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THE NORTHERN STARi April 25, 1840.
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AMERICA N WOKKING . ., MESS MOVEMENT.
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DEATH OF AN AMERICAN CULPRIT. (From the ...
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Bankrupts, &c*
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BUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL ; Tho people's parl...
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1'irk at tiik Giwsi'uu-Stueet, Comptsb. — On rlonilay evening between 7 and S, an alarm was
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THE TENURE OF LA ND IN IRELAND . I beg y...
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Another Coal-Mi.vk Explosion* at Bilsto.v, Staf-701105111X1:. —On Monday morning a second explosion
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The Northern Stari April 25, 1840.
THE NORTHERN STARi April 25 , 1840 .
America N Wokking . ., Mess Movement.
AMERICA N WOKKING . ., MESS MOVEMENT .
EMANCIPATION OF LABOUR AND THE LASD . By late arrivals from the United States we have been put in possession of copies of Tvung America and the Albany Fmltoldcr to the 21 st ult ., inclusive . These papers contain cheering intelligence of the progress of the Agrarian movement in the States . we are under the necessity of postponing extracts until our nextto make way for tie most important ,
, and mostadmirablc speech of Senator Calhoun on the Oregon question , given bel «» w , but our readers way expect a treat next week . We confine oureclves tins week to reprinting the following summary o . Eur ,-Dean news , as published in Young America ot March 21 st : — KEWS FROM THE LAXD STEALING DESPOTISMS . The Tribune has received , by eijw » /»» * fjjj ** > news by the steamer Hiberniatwenty-two days ater from Em-one . Your Xorthem Stars have also come to hand . th
TtaBrifish troops iu Indiahavehad a greatbattle w . the Win whirl . aboutSO . 000 of the lattevand 4 , 000 of Seforxmiwerekilledan d wounded !!! The names of the British officers are «*« ¦ «* , and the rest of the lacklanders destroyed are numbered by the lump , as our corporation a-ents would number the loads of street manure dumped onboard of a Jersey martet boat . They are gone for eternity , as well as the 30 . 000 victims who were fchtimrforfheiro wnlaud ! Think of thethousands upon thousands of fathers , mothers , wive * , sisters , and brothers , thus made mourners : This game will po on , as long as the Land-lords and Money-lords of England have five millions of lacthmders at their disposal . It would be the greatest pace measure ever adopted to make an American Republic of Britain , etcn if it cost a flimdrcil thousand lives to effect it . The British Government are trying hard to recruit
their army , aud the democratic Chartists are making the cry of "So Vote ! So Musket !! " rrfound throughout the island . The Land Reform is going on steadily , paving the way for the Revolution ahead . The plundered lacklanders of Ireland continue to kill their oppressors , and the governmini areproposin ; at th « same time measures of relief and coercion , but no restoretion of the soil .
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THE OREGON QUESTION . MOST IilPORTAST SPEECH BT JIB . CALHOUN . The following is taken from Mr . Calhoun's speech in the Senate of the UnkedJSfcrtes on the resolution for the abrogation of the "Oregon Convention : — "Baring been thus brought , by the line of policy ta which I was opposed , to choose between compromise and war , I without hesitation take -the former . In making the choice , 1 am actuated by uo unmanly fear of the consequences of war . I know that in the eid ' -ting state of the world wars arc necessary—that the most sacred regard lor jttitice and equity , and the most cautious policy , cannot always prevent them . When war must come , I may appeal to my past history to prove that I shall not be found among th » se who may fetter ; but 1 shall take care never to contribute by my acts to precipitat-: the country into a war when it can be fairly avoided . I am ,
on priaciple , opposed to war , and in favour of peace , because I regard peace as a positive good , and war as a positive evil . As a good , I shall ever cling to peace , so long as it can be preserved consistently with the safety and honour of tha country ; and as opposed to war , I shall ever resist it , so long as it may b * resisted consistently with the same considerations . I am emphatically opposed to it in this case , because peace , in my opinion , can be preserved consistently with both , and war avoided without sacrificing either . I am opposed to it for the additional reason , because it would be , in my opinion , highly impolitic—a consideration never to be overlooked when a question of the kind is under consideration . I regard it as . Ii «^ wj' "" politic in this case , because I believe that , should we resort to it , we wouia lose , instcau of secu ring the two objects for which it would he avowedlv & clared , as I shall now proceed to show .
" The first is to secure what is claimed to be our rights to the whole of Oregon , nnder the cry of ' all of Oregon or none . ' Those who would go into it for that object fnOjiumy opinion , dud in the end that ' . ioue'is much more probable than 'all . ' In coming to t ' ais conclusion , I concede to my countrymen the highest bravery , energy , patriotism , and intelligence which can be claimed for them . But these cannot overcome the great obstacles we should hare to encounter , compared to what Great Britain would hare in a contest for Oregon . As Ions as she has a large force in the East , aud remains mistress in the Pacific , she will be able to place there a much more eficient force , and at far less expense , than wc possibly can at present , which would thzre decide the contest in her favour .
"Bat , were it otherwise , from the nature of the contest , Oregon , though the cause of the war , would be speedily forgotten . The struggle , once begun , would soon cease to bz for Oregon . Higher and far more powerful motives would soon guide the contest . It would speedily become a strugijle for mastery between the greatest power iu the world on one side , against th : most growing on the other . Actuated by all the feelings belonging to such a struggle , both sides would put forth all their vigour , energy , and resources , and , overlooking minor points , would aim to strike the most rulaerab't ? , and where each might have the greatest advantage , leaving Oregon to be won or lost as the coutiugeucies of so mighty a contest might decide .
"The next object , as is alleged , is to protect our citizens in Oregon . What has just been said is enough to prove hoir utterly it must fail . Instead of protection , war would most certainly sacrifice them ; and that is a strong reason with me for opposing it . I feel our obligation to protect them as citizens , aud brethren , and kindred . We have encouraged them to emigrate , and I will not give a vote which in my opiuiou would ruiu and abandon them . But what Vvtr would fail to effect , would be certainly accomplished by compromise on the line offered by the President . There are none of our citizens , if I am correctly informed , settled north of 49 deg . Establish that line , and we at once give our citizens in Oregon peace aud security , and witli them full opportunity to realize their object in euiigra ting .
