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      Great Chartist Demonbtratwn T Mr O'Conno...

      _. ibandoned it in its madness . That father , who » capable of abandoning a child in its folly , is an unnatural father . I saw the great grievances that Labour had to complain of ; therefore I tolerated the great excesses of the labourers . Bnt my principle e ver since has heen to teach yon . not the physical-force method , but the _moral-force method , as the method by which you may achieve your rights . ( Cheers . ) I have preached for fifteen years . I haw been allowed to work a kind of nnder-cntrent-a kind of earthquake riing np under those who wdl not

      spng listen-springing np under those who are deaf and will not _bear-springfeg op nnder those _^ bo _believe bnt will not confess . It is not my preaching that is dangerous to society , hut it is those who confess the truth bat will not he _gaided hy the action . ( Cheers . ) In spite of the press , who have attempted to damn me by silence , I have fostered this princip le until now yon find it npon each passing breeze , until now you find it making ita way

      through the key-hole of every peasant ' s cottage , and -with its thundering voice entering the salons of the great , and ere long you VfUl find it l ying at the feet of royalty itself . ( Cheers . ) Is it any wonder , when they couldn ' t buy me , that they should denounce me ? Heretofore it has been the custom to " buy off' * the people ' s friends . Finding they couldn't buy ne with money , they would frighten me off by persecution ; they " nOUld shove me ofi * by silence , disregard and disrepute . But , thank God , I have lived

      down the press-gang . ( Hear ) I am a national Gazette myself , read hy those who believe that my teaching will be profitable to all parties . Now , I would ask those wbo are obliged to come at last to the principles I bave been preaching , where was the use in tbeir silence ? where the profit in their neglect ? There is not a single abuse that has taken place that I have not prophesied—uot a single evil tbat his occurred from any one measure that has passed , that I have not predicted—not a single _oostram propounded , uor a modicnm of justice , that I bave

      not asked for . When all parties were rampant , a definition of party principles was asked for . The Whigs were asked for a practical illusfntion of their principles ; and they said itwas Free Trade , which mesnt "high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do . " The Tories were asked for a practieil definition of their principles , and they said , "Step where you can —allow the popular voice to go at far as you can safely trust it , bnt slop it when it is safe to do so . " i

      I Wats _Mked for a practical _illnstntion of my principles _. Ail said , "What is Chartism ? it is a mere empty sound ; it isa mere bugbear , without any defined result orolject attached to it . " I think 1 gave the best _possible definition of my principles ; which was , " A latour-field and a home for every man who was _udustrious . " ( Cheers . ) "Well , I dare say , from the time of my entering public life to this moment m sun has had a more opposed , "but a more succesful career . No man has stood

      the number of pusecntions and prosecutions that I have stood ; and 10 man has come ont more unscathed or unintiaidated than I have . Instead of intimidating me , ach persecution bas but convinced me of the value o' my principles . I have heen _represented as a drmkea infidel , a destructive political adventurer . I au a drunkard , who was never tipsy ! An infidel , whose every hoar is devoted to the service of _hiBjod ! A destructive , who has never inflicted punishmint even upon a dumb animal , and whose son ! revolts at an act of cruelty ! and an

      adventurer , who hasspent thousands iu the service of those , at whose epense he . has never travelled a flute , or eaten a meal ! ( Tremendous cheering and waving of hat , which lasted several minutes , ) Mr O'Connor continued : —Now let me prove to you that what all parties—FREE-TRADERS , "WHIGS , 70 RIES , Churchmen , Dissenters , and Cotton-lords profess to desire , I cany out . Do they not all say they want to better yonr condition ? ( Yes . ) Then tell me by what means other than the return to free labour on the Land , that object can be

      achieved ? ( Cheers . ) Tou don't understand THEIR promises , but you do mine . ( Cheers . ) "What was _itassell _' s testof statesmanship ? Sanitary improvement , ventilation , health of towns , improved system O : education , and the solution of the problem of cnminal law . These are his nostrums ; what is my pnetice ? 1 say , let the bared muscle of the FREEMAN'S ARM imbibe strength from the oxt * en ; let the labourer ' s cottage he ventilated by the jure county air . let it stand apart from the ding ) smoke ; let faira seethe free nnpotiutedSchoolj

      _ahonseimtainted by sectarianism ; let justice stand at his door and honour will reign in his heart . ( _Tremeidous applanse . ) That ' s practice , not "Whi g theory . What , my friends , ought to be , if it is not , thedear , the darling , the primary object of a tveiygoveriment ? Should it not be to cultivate the resources f the country to the very highest state of adraaage and perfection ? Well , tben , as they don ' t do so -what are they compelled to do ? To feed the _ChmC . npon the Dissenters—to feed th ? Dissenters upon tht Catholics—and to feed all upon

      those wbo are the ei- nest prey . Oa the contrary , I would say , let the _resources of the country he ilfiveloped , bntlet itbe ' tbe benefit of those by whose industry they are iicreased . The shopkeepers ' cf Norwich , no doubt , comf der themselves a highly aristocratic party , Now , I hive always found fault with the shopkeepers for joking with the Free-* fradera , andfor this reason—thai the object ofFree-Trade was to create a speculation in everything s high wages and low wages ; dear bread and cheap oread ; all to be pocketed by the matter .

      _Mastermanufaciarers was the theory and principle of Free-Trade ; whereas the greatest interest the _shopkeeper has is in a fair requital , honourable employment , and a fair remuneration of labour . ( Cheers . ) I would pnt this question to the shopkeepers of Norwich—-whether do they suppose it would be better for thirty farmers , « r thirty squires , ill managing and badly treating thirty thousand acres of land in this ririnify , to be amongst them , or for 10 , 000 agrictaltural labourers cultivating those 30 , 000 acres , at three acres to each man , to come , not as branded

      • slaves , to spend tbeir pittance , bnt as free men , to expend the full value of their labour ? These shopkeepers , in their desire to pin themselves to the little social etiquette _andfauhion of Free-Trade , forgot their dnty to those oa whom they made a livelihood , I -would ask the shopkeepers of Norwich whether it is -with the pence ofthe millions or the pounds of the few that they are best pleased ? I would ask tbem whether the ready pence of the despised working classes do not often enable them to prolong and renew the bills of the aristocracy who deal with them ? And these are the men who have been

      contemned and despised _.-these are the men who have been looked npon as outcasts ! Now , my friends , I thinkl have shown pretty clearly that I am for every one of those principle ** whichLord J . Russell bas defined , for every one that YoungEngland and OH England have defined—for all tbat Liberalismhas defined . But it is because mine is a practical illustration , and theirs are but tbe mere theory , that they are not in Jove with my doctrines . ( Cheers . ) As long as I represented the largest county in the kingdom in Parliament I was the same man that I am now . I

      represented Norfolk as well as the county of Cork-1 represented _Westminster as well as the cit y of Cork . And because I was too liberal—because I * was determined not to be a party to a . compromise , as the middle-classes of Norwich appear to be—I was looked npon as nobody ' s child ; I was not fit for the Honse of Commons ; and thank God for it ! ( Hear , and cheers . ) Well , now , are we an expiring * party > j let people say so ; but let them take heed how they hug themselves in this fallacy . The landlords never hear of us , because they read my grandmother , the Morning Herald , iu the morning . ( Laughter . )

