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STATE OF THE C0UNTBT. War Mb BAfMr was S...
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_Ireland . . ' cam * -- * «* --- An _vhi t _3 i » . iaoTBins , « g _aOTU , _SKtCH-KK _OT „ MVSSa ? _E _S « aT _^ _r E 00 D _-m ™ » _DCBt _^ a , _S n-. T » . _m-, C ' _^ . _^! . <> wn _ComtpondcntJ _w-SffiSs _** 7 * _S" 85 * « _" _*«*• « ir election of _rau-SS ? ffi _?™ _- _^ 1848 - _^ _k _Pl «» in _«» _Cerent " 22 _^ _£ ™ « -J . Some of the most rateable and _**§* _" *» aldermen and town councillors resigned - - _r _** 1 from Private motives—the only one _nvm- _I from pressure from without' causes , was C .
_i-vita _^ _y , oftheNaihw . Theoldmembers , however , _tovebeensueeeeded by honest and respectable menthe Tory or Conservative portion merely maintaining _^ their former ground , withont any addition to toett . nnmbera . In the Custom Honse ward , a Mr Family , oae of the -Tonng Ireland' party , offered himself as candidate for town councillor , but wag pnstedby Mr Keating , one ofthe * old steels' of' Ire * _landera . - _MrDofiy is succeeded in the College ward fay a Mr Michael Dowling , a _very respectable _pong man , and , like Mr Keating , a staunch _O'Con-• Mlhte . TheDablin Corporation has no member of *?? . _^ , _„ _^ nf _^ erafion within _itB ranks . They are either O Connellitea or Conservative- * , but admit no Confederate to civic honours .
cm . < ex _^ _-paWw i _NovemberSOth . Aha reign of terror * inthe southern counties -einmicles _fewerandless revolting atrocities ia the by-gone week , than in any ether week within the -last three months . -House-breaking , firing _ofshots _* _-asgaolts , - « way-lays , ' aad other outrages have been ¦ rery numerous , indeed : bat . _Iamhappytosay _, that *( m to this , I hava not heard of any actual murder _Imvmg beeu perpetrated . Amongst the most amusing of Captain Rock ' s late freaks in Tipperaiy , is his having posted his manifestoes , bearing the skull and
_eress-bones _, on the Lord-lieutenant ' s Coercive , or Admonitory proclamation . _Thisisno joke ; ithas ccrarrad in . the town of ; Nenagb , where these _preelamatiBssw--rejexteii- * ivd ye _^ The indus * trions _« Rock , ' in one night completely marred hia excellency ' s intentions of giving admonition tothe Tipperary boys to be _susy , * for in the morning the Captain ' s counter-mandates were posted ever the face of every vice-regal proclamation in North Tipperary The merry Captain ' s bill-sticker must have had busy . work on that cold November midnight 1
. "TH- * QU 8 EH ' s SPIECH . ; .. : .. : ' I an < _mtte pleased with the resemblance between my two aggers , Cs _* ar - and Fompey . ( said a _Tirgiaian _slavcf-owner _* . they are so rery like each ether —* spedaHy Poopey r—and so may we very _apnropriatelv express ourselves , with reference tothe late Boyal 'Speech' —it ia so very like aU its royal _predecessors , in flatness , stupidity , and _heartlessness Her gracious Majesty , or rather _thoea cold-blooded empirics , af whom she is the puppet , informs her said Majesty's 'faithful Lords and Commons , ' that * in some counties of Ireland atrocious crimes have been committed , and a spirit of insubordination has manifested itself , leading to an organised resistance to legal rights . ' Now , thai _sucha ' spirit of
_insubordinatioa'does exist , is as true as that two and two make fonr , and that that same ' spirit' will increase _-unacquire strength , is as true as that God rales the noiverec But the Royal Speechdoesnot go on and impeach theeonndBora _andadrisers of her Majesty , with being the cause of tins' * " insubordination , ' with having evoked that blood-stained ' spirit' from tiie grave-pits of Skull and Skibbereen , and sent it flittiiig on _itscarear of vengeance , overthe depopulated , pestilential vallies and villages of Clare and limerick , and Cork and Tipperary . Nat a word in the Royal Speeeh about this . The Whig imbeciles —tiie' base , bloody , and brutal Whigs , ' arejnot _remindedofha-ring looked calmly on , whilst afmiUion of tiie ' mere Irish' were let die of hunger , and not
with pestilence and misery . Not a breath abont these trifUt . Oh ! no , the _framers ofthe reyal yarn could not wound the nervous delicacy of ' the ladies on tiie back benches , ' by any allusion to the misconduct of ministers , involving , as it would , a harrowing history ofthe ' wees of Ireland , ' in this and the bygone _season . Bnt the Royal—alias the Queen ' s—alias the Marquis of Lansdowne ' s 'Speech , ' blubbered Jeremiads over tho 'insubordination' of starving -Irishmen , and then offered consolation to tbe trembling _'dariints' on the' back benches , ' by assuring them , and ihe empire at large , that although no additional measures were contemplated to rescue the _sur-* rivo » of last year ' s famine from sharing the fate of iheir coMtrvmen who are gone , still titers should be
no lack of coercion , and that whenever and whereever the famine-howl should be raised too lustily , or the expatriated peasant dare to' look crooked' at his - _^ terminators , tiie cry for bread should be hushed in the boom of _tbecanaoa , and the retaliating propensities of Captain Rock aad Terry Alt be put down by lote of British bayonets ! Foer chance , faiih , for empty bellies—cold steel and war-steamers on the Shannon ! But little do they know of Ireland wbo propose to keep her easy by snch appliances . "Tis not euld times wid them , the thieves ov the world , ' exclaims the reckless peasant of North Tipperary . ' The peace-maker , Dan O'Connell , is gone , and the peace-breaker , gnawing hanger , is come , and the day is upon us . when we ean no longer afford to be frightened at the flash of the trooper ' s Hade , or . the crack . of the peeler ' s carbine . H they build new ¦ barracks , let them , and if more
zed coats come to Muii 3 'e _^ they are welcome , { but | we B _* wt * -get justice , and we will not be coerced nntil food is found for onr famishing wires and howling children . *' - This is the way ia which Faddy treats the idea / of new coercive measures , and I assure those . who contemplate such gjpliey _, that they will signally fail . The day when Ireland could be ruled by bayonets is gone by for ever . The peasantry will not submit any mora to the bid-established order of things . Bruised-and prostrate as they are , they are still mighty , and they will awake and smite their tyrants , and though they would probably Ml in any attempt at revolution , they will harrass England , and shed the blood of the' foe , ' and continue the' great difficulty ' of every monarch and every ministry of Great Britain until fall justice is accorded them , and ample atonement made for the woes and indignities they have endured through centuries of misrule and oppression and degradation . '
In plain truth , the Queen ' s speech excites very Kttieinterest in Ireland , and no surprise . We were prepared to hear the cry of 'War to the knife , ' bowled forth against onr unfortunate countrymen , snd we knew well that we had little mercy to expect for the hundreds of thousands of those helpless -wretches who , this moment , pine with hunger and all its concomitant horrors . We knew Coercion w _* Mdf » _remmmendedasthepanacea for allour evils snd felt no particular alarm at the Royal prescription . However , the opening of the new parliament -was not withont peculiarly interesting topics for Ireland , and the' Repeal motion' of Mr Feargus O'Connor haa fallen She a thunder-clap _ en the country . Many and various aro the speculations on that
subject , but except with _jemuus-mmam , self-interested individuals , the ' braves' which saluted that heroic gentleman atthe conclusion of his noble speech in the House of Commons , have reverberated from sea to sea , and found a hearty echo in every honest Irish "heart . But these who hum Mr O'Connor , and have no motive in cloaking their convictions , express no surprise at his iato magnanimous conduct . They spe-k glowingly of his by-gone services , and thousands already predict that he will be the lion of the present parliament . In fact , it is . confidently believed that when ' Feargus ia himself again , " he will become a powerful rival to the O'Connell dynasty . And they are right . If Mr O'Connor be ambitions ofthe glories ofhis fathers , —if he only pnt forth tbat
' salt of his youth , yet in him , ' there is not a shadow Of doubt , but ha will _berome _themtat _powerfnl'IRISHman of the day , and ultimately succeed the late Daniel O'Connell in leadership of the Irish people . This 13 no ' yarn' of mine . I * hoar the subject discussed every hour , and though there are many who look on Mr O'Connor as a dangerous man , there aire ten against ene , of all classes and creeds , who speak of him in the mosf eulogistic and affectionate terms . I was but a mere boy when the unhappy split * oocurred between the Liberator and Mr O'Connor , nor do I know much of the personal or political history of ibe latter gentleman , bnt I knowthl _^ fhat the name of Feargas O'Connor , though spumed by some , is still dear tothe memory of millions of Irishmen .
