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October 28, lb48. THE NORTHERN STAR.
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October 28, Lb48. The Northern Star.
October 28 , lb 48 . THE NORTHERN STAR .
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fBASCE . In our town edition of last week we announced the railing of the state of siege , by a vote of tha Assembly . We ale * recorded the great Democratic banquet held in Paris on the preceding Tuesday . On Wednesday , ia the Assembly , that portion of the Constitution relating to the internal administration ef the country came under discussion , whan several * articles * were adopted . Oa Friday a considerable sensation was created fcj tiis appearance , for the first time , of ILIiouisMatmeu . one of the newly elected representatives for Quadalospe . He is a negro pur sang , and oaa of the blackest and curliest of ths genus , but at the same time a striking and intelligent-looking man . On his entry he took his seat close to M . Bory-Pspy , who ia also coloured ; bnt after remaining with him for a short time , he toik ap his position on the extreme Laft , among the Hoatagnaids .
Tbe discussion in tb » Natiooal Assembly on tbelOVtb ertSdeof the CaarfUoHon , relsHw tomlllUry snksBfntei , waa brought to a close oa Saturday . Mi Devllle moved an amendment to this tfleot : — ' The right to serve : in the . army by substitutes ia interdicted ;' which , on being put to ths vote , was rejected by 663 to lto . The Assembly aftarwards adopted aa amendment Of M . Deslongrols , consecrating the principle , and post , poninsr , until tha discussion on the Organic Law , the settlement of the mode and conditions by whioh eaci eltiieH may liberate himself from the military service . The Assembly next rejected an amendmmt of M . Pierre Leroux , who proposed to exempt ' all dtixens professing a creed which reproved war as a barbarous principle , and contrary to Divine and human lawt , ' and voted , without any dlscutsien , ths fire following articles of the ConstJtaHen .
The discussion of the constitution terminated on M snday . Before it ia finally proclaimed it will have to undergo a revision . This revision will take place after an interval of five days , aad fa not expected to occupy more than a day or two . We may , therefore , expect the constitution to be proclaimed early next week . . On Tuesday , M . Orandin gave notice that he would pat tome questions to the government relative to the Dtfljocraao banquets . The Assembly afterwards rejected the motion far an addition of 6 , 000 francs a sum h to the salary of the President of the Assembly . A discussion then arose as to tbe expeneiture of tha Provisional Government .
paSSISEHCT . M . Marraat announced to the Katienal Assembly en Sainrdaytkat the Commi ttee on the Constitution' had withdrawn tbe JJ 9 lh Article , relative to the period of the election of . the President of the Bepuhlie , Ministers having assured the committee that , immediately after the adoption of the Conjuration , they would present to the Assembly a project of degree , appointing the 10 th of December next for the election of the Pre & UEn * .
IH » WA * ASAIHST THB fXXSS . The 'Bed' journal , La Bjepcbliqcx . was seised on Tuesday week , and is to be prosecuted for an article exposing the cruel treatment to whioh the transported insurgents of June are subjected . Immediately following the vote of the Chamber ratling the state of siege , the Minister of Justice—the renegade traitor , Marie , iHtroSueed a new law , to further fetfcr the press . This law maintains the old and nefarious right of seizure . It sends the writer inculpated to bs tried by the jury , and almost immedUUly ,
TKWsPOlTATOJr OF THS WeiKTHS CLASHI . On Thursday morning ; another convoy of emigrants consistnnj of 815 persons above ths age of two yean , aad seventy children under that age , left for A ' gexia .
2 I 0 BE KJJICUTIOMS . Legal proceedings have been directed by the Erocureur of the Republic against the president and ether nembers of the bureau of several dub * . On Thursday the Cinb de Cbaronne , which held Its sittings in the street of that name , and the Club de Srosse-Tete , which met in a court behind the Passage du Cab * , werepro-TistoBally dosed , in virtus of ordonnances issued by the Chamber of Council of the Tribunal of Premiere Instance . On Yrtaay craning the Crab 3 es Ac » cU » , Bus St AntnlnB . wM also cloieo . VEKCI 4 SCI CP THEVICTOUODS SODlCSOUUt .
The first council of war at Paris was last week oc . copied with tht trial of eight insurgents charged with having been engaged ia the insurrection of Jose at the barrieade St Jacques . A father and two sons , named Chaudesaignes , Brun , and Plenty , were present in court , whilst Boucher , Lamare , and Korean , who had been erasers lathe 12 th Legion , ware absent , having tsktn to flight . The court found them both guilty , aad sentenced Bran to five years' imrjrisonnunt , and Chatu denaigBea to two years ' . The other three prisoners present were acquitted , ' Aa to the thrto men who had fled , Boucher , and Lamare wars sentenced to twenty years ' hard labour at the hulks , and Morean to ten . lisntenaatBtlot , one ofthe 12 ih Legion of the HattaaalSuard of Paris , wait tried by court-martial , on Wednesdsy week , for havin * taken an active part in ths insurrection of Jane . He was found guilty , and sentenced to hard labour for ten years .
On Thursday an artist named Picard . aged twentyene was condemned to t » o years * imprisonment , and tej ihe ' iDterdiction of dvil rights for ten years , far having 1 ft w « part in the insurrection ct Jons . Onthe 2 Srdof June , the prisoner was in the garden of the Palais Boyal , axdting groups to join the insurrection , and em ploying very violent language . He carried a musket , and bis pockets were fined with cartridges . At his lodgings many political papers and documents were feund , some of them couched to violent terms , and Others setting foitit different plans forthepromotwa of mj ^ ecdon . - The prboaer waa prorsd to law taken part In the invasion of the Hatknal Assembly on . the 15 th May , an * be was one of those who were arrested , by tbeSaiioual Guard in the attack on Sobriert house . Two of the insurgents of June were tried by court maitialin Paris on Saturday , snd found guilty . One was sentenced to hard labour for life , and the Koond to ten ye ^' Imprisonment . _ THE BED BEPUBLIC .
The following proclamation , drawn up by the Abbe . IrfBiennals , has been signed by all the Red EepnbHcaa Members ofthe Assembly : — ' " ,.:, * We are far from tha day on which , after heroic combats the Republic , Ik ^ S brilliant and glorious from the midst of rictory , displayed itself to the world as tha living image of Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity , as the sacred symbol ef all the hopes for the future . From oneex tremity of Europe to the other , the nations saluted it with ihdr acclamations , and , penetrated by the new snMr , by the regenerating breath , they broke their old c wris in the name of tha right which France had inauronXeL Shensrself immediately gathered tte fruits ; a political order , the abolition of privileges , and tmU renal sat & age ; in social order , the eafiranemsemeBt of TOr faatn feat condition of rhatraniformarJonoflabonr
, itself , to arrive at a jaster division of Its product *; to the guaran tee ofthe life of all in a society one and jointly reiponiible . Soon , however , tte conquered parties mated and organised : Every where that their influent * could extend , t iwy applied thenuelves to exciting by fatrigoe aad calumny enemies to the Bepuhlie and ohitades to its government . Creeping little by little into she administration , they there introduced their principles and thsir passions , and made of the revolutionary power which they had conquered an arm against tha revolution itself . We were driven back to tte gates of tte msnarcby , and it is there that we now are ; it is to the men of the monarchy that the destinies of tte Bepuhlie have just been confided . We understand the fears of tte peop le and ' their indignation , for which certainly there is too much cause . Let them , however , not alarm
thems slves beyond measure , and especially let them take esse n ot to cede to perfidious provocations . Whatever may be done to drive thsm to acts of dif astroas imprudence let them remain ealm snd firm , masters of themselves ! in order to be masters ofthe futare . It is thus that they will prove their strength , and that they will find it uninjured , invincibly by union , if it should again have to come in aid of right . For ourselves , honoured by the title of their npiesentotives , weknow to what that title obliges na ; w » know our duties , and wUl foifatiem . Sent by the people , united to ths people , we will struggle , and it is our belief we shall conquer with them . ' The police tore the above from the walls , setwdthe copies wbarever found , and arrested tha criers who sold it in the streets .
