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? -lft ? Agmcowohax Dxstrbss . -J —ihelan . ed propnetorsofth . . S SefJfiSre ? ?* - ^ 4 eS ihe ± tf ts as & isrsfis a f ^ fe says - " !^^ dare and MouteaS at £ 2 mliT ^ ^ 0 UrDed ^ 4 ofX Antral a committee of inquiry upon the efflcts of poor law £ Saf 1 CttIt Y ral des ? tution , with closed doors , on n S , T cona { y S ^^ J « iy room , e Surn ?' * ^ atteflded wIth statisticaI * A Anotber local juurnal states , that the object of a these meetings is "to collect an accurate detailed M account of the several burdens , of whatever charactc ter , now pressing on theland ; " and that " a general p : public meeting is expected to come off as soon as the statistical facts have heen full eliminated "
y . Ihe southern and western journals devote much a attention to the distressed condition of landowners a and farmers , with a view of showing that their difiic culbesare msurmounlaWe . It appears that a Scotch i agriculturist , Mr . William M'Rae , who had been for s some bmesetttedat Bonavaree , county of Clare , has < quitted the country . An address was presented to J nun by the local gentry and other residents in the < district , expressing deep regret at the loss of so ex-1 tensive an employer of the peasantry , who bad imparted agricultural instruction by precept and example ; but whose departure had been ciused bv
the continued misfortunes of this ill-fated country . ' " ' fl - M'Rae , in his reply , says : — "Had there been the least prospect of realising an honourable competence in your country from my exertions , the necessity for quitting it would not have existed , but circnmstasees equally well known to yourselves rendered the success of this aspiration improbable , and while I have loseek this in a distant clime , the acknowledgment on your part , that I have done my duty while with you , will ever be highly prized by me , aud likewise be a poweiful incentive to continue the same line of conduct iu a distant laud . "
Generally the new boards of guardians are striking much lower rates than those required by the liabilities of the unions , on account of the crippled resources of the rate-payers , aud the absolute inability of Many of them to pay any rate at all , in the pauper ised unions of the west and south . But in some instances heavy rates are still struck . Iu the electoral division of Kifgobbin , union of Tralee , a rate of 7 s 6 d . in the pond , on the valuation made before the famine , has been declared , but extreme difficulty is experienced in the collection .
• LscrjiinERBD Estates Commission . —The Jfereaatile Advertiser has the following resume of the important proceedings © f the commission : — "The business of the commission is now assuming a very formidable aspect , and , so far as the number and territorial extent of the estates which creditors have taken the initiatory s : eps to bring to the hammer are concerned , tbe act has already produced fully the effect which its authors and the legislature contemplated . However , after the absolute orders for sales , a far ruo . -e important stage has to be passed—the actual sales ; and it will then be seen whether a market can be bad , aud buyers will be ready at such rates of purchase as the commissioners shall deem it
expedient to sanction . We have seen it stated that bidders will not be wanted , on a scale of purchase commensurate with tbe present reduced value of produce aud the augmented amount of poor rate . There can be no doubt that the perfect security , without expense , of a parliamentary title , will afford a very material inducement to capitalists desirous of making such investments ; aud the obvious interest of encumbrancers to secure the am' -unt of their own mortgages will-also lead to a keen competition amongst this class of bidders at the sales . It is , however , rather premature to enter upon this branch of the subject . One of the largest estates for the Sale Of which a petition has been presented , is that of Lord
Audley , in the county of Cork . A few years since the sum of £ 93 , 000 was offered f « r it , but in all probability not more than £ 60 , 000 can now be obtained ; and as the encumbrances are about £ 100 , 000 , of course some of the tail creditors have huta poor prospect of payment . As the estate is an extensive and valuable one , and likely to improve in condition and circumstances , the prinr mortgagees , and indeed most ofthe creditorsareqnitesecure . The great bulk of the property , we understand , is now without tenauts , and several of the occupiers who are upon it are unable to pay rents : but in a short time , on the termination of existing leases , 6 , 000 acres will pass into the hands of the owners in fee , which can be readily let to
solvent and improving tenants , who would work the land at a moderate rent , varying from 10 s . to 15 s . an acre . The Andley estate will , in all likelihood , be one of the first offered for sale under the commission . The Portarlington es'ates are by far the most extensive yet brought under the notice of the comrnisaiouers . They are situate in the counties of Limerick , ' Tipperary . Queen ' s County , Kilkenny , and ileath . The rental " is upwards of JE 32000 per annum ; and the encumbrances on the entire amount to about £ 5 dt ) , 0 v 0 . The number of tenants on the estate is about 500 . The name of the petitioner in this case is James Deiany , and the solicitors to tbe petition are David and Thomas Fitzserald , of this city . During
the life-time of the late Earl of Portarhngr / ra , loans to the amountof between £ 300 , 000 and £ 400 , 000 had been raised by mortgage , with a view to the payment of existing liabilities , and trustees were appointed . The present Earl of Portarlington , who is known as a good landlord , found the estate thus deeply encumbered , but . fortunately for him . he possesses estates in England entirely free from these liabilities . " Ths Mas fob Galway , —The Evening Mail . which started tbe idea , a few weeks since , of Prince Albert purcbaaDgthe Connemara property , as a family estate—a project not deemed so chimerical as some might suppose , and certainly one which would be most popular in Ireland—now throws
out a hint that the town of Galway may become the propertr ofthe Citv of London , and be converted fnto the western ontport of tie great metropolis . Rumours are , it is stated , afloat of some vast enterprise of this sort , and the establishment of an American packet station at Galway is . said to be awaited as the preliminary step . —The plan ( says the J & i 7 , ) ifit exist anvwhere , except in the imagination of the Stock Exchange schemers- is a magnificent plan , and in everyway worthy of such a city as London . London wants an outport upon the ocean ; and Galway , placed as it is at the head of a safe and noble bay , with secure anchorage for vessels < if anv burden , affording an easy and rapid communi
cation as well with America as with the western shores of the whole world , and presenting faculties for internal traffic , which money only is wanted to make perfect—Galway is of all other places the best adapted to become the entrepot of London trade and commerce . , , « Vs Oi » Dodge , "—An address "to the people of Ireland" has been issued by Mr . J . O'Connelh m the name ofthe Repeal Associa tion . After summing op the usual lists of objects for which they are to a 2 itate , hesays , "And we will struggle on for this w the good old wav , by moral , by peaceful , by bloodiL and sSy and entirely legal and co nstitutional Son ! and in no other . For no otherwise caH The Nejtagh Chafe * . Case —This unfortunate aSk ? remains still unsettled . On last Tuesday a SL ? Ltint was held at the Kenagh Independence