• 'But passing from Oregon , I take broader ground , and oppose war for reasons looking to ti . e whole . I see nothing to hope from war , be Us result what it may . On the contrary , I believe that the most successful aud triumphant war that could be waged—one in which all would be accomplished which its most extravagant advocate could dare hope for—in which we should conquer the Canadas , New Brunswick , and >' ora Scotia—in which we should drira the British flag from the continent , and compel Great Britaia to yield the whole by treaty in the short space of ten years , would be disastrous to us . 1 allude not to its ravages or devastations , or to the oceans of blood that most flew , and the manifold losses aud miseries which would accompany the war , They are common to all wars ; but however vividly painted , tliey
have but little effect iu deterring a brave people from a resort to it . Xo doubt these inflictions would be verygreat in a contest between two nation * of sucli immense power , and so situate as to be able to do each other the greatest harm in war and the greatest good in peace . But as great as the devastation and destruction of life would be in such a struggle , they are of a nature to be speedily repaired on our side . The indomitable industry and enterprise of our people , with the great resources of the country , would soon repair the former , . vhile our rapidly-increasing population would speedily repair the latter . War has far heavier calamities for a free people than these , though less visible—calamities in their nature mt easily remedied . I refer to permanent and dangerous social and political changes , which ofteu tallow iu its
train , in the character of the people and their institutions . A war between us and Great Britain , such as has becu described , in which every nerve and muscle on either side would be strained to the utmost , and every dollar put iu requisition which could be commanded , could not fail , under present circumstances , to work most disastrous , and I fear incurable changes , in the social condition of our people , aadin their political institutions . T . > realize the consequences in this respect which must follow , it is necessary to look at the immense extant to which it would rage . It would , in all probability , prove a Mexican and an Indian war , as well as a war witli Great Britain , and as suci would extend to every portion of our entire frontier , including the Atlantic and the Pacific ; th « inland and the exterior , constituting a circuit of probably not
less than 7 , 000 miles . It would require , in order to conduct it with the energy necessary to bring it in so short a time to the successful termination supposed , especially in war for mast ? ry , iram-nse exertions on laud aud water . Two navies , one on the Atlantic , and the other on the lakes—and sis or seven armies , would be required for the purpose , even ou the supposition that Oregon would be abandoned . One army would be required osi the Mexican frontier ; and let no one sneer at the mention of such a power . Feeble as it now is , when paid and supported by British gold , aud trained aud commanded by British officers , Mexico would prove a formidable enemy . See what British skill and training have made the feeble Sepoys . The Mexicans are a braver and a hardier people , and , what is no small paint , ivould constitute the cheapest of all armies . There must be , in audition , one to guard the Galffroutier ; another to guard the southern ; another the northern frontier ou the Atlantic ; another to assail the north eastern frontier , on the side of Xovu
Scotia and S « w Brunswick ; aud another to assail the Canadian ; and , finally , another to protect our widelyexteudi-d Indian frontier . All these , in so mighty * a strugg le against the greatest of alt powers , putting forth her utmost strengih , would require a force , and including tiie two navies , of not less , I would suppose , than 200 , 000 Eta continually in pay . The expenses would be enormous . One of the most venerable and experienced of our citizens . Mr . Gallatin , has estimated it at 05 , 000 , 000 or lOfitltl . OtlO doUarsamiually , if my memory series me . My impression is , that it falls short » f the actual cost , and that 100 , 000 , 000 dollars would not be an over estimate . Supposing the sum of 50 , CD 9 , 00 o dollars could be annually raised by taiatien , a sum far greater than he estimates , and ia my opinion much beyond what could be effected , it would leave 50 , 000 , 000 dollars annually to be raised by loans or a forced paper circul » tion . Sew , allowing the war to continue for tan yean , tLere would be incurred a debt in the tune of 500 , 000 , 000 dollars , according to these
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estimates . Evenfhat . it is probable , would'fall much short of the realitv assuming the sum s tated should b . annually required . It wouUbe difficult totbtunlous in Europe ? for , owing to the conduct of some of the Sutesin reference to repudiation , and other causes no . necessary to state , thefeeling of Europe would , I fear , be generally against us , while our own resources would no be sufficient to raise the sum required without a great deprecation of our credit , with a loss of 20 , 30 , or even 40 per cent ., before the termination of the war , m contracting loan ' s , or in conse quence of the depreciation of our paper circulation . Including all , our public debt would , at the end of the struggle , be probably not less than COO . 000 , 000 or 700 , 000 , 000 dollars . But this is not all . " We would be plunged into the paper system as deeply as wc were in the days of the revolution ; and would
terminate the war with a mortgage of ( 100 , 000 , 000 dols . or 700 , 000 , 000 on the labour of our people—for on labour the whole must fall untiroately , while a large portion of this vast amount would go into the pockets ot those who struck not a blow , nor lost a drop of blood in the contest , and who acquired their gains by seizing upon the distress of the government to drive hard and usurious bargains . In addition , wc should hare the difficult task to perform of restoring to a sound state a greatly depreciated paper circulation , or of extricating ourselves fr-, m it whatever w-y we might—a task which cannot be performed without great distress to the country and ruinous effect to thatlargc au < J usually the enterprisiugportion of the community , the debtors . The effects of all this would be highly injurious to the social relations of the people . _ A powerful artificial class would be created on one side , and a poor and dependent one on the other . "Sor would its effect on our political institutions be less disastrous . Sucli a war would obliterate tho line of
distinction in a great measure , bstween the Federal and the State governments , by conferring on the former vastly increased power and influence , We should hear no more of state rights . The Federal government would then become a great national consolidated government . Our very success would give a military impulse to the public mind and to the character of the government , which it would be hard , if possible , to overcome , aud which would seek conquest after conquest until a spirit would be engendered totaUy inconsistent with the genius
of our system of government . It would then be in the straight and downward road , which leads where so manyfree states have terminated their career—a military despotism . In the mean time , we would have to provide for three or four successful generals , who would soon be competing for the presidency ; aud before the generation which waged the war would have passed away , theymigiit possibly witness a contest between hostile generals for that supreme office—a contest between him who might conquer Mexico , and him who might conquer Canada , terminated by the sword .
" I appeal to the gentlemen who are the warm advocates for ' all of Oregon or none , ' regardless of this mighty liazard , and whose separation from us on this question I regret , and solemnly put the question to them —is it for you—you , who assume to be democrats par excellence—yon who are the enemies of the paper system , and of all artificial classes in society—it is for you to support a course of policy which might lead to such disastrous consequences * " But I oppose war , not simply on tke patriotic ground of a citizen looking to the freedom and prosperity of his own country , but on still broader grounds , as a friend ol improvement , civilisation , and progress . Viewed in referince to them , at no piriod has it ever been so desirable to preserve the general peace which now blesses the world .
Never in its history has a period occurred so remarkable as tlvatwuven has elapssd since the ttrm ' mation of the great war in Europe , with the battle of Waterloo , for the great advances made in all these particulars . Chemical and mechanical discoveries and inventions have multiplied beyond aB former example , adding with their advance to the comforts of life iu a degree far greater aud more universal than all that was ever known before . Civilisation has during the same period spread its influence far and wide , and the general progress in knowledge , and its diffusion through all ranks of society , has outstripped all that has ever gone before it . The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man , aud made subservient to his wants and enjoyments ; I allude to steam and electricity , under whatever name the latter may be called . Tiie former has overcome distance both on land and water , to an extent of which former generations had not the least conception to be possible . It has , in effect , reduced the Atlantic to half its former
width , while , at the same time , it has added threefold to the rapadity of intercourse by land . Within the same period , electricity , the greatest and most diffused of all known physical agents , has been made the instrument for the transmission of thoughts , I will not say with the rapidity of lightning but by lightning itself . Magic wires are stretching themselves in all directions over the earth , aud when their mystic meshes shall ha ve been united and perfected , our globe itself wiil become endowed with sensitiveness , so that whatever touches on any one point , will be instantly felt on every other . All these improvementsall this increasing civilisation—all the progress now making , would be in a great measure arrested by a war between us aud Great Britain . As great as it is , isbut the commencement , thedann of a new civilisation , more refined , more elevated , more intellectual , more moral , than the present and aU preceding it . ShaU it be us who shall incur the high resposibility of retarding its advance , and by such a war as this would be ?