We read in tte Umon : « It appears that tte SodaUsU decidedly intend to try their strength by bringing forward M . BaspaU as a candidate for the presidency of tte republic ; although the dub of the' Association Ouvrlere ' hu adopted in Paris tha candidateimp of M . Louis Bonaparte , a great number ef the workmen have resolved to give their votes to the prisoner ef Tincennes . A letter from Lyons states that tte Socialists of that dty have the same intention : M . Bespail has a chanee of bang adopted in the great manrifacturing and commerdsl towns , ia which is exercised , with tha greatest activity , ths revelntlonsxyand ccinmunlstpropagandlsm The government is adop ting precautions against any movement on the parte * tte' Bed RspttblicaBs' inParis . On Saturday last all ths arm * of every description deposited in tha Museum of Artillery were removed nader a ttroag escort to the fortress of Yiaeeanes .
Another social and democratic banquet took place oa Sunday , called , tte banquet of Pasty . There were from 4 , 0 M to 5 , 0 W ) r ^ rsora present . Tha only representatives present were MM . Theodore Bae , Greppo . Pierre Leroux , Sovignier , Mar tin Barnard , Liurent , and Fsrgin lajoUe , The toasts were of tte ureal social and democratic character , tha only remarkable ones being , To the Return ef the Exiles ; ' and 'To ths Speedy latent of Socialism . ' The latter preposed by M . Proudhoa , ArnzHsmox or Rntswxo Distomahcm ia Paws . —The Tikes of Wednesday contained the following statement : —The appointment of tte new Ministers hss been , assailed with , all tte fury of tte Revolutionary
party and the Ultra-Republican press . A spedes of proctoatieo . i . sIa ^ ed . by . Lamennais , Ledro Rollin , and the leading Montagnarcs , has been distributed , in which ttewreprtientatives of tte people declare that tte Br . puUlo' has receded to the gates ef the monarchy , ' and boast that « tha people will prove its force , and find It entire snaiaviadele , If that force be again required in id of the right . * The preparations for a renewal of ths contest by tte extreme Republicans have certainly been carried on within the last few days , with increased aetf . vity . Secret manufactories of powder are known to Hit The language of the dubs has become far morevio Isatjttat of ti « r ^ Mmoremenadng . The gorernnunthas i t ^ taeprccastta of reaovisgthe whcJaoolL-ctioaof
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arms from tha Museum of Artillery to Vincennes . Itis asserted as a matter of patlie notoriety , that the organisation of the secret societies was never more complete . Tha same joumaliays , with respect to the OardeMobile amounting to twenty thousand men , means have been employed to keep alive amongst them a sentiment of allrgianoa to tte revolutionary leaders by no means consistent with their duties to tte present ruUrs of the Republic ,
rouxruisx xau « inx . A Socialist banquet look place oa Saturday at the Jardin d'Hiver , in the Champs Elysees . The guests which might number from 700 to 800 , compssedof both sexes , sat down to their feast at six o ' clock , At halfpast seven a number of persons were admitted on tickets as auditors and spectators A tribune was erected , adorned with flowers and surmounted by a bust of Fourier , from which a series of touts were delivered and illustrated by the favourite orators of tte sect . These , toasts were only tte reproduction of those which have been given at other similar celebrations , inclndlng 'La Bepublfque democratique et Eocisle ' . ' 'La droit au '
travail !* ^' organisation da travail par aMOCiBtionr te . Ataoagthepersoniwhopresentedthemielveisucces shely ia the tribune were two coloured men , members of tte Assembly , and representatives of the West India colonies . These individuals did not speak , bat had between them a gentleman who delivered a written address for them . Oa their appearing in the tribune a number ef persons near it rushed forward and grasped their hsnds with much apparent warmth . The series of toasts and speeches was condndedby an addretsfrom M . Victor Csnsiderantj tte editor of tte Dihoceatix Pacifiqoe , and tte great apostle ofthe sect , after which a collection was made for the families of tte insurgents of June who bad been transported , and tte meeting separated .
The secret sedeties are rapidly gathering strength . Meetings take place nightly in the faubourgs at which some ef the most aetive leaders take part . One of tbe most popular ef these is Bernard , of the late dob Bonne KonvelK Another of the characters which figure in these re . unions ia tte son of M . Madier de Mentjean , for * merly a councillor of tte Court of Cassation , who resigned his office after thedrcnlara ef H . LedraRollin . This individual rivals tte popularity ef M . Bernard . Another ef these leaders is Cbanvelot , who it is said imitates Robespierre in bis costume and manner of speech . He figures especially in the Quirtier St Denis and tte Rue Mou & etard , and where the name of Robespierre never falls to axdte an outburst of enthusiasm . .
"M . I ^ uisNapoleon Bonaparte addressed following note to tte journals ;—* Persons of good informatioa baring informed the representative Louis Kapoleon Bonaparte that insensate people were covertly working to get npa riot in his name , with the evident object of cpmpromltiBg him in tte eyes of tbe lovers of order and sincere republicans , Louis Napoleon has felt himself bound te nuke these reports known to M . Dofaure , Minister of the Interior , adding that he energetically repelled the idea of his having any participati on in plots so completely opposed to his political sentiments , and the conduct he has pursued since tte 21 th of February .
GERMANY . STATE OF VIENNA . Oa the 15 th in the evening sitting of tte Diet , Schuselks , reporter of the committee , announced that the state of affairs in the dty had not yet undergone any change- that thepoaitiens of the army , snd likewise of the Burgher Goard were etfll the same ; that probably only the outposts of the Hungarian anny bad oroiied the Austrian territory ; that at this moment the noise of the cannonade was heard in the distance . . In the interior of the city the eicitemeBt had decraajed ; the general org * , nlsation was excellent ; the works of the public defences wera admirably constructed , and tte composition of the staff extremely good . That the state of Tienna was exactly identical with its situation at the time it was besieged by the Turks J
The army of Anersperg amounts to 15 , 000 men , that of Jellachica to 35 , 000 well organised troops . They ar ? reported tobave dispersed the Hungarian Land * tonn , and to have devastated Oedenburg by pillaging it and setting fire to it . Prince Routs is marching for Tienna with 10 , 000 men from JaorSYla * - . QtnerslBohm , who unsflin the Pouth war , and Pole , were , in -: cnjunction with M , Mesienhausen , en . trnsted Witt the defence ef tte dty . The editor of one of the most violent democratic papets of Vienna , HerrBSmer , bad betn arrested at Stein , in Upper Austria , ( whither he had proceeded to raise the peasantry , ) and taken to the fortress of Olmu'z .
It appears from the procstdlngs ofthe Diet on the 18 th , that the deputation seat to seek an interview with tte Emperor at Olmuix saw Ferdinand on the 15 th . His answer waa vague ; he said he was glad that the Diet wm using aU its endeavours to oppose anarchy , and he would try on his part to do the same . This answer seemid nosaHsfactory to the Diet , which on the 17 th sent a third address , stating the removal of tte troops from the whole of Lower Austria , and tte nomination of a respohslHa ministry , were tte sine qua wm of maintenance of peace at Vienna .. Thtu matters are still in doubt . Mesnwhfle no engsgtment between tte Huogarians and Crdxts has taken place . . " JeUschieh on thelSthhad m'dee reconnoissance towards Naisdor / , which is en the Danube , higher up than Vienna . On tte 17 th he was moving through Schwachat , thepiace where the Bones , Bate falsely announced the Hungarlaos to have pitched their tents .