llall for the purpose of preparing an address tows oresented to the Catholic clergy attending the Kh ' s mind of the Very Rev Dr . O'Connor PP Y . G . The object of the address vras to get fnSe cteSymcntointerfere with the bishops for the « moval ofthe Rev . Mr . Kenny We subjom the "Sv which theclergymen rctnmed to . theaddre * - « Gentlemen-The very disrespectful and unwarrantable language app lied to Bsv . Mr . Kenny SSSSh-SS fti the address read to us to-day , woTl ipreVentus in any circumstances from taking it into consideration . And while you continue w a state of insubordination to the authority of your uu \ . nT . it « ni h * ntterlv inroossible for us to interfere
in the manner requested . -Ii > i « rary Free Press . . : Dbseebate FiGUT . -One of the most desperate riots that happened in this part ° f , * .. c ° ^| " a lone period , WMurredinaplacccaned tbe lew lree , SrtSstan ^ from the 4 iUage of Kilcommon ^ nd ^ thinone milc an d a half of Slunrone , onTaes-Sv evening . The contending parties numbered SafStSd there were nearly equal numbersnon both side * . Some of the combatants fough . with billhooks and other dangerous weauons . an ^ tone . were thrown in aUdttections , which , told fearfully on Tvere uuw" *« «*•* nnfortunate suffereri , not Witts 8 ™? ff r ? Vtolddu oretoid ftra T FlSS ^ Sd ^ ear fte old castle of SS „ ™ _ 3 Srf , County CliromcU . _ ,
has an account of the eviction <* » f ^ f am u lSltown , inthe ^ * % * % *?& poor , stated that the evicted parties were je ^ P utterly unable to pay rent , or ™ ^ e 'an ' y . itt that the estate firom which they were ejected . » Chancery . _ - _ _ The guardians of seve-Pooa Law v ^ "o > s . g ^ re ( Jac . „! onjons w fcgj J ^ S to the decline tin of the ^^ j ^ 07 Sroom union have rL & po ^ SS of ^ ne-third generally , S ^ e atrifein ^ f anotber rat *
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Mr. Cobdes And The Austrians. Mr. Cobden...
MR . COBDES AND THE AUSTRIANS . Mr . Cobden has addressed the following letter to "Dr . Alexander Bach , the Austrian Minister of Home Affairs : — " Sir , —I address you , not as . a member of the Austrian Government , but as a man whose enlightened and liberal sentiments made a lasting impression upon me when I had the pleasure Ofvouv acquaintance at Vienna . You will find an excuse for this step m the fact of mv taking it in the interest of those principles of humanitv and civilisation which in those days were cherished bv vou as welt as by me . Mindful of the views which in 1 S 47 recommended me to your kind notice , I cannot induce myself to believe that these views will find in you a less energetic advocate at present than you were in the days to which I allude . " ^ "» i ' P » l ' opinion of my country is shocked by the cold-blooded cruelties which are being practised against the fallen chiefs of the Hungarians . This feeling is not confined to one class or to one party ; no ! there is not a single man in England who by word or letter would defend the conduct of the Austrian Government in Hungary . The sense of the civilised nations of the continent of Europe on tnis question must already have reached you , nor will the judgment of America fail to make itself known at Vienna . You are too enlightened to be ignorant of the fact that the unanimous verdict of our contemporaries is likewise that of posterity . But did it ever strike you that history will not accuse the brutal soldier , the tool of cruelty , but
the Ministers who are responsible for that soldier ' s crimes ? I scorn to appeal to lower motives than those of an honourable ambition ; but I must ask you , did it ever strike you what dangers surround your present career ? You , who are so well read in English history , oug ht to remember that four years after Jeffreys' 'bloody assizes , ' both he and his Royal master were compelled most wretchedly to fly from the avenging hand of justice . Or do you think our time allows the public conscience to he scorned with impunity ' Is is not , on the contrary , the peculiar feature of our time that reaction follows at the heels of any violence , no matter whether it proceeds from tho nations or from the Governments ?
" But I fear I take too great a liberty by offering to speak in the interest of your reputation or safety . I appeal to you in the name of humanity , entreating you to put a stop to this new reign of terror , which , not satisfied with the butchery of its victims , puts all better and nobler feelings of mankind on the rack ; for truly the world is too far advanced in civilisation to suffer your Albas and Haynaus . I adjure you to make " a public protest against tho butchery of prisoners , the still more disgraceful whipping of women , and the abdaetion and incarceration of children ; and thus to rid yourself of all responsibility for actions and imprint upon their author the stigma of everlasting infamy . "lam , Sir , your most obedient servant , "KlCHARD COBDEX . "
Sympathy With Hungary. On Friday Week A ...
SYMPATHY WITH HUNGARY . On Friday week a public meeting of the "Welsh residents of Liverpool was held in the Music-hall , to memorialise Lord Palmerston to interpose the influence of the British government to obtain for the remnant of the patriotic Magyars who have , not yet been executed by Austria , a restitution of their ancient constitutional liberties , and of their liberty and property confiscated . The meeting was thronged and much enthusiasm manifested . Amongst tbe gentlemen on the platform were the following : — The Revds . D . James , TV . Rees , M . Lewis , T . Aubrey , S . Pierce , J . Hughes , J . Williams , and J . Jones ; and P . Lewis , Owen Elias , J . Evans , Matthew Jones , D . Davies , J . Griffiths , and G . Owen , Esqrs ., & e . < tc . Mr . Town Councillor Thomas
Lloyd was called upon to preside . The Chairman opened the proceedings by addressing the audience in Welsh ; and after giving a geographical description of Hungary , and the number and character of her population , Ac ., read a lengthy letter from Arthur James Joannes , Esq ., in which the writer stated that , although his public engagements prevented his attendance at the meeting , he begged to convey his entire concurrence in the views of those by whom the meeting had been promoted , and his heartfelt hope for their success . The meeting was subsequently addressed by various rev . speakers , both in English and Welsh . Among other resolutions for carrrymg out the object of the meeting , the following was unanimously
agreed to : — " That this meeting , while regretting that a portion ofthe English press , but more especially tka Times and Morning Chronicle , prostituted themselves to the infamous service of defending the cruel oppressors of Hungary , by misrepresenting the noble Hungarian nation , a " t the same time tenders its warmest thanks to the conductors of the Daily Neusnnd other metropolitan journals , to the local press of Liverpool generally , and particularly to our own Welsh paper , the ^ mserau , for their consistent and continued advocacy ofthe cause of Hungarian independence . " The memorial to Lord Palmerston , referred to at the commencement ofthe proceedings , was adopted by acclamation , and thanks having been voted to the chairman , the meeting separated .