"I am , in this connexion , opposed to war between the United States and Great Britain . They are the two countries the furthest in advance in this great career of improvement and amelioration of tha condition of outrace . They are , besides , the two most commercial , and are diffusing-, by llieir widely extended commerce , their blessings over the whole globe . AVe have been raised up by Providence for these great and noble purposes , and I trust we shall not fail to fulfil our high destiny . I am , besides , especially opposed to war with England at this time ; because I hold that it is now to be decided whether
we are to exist in future as friends or enemies . War at this time , and for this cause , would decide supremacy , we shall hereafter stand in that of enemies . It would gire birth to a struggle in which one or the other would hare to succumb before it terminated , and which in the end might prove ruinous to both . Ou the contrary , if war can be avoided , pon-erfal causes are now in operation , calculated to cement and secure a lasting—I hope a perpetual—peace between the two countries , by breaking down the barriers which impede their commerce , and thereby uniting them more closely by a vastly enlarged commercial intercourse , equally beneficial to both . If
we should now succeed in si-ttiug the example of tree trade between us , it would force all other civilised countries to follow it in the end . The consequence would be to diffuse a prosperity greater and more universal than can be well conceived , and to unite , by bouds of mutual interest , the people of all countries . But , in advocating the cause of free trade , I am actuated not less by the political consequences likely to flow from it , than the advantages to be derived from it in an economical point of view . I regard it iu the dispensation ol Providence as one of the great means of ushering in the huppy period foretold by inspired prophets and potts , when war should be no more .
" I am , finally , opposed to war , because peace—peace is pre-eminently our policy . There may be nations , restricted to small territories , hemmed in on all sides , so situated that war may be necessary to their greatness . Such is not our case . Providence has given us an inheritance stretching across the entire continent from east to west , from ocean tooeean , and from north to south , covering by far the greater and better part of its temperate zone . It comprises a region not only of vast extent , but abundant in all resources ; excellent in climate ; fertile and exuberant in soil ; capable of sustaining in the plentiful enjoyment of all the necessaries of life a population of ten times our present number . Our great mission , as a people is to occupy this vast domain ; to replenish it with an intelligent , virtuous , and industrious population ; to
craven the forests into cultivated fields ; to drain the the swamps and morasses , and cover them with rich harvests ; to build up cities , towns , and villages in every direction , and to unite the whole by the msst rapid intercourse between all the parts . War would but impede tlw fulfilment of this high mission , by absorbing the means and diverting the energies which would be unvoted to this purpose . On the contrary , secure peace , and time , under the guidance of a sagacious and cautious policy , ' a wise and masterly inactivity' will speedily accomplish the whole . I ventured to say ' a wise and masterly inactivity , 'in despite of the attempt to cast ridicule upon the expression . Those who have made the attempt would seem to confound such inactivity with mere inaction . Nothing can be more unlike . They are as wide apart as
the poles . The one is the offspring of indolence , or ignorance , or indifference . The other is the result of the profoundest sagacity and wisdom—a sagacity which 1 ooks into tho operations of the great causes in the physical , moral , andpolitical world , which , by their incessant operation , are ever changing the condition of nations for good or evil ; and wisdom , which knows how to use and direct them when acting favourably by slight touches to facilitate their progress , and by removing impediments which might thwart or impede their course , and , not least , to wait patiently for the fruits of their operation . He who does not understand ' the difference between such inactivity and mere inaction , the doing of nothing , is still in the horn book of politics , without a glimpse of those higher elements of statesmanship by which a country is
elevated to greatness and prosperity . Time is operating in our favour , with a power never before oxerttd in favour of any other people . It is our great friend , and under tiie guidance of such a policy it will accomplish all that we can desire . Our population is now increasing , at the rate of about 000 , 000 annually aud is progressing , witli increased rapidity , every year . It will average , if not impeded , nearly a million during the next twi-nty-fivc years , at the end of which our population ought to reach to upwards of 40 , 000 , 090 . With this vast increase it is rolling westwardly , with a strong and deep current , and will , by the end of that period , have spread from ccoan to ocean . Its course is irresistible . The coast of the
Pacific will then be probably as densely populated , and as thickly studded with towns and villages , in proportion to its capacity to sustain population , as that « f the Atlantic now is . At the same rate we sliall have increased to upwards of 3 , 000 . 000 of people at the cud of another twenty-five years ; when , with one foot on the Atlantic and the other « u the Pacific , and occupying a position oetween the eastern ana western coast of the old continent , we sliall he in a positiou better calculated to control the commerce of both oceans , and to exert an influence over both ' contincnts than any other country in the world . If we avoid war aKu adhere to peace all this will be effected—effected , I trust , without the loss of our free popular institutions . I am aware how difficult is the task
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to preserve free institutions over so wide a spaeo' and bo immense a population ; but we are blessed with a constitution admirably calculated to accompliih it , Its clastic power is unequalled , which is to be attributed tails federal character . The hope of success depends on preserving that feature in its full perfection , and adhering to peace as our policy . Wars may make us great , but let it nerer be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free . "
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DEATH OF AN AMERICAN CULPRIT . ( From the Acm Tort Journal . ) ThePiHs & urga Commercial Journal mentions the death of Dr . Braddee , the notorious mail robber , who died las ! week in his cell in the Penitentiary of that city . The journal adds : — He was convicted of robbing the mails , and imprisoned , it will be remembered , in 18 * 1 , pursuant to sentence by Judge Baldwin , for ten years . Shortly after his incarceration , he conceived theidta of procuring his liberation by simulating a decline of health . For this purpose he would prick his gums with the awls , which were
supplied to him in the vocation he had chosen , that of a shoemaker , and having saturated his towel with blood , was always prepared for the stated visit of a physician or chaplain , with this evidence of a dangerous hemorrhage from the lungs , to which he was always careful to add a difficult and painful respiration . His physician was able , sometimes , to engsga the suffering doctor in conversations , in which ho would become sufficiently animated to forget his painful breathing , but on Ihe instant that he would recollect himself , the difficulty would return . These practices , it is believed , brought on the disease which terminated his life , and he died at last of a pulmonary affection .
Until two weeks before his death his disease had not assumed a formidable type , but then he began to sink rapidly . Up to this period he had steadily and vcliemently asserted his innocence of the crimes imputed to him , but so soon as he became convinced that his recovery was impossible , ho confessed his guilt , and although we are restrained by prudential considerations from further allusion to this point , we may venture to add , that in his confession he lias implicated several persons who had not been suspected of participating in his crimes . It is worthy of remark , also , that the doctor , who had gained an astonishing reputation as a physician , determining , or pretending to determine , the precise symptoms in any case of disease by an examination of tho patient ' s urinary discharges , felt constrained by approaching death to confess that his system was nothing but a humbug . His success in this humbug is another evidence of his remarkable shrewdness of character . The vast income he derived from his dupes is well known .
It is known that Braddee ' s wife , who clung to him during his trial , and suggested by her presence and the signs of afiliction that beautiful apostrophe to love in anguish , with which Mr . Biddle , in Braddee ' s defence , electrified the auditory , had been uufaithful to her vows , and married another during Braddee ' s imprisonment . He was not made acquainted with the fact , and for the five year * he was in confinement , he was fo .-. d of an opportunity of talking about " hia wife and children . " He spoke of them in terms of warm affection ; and undoubtedly his desire to recover hia liberty was stimulated by attachment to them . Even after he became aware
that he must soon die , he desired to he at liberty , even if it were to die in a barn , to the end that he might not die a prisoner . But so soon as he learned the conduct of his wife , he instantly ceased to wish for freedom . It was the final blow to the poor cenvict , the unexpected thrust , like that which extorted the memorable ei tu Brute commanding surrender ; and , poor fellow , he gave up at once . He never after mentioned wife or child , or desired to move beyond the limits of his cell . The mime of his wife was avoided with an iron will , although for the previous years of his confinement it had been a pleasant and hopeful theme .
