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THE POPE AND THE AUTOCRAT . r 0 iiU M _>* S APPEAL TO EUROPE , " Though Poland mourns ; She shall not die ; Her watch-fire burns Ana Mp is nigh . _Tierrnfiled eagle speeds from shore to shore , Xfll nations rise to bid her weep no more . " ' The impo rlant _articie _k 0111 on _* _French contem _tZl'Jldier , which appeared in our last number P . _jre know , been read with thrilling interest by _k 3 _^ _.- nf onr readers , and , we donbt not , has been _Sndfid to by alL The terrible , but too true , nes of the martyrdom of the priest _Sciegexn * 51 the patriot Leviiocx , cannot fail to excite _^ _rtHUThont Britain the bitterest indignation towards _tiT oBPressors of Poland , and the liveliest sympathy ot those
_^ the Unhappy "victims remorseless _opjessors . Rightly docs onr French contemporary _f of _Sicbolas , " He martyrizes the Catholics _be-5 j « e thev refuse to abjure their faith , and to _re-SUise hiin as their spiritual chief ; he puts to death _rte Poles because they refuse to acknowledge him as ? heir king . and so _* " _* _eaveer , as a * 1 executioner , sever terminates . " With the Catholic religion we wc no communion nor sympathy ; rightly or _vxongly , in all sincerity , we hold it to be one ofthe tnost _^ _pernicions systems of priestly delusion and _Dliestly domination ever invented to keep the minds and bodies of men in ignorance aud thrall . But so _Re lieving , we , nevertheless , respect _thesincerity ofthe _rrcatmassof those who belong to the Catholic Church , _^ nd hold as sacred the right of that church ' s members to celebrate their forms of worship , and act , in all respects , with the fullest liberty , which a due regard
for the hberty of others will admit of , Opponents of all churches and priests ourselves , we , nevertheless , claim for all churches and priests full freedom of conscience . Toleration is a word we despise , implying , as it does , a cowardice that fears to be honest , and a tyranny that would , if it dared , exhibit its oppressive character to the fnlL Liberty , entire and perfect liberty , we claimfor all men ; both in matters civil and religions . We demand that liberty for ourselves , and we demand it not less for others . Not the most zealous lloman Catholic , therefore , can more sincerely denounce the horrible persecution of the ¦ _ Basiliannnns than we do . Not the most zealous believer in Peter ' s saccessor could more readily twave all , in defence of his Catholic sisters and brethren of Poland , than we would do , was it in our power to show how _trulywe burn to aid in avenging their wrongs and sufferings .
Bat we cannot say that we concur with onr French contemporary in desiring to see a renewal of the crusades directed against Russia . Regarding war as one of the very greatest of evils , we certainly regard a religions , or what is called a " holy war , " aa the most frightful , andthe most to he deprecated . We , as well as tiie writers in VAtelier , " will do aU in onr power to assist at crashing the tyrant of Poland under the chastisement of his crimes , " but we wish to see this effected by other means than the stirring np of nations to a war of fanaticism , for , was such a war once begun , and . thenow oppressed Polish Catholics victorious , the experience of thepagt warns as that they would retaliate with fearful vengeance on the members of the Greek church , and the devotees of each church would be satisfied with nothing short of the extermination of each other , of course , all "for the glory of God . "
What onr French contemporary says respecting the Tope and his alliance with _Nicholss is specially deserving the consideration of eracb . of our readers as may belong to the church of which the Pope i ? the head . The Italian Pope , as bead of the Romish church , declares his to be the only true church of Christ ; the Russian Pope , or Emperor , as head of the Greek chnrch , declares his to be the only true church ; and each _anathematizes the chnrch of the Other as _schismatical , heritical _, and damnable . The Italian Pope is not in a condition to propagate the tenets of his church by fire and sword as many of his predecessors have done , because his temporal power isweak ; butthe Russian Pope , placed at thehead of the most powerful , political , and civil despotism in