Collision On A New York Railway. The New...
COLLISION ON A NEW YORK RAILWAY . The New York papers received by the Europa contained detail accounts of an alarming railway collision that happened on the 5 th inst . We extract the notice in the Sew York Herald as at once the most concise and the most distinct , 'A dreadful accident occurred yesterday forenoon , on t he "Sew Haven Railroad , by the collision of two trains . The up-train , convey ing the Boston mail , and leaving New York at eight o clock , had on board in tho hindmost car , the members of the Marion Hose Company , No . 4 , Captain Joseph Buckman , who were going on their annual target excursion to Now Rochelle . There were nearly sixty in the car , including invited guests . When the train was between Fordham and Morrisiania , a drove of about
thirty cows , belonging to Mr . Batbgate , were being driven across the track , by the herdsmen , from watering . The train coming in collision with them , the baggage car was thrown off the track , and across the tract of the down train . At the same moment , the Sew Haven down train was passing to New York , and the locomotive coming in contact with the baggage car of the up-train , was driven off its track , end being detached from its tram it shot off at an angle , and went right into the corner of the hindmost car , containing the Hose Company . It went through it in a diagonal direction , wounding and bruising the passengers in a dreadful manner , and filling the car with the steam . Fortunately tho safety pipe was broken in the collision , and the necessaril
steam escaping , the force was . y diminished . The engine was shattered , aud buried itself in the sand , by which its progress was arrested . The sand was thrown up into the air , like so much smoke . There were thirteen of the cows killed , and some of them were thrown twenty feet by the force of the shock ; hut it is almost miraculous that no human life was sacrificed—at least , we have heard of none . There was a little boy sitting quite close to the spot where the locomotive entered it , who was thrown to the other side and was not injured in the least ; and a fireman named James P Sowerley , of Stanton-street , was thrown out of the window , without being hurt . The other cars were considerably damaged , but none ofthe
passengers in them received the slightest injury . Some of the cars had the wheels knocked off . The followin" is a list of the wouuded of Hose Company \ o 4 : —George Bailey , 75 , Norfolk-street—both Ms lew ' s broken , one of them in two places , and the other at the ancle ; William Palmer , 161 , Stanton-street-leg greatly injured ; WiUiam Swmertop Broome-strecfr—leg badly bruised ; William Wilmott , 240 , "Delancv-street—hurt in the side and feet ; George Hobb ' s , Clinton-street—both legs and hip injured ; William Daley—injured m the breast and back ; John Morgan , Clinton-street—head aud breast injured ; Eobert Mackay-hurt in the stomach , by bein g thrown on a chair ; Thomas Baker , -handinjured ; George W . Brady-face bruised ; Charles Dumonlin , Clinton-street—both legs
" Here we have a list often , besides others whose name we could not learn , moreor less injured . " The un-train was delayed for about an hour , aud then proceeded on its way . The down-tram was taken to New York by the Harlem tram , and Hose Company No . 4 , after consulting together , resolved to return by it , instead of pursuing their trip , and to apply the money they intended to expend upon the excursion for medical aid to the suffering members of their body , as the accident occurred when they We The down-train having been placed on the track by the assistance of Irish labourers , who were workin g in the neighbourhood , it was attached to the Harlem train , and arrived in the city at twelve o ' clock . "
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The -Savigatios Laws .-TIic following reply has been sent by the Board of Trade to an application from some shipowners at Cork , on a point of importance to the shi pp ing interest of the United Kingdom :- " Board of Trade , November o , 1849 -Sir , lam directed by the Lords of the Committee of PrivV Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter ofthe 24 th of October , addressed to f he president of this board , inquiring whether AmeK and other foreign-built ships will be ad-Sedto the priviliges of British registry , after Aall have come into operation ; and I am to ac-SSst ? wi £ t inquiry as to the p lace of Carroll , Esq ., Cork . .
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PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM . GREAT MEETING IX EDINBURGH . In compliance with a requisition signed by upwards of five hundred of the most influential of the inhabitants of Edinburgh , a meeting was held in the Music Hall , Edinburgh , on Mondav night , to receive Lord Dudley Stuart , M . F ., Sir Joshua Walmsley , M . P ., Joseph Hume , Esq ., M . P ., and . George Thompson , Esq ., M . P ., who are at present in Scotland as adeputation from the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association . The admission was by tickets , and notwithstanding the unfavourable state ofthe weather , ( a drizzling rain falling
during the evening , ) the large hall was crowded to overflowing . The meeting , in fact , was equal to any ever held in Edinburgh . Among those on the platform were—The Lord Provost , Bailie Gulland , Dean of Guild Wilson , Councillors Fyffe , Rcdpatli , Drummond , Gray , Miller , Hay , aud Anderson ; Ker . Drs . Ritchie , Peddie , and Kidston ; Rev . J . R . Campbell , Rev . Mr . Muir ( Leith ) , Rev . Mr . Crawford , and Rev . Mr . Somerville ; Duncan M'Laren , Esq ., William Tait , Esq ., Thomas Ireland , Esq ., J . n . Stott , Esq ., Thomas Russell , Esq ., J . W . Mackie , Esq ., F . G . Mitchell , Esq ., J . Musket , Esq ., Peter Wilson , Esq ., & c , Ac . On the motion of Councillor Ghav , the Lord Pkovost was called to the chair .