A question was a long time existing whether Braddee could read or write . In his last illsncss it was satisfac torily ascertained that he could do neither , although every effort in the earlier part of his imprisonment to determine the question was unsuccessful .
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BANKRUPTS . ( Frm Tuesday ' s Gazette , April 21 , 1816 J Samuel Metcalfe Latham , Dover , bunker — Robert Stephenson , Southwick-street , Hyde-park , apothecary-Thomas Elisha Deacon , Comer-hall , Hertford , tanner-Richard Brailsford , Enfield , common-brewer — John iiiggs , Hountlsditch , undertaker—John Burgh Ci aniptrn , Wharf-road , City-road , coal-merchant—John Pace and Henry Pace , St . Michael's-nlley , Cornhill , merchants-Joseph Salmon , Beaumont , Essex , carpenter aud builder — James Clarkson , Burn-ley , Yorkshire plumber and g lazier — James Walker and Benjamin Wilkinson , Leeds , share brokers — William Cross , Weymouth , Dorsetshire , ship owner — Thomas Taylor , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , grocer and tea dealer — Thomas Allen . Littlewortb . Staffordshire , hotel-keeper . —
—James Topham , Brewood , Staffordshire , road-contrac tor . —Daniel Antrobus , Audley , Staffordshire , apothecary . —William Bennett , Welverliampton , Staffordshire , tinplatc-worker . —Wm . Belsliaw , Manchester , licensed victualler . —Benjamin Dawson , Buersill , Lancashire , woollen-manufacturer . —Christopher Stephenson , Colnc , Lancashire , worsted-manufacturer . — Henry Fowke ? , Manchester , sharcbroker . —David Johnstone , Chorltouupon-Medlock , Manchester , joiner . —Henry LambertFitzjames , Walcot , Bath , furrier . —Henry Hutchinson , Liverpool , merchant . —William Kelly , Chester , brewer . —Jas . Robins Croft , Liverpool , commission merchant . —Griffith Jones Hughes , Liverpool , commission merchant .
BAKKItOFTCY ANNUUED . April 20 , Charles Goldsmith , Bristol , saddler aud bar ness maker .
DIVIDENDS . William Attwater , Devonshire-street , Queen-square , dyer . May 12—Joseph Johns , Grosvenoi ' -strcet West , Piinlico , cook , May 12—John Hamilton , King-street , St . James ' s , wine merchant , May 12—Moira Maclean , Basiiighall-streut , cloth factor , May 15—George How Green and George Courthorpe Green , Barge-yard , Bucklersbury , wholesale stationers , Miiy 12—George Perry , Stroud , Gloucestershire , coach builder , May 19—William Tomlinson , Jun ., Kantwich , Cheshire , money scrivener , May 12—John Clarke , Richard Mitchell , Joseph Philips , and Thomas Smith , Leicester , banker ? , May 12 . Certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary , at the place of meeting .
Joseph Henry Nock , High-street , Poplar , outfitter , May 14—Samuel Stocker , sen ., Soekt ' ord-street , Clerkenwell , hydraulic ' engineer , May 11—Peter Owen , Liverpool , miller , May 14—George Perry , Stroud , coach builder , . May 18—George Dardier , Liverpool , merchant , May 14—Joseph Walton , Liverpool , coal merchant , May 12—John M ' Gibbon , Liverpool , boot waiter , May 12—John Audley , Horace Jee , Liverpool , insurance broker , May 12—Issachar Roberts , Mold , Flintshire , grocer , May 12—John Hill , Digbeth , Birmingham , currier , May 15—Samuel Rhodes , Bradford , worsted spinner , May 14 . Certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary , on or before May 12 . James Sykes , Doncaster , hosier—John Joplin , Bishopwearmouth , Durham , draper—William Divvies , Strangeways , Manchester , plasterer—Robert Edwards Walker , Liverpool , ship broker—Charles Rose , Joseph Hopton , Edwin Penistcn , aud James Penisten , Leeds , dye merchants .
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . Robert Hcarnand Thomas Daniel Blackburn , Taunton , Somersetshire , linen-drapers—John 1 ? . Coulsiring and David Cohen Isaacs , Bristol , wire-workers — Edward Ualmun an « l Henry Pahfox Gerona Sparks , Liverpool , commission merchants — James Miller and and Charles Miller , Manchester , ciilico-priutevs — Samuel Hill and Henry Owens , IJolton-le-Moorn , Lancashire , boiler-makers — John Greenwood and Abraham Denny , Bury , Lancashire , builders — George William Francis Cook and Edward Humphreys , St . Swithiu ' s-latie , City , attorneys—Gilbert Northey and Samuel Lang Northey , Tavistock , Devonshire , coal-merchants—Francis Blake and George Tamplin , King ' sroad , Bedford-row , attorneys—Charles Jefferys and Sid .
ney Nelson , Soho-square , music-sellers—William Bayley and Wm . Crawford Newby , Stockton , Durham , attorneys —Joseph Bliss and William Bliss , Thrupp Grounds , Northamptonshire , farmers and graziers—Thomas Lowdon and Christopher Wcightmau , Edgmro-road , furnishing warehousemen—George Corless , Henry Oasson , Samuel Dalby , Wm . Corless , and James Riley , Bradford , Yorkshire , worsted-spinners ; so far as regards George Corless—Thomas Watson and Joseph Osborne , Leeds , woolstaplers—James Hent Summers and Thomas Summers , Low Newton , Durham , farmers — Charles Henry Smith and James llinks , Birmingham , die-sinkers —Charles Cottos , and George Sayle , King ' s Lynn , Nor . folk , surgeons—Philip Vaughan and George Rees , Beviin , Brecon , attorneys—Alexander Kent and John Ferrott , Bissow , Cornwall , soda manufacturers—John Wellington Adams and Thomas Hilt , Manchester , stockbrokers . — Richard Stones and Thomas Hodgson , Kingstoti-upon-Hull , brass-founders — John Railtou Srcaves , James
M'Nicol , and John Laurie , Liverpool ; so far as regards John Laurie—John Peubertliy Magor , Stephen Davoy , William Davey , and Richard Davcy , Redruth , Cornwall , common-brewers ; so fur as regurns William Davey—William Motley and Edward Sorrcll , Hrend-street , Cheapside , Manchester warehousemen—Duncan Campbell and George Greaves , Liverpool , carmen—William Lambert aud Thsiuas Lambert , New Brentford , curriers—Thomas Dixou aud James Hall , Preston , Lancashire , surgeons . — Thomas Dcwhirst and Samuel Hewitt , Bradford , Yorkshire , sawyers . —Edward L-gh and Alexander Bellamy , Rigcnt-strect , wine merchants . —Richard Grcenwell , B . Sacker , and It . James Brown , Sunderland , coal titters . — John Ashcroff , Archibald Fraser AIcK-iy , and Daniel Me Kay , Liverpool . —William Carr and Daniel Goodall , Glaishouac-strcet , Regent-street , trimming sellers . — Thomas Sncy , and Jesse Hill , Ih-nl-. y , Staffordshire , earthenware manufacturers . —Richard Penrose , Daniel Staruuck , and James Shenpard , jun ., Cajoxtoil-juxtii-Neath , Glamorganshire , colliers .