The descendant of Ireland ' s monarchy , the 'flesh and blood * of those who , in more stormy times than tha present , straggled , and fought , and bled for the regeneration of their native land , he is looked to with reverence and esteem , nor , let others think what they will , are his own patriotic exertions in Erin's came forgotten or unappreciated . A new sphere is now open for his energy and heroism . Let Mm only snatch the rudder- —unfurl the banner of Green , and flmghiinself manfully before the enemies of his country and race , and 1 feel as certain , as I do of to-morrow's sunrise , that before many years—• aay , perhaps , beforeraany months , shall pass away , Feargas O'Connor will be aur / IrisV Chieftain , ' — Oat -bright particular star / under whose influence this Ions oppressed eountry will emerge from darkness , and slavery , and desolation . As I said before , certain persons here affect to regard Mr O'Connor's
' Repeal motion , ' not only as premature and illadvised , but treacherous , and the commencement of further aggressions against the canse of his native country . The London correspondents of certain Dublin Repeal papers affect much alarm , on this head also , bnt _na-bocbiieh ! as we say-over here . Let Mr O'Connor push forward , and he will soon be able to prove to the world that , not enly is he not a traitor to his country , but that he is her best friend , and most powerful champion . I am much pleased with the clever letter of c T , 0 ., * your' county Tipperaiy ' Correspondent a last week ' s Star . With many of Ms views I coincide most heartily , and particularly when he gay ? , that if Ireland was nnder the political tutelage of Ur O'Connor , or a man like him , she would soon recover from her present degraded condition . Ia his estimate of' Young Irelandism' I bo agree , bat Ibegto assure' Z . T . O / that the
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great majority of those young men who usurp the leadership of that body , an not fit to M tho teachers of a nation , and will never enjoy the confidence ot the Irish people . As I said before , in a former letter , they are not well spoken--of by any body ; they are looked on as arrogant , haughty , ignorant , and pr _* sumptuous persons , wbo- ! although advocating good and wholesome principles havo cot skill , nor prudence , nor weight of character necessary to the accomplishment of the Herculean labour whioh they hava undertaken , Smith O'Brien is indeed , deservedly dear to millions ia this country , and 'Young Meagher'is blessed "with talents which I hope will yet be creditable to the land ofhis birth ; as tor the rest of the' phalanx , ' the . _lessis said abont them the
better . Bnt if , indeed , there were a competent peron to guide us , and direct tho operations of this newpolitical organisation , there is no donbt bat the principles on which it is founded would soon become popular , and take deep root in every class of Irish society . One word more to-Z . T . O . ' He speaks of ' a pampered priesthood preaching patience to a hungry population . ' Of course he alludes to the Roman Catholic priesthood . Now , I know quite as much of Ireland and her situation as' Z . T . 0 ,. ' whoever he _island though I am well aware ofthe unceasing efforts of tbe Roman Catholic clergy to restrain their wretched people from acts of violence and bloodshed , and though I know they never cease to' preach patience' and resignation under the behests of
Providence to a hungry population , still I do not knew that these men can be fairly described as a ' pampered priesthood . ' . This is arfainly _, an error , ' or worse , on . the part of yonr ' county , Tipperaiy ' friend , fori know by personal experience , how in the course of the last horrible year that several Roman Catholic priests underwent _poverty and privations scarcely credible , trying out of their scanty means , to alleviate the miseries of the hungry population of their parishes . Let ' Z . T . OS be more guarded in his Mure communications , and not forget that abuse ofthe Irish priests must not constitute any ingredient in ' the charmed pot * ef Irish agitation . . The priests , with few exceptions , deserve well of their eountry , and itis not wise nor fair to
describe snch a large , and respectable , and philanthropic body of men , as a ' pampered priesthood , ' merely because some few oi that body may have acted negligently , or unfeelingly towards those , from whom they derive . their means of _subsistence . I am no more an advocate for clerical delinquents than for any other class of rascals , but I . know frem long and intimate knowledge of Irish . matters ,, that . tiie : Catholic _priMtsdoaoWeserveopprobium . In tiie _^ enr of tribulation they are found true _. ' to their _sfiersd trust , and if soma , have failed—as human _Mature still will have its failiogs- —tbat isiho reason why the great body of the Catholic hierarchy should be traduced , and maligned , and misrepresented ; Dublin is very dull at present . A deep doom
seems to pervade all elasses in the' city , and it _issaid that several tremendous faUurea will shortly take place in quarters least suspected . I regret to say that in the last week , two very eminent mercantile houses havo been _ob-iged to suspend payments;—one of them for nearly fifty years extensively engaged inthe West India trade , the other also ' largely concerned ih the general way . The liabilities of both are very large , but I bear that the Dublin Banks wiU be the greatest sufferers in the unfortunate affair . Many other ' break-downs' are confidently anticipated . . . " ;' I alluded in my last , to a report that Mr M'Carthy was to solicit , the ' most sweet voices' ofthe 'Kilkenny boys , 'for the representation of their city , in Parliament , vies John O ' Connell , who retains his
seat for limerick . It appears now that Mr Sullivan , a native of Kilkenny , is to seek the suffrages ofhis townsmen , and that Mr M'Carthy doesnot come forward . It is reported , too , that Mr Monahan the Irish Solicitor-General , will start for _Kilkenny _^ not on Repeal or Liberal , but on Treasury principles . ; It is said , that he will spare no expense ; that the streets of the - 'fair _citis _* -will be paved , not with ' marble' but with 'sovereigns , ' , and that Mr Monahan _brags-that the 'boys of Kilkenny ' are not so virtuous or so cold , as fo withstand the temptation of' rale goold , ' I think better , however , ofthe brave men of Kilkenny , and I am confident that if the solicitor tries his luck in our inland capital , be will , iii vulgar parlance . ' coma off but seeond best . '
- ' Young Ireland' is to muster again at the Rotunda on Wednesday night next . I ' will be tbere to see , ' and , of course , will report progress in my next communication . A large meeting is expected , bat I tbink a large meeting will not be realised . - It is generally circulated in town , that a special commission' is to be sent down to try prisoners- for murders and agrarian outrages in the North Riding of Tipperary , and the counties of Limerick , Clare , and R'scommen . Report has it that Messrs Blackbum , ( Chief Justice o ? 'the Queen ' s Bench , ) and Green , Attorney-General , under the late government , are tobe the Judges deputed on thia' gael clear anca' mission . A _' new barrack is to be immediately
erected inNenagh , the shire-town or North Tipper-try , which in Mure is to be head quarters for a regiment of infantry . Everything smells ot Coercion , and the rack-renters and ' clearance , ' gentry are in extacies at the approaching military foray against unfortunate Ireland . In the mean time every peasant , not already annsd , is straining-every nerve to procure a gun , or a carbine , or case of pistols . They laugh atthe threats of coercion , and seem determined not to be bullied by additional police-stations , or military patrols . ' They will probably be deprived of soma of those fire-arms which they now possess , but they will retain enough to do the work of vengeance on those whom they look on as tyrants and oppressors .