the world , has ample power to employ the favourite means of priestly propagation , and these means he does not scruple to use , as tiie accounts e have laid before our readers of ihe horrible persecution of the Catholic Poles abundantly testify . As the heads of rival churches , these two worthies of course hate each other with all that sincerity of hatred which the champions of rival systems of priestcraft have in all ages exhibited : yet despite this mutual hatred , see how these two scourges of the human race coalesce so that they may prop up that tyranny , which , though differing in forms and names , is really "tut the same system of fraud and wrong . The Catholic Poles in their tribulation and snfferinss naturall y turn to the Pope as their spiritual
protector for counsel , aid , and sympathy . The tortured Abbess ., Mieczyslawska , throws herself at the feet of "his Holiness / ' recounts her sufferings , the sufferings of her sisters , and those ot the Polish people generally . The Pope , we are told , hearkened to all those details " with tears in his eyes" ( travellers tell us that even crocodiles shed tears before tearing their victims ); but behold , accompanying this news , \? fc _farl that the autocrat was expected to be in Rome hy the _beaming of December , and that preparations were making to give him a " grand reception . " Thus the Jioly Catholic Pope is about to "fraternise" with the " schismatical" Russian Pope . Why ? Because both tremble for their tottering power , and both , desoite their mutual hatreds , hate and fear liberty
much more than they do each other . The wholesale executions and military barbarities committed on the friends of liberty in Italy by the Pope , are scarcely less monstrous than those committed by Nicholas on the people of Poland . The great difference between the two , is , that the Pope , as temporal sovereign , is a petty contemptible tyrant , whose rale is confined io asmaU space , and whose -victims are consequently few in proportion . Nicholas , on the other hand , lords it over lands of almost illimitable extent ; he rules whole nations with his iron rod ; and , con 8 equently , instead of scores and hundreds , as in Italy , the victims of _Nicholas must be numbered by thousands , even millions . Here is the only distinction between the Romish and the Russian Pope , the tyrant of _Northern Italy , and the tyrant of North-Eastern
Europe . We earnestly entreat thc friends of liberty , whobelong tothe Catholic Church , whetherthey be English , Irish , Polish , Italian , Spanish , or of any other nation , to ponder on the words of our French contemporary , L'AtcUer , they deserve to be repeated : — " Can a more m onstrous alliance be imagined ? What I the Pope , the ally of thehead ef the Russian schismatics ? "What ! is the successor of St . Peter almost the bosom friend of the executioner of the Catholics ? Verily a strange spectacle 1 If the nations lose their faith in Rome , it is because Rome has ahandoned itself to theenemies of the faith ! The cause of this _miH-ertiivabondonment bv the Catholic clergy and their head , is , thatthe head ishimself also the tyrant of a portion of the Catholic family . All the tyranbound st them
nies all the oppressions , are among _insolMo : the decrepit old man , who reigns in the Tatiean , wants the strong arm ot the Petersburgn despot for his own maintenance . More solicitous about his temporal power than of his Christian functions , he turned lung . As kins , as an unfit and bad king , he oppresses those whom he calls his subjects ; he compresses their insurrections against his tyranny only by his hangmen and gendarmes ; being accustomed to sec human blood shed around him , how can he feel when a tyrant is about to shed it afar off ? Therefore , good understandings between the Pope andthe Czar are offi ciafiv and regularly carried on , and it Is not impossible , that the day may arrive , when the Roman Pontiff will be surrounded by Russian soldiers for the express purpose of annihilating , in Italy , every Christian idea of liberty .