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      That-, as a matter of course , will not convey much knowledge to them . The Whigs never hear of w , and the Tories never hear of us . But _whence next parliament assembles tbey shall hear of us . ( Cheers . ) During the last Parliament I was ( tie of those of 200 , 000 who walked with a petitionsigned by 3 , 370 , 000 freemen to the door of the KM " - * of Commons . It was my lot and my pride tc ' carry a fragment of that petition which was too aeavy for sixteen men to wag under , and throw it _'bntemptuously at the Speaker ' s chair . We havo pt a reform , we are told ; hut where is the _reformats ? ( Hear . )

      We have emancipation , they say ; hut where is the freedom > We have got a license to speak ; but the _prison-door opens upon us if wespe * h _* wbat is dissatisfying to faction . ( Cheers . ) Thy say we live in a free country _; but that country - _* annot be free , its institutions cannot be good , _v _*» en they dread the assault of truth . So long _as _* _* e have a venal and corrupt priesthood , so long a s we have a hired press , we shall have great _difficultisto contend -with ; bnt , thank God , we are urging tat to a little more

      liberality—and tbat upon Ae competitive principle . ( Hear , hear . ) Thus , _th-n- we stand . Our party is the most _numerous—otr party is the most virtuous —our party the most / alaable—because it creates all whereon others live * n idleness and luxury . ( Cheers . ) If I had asked you _•» be idle then I might have been justly charged witt sedition . If I had asked for a f reedom that mild degenerate into licentiousness , I might be jnstl * charged with being a dangerous , demagogue . M I am for freedom tempered with reason and discretion . I look for no freedom that

      would turn man against his brother ; tbat would arm class agahst class ; but I am for that freedom that would ensure a just amount of the cultivation of tbe national resources , and a just amount of contentment and happiness to those who sedulously and industriously cultivate it . ( Cheers . ) All their sanitary improvements will not do that . All their ventilation will not do that . They go only far enongh to stay the torrent of yonr anger . They stop short at the door of justice . Let them not talk about the County Courts Bill , and bringing Justice borne to every man ' s door . Let them bring unsullied justice to

      every man's door ; and honour will reign in every man ' s heart . We should require no County Courts , no law and no lawyers , for every man would have an opportunity of earning his own livelihood . Well , then , my friends , other * could not illustrate what their systems meant ; others could not develope their principles , and I was asked to develope mine . I did so ; and what was the consequence ? Why , in less than two years I have associated 150 , 000 people—not a mere political community—but into a political , moral , and social community . ( Cheers . ) I am now possessed of

      over £ 50 , 000 in money and land , subscribed by tbe working classes themselves . ( Cheers . ) Yes ; the press won't notice that ; and why ? Because they can't abuse me . They won ' t expose that ; and why ? Because they can't say it is a bauble for myself to live upon ; I have visited and bid for 70 or 80 estates , aud travelled thousands and tens of thousands of miles , bnt there is no item in your balancesheet for any of my expenditure . ( Cheers . ) I have not been the cost of a single fraction to your society ; and , by the blessing of God , I never will as long as I live The middle classes are now beginning : to see

      their own regeneration in tbat society . A" gentleman near Wigan in Lancashire , wrote to me the other day in these terms , " Sir , you call yourself a philanthropist , but you don ' t know the meaning of the word . Philanthropy means the love of all mankind ; whereas yoa devote yoar entire exertion to one class only—the labouring class . What , sir , is to become of us poor devils , the middle classes ? I have my two hundred pounds ready to pay for a share in your Land Plan , bnt , because I am a middle-class man , you will not _idlow me to enter . " I wrote to say that ours was a free temple , having no distinction of creed , no

      distinction of politics , no distinction of colour , no dis-; Unction of thought , and that he was welcome if he was willing to enter . He accordingly sent his £ 200 by return of post . He is now abandoning his business , and coming to live in the free open ah *; Well * I told yon that this would be only an experiment . Believe me you cannot have 150 , 000 men working for their own salvation , working for their own livelihood—banded in one association for one common purpose—without having a tremendous effect upon the government of the country . I well recollect when Williams , the member for Coventry , presented

      a petition to tbe Honse in favour of Education in Wales . I was sitting in the gallery , and heard Sir James Graham say in reply , that the hon . member might rest assured that in proportion as the people increased iu respectability , they would have effect in that bouse . When , then , I send , or wben I take —( hear)—a petition signed by 150 , 400 men possessing their own land , and working out tbeir own freedom , telling the House of Commons and the world , that to tax them for a parson that doss not work for them , is obnoxious—telling them they want no Poor-laws , because they create no

      paipcrs , —when I present _sneb a petition as tbat , Sir James Graham will pay it equal attention to that referring to Education in Wales . Some people say educition is nothing . Education is everything . _Eduction is so dear , that no sectarian description of it ougit to be permitted in any country . ( Hear . ) What brought Ireland to its present position ? What but the false teaching of those who first conquered , and _thet plundered her ? This was the causa of all tht evils afflicting this country . This is the cauie of your paying £ 10 , 000 , 000 this year for her , and £ 20 , 000 , 000 _parhaps next year .

      Whether ia itcheaper to have a fair aad honourable description ol education at once , or to pay tenor twenty million per annum for the result of a false education . Thu yoa . see all they have promised yon is nothing but _noonshine . They have not the brains to see tha movin _. power of the BgO . A jockey and a Jew-Jobber hope to tula the country by marching backwards , and th . cars snarl at the lion that saved them . They say hei betrayed them , that they gave him power and fore , to resist Free-Trade . Yes ; fools summoned him , aid implored him to preserve a folly , but he _sacrifhed the folly and preserved the foolsand

      , now ; the v * y men whom he saved from their own preiadices , would sacrifice him . ( Hear , tit * " * _** _" ?! arithe 158 htB that h ° PB **» _«<*& ? J _£ . , ra and , O T « *« . ) Oh ! they don't _under-?^ _£ _li , _'Trt ' Ji ? ' _dirotmginind-the S « £ _fn _^ l _^ " _^ _tvew-fgreat _cbeering ) -has S _^ _n-ffi ? _" ' _^"" Wto the _thoughtless . 8 S 5 S _« . K _' MPdand cheap cireulltion to that mind ; the magt . e . _ wnl 0 f Peel attracted it ; _^! 2 _L ppllea _rtJMln ow thesaved pismires and unmnfflledcnra would Singand growl at their saviour . ( Loud cheers . ) Hivl tW _% ™ - _tUnZht