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STATE OF THE C 0 UNTBT . War Mb _BAfMr was _SnoT .- ( From the Trass ) . — About a fortnight since there appeared in the _Tdies an account of some strange proceedings which took place at the meeting of Nenagb Board of Poor Law Guardians . The peasantry , on that occasion , surrounded the house , demanding food or work , bnt resolutely _refusing to accept either on the terms of becoming inmates of the workhouse , although it was explaned to them by Mr Uniacke Bayly ( the chairman , ) that there waa still ample accomodation for such as chose to _avaii themselves of its shelter . Remonstrances proved ineffectual , and the mob separated witheut committing any act of aggression , It appears , however , thatthe conduct of Mr Bavly met with tiie marked displeasure of the people , and that from that hoar he was a doomed man . The following statement- appears in the _Evunn-a Mau . : —>
It is now _ascertained almost to a certainty , tbat Ur _Baylay was attacked on account of the Poor Laws . A great mob assembled round the Nenagh workhouse ; they demanded outdoor relief , Hr Bayly , as chairman ofthe union , went down and told them that the house was not hear full ; that there was plenty of previsions in itfor them , but go In they must . Thisthey refuied , demanuin _** outdoor relief at once . Hr Bayly explained tke law to them—tbe result was his being abot _. Meanwhile , the Nenagh board continues to be harassed with the constant complaints of the people , many of whom appear to be in a state of the utmost destitution . At the last meeting about 400 or 500 persons , composed of men , women , and children , again congregated this day outside the doors of the workhouse . They were quiet and orderly , and their appearance was truly deplorable to behold . They were clothed in rags , whioh were drenched with the rain . There was a small body ef police present to preserve tho peace .
_AFPAIUNG irUBDEK OF A _CUBOTMA _* -. The correspondent of the Mobhihg Chbosiolb writes as follows : — I am _deeply grieved to state that the symptoms of tranquillity for a few days past have _, _as I feared , proved totally deceptive . The accounts from Roscommon and other disturbed districts , reeelved this morning , axe very alarming . A most atrocious murder was committed on Sunday on the public road near Elphin , county of Boscomaon—the vie'im being the Bev . John Lloyd , vicar of Aughrim , who was shot dead on hiB return from the parish church half an hour after he had offi . dated in the performance of divine worship . A letter now before me , dated BIphin , November 28 , eontaini the following particalar * of this horrible tragedy
;' The Bev . J . Lloyd , vicar of Auhgrim , after preaching his sermon this day In the parish church , returned to his residence _inSmitn'stown , near BIphin , accompanied by bis servant , on horseback . When about half a mile from his house , aman , armed with ' a gun , oame up , and addressing tbe rev . gentleman , said , Say your prayers , for yon are going to be shot . * Ur Lloyd exclaimed , What have I done that _11 hot-Id be murdered ? ' The miscreant replied , ' Yoa put out a tenant two years ago on yeur estate in Leitrim ; and I tell yon , say yonr prayers , for your time is came . ' The ruffian then levelled his gun , deliberately took a _' m _. and fired . Twa balls entered the . chest of the unfortunate gentleman , who fell a _lifeleis corpse upon the road . The servant rode on to give ths alarm . Ths murderer escaped . ' _InT * nDBB OP MUD LUCAS ' S BA 1 XIFF . John O'Donnell , one of the Earl of _Lucan's baib'ffsv was shot ia the neighbourhood of Castlebar on Saturday .
_Rxpsilr _Aaocrinov—The repeal association met on Monday , but the proceedings were entirely destitute of interest . An address to the people of Ireland , on' tbe horrible crimes which are being committed iu soma parts of the country , ' waa adopted and ordered to be circulated . A letter from Mr J . O'ConneU , M . P . -waa read . The rent for the week was £ 9 .