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS , David Weir , Glasgow , innkeeper , April 25 , and May 0 , at twelve , at Ik-ans' Tavern , Glasgow . Thomas Lennox , Penh , grocer , April 29 , and May 20 , at twelve , at Mr . Clark ' s ofiice , Perth .
Buncombe Testimonial ; Tho People's Parl...
BUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL ; Tho people ' s parliamentary champion having appointed Saturday evening . April the IStli , as the time for receiving that splendid memento of working class gratitude , a deputation from the Central Testimonial Committee , consisting of Messrs ' . J . Syme ( General Secretary ) , Stallwood , Hornby , Dowluig , Barratt , Mitchell , Bushby , young , Papworth , and Conoliy , waited on the honourable member for r insbury , at his chambers iu the Albany , and having been received with thnt kind feeling which is a distinguishing characteristic of the honourable gentleman , Mr . Stme rose and said—Sir , wchave been appointed by the Testimonial Central Committee , to transfer to you the result of their grateful efforts , and as they have pre pared and furnished us with an aildrcKS to be presented to you on the occasion , I think that any preliminary observations of mine will be quite unntcensary , I wiU therefore proceed to read that address as follows : —
" TO T . 8 . DCNCOMIIB , ESQ ., M . P ., "Esteemed Sir , —We have been deputed by very many of our brethren of the working classes of Great Britain to present you with this piece of plate , in testimony of their high esteem for you personally , and of their gratitude for your generous denunciation of the manifold Vriongs endured by them , also for your consistent advocacy of theirVights and interests , and for your indefatigable efforts to ensure their complete emancipation from that social , political and moral degradation to which they have so long been subjected .
" While thus gladly avowing ' our gratitude for the great services you hare rendorcd us , we have too much self-respect to give that gratitude utterance in language of flattery . Hence you will perceive , Sir , that we have advisedly placed upon this testimonial no other inscription than that it is presented by the working classes of the United Kingdom , in acknowledgement of the acts there enumerated , which have principally distinguished your career as a leghlator , won for you the admiration of the bast portion of your fellow-countrymen , and , as wa believe , the respect of all . " There'is , Sir , but one circumstance that can occasion us regret in thus addressing you , namely , that our tes . timonial is not far more worthy ( as regards its intrinsic value ) of your acceptance ; and consequently more honourable to those in whoso behalf it is presented .
" But , Sir , we know that > -mi will sympathise with us in lamenting the causes which have precluded us from presenting araoro fitting proof of our esteem and gratitude : becauso in those causes are to be found a sure evidence that tho industrious classes sulfur " grievous wrong . " "Briefly , then , we may Intimate that when we first contemplated the design of presenting you with some testimonial of respect more enduring than mere " votes of thanks , " wc were mainly influenced to that desire by your indomitable , and , fortunately for us , successful opposition to the odious' Master and Servants' Bill . ' But for you , Sir , that , Bill would , unqestionably , have acquired the force of Law , and capital ( already wielding almost exclusively the vast productive power of the ago ) would have been independent of the feeble remonstrances oi LABOUR .
" This great service atone , had you rendered us none other , would have made us anxious to offer you some enduring testimonial of our gratitude . " Unhappily , however , many thousands of the working classes were , at that time , so circumstanced as to render it utterly impossible for them to testify , as they desired , their feelings toftardg you . In proof of this assertion , we may state that several thousand miners were at the period in question enduring the horrors of unwilling and compulsory idleness . because they presumed to resist a proposed reduction in their already too scanty wages . These men , therefore , at that time wera not merely deprived of their own resources , but the heavy burthen of maintaining them and their families , and of resisting the aggression of capital , was cast upon their employed brethren of other trades , thereby depriving many thousands of gratifying their wish to contribute to the Buncombe T cstimoninl . '
" But , Sir , we can assure you that these men are not less sensible of your services than th » sc who have had the pleasure' of contributing to our ' Testimonial ; ' and we doubt not tb . \ t they will gladly avail themselves of some more favourable opportunity of testifying their feeling towards you . " It may be grat : f . ing to you , Sir , to learn , that some of your own rank in society have so far sympathised with the working classes , and so far respected their friend and advocate , that they have also contributed to the testimonial now pre-ented to you . " In conclusion , Sir , we beg to assure you that this ' testimonial' is presented by us in the truthful and manly spirit so beautifully expressed by a poet of ' our own order , '—Robert Nicoll : —
' An offering to the shrine of Power Our hands shall never bring—A garland on the car of Pomp , Our hands shall never fling ; Applauding in tho conqueror ' s path Our voices ne ' er shall bo ; . But we have hearts to honour those Who bade the tooi-M go free !' " Presented this 18 th day of April , 18-iG . " Signed on behalf of the Central Committee , " James GnAssnv , Chairman , "James Svme , Secretary . "
" In conclusion . Sir , permit mo to say , that wc feel much pleasure in transferring to you the result of the Committee ' s efforts , and deem it a privilege to he permitted so to do ; and I am sure that their and our united earnest desire is , that your life may be long spared and become increasingly useful ; that your legislative career may become brighter aud brighter ; that your name may stand high among the illustrious statesmen of this country ; and that your life may continue to be , as it has been , a blessing to the community at large—and more especially to that class which we have the honour on this occasion to represent , namely , the labouring class . Accept , then , these thanks , and humble tribute of gratitude . " The Address and Testimonial having been formally presented to , nr . d accepted by , Mr . Buncombe—¦
The honourable member said : Mr . Syme and gentlemen , —It i .-i impossible for me to accept this generous tribute of your gratitude without mixed feelings of pride and sorrow—pride , that my humble exertions on behali of my industrious fellow countrymen should be deemed worthy of nation . ' . l approval , aud sorrow , that exposure of wrong and assertion of right should be otherwise distinguished than as acts of justice , which the trustees ol the unenfranchised people a < u solemnly hound to perform towards those for whom they hold the tiust , Wlmtwei thanks are due to me for the poor services which entitle me to your gratitude , the labouring classes fully and honourably participate in that reward , inasmuch as their co-oiicration cheerfully yielded , and without which my best exertion would have been vain and impotent , ha * at all
tunes and upon all occasions nerved me for the struggle , and emboldened me to persevere in my resistance to tiie aggressions of their oppressors . The intrinsic value ot your splendid testimonial consists in the deep and lasting impression which it is calculated to stamp upon tinminds of all thinking men—that Englishmen who are grateful for act" of justice , are not likely to violate its laws , and may be , therefore , safely entrusted with a fair participation in making and administering them ; and I sincerely trust that tha day is not far distant when simple acts of justice to the loboming class will constitute the rule and not the exception of representation ; and none will more cheerfully hail the happy advent than myself , being convinced that the first stop towards thn perfect freedom of our country is the
recognition of the principle that those whose valour in arms , whoso skill in manufactures , whose science in mechanics , whose calm endurance under great suffering and privation , whose success in the art of converting our national resources into wealth—in the enjoyment of which they have not , in my opinion , their fair and legitimate proportion—may be safely and honourably entrusted with the power of milking laws for the further development « f those national resources , and with a view to their more equitable distribution . My friends , it is not improbable that your services may be shortly courted by tliQ two great parties now contending for political asceudtiusy , and wheu , if still esteemed worthy of your confidence , I may , as one of your representatives , be called upon-to assume a position without reference to the speculative interest of either ; and if such coursa should subject us to a more severe trial and a more searching ordeal than in our previous struggles we have undergone , relying upon a continuance ol' your co-operation , be assured that 1 shall
not flinch from my share of the trouble , responsibility , or the danger , which the asssertion of your rights null tho advocacy of your cause may impose . My friends , while I deplore the cause you assign for the inability of some of your order to participate in your flattering offering , I regret that you should have deemed any explanation necessary to enhance its value . This emblem of my countrymen ' s confidence , generosity , anil gratitude , 1 recognise us the embodiment of the fueling of the industrious classes , and a testimonial of their undivided approval of my conduct . As such I acceptit ; and in accepting it . at ) your hands , the fullness of expression is inailt-qnatc to communicate . my thanks to the industrious donors , and in commemoration of whose contidt-neo I shall preserve it ; treasure it , and esteem it , as long as life remains ; ami when I am no more , and when it shall have passed into other hands , I trust that it may inspire its future possessor with tha same pride that 1 now feel in accepting it , as a token of my countrymen ' s coiitideuce , affection , au . i generosity . The grateful labours of the deputation being completed , they retired much gratified .