Some members of the Hungarian Students'Legion , whe badjnit arrivtd at Tienna asserted that tte Austrian frontier was swarming with Hungarian troops ready to advance , and , amounting to 80 , 000 men , with 120 places of artiuiry . There was no oth « reason tec delmj bnt the , romanr which had prevatted that the Diet of Vienna objected to their marching on . " Konuth , Mestaios , and Mega were at ths head of the Hungarian ** nj . In thesittifig ofthe 18 tt , Schuselka annenaced that accordisg to the advices received the Hungarians had repressed the frontier . a Letters from Vienna state that tte Hungari ns were within two leagues of Vienna .
The members of the deputation appointed by tte Left of the Frankfort Assembly to proceed to Vienna , in order to express sympathy with the Vienneee , have not only accomplished the ot ject of their mission , but have gone one step farther , and have token up arms for tte good c » use . On the 17 tt they made their appearance , amidst enthusiastic cheers , in the hall of tte academy where ( Robert Blum nsrtknlarly ) they declared that the cause of Vienna was the cause of Gtrmany , and that Vienna most ' eonquer ; otherwise the entire population ( of Germany ) mast , rise np to a man . In all parts of Sermany there exlstsd the same feeling in favour of the ' good cause . ' At tte conclusion of their speeches tbey were investedXefter the tntmntt of tte old fenigbta ) with the insignia of the AcaUemlc Lfgion .
faxsxrjzs . —A Brealaa paper of the IS j & has the following frarn PresDurg : — 'The troops have left thsfr barracks and fraternised with the people .. Some of the oEctrs who endeavoured to restrain tte men were hissed and scouted . OnUhe 7 th ,. a letter was brought from
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Jslbchich to General Kcmhr , commander ofthe brigade at Freiburg , and the messengers were arrested by the Burgher Guard and taken to the Hotel deVille . General Kcesbrwas sought to read the letter , bathe could not be found . The letter was then opened , and proved to have been written by General Zeisberg , in the name oi Jellachicb , in nearly the following terms , from head quarters , fa Altehberg in Hungary : — ' You have taken possession ofthe bridge of Pxesbnrg , and in what mannet ! Send me such troops aa yoa can spate . Haveyeu received ay letter of yesterday ! Let me know the
disposition of tte people of Presburg , and the state of things there . ' As soon as this letter was read , tte people set about to search for General Kutenr , that thty might hang him . Bat tte troops immediately abandoned their potts and retired from the dty , and the General was nowhere tobe feund . A portion oi the soldiers came back aad joined the national Guard , after having shot their colonel and captain , who endeavoured to constrain them . The otter troepe , it is stated , are watched by the Cecopieri infantry and the Joseph regiment of dragoons . There are in Presbnrg 8 . 000 peasants aimed with scythes .
Bobxxu , Pxacdt , Oct . IS . —Twenty-two thousand men and six batteries are tobe dispatched to Vienna . The soldiers manifest dltpleasBre in marching for a civil war , and the grenadiers , who are not liked , bad been ordered on quitting Prague to make a detour , instead of passing through ( he dty , on their way to tbe railroad , probably to avoid a conflict with tbe people .
THE BISTUBBIICEI AT BKUM . The Fansuw Moniroa of tte 18 th announces that a judicial investigation into tte dreumstances of the late disturbances at Berlin hu been commenced . The number of ptrsons killed is stated officially to be eleven . Tbe city was perfectly traaqmil on the 18 th . In tte sitting of the National Assembly on that day a petition , signed by 14 , 000 workmen , was presented , prsylsg for tte puniibment of the National Guards who fired on the people , and that the victims might be interred at tte cost of the State . The assembly having dedded on a judicial investigation of the dreumstances passed to the order of the day ,
On the 20 tb , the unfortunate victims of the recent collision between tbe civic guards and the labourers en the canal were interred with considerable pomp and so . lemnity . Tbe funeral ef Herr Schneider , of the clvio guard , was attended by deputations of thelabonrer * , and tte civic giard followed in torn the cofSns of tte deceased laboarere to the burial ground .
BEMQHaTIOS 07 IBS FBUBtlAH iHBlBIBT . , Biu » , Oct . 22 . —Yielding te what may be termed tte impotfibOiaef of his position , General P / uel this morning tendered his resignation , aad that of his colleagues , to the King . His Majesty , thrown into great embarrassment by this resignation , requested the General to withdraw his resignation , bat m met with a positive re * fnssl , BAVARIA . . a the siuit ana aavoiniiov .
As a ' matter of coarse' the periodical disturbances In Munich , on the occasion of tte raising of tte price of beer , were renewed on the 18 th ( the day on which the new tariff came into operation ) . As usual , many breweries , bakers' shops , and public bouses were attacked and da-naged ; nnd , aiasa-J , » number of persons were wounded or otherwise injured during ths collision be twetn tte tiotera and the uouee . Up to half past 3 p . m ., on tte 18 th , tranquillity was not restored . Numerous publicans were compelled to gire their beer gratis to all comers . A number of soldiers took part in tte riots . HUNGARY . The National Assembly of Path oa the 10 th instant
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resolved—1 . That it would recall all tte Hungarian troops employed out of tte country . 3 . That the Arch , duke Stephen having abandoned the country of which be was Palatine , should be deprived , of his dignity . 8 , That all Hungarians in Austria should return to their native country within fifteen deys . A Committee of the Assembly will fix the period for the return of those not residing in Austria . M . Ungerhofer , tha Auitrlen Consal , had pasted with 4 , 000 serfs to the side of the iesurgent Raiders . Kossuth bad been appointed President of the Committee of Defence , and invested with the dictatorship . He had forthwith ordered the commanders of all fortresses to raise the Hungarian tricoloured stan dard within seven days , and to send to the committee the assurance of their ebedience , under pain of being regarded as traitors to their country .
ITALY . A letter from Turin , of tte 16 th Inst ., in fheNstiorUt Savoisiur , says :-. 'By news received from Milan , it appears that tte Hungarians of the army of occupation are leaving in small parties for Hungary . Inbcbbzctioj- The NaxioKaii Savomie * of the 19 * inst ., announces , from a private latter , that an insurrection has broken out at Cdmo . The people have driven out tbe Austrian garrison ; but the same letter states that 10 , 008 men had been directed to the spot byRadetsky .
INSURRECTION AT MILAN . Intelligence from Alexandria ( Piedmont ) of the 19 tb inst . states , that on tho I 8 th an inemrecrfon broke oat in Milan against tbeAnstrians . Radettki had mined tte palaces and the cathedral , and threatened to blow them op . This did not , however , prevent the exasperated people from attacking tho military . Several lives were lost , and the whole city rose in arms . The tocsin waa sounding from every tewer , and complete confusion prevailed .
SPAIN . ths aiiTia raoiTs ev mohaioht . A letter from Madrid on the 15 th says : — 'The courtmartial at Monjuich , Bsrcrlooa , has conduded the first act of its tragical miislon . Three captains , Clavljo , Tasguez , and Valterra ,. were ahot in tha glacis of the citadel at seven on the morning of the 9 th . Six others have been condemned to presidios fer terms varying from eigbt to ten years , ¦ On the 7 th a sergeant of the regiment of Bourbon was shot for having taken part in the conspiracy recently detected at Corunna . The news from Valencia to-day is as horrible as that from Barcelona . InLiiia , five MontemelinUts have been shot ia cold blood . In Bsgnol two , accused of killing a soldier , have suffered the same fate . The council of war had alto condemned to be ( hot some of tbe prisoners taken in Albiriquel in Sept . last , when tte cabecilla Cardona was kilUed .