| - ? BIGH _*» raw 8 BBT 0 FraB . P _* DFIB . _Thmas , Nov . SO . —Distress in the most appalling form is beginning to manifest itself in some of the southern districts , particularly in Cork and Clare . The _ClabkJoubnal , among other instances , giveBthe following *—'last week some three or four hundred persons , men , women , and children , from the parish of Killard . entered an extensive turnip field belonging to Mr James Shannon , ef Craganock , and tore away and eat on the spot the greater part of the turnips grown thereon , to stay lor the moment the cravings ofhunger _. * There are 709 paupers in the Scariff workhouse , and hundreds daily—nay , hourly , seeking admission ,
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THE ROBBERY BT A SHOPWOMAN . At the Central Criminal Court , on Monday last , Anno Simons , _twenty-six ; spinster , a very welldressed good-looking woman , was indicted for stealing a large quantity of velvet , satin , silk , lace , shawls , and other valuable articles , alleged to' be of the value of £ 260 , ths property of James Marshall and another , and Philip Dcvereux Hickman , merchant , who surrendered , was indicted for _felsnioualy receiving the property 'so stolen , knowing it to have been The Attorney . General , with Mr Clarkson and Mr Bodkin , conducted the . prosecution ; Sergeant Wil * kins and Mr _Huddlestone appeared for the prisoner Simons , and Sir Frederick TheBiger and Mr Ballantine defended the gentleman who was charged as the guilty _teosiver . Mr Hickman was a gentleman of respectability , and inninr partner in the firm of Price . Gilfordand
, Hickman , colonial merchants .- , Mr James Marshall deposed : I am partner with MrStinton in carrying on the business-of linendrapers in _Vero-street . Tho female prisoner was in our service in October last , and had been for two years and a half engaged in tho cloak department as saleswoman . It was part of her duty to cut out silk and _satin ' cloaks , and she had access to the whole of theproperty . in the estaMohrnent . We took stock in February laistiwhen we discovered a large deSciency , bnt bad no suspicion of tha ' prisoner . On the 19 th of October , in consequence of some information I received , I sent for the female prisoner , and told her I wished to see a dozen pahs of stockings which she had taken a few days before from the hosiery
department . She told me Bhe had none , and I directed Mr Brown to be sent for , and told him that the pri * soner denied having had any stockings , and he replied tbat _hewaspoBitivesbehad had them , and theprisoner then Said she had bronght tbem back . He denied that this was the case , and the prisoner said she laid them on the counter . I then told her bix pairs ' of silk stocking * were also missing , and she said Bhe-had taken them to get marked ; I then told her that ] saspebted she had been . robbing _? U 9 to a lai ' ge amount , ' and was a very bad eirl . I then went to tha house of a person . named Koake , where I found some-property , and-when I returned , jl gave tha prisoner in charge , and her boxes were searched by a _constable , and several attick 3 . were found in
them , whieh I elaimed as my property . Before she was given into custody , she admitted sbe had given a portion of the stockings toa woman who was taking charge of her ebild , and the remainder Were in her boxes .- I also found in the prisoner ' s , box a paper _bearingthenameof . _-Mr Hickman . --When the _prisoier told me abont the stockings , sbe begged me to look over what she-had done for the sake ofber ehild ; but I aaid I would not do so . I went to the obambera of the other prisoner after I had been before the magistrate at the police-court , and I sabsequently went to - _Welbeck-streeM where _-Simons ' s sister resided .. -I saw the housekeeper at Mr Hickman ' s , and inquired if he was at , home , but it appeared that he was _abseat . r ,, On the 20 th of October
I went a second time to Mr Hickman ' s , accompanied by Allison , the constable , and a servant fromthe house in Welbeek-atreet . . He was not at home , and I left a message for him , and also my name and addim . The message 1 left was ,. tbat Anne Simons had been robbing ns to a large amonnt . Upon the second examination of the female prisoner , an attorney named Wathen , whom I have ascertained . is Mr Hickman's attorney , attended on her , behalf _. There was another examination before the magistrate on the 21 st of October , aud Mr Hiekmah was introduced to me by Mr Wathen , and they told me there was a large quantity of goods at Mr Hickman ' s which no doubt belonged to us , and they had forced tbe drawers that morning and found
them , and wished , to give them up- ( Upon this we called a cab and proceeded to Mr Hickman ' s chambers , -18 , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields . Afr Hickman , the constable , and myself went together , and as we wore going along ,-Mr Hickman , _tokt me that be met , with , ; Anne Simons in _Bolles-streefc , two years before , and that he wrote to her afterwards / and and made an _, appointment with her , and since then they had been intimate , and he said he had paid off a mortgage for her father which cost him £ 280 , and altogether he had paid £ 5 W . _fta-fcec father . I told him _Iwas surprised to hear she had a father alive , as she had always given me to understand he was dead . Mr Hickman said her father was alive , and he believed sbe was well connected . Tasked him
ii he was aware tbat she had a child , snd he said he was not , and his firm belief was that he had her to himself . When wo got to Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , Mr Hickman took us in himself , and I saw two large bundles oa the floor , aad he pointed to a chest of drawers , or wardrobe , and said , ' The things had been taken out , of those drawers . ' I learned from Mr Hickman that he waa aware the prisoner Simons was in our service , and he told me that _she . had slept at his chambers on the previous Saturday night , and he added that he allowed her three and sixpence for her carriage' hire when she came to visit him , I then asked Mr Hickman if he was not very much surprised to Bee such an immense quantity of goods in the possession of a person in _Simons's position ;
and he replied , that she always told him she paid for them , and that she had a salary of £ 10 a year , and that the perquisites made it -6120 . The actual salary was £ 30 a year , and her perquisites were net more than £ 2 or -S 3 during the whole time she was in our service ; and when I told . Mr _. _Hickman bo , he seemed very much surprised . I then recognised a waistcoat whioh Mr Hickman was wearing , and whicb was afterwards taken from him . He told me that Anne Simons had given it to him , and that he had another , which she bad also given to him . I told Mr Hickman I had no doubt the waistcoat stuff
was stolen from us ; and he replied , that Anne Simons told him that it was a remnant she had bought from Marshall and Stinton ' s , and that it was of very little value . Mr Hickman then told me he had eleven other wauteoats made up , the stuff for whicb he had received from the prisoner ; and be pointed ont an easy chair , a _bronzs dog ornament , a cigar case , a gold chain , and some other things , all of which he said had been given to bim by the prisoner Simons as presents . Among them were eighteen cambric handkerchiefs , a gentleman ' s boa , a number of chair and table covers , a velvet
cushion——Sir Frederick Thesiger here interposed , and obj ected to any articles being mentioned that were not inclided in the indiotment . The Court said that the evidence was admissible , as being part of the transaction , and besides -it did not appear to be prejudicial to the prisoner Hickman . It showed tbat he was anxious to speak the truth of the matter . ' " Examination continued * Besides the articles I have mentioned , Mr Hiokman pointed out to me a bed furniture , some linen wristbands , a quantity of china , and a gold chain , which he said the prisoner Simons gave him as a present , and he said he was very glad to be the means of restoring any property . I then looked over tbe goods in the bundles , and I recognised . them all as my own property . They
consisted of silks , shawls , velvet , and other valuable articles ; and Mr Hickman told me that the prisoner Simons had given him the velvet for waistcoats . 1 saw two boxes standing by the side of the bed , one being locked and the othor unlocked . Mr Hickman told me he had not the slightest idea what was in the boxes . According to my belief the property I now found was worth at least £ 260 . The property , which , as may be imagined , consisted of an immense quantity of articles , was here produced , and identified by the prosecutor . Mr Justice Ooltman suggested that those articles Bhould be specially selected whioh the prisoner Hickman acknowledged to have received from the prisoner as presents ; and this was accordingly done .
Examination continued : On the 21 st October , Mr Hiokman told me tbat he had particularly requested Mr Wathen , his solicitor , to see me on the day before on the subject of the property . Mrs Burdon _, examined by the Attorney-General : I was the laundress ofthe prisoner Hickman . There were two seta of keys of the chambers , one kept by me , and the other by Mr Hickman . Theprisoner Simons used to come and Bleep there , I never saw her bring in any bundles . ' ' ; iz . . ; By SirF . Thesiger : Anne Simons first began to visit Mr Hiokman two years ago , and since then she was continually coming , and she used to be frequently there in his absence . She had the key ofthe _wineeellar . Her sister used to be frequently there . Mr Hiokman appeared to be very much attached , to her
and to place great confidence in her . One ebest of drawers was kept exclusively for the prisoner Simons , and I have found these drawers locked when upon some occasional tried to open them , Ihad free access to Mr Hickman ' s drawers and wardrobe . They were never locked . Upon the 19 th of Ootober , the day Anne Simons was taken into custody , I observed that the locks ofber drawers had been forced open . I remember Mr Hickman forcing open a box that was bythe side of his bed , and on his discovering that it was filled with silk and lace he appeared very muoh annoyed , and told me not to disturb anything , but to keep everything exactly ai it _wasrf until it shonld be returned to Mr Marshal ] . I remember Anne Simons bringing a box to the chambers on
Sunday , tbe Srd or ith of October . Mr Hickman was absent at the time . I saw the same box after * wards under the bed . Mr Hickman was always regular in his payments , and never appeared to be ih wantof money . He gave me directions after Anne Simons was in custody to permit any person who required to do so to search his chambers as strictly as they pleased . Not a single thing waa disturbed or removed from the chambers until the time Mr Mar-Bhall came with the officer to search them . While Mr Marshall and the officer were making tlie seareh , I observed Mr Hickman fetch a workbox belonging to Anne Simons , and the policeman opened it with a key taken fromthe female prisoner , and the box was found to contain seme lace whieh was identified bv Mr Marshall . Mary Wright , a servant at the prisoner-Hickmans chambew , proved that Simons repeatoJly
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brought panels there ; and in answer to Sir F . Thesiger , she said that upon some occasions when shi was told that Mr . Hickman had friends with him , she ordered her to take the parcels up by the back stairs , to that Mr Hickman might notkBow of it . She also confirmed the testimony of the last witness with regard to _; Mr . Hickman i ' giving instructions that there , should be free , access to his chambers , and that every facility should be given for a search . - - Allcson , the _poUoeoonstablei proved tbat while the search was being made at Mr Hickman ' s , that gentleman said thathe understood Miss Simons had a ' salary of £ 200 a yenr , and he also said that he knew inwno 8 eservice 8 _hewas . .