The Lord Provost , after taking tbe chair , said that the meeting was aware that when he accepted the honour of presiding on this occasion he qualified that acceptance by stating that he should be allowed to give his own opinion upon the questions to be discussed . He had , however , since thought that , in the first place , it would be very inexpedient that he should do so ; aud , in the second place , that it would not be courteous if he were in any way to attempt to discuss these matters with the honourable gentlemen who were to address them , and therefore he would confine himself simply to this statement , that he was in no way identified with tbe association which these gentlemen represented . ( Disapprobation , and slight cheering . ) He did not mind a little of that work , as it was very wholesome . ( Laughter . )
Baillie Sioii read a letter of apology from Mr . Joseph Hume for not attending the meeting , pleading the necessity of attending to his private affairs . After stating that nothing was to be expected from the Whigs , Mr . Hume concludes as follows : — It is painful to all those who laboured to place the Whigs in power to find tliem now against those very reforms which they in other days , when out of power , asserted were necessary to the prosperity of this country , and I expect the people will have to look to Sir Robert Peel and other men for the improvement that is now wanted in this country . But we shall not have reform from any class of political men , whether Whig or Tory , until the middleclass electors ( wLo have the pon-er , if they would honestly exercise it , of forcing on the timely reforms I have pointed
out , ) shall join cordially . I can only wish you success aud unanimity in your proceedings . Sir Joshua Waimslev , M . P ., after passing a warm eulogium on Mr ; Hume , whose absence he regretted , said it would be his ( Sir J . Walmsley ' s ) duty , on the present occasion , to submit , as simply and as plainly as he could , the objects and propositions which the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association endeavoured to carry out ; and he should leave it to his fellow labourer in this good cause to explain and to support them . ( Applause . ) The hoii . member then went on to explain that the object ot the deputation was to promote the cause of parliamentary reform , with a view to the attainment of such amendments in their financial , fiical ,
colonial , and ecclesiastical affairs as should be in accordance with the wishes and feelings of the great majority of the people , and should enable them to reduce and equalise the unequal burdens of taxation . Every Ohe who took an interest in the parliamentary debates , and especially in those of last session , could not but have remarked the extraordinary difference in the numbers of those who voted for and against every measure in which the people had taken an interest . In every measure in which tbe people felt a deep interest—such as a large reduction in the expenditure , the question of arbitration , the question ofthe Irish Church and its anomalies , and the very question now before tho meeting , which was brought forward by Mr . Hume—they
must all have remarked the paucity of the numbers of those who voted on the side ofthe people , and have seen that the representatives who voted with aud for the people in all these great questions were the members of large constituencies . ( Hear , bear . ) Indeed , the effects ofthe inequality in their representative system were felt and appreciated by every member of the community , in the heavy and unequal burthen of taxation , in the unequal distribution ofthe funds ofthe state , and in their injurious effects upon the commerce , and trade , and manufactures of the country . They would sustain the crown and its government with becoming splendour ; they would gladly reward all who had done anything to advance' their country ' s welfare ; hut
they would draw a wide line of distinction between the dignity of the crown and the safety ofthe state , and that useless pageanty which was kept up not for the benefit ofthe people , but for the benefit and pecuniary advantage of a small branch ofthe community . Thev desired to see sucli a check placed upon their rulers as would ensure tho strictest economy in every department of the state consistent with the national faith and the national honour . They would apply state funds to properly state purposes . They would ask the government to look upon the national treasury as a sacred trust placed in their hands for the benefit of all . and not for the the particular advantage of a privileged few . They would endeavour to do away with that feeling which
existed between their nusrepresentatives and the people , and have them strive to rule by affection rather than hy coercion . The association which he had the honour to represent appealed with earnestness to all parties in the community , to put aside for a time their individual objects of agitation , and to unite in that which was not only the most important , but that on which all others should be basedthe will of the great majority of the people . Their present system , he thought it would be agreed by all , was most disastrous . It had involved the country in an enormous national debt , in endless extravagance , in discontent and disaffection at home and ' abroad , and had rendered their position as a nation one of doubt and disquietude . ( Hear , hear . )
The Changes that the " National Reform Association sought could scarcely be worse than the present state of things . They , however , believed that they would he infinitely better , and they were , at least , based on justice and equity . They were based on this principle—that they should rale by the will and for the benefit of the many , rather than for the few ; and if they did not result in good , cheap , and efficient government , they would , at least , remove every just cause of discontent . The association sought to obtain these things by loyal , peaceful , and constitutional means ; and , strong in the justice of their cause , they called with confidence for the support of the good of every class , creed , and party . ( Great cheering . ) Sir Joshua resumed
his seat amid loud and enthusiastic cheering . Mi . O . Thompson * , M . P ., who was most enthusiastically received , said , —My lord Provost : Had I not taken up the cause of parliamentary and financial reform , as I have taken up every other , from the deepest conviction had I not believed that I was competent ( competent , however , only in so far as the cause was good in itself ) to demonstrate that it had claims to the support of this meeting , I would have been led to hesitate by the announcement , on the part of the chief magistrate of one of tho most enlightened cities in the world , that he was to be considered as in no way identified with such a movement . ( Hear , hear . ) I did not think that in regard to a societ y which has published on the wings
of the press its princip les , its objects , its measuresthat has challenged the most searching proof that there is ought in its scope or design that is injurious to the stability of the throne , or the maintenance of our present form of government—I say that I did not think it was necessary to have announced to a meeting like this that the chief magistrate . of such a city was in no way to he identified with such a movement . ( Laughter ami-great cheering . ) lam identified in every way with that association . It seeks to extend the liberties of my fellow-subjects , therefore I am identified with it . It seeks to stem the demoralising torrent that floods this country whenever a general election takes nlace . and whenfrom two to two and a half