1'Irk At Tiik Giwsi'uu-Stueet, Comptsb. — On Rlonilay Evening Between 7 And S, An Alarm Was
1 ' irk at tiik Giwsi'uu-Stueet , Comptsb . — On rlonilay evening between 7 and S , an alarm was
Mvun Uiuspur- (Jumpier Wtts On Tire. By ...
mvun uiuspur- ( Jumpier wtts on tire . By the time the engines had arrived , the flooring of the laundry belonging to the prison was found to be in flumes . A number of the inmates had ba'ii previously set to work under the direction ot * Air . YYhithiur , the governor , anil they luiii fnrtuintcly succeeded in keeping the lire at bay until ihe urnva ' l ol' the firemen . By their exertions , ihe lii-. j wm extinguished without setting the engines to work , but not before a quantity of wearing ii | Vu . -, v , ; j , li ; ui £ , 'iit » oi : the lines diying , was consumed , a i >!) : tit ) iu > ftii ' flooring destroyed , ami Ihe ceiling- burned .-uvay , as well as the walls being extensively ininvtil bv \ k > action of the Jlames . The cause oi" the hYe . ' ic is supposed , was owing to tlw ovurlioatuig of a close stove .
The Tenure Of La Nd In Ireland . I Beg Y...
THE TENURE OF LA ND IN IRELAND . I beg you to publish the following queries and suggestive notices on this subject . I would ask those of your readers who have seats In the Houses of Lords or Commons , and others , who , though not legislators themselves , can influence legislation : —Would it not be easy to disembarrass land-dealing of much of its costliness , insecurity , and difficulty ; and if so , would not free trade in laud , wholesale and retail , be an acquisition of the highest value ? If there w * is in each province in Ireland u land office , such as those in some of the colonies of England , prepared fi . r the ready transfer of land , what a trade would at once set iu for " the acres , " that rudiment of all other manufactures ! Every one knows thu ngoaised struggle of the peasantry for land , sometimes attended by a convulsive ferocity of grasp , indicating that
to possess ground to cultivate , is a question of life or death . And yet many of our landlords are encumbered by their uiimanaged lands ; possessors of much territory in name and little in reality , they ar « in poverty , an d their tenants are ready for rebellion , And how is this f Because landlords can wily let , often , too , for short tonus of years ; and if by lease , which is generally a boon , it is a compact so full of restrictions aud penalties , that it only invites the attorney and tic absentee ' s agent to use the readiest Instrument of oppression , " the broken covenant , " to torture the tenant ; but even if contested elections , and " reasons plenty as blackberries" were nst here to induce affronted agents and angry landlords to " put the tongs" upon contumacious tenants at will , us , despite bits of parchment , Irish tenants mostly are , in
three of the provinces , the complaint now Is against the system of hiring land at all . My object would be to have liiuch greater facility for buying small portions of land for cash down— "arigith shcese , " as we say in our euphonious language , I would enable a man to buy t ; ii acres out aud out ; it would be better fur than renting 200 ; he could stock ten and work it properly , while , with the same capital , the hired 200 acres must starve . If a man could not work ten acres to his liking and advantage , let him sell and put money in his purse , for at the proposed land-offices an aero ought to be able to change hands at a moderate cost for transfer , and with an unimpeachable title . But as in duty bound we must inquire ,
how would these facilities serve the landowner ?—no great elementary change ought to be partial or one-sii'eJ . First , then , what is the territorial and financial hhKory of our gentry ? Many of them possess large tracts of country , tho arable parts not half worked , and of its reclaiinnble bog and mountain , milci of both are much in the state that the old "Pir-Eolgs" left them . It this ia true , why is it 1 Because tho possessors h » ve ofton but a lite-intorest in the estate , and they will not sink capital on so short a tenure , and on mere possibility of return ; besides , millions of our gentry-owned acres are " out at pawn , " and as their owners can encumber , but cannot sell , they cannot redeem tho "dead-pledge , " the mortgaged estate :
" The cstato runs out and mortgages are made , Thair fortunes ruined , and their fame betray'd . " Could landlords sell on the laud-exchange without notoriety or discredit , their territories might diminish , but their wealth would increase ; they would begin to enjoy the sweets of independence in themselves , and a happy and secure vicinity to a steady and improving yeoman race—their neighbours . Such a change us this ivould be very valuable in Great Britain , but it is become of peremptory necessity in Ireland . The fluctuations in manufacturing trade and commercial relations duting the war , tho closing of some markets by blockade or forcing the flow of . goo'ls in an untimely manner into others , were , with other cause * which I do not discujs in your journal , ruinous to the small manufacturing
capital of Ireland ; and no wonder , when these violent changes grievously oppressed the giant powers of Great Britain herself ; consequently , out- agricultural workers are in undue over-balance of numbers—Jhey are all scramblers for existence ; a race , in general , bound adscripta glebx , and well described by Swift , as " Slaves and beggars whom the landlord calls his tenants , " All " borrowers of land" are in a greater or less degree slaves to him who lends it ; but even though the ' * temporary proprietor , " the landlord under an entail , may get usurious interest on his loan , a general war is being levied against him and all his tribe , and either fiscally or physically , he is ever in a way to be victimised . 1 ask your intelligent readers—are these statements of facts ? and also , will they examine , would a free trade , a cash trade ,
a wholesale aud retail trade in land , bo a remedy « I would not compel land to be subdivided as in France ; no , I would let men accumulate if they chose , but 1 would facilitate distribution , 1 would do away with laws which make a false mind for a intestatu , and accumu ltvte . where the deceased omitted to do so . The law for land should be distributive , when not otherwise devised , but perfect liberty " to do what they would with their own , " would keep plenty of land-trading going on in the community . But how would this affect the tenantry if they becamo small proprietors instead of large renters , if " every rood of ground maintained its man I" Should we uot have settlers at home instead of in Canada or the States of America 1 The best of our peasantry now emicrate ; they uant a real home , and it is away from home they must go to seek it . If industry , economy ,
inU-lli-Hence , and total abstinence from drink , enable a peasant to scrape together fifty or twenty sovereigns , he is s > ff to America ; he takes his mou ; y aud his moral ca , ital abroad , while the incapable and the miserable are tied to the soil . If a tenant-farmer lets bis farm be but half worked , he and his family must be always indigent , and of tho " parra-sashtha" kind ; if he improves it , he is liken Turkish" merchant , in danger of the bashaw , becauso he seems too rich . If his tenure is nearly out , he dare not sink capital or labour in his f * rm—he would have , in nine cases out of ten , to buy it back ; and if he is thus obliged to abuse and misapply forethought , and run down his farm , he runs himself down with it . 1 sayhothing now of ejectments from deficient title , broken covenants , or of wholesale " clearances" made for nonpayment of rent or arrears ; but I shortly point out the advantage ownership would be to the peasantry .