By Sergeant _Wilkins : He took the letters oat of the box himself , Mr Sticton was present . : By Mr Bedkin : Was quite sure Mr Stihton did not take any of the letters away , William White Brown , a person in the employ of the prosecutors , deposed that he made out the list of the property found at Mr Hickman ' s , and he valued it at £ 262 . , This evidenca _olosed the case for tbe prosecution . Several of the learned counsel having addressed the bench , ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; Mr Justice CoUmanthen summednp _. and thejury almost immediately retained a verdict of guilty _, against the prisoner Simons , and acquitted Mr Hickman , y , There was an attempt at applause in the conrt .
when the verdict was delivered , but it was speedily repressed . On the prisoners being called up ftr judgment , The Recorder , addressing Anne Simons , said , tbat -the learned judge who had tried her on the pre * vious day had fixed the sentence to be pronounced against her ,-which was , that sbe bo transported for fourteen years . He considered tbat that inquiry had disposed of all the material _eireumstances of tbe case , and as nothing additional against her had been elicited in the present inquiry , and as he observed that she bad not instructed her counsel to persevere in making that charge against one of hor prosecutors which , after the verdict delivered By the jury , must be taken as a most . false and unjust imputation , and ahe had : thereby evinced compunction for having
done bo , he did not _feelhimBelt called upon te inflict any additional _puniahment upon the present conviction . With regard to the other ; _priss-aer _" ., it might perhaps be in ' _efcaritjr to suppose that he had not been-aotuated by a motive of gain , bnt merely to shelter his daughter and shield her from prosecution , and on tbi" ground , coupled with the ; reeommenda * tions to meroy , he should not pass ution him a sentence of _transportation-,, but one of--imprisonment and that . ' sentence was , that he be imprisoned aBd kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months . ' . Mr'Bodkin applied to the court to order the restoration of the stolen property , and ¦ _^ The Recorder accordingly gave directions that tbe whole of the property should be : given up to tbe _proaeoutors . ' .. ¦ _.... ¦ . : ¦ .- _^ - - _,. ; -
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TRIAL OF THIBERT'S BAND OF THIEVES . During the last few months our readers will remember to have seen in our columns accounts of tbe capture of a numerous baud of thieves , who , under the protection of aman named Claude Thibert , particularly distinguished themselves by highway . . robberies ; and they will also remember . to have read references to the facts disclosed by the investigations which' were entered into . After' several' months ' preparation , it was determined to bring the band to trial at the first November session-of the Court of Assizes of the Seine . The capture ofthe gang and the preliminary inquiries into its misdeeds , having excited pnblic attention to an extraordinary degree , the trial was looked forward to with intense interest :
this interest was . even increased by the pretended revelations of certain newspapers , to the effect that , besides the commission of innumerable robberies , the accused would be proved to have been guilty of many a dark deed of Wood , relieved , however , by acts of touching generosity and chivalrous bearing . . In fact the band . was represented to be a set of . melo-dramatic heroes , cut-throats , but noble hearted ; thieves , but possessed of every high quality ; outcasts from society , but bearing' themselves as redressers of wrongs ; whilst around them a glorious halo of devotedness in friendship , and fidelity in love , was made to shine ; and at the same time , it was pretty broadly hinted , tbat more than one lady of high degree had abandoned family , friends , station , ] fortune , and even henour itself , to join her fate to theirs .
Unfortunately , however , for , romantic readers , not a word of all this is * true . The gang are net murderers , but consist of as _soriy a set of knaves as ever figured in the dock of an assise court : their robberies have heen ver * r common-place affairs- —instead of devoted friendship and faithful love they have displayed the basest treachery to each other , and tbeir ladv followers and -iccomplices are , neither fair nor highborn ; but the'loweat ofthe low . Indeed , had it not been for the number of the gang , and the extent ofits depredations , the trial would scarcely have attracted a passing notice . Claude Thibert , as we have said , was the chief of the band , and it boro his name . Not fewer than fifty-eight of bis accomplices , eleven of whom were women , were brought to trial
with him , but his band was really much larger , a _considerable ' number—and among them an Englishman named . Stone—having thus far contrived to avoid being taken . The trial of the accused was commenced On Friday , the' 4 th ult ., and continued every day , with the exception of Sunday , the 7 th , and Sunday , the 14 th , until six o ' _cloak' of the 16 th _Greatchangeshadtobemadein the count to find places for the prisoners . The doek was filled with six rows of seats , and on them the accused were placed , each oho between two gendarmes . The ap * pearanoe thus presented was very remarkable . A strong force of gendarmes was considered necessary to prevent the accused from making , as they are stated to have intended , an attempt to escape on
their way to and from the court , and also to prevent the majority of them from taking—as they bad threatened—vengeance on those of their accomplices who had made revelatioas . The indictment was of immense length , containing as much matter as six volumes of romances ; the reading of it occupied the greater part of two dayB * sitting . This document , which was as uninteresting as it was long , stated that the number of robberies committed by the different accused was 119 , and extended from 1833 te the arrest of their leader in 1846 , Most ofthe robberies were of the same charaoter . During the night the _acoused were accustomed to rob the waggons and carts , which the drivers left in the public roads before the inns in which they had taken up their
quarters . Generally they made a ohoice from the contents of . the vehicle ? , carefully covering up what they did not take ; but sometimes they made away with the waggons altogether . They also stole horses and carts , sometimes helping themselves to a horse to put to a cart , sometimes stealing a cart to put to a horse . Twenty carts and upwards Of thirty horses were thus stolen . They , moreover , ' at times broke into houses to commit robberies . They contrived for a long time to _esoape detection , by making off with great rapidity to distant parts of the country immediately after perpetrating a theft ; and as they had numerous _d-potsand receivers in all directions , they had no difficulty in getting rid of their booty . The band rarely oame very near the capital , and
the thefts they did . perpetrate m its vioimty were nt very distant intervals . The' appearance of Thibert , who is about forty-six years of age , presents nothing remarkable , but his features _havean expression of intelligence and determination . He exercised great authority over his band , and was spoken of by them in very respectful terms . Whe » , for example , any ol his accomplices had occasion to allude to him in the course of the proceedings , they always called him Monsieur Thibert . He ostensibly carried © n the business of a pedlar and hawker , and was duly licensed . ' He went from one part of the country to the other , accompanied by several men whom he called his domestics ; and when ah opportunity of committing a theft presented itself he availed
himself of it , and immediately disappeared with his booty . His activity was extraordinary—he would commit a robbery ih one spot , and the next day commit another at twenty . leagues distance . In the course of his business as _t ) , hawker he contrived to dispose of a good deal of his booty , * the rest be sold to receivers ; and when sales were difficult he lodged it in a depot which he had hired at Villenueve Saint Georges . He had more than once fallen into the hands of justice , and been severely punished . When he was last arrested , which was on 29 th January , 1840 , he at first seemed as if _struok by a thunder bolt , and when he came to himself he cried that he was lost . After awhile , however , he demanded to see the chief of the secret police , and to him he made