The _^ _ath of November passed by this year without anv other demonstration than the meeting of democr atie Poles , a notice of which appeared inthe Star of Saturday last , and a meeting or another section of _Toles , whose proceedings would be of no mtafet to our readers . Except these meetings , the JUth ot Norember was permitted to pass unnonced , to the ena _ -r ] _M"di- . __ raeeof those " avistocratieal and respectable" ' _" svmpathisers , " who have hitherto monopolised the patronage of the Polish cause . Tliat , however , this year's anniversary of the revolution may not pass without the voice of Poland ' s faithful sons being heard in her defence , we give the following extracts fr om an address which was adopted at the annivcrsarv meeting holden at tbe Crown and Anchor , on the " 29 th of November , 1 S-H . The address not having appeared in any English journal , will be new to _themes of the British people , and , for the truths enunciated , are certainly a s valuable now as twelve
months ago : — This very evening , when London , Paris , Brussels , and mauv a town and village of western civilized Europe are _ringing with shouts for Poland and g laddening tlie hearts of thc exilo , there , toward the east , on the still inundated shores of tlie Vistula , under the heavy volte ofa tyrannical oppression , on a soil profaned by the foot of an insolent invader , and in homes deprived of the last consolation of the wretched ; the safety of family intercourse _atd confidential outpourings—our old and infirm parents ; oar orphan children grown dp without having enjoyed tlie cheering embraces and watchful direction of their esikd fathers—our wives , sisters , and those of our brethren whom infirmity or absence has prevented from taking an active part in the revival of their fatherland , shed many a silent tear and compress in tlieir hosoms many a sigh over the glorious event which we commemorate publicly , Because , although it failed to free Poland , it proclaimed ier vitality , aud would have attained its object , but for the want—not of power ( every battle was a triumph )—not vf patriotism { seldom had a people shown more
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enargy and more _self-devotednessj-but of experience , and the consequent knowled ge of men and of parties . _«* t _»™ _£ ? ne ? ce * that Decessary condition of success _, eight months of struggle , of glorious victories , and after each of them of sad disappointments , sufficed to give it to the people of Poland . Old servants of the despots of Russia { whom disappointed ambition had thrown into the ranks of the insurgent _^ were driven from their usurped stations andfled _. toseek amidst bayonets a shelter against popular indignation . And there alas 1 they found means , « not to restore their power , at least to crush that of the patriots . By them twenty-two thousand men of the elite
were prevented from coming to the rescue of beleaguered and stormed Warsaw—by ihem they were , after its surrender , induced to resist the imperative orders of the commander-in-chief , who required them to join the main boJj of the army , which then would yet have been able to save Poland—b y them they were conducted out of the Polish territory and obliged to surrender their arms to one of tbe co-partitioning powers : to Austria—aud Poland fell again—fell into the hands of a revengeful tyrant , whose sway had been preferred by a few of her degenerate sons to a popular government—she feUwiser indeed than a few months before , but more oppressed , more unfortunate than ever !
Wiser than she had been ! Englishmen ! this is the point we wish to impress upon your minds—because wisdom is power—and because the power of a nation to reconquer and to defend her independence is a necessary condition of her nationality . And this great aud fundamental truth was precisely one of those common sense truisms in the minds of the many , which still remain myster ies to the sophisticated wisdom of our statesmen . They looked for help from cabinets leagued together against the rights of the people and of nations—they reposed their confidence in those very courts who bad dismembered Poland , aud therefore were interested »» retaining her in her former subjugation—they shrunk
from any infringement of the liberticide treaty of Vienna , which had confirmed all the former partitions of Poland , and given over to Russia even the last of her still existing fractions under the name of the Duchy of Warsaw . They paralysed the energies of the people , beeause they believed in its power inasmuch only as it went to harm their interests , and thought it insufficient to save the country —they , in short , had no faith in their country ' s cause , and therefore rained it , But along with their country , vanished their influence and their power , and were survived by a people , taught henceforth by them how to appreciate their leaders , taught to rely upon themselves , made fitter for the achievement of a new struggle for independence—in a word wiser , and therefore better .
Yes , better—because popular wisdom is not only power , but justice . Justice to the enslaved millions may , among the privileged , be considered as a sacrifice to duty , as an act of _self-devotedness and of virtue ; among the oppressed it is the consequence of a clearer insight into their own welfare , of a more exalted feeling of human dignity revolting at the infliction of wrongs . Who was it who dared several years ago to say that liberty to Poland would be slavery to the many , and to represent the tyrant of fifty millions of slaves as their emancipator from tbe bondage of the Polish nobility ? When a quarter of a century ago the landed proprietors of Lithuania petitioned the persecutor of thejLithuanian youth , thepceudoliberal Alexander , for permission to emancipate their bondsmen , they were refitsed . What has become of the freedom of those Lithuanian , Ukrainian , Tolhynian , and _Podoliao peasants , whom the insurgents of those coun .