The barbarous executions by General Cordova at Bacolons , and tbe severe measures adopted by the French government against the Spanish refugees who have taken refuge ia France from the tyranny of Narvaez , so far from intimidating ( he insurgents in Catalonia , aaem on the contrary , to have made them more resolute and daring . On tte 12 th the . Prcgrssitta Colonel Barrera entered tte province of Gerona , and was immediately joined by 200 deserters from the Spanish army , ISO armed peasants from the district of Figueras , and forty from the parish of Cantaliojis , heeded by their curate . TbeFoKENXo , Barcelona journal , of the 16 th inst ,, announces the execution at Banal , on tbe lltb , of three Republicans taken with arms In their hands . Three nther Republicans of the band of Cardona , experienced the same fate on the 12 th .
About fifty persons have been arrested at Madrid , in consiqneocB of the discovery of . a Republican plot . A chest containing the money of tbe conspirators was discovered U en old honse ofthe Caleso Toledo , called the palace ef Charles V .
POLAND . The Poles in Lemberg , Jand in fact all throughout Galida , are actively at work in furtherance ot their cause . General Dwemicki and General Bern are busily engaged in organising a strosg Polish army . There ap . pears to be no . laek of ; money . It is stated that General Dwemicki has joined tte Hungarian army with 8 , 000 Poles ..
UNITED STATES , By tbe arrival of the British and North American stesm-sbip America , we learn that aa insurrection had occurred at Tobago , but no serious remits were apprehended . A tremendous ' gale'bad taken place in the Gulf of Mexico , the effect of which was to submerge the island ofBrasosto the ' depth of seven feet ; the inhabitants were rescued by a transport ship . There have been dreadful conflagrations at Pensacola and Galfna , destroying nearly ISO houses in the two places . Five persons-were hilled by the accidental
explosion of kegs of' gunpowder at WoodUoe , near Baltimore . At Hamiltoa , Canada , a little girl named MargaretWood , had been murdered under . very revolting circumstances . An attempt had been made at St Lcalr , to barn a Catholic and a Presbyterian church ; bnt happily the flames were discovered in time to prevent the destruction . of the buildings , A prominent German republican , named Herr Hocker , had arrived at New York , with-the object of x examining and reporting upon tbe practical working of Republicanism in the United States . He was received ; with honour by the dty authorities of New York , and also by tte German population .
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE , Cspe of Good Hope papers to . the 15 th of August confirm the statement regarding the capitulation entered into betwea Preterms and M » jor Warden , the British Resident at Bloem Fohttfn , by whioh the latter consented to withdraw beyond the Orange River , thereby esrrendering the Queen ' s authority to that portion of the colony over which he had presided , S 17 ZAT OF FBIXOUrOo AKD THB BOKBfl BY SIR HABBY
flWIH , ' ¦ The Rosamond steamer arrived at Portsmouth on Wed - nsiday from the Caps , with news to tbe 10 th nit . A severe action bad been fought between Sir Harry Smith ' s force and the Boers , the latter were completely routed , with fifty killed . Preterms escsped , Sir H . Smith and eight English ; officers were ' wounded . Captain Murray subsequently died . Of the soldiers engaged eight or ten were killed . . Theengsgement took place « n the 59 th of August . The Bona we ' re strongly posted at a place ' called Bloe Plats , and after a sharp conflict of three hours were defeated . Sir Harry Smith was wounded in the knee , and had ahorse killed under him . Tbe last despatches from Sir Harry Smith's head-quarters , six miles northeast of Bethany , are dated August 31 . .
PERSIA . Diath or thk Shah . —The Jooxhal sb CohstahtiaortK has tte following : —' Letters from Persia , via Trebisond , which arrived here , ' announce en important event . The King of Persia , Mohammed Shab , died at Teheran from a violent attack of gout , te which hehad long been subject . Mohammed Sbah , ion of Abbas , and grandson of Fetti Ali Sbah , who died in 1834 , and whom be succseded to the throne of Persia , was the third sove . reign of the dynasty of the Kadjars , founded in 1791 by Aga Mohammed Khan . He was born in 1806 , and bis heir ,. Naibus Salthanet , governor of Azerbaijan , is eighteen years of age . If the news of the death of tbe
King of Persia be confirmed , It is probable tbat the Saiar , who is in arms near Kborasan , will march upon Teheran while the princes ,-who have taken nfdge-oh the frontiers of Turkey , in consequence of . events which have taken place in Persia at different periods , aad among whom , are Assafed Dewlet , tte ¦ Shah ' s maternal uncle , and Zztl . us-Sonlttan , who reigned for several months after tte death ef Fetti Ali Sbah , under the name of Ali Shab , will probably make some attempt on the southern provinces , where they have numerous partisans . These two last princes are at this time at Kerbella , llvlogupea a pensloa granted them by tte Otteman government , It is said that the communications between Tauris and Te . heran are alread ? Intercepted /
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PKBitousinviHTUBxi—A . gentleman wisied to have in his possession a living specimen of the chough , or Cornish crow , a bird which ia now becoming rare , and whioh always builds in tbe precipitous sides of the cliffs . ' Two brothers engaged to furnish him with young birds from the nest . Tbey . accordingly provided themselves with a rope , and proceeded to a place which tbey knew tobe frequented by these birds . One of them tfed'in end of tbe rope round his waist , and his brother lowered him over tbe edge of the cliff , holding theYope in his hand . When he bad arrived opposite tbe nests he found tbat they were built under anbverhanging rock , so as to be beyond hia reach : Nothing daunted ; he set the rope winging , until hewaacariued into the hollow , when heheldiutbytberockrbuTinaing the rope too
abort to allowhim to gain , the neat , he untied it from his waist , climbed into the cavity , ^ ud . secured hia prize , which he stowed away in hia bosom .. Meanwhile therripe had swung back to the perpendicular , and was resting motionless . Without hesitation he called tbhis brother above , l' ; Stand by the rope , lam going to leap to it I * " He did ¦ so ; ' but the rope , as might have been expected , slipped through hia bands , and he fell into theses . The brother felt ' the jerk , ' and looking over ; the edge of the cliff , saw him neither dashed tqjieces . drowned , but rubbing the wafer from his face , and exclaiming , ' Carry my sboes round to the cove , John , Til be round aa Boon as thee wast . ' And so he was , and morever , bringing his birds safe with him . ' This perilous adventure is aid to have happened in the parish of Breage . ' .
' itiraisimiiON or ' Wssi- Kimm ^ -At ' a meeting of the Liberal electors from various partis of tbe West Riding , held at the Hotel , Wormanton , on Tuesday , it waa resolved , on the-motion ofthe Mayor of Leeds , seconded by the Mayor of Wakefield , that the Hon . Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam , is ' a Stand proper person ' to represent the Liberal electors of the West Riding , provided that he is favourable to Free Trade , to ; economical reform , a gradual and safe extension of the suffrage , and opposed to any further endowment of religion by the state .
Hospital for Cohsdmption , BaoMproN . —From the medical reports just issued regarding this institution , it appears that there exists a most painful inflox of applicants , outdoor patients exceeding one hundred daily , f ATAL ACCIDBNC ON IBS EaEIKBH COUNTIBB Railway . —An inquest was held yesterday , by Mr W . Baker , at the Jolly Weavers , Wheeler Street , Spitalnelds , on the body of Rhhard Elliot , aged twentyfire , a labourer in the employ of the Electric Telegraph Company , when the jury returned a verdict of , Accidental Death ,
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Mr Joseph Barker And The Chartist Body. ...
