice . We must go to them , and bring them to their business . We want food , and we must go where it is . There h no uso in looking for it where it is not , Tho first speaker continued . —ne s . iid , they might oetter be transported to the wilds of Siberia , or to anv of tiiemortdcaolatB regions of tho eartb , than doomed to » , M r a Ti thelr o ™ c ° ™ t < -y- Even where they Tnli "I ??? ° Jment ' theip W , S eS are ' ttot «« fc » ' » t < 0 if ¦ 1 , ? tl , 0 Se ^"'""" S on tn « n . «« « as "to . « £ irff 5 ( , ' a-riay : "a t he would pivo that up . Ilesotabutofcat . toocsurejbut wluu could any man who had ttWiJe and children to provide for do with 5 d . a-day , particularly as prices were now *

    Captain Dyer . —1 ou say , my friend , that vou have only 5 d . a-day . Nrnv , I ant happy to tell ' you that , after a few days more , we will be able to give Is , fid , a-dny io eveiy man who is able to do a good day ' ^ work . The govern , meat are doing all in their power to provide for you ; and if you have patience only a few days , you will have plenty of employment , and at good wages tuo . The man s « Jd it was hard for" tliem to have patience while tlu-y were themselves starving , and saw their wives and children starving around them . Tln-y expectadtli . it the gentlemen woald have done s ^ -instliing for them that diiy ; bat now they were told ttey must wait loniier . How coald they wait ? Gentlemen who knew noiliing of hunger might uasily 3 ul ! the hungry man to % vait . Uut if he waited in hunger , it must be only for death . Thoy would not wait . The gentlemen ought to have done something for them before tlwv went away .-

    Mr . Fausell The gentlemen are doing all in their power . We nrv doing as-much as we are a We , and nioiQ thnn you aro aware of . That gentleman f-G > iptv .: n Dyer ) neither went in bed nor eliwcd hU eyi-s the night before hist , iind I slept but two hours this morning . We are doing everything that men can do for you j and , if you c : in only have ;> atU'ne ' . * tor or . « wetls or tun d : t \ e , you will get both work aad wages to support yui-.-A VulOE . —If we wait for ten days there will not be a grain of corn left in llie country ; . all will be sent to Wexford or Custlehridge . The man nvio 5 ia » l spoken fiiat exulnimoC that they would nut allow the corn t > i be fallen out of the country . Thud—1 a grain would they let go : and tln-y would go now to look for food where it was to be had . IF they got work they were willing to earn j but they must have food whether they got work or not . They all then left the room

    It must not be supposed that those incitements to discontent ' are only to he found in' the letters or speeches of the priests of Mayo and Gorlc . In precisely a . similar spirit is conceived an article which appears in the Custlebar Telegraph . Lord John Russell , your advent of power is indeed an unhnj » py one tor poor Ireland ; far Uifturent was tlia ti'oatmontof your cleai ' -giiihtal predecessor , Hiv Hobwt Pdel . II- sought not the aid of a party in the time of Ireland ' s starvation iu the year just past ; lie saw at once that , as the first adviser of his Sovereign , he must meet the crisis like u man , and , though upon . everal occasions we look exception ? , to his proceedings , still we must do biiujustico by savin / he sent us 1 ' sod , and ho kept the Dragoons to himself ! Lcrd John llussell , you have acted afar different part—influenced by such men as

    hord l . ui-an , n liigntied Tory , to gratify them , you send us the dragoons ; but you keep the food from the starving people . What are the IrWh to think of that government who preach plenty to the poor while they close their stores upon starving millions 1 What are we to think of those who have left th » country dependent upon sptculators for food , while tln-y permit food to be carried oft to France and Holland , and by this suicidal actraihe the markets in the very depots from which our merchants were to draw their supplies ? Psh :. w ! the Whigs were « ver the enemies oflrehiiid—And onr will bo , no matter what their profession maybe . Of two evils we woull choose the least , and by all means give us-Sir Itobert Peel , a statesman of courage and action — a statesman who knows lion- to take the nation out of its present OiUi culties—a statesman who will not keep the food of the

    p .-ople under lock and key while the poor lire left to die by the ditches along Ihe highways , or else have recourse to plundering their neighbours , by killing their cattle to use them for food . Such tinkering as this was not known in Sir Robert Peel ' s days—it was re .-orved for Lord John and his co-partners . We regret bein ^ obliged o make these remarks ; they are forced upon us by beholding the poor actually staggering in our streets for want of food , and crying for work , which they are not „ ettlng ; while we behold Sappers and Miners ( hurried rom England at the dead hour of night , so pres-iug was be emergency considered ) walking up and down our streets , as if they bad no oilier business but to divert- tho hunger of starving Paddy by gazing on thein as they pnss by . Again , we are favoured with the presence of those

    fine men , the Enniskillen Dragoons , who have been-sent here by the Whig government to assist tin . . armers to eat up their grain crop . They arc bravclooking men , and we fancy the heroes of Waterloo , if any of them still grace the troops in Mayo , we find it not altogether the part of a noble bearing on the duty of men who shed lustre on England ' s banners on the lotl of June , to Stain their blades with the blood of a starving populace . Again , vre behold troops passing through our strrcts , and billetted upon the inhabitants , on their route to c ? her localities in Mayo ; this warlike preparation while the agents on estates are holding offices in the town for tho collecting of rents ! And all this , as we before hav stated , while the pcoplcare kipt idle ! While the people are left to die ! Oh , fatalhumbug— oh , unstatesmanlike delusion I