tries , their own masters liberated in 18311 They are serfs again under the domination of the Czar ; and the good will of their patriotic masters has been of no avail to them . But why talk of this good will ! The people of Poland will require no boon from their masters—no granting of what it will he in their own power to obtain . A large _majority of our fellow emigrants have already proclaimed and pledged themselves to—not only tbeliberty of the serfs ( this indeed would have heen but a paltry concession of that which could not he refused ) ' —but also to assure to the cultivators the full and unconditional properry of that soil , for the usufruct of which they had hitherto performed statute labour : and what the intention of a large majority of the emigrants is , cannot but be the necessary result of the will of the people at large , when once restored to that sovereignty , which the full independence of a Poland re-conquered by ths efforts of her own inhabitants will secure them ,
An independent Poland will be a democratic , a progressive Poland ; and , as in former ages , she has been the constant champion of the liberty and civilisation of Europe against the slavery and darkness of Mahommedan and Muscovite despotism , so will she in future be the means of disseminating to the remotest confines of Eastern Slavonia , the social , political , and intellectual progress elaborated in the west ef the civilised world . The above address is important , as being calculated to set right those who may have doubted the veritable patriotism ofthe Polish emigrants , and who mistrusted their aims as to the future . That address tells truly the cause of the failure of the Polish Revolution . Tlie base selfishness of the privileged classes , who wonld rather see Russian tyranny triumph than consent to give np their infamous
usurpations , and make the revolution a struggle by the people for the people , was the cause of Poland ' s second downfall . In denouncing these selfish aristocrats , many of whom are tobe found in the ranks of the emigration , aud are even now plotting to restore the old System of Polish aristocracy , merely changing the masters , but not the tyranny , the name , but not the fact—in denouncing these , partisans of Prince Czaktortski , and adulators ofLord Dudley Stuart , the Democratic Poles do well ; for , most certainly , the " men of the progress" in this and every other land will never give sympathy nor aid to the partisans of royalty , aristocracy , and caste-distinctions . The most important portion of the address is that , where the emigrants declare themselves pledged , not only to destroy serfdom , and establish
the civil and political rights of the entire Polish people ; but also , " to assure to tke cultivators tlic jult will unconditional property of the soil . " These words are what , in this country , we call " plain English , " there is no mistaking them , they announce the veritable deliverance ofthe Polish people from aU slavery ; they guarantee the only liberty worthy of the name—ihe liberty to live , nnplnndered by tyrants or masters of any _description The lovers of justice are sick of mere words and phrases ; they desire a liberty real and tangible . " Many will seek to persuade you , " says the Able De La J _ j _ j . jj . _ is , " that you are really free , when they shall have written on a sheet of paper the word ' liberty / aud shall have posted it up in the streets . But liberty is not a placard to be read at the corner of streets . " No ; liberty is " the safeguard of our social rights , and the first of these rights "—the right to enjoy the fruits of our labour , leaving to those who
will not labour the pleasant privilege of starving . " Poland for the Poles" is a phrase we can understand when explained as above by the democratic emigrants ; how different is the phrase " Ireland for the Irish I" The words are similar ; but their import how different . "Poland for the Poles , " _we understand to mean equal rights , and equal enjoyments for all the Poles ; but "Ireland for the Irish , " means a change of masters nothing more ; condemning the miserable masses to a continuance ef political slavery and social debasement , sweetened by the wholesale pride and selfishness of " nationality . " Give _^ them only an Lish Parliament , an Irish flag , and instead of Victoria and Peel , the Pope and King Dax for their rulers , and these loud-mouthed patriots ( _themsclvcs , instead ofthe " Saxons , " enjoying the privilege of plundering the working millions ) will be fully satisfied . "Will the Irish people themselves be so easily satisfied ? If so— " God save the grans !"