MR JOSEPH BARKER AND THE CHARTIST BODY . tO THB BMTOS OF THE WWTHBBN STAB , S » , _ A lecture was delivered by Mr Barker In th < Temperaace Hall , on Monday week last . Mr Rawaon town councillor , in the chair . The subject of his addreai was 'Aristocracy and pauperism ' , ' la whioh MrBarkei endeavoured to show that the landed aristocracy are thi cause of tbe pauperiim , which exists in this country At tbe conclusion of his address , Mr G . Roberts proposet tbat a Defence and Tictlm Committee should ba esta . blished ia aid ofthe families ofthe imprisoned Chartists Mr Barker objected , and said the meeting was his meeting and wonld not allow hfm . olf » a h « u « n »; A » j — j . l . > ..
Chartists , or as he styled them , ' physical force men . ' Mr Roberts attempted to repl y , but . was intsnupted by tbe friends of Mr Barker , upon which Mr R jberts delisted . Mr Barker then announced tha name of a parson who would receive snblCriptloBi for his defence from the morel force men , and said that the phyeical force men might act for themaelvea . The usual sale of Mr Barker ' s tracts wastben proceeded with , and after a veto of that ks being given to the chairman , the meeting began to separate ; upon which Messrs Alderson and othermembersofthe National Charter Asaooiatlon , calladon all who were in favour of appointing a Victim Committee to remain . A goodly number obeyed tbe requestand
, ultimately eight Chartists were elected , with power to add to their numbers . Thty will meet at But ; terworlh-bulldings every Monday evening , at sight o clock . Mr Barker than left the hall . ' accompanied by D . Lightowler , and other " friends . It appears from what has occurred at Bradford , and the fact of separate committees being formed by professing Chartists for Mr Barker , in various places , that the unfortunate Chartist prisoners and their families are doomed not only to aeglect , but that they are to ha held up to the government as legitimate' objects ef persecution , under the sweeping and hnacrupnlousappellation of ' physical force men . ' It it high time for tbe veritable Chartists to
open their eyesi for under pretence of the cant about physical aad moral force , the soul and spirit of tho Chartist movement is rapidly d » partin # . _ N » y , more , the Chartist coaneUs generall y have assisted in bringing thoss parties before the ' public who now pplt upon them under the paltry preteoca of the worn-out andhacknied phrase ' . physical force . ' Mark well , then , Chartists . We who have Stood by tha National Caarter Association since imo , have been stigmatised continually 89 ' ¦ physical force * men , ' Take heed tbat tbe resuscitation of the old terms be not uaodasapretest . to band you ovtr io the cunning knaves against whorii you have io long been battling . Rsmember that Mr Barker has
openly avowed himself a member of the league , and not only ; a member , but one of its council ; for proof of which see the last page of the narrative concerniag his arreit , & o „ I am well aware that this statement is caU oulated to draw down the opposition of Mr Barker's friends , but I feelit an imperat ve dnty te endeavour to put my brother Chartlits on their guard . I trust you will-Insert this in tte' Sta * ' , as it is the only means by which tbe Chartist bo * y can bo made acquainted with the above facts , and justice be done to our Buffering brethren , and their helpless families . Hoping \ ho peo . pie will not allow a second Stephens to swallow up their subscriptions , to the exclusion of others as well worthy thebf Support , I remain , Tours truly , Bradford , Oct . 18 . Gs 0 aoa Whits .
. - . P . S . —Hew noble is the contrast cffured by O . J . Holyoake . Herefusidto lecture on Moral Force , leat it should imply a cenaure on tbe imprisoned' Chartitts , or those awaiting trial . —O . W , [ This letter was received too late for insertion last week . —Ed . N . 8 ]
A 'Citizen Of The Woru>.'—As Tbe Name Of...
A ' Citizen of the Woru > . '—As tbe name of Bossi seems destined to figure in Papal history , it may be right to give a few biographical notions of this " personage . He was bom in the little town of Massa Carrara , at the time it was governed by the Archduchess Maria Beatrice , about 1790 , and hence was ushered into life an Austrian subject . In 1808 a decree of Napoleon made him a Frenchman , by converting Carrara and tbe duchy into a department of the empire . We soon find him at Bologna a practising lawyer , and in 1814 a subject ofthe Pope , but having cast his destiny with Joachim Murat , we suddenly discover him at Naples a naturalised Neapolitan , and joined with Salfi in a revolutionary attempt . After Mural ' s discomfiture he passed the Alps , and settling at Geneva , married a Swiss wife , and became a naturalised Helvetian in 1820 . He
got a seat at tbe cantonal council board and the federal diet , and sowed the germ of central authority , ' out ef which sprung the Sonderbund . Having made acquaintance with the Due de Broglie at the Chateau of"Coppe . t , so famous fer the various great men and women who have met there , he managed to negotiate through him with Suizotfor a professor , ship of jurisprudence at the Sorbonne , and got it , becoming naturalised at Paris . He was a constant contributor to the press , and wrote the' summary of politics' in the Remedes deuxMondes ; was made peer of France for his successful embassy to Rome Of course he had a band in the election of Pio Nono and is now his . prime minister . What next ' '
Cunning of Juvenilis Offenders . —At a dinner recently given to Mr Armitage , Mayer of Manchester , Mr Maude , the stipendiary magistrate of that city , referring to the recent statute giving summary powers to justices in the case of petty larceny by children—a law , he observed , if judiciously administered ; likely to be very beneficial—gave an amusing instance of the rapidity with which changes in the law become known to those who are likely to be amenable to them . One of the penalties inflicted by the Act in . question is that of privately whipping boys under , fourteen years of age . ^ itbin a very short time ( he said ) after tbe Act became law , little urchins apprehended on charges of this description , though scarcely able to look over the dock , when asked by the magistrate their age , invariably answered . ' Going o'fifteen . ' .
Description of the Rio Bravo ,-Imagine four of the crookedest things in the world , then imagine four , more twice as crooked , and then imagine to yourself a large river three times as crooked as all these put together , and you have a flint idea of the crooked disposition of this almighty crooked river . There is no drift in it , from the fact tbat it is so crooked that timber can't find its way far enough down to lodge two sticks togetherbut few snakes , because it is not straight enough to swim in , and the fish are all in the whirlpools in the bends , because they can't find their way but . Birds frequently attempt to fly across the river , and alight on tbe same side they started from , being deceived in the differentcrooks 1 Indeed , you may be deceived when you think you see across it , and some ofthe boys say it is so darned twisted there isn't but one side to it . —American Paper .
Execution Extraordinary . —Pursuant to his sentence , Thomas Brennen was hanged in front of the gaol yesterday forenoon . The hangman gave him less than the usual fall—about . ten feet—but , strange to say , the jerk actually severed his head from his body , and both fell to the ground . We do not remember having heard or read of a similar occurrence .. The rope used on : this occasion was of the ordinary thickness , and the decapitation in all probability was in consequence of disease . i-JV 7 ( 7 ffar « Chronicle . —Oct . 5 tb .