    Tho Limerick Examiner sings to the same tune , thouuh in notes somewhat h ^ s harsh than its western contemporary : — However unpalatable it may be , we ; ire bound to repeat our loudest condemnation of the manner in which the emergency of the moment has been met . The first extiMordinary baronial ses-ions under tlielOtli of Victoria for the county of Clare hcid at Drondford on the Kth of September ,, now one month ago 1 At tliose sessions it was eonsidered necessary 11 pass a num . her of presentments , amounting to iMti . uQD . Up ta the beginning of this week not a man had been Set to work in that dUtriet , and when a few were employed , they turned out against the 3 d . a-day , which they said , andsaid truly , was no more than half sufficient to buy footl at the present rates . The same storv may be justlv told of the

    entire country , whilst the Udious and irksome funns which imperial legislation and centralisation impose are being complied with , the starving labourers of . the different localities can with the greatest difficulty be restrained from committing acts of outrage , violence ; . and plunder . The engineer must report . The Board ot ' Works must consider and deliberate . The results ot' the wise saws of Sir Randolph llout ' n and Co . must be trans , initted to the Treasury . These voluminous commuuications must be yawned over by some Irish-hnting , Irishcundng pampered official . This gentleman is-in no hurry , and returns the correspondence perhaps-to amend some f ' onn , ( ill up some blanks , or make a verbalnlteration . Is not this all literally true , whilst the frame .

    work of society is roeked to its ventre by tumultuous assemblages of peasantry * And yet we arc accused of making ungenerous , inflammatory , and baseless attacks , ' bi'eausu wearo impelled by . public duty to condemn the imbecility of those who- have the control of public ailairs ! Yes , we repeat our expressions of indignation- at the clumsy , and ineflieienS rnaum-r , of transacting the public business with which the Whigs aie chargeable . Wc belli ve thoy are not ( . qual to . the al-irmlng emergency which has arisen , and we consider that it would be » blessing to the nation if . Sir Itobert l ' oid wire at the lielni to guide the vessel of statu through the difficulties and dangers that surround us . In making this declaration we but mirror the opinions-of the great majority of . the population .

    Tho following is from another southern authority , the fforJi Examiner : — Whilst we write we have before us accounts fearful indeed , and appalling to the stoutest hearts . Death is striking down the people , and careering over the land with lethal strides * Ilow many c ' slldren ; and siiicken women die away in the remoteness of inland disiriats , in their mountain : home , unknown , -jnqonr forted , ami unpltied ,. save by . some bereaved parent or . husbaial „ it is impossible to . telly . but when strong ; men yield'up . their spirits-in tho faos-of the public , cad become ? tiiiV . -ned iu death from the-most fearful of iiU . visit : iii" ! A « ,. it i ! > high timo to cry oojtagain . it llie tardy . anil , mm-ij . 'i . v i irons of those in . high : places , who plan ,. or . philvwiipbi & i ' , while hunger is doing its work . We give to-day ihe deal / is from starvations ,. of one man in SUH-bereen , m t » o . h » C-. istleiflven , of ous-in Macrooin , of aye in the uonnty o : Clare ,

    and the lo 45 s » of the llev . Mr . . Jl- . llale , t-Viailing accounts of numerous deaths from aMUe cause :-n , > i » yi > . Where , in the usni & of God and hniv , v"n : ty , anv the i-npovted provUions . Su !! - the people—tha wages o : i labour to feed tho crying wretches in their dark , hovel " ,, w-Jio . IiSt their lVar . ful and ; cadaverous faces to heaven , lot thaumrcy tlcniid them here by their rulerj-and nntv . i-nlgu : nilimis au ; l protectees ! Wo are sick of l : sti'iiir ^ r , to all ihe details of a inic & inery , that is to b » , ftu ) 'r , ocar : n , g _ foi . sd—of non-ints ,-. fereaco with free trade in provVivns—oi' the slang of engineering martinets ~ eO «< rov . bg . comrusssiouers who do Untiling—Of ignorant or mil ) icient- boards who wii ; a voluminous letters—anil tlij qupekjexy of governmental or individual wisdom , whi ., h , set diy . ni in good set terms , : meet the public 3 > . e , tind eagsije th . * public ear every day ; while all the time ruin aud . slarvH & i > n are allowed to run . riot among titopopuhttion , and ( Vjath iti its most hideous forms lays low . its victim .

    Under ihe haul of "State of tho country , " and the first in order of a smes at' extracts defc !« iiis : g the progress of distress in the jmviiu-cs , ilns I ' ilot gives the following instance of the ell ' t-cts of the huninc : yaiLLir-SToWN , Tuesday , Oft . 13 . —This day I was interned , on the authority of several credible and resectable persons , of a fact which strikingly manifests tho awful destruction to which tho food of man , as well as of the birds of the air , has been subjected . In thentigllbourhood of Bally burney , between this town and

    Jidenberry , there is a grove o f large trees , which , irom timo immemorial , has bun the resting place of an immense number of crows ; last night tho people ol the loc .-ltty were alarmed aud kept awake by the cont . nuous cr . es and screaming of these birds ; and at daybreak this morning ( Tuesday ) many peop le repaired to the place to ascertain the cause of the disturbance , when to their astonishment and alarm , they beheld large numbers of dead crows lying upon the ground , which , on being examined , appeared to have been reduced to skeletons by hunger , and to have been actually starved to death ,

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 24, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24101846/page/5/