The next revolution in Poland must and will be social , as well as political and national . Why should the Polish people fight for a country , all the blessings ot which have hitherto been monopolised by a selfish privileged few ? Why should they fight for a land , which tor centuries repaid their toil with slavery and misery ? "Why should they fight for their Polish lords , who have constantly paid their sacrifices with contempt and humiliation ! No , it will be for the common rights and common happiness of all , that the Polish millions will combat when next they rise against Russia . When that day comes , and come it will , when a really national war shall be kindled , when each for his own hearth and homestead , for the rights of himself and the happiness of bis family , shall go forth to the conflict , no power on earth can prevent the triumph of Poland . Prom the Oder and the Carpathian mountains to thc Porysthencs and
the Dwiha , —from the Baltic to the Black Sea , her flag will proclaim a triunphant , free , and happy people , We have said that day will come . It will ; Poland is neither dead nor sleeping , but anxiously waiting the hour of vengeance and freedom . Even in Prussian Poland , or to speak more properly , for we do not recognise the usurpation of Prussia , that portion of Poland seized by the Prussian despotism , even tliere , where the people are not outraged by thc horrible persecutions waged against their com * _, patriots under thc Russian usurpation , they cherish the hope of freedom , and , it is said , have been detected " conspiring" to east off the domination Of their Prussian oppressors . Some accounts of the discovery of this alleged conspiracy , and the great number " of arrests which followed , have already appeared in this journal , we add thc following important extract from a letter from Posen , received within the last few days by an eminent Polish democrat : —
Poses , Dec 2 . —I must break my silence to tell you something about the new misfortunes of our beloved mother ( Poland ) , whose sobbings reach " our ears from each of her confines . On the Sth of November , between eight and nine o ' clock in the evening , we heard suddenly a noise of horse-steps , cries of " soldiers , " and of the worthy " poliee . " In the course of not more than half an hour , about fifty men of the working class were arrested , not only in the town itself , but in its environs ; and also at Czeriro _. e , if you still recollect this place . You undoubtedly know the bookseller Stefanski , whom they also imprisoned , because they found with him ( as it is rumoured ) an exact plan of the citadel of Posen . A mass of noblemen _Wfiie also
arrested , and all the prisons are overflowing with victims , although they emptied for tliem the criminal jail , of which the inmates ( thieves ) were _transported to Rawirz ( a small town in the Duchy of Poseu ) , besides which they have converted a private house , in the neighbourhood oi the police , iuto a state prison , and residence of the criminal oflieers . The police director , Jlr . Danker , has already
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made his appearance amongst us , after haviug first paid one of his greedy visits to tbe district of Krotoszyn . The soldiers forming the garrison are to be sent . 'into ; the Rhenish Prussian provinces , and their place will be filled by others , because they discovered tome connivance _tetwe « n them and tlie arrested persons .- Lately 300 individuals from Warsaw were sent to Siberia . Our Gazette oi t j-day states , that in the territory of Cracow , and in Galicia ( Austrian Poland ) , arrests are taking place daily . Three hundred more victims sent to Siberia ! " Is there not some chosen curse , Some hidden thunder iu the stores of heaven , lied with uncommon wrath , to blast the man Who owes his greatness to a nation ' ruin i "
_Amongst other crimes of the miscreant Nicholas , the forcible abduction of thousands of Polish littlt children ought not to be forgotten . This atrocity took place in 1832 , and was repeated in 1833 . A considerable body of Russian gendarmes , cossacks _, and foot soldiers , fell unexpectedly upon the _Jiousas of poor families at Warsaw , . and seized all the little boys they found therein , and even those they found in the streets . The affliction of the wretched mothers at the moment when their children were seized , thrown into carriages provided for the purpose , and immediately conveyed to Russia , no words can describe . Some of the unhappy mothers died broken-hearted , one plunged a knife into the heart of her child , and then into her own . About two-thirds of the poor little creatures perished on the roads , and the survivors have since sunk , or yet continue to suffer under tbe miseries of Russian slavery . Alas ! that we should have to say it , that
" Heaven looked on and would not take their part . " But , surely if heaven strikes not , at least man ' s vengeance will yet be terribly manifested . * Ye infamous privileged sycophants , ye vile , heartless she-aristocrats , who hailed as a god this Moloch of the North , when our land was dishonoured by his tread , did ye know of the above single atrocity , only paralleled bythe " murder of the innocents ¦?" Base and heartless as ye are , we can hardly believe it of ye . Oh ! it was well done , Queen Victoria , " wife" and " mother" as you are , it was well done that you should welcome to your table this emulator of the Jewish Hbrod ! And you , Sir James Gbahau , your name " Exalted o ' er your less abhorr'd compeers , And festering in the infamy of years . "