A Sign of the Times—The registrar of births and deaths for tbe Broughton West district , in the Diversion Union , last week received ' nil returns ' from the three officiating clergymen of Broughton , Kirby Iteletb , and Seatwaite , showing that no marriage has been solemnised during the three months of July , August , and September latheabove-nameiplaces . This seldom or never was ' the case before , showing that the old maids and bachelors ( ofwhichlhere areaverygreat number , especially in Broughton ) are as determined as ever to remain in their unenviable position .-t 7 fomfo » Advertiser .
ifo ^ L * , t ' Eat , R 9 ? ' a 8 k 8 the Standard o * f « lLlrtV ^ Tr ^ ^ M 8 ™ ds whioh fell from the lips of the Lord Chief Justice in sen . ie 3 ff ^ h ° ? rHn l Wfl oau welK effi « f thiefd , B 8 UBt » n « abhorrence went to the heart rLSw - ^ m , fcllow-subjects , who , iVthe fanSff ' - ' ' ^ . * 118 in 9 nlt t 0 the common sense and commpn feeling of the country . Thatthe nTH tnl ^ v a ! dtaientaieed * % *& atil h StaS & X t T ! i . pubUo op ™" ? n » Iu . hi » ath P « n' 8 n » nent »; but it would seem ?& fti ° t ? H , ' "attrfjioR the 'ends oi jusftfflaWS ^ V of him with a halter , Sut his lifeless body must be mangled , must be cut into suit riTw , k ? a nA 088 lble t 0 im » 8 ine a grosser in-B . \ U ? /^? « and humane woman than thii , «»
staSat ^ S ' rr Th ? E"NBDB 0 H Adv « wis » r week !« L ?' j ' J < ^ C m Chouse ™ on Monday H . ! u M fflth the f « edo * of the burgh . of L Kl n ;? 5 ° f & ^ «»«» tentadvoci . y df r « f ? T « w - A'ft- MMtaufo , Esq ., of Seaforth . ' iv ?«» f 2 r iu *^ . '' 5 ° »<» ted . was one of the most violent Of the Whig aRitatorafor the Reform Bill , and taiaea repeatedly , m his : speeohesin those feverish tunes of marching : the jBrnromagem button makeia and PbyBical i ' prce , Trades . -1 Unionists to London to overawe the House of . Lordaand the Sovereign . ' Now & ir Jonn IB one of the fioverament that hangs , draws ; ! v- ^^ S tnM a -wbo-bAVo- only done the same tSk- . hatI ) e » BK the ordinary and historical course of Wbiggum , the Dinewall frM > mnn havino had t beir
admiration of Whiggery particularly excited of late t ill * , oorre » pondence , now delight to do honour to the consistent advocacy of Liberal principles ' evinced by Sir John Cam Hobhouoe , ]
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THE CHOLERA . ^ Z W ^ PSSSSSS tSSSSeSlw 1885 board a tbbboI «« o . J ? , ' ~ 0 ne fata cate on fS ^ B ^" rF i | a . rtitsa-- f ;» Subjeined is the return issued on Mondavbv the General Board of Health , in corf Jrm ™ y S the re gulations made for ; a daily notification ^ « J ^ state ot this disease in all parts of the kingdom : bo far at the statistics can be acquired : — '
CIIOMBA . One case at Swansea--fatal . One case at Rtckmansworth—fatal . One case at Edinburgh ; two deaths since Iaatrepore .. Two cases at Newhaven ; two deaths since last report . Four cases at Leith ; one death since last report . Une ease at the London Hespital—fatal . Ociober 24 Two esses in Henry Street , Kent Street . One case in Glasshouse Street . Rosemary Lane . A fatal case at Sydenham . ' A fatal case at Hull , unconneoted with the shinping . . r A fatal ^ case at Bedford ; along with which it ia reported , that there have been five cases in the parish ? . ^ 5 !? i cne . ' ) f ^ em " stated t 0 ba ^ e been fatal , and the termination of the rest is not commu . moated .
• Cases since last repoit . Deaths . Edinfanrgii io 5 Newhaven ... „ . 1 ¦ ... .. o j . L ^ v »• 4 ' . ' . ' . Z 3 j . Thb ,. Registrar GE » BnAi . ' 8 Webkly * Report — The . number of deaths in the metropolitan districts , as was the case during the previous week , was in that which ended last Saturday much below the average , namely , 988 , while the weekly average derived from the number of deaths whioh occurred in the corresponding weeks of tbe past five years is 1 , 154 ,. or 171 more than occurred last week . The fatal oasesof cholera amounted to forty-five , of whioh the following particulars are given : —
In Woolwich Arsenal , a convict , 50 jews , 'Asiatic cholera ( 29 hours' duration ); ' a convict , 58 years . Asiatic cholera ( 16 hours' duration ); ' a convict , 62 years , Asiatic cholera ( 100 hours' duration ); ' a con . viot , 25 years , ' Asiatic cholera ( 6 hours' duration );' a convict , 25 years , 'Asiatic cholera ( 4 days'duration ); ' a convict , 23 years . « Asiatic cholera ( 4 days ' duration ) . ' In Chelsea North East , a man Kl years , . ' . epidemic cholera ( 3 days' duration ); ' and a , boy , 6 years , ' epidemic cholera ( 9 hours'duration ) . ? . In Islington , East , son of a paper-stainer , 3 years , ' choleraepidemics ( 18 hours' duration ) . ' In Christchurcb , Marylebone , seaman , 22 years , ' malignant cholera ( 2 . days' duration—secondary fever , 3 days ) . ' In Whiteohapel , North , seaman , 43 years . ! ?
' 3 days . duration ) . In Ratoliff , Stepney , en board a collier in the river Thames , M ., 19 years , ' diarrhce * ( 4 days'duration ); Asiatic ? cholera ( 9 . * hours ) . ' In St , Paul ' s , Dfipiford , Greenwich , M ., & 8 years , * cholera Asiatics ( 18 hours'duralionj . 'iln Islington , East , a labourer . 15 years , ' diarrhoea ( 5 days' duration ) spasmodic cholera ; ' and a boy , 6 years , son of apauperstone-breaker , 'natural , with symptoms of spasmodic cholera ( 11 hours'duration ); ill-fed and poorly ; olothed . ' . InGoswelLstreet , Clerkenwell , F ., 24 years , 'Asiaticcholera ( 36 hours' duration ) . ' In Cripplegate sub-district , M ., 45 years , ' Asiatic cholera ( 4 days'duration ) . ' In South-east sub-district , City of London , M ., 21 , cholera Asiatioa ( 12 hours ' duration ) , ' In Aldgate sub-district , M ., 50 years , b
died y , the visiation of God from Asiatic cholera ( 20 hours' duration ) . ' In St Saviour's sub-district , a boy , 7 years , . ' . Asiatic cholera ( 15 J hours' duration ) . ' Io St James's , BeVraondsey , M .,-20 months , 'Asiatic cholera ( 20 . hours ' duration ); ' M ., 26 years , ' Asiatic cholera ( 60 hours' duration ) . ' In Camberwell , a spinster ,, 21 jears , 'spasmodic cholera ( Y hours' duration ); ' another spinster , 25 years , , ' spasmodic cholera ( 11 hours' duration ); ' widow of an Italian warehouseman , 42 years , ' -spasmodic cholera ( 13 hours * duratjop ); ' another widow , 45 yeare , . ' spasmodio cholera ( 40 hours' duration ); ' the above four oases occurred in Peokham House Lunatic Asylum . In Chelsea South , F :, 46 years , « cholera morbus ( 24 hoars' duration ); ' a girl , 10 years . !¦ . cholera morbus
( 9 days ; duration ); fever consecutive { 1 .. days ) . ' . In Islington West , a labourer , 40 years , a pauper in Islington workhouse , ' cholera Anglioa ( 1 month ' s duration ); dysentery (? days ) . ' .. In St Paul ' s , St George in the East , a girl , 10 years , ' natural death by the visitation of God , viz .. cholera ( 18 hours' duration ) . ' , Inquest . In Limehouse , Stepney , M ., 25 years , ' cholera biliesa , cerebral congestion , ' In St Saviour ' s , F ., ' 15 years , ' arteaaia ( 4 months' duration ) ; diarrhoea ( 2 } days ); spasms and cramp ( 24 heura ) . In . Christohuroh , St Saviour ' s , eon of a . weaver , 5 years , ' destitution , cholera ( 12 hours' duration ) -, ' the wife of a weaver , 36 yeare , 'destitution , cholera ( 6 days'duration ); ' daughter of a wea Ver , 3 Jyears , . ' destitution , cholera ( 96 hours' duration ) ; ' and the daughter of a weaver , If year , * de-titution , cholera ( 34 . hours' duration ) . '—The aboye four cases occurred in Christohuroh Werkhouse ,