      , _lif _etf & 2 ? r % ** _A _SIressffn _? , ™ , _S should be an equitable Ind nniver . _S _™™« _5 - * class me _«»» . Ulways told yon , _StifitoSr ? _^ 2 d f U Ma P « wMcte « . are _tHHSKT ? theear _<> fthose who . _peculat _. in eora— . hat , before you an a y ear older , von will **

      _SffSf _¦™ der _*&* _M » "ter ; and ; _whenUia selling for this , the man without a penny to buy it _rtSL » .- *? - objeo _£ of , 6 _«* ter commiseration than he who _w now forced , bnt able , to giro a sail _, hng for a small loaf . « Cheap * and- dear' are _relative jV Y , hea _* ~ ee wheat glutting the market , and when yon are starving in a cook ' s shop , you will remember ay words . My friends , these are the » _djnstments I want ; bnt the Whig s won't grant them . They are the most incompetent of all _nartieitn

      ey are tne most cowardly of all partiesthey are tho most deceitful of all nar _; e . ' ( _Chaera . ) The Whi S s , don't attack a grievance , but theyattackaparty . They won't say to the _Dissen ters , W _« will relieve you from the _r-avmenr « f t « hea ; " butthey say to the Landlord _?^ ' We wSl _enabloyen to live upon a little bit of Clmrohwoperty ; yon are alittlestronger than tho _pW _? - ? yeu . " _-Thaf snot principle , H » _ w _£ _T 0 _* dttto ii transferring _theburden j _^ m ?„« 'J ? l ? * ' Ifc _« a « _aassss

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      back with a sack of potatoes beforo him . The animal stumbled , whereon the man aaid , " _Wisha , by my _aotvl , my poor baste , —I think ye're tired , I'll cany the praties myself . " _Tbua saying , he took the sack on his shoulders , but still continued riding on tha horse . ( Much laughter . ) Thus it is with the removal of a bit of the hump from the landlords ' back . These are doings which you must bear in mind—tilings whichl wish v ou to oarry home . Now , let us see what onr principles do . In a poor parish last year I spent £ 500 a week in labour ; now I am spending £ 690 ; and , erelong , I shall spend £ 8 , 000 a week . I ask you , then , whether this practical Chartism , or theoretical Whiggery , or exemplary Free-Trade , is best ! We meet with all kinds of

      opposition , and all sorts of objections . One man says , •* Tou can new get land enough . " I eould get ton _rniilia-ns' worth of land if I had the money . It is said again , "But they won't let you have the land at a fair price" I made £ 1 , 350 profit of one estate , which , however , Idid not pocket , but gave to you ; and could have made profit out of every estate I nave bought . Others say , "tbat tradesmen , artificers , and others unaccustomed to agricultural labour won't be able to work . " It takes a man seven years to learn to make a pair of shoes , but a tailor may Stick a cabbage in half a minute . ( Cheers and laughter . ) " That , " you may Day , "is only anas * _sertion , " But what is the fact ? Why , the wearers , the tailorsand the shoemakers are the best farmers

      , I have on my colony . The women work with the pick-axe , and work well too , and say they prefer it to the shuttle . Ia not this cultivating the resources of the country ? All op by daylight , and think the day too short . Isn't that more healthy than the rattle-box ? There ia a school , too , at the end of the estate , and the people have themselves the election and dismissal of the sohoolmaater . If tbe man dares to interfere with the others * religious worship , he is at once sent about his business . Now , ftat a realising the old maxim of the despotic prince , whioh is apposite and good : —There was a tyrant who was anxious to discover theexact strength of a mas . He desired a slave to come to his treasury , and loaded him with a heavy sack of gold . The slave staggered

      nnder it , and fell . He then made him get np and carry it again . The man did so , but soon rested , " I can't carry it farther , " at last said the slave . "Take it , "said the prince , " 'tis your own . " He immediately put it on his back , and walked away with it . ( Laughter . ) Now , my friends , many parties call you idle and dissipated , butas soon as I have put a heavy sack upon your back , laden with the fruits of your own industry , I don't find that there ' s any- idleness in the working classes . ( Rear . ) You are called vicious . Close the door of vice , then , and open the door of morality , and I will warrant your vice will never enter the poor man ' s cottage . As soon as I opened the market for you , the market became full . Where was tbe inducement to tbe poor

      man , who through life could never amass enough to pet a bit of meat on the Sunday , to be frugal ? When the market was open—when tbere was a demand for virtue—there was an ample supply came to my stall ; and I now proclaim it with _pleasure , that , out ofthe £ 50 , 000 sent to _purchase land , £ 30 , 000 has been rescued from the gin-palace and tbe beer-shop . Then , I ask , at all events , am I a dissipated man , when I have thus rescued innocence from the inducements and temptations of life ? _flo ; you are now living virtuously and frugally , tbat you may live honestly hereafter , while the Queen npon her throne , and tha placemen and pensioners that surround her , aw living a life of dissipation , drunkenness , and debauchery . Yes , stop drunkenness

      tomorrow , and tha throne falls the next day s stop prostitution , and there is an end to immorality in the country . Who are tbe most virtuous f then , who the most frugal ? those who live on the dissipation , or those who try to destroy that dissipation in order that the people may live upon the fruits of their own industry ? Some of the middle classe have joined our association . One gentleman , worth £ 100 , 000 , has ten shares ; another highly respectable individual has ten . Several poor curates , too , look upon four acres of land , at a fair rent , as a better dower than £ 70 a year , for damning their Catholic brethren . We have several young parsons with us ; but none of them shall preach their own creed in my churches ; they shall keep all that to themselves . It has been

      said , " Ay , but you are entrapping us . ' If lam , 1 am the biggest fool amongst you ; because I spend none of your money , and work twelve or thirteen , and sometimes fifteen hours a day for you —( hear , hear )—and never a day for anybody else . ( Cheers . ) Some men say , " But can we live upon two acres ?" Others say . ** Can he lire upon three , or upon four acres _?* ' Show me a man who cannot live upon the proceeds of his own industry—a man who can consume all he can produce in the year , and I will say the principle is wrong . Then show me the man who can cultivate two acres ef ground in the year . It is not to be done . I have a quarter of an acre of ground in a garden ; and I contend , without fear of contradiction , that no man , his wife , and four children , will

      consume in fire months what is in that quarter of an acre . I defy contradiction . I am not one of your railway projectors—I am a practical farmer . For eleven years I cultivated over 600 acres of my own land , and employed more than 130 men . It was the knowledge I derived from that experience that bronght me to the determination to make myse-f the patriarch of the poor man . ( Cheers . ) "Oh , " but say some , "Feargus O'Connor , like others , will be bribed . " Lord Chesterfield says every man will be bribed , if you come np to his price . I admit it . I will be bribed ; but then my price will be Annual Parliaments , Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Equal Representation , no Property Qualification , Payment of Members , and a nest fer every man who will labour