will be remembered by generations to . come , as thc name of a minister of state , who descended to do the dirty work of a spy , to serve the ends of . tliis monstrous incarnation of imperial crime aud despotism . We must , for the present , conclude our commentary on Poland's wrongs . The space we have devoted to this subject for three successive weeks , will , probably next week , be devoted to the consideration or announcement of the state or progress of our brethren in some other land ; but , in taking leave , ior the present , of this subject , we beg to assure the Polish exiles that these columns are open to them whenever tbey shall have cause , or see fit , to make known to the English people , the wrongs , or vindicate the rights of their country . FoUowing this article , will be found a notice of a
meeting , holden , not on the Polish anniversary , but in consequence of no anniversary meeting having been held . The resolutions only are given , the speeches , owing to peculiar circumstances , we cannot give ; but the resolutions , adopted unanimously , express unmistakeably the views of the meeting . That meeting was composed of natives of every European state , with the exception of one or two , yet the most perfect harmony and enthusiasm prevailed . To see so many men assembled , born and trained under such widely varying _circumstances , each and all originally strongly imbued with the selfish and blasting vices of national _prejudiceand religious intolerance , and yet , to see those men meeting in brotherhood , was a
cheering and ennobling _speetacle . From London to _Constantinople , from Paris to Berlin , from Stockholm to Rome , from the confines of frozen Russia to the southern shore of sunny Spain , brethren had gathered together to declare their sympathy for a suffering but noble people . They werecomparatively few . "Yes , but they were the voices of many , they spoke for whole nations , to whom speech is denied " , but whose hearts yearn for the future . W lien tyrants conspire , patriots should combine . When despots take counsel together their victims should unite . The absolutists are coalescing and marshalling their forces , and so should we J—we shall best do SO by promoting the The _Fbaterniiy of Nations .
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* A lithographic print , representing one of these barbarous scenes , was published in Paris in 1331 . and ought to be re-published , the first edition being ( wc believe ) quite exhausted . Its re . publio . i . ion , at the present time , would be of great service , and owing to thc public mind being just now occupied with the new crimes of the Czar , the sale , wc think , could not fail to at least pay the cost of republication _.
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THE POLISH REVOLUTION . IMPORTANT FRATERNAL MEETING . A democratic fraternal meeting was holden on Sunday evening , December 7 th , in the large room of the lted Lion , Great Windmill-street , for the purpose of protesting against the continued oppression of Poland , and expressing sympathy i ' or the suffering Polish people . The meeting was composed of British , Polish , French , German , Spanish , Italian , Swiss , Swedish , Norwegian , Danish , Hungarian , Transylvanian , and Turkish democrats . The room was crowded to excess . At nine o ' clock Mr . Henry Ross was called to the chair , and in a brief but trulj patriotic address , explained _£ he object of the meeting . Mr . _G-. Julian Harney then proposed the adoption of the following resolutions : —
1 st That the 29 th of November , the anniversary of the memorable struggle for Polish liberty , having passed by without those demonstrations of public _sympathy usual in this country , this meeting , composed of natives of nearly all the states of Europe , feel themselves called upon to supply the omiseion , by declaring their views on the question of Poland ' s freedom , their sense of the present sufferings of the Polish people , and their hopes as regards the future . 2 nd . That fourteen years of unmitigated oppression which Poland has undergone since her last revolution , added to the preceding sixty years of dismemberment
and slavery , instead of diminishing , enhance her claims to national independence . The revolution of tlie 28 fli of November , 1 S 30 , was an act reclamatory ofthe rights , and demonstrative of the wishes , of thepeople at large ; it ivas an effort made to expel from Europe the inioads of Asiatic despotism , and , therefore , not only imposed on all the Europeau nations the duty of assisting Poland in a cause which was equally theirs , but still continues to impost upon them the obligation of co-operating in all her future struggles . Hence , also , none of the sacrilegious treaties concluded with her oppressors , from 1772 to the present time , can affect her imprescriptible rights to national independence and freedom .
3 rd . That this meeting recognises the Democratic Polish Emigrants as the only true and veritable representatives of Poland , and the cause of Polish liberty , they having manifested to the world the purity of their motives , and the comprehensive character of their patriotism , by acknowledging the just claims of the worUing classes , not only to theenjoyment of equal civil andpolitical rights , but also t 9 tlie full and unconditional property of the soil which they have hitherto cultivatedfor the benefit of others . That the democratic Poles have alone proved their faithful adherence to their patriotic mission ; and this meeting regards as betrayers of that holy mission those who have accepted , or may in future accept , any Russian amnesty . And this meeting will regard auy attempt to barter the Polish ' nationalsovereignty , in recognition of a would-be royal dynasty , as an act of treason not only to Poland , but to the cause of mankind .