mil-, iums of the wealth of this country are spent to debase the intellect , corrupt the consciences , and buy the votes of the people . ( Cheers . ) I am with it because I do not believe that virtue , intelligence , patriotism , and p iety—loyalty to our Queen and reverence to our God-are confined m this country , within so narrow a compass as Sou . wu voters ofthe whole population of the United Awgdom . ( Cheers . ) I am with this association because I believe that the hour is come when true conservatism consists in doing justice , not in denying it : because I believe that the people , in the mulst oi surrounding convulsions—with poverty amongst themselves , and a dull and cold , and msultin" denial of any , even the smallest , right at the hands ot the government—have shown ( when thrones were tumbling , and our shores were crowded with exiles
to-day that were monarchs and ministers ycsteiuayj by their observance ofthe law , by their respect tor property , by . their concessions to their fellow-subfects , afl that can be shown to demonstrate their fitness to be at once admitted within the elective franchise . ( Cheers . ) I am with this associa ion because whoever the degenerate sons of noble sues be that may be absent from this platform to-nightand I do not regret their absence- ! am here to advocate a cause advocated by their fathers three quarters of a century ago , and bequeathed to them to be accomplished , but which they have treacherously betrayed , and are not here to-night because they have" not obeyed the voice of their fathers . ( Applause . ) To-morrow and its revelations , howover , will , I trust , read these men a lesson ; for the hour is come ior the bteakwg up o . f the domination of cliques , aud clubs , and part ' es . ( Great ap-
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plause . ) I know that there aro manv who were asked to-oay , and yesterdav , and the diiv before , to be here , but who have replied , "Have " any of our rulers believed in him ?—{ a laugh ) -is the cause fashionable 1 or is the Lord Provost with it ?" ( Renewed laughter , and much applause . ) They will now learn to-morrow that he is not with it . ( Hisses . ) I hope the cause will go on notwithstand"' ' , ^'' ?^ tt ; r aild a PPhuise . j I do not think that I shall feel it necessary to pack up my portmanteau , and return across the Tweed , while , from the Lord Provost in the chair , I can appeal to the enthusiastic thousands before ne with a full conviction that , ere I sit down , I shall demonstrate that every man here ought to have the franchise . ( Cheers . ) Lot me guard the association—for the association
has been put upon its trial to-night—from the misrepresentation of those who lie in wait to deceive . We seek no change in tho existing form of government . » e are for no revolution save bv peaceable means . We do not seek to destrov the " peerage of the country . The head and front ' of our offending is this-that we wish to have in the Commons House of Parliament a just and constitutional counterpoise , to the influence and power of the other two states of the realm . That is a constitutional object . Wo have not three states of the realm at the present moment . We have but one . My honourable friend 1 ms said truly that we do not live under a government of Queen , Lords , aud Commons . We are under a government that is an aristocracvpurely an aristocracy , as the democratic element
has no influence whatever in this countrv . What is the constitution of the house at this moment—thi > people ' s house—the Commons House of parliament ? Six marquises , seven earls , twenty-one viscounts , tlm'ty-iour lords , twenty-five ri ght honourablcs , forty-seven honourablcs , fifty-six baronets , eight lord-lieutenants , seventy-four deputy-lieutenants , fifty-three magistrates , sixty-three placemen , 108 gentlemen , who are patrons of livings in the church , and so on . That is the people ' s house at this moment . ( A laugh . ) Do you ask anything in that house for the people , it is denied . It consists of 650 men . Ask tho ballot , and there are only eighty that will vote for it . Ask for an inquiry into the appropriation and application of t " «? temporalities of the church in Ireland , and 100 only will vote for
it . Ask for any measure of financial reform , and only seventy-eight , seventy-nine , and eighty , will vote for it . Ask for the extension of the suffrage , and only eighty-four will vote for it . Ask for the People ' s Charter , and only fifteen will vote for it . Now , my lord , with regard to financial reform , there is no difference of opinion . The universal cry is that taxation has reached its limit , and tho universal admission is , that it is injurious to the interests of the people ; that it interferes with industry ; that it paralyses trade and commerce ; that it is unequally imposed ; and that the mode of its collection is vexatious . Well , doubtless we aro heavily taxed . I think , my Lord Provost , that you will admit this , that taxation is not a luxury , that it is not something that is done to give us pleasure ;
and that if any corporation , having the power , exercises it to take money to the extent of ten millions out of the pockets of the people , they ought , at least , to be able to show a good account of what they have done with it , and prove themselves faithful andjust in regard to it . I will call on this audience , to-night , to look at this question through certain High moral aspects . Now what do we pay for government in comparison with other nations ? Ou the other side of the Atlantic they have a government , and they are proud of it . " They support their king in respectability , and they call him a president . ( A laugh . ) He reigns for four years , and there every man is heir-apparent to the throne . ( Laughter and applause . ) Well , they have , a government , and they have a standing army which
they deem sufficient to guard that immense frontier of theirs , stretching from the Frozen Ocean to the Pacific , and to the distant portions of Mexico . And what do they pay per head ? Just 9 s . 7 d . Well , if we go from America to Russia , we find that there they rejoice in a government called an autocracybecause , I suppose , an autocracy is a -word superior to a republic —( a laugh)—and they have tO pay 2 d more than in America , for they have to pay 9 s . 9 d . a head . They have a remarkable government , to be sure ; and very conducive to order , whether it be in Warsaw , St . Petersburg ' ! , or the banks of the Danube . ( Laughter : ) Then , in Austria , tho people pay lb . 0 . a head ; in Prussia , 12 s . id . ; while our mercurial neighbours on the other side of the channel pay 24 s . a head , for—I was going to
designate this government , but I do not know well what it is , and I will , therefore , refrain from doing to . ( Laughter . ) Thoy have got a government , however , and , for such as it is , thoy pay 21 s . a head . And , my Lord Provost , we have a government ; and if the worth of a thing is to be estimated according to what it costs the country , why we should have a thing of superlative excellency—of faultless creation , or without a blemish in its beauty , or . a flaw in its construction ; for instead of paying 9 s . 7 d . and 9 s . 9 d . a head , as in America and in Russia ; lis . Cd ., as in Austria ; 12 s . 4 a ., as in Prussia ; and 24 s ., as in France—we pay 45 s . a head all round . ( Hear , hear . ) In addition to this , there is an immense amount of taxation for local purposes , which would , perhaps , swell tl ) 0 amount oi the taxes paid hy the people of this country to the extent of more than £ 100 , 000 , 000 annually . What