a confession of having been concerned in forty-eight robberies . He , at the same time , _denounced all his accomplices , both thieves and receivers . The influence which Thibert exercised over his band did not arise irom any express arrangement between him and them , but was obtained entirely b y the energy of his charaoter . Ia the course of the trial he repeated the fullest confessions as regarded hia own guilt , and stated , with great precision the cases in which the different prisoners wereconcerned . When asked what was his profession , he replied , _« A thief , Mr President , a thief ! I have always been a thief ! ' and , he added , ' When I was quite young I remember having committed robberies with Jews , who compelled me to steal sacred objects from churches , and then made
me dance on them ; saying , ' Now then , little Catholic , dance , on them ' . ' His mother , it appears , was a gipsy woman , and died in a hospital when he was very young , leaving him without any resource . His father was a criminal , and , it is believed , died on the scaffold ; but this Thibert denies . The accused next in importance to Thibert , was a young man ' named Dickers , aged only _twenty-four , who was concerned in fifty-seven robberies , and who . whPn hn heard of Thibert ' s arrest , broke intothe 8 to ? e bf stolen goods , and made away with the greater pait ofit ; Dufour , ooncemed in _fiity-seven robberies ; Prudhomme , concerned in fifty-six _; _Chobeaux _, an exlercat and _^ aoelebrated malefaotor , concerned in twenty-five ; _Mimi-Lepreuil , formerly _askUM pick *
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pocket at Paris , concerned in only two robberies ; Rocho i an ex-convict , concerned in a great many robberies . Half of tho band consisted of _reoeivers of stolen goods , and among them was a man named Hermann , a , Ge . rman ,. _profossed ] y . » . „ _street-conj uror , wfib attraoted notice , not so muoh on . account of tn » enormity of his offences as from being a well-known charaoter in P & r ' _is . Without going into the facts o ) the particular robberies in which , the different prisoners participated , which would bea _wearisom * and useless task , it would suffice to aay that most of Thibert ' s revelations were proved to be true , and that thV prisoners in some esses admitted their guilt , others strenuously " denied it . A . very old woman , named Roch . alias Richard , who was accased of
having knowingly purchased some stolen cloth , was particularly decided in her denials . . 'Oh . ! . the liar ! oh ! the liar ! ' she exclaimed to every accusation of Thibert , 'What could I want with cloth V she added . It was for your lover , ' said Thibert . 'My lover ! bh ! the wretch ! I had no lover , I _awoar to God ? cried theoldlady . He was only my man of business ! ' The old , woman kept a _pnWic-house _/ and when she was asked if the society which frequented it wasnot what is called Menmilie , — ' Not at all ! said she , indignantly , 'No !' said the President , 'it was not , indeed , for tbey were all . thieves V The roan named Roche , having denied that he had committed robberies witb : Thibert , because , he said , he despised him too muoh , the President exolaimed . 'What .
you a convict , condemned to twenty years haro labour in the boone , yon despise him—why so I Yes , replied the prisoner , 'Ihave tbo right to despise : bim ! I am a convict , ) it is true , but that does _flot prevent me from bavin ** sentiments ot - honour ! ' Thf » woman Pierrot , acouged % Thiberfc _. _tf havin g , pur . chased _his . stolen goods , loudly denied it , and _dencmieedhimasaliar . 'But , remember , Madame , ' said Thibert , * the great business we transacted together , and the profits yoir got out of roe V * Profits , profits 1 ' shrieked the _wnman , in a fury ; and , tearing off her petticoat , she shouted , 'Look there , gehtfcmen-rl gave him thirty-five centimes _a-metre for this rubbish—judge'frdnr that of the profits he enabled me to realise !' The interrogatories of the
other prisoners presented * nothing remarkable _,-aeither did the evidence given against them ; but it > may be stated that it transpired that one of the per ,- _, sons robbed by the gang died from grief , and that several others were completely ruined . It also appeared that several of the prisoners suddenly fell on Dufour , whilst in prison , and nearly killed him , ; for having made revelations . After hearing'speeches fromagreatonmberof _advoostesfor the prisoners , the President severally asked the acoused if they-had any thing to add in their defence-. / Thibert 'merely answered tbat all that he had said was tbetftitb , and he demanded the indulgence of the Court . ; Dickers said : ' Awp * rd , Xbegofyou _; : Perntftmeto remind you that in spite of great dangers withiwbich we
were threatened in , becoming informers , we have come here and told you the truth ., The revelation *) we have made plage an impassable barrfer between us and crime . Wis haVebeen ' _severelytreated by the advocates of theetber prisoners—we nave been oalled cowards , _infaments ; but . we can bearthese reproaches , for God gives strength to those who desire to load a new life , and enables tbem to bear everything 1 No , we are not infamous ! _Whiitihterest could cause us to'make revelations , wheni _tho-dungaon awaits _ua ! It was-to break with : crime for ever that we acted as we have done V . All tbat was . said with great apparent humility . ' Thea-eased , ramed Roehersaid tbat it mattered little' to him . ' whatsentenee was passed on him , for the condemnations already heaped on bim
would not be satisfied until ho should be seventy years of ago ; but he made an earnest appeal on behalf of the woman , named _Deschamps , with whom he had lived , because , he-said , he had led her into crime . Hermann cried , '' 1 am the father of ten-children , nine of whom are dependent on me for their bread I have a father aged eighty-seven years , and a mother i » ged eighty _* six years ; who also depend on me ; they allcall on rae for food—let rae earn it for them . The others either protested their innocence or made insignificant observations . The president summed up the oase with great minuteness , 'and ithe jury , after some , hoars * deliberation , returned- with ; their verdiet . The undermentioned having .. been found guilty , had the following _; sentences passed on tbem :
—Thibert , ten yea ** * - ' _reclusion ; Dufour and Dickers , ten and eight years' reclusion ; Prudhomme , ten years ' , bard . labour at the hulks ; Chobeaux and Roche , twenty years' hard labour at the hulks ; Lepreuil and Hermann , five and two years * imprisonment ; Bsrthelemy , ten , Levefre , seven , the woman '* Therese-Deschamps , six , and the woman Pierrot , five years' hard labour at tbe hulks ; Masson Villettee , Roseau , and Levy , each ten years' reclusion ; Lejeaneand Pruvot , eight years' ; Plumerland and Saunier , ! seven years ' . ; Laronilly _.-EspAgus _, the woman Espague , Brogue * , Pierrot , Kauffmann _, and a fiirl named Yoillet , to five years' reclusion ; Gosset , LarziUiere , Langrade , Bombard , _Broquet , and Guerin , to five years ' . imprisonment ; a woman named
Masson , _Boudet _, Banet , and widow Roch , to three years' ; Forfait , a girl named Clement , and Hugo , to two years' of the same penalty . Nineteen prisoners were acquitted _^ viz , : —Pereti Renard , Rueff , Com * mun , Bonneville , a girl named Lecomte , the woman Lecomte , _Letranjois , the woman _Lefranools Merot , Gillet _, the woman Gillet , Savatier , Gouden , the wo * man Goudon , _Legtos , Brunswick , ' Bonnet , and Jacques . . The condemned _Humann was muoh affected , and cried—* Oh ! my wite ! Oh I my children ! ' . Tho woman Pierett fainted and was carried away senseless . The girl Voillet wept bitterly , but attempted to console Dickers , with whom she had lived . The prisoners who . wero acquitted , manifested great joy , and thanked the jury by expressive gestures , —*? a .. _o nani of Friday .