      for his liviner . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) When tbat is bid , I'll knock you all down for it . Independently of this , I am out of my own pocket . You will remember that Sir Robert Peel said that the science of agriculture was only in its infancy . I bave been determined to test this , and have offered labour-premiums to the poor on my own estates . I have determined to give premiums of £ 7 , £ 5 , and £ 3 , to the most industrious men on the several home colonies . That will be some inducement for them . That ' s better than the bastile , better than the gaol , better than the county court , better than all the Whigs have promised you , better than all tbatthe Tories have done for you . ( Hear , hear . ) We are now upon the ere of a ( treat struggle . As for

      myself , I hare no doubt f shall get into Parliament for somewhere . ( Hear . ) 1 am determined , at all events , not to sneak through the back door . I am determined never to go to Parliament unleBsIhare the whole people with me , electors as well as non-electors . I think the shopkeepers of Norwich , if they look around them and bestir themselves—if they will but analyse matters—if they look at the system of feeding the powerful upon the powerless—will come to the conclusion tbat it ia their duty to assist the poor electors of Norwich , not to return the Marquis of Donro or Mr Peto ; but to return two men of uncompromising principles , who will give Labour its just rights . My friends , they call me a physical-force man . Whr . thev have no richt to call

      me such , while they fiauntme with visions of warriors before and on eaoh side of me . Why should they stick up warriors here as emblems of greatness , with swords and trappings , and then despise me and say I am a physical-force man ? But it is fair , as a stranger , never having been here before—and as , in all probability , my character will be taken from what you see of me to-night—it is fair , as your leader , that I should divulge my princi ples on that question . What I have always said is this—that moral power ia the deliberative quality in each man ' s mind Which teaches him how to reason and how to endure , aud wheu forbearance becomes a . crime . If that should fail to achieve all that man is justly entitled to , if physical force be needed , ( whicb God

      forbid !) it will then come to its aid like an eleotrio shock . These bare always been my notions . Itis , however , curious that we should hare been denounced _asphysical-foroemen , when all the physical force is on the other side . I was taken to prison at the point of the bayonet , and have been on several occasions thus escorted ; and three hundred poor men were led to prison at the point of the bayonet . Ah 1 friends , when I have a national militia of 100 , 000 landsmen , all sober and industrious men , who will fly to the cry of " My cottage is in danger ! " with more alacrity than the mercenary runs to the cry of " The Church is in danger ! " there will be no thought of physical force , because these hundred thousand-militiamen will then have a fair share in the representation of their

      opinions . I never anticipated " that the workingclasses wonld be able to purchase enough land to locate all ; but I did , and do , anticipate that no government will be able to pass over tbis Land movement when they see people thus struggling for their own means of livelihood , without either resisting that struggle or co-operating in its achievement . Within the last fortnight I have purchased 570 acres of land—the primest land in England . On this I shall locate , on the 10 th of August , _forty-five more men in their own abodes . Every man of two acres gets £ 15 capital ; every man of throe acres , £ 22 10 s . , * and every man of four acres , £ 30 . He only pays five per oent . on the purchase money . Now , landlords are considered to be the _greatest tyrants ; and so they are . ( Hear , hear . ) You never can get the amount of land you reauire .

      it you want to buy a pound of sugar you oan buy it but you must give sevenpence a pound for it ; while the man who buys a hogshead can get it for _three-SSttSft _^ U _* _^ _» n the whoSe _^ StlSLiS ? Th" _* _etailmrMat « _ta « _" » priee . n _t ueen . ) Thus , if I want a hundred aerp _« nf Land I gire £ 5 , 000 for it- £ 50 ii _^^ i _^ u _% _,-Sr- yo Wou ! d have t 9 Pay £ » 00 for it . _monev VJF * " _" _l _**» " _^ e-half the 2 Land has never been brought into theretail marKet . Landlords have their privileges , manorial power , and the like . Their political power was ot greater value than their manorial rights , or their landed tenantry . For instance , let us take Lord Wharj __ _cliffe--he has £ 10 , 000 a year in land . He might , by leasing it out in small parcels , double his rent ; but _hcuajs , "It is better to have £ 10 , 000 a year in land and £ 30 , 000 in patronage and power , than £ 20 , 000 a year only in land . " Thus , pride

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      operated and the purse operated m the matter . But some one says , "Look to your own country and the _smaU-farm system . " There is no such thing in Ireland as the smaU-farm system . In Ireland the grievance is want of tenure , and that if an Irishman takes ten acres at a pound an acre , and makes them woi th thirty shillings an acre , his ! _ _»•* __ « " *«» 8 f * up to the highest bidder . That ' s the difficulty in Ireland , and not the _small-farm system . With us no man oan dispossess you , for every man gets , his lease for ever ; itis Wa own , and no "man car , eject him . Now , I believe tbe Election C ' _ommi _toto taken these things intoconsideratipn . I be » eretney are determined to continue their exertions . My friends , don't get into another compromm A can

      wU _& ri _^^^^ _ablo to you , and who ought also to be acceptable to ? h ? fcnterS-a man who will bare courage to _represent you-a man who will serve you . 1 pledge myself that you shall hare a proper candidate , and _Umv mistLce be necessary , if my presence will be at all an auxiliary to your success ,, you have only to call me , and I will come . ( Cheers . ) Not that I wish your voices for myself , because I am otherwise _ens _^ d , but . I willlew and endeavour to establish the title of a gentleman whom I shall recommend to your _auffraees . Therefore , don't again be deceived -don't again be tampered with —don ' t allow a base compromise . ( Hear . ) You may be sure that the greatest danger that could befall this country would be one of two

      thingscither to return a ' large majority of free-traders , or a large majority of protectionists , to the next parliament . If , on the one hand , you return a _m-yority of free-traders , yon must remember tbat the principle only has been acknowledged ; tbey will apply only those details that will give benefit to Capital and destroy the power oi Labour . On the other haad , you must hare a majority of land-traps—of Bentincks , who more backwards , and wonld undo Free-trademen who ought to havo lived in the sixteenth century . Why , when we were learning politics , Lord George was sweating his jockies in the dunghill . What can he know about politics ? And what does Disraeli know about politics , —the man who has offered himself to all parties , and isn't ' worth the

      purchase of any ? You must look to honest , upright , uncompromising men , who will not hesitate to avow the principles they profess . Ireland is now being with us , Scotland was always with ub . If we are but true to ourselves—if I am enabled to place those _eloquentpropounders of our principles , more eloquent than myself—in every county of England , then , 1 ask , where is the fear for Democracy ? where the dread for Chartism ? Show me 500 acres of land witbin three miles of Norwich for a fair price , and no man shall take it from me . ( Cheers . ) Show me an estate in Norfolk near to you and dear to you , and there I will bring _sanitaty improvements home to you—there 1 will bring the bill of health to your own doors—tbere the god of Justice shall be perched upon