is this paid for ? For government . For any thing else ? No man can say that it is paid for " ought but government . What is the object of government ? To defend the rights and liberties , and to protect the property of all . Under a wise and andjust government , laws should be no respecter of persons . Justice should be cheap , easy , certain , impartial .. Industry , so far from being sneered at or plundered , should be , not in Mr . Disraeli ' s sense of the word , by just laws and taxation , protected , so that it might have free scope . No just government should make any religious distinctions a matter of disqualification in things that are purely secular , temporal , and political . There should he no more taxes raised under a just government than were absolutely needed . They should be justly imposed—not levied lightest on the strongest , and heaviest on the weakest . They should not seek
from him that has scarcely anything almost as much as that which he hath ; and that would not seek to give him who lias abundance , ten times more out of the taxes than ho pays into thorn . Will any man for a moment contend that such is the constitution ofthe people of this country that they cannot bo governed for less than 21 s . a head more than French , 32 s . 8 d . more than the Prussians , 33 s . 6 d . more than the Austrians , 35 s . 3 d . more than the Russians , and 35 s . 3 d . more than the people of the United States ? You in Scotland will surely seek to clear yourselves from the imputation of being such an unruly , turbulent , and immoral set of people as to require an expense ten times greater than that of the people of tho United States
to govern you . It strikes mo that instead of being a country which should have to appeal to the civilised world for bread to save it from famishing , as we have lately been , it ought to be a country which , as it possesses all the elements of wealth , should possess a contented , a happy , and a prosperous population . ( Cheers . ) Will any man rise and say that the evils of which wo have to complain arc chargeable to the Divine Ueing ? No . What could He have done for us more than He hath done ? We have a boundless territory . We can command , even on our own soil , the fruits of all climes and of all seasons . We have bread enough and to spare in tho imperial granary . We arc exalted in arts , and invincible in arms . We have a commerce
commensurate with the globe , with mineral riches unsurpassed , with mechanical ingenuity unequalled , with a perseverance amongst our mariners and our merchants that leads them to compass the earth , so that wherever a human being can bo found thoy will be ready to change commodities with liim . ( Cheers . ) And yet , notwithstanding all this , wo are a discontented and wretched people , having more poverty amongst us than can be found among the same number in any part of the world , How does that come to pass ? We think that misgovernment has a great deal to do with it . There are £ 60 , 000 , 000 of taxes raised every year for state purposes . From whom , then , are the taxes derived ? The aristocracy pay nothing . They pay , in fact , infinitely less than nothing when you compute how
mucn tney taue out oi tne taxes . Who pays the £ 37 , 000 , 0 H 0 of indirect taxes ? The consuming and hard-working people of this country . Not your men in ermine robes . Xo . That pale-laced weaver pays them—that man that is coming with sooty face from the mine , where he has boon labouring hard in the bowels of the earth , pays themyon ingenious mechanic pays them—yon semptress in the garret pays them—yon porter labouring under his burthen pays them—yon engineer that drove the locomotive that brought us to this city paysthem . Where he spends 20 s . in tea , he pays las . in taxes ; where ho spends 20 s , in coffee , he pays 8 s . in taxes ; where he spends 20 s . in sugar , he pays 6 s . in taxos ; where lie spends 20 s . in soap , 5 s . goes to pay taxes ; and when he spends 20 s . in tobacco , lCs . he pays for taxes . Who , then , pays the taxes ? It is the hardworking people . Our taxes come from the poor ; from the men who vhe
early and who sit up late , and who oat the oread ot carefulness , and whose bosom is wrung - by a thousand anxieties to provide for those whom he has left at home . These arc the men whom we seek to have a share in seeing that the government is properly administered ; it is tho fathers and the husbands—the men who work hard , and are willing to do so from Monday morning till Saturday evening , to gain an honest livelihood . ( Applause . ) It is the man who , if he has 20 s . a week , pays 10 s . of it in taxes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , as he can scarcely do anything for which he is not taxed . If not , would his lordship give it a name ? Was it not something like robbery ? ( Applause . ) Now this association was established for the protection of the masses who wore thus robbed . If not with the Lord Provost , at least , with riiany of this audienw thty - < kwM find sympathy lot the object they had in view . ( Hear , hear . ) He would now take
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an illustration or two . Mr . Thompson then referred to the sixty millions sterling which was annually raised by this country , and said that wore this money properl y spent ) what immense good could be effected with it . Every cottage might be flooded with light , every deformed creature housed and comforted , and every wretched and poverty-stricken victim might be saved from famine . ( Applause . ) Hut how did tho money go ? Twcntv-eight millions of it went to pay the interest on the national debt , which was nothing more nor less than a stupendous movement of their practical atheism . Then , besides this sum of twenty-ei ght millions * , o pav the interest of the debt contracted by war , there was nearly twenty millions sterling more expended for the purpose of keeping up war-like establishments .
lie then referred to the small sum which was set down for education ( . £ 30 , 000 ) denounced the large sums given to tho church of England and to the church of Ireland for the maintenance of their religious ordinances , and after referring to the splendour and wealth in which many of the prelates of these churches lives ! , and to the largo sums which thoy often bequeathed at their deaths , ho asked if this was a consistent imitation of him who had not where to lay his hoiid . Mr . Thompson then stated that last session an earnest appeal was made to the prime minister of this country to grant some measure of reform . Lord John ltussell , however , rep lied in substance that the system worked well—( laughter ) -nnd let well aloiie . Now to that , he ( Mr . Thompson ) would say that it doubtless worked
well for Lord John ; for ho had a salary of £ 5 , 000 a year , the amount which the President of the United States received who governed nineteen millions of tho human race—and a house called Pembroke Lodge , in Richmond Park , all the repairs of which were done at the public expense ; he had besides the patronage of 103 livings in the church , and the appointment of all the bishops . Lord John had two brothers in the army taking the pay of the people ; ono who was a canon in tho church ; two on tho quarter deck ofthe navy ; one sergeant at-arres of the House of Commons ' . IIo had also an uncle in the navy , a cousin , governor of a distant colony , a father-in-law Lord Privy Seal , with £ 2 , 000 a year , and a brother-in-law one of the secretaries of the Board of Control . Verily , Lord
John Russell might say that the system worked well . ( Loud applause . ) There were also many others for whom the system worked well . ( Hear , hear . ) It worked well fur admirals and no ships ; for generals and no command ; for pensioners and no merit ; for office-holders and no duties ; for grand falconers and no falcons ; and many others . It did not , however , work well for trade and commerce ; for the rights and claims of British industry ; for the cause of peace and for the ri hts of the poor ; for the rights of conscience ; for the contentment of tho co lonies ; for the peace of Ireland ; or for the independence ol election . In none of these respects did it work well . ( Loud cheers , ) I am making no allusion to men for the purpose of hrino-ino' fchnm into nraminpriflfl for their rlisudv .