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_Factohies . —The following statement of the mills working and stopped , & o ., may be relied on as correet . In the power-loom weaving department only four mills are working full time ; _thirty-six are work _, _ingfromfour to eight hours per day , and not less than sixteen are entirely closed . 2 200 power-loom weavers , and 209 dressers and tenters , are at _prestnt on the unemployed list . Io the cotton-spinning department two mills are stopped , four are oh full time , while all the ethers—a very large number in Glasgow and neighbourhood , _andjemploying numerous hands —ara working short timo . —Glasgow Argus .
Todmobdbn . —Statb op Tbaob . —The streets are thronged with individuals out of employment . Their emaciated appearance is really pitiable . The works on the branch line of Railway to Burnley are stopped , and hundreds are thrown out of work . The factories , with the exception of one small , firm that makes fancy goods , are either stopped , " or running short time . The large firm of Fielden , Brothers , are only running seven hours per day . The workers are beginning to talk pretty loudly about ' cheap bread and plenty to do . ' They say , ifthe Exami . ibr would use ita columns to show where the ' plenty to do and high wages' are to come from , it might stand a chance of living , but not else .
The _Rbmevino-Opwobb op _Stanswbld —This official is in the habit of biiiokguarding the poor when they wait upon him for a trifle of relief Lately , _» poor woman waited upon him , and , after using the most insulting language , he ordered her about her business , telling her she must go to the relieving-officer of Todmorden . She did so , and he gave her a letter , signed by ono of the guardians , and told her to go again to the relieving-officer of Stan-field , and give . him that letter . She went , but he had left home , and would net be back again before night . She went again at night , a disfcance of three miles , and , after waiting a long time he r _ifA _^ _> , _four shillings , telling her he would 'fit that devil up , ' meaning the _relievine-officer of Todmorden . This fellow is in the habit of off from
walking home when there are a number of the poor waiting for relief , without telling thorn whether he will give them anything or not- and gw » _•» " * 5 * a « er waiting in tho cold i ? r hours ' they have had to go home withont seeing him . Rblioious G NER 0 SiTr . ~ The gentry belonging to the church having made a subscription to be given to the destitute , entrusted . the distributioni ol i _; to the _Incumtent of Cro-s Stone ohurcL A 5 r - wo " _n -A ° ld by _^ la , ndlord t 0 S ° _<* mention hi name . She , aocordingly _^ applied with his _' _-hame , as an introduction ; , but she was too soon , _' ' _stfe must come again . Again she did go , and she was liberally reievedwith sixpence , for which she walked four ohahf fc Incumbenfc toldher foe ? only relieved
_Emv Nsw PoiATOKS . —Very few horticultural works treat of the following method of raising new potatoes very early , without the use of frames , < fe 8 Yet moBt . of the best market gardeners are , NOW planting them thus : —They open the trendies a half Bpit deep , aud lay in some well decomposed manure ( frequently adding lime ); they then plant the potatoes about nine inches apart , upon which thev lay some long litter , or straw , to protect tbem from the frost , and the earth . 'Ash-leaved kidneys ' ' earlyShaws , ' ' early frame potatoes , ' andVin flit any very early potato , suits _^« r ? _' _vShm been told _^^^ _tomm _^ _tJSlZ _moua prices , are thus raised .
d _^ _ZfJ _^ _T _^ a , l 9 tteeB ot _« - * - P _^ ce ate ' _fe f Q e i _? « - concert with-their brother Chartists throughout tho empire , in once more _raS * tbfn _™ 'W ? ° f tbe Chartw * ° thak Proud _eleval 2 SS ? 1 - -P ° rt- nce _Corves . To carry tbis wl _5 _Wf ** c 3 nera - " m _, ? etinS of _«»» body , Messrs Watson , Neill , _TPocook , Barber . Heaton , _Ramsbottom , Vaughan , Griffiths , and Wheeler , were elected a portion of the general council . Mr Martin Grif ntns was appointed _sub-seoretary ; Mr Stephen Vaughan , _sub-treasurer ; and Thomas Martin Wheeler , district councilman . The council meet every Tuesday evening , and are making arrangemeats for arousing tho adjoining towns and villages . The locality meets ( until the _fittingupof the _School-STt , W _^ * Saturday evening , at six o dock , at Mr Jowett ' s , O'Connorville , when the _woRTHERs Stah , and other works , are read , and friendly disouamons tako place , to which all foe _aliet _. tee . 8 and w & _hbow m hereby forked ,,
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IRISH DBMOORAT 1 Q CON _^ DERAT _^ Thei attempt of Her Majesty ' s Mmutm to cot Ir eland , has infused fresh . vigour and Ufa _intoti _? body , which mustered on Snnday at _Cart-rrf « i ity more than ordinary numbers , to dk ) _ouss . if S _om-m ? the designs of iArd John and Co . Mr Tack « rtiv 5 the chair . The greatest spirit of generous _rivaiS was exhibited , and the most nnanimous good feS ! that could be desired was manifested throughout _iS * whole ofthe evening . Highly respectable _deputatiaS were received during the evening , from the Citr _« _£ ? . Finsbury locality , the' boot and shoe make ** , baW society , die ., requesting information as to ( he com _^ the Democrats intended to pursue . Deputations we >* also sent during " the sitting of the meeting to s ™ _S of those bodies who returned wit * reports which w _« 2
extremely satisfactory , votes or taanks were _uaani _mously passed to tbe Deputation ' s . Mr Frawfey es . repeal warden , passed a high eulogium _npontS generous offers ot the . Chartists of Kng land . Mr _GaT Kennedy , ex-repeal warden ; volunteered ; in the hand ! _somest manner , to take the petition sheets , , and procure signatures . . Mr M'Canhy , in the _caurse _ofaa able address , pasted a high compliment to the mend Barnsley , for tbeir noWe efforts in behalf of their country . A petition to parliament was resolved urn * against the intended . _ArrnVBiirof ministers- ; an 4 a deputation consisting of four Irishmen , was _appointed to accompany an equal number of Englishmen from tho City and Finsbury locality , to wait upon $ _lr O'Connor with the petition for presentation to Far-Jiaroent . We were glad to learn , _nothwithstanelito the few hours that could be employed in signing the petitien , that upwards of one * thousand signatures
were obtained . # ureal credit is due to the Old Irelanders meeting at Mr Berean _' s , Clare-market , who most willingly signed the Petition , and also requested sheets to be left for Repeal . Mr Clancy suggested tbe propriety of electing twelve persons , _consisting of an equal nnmber of Englishmen and _Iriehmen ,. to wait on tbeleadine Catholic ; elergy of London , requesting their aid , and liberty to procure signatures at tbe different metropolitan chapels . Some discussion ensued on this _subjebt , and it was finally resolved that a general meeting should be holden on Wednesday evening , to consider and carry _ontseme systematic plan to rally tha metropolis . All begin to see now the necessity of an organisation which we called for three months ago !! Had we such an _organipation , instead of one thousand signatures in twenty-four hours , we would be enabled to procure twenty thousand within the same time M . !