      your chimneys . That ' s what I propose to do for the working olasses . In that I bare spent a fortune . I have always told you what the character of a true patriot should be—that he should live usefully and dioa pauper . I know not whether I hare lived usefully as jet . As yet , I should not die a pauper ; but if I had a million of money to-morrow , every farthing of it should be spent in land on which to locate the honest labourers of England and Ireland . ( Loud cheers . ) I suppose there are some Irishmen here . They will understand me if I ask tbem what effect it would hare upon the literature of Ireland , upon the morality of Ireland , npon the politics , upon the liberty of Ireland , if tbere were 8 thousand Tipperary men going to take possession of a

      thousand cottages with four acres of land each r Would not that be a moral lesson to all Europe ? If I could see the demagogues and leaders of Ireland marching not in their _gew-gaws and corporate gowns , but in tbeir fustian jackets , to instal a thousand labourers into a thousand cottages , with their own capital , I should say that was tbe mode of emancipating Ireland . ( Hear and cheers . ) Remember if this doesn't come from England , it will come from America . America is half Irish in numbers—all Irish in feeling . Do you think that these stalwart men will be paltry beggars at yonr door and thank you for sixpence in the pound of what you hare plundered them ? No , Ireland doesn't want your sympathy — she doesn't want your charity .

      All she wants is " Ireland for the Irish , and England for the . English . " ( Cheers . ) Ireland doesn ' t want to pay Protestant parsons for damning the Catholic people . Irishmen den't want to see their mother earth smoking with the blood of their innocent children , sacrificed at the shrine of Protestantism . The Irish have been called murderers . There never was a mnrder committed in which the murdered man had not committed a hundred before , by mercilessly thrusting his vietims on the road side to perish from want , or to be relieved by the fostering hand of the pauper . If every Irishman had fire acres of land and a cottage of his own , I will promise you that , as the Irish of old gare literature to the world , so the Irish of this

      day would give morality , good habits , and customs tothe world likewise . I have stated upon this platform of England for fifteen years that , if I could help it , Englishmen should nerer hare their rights an hour before Irishmen had theirs . Now we are marshalled in this cause , we are determined to go forward . It will now bo more difficult than erer to amalgamate the two parties . The Bentinck landtraps will always hare a large number in the house . Peel will be obliged to join _Rusaell . but then JOU can't bave two Prime Ministers . It may be tbat Sir Robert Peel will go orer and be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; but then you may rely upon it that the hatred of Peel will makeBentinok andDisraeli oppose _everything he proposes , and Peel , on the other hand .

      will oppose everything they bring forward . So that your rights aro bandied abont between angry children . We are to be the shuttlecock between these two battledores . It is very hard for you who create all this to be Bet aside ; but it is still harder to think that I should be working for you , if you don't work for yourselves . Every hour of my life is devoted to your service . Let not , then , this be the holiday of Idleness ; let it be the labour of Freedom . Let every man say , " Why should I rote for Wellington ' s son , or for Peto ?"—the man who has given you a political fabric three stories high , three distinct _addresses , _and , like a thorough builder , he has not made one of them of the same symmetry and architecture- He has given yoa a piece of non descript architecture . It could

      not be better analysed than in a leading article in the Norfolk Newt , Read that analysis for yourselves , and you will see what Mr Peto promises to do for you . If you allow yourselves to be deceired , blame yourselves ; don't blame Mr Peto , nor me . Recollect what an Irish member said to his constituents : "When he bribed them he sold them . " "Would you sell your country , Mr Bennett , " said they to him . " Ay , " said [ he , " and d glad am I that I have a country to sell . " If Mr Peto buys you , don't blame him if he sells you . lie has a right to do so . If the Marquis buys you . he has a right to sell you , because you are his stock-in-trade ; he has speculated in you , If you wish to have your Charier , your labour field , your nest from which no bird of prey can hunt you , from whioh no tyrant landlord can eject you , rote

      for that man only who will rote for " the Land and Charter . ( Cheers . ) I hare been devoting my time to agricultural pursuits , * but now that we are said to be dead I am aroused again , and I intend , as in olden times , to be ererrwhere , ( Cheers . 11 began it young ; they hare tried me seven times , imprisoned me , persecuted me , but I stand here defying _oppression . ( Loud deerg . ) I am living down prejudice ( Wilberforce was the only man before me who did this ) , and I hope , ere long , to see our fields bedecked with the hives of industrious bees . When I see you happy in your houses , your wires witb cheerful looks instead ofthe dejected eye and wan countenance ; wheu I see your smiling children with all the bloom of youth nnd the freshness and loveliness of infancy

      upon tbem , I may , with pride , exclaim , " This , this , my work „ is done ! " ( Loud applause . ) If you will still be dissipated , and still prefer going to the gin palace or the beer shop rather than follow me in frugality , then , in God's name , I say , perish 2 If , on the other hand , you abandon the gin palaces and beer shops , you may yourselves purchase your freedom . I do not want you to do as the infuriated Chartists did , by adopting physical-force . That was mock Chartism ; and no man could have suffered more from their own folly than I did . I alwayssaid that no commonalty , n » body of men erer yet derived any benefits from a physical force revolution . I always told you that when the last shot was fired the middle classes stepped in and proclaimed victory , and that the

      badge of tyrannyand slavery was more tightly and _oppressirely fixed round your necks . Now , you have moral power enough if you hare abstinence enough . You require no physical force , except for your spade , your sickle and your scythe . What I am now seeking to do is to elevate you—to establish the position of all other classes of society by making yours Becure . 1 have always declared myself for the altar , the throne and the cottage ; but I wish to see the altar the footstool of God instead of the couch of Mammon . I wish to see the throne supported upon the affections of the people , instead of upon the lust of the aristocracy . I wish to see the cottage the castle of the freeman instead of the den ofthe slave . ( Cheers . ) If two are to go and one remain , let altar and throne perish before the _COttace . It is the cottaee that

      supports both . It [ is both unitedly that have _dishonout-edi : tho cottage and driven the working classes into cellars and loathsome dungeons . I think I have now given you a fair development of my principles . I havo done my duty . I will still put my shoulder to tho wheel ; let every man do tbe same . Don't rely upon me ; rely rather upon yourselves . Before wo part , remember I don't come hero at your expense , and I don't go back at your expense . I never travelled a aailo , or ate ft meal at your expense . That ' s my pride and ray boast ; and with tbe blessing of God I will go tothe last altornative , into the jaws of tke Poor Law bastile rather than live upoB the gratuity of overtaxed Labour , ( Loud and continued applause . ) A vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman , to F . _. O'Connor , Esq ., and the Mayor , for the use of Hall , the meeting separated .