4 th . That the accounts which have horrified Europe of the persecution of the Polish monks and nuns of St . Basilius , the horrible tortures and cruel murders to which they were subjected to compel them to change their religion , combined with the martyrdom of the priest Sciegenny and the patriot Levitoux , added to the long list of similar enormities , perpetrated by the command of Nicholas , proves the unappeasable cruelty and unameliorated savagcism of the Russian usurpation . That although this meeting is composed of mcu who hold diversified viewson religious questions , each andall solemnly recognise the sacred right of every human being to hold to such faith , or abide by such opinions as each may believe to be true ; thismetting , therefore , denouncesin the strongest conceivable terms the abominable tyranny exercised against the people of Poland to induce and compel them
by corruption , force , and tortures , to abjure their religion . Sth . That the Polish revolution of 1 S 30 was ruined by the intrigues and insidious opposition of the native aristoeraey , owing to their reliance on foreign assistance , by the conspiracy of cabinets , and by the delusion which tbe principle of national selfishness , ( under the name of _non-iiiterreiitioii _^ , succeeded in disseminating among the western nations of Europe . Poland will ensure her restoration by the exertions of her sons , by eventually realising for herself the final triumph of equality , liberty , and the sovereignty of her people ; and proclaiming the great principle of the fraternity of nations . Such is the Poland this meeting will hail with brotherly feelings , while they now express their unqualified detestation of
her oppressors ; the treaties concluded with them ; the treachery and falsehood of aristocracy and diplomacy ; and above ali , the selfish and immoral system ot national non-intervention . And this meeting trust that their brethren of the Slavonian race ( of which the people of Poland are an integrant portion ) groaning beneath the yoke of the two spoliating governments , Russia and Austria , will strongly sympathise with , and endeavour to emulate the example of such a Poland . They trust , also , that such a Poland will ever find an enlightened sympathy amongst the natives of the third spoliating country , Prussia , who will thus repudiate and condemn the infamy of being participators in the despoliation of ancient Poland ; a despoliation perpetrated by their immoral rulers .
Cth . That this meeting regards with distrust and anxious suspicion the visit of the tyrant Nicholas to the despots of Italy , including ( it is believed ) the Pope of Rome , who , both in his temporal and spiritual capacity , has scourged and betrayed the friends of liberty and progression iu Italy and Poland—both Catholic countries . That regarding the visit of the Russian tyrant to Italy , as _iuU-nded to strengthen the combination ofthe enemies of liberty , this meeting appeals to their brethren of all the European states to repudiate national prejudices ,
The Polish Revolution. Important Fratern...
asperities , and ambitious follies , and to promote to the utmost of their pewer the fraternity of nations , that so they may _^ present a combined and fraternal phalanx to achieve their own freedom , combat for the oppressed , and _estabhsh throughout Europe the reign of equality and happiness , Mr . IlABXsy spoke at great length on the merits of the resolutions after which thoy were seconded by Mr . 1 nomas Ireland , and supported in eloquent and _heart-stimng speeches by Dr . Berrier Fontaine , Captain btoJzman , Colonel Oborski , the citizens Schapper , _Miclielor , Pruszynski . and Mr . C . Keen . The speeches were delivered in English , French , German , and ioiish , and excited an indescribable enthusiasm _, the resolutions were adopted unanimously , and a YOte ot thanks to the chairman , moved by citizen Schapper , seconded by Captain Stolzman , closed the proceedings . The meeting throughout was most admirable and inspiring , and exhibited that true fraternal spirit which each and all present so ardently desire to see universally triumphant .
Extensive Plunder. Notices In The French...
EXTENSIVE PLUNDER . Notices in the French language , to the following effect , have been forwarded to the various police districts of the United Kingdom . For some time past , but particularly during the close of last summer , two Englishmen , described as below , one named Henrv king , supposed to be a Jew , and the other named George Aea e , have transacted business on a large scale , as well in this city ( Frankfort on the Maine ) as in other parts of the Continent , paving for the goods in the farst instance partly In cash , and partly by billsotexchangcon London , which were duly honoured . Towards the middle of last October , by representing themselves as agents to large houses , they obtained , partly through personal credit , and partly by bills on London , a quantity of property , consistinjr of