Fbe-simple Estates for the Millions 1—what a grand'idea of pacification ; proprietorship , with all its calm yet onward influences . Our little , but real laudlords , would soon mtike this country the garden it should be . We have now scarcely any plantation shelter . How could we : —if a man wants to put down 200 trees in fences or elsewhere , he buys them for eighteenpomce a hundred , but he must beware of covenants . Can hv plant?—and supposing that licciiu , he has no property in them except he registers in ihe 7 > itbli » Gazelle at an expense of . 7 s . 7 ii ., besides get'iugan attorney to do it for him , and 6 s . Sd . additional . So much for cottwr planting in Ireland . If the acre was his own , he could plant it , and improve it constantly ; the face of the country would be soon made cheerful ; brushwood loppings
would be plenty sud cheap , and the severe laws about timber stealing mUlit be reduced to a constitutional form . Hut farming generally would improve ; cottier farms would become tiie nericuUiirisi's saving * hank , economy would then have as safe and a more profitable depository than it now has ( for full savings banks sometimes only indicate the difficulty of employing smullsuins of money ) . But what thrift ownership in land mould engender the wet days , half holidays , any spare hours of the cottier , and the leisure now wasted by their wives , anil the youth of both sexes , and children , all for want of remunerative occupation , these properties would bo turned into the " man ' s own farm , " and would pay good interest , I cannot hope but there must be always soma so poor that they must borrow land on interest ; and any law tu forbid
ivli .-it is called . " tenancy would be oppressive , aud would stiff permit usurious dealings in laud to continue : free permission for usury in money too would be some economy to those desperate destitute , who will always gamble . Laml-lenders , like money-lenders , however , ought to be put under the best legal guardianship ; those who trade in what is of indispensible necessity to the poorest have always the greatest facility for oppression ; pawnbrokers are well cured for , and their doings attended to by the law . Landlords who have pawned their own estates in mortgages , and pay the interests by giving the usance of tlieni to pin rjr borrowers again , are driven to
many pamtul extremities ; consequentl y , while I earnestly press free trade in land , and cash trade in land 'in the public , I would not despise any measure calculated to make borrowing tho ground for usance as equitable an affair ps " possible . Lord l ) e » ou ' s commission has produced no law yet " to mitigate agrarian suffering and warfare in Ireland . . AVe have ferocities to deplore and be ashamed of , but it is desperate suffering which leads to desperate deeds .. Irish , peasants have no more natural appetite for being Imi g ; d or transported than other men . If land could bo had i . t iiome , wholesale and retail , to buy , twenty years would i'lter and improve the whole rural population . —A" . Dovden , Balldee , Cork .
Another Coal-Mi.Vk Explosion* At Bilsto.V, Staf-701105111x1:. —On Monday Morning A Second Explosion
Another Coal-Mi . vk Explosion * at Bilsto . v , Staf-701105111 X 1 :. —On Monday morning a second explosion
Won Cue Oi Messrs. Lienton Aim L Tmibert...
won cue oi Messrs . lienton aim l tmiberton , where the live men lost their live . * hist week , it appears that about six o ' clock this morning three men went down the pit , and that one of them , a man named Dyke , took the safety-lamp , autl proceeded all round the workings oi" the pic , when everything appeared safe . A tier some necessary preparations had been made for the purpose of forcing air into a part of the mine which had been worked through the solid coal into a gate-road at the back , a man namctl
Roberts proceetlul into tins opening for the purpose ;>!' showing Dvkc some work to be executed . The latter persuaded him not to go , but the former , assuring him all was sale , the two proceeded up the mine , Robert * carrying a naked candle ; thev had not proceeded many yards before an explosion took place , by which both were vcrv seriously injured so much so , that doubts are entertained as to whether Iwberts ivid recover . The purpose of the men . » oin <* into the mine was to prepare it for work , bv foroiiw an- into an excavation , in order that the eombustibfo mutter ncight be driven out . lienee this second catastrophe .
1 uu Mosbt JlAi . KfT . -The repeal funds arc von low . _ 1 . ICJ- iiave ialit-n apniu this wock . The depression is so groat that unkgs something desperate is done , and that , quickly , a panic nmst inCT ; „| v uisup Money was never known to bo ' tidier' in Ireland lidaulloiy iUL . roa 80 bVerv W 1 . L . £% There was a call o . £ 1 per share on Saturday , but very few I'aiU up . l he doings at Conciliation llnll still couunuc , but they arc so small that thev arc not worth luottng . Kvury one is iookin » forward with dread ' <> the settling day , which eminot be far distant . — ittnvn ,
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The latb Dbatm of a Miskk . —On Monday after . noon Mr . W . Baker resumed and concluded an au ! journed inquest , at the King ' s Arms , Charles-street City-road , respecting the death of Mr . John Jacob ' aged 75 , some particulars of which appeared in The Daily News of Tuesday last ; from which it will be recollected that the deceased had been living in a room at No . C , Powell ' s-place , in a very parsimonious manner , from which he was removed to St . Luke ' s workhouse on the afternoon of last Sunday week having been found in an exhausted and d ying state ' induced by the want of the necessaries of life , thou « h at the time he waspossessed of Brazilian and Spanish bonds and securities to upwards of £ 9 , 000 . When found
, he was suffused with olive oil , which it was thought was done for the purpose of allaving the cravings of hunger , but bread , butter , tea , dsc , was found in the room in profusion , but from their appearance they had not bet'H touched for many days . He told the policeman who found him that his bread and watenvas poisoned , and that he bathed his body in olive oil to counteract its effects . In consequence ot the report of the proceedings appearing in the public press , several of the relations had seen and identified the body . Yesterday Mr . Cole , solicitor , of Chcrtsey , Surrey , was present to watch the proceedings on behalf of the next of kin of the deceased . Mr . Jacob Jacob , a nephew of the deceased , residing at Winchester , was examined , and from the evidence it appeared that the deceased was formerly a
gentleman farmer , residing at Box Farm , near Andover , Hants , but for some years past he was an attendant upon the Stock Exchange , where he was well known from his cautious speculations as well as from his penurious habits , lie had not been seen by any of his relatives for a len » th of time past , and they were in entire ignorance of where lie was until informed by the ncwspapeis . Mr . Courtney , the workhouse surgeon , stated that since the adjournment of the inquest lie had made a post mortem examination of the deceased's body , and found the cause of deatii to have arisen from effusion into the pericardium , the result of inflammation ; there was also lone standing' disease of the brain , kidneys , and gall bladder , which would account for liis eccentricities . Verdict— " D . e . l from natural causes . "
Shipwrecks in the Channel . —Brighton , April 19 . —Only three weeks ago we reported the Joss of the "Bee , from Gaole , which ivent down a short distance westward of this town . "We have now to state that last night a vessel was run into about six miles off Beachy-hcad , the result of which , was that she also went down in about ten fathoms water . The crew and passengers were fortunately saved , and tliey landed here this morning shortly after daybreak in an open boat . From the mate of the foundered vessel we learned the following particulars : — " She was the Lady Falkland , of Yarmouth , Nova Scotia , and she left New York on the 11 th of March , with a cargo of logwood , worth about £ U 00 . She arrived off Beachy-hcad about eleven o ' clock on Saturday