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      On Sunday morning * at a quarter past _threo o'clock , a _rery destructire fire broke out upon the premises , No . 18 , North-place , Kingsland-road , be . longing to Mr Charles Truste , _ooffeehouso-keeper . The flames originated in tke-. cellar and rapidly extended up the staircase to the fint and second floors , destroying in tbeir progressthe furniture and wearing apparel contained therein . The engines promptly attended , but the fire by that period had broken through the roof , and for somo time the destruction of the adjoining buildings appeared certain . Plenty of water , howerer , having been obtained from the mains in thedistrict , a powerful stream wassoattercd orer the _flsmes , which completely _tubdued tbem by fire o clock , but not before considerable damage was done . Fortunately Mr Trust waa insured in the at

      - * « - » *¦ . Sun Fire office . A spark from a lighted oandle _, it is supposed , was the cause of the disaster . —The same morning , about one o ' clock , a fire broke out in the workshops of Mr R . MartoR , millwright and engineer , situate in Fox-lane , Shadweil . Owing to tbe timely assistance afforded the fire was soon extinguished . —A third fire broke out at half-past three o ' clock on Sunday afterooon , upon the premises in occupation of Mr Jacket , oil and eolourman , No . 2 d , James-street , _Covent . garden . The engines of the London brigade attended , when the firemen found tbat a large beam in the back parlour had become ignited from a defect in the chimney , and the flames were pouring out ; with such fury that if a few minutes longer had elapsed before the discovery was made ,

      tne entire buuaing must nare oeen destroyed , as it was , the firemen were unable to get tbe fire _extinguishsd without pulling down the wainscot and cutting away the beam . —On Tuesday afternoon a fire broke out upon the estate belonging to Mr Roper , Forest Hill , Sydenham . It originated in a stack of hay , and waa caused by some children playing with lucifer matches . A considerable amount tf property was destroyed , which it is understood was not insured . About half-past four on the same afternoon a fire was discovered burning in the premises belonging to Mr T . Butts , currier , 7 , Union-street , Spitalfields . The upper portion of Mr Butts' building , where the fire commenced , was burned out , and the ceilings below ware damaged by _watar and fire . The premises of Mr Broomhead

      adjoining , were also injured . Fortunately both parties were insured . —Two , other fires occurred during the afternoon : one at 5 , Queen-street , Seren Dials , and the other at 3 . Mercers-street , Long-acre . Owing to the timely assistance afforded , the damage done in both the latter cases was not considerable . Fatal Fioht . —An inquest was held before Mr Payne , on Tuesday , at Guy ' s Hospital , on the body of George Rodaway , aged 31 . John Wilson , baker , of Pepper-street , Borough , said tbat on Tuesday morning last , at four o ' clock , he went into a coffeehouse in Union-street , Borough , and saw the deceased quarrelling with a young man named Wm . Johnson . In a few minutes they went out to fight , and in tbe first and only round the deceased gare

      Johnson a blow on tho eye which knocked him down . The deceased said that he had put bis knuckles out of joint by the force ofthe blow , and complained much ofthe pain . The policeman then came up and parted them . The next morning he told witness again tbat he had hurt himself rery much . Both men were intoxicated . Mr George Ilother , the house-surgeon , said the deceased was admitted on Friday with inflammation of the veins of the left arm , and died on Sunday last . A post mortem examination disclosed matter ill the lungs and the veins of the left arm , and pleurisy of both sides of the chest . This arose from an injury to the arm and hand . The jury returned a rerdict of " Accidental death . "

      Pbwtbbs' Aimshousb Fo . _in . —On Monday even ing , the fifth annual meeting of the friends and subscribers to the _abore fund took place in the theatre of the London Mechanics' Institution , T . S . Duneombe , Esq ., M . P ., presiding , Messrs flauBard , Nicholls , and several other influential members ef the trade being present . The report , which was read by the Honorary Secretary , and unanimously adopted , showed that with the previous balance , the receipts of the past year amounted to £ 2 , 035 7 s ; 3 ( J „ andtheexpenditurewas £ 27 , leaving a balance applicable to the erection of almshouses , Ac ., of £ 2 , 008 7 s . 3 d . In addition to subscriptions since received , tbe committee had received £ 50 from the executors of thb late W . S . Praed , Esq ., and various

      other subscriptions , including those ofthe daily and weekly journals , and had negotiated for a plot of ground at Wood-green , Ilornsey , adjoining that of the Fishmongers' and Poulterers ' , for £ 450 , proposing to erect thereon six almshouses , containing two rooms each , to accommodate twelre pensioners , with library , die ., ( a beautiful plan exhibited . ) The library was expected to be completed by the aid of several friends who had promised their aid , and for the endowment , i . e ., for coals , die ., a subscription it w » s expected could be raised , the amount required not being more than £ 250 a year -, —it had been

      suggested tothe Caxton Fund Committee to erect their monument in the quadrangle of the above institution . A resolution empowering the committee to purchase the site , and proceed to the erection of the almshouses , was unanimously carried , with the addenda , on the suggestion of the chairman , ( Mr Duneombe , ) after severely commenting on the recent reception by the Lords of the non-separative clause in the English Poor-law Bill , that accommodation be provided _fortwelro pensioners " and their wives . " Thanks having been accorded to the various officers , and the chairman of the evening , wbich was duly acknowledged , the meeting broke up .

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      1 ANCA 3 _HIBB . _^ Livbbpooi .. —Thb Fever . —In addition to the deaths from fever mentioned last week , the Rev . William Dale , of St Mary ' s , Edmund-street , died on the evening of Saturday week . He is the eighth victim to the pestilence amongst the Roman Catholic clergy of Liverpool . The Rer . Mr Walker and the _Rer . Mr Wilkinson , who were both unwell , are now rapidly recovering . The Rer . Mr O'Reilly , who a few days ago was considered in great danger , is also convalescent , and daily gaining strength . The recent mortality and sickness amongst the Catholic clergy have interfered with the performance of divine service at the various chapels in the town . _Werejjret

      to state also tbat Mr James Homer , registrar of births and deaths for St Thomas ' s district , died of typhus fever ( caught in the discharge of his duties ) on Tuesday evening , after fire days' illness . His wife is very ill of the same complaint , but we are happy to say that hopes are entertained of herreoo * very . —Liverpool Albion . _Smit-BOATLossss . —Letters received on Tuesday morning from Belfast announce , tbat on Sunday morning last , during a dense fog , the steamers Sea-King , hence , and Athlone , from Dublin to Belfast , ran ashore on Maw Island , at the entrance of the Lough . The former is expected to be a total loss ; the latter was got off immediately after the accident but little damaged . No Urea were lest .