all of one family . —In the same sub district , 59 , John Street , daughter of a tinman , 8 years , ' cholera ( 12 . hours ' , duration ) . ' , In the Leather Market , Bermondsey , M . 51 years ' cholera spasmodica' ( 13 | hours ' , duration ); an < l a female , 35 years , ' spasmsdic cholera ,, ( 46 hours' duration )/ In Kent . Road , St George , Southwark , son of a harness maker , 21 months , at 5 , William's Place , * cholera morbus ( 6 hours' duration ) . ' In Lambeth , a waiter , at 61 , Devonshire Street , aged 41 years , ' cholera , accompanied with spasm , cramp , and hiccup ( attended 12 hours ); disease existed 5 days . ' : In BaUersea , daughter of a carman at Nine Elms , aged 1 yecr and 8 months , ' cholera , 9 hours' duration ) . ' In Greenwich West , in Dreadnought Hospital ship , M . 39 years , ' bronchitis . ( 4 , ; weeks' duration ); , cholera . ' In St George , Camberwell , at 4 , Thomas Street , Wyndham Road , wife of a fish-vender , 58 jears , ' spasmodic cholera ( 15 hours' duration ) . ' , ' ,.-
Mr Rixon , the registrar of the sub-district , Woolwich Arsenal , makes the followingstatemrnt : — " : The seven deaths from Asiatic cholera , registered by me last' week , oceuned in the Unite Hoipltal Ship , among oon * iats from tho Jastitla hnllc , ijing offthe Royal Arsenal wharf .- Tbs surgeon attributes the dU ease to tbe unhealthy state of the atmosphere and to the locality , a common sewer being firthe immediate vicinity The captain Of the ship ascribes it to the rotten condition of the hulk , and to heat ' generated during the night by so many-men being closely packed together , a ward having from ten to twenty four men sleeping in it , accord , log te its size ,. The last two cases were of athletic young men , and lasted four days . The former patient was
pulseless from the first and coihatose during four hours previous to death—the latter was sensible to the last , They were carefully attended to , visited every hour night and day—and were treated with mercury , mustard pouli tloes , stimulants , and all ttae ' usual remedies . The whole of the convicts were removed yesterday ( tbe 20 th last . ) from the Justitla , and put on beard the Hebe and Sulphur receiving vessels , opposite the Royal Dockyard—which arrangement , I find , has created some alarm io the yard . This morning ( Saturday , 21 st ) a rigger was taken home from the dockyard very 111 , and afterwards a shipwright , and both cases are pronounced by the surgeons as decided cholera .. Otherwise the town remains free . Scarlatina is still very prevalent .
Mr Smith , the registrar of the north-east sub-district'of Chelsea ! , states : — . The two boys belonged to the same family . The elder iras employed on board a lighter at Isiewortb , and had eaten heartily of muscles on . the day before the attack , Finding himself ill be returned home under heavy rain which wetted . him to , skin . ¦ His parentsj . who are in poor oircumsVancesj procured medical aid , but were not able ; to provide the comforts necessary for his case—and to the " want of these ,-, the surgeon thinks , is principally oning the fatal termination . Tbe younger was constantly in the room during . his brother ' s illness , but was not seized till after his death . His Illness is attributed ! by the medical attendant not merely to contagion , but to miaama generate * in a badly ventilated . and comfortless apartment , and increased .. by the presence of a sick person . " ., ' .,.,,. . ,.,, , ., Mr Butterfield , the registrar ef east sub-district of Islington , states that : — - .
Tbe bey , who resided at 15 , Lower Queen Street , New North Road , wasiaken ill at half-past' 6 a ; mi , with rigors , bilious vomiting , and purging with rice-coloured evacuations , and all tbe symptoms of true cholera . Medical advice . was nofi obtained till half-past 12 , when it did uotBvall . The patient died at half-past 1 a ' . mi on Saturday , after an lUnesi of eighteen hours . Miasma issuing from an op » b , offensive drain in tbe back yardj seemed to be tbe primary cause , ' Dr Bossy , who attended the above , had another decided case inan adult , which has not : betn fstab Mr Obre , tbe registrar , states : —
' That the deceased was a seaman who had arrived from Sunderland , In the brig Mariden , on the 10 th ; had febrile' symptoms with diarrheas till the 13 tb , when he removed to Lieton 6 rovs , These symptoms continued till the 15 tb , when the choleraic poison showed itself , andhe died on the 17 th , Dr Miller adds that : — ' The patient . was brought home on Friday evening in a ' state of collapse , and died of' Asiatic cholera , ' in the stage of secondary ftver . ' . Mr Chapman , the registrar , stales that : — This sailor'was brought from a lodging-house , No , 118 ; 'RoBen ) BryLane , tothe Whiteohapel Workhonse , on the 16 th Oct ., and died oa the 18 th . It appears he had not been many days from on board ship , Mr Wells , the registrar of Ratoliff , mentions that : — ' ;)
Besides the above case , be hud three others ( one English , two Asiatic ) , on which inqaeatshad been held ; but they were not yet registered , as he had not obtained the coroner ' s signature The four casesoocurrad on board colliers lu ths Thames .
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Mr Marohant , tbe registrar of St Paul ' s , Deptferd states that : — This person resided in a very healthy , airytituatirn and was of steady habits ; by trade a carpenter , baton !] working at bis trade tccastcnally , bavii g other re sources . Heats a hearty dinner of toiled mutton , spi nach , and potatoes , on tbe day previous to tbat on wbid he died . Mr Butterfield , tbe registrar , states that : — These two were brothers , and died in Weld's Place * close , confined , badly-ientilated place , offthe Lower Road .
Police Sanitary Precautions . — Mktbopolt * October 22 . - —The several police divisions , within ten miles of London , sent round to the several surgeons within the prescribed limit , exp * rienced t fficers to ascertain if any and how many cases of cholera occurred during the week . This was done by order ofthe police commissioners , for tho purpBH of testing tbe correctness of tbe registrar general "! report , and for the adoption of piecautionary mea sures against the spread of this frightful disease . In consequence of this order , the atsistanls of Mr G . A , Walker , ofDrury Lane and St James ' s Placewera
, all yesterday busily engaged in inquiries respeotma the health of those district i . AUhongh they found several cases of tever and English cholera , tbey did not discover one positively decided case of Asiatic cholera . The reports of the eurgeons throughout tha other metropolitan districts were , we are happy to state , equally satisfactory to a late hour . The commissioners of police will adopt similar precautionary measures until all cause of alarm has been removed : We regret to add that the above inquiries disclosed an awful amount of the most heart-rending and onmitigated destitution .