'in-O— a I -- --- f ~~ ..- tage or disparagement ; but is it just or right to the people of this country to charge thorn £ 120 , 000 a year for the continuance of the regal mockery in Dublin ? Can no man be found , whose sympathy for Ireland would load him to go there , and do his best to tranquilise that unhappy country for less than £ 120 , 000 a year ? ( Hoar , tuid applause . ) No American ambassador has more than £ 2 , 000 a year ; neither Mr . Bancroft , at the Court of St . James ' s , nor Washington Irving at any other court . Surely wo have something else to do with our money than to pay our ambassadors or attaches for sporting along the streets of A ' aples with Lola Montes . ( Laughter and applause . ) If £ 2 , 000 will feed , house , and provide a carriage , what need have they
of £ 8 , 000 or £ 10 , 000 , when that is taken from the hard earnings of the poor weaver or blacksmith ? ( Applause , ) What can that bo called ? ( A voice , " Robbery . " ) Now , I say without hesitation , that the application of the money taken from the people of this country is a scandal to our religion ; and the parties that do so are a government who do not sympathise with meritorious industry . "Well , then , the question was , how is this system to be remedied . Thanks to the men cf Liverpool , and to the men of Edinburgh , « 'ho have taken up the question of financial reform , the evils of the present system have boon to a considerable extent exposed . Mr . Thompson then alluded to tho votes on various measures of reform during the last session , and asked what then is tho remedy ? We say representative reform . We say that all these evils have grown up under
our representative system . We say that every argument employed in favour of the Reform Bill in 1331 and IS 32 is applicable at the present time . Did . Lord John Russell , at that time , denounce nomination seats ? "Wh y , they exist still . It will be found that , in move than the half of the small boroughs , at tho last general election , there was no contest . And why ? Because there was no men desirous of incurring expense . No ; but because no man has any earthly chance unless Lord So-andso , and the Honourable So-and-so nominated Hm . Then is there no interference ofthe peers with tho freedom of election' ? Why look to those two ornaments of tho opposition benches—tho youthful Grnnby and the venerable Ilerries . Ihoy came ijlto parliament to represent the most noble the Marquis
of Exeter . They sit for the Marquis of Exeter ; and the honest voters of Exeter say , that rather than things should remain in that state , they would prsferthnt the borough was altogether disfranchised . Is there no bribery now ? Yes ; I spoke of two millions having been spent at every election in bribery . Iu some boroughs it roquircs £ 70 or £ 80 , in others £ 200 or £ t 5 tH * , and in the case of Liverpool , it roaches to thousands ; for men are utterly intractable until you hare employed the oil of palms . ( Applause and laughter . ) Mr . Thompson then asked what chance have the popular constituencies ? Tho borough . of tho Tower Hamlets , which lie represented , sent two members to the House of Commons , and bad a population of neaaly half a million of souk ' , hut there were eighty-three men in the
House of Commons , the population of whose eightythree boroughs did not equal that of the Tower Hamlets , and eighty of these wero in the opposite lobby of the house to which he went . He then directed their attention to the return obtained by Sir W . Clay , from which it would be seen that fourteen boroughs , at the top of one of tbe lists , with a constituency in the aggregate of 3 , 440 , returned twenty members ; whereas nine boroughs at the bottom of tho list , who also returned twenty members , had an aggregate constituency of 141 , 493 . Mr . Thompson then showed how tho elections in the small boroughs were managed , through the instrumentality of London ' parliamentary agents , and unknown and untried men got iu to represent them , entirely according to the amount thoy are willing to spend on the bribery and corruption of tho voters . These ,
he said , wore facts which could not be denied , and although large constituencies , like that of Edinburgh , might from their numbers be saved from such a state of things , yet what he had stated was the condition of half the boroughs in the United Kingdom . ( Hoar . ) It was to put an end to things like these that they asked for such a measure of parliamentary reform as was lately brought forward by Jlr . Hume ; and nothing less than that would answer . Apart , however , from this measure , as a means to an end , there wero sufficient grounds upon which to espouse it . It was right in itself ; and that was enough for him ( Mr . Thompson ) . Why should one man have a vote and not another ? ( Cheers . ) He then adverted to the irresponsible character of tho House of Commons , as at present constituted . No doubt there were a few members
returned by large constituencies ; and he would like to ask if the giving of the franchise to these large constituencies was nn error ? Had Manchester cause to be ashamed of her representatives ; or the metropolitan boroughs , of course with one exception ? ( A laugh . ) Their ministers were not , ho trover , responsible at this moment to their constituencies . Was Lord Palmerston responsible to Tiverton ? Sir J . Hobhouse to Harwich ; or Mr . Hawcs to Kinsale ? When Mr . Ha ires was responsible to Lambeth , he was turned out . When Sir J . Hobhouse was responsible to Nottingham he was also turned out . He could allude to other turns out , but ho would not , ( Laughter , applause and some -hisses . ) They could take the liberty of putting their own construction on this . ( Hisses , applause , anil a voice
—'' Three cheers for Mr . Macaulay . ) There was a very interesting difference , of opinion on that subject , and he would not attempt to decide the question . But this ho meant to say , that the electors had the right to choose the man that they liked best . This was not the case , however , with three-fourths of the burghs in this country . Then , in reference to the counties , the £ 50 tenant-at-will electors could not act in opposition to the behests of their landlords , unless they were willing to make sacrifices which few men were prepared to m . 'iko for political honesty . Ho had to tell them , finally , that he and those who co-operated with him , sought the measure at which they aimed as a measure of honesty . They sought to accomplish it by honourable means . "B y appealing to the
understanding , the reasoning , and the virtues of tho people of this country , they hoped to obtain for the unfranchised classes that which they had a right to . ( Applause . ) If the middle classes did no unite with their disfranchised fellow-subjects ofthe working-classes in this movement , it was his deliberatc opinion that matters could not go on long ai they had been doing . Of this , however , he was sure , that if the middle class would recognise the rights of their unenfranchised fellow-subjects , no ministry would much longer delay granting such a measure of reform as they claimed . It was not universal suffrage that they sought , but tho enfranchisement of every man who was rated in England to the poor—who had a local habitation and a name . This would exclude
the vagrant , the lunatic , and the soldier . He granted that this would bring within the franchise a great many vicious persons ; but ho doubted if there would be more vice than existed under the present system . Ho was convinced that there were many who would go from that meeting into
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obscurity that were as much entitled to ca < - irauchisc as any who at present held it ; anil who would besides , exercise it as well and ns faithfully / He held that there wore many such as deserving of tho franchise ns the chief magistrate who presided over their meeting . ( Applause . ) It had l ) C ( . 'll said that the working-classes had been turbulent ; but men wero generally disposed to be turbulent when they were sensible of being wronged ; and thoy met to judge what tho conduct of men would bo when righted , by what it hud been when they were acting under a sense of injury . ( Hear , hear . ) It . did not follow , however , that a bad man would elect a bad representative . They know too much of the evils of their own class to do so . At all events they knew too much of themselves and their tendencies
to put a man exactly like themselves in a situation where he could do so much injury . ( Applause . ) lie was disposed to think that society was not just so vicious that they could not get abundance of materials to control or leaven , in n matter of this kind , what was bad . In fiis humble judgment there was far too much importance attached to tho giving of the right to vote to tho unenfranchised classes . _ It was a trust which no doubt required to he exorcised wisely ; but a man almost every day in his life discharged duties which were calculated to have as great an influence on his fellow-men as this . The working classes were already morally
and intellectually enfranchised , and why might they not be politically enfranchised ? They had the franchise of speech ; they exercised tho duties of father * and husbands , of masters and foremen , and other important duties in life ; and wh y should they not hare a right to vote for tlioso ' who rcprsonted them in parliament ? ( Applause . ) They wore surely as / vcll qualified to exercise it as the people of America or of France . It was , therefore , no longer a matter of doubt or experiment . It had been tried and proved beyond all cavil or dispute ( Applause . ) They had an infinitely better population here then existed in America where the
sunragewas universal ; and what was to hinder tho suffrage being extended to thorn ? The honourable gentleman then stated that the association stopped a little short of the demands ofthe chartist , and went a little beyond those of the moderate reformer , and said that having done this they had happily obtained , the co-operation of both . Mr . Thompson concluded by calling upon men to cast aside party , and by urging reformers to unite and to trust to themselves . Tlioso who were ready to go their length , and vet did not declare for it , merely
because the word had not yet come from Lord John Russell and Lord Grey , should at once make up their minds , irrespective of these parties , for they might depend upon it that they would place them in a false position , for when once tho whigs found that thoy must either move on , or move out « f office , they would adopt the former instead of the latter alternative . Mr . Thompson then read a letter from Lord Dudley Stuart , expressing his regret that severe domestic affliction prevented him from being able to come to Edinburgh . able to come to Edinburgh .