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! -. " Ithe London _confederalists . The Chartists of England have gained a great and noble victory through their leader , the hon . member for Nottingham , and well have they shown ( not only to their own countrymen , but to Irishmen ) that they could not do better " in exercising the power given to them by that victory , than to petition against Irish coercion , as was recorded of them on Monday last at tbe House of Commons . Now that the barrier that so long existed between Mr O'Connor and his conntry . men has been removed ,. there is no power'in existence that can separate tho link of nationality that now-binds tbem together . Hurrah tben for freedom , for tyranny begins to tremble ! Thb CimRAxCosFBnBBATH CtUB . —A large meeting of tbis club was held on Sunday last , in their rooms ,
Blue Anchor Tavern , York-street ; Westminster . Mr Morrison was called to the chair . Messrs Reynolds , Hussey , and Scott , spoke at great length against the Ministerial Aot of Coercion for Ireland , and ] hailed with delight the offer of assistance from England . Mr Glass said he was in favoar of © _aereion , for he believed it would force tbo Irish people into the ranks of tho _aeftatien . He ( Mr G . l thought tbat Mr Feargus O'Connor had stolen a march upon some of the Irish members , and was toe premature with bis motion on repeal . He had some doubts npon the _matter / which , for certain reasons he would not divulge . ( Cries of ' Oh , eh /)—Mr T . R . Reading regretted _beihj ; compelled ta address the meeting , but after what had been stated by the last sneaker , ho eould not refrain
doing bo . He was opposed to coercion of any kind . Let the ministers coerce Ireland , and all societies in that country , with the exception of charitable ones , would be put down by martial law . He ( Mr R . ) challenged any person to bring a charge against Mr O'Connor of having done any one thing detrimental tc his eountry . Ha had been driven away from the _affeotioss of his countrymen by jealousy and malice , but he bad been amply rewarded by the people of England placing unlimited confidence in him . He hailed with delight the return of that gentleman to the Honse of Commons , for he would be the standard by whieh the sincerity and patriotism ofthe Irish members wonld be tested , and the day was not far _distant when he wonld be found in his right position
—at the head ofthe Irish people , ( Cheera . ) Tha meeting then broke up . Another meeting was instantly formed , independent ofthe Confederation , Mr M'Sweeney in the ohair , so tbat several persons who were present , and not repealers , might take part is petitioning the legislature against the ministerial bill of coercion for Ireland : A petition waa then adopted , as that of the working classes of Westminster . The following resolution was then moved by Mr Reading , and seconded by Mr Moorissey , and carried amidst vociferous cheering : — ' That tbe thanks ofthis meeting are due , and hereby given , to _Faargus O'Connor , E ? q ., _M-P ., for his conduct in the present parliament , in coming forward to the rescue ofhis unfortunate country , when threatened by
ministerial coercion . ' The meeting then separated . A large meeting ofthe Confederates of Chelsea waa held on Sunday evening , Nov . 28 . at the Cheshire Cheese , Pimlico . Mr Kenealy attended and addressed the meeting against coercion . ( Our reporter will at * tend this olubon Sunday evening ( to-morrow ) . Thb Davis Cohfederate Club . —A numerous meeting oi the members of the club was held on Monday evening last , the 29 th ult ., at the Assembly Rooms , Dean-street , Soho , Mr M . _M'Manus in the chair . Mr T . Daly commented at great length on the great benefits to result from an union of the oppressed in England and Ireland . He passed a high eulogium on the exertion * of Mr O'Connor for his native land , which was received by the meeting with
the most _enthusiastio cheering . ( Mr Daly , as always , defended the character of Mr O'Connor , when it was vilely aspersed for party purposes—and at a time when so deihg , was to incur the ban of expulsion from the Repeal Association . )—Mr E . Kenealy , LL , B „ then proceeded to deliver his third and last lecture , on the following subject : — 'A vindication of tho Irish Parliament . ' The lecture was a splendid discourse . A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Kenealy . A petition was then adopted against ministerial coercion for Ireland , for presentation to parliament . The meeting then adjourned . ' Hbpsal _Mastmo , Sunday , Nov . 28 . —A very numerous meeting ofthe Conciliation Hall Repealers took plaoe at the house of Mr Wolf , Bull _' Head , Clare-market , Mr Denis D » ain in the chair . The
business commenoed by reading the Queen ' s Speech , together with the debate upon it , in " the Honse ci Commons , during which time a profound silence continued , until the speech of Mr John O'Connell waa heard , whioh elicited much applause . Upon the report being read of the speech of Mr FeargUS O' Connor , the approbation was loud and continuous . Mr Dwain addressed the audience at considerable length . —Mr 0 Connell , repeal warden , followed , but owing to the lateness of tbe hour , did not enter into details . He proposed a vote of thanks to the chair , which being seconded by Mr Ryan , repeal warden , was carried unanimously . The meeting separated until next bunday evening , when a petition for repeal will ba prepared for presentation on the _Tnpsrlay follow .
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On Sunday morniug , abuuo one o ' olock , an outbreak ocourred inthe hairdresser ' s shop belonging to Mr Tanner , adjoining . tbe foot entrance on the northern side of Temple-bar . ' The firemen soon succeeded in extinguishing the flames , but not until the lining , tbe lintlesover the windows , together with the floorings andjoistings on the first floor , were burned . The building belongs to the corporation ef London , and is insured . About two o ' cloek , flames were discovered i" 8 _Uing from the extensive premises belonging to Messrs Miller , Ravenbill , aad Co ., shipbuilders and engineers , Orchard-wharf , Blackwall .
The fire was not extinguished _bsfore the workshop in-which the fire commenced was levelled with the ground , and an adjoining one severely injured . _SniPwascK at thb Gum ' s Cau 3 ewat . —On Mnn * day night the schooner Spokesman , Bell master , from Liverpool to _Derry , laden with canal coal , came on shore at Portnogher , a total wreck . Tho foremast , anchors , and chains were gone , and great part of the bottom knocked out . The logbook and papers were found , but no entry had beon made from the previous Thursday . The fate ef the orew has not been ascertained , but it is feared all hands may have beeu lost .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 4, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_04121847/page/6/
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