Vsaie mom Asiatic Choieba . —On Saturday afternoon an inquiry was proceeded with before Mr Baker , at the Queen ' s Landing , Wapping Wall , on view of the body of John Madden , coalwhipper , aged thirty-four , who died of Asiaticcholera , —Mnry Hayes , sister of the deceased , living atNo . 6 , Wapping Wall , said tbat ber brother resided in the same house . He was in good health till Wednesday morning last , when he complained of slight pains in hia bowels . He left his home tbat msrning about nine o ' clock to attend to bis work onboard a vessel in the river . Heretnrned home shortly after five o ' clock tbe same day . He was then extremely ill , and had violent pains in his bowels and cramps in his limbs . He called on Mr Henry , surgeon , Wapping Wall , who cave him aoma
medicine , and he went to bed . His feet were put ia warm water , and mustard poultices were applied to his extremities . As he was getting worse witness sent for Mr Henry , who promptly attended , and administered to bis relief , but without effect , and be died the next morning about nine o'clock . —Sarah Grace , deceased's sister , stated that for two days previous to the Wednesday deceased bad been drinking freely . In answer to a juror , witness stated tbat both the sewers and the drains are in a shocking condition . Whta there are heavy rains the ground floor of the house he lived in overflows with filthy sewerage , whicb cornea out of the common sewers and drain ? . The smell is so dreadful tbat they are obliged to shut the doors and windows . —The foreman of the jury and severs ! of the
jurors stated , that , between seven and nine o ' clock of an evening the effluvium in the neighbourhood was most dreadful . —After other witnesses bad been examined , the jury returned the following verdict : — 1 That the deceased died a natural death from Asiatic cholera , and that tbe jury request tbe Coroner to write to the Commissioners of Sewers on the defective state of the sewers and drainage of the neighbourhood , which waa highly injurious to the health of the locality . '—The Coroner said he should attend to the request of the jury . Two Ikoubsts at Miiibank Pbnit * mitabt . — . On Wednesday , Mr Bedford , the corona-, held two inquests at tbe Millbank Penitentiary , and in each case it was found that the immediate cause of death was Asiatic cholera , the symptoms being distinctly
marked by the disease being most rapid in its fatal progress . The first case was on the body of Duncan Turner aged 50 , who was received into the prison on the 20 th of March , and who died yesterday morning in the infirmary . —Atkinson Woardley , warder , stated tbat at hall-past seven o'clock on Tuesday evening he perceived tbat deceased had exhibited a signal for assistance . Witness went to him , and asked him what he wanted . He replied that he was very ill and that he wanted to eee the doctor The doctor saw him in about an hour and a half ; and he was then removed to tbe infirmary . ThomtJ Dillon , the infirmary warder , stated , that when he received tbe deceased he said that blabowels had been relieved four times since supper tine , at six o'clock
About an hour after hia admission , cramp in the legs came on . He was sick and purged , but there waa nothing in his appearance before tbat resembling a severe attack of cholera . He died at seven o ' clock in the morning . Dr Baly , sawthe deceased shortly before ten o ' clock on the evening on which he was attacked . He did not think at tbat time that it was an attack of cholera , but the remedies whioh he prescribed had reference to the possibility of tbe disease being cholera . At two o ' clock in the morning the deceased having gradually got worse , was reduced to a state of complete collapse , and it was then evident tbat he was suffering front Asiatic cholera . Witness remained with deceased two hours , and the assistant surgeon was with him all night . He died at 7 o ' clock from Asiatic cholera .
The Coroner : Do you consider that earlier remedies would have been of any avail?—Witness : I do not . I prescribed a warm cordial mixture , opium and brandy ,- with applications of hot bottles and mt * tard poultice to the stomach . In consequence at these cases of cholera , another surgeon has bees added to the establishment , an additional quantity of spice has been mixed with the gruel , half a pint of porter daily is allowed to each prisoner , and I have recommended the substitution of solid food fer grua in order to fortify the prisoners against the diabase . Means have been adopted also for keeping tbe prison wall warmed , and other measures of a precautionary nature have been taken . The coroner having 1 briefly summed up , the jury returned a verdict , that ' the deceased died from Asiatic Cholera .
: The second case was that of George May aged 24 ,, who was first attacked about five o ' clock in thei morning , and who died at twenty minutes to two > o ' clock in the afternoon . In tbis eaaethe symptomn wera purging and vomiting . Brandy and water audi the usual remedies were applied , the body was rubbed with warm cloths , and he was constantly rubbed ! until the time ef his death . The Coroner inquired ! if then was any local cause to account for thean attacks ?—Dr Baly replied , tbat possibly the proximity to the river might have something to do witiu it . The first case which had occurred in the metres polis took place near the river , exactly opposite then prison . The jury found , as ia the previous case , that * the deceased had died from Asiatic Cholera .
WeOtwicH , Oct 21 . —A rigger in Woolwich Dock * yard , named Mealey , was carried ont ofthe yard thiu forenoon labouring under a severe attack of that cholera ; he bad been at work on shore opposite thai station now occupied by the Sulphur and Hebe , withl the convicts who were removed from the Justitia onn board .. Almost every person now admits the nonocontagions nature of the disease , but many have thee impression that the cholera poison , or miasma , irii ¦ conveyed to others , according to the direction of thai wind over the place where it emanates . Tbe numbea of oases were certainly far less on board the Justitiu wben the wind was north-east or easterly than wheoc it was from tbe south-west , the latter wind carrying the vapour of the sewer in the Royal Arsenal on boatSc the vessel .
Two or three oases of cholera , said by the surgeonm who attended them to be Asiaatio , have occurred ini the town of Woolwich . In one cate , a lad was brougbfal from on board a collier lying off Woolwich , to Mil Prater . surgeon . of Thomas Street , who , after adminisia tering remedies , directed him to be taken to hiiii friends in London ; as it was too late for him to obtaiii admission into the Dreadnought Hospital . The Iphigenia frigate , formerly appropriated to thiu Marine Society boys , has bean ordered to ba taken && her former statioa near the Dreadnought , at Green * vrioh , to be used exclusively as a hospital for persona attacked'with the cholera , that they may not be iiii the same vessel as other patients .
Woolwich , Oct . 22 . —The cases reported as adtd mitted up to twelve o ' clock yesterday were thirtyty seven , and one new case to day , which the doctor rere ports will be a fatal tone , mikes a total np to twelvlv o ' clock today of thirty-eight admitted , twelve deaththi twelve discharged , and thirteen convalescent , to thaua there is only one ease now having a tendency to be c i a fatal character . ' Therigger . named Mealey , who wava attacked yesterday forenoon in the dockyard , died thihi morning , shortly after six o ' clock , after about eighteese hours illness ; He was one ot tho riggers who bad asas sisted in navigating the Unite and Wje hospital shipis from opposite the Royal-Arsenaito moorings oppojiuit the Dockyard , and in taking tbe convicts from oi oi
board the Justitia into tbe Hebe and Sulphur vesseheli ! and removing then to their present station , betwixix ; Charlton pier and the east end of ths dockyard . OO the same evening he went to enjoy himself at Chatatl ! ton fair ; which , owing to the great quantity of rainii ! was very deep with mud , and getting wet , with tbtbi Other excitements'of tbe fair , was enough to bring a oi an attacks ^ holers although he bad not been eneni ployed-en board . the convict ships during the day . A A experienced naval officer remarked yesterday , thanaii althoughhedid not believe the disease waa contagiououu he had , noticed in many instances that-persons usioirj ] jaie' same water-closet as cholera patients were veren liable to'be attacked , owing to the foul poisonous a ai in them .
Mohdat , Oct . 23 . — There hate been ne fretret ! deaths on board the convict bulks , but several nenei cases , three or four of whioh are stated to be veireii dangerous , fhe system of hulking , even in U til hospital ship , is eo bad as hardly to admit of propopi ventilation , and on board the Justitia there wewei many of the berths into whioh the sunlight nevtevr could enter , whilst in others the only aperture for tr il admission of air was a few square inches in aront The mortality is not nearly so great now as it was » i April , 1841 , when bronchitis and pneumonia pi pn vailed in the hulks , aud when at one time nine it ii quests were held on convicts in enaweek , Atththt
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 28, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_28101848/page/7/
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