Mr . W . Tait ( the former publisher of Tait ' s Magazine ) , then moved the following resolution : — "That tho inhabitants of Edinburgh here assembled , believing as they do , that good and economical government will only be secured by a largo extension of franchise ; a shortening of tho duration of Parliament ; protection to every man in the exercise of the franchise , and a more equal distribution of political power , through the means of equalised electoral districts , heartily sympathises in tho object aimed at by the National Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association , and of the means used to effect those objects ; and this meeting tenders its warmest thanks to the gentlemen of the deputation
for thoil * ablo exposition of the principles of that association upon tho present occasion . "—lie said he did not approve out-and-out of the Parliamentary Financial Reform Association . His objection , however , was not that it went too far — but- ' that it did not go far enough—he being of opinion with Jeremy Bentham , that the suffrage should be universal . ( Applause . ) Mr . Frru , S . S . C ., seconded the motion , whiah wns carried amidst tho most enthusiastic applause . Sir Joshua Waimslky and Mr . Tiiompsox then severally returned thanks ; and , after a voto of thanks to tho Lord Provost for his conduct in the chai r , the meeting broke up .
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Wreck oftfie Ship L'Europk . —The underwriters at Lloyd ' s received the following particulars , announcing the deplorable loss of the barque L'Europe , of Havre , with the whole of the crew ( except tho second mate ) and passengers , on the island of Guernsey . L'Europe was a vessel nearly 400 tons burden , and was bound to tho above-mentioned p ort ( Havre , ) from Saguc la Grande , Cuba . She sailed on the 4 th of October , and bad a pr sperous voyage till the morning of Thursday last , having safely passed the Lizard on the previous day with a fair wind from N . W . At two o ' clock , when it was blowing a gale from the northward , accompanied by heavy showers of rain and hail , the master , reckoning that ho had passed tho Caskets , shaped
his course for Barflenr lighthouse , but , in an hour afterwards , land was soon ou tho larboard bow , and almost immediately rocks were perceived close at hand . An attempt was . made to put the vessel about , but she missed stay . * , and in wearing ship much ground was lost . Two tacks were made to avoid the danger which seemed imminent , and the best bower-anchor was then let go very close to some rocks in proximity with the shore . The anchor , however , did not hold , and finally , about half-past five , the vessel was driven broadside on against a dangerous ridge of rocks , a short distance below Hornet d'Albec , to the eastward of Va 2 on Bay , and shortly afterwards went to pieces . The
second mate was the only ono of the crew who gained tho shore ; all the rest perished , and a lady passenger and her two children . The bodies of the lute have bum - washed ashoro with two of the crow , and wero decently buried . Not a particle of her cargo was saved . The loss of tho vessel and cargo is estimated at £ 8 , 500 . The Guernsey Comet states that the name of the lady passenger was Mmc . Dujardin , from Ghent , in Belgium , and the names of her children Henry , aged about five , and Henrietta , throo years . L'Europe was commanded by Captain Meheut , and she had a crew of nine men and a boy .
Death from Chlorofohm . — Another death from chloroform has lately occurred iu Paris , and has been reported by M . de Confevron . The patient , a woman thirty-two years of age , who had heen some time before etherised without ill-effects , inhaled chloroform previous to the extraction of a tooth . The chloroform was given very carefully and sloivly . When insnisibility had been apparently produced the operator was about to commence , when the patient perceiving herself not sufficiently affected , repulsed his hand and made signs for more chloroform . She pressed the handkerchief to her mouth and made four or . five deep inspirations , Almost immediaiely the face became pale and contracted , the puidls of
the eye horribly dilated , the teeth clenched , and the head thrown back- Ammonia , galvanism , artificial respiration , and other means did not restore her . On post mortem examination no stroctural disease was discovered ; the cerebral vessels were congested ; in all the larger vessels at the base of the cranium there were many bubbles of air . The left auricle of the heart contained black fluid , in which also were air bubbles . The large veins contained black fluid blood . M Confevron refers the bubbles of air to the strong ihsufllations he practised . Ue considers tbe death to have resulted from tbe directly noxious influence of chloroform upon the nervous system . —Medical Gazette .
Narrow Escu'e of a Train at Ciiaiu . eroi . —Ou Sunday last tliVtrain left i ' arnur with four hundred passengers . When within sig ht' of Chavleroi , the driver seeing no signal hoisted , blew his whistle repeatedl y , but meeting with no response , and apprehending danger , got down and walked to the station , where ho found t-iio waykeeper lying on the ground , bleeding profusel y from a dag ger wound and con- tusions about the bend . ITc found also that the J rails had boon removed by some miscreants , who ) effected it with hammers muffled in cloth , with n which they felled the waykeeper , who states that ho o had just sufficient strength , as the engine-driver ir was on his way , to raise his hand and give the sig- ; - ii . il for the approaching train to stop . Had it pro- 3-ceeded , tho consequence , it is stated , would have TO been , that it would with the passengers have been m precipitated into tho canal . Two men are in cus- istody on suspicion .
A Vessel deserted nv her Crew . —Kilkee ,, e ,. Nov . 17 , —A vessel , timber-laden , was discovered on on the morning of the 17 th inst ., off Loophead Li ght- ithouse , deserted by her crew , and drifting before the be wind . She was boardedby the men of a pilot-boat , it , who succeeded in getting some of bur sails into ito working order . She wind soon after having come lie to tho south-west , the ship ' s head was turned to- towards Galway . She passed this place about three ve o ' clock in tow of two pilot-boats , and seemed to be be getting on well . The coast-guards stationed here ; re attempted lo board her , but failed , so the poor pilot lot men were left to enjoy their prize undisturbed , id . There is no account of the crew ; ft is supposed ied thoy deserted her during tho late stormy weather , er , and that thoy landed on the Kerry shore . With a view to collect their webs for silk , 4 , 000 W 0 spiders wore once obtained , but they soon killed led . each other . Manufactures and war never thrne lie ' together .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 24, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24111849/page/7/
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