      YORKSHIRE . Thb Mibfibld _Murdbbs . —Various rumours have been circulated respecting the nature of the confession offered to be made by M'Cabe . It has been sup . posed by some that it would implicate one or more fema ' eB , while others assert that it would implicate Reid as the man M'Cabe saw when he called at the house . Of course no reliance can be placed upon such statements . The police are still active in the prosecution of inquiries , with a view to strengthen the chain of evidence at the trial ot the prisoners . Some additional evidence ofimportance . it is aaid , has been already obtained . The Secretary of State has offered a reward of £ 100 , and her Majesty ' s pardon , to any pewon , except the real murderer , who will give information that will convict the perpetrator or perpetrators of the horrid crime .

      _DusTBUCtirjs Firb at Halifax . —One ofthe most alarming and destructive fires that has been known for many years occurred at Halifax , on Thursday evening week , at the mill of Messrs James Akroyd and Son , at Bowling Dike . r Thc fire _originated ir , the garret , which was used ro * reeling purposes , and was first discovered a little after _m _* _** o ' clock , and in the abort space of little more than an n < m _ the whole was in flames . The mill is entirely gutted , and , we understand , contained from 70 to 100 spinning and drawing frames . One of the engines was preserved entire that was detached from the mill . Tho other is considerably damaged . The property is partly corered by insurance . It is almost impossible to estimate the amount of damage , which is thought cannot be less than £ 30 , 000 . The number of hands thus thrown out of employmen t must be rery considerable .

      _Lbbbs . —Prbvamncb or _Fevkb—We regret to state that we are again unable to report any diminution in the number of cases offerer in this town . The public authorities are exerting themselves to the utmost to counteract the progress of tbo disease . A number of the inmates of tbe infected dwellings ill Wellington-yard , St _Ann's-lane , _Milk-atreet , Gra _* ham-court , _Ebcneser-street , die , dsc , have been removed , and on Saturday , no less than forty of these were admitted into the "Victoria Mill , which is now being fitted up as a fever hospital . —Leeds Mercury .

      _boBOBD RaiWAT SoHip—At the Leeds Stock Exchange on _iuesday _. au announcement was made that another forgery of railway scrip had been discovered South Yorkshire ( _Doncastor , _Goole , Ac ., ) Railway hKSF ' " _H tated _'K _^ _uteriWcheqS \ !? _nTnauPf IH tbe count it than in the genuine amp and that there is no full point or period alter the letters "for £ 20 shares . " The paper is of an interior quality , and the printing ia not so well executed as the gonuine scrip .

      SURBEV . _kXTRAORDINAnT _OcCUBBBaNCB AT THE SuBBB _** _Coujiit Lunatic Asylum . —On Saturday an inquest

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      was held beforo W . Carter , Esq ., and a ' J ( _^ ing ofthe principal tradesmen ofWaj , (* a'L _^* ' James Burden , a pauper inmate of thc _SirtJrf _?? tic Asylum . Mr S . Bridgelaml _deposo-i that *• ' * _- clerk and _tttewsid at that asylum , ? , nd tN ' 4 . ' wag a pauper patient , aged forty-seven , a < . rj _? hr admitted on the 11 th of May last ..--Mr 3 . _jt _\'* _li deposed that he was the resident medion . ' . . ' < .- ° _"' _^ that establishment . Deceased was a _lan & _r'T tient . On the 10 th of June the deceased cam ,, M especially nnder his notice , having an inflam e _^ with erysipelas . Next morning , upon vi . jt , _y _ ceased , he found him rery riolent , and stark m It had been necessary to keep the deceased in » M by himself , he was so destructive and _riolenl _;!** w ! was held rjefore W' flarler . End ., and ft ' b _« _° &

      actions . Soon after his admission he had t _^ _'l the whole of his bedding , and wholly' _dest-awll iron bedstead , iron window frame , oVo _. On ( h ' 1 lowing Sunday witness again saw the _del _^ He was suffering from diarrhiBa , and in a state nl haustion . He complained of great chilliness M _ness gare him an opiate pill , with a little p . ' rt _* 1 and sago , which he ordered to be repeated , if \ 3 m not rally . He saw him again at ten o ' clock ; ] , _ -I more comfortable , and he expressed himself twi effect . Witness saw deceased again at ei ght o ' cl ¦ ¦ p . m ., and then found him breathingquickl y ay _? great diffioulty _. and his skin was hot and pulse n _) 1 He then inquired of him how long he had * Z )| that state i Deceased was about to answer , ffhen J attendant , John Steel , remarked that he ( decejl had made a strange complaint to Sir Alexande _^ ¦ • . ., _ * if ...... ., , . * . * 4 _"_ to the institutionthat

      _rison , the physician , he _|§ been illuaed by him , Steel . Witness was indue .. examine the deceased , and he discovered that _hVm a broken rib on the right side nnder the muscles . _*» back ; he discovered two lacerated contusions < m | right side of the body , anteriorly , but not to _anr & H _siderabie extent . On the 13 th ult . he died fro __ J llammation of thc pleura and right lung , being hM by a fractured rib . Witness had endeavoured J ascertain under what circumstances that fractJj occurred , but nothing had arisen out of his _inquiriJ Deceased was decidedly of unsound mind . The jej after a lengthened investigation , returned t _* aeij | lowing verdict : —" That the deceased died of in _^ U mation ot the lungs , set up by a fractured rib , y > caused unknown . " We understand a rery rigid "J quiry is to be instituted into the whole of the < jl _cumstances by a committee of county magistrate ! , 1

      80 MEBSBISB 1 BB . _ | S Mubdbk at a _Pbike-Fioht . —At the police c ( m »| at Chandos-hous ? , on Saturday , two men , * f > am «_ _fS Maurice Perry and Samuel Crawley , werecommillij' ! by the county magistrates for the wilful murder fl one of the Bathampton police , under circurastan sa | of great brutalit _** . On Monday last , early h _gj evening , two navigators employed in the neighbor-., ' _!? hood , on the Wilts and Somerset Railway , had ail quarrel , and , failing to settle it hy means wo _^ fl adjourned to an adjoining field , at Bathampton , jjt § fight it out ; the prisoners and two others aoting M seconds . An organised ring was formed and a httM mob collected , when , after a few rounds , John Bait' * ( the deceased ) and another policeman forced ti . r _ . ljj way between the combatants and desired tbem _tM desist fighting and disperse . The prisoners wmM _uvDiov ii ( uiiua hum _uiopviowi « uv _|/ _iiovucto _Wuuitvfi