night , the weather being pitch dark . Shortly afterwards the man at the look-out saw a vessel approaching , and immediately hoisted a light , and hallooed and shouted as loud as possible to give notice of their whereabouts . Iso notice , however , was taken , and the vessel was , in a few minutes run into , the stranger striking her just abaft the fnre-ehains , cutting the Lady Falkland down to tho water ' s edge . An attempt was immediately made to stop the hole by placing the bed clothes into the breach , but the well being plumbed and eight feet of water found in the hold live minutes after the collision , the crew and passengers took to their boats , without attempting to save an article , and made off for the stranger , which proved tohe the Martha , of Guernsey . The captain
of the Martha remained to render every possible assistance ; and , on the Lady Falkland ' going to the bottom , which she did in about half an hour , sent the crew and passengers ashore in his own boat . They arrived , as we have stated , at Brighton abou-t daybreak . A singular tale was told by one of the passengers , William Holmes , a native of Devonport , Since August last he had been wrecked no less than four times . On the 16 th of August he sailed from Plymouth for Quebec in the bark Ann , and on the 3 rd of November he was cast away at Deer ' s-cave , Uiver St . Lawrence . All the crew were saved with the exception of one , who was crushed aqainst the mast , lie next joined the Queen , bound to Liverpool , with a ffargo of timber . He sailed on the 16 th of November , and on the 3 rd of December the vessel | went ashore on Dog ' s Island , St . Peter's , Newfouud-I land . Having been sent to Halifax bv the
authorities , he took a passage on board the Catherine , of that port , laden with timber for Liverpool . He left Halifax on the 11 th of January , and on the 24 th the vei-sel was so much injured by heavy seas as to render it necessary for the crew to he constantly at the pumps night aud day . In this state they remained for two days , when they were relieved from their peril by a vessel who bore down to their aid on seeing signals of distress . The wreck of the Ladv Falkland was the fourth and last of his hairbreadth escapes . 'Please God to send me safe home to Devonport , you will not catch me on salt water again in a hurry , ' exclaimed Holmes , as he finished his narration . Singularly enough , too , Whiting , the second mate of the Lady Falkland , was a sharer with Holmes in all his perils since August ; and William Cownes , another of the passengers of the Lady Falkland , was with him in three of the wrecks .
Litai . Railway Accident . —An accident occurred on the Manchester and Leeds Railway , on the evening of Thursday , near the Middle-ton Station , five mites from Manchester , attended with the loss of life of George William Molineaus , agent for the company at the above station . The actual cause of the catastrophe seems to be matter of supposition , although little doubt exists but the unfortunate man was run over by some engine or other without the knowledge of the driver . The body was found on the line , quite dead , by the driver of the passenger train due at Manchester at a quarter past 9 , and which arrived at Middleton about 9 o ' clock . It was taken to thfi Ratcliffe Anns public-house , Middleton , to await a coroner ' s inquest , which was summoned for Saturday morning ; and after hearing a good deal of evidence ^ it was deemed advisable to adjourn the inquiry till Monday morning , when the jurv gave a verdict of" Accidental death , with a deodand of ' 2 ^ . on the tender , and 23 / . on the engine . "
Serious Accidknt . —On Monday , a young man named Charles Kent , the engineer of the ' new penny steam-boat the Cricket , went into the starboard , paddle-hra for the purpose of doing something to the wheel and fastening tiie floats , while the vessel was moved alongside the pier , when the action of tho tide and the swell of a passing steamer set the wheel ill motion , and the poor fellow , who could not extricate himself , revolved with it . His shrieks and cries for assistance brought several persons to his aid . I'he motion of the wheel was stopocd , and after cutting away the top of the paddle-box he was dragged out of the wheel in an * exhausted condition . Tlis collar bone was broken , and he received other contusions of a serious nature , lie was conveyed to the Charing-eross hospital , where his wounds were dressed . In the evening he was going on favourably . — Giobc .
Sosi'ected Murder or Mr . Astlet , Brotuer to Lord Hastings . —( From the Brussels Gazette . )—Our English readers will he much shocked to learn that it is now strongl y suspected that Mr . Astley , whoso melancholy fate we communicated in a former number , did not meet with his death by accident , as was then supposed , isut that he hud been foully assassinated . Various : rumoms are in circulation on this suhji ct , but we believe the following uve all the facts that have transpired . It appears that the unfortunate gentlt > m » n had dined with a t ' ri . 'iul at his own house at llc-uton : after dinner they went togi'ther to a cabaret iu the village , which he habitually trequ' .-nteu , ami r-mtineu there till about eleven o ' clock . On leaving the house , Mr . Astley remained hehind on the bridge for a necessary purpose , and his com .
panion walked on ; but had not p-octedsd far when his name was called , not in < . tone of urgency , or as if in any danger , but in his usur . 1 manner . He , hcwevir , paid no particular attention to this , and went on to the house , but finding , after a lapse of ten minutes , that Mr . Astley did not return , he went baek to the inn , ami procuring a lantern , searched the banks of the river , which was not more than two feet deep at the sides , accompanied bv the landlord ' s son , without discovering any trace . This , however , did not excite much alarm , as Mr . Azov ' s habits were very eccentric , and it was concluded that he had gone away on soma sudden whim—a not vurv unusual eiieumstanco , When the next morning arrived , without his making Uis uppuivmvec , his friend btcame alarmed far his safety , mid sent mm all over the country to search
for him , ami had boats out to drag the river . Hut it was not until alter the lapse of two days that the ' b . x ! y was found at a place about three leagues down the Ourthe , It had a large wound , seemingly inflicted by some heavy blunt instrument , which had broken in all the crown of the skull , and some slight contusions on the legs . The sletsve of ids coat was torn , and the knees of a pair of heavy ti . hing boots he wore much ahi-adec " , as if he had been dragged aUmg a stony road . These appenrances led to the suspicion that murder hail been commi ; ted , and upon the examination before the tribunal at Marchu , it came out that two men who had been drinking at a iii'hlibc . uriu !; cabaret , hail left just about the time when : he affair must have occurred . These im-ii were carpenters , and it was stated that there existed a quarrel of about two years' standing between them and the
deceased , relative to a disputed account . They avowed that they were both to * much intoxicated to ivcolh-ct anything that hail happeiml ; and . here not being sufficient evidence to eliminate tlit-m , they were libel ated , but still remain under the sitm-ilftiurt of the police . An old man , inhabiting a c dtage near thu bridge , said that he had heard cries for help , but on going out could not perceive anything unusual . > ' .. attempt at robbery sei-med to have been made , as the watch , money , ring , ^ 'te ., of the ih-cc-iseil ivi'iu all Ibnin ! mi <'" body ; a bus * Girinivn pipe he carried , and UU hat , being ^ ""' i '" -ml •* . ivwsing . Theolliccrsof jiisih- v are Mill cgageu m the investi s- . Uimi of this smUlvalr , but it remains up to till * time involved in imj . i-iiet . -al-le »> JMery . Lord Hastings came from England to " ne present at the examination before the Ju . ie d'fnslrueliou , and has conveyed his unhappv brother ' s remains for interment iu the family vault ,
Stefofitls, Otmas, & Inquests
Stefofitls , OTmas , & Inquests
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 25, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_25041846/page/6/
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