      _^ _diately pushed the officers hack , where tbey h _^ them , the men mill fighting . The constables sgii . _« attempted to interfere , when tbey were _instant knocked down , the prisoners kicking them unmet . ' ?? : _cifully about tbe head and body . Bailey almost irj . _^ mediately expired . Several witnesses clearly _idet-. tu tilled the prisoners as the parties who committ _^ an . the outrage ; Crawley being described as holding tfei _* unfortunate man down by kneeling on his _chen / _ft * whilst Perry kicked him about tbe head an . | f _ j stomach . The deceased told them on entering tkt _* ring thst he was a police constable , and was _boua to put a stop to the disturbance , Tbe prisoners , * k _& made no defence , were committed to tne county gruj _, | l on the capital charge . " A verdict of " WilfalS murder" has been returned at the coroner ' s inque _* t , _J"f held on Friday . The deceased constable bas left ifl wife and large family . It appears that the bratiK _™

      practice of prize-fighting is again becoming i _" rcQuent _ jfi in some parts of the country . The Leeds Mercury of "» Saturday says;— " We should not allude to such an- * exhibition , but to make one observation . A _priie-jTj fight took place on Wednesday , on Baildon _Moo-y 3 S between Donelly of Manchester , and Askey of Bii . _gj mingham , when , after 32 rounds , _occupying-oneliDtiT _« and eight minutes , tbe latter prored the victor . _| _g New , although this fight , and . the place where _itoc-jS curred , waa known some time previous , not a _con-al stable of Baildon or anywhere _elso interfered . Qlm late several prize-fights have taken place unmolested jgg by the authorities on Baildon Moor . We call tht _f $ attention of the magistracy of the district to the cul- m _pable neglect of the constabulary . Above 1 , 000 per .. « sous were present , most of them the lowest opera- m tires , whom it would hare beseemed better to hare m been at their work . " «

      D 8 _VON 8 HIBE . | | Thb Food Rioters webb tried at the county and iffi city , sessions , Exeter , last week . At the countj M sessions alone there were 180 prisoners in the caleii- if dar , the arerage number on such occasions being S | about 100 . Many of the rioters pleaded guilty . The M sentences were _rarious , the majority being short m terms of _imnrisonment . _H _»

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      The National Association for the Roform of _Excisi I _nbuses is prosecuting a rigorous agitation through- . jut the provinces . A large meeting bas been held i in Glasgow , and there , as in the ease of all the other £ places visited by deputations , district association- ; _ have been formed with the view of keeping up the * igitation . «¦ . r

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      ana Jbriends' Com * too _mittees for the relief of Irish distress hare issued i | two documents—the first containing the half-yearly t _« account of receipts and disbursements from the 1 st ffl of January to the 1 st of July , * the second , the re- it ! ceipts only in money and food from the United States ff _ up to tbe latter period . The whole amount of money W received by the central body waa £ 69 , 43 ° , of vthieh $ £ o 6 , 000 was thus distributed : Leinster , £ 7 , 140 ; « t £ l 52 i 5 Ulst £ 10

      M 1 _™ ' _,. > ; er , , 190 ; Connaugbt , _« i ± . 19 , 060 ; leaving a balance of some £ 5 , 000 in favour W ofthe committee , It iamo & t creditable to the die- cc tnbutors of this fund that the expenses of mauaee- aa ment amounted to no more than £ 480 . The So- fifi ciety of Friends publish an immense list of receipts tt m detail . The money contributions reach £ 14 , 676 , tt and about 60 , 000 barrels of corn meal , besides a very ii largo quantity of other produce such as Indian com aa and meal , wheat and rye flour , peas and beans . The is a

      _acknowledgments are published for the outgoing tt packet , which sails in a few days . . <¦ * All advances under the Temporary Relief Act will «« bo discontinued in the first fortnight ot August . The tt relief commissioners have so intimated to the poorlaw commissioners . ' ' DKSPRKATK ATTEMPT AT MURDKH . - The BaUinasloe Star contains the following : — " A daring and unprovoked attempt was made on Friday ¦ j week to assassinate William Haokett . Esq ., of Red- ¦• wood ¦

      . He was returning to his residence , on his ' jaunting oar , with his wife , between eight and nine ' o clock , and when within about a mite of Redwood , distant about five miles from Portumna , two men jumped from a fence , and ordered him to stop , upon which one of the men undisguised presented a _double-barrel gun at him , and the ether _maB , who waB disguised , presented a pistol . Mr Hackett im- mediately jumped from his car , closed in upon thra , , and struck at them with his whip ; The gun and I pistol were discharged—one shot took effect , and 1

      lacerated the side of " Mr Hackett ' s mouth and neck ' ' profuse bleeding followed , and the men retreated . MrHaekett , although wounded , would have pursued , , as he carrieal fire-arms , had not his horse attempted A to run away with Mrs Hackett . He , therefore , ' , hurried in to Portumna . The sufferer is as well as « can be expected , and hopes are entertained of bis is recovery .

      Length Or The Human Hair.—The Ordinary L...

      Length or the Human Hair . —The ordinary length h of the hair ofthe head , as deduced from its measure- ementin women , ranges between twenty inches and id a yard , the latter being considered as Unusually long , _g-But in some instances the length is much greater-, r ; as iu the case of a lady in whom , I am informed , it it measures two yards , and trails on the ground when en she stands erect . When , howerer , hair is kept pt closely _shuved , it appears to become persistent , and nd at the Bamu time increases in strength and bulk . It It ! ba 9 been calculated by a curious investigator ( Withof ) of ) I that the hair of the beard grows at the rate of one me line and a half in the week ; this will give a length ; th

      ot six mclies and a half in the course of a year , and md for a man of _eji-tity years of age , twenty-seven feeteet ; which have fallen before the edge of the razor . Such _ich i an amount of growth appears in nowise remarkable , Ae , , wben we learn from Eble that in the prince ' s court urt i at liiadam there is a full-length painting of a car- jar- penter whoso beard was nine feet long , bo that when lien i engaged at work he was obliged to carry it in a bag ; ag ; ; and that the _burgomeister , ilnns Stomingen , hav-iav- - mix upon one occasion forgotten to fold up his beard , -rd , I , woo . upon it as he ascended the staircase leading to- to o the council chamber of Brunn , and was thereby : cby y thrown down and killed . —Wilson on the Skin .

      _hxPLOsios of a Bau , oo » . —Nabiiow _Esou's . — Mr-Mr Ir Gy _» 8 on , thc aeronaut , _. _tccompanied by Mr Albettbett ct Smith , Mr Coxwell , and Mr Pridmoro , made a _noc-noc- _cturnal ascent in a balloon from Vauxhall-gardeBS , on _ , on it Tuesday last with fireworks , which were _dischargedrged h from the balloon at a great elevation with _majjnifi-jnin * & cent effect . At one o ' clock , however , great _couster-ster-ir nation _iras crcnted in the gardens by a rumour that that , a the balloon had exploded ; bnt in a few minutes afteraftere the alarm was dissipated by the safe arrival of th « theh aeronauts themselves . It appears that somo _explo-xplo-lo sion du ) take place , but Mr Gypson says it was _afterafterte tho discharge of all the fireworks ; and ho _attributerbutette it to the elcotriaity in the thunderstorm ; but hiiit h < h effected a safe descent near _Belgrave-road shortljortljtl alter one o ' clock : tho balloon at tho time tho acci _accijc dent occurred being , it appears , near the surface , ia .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10071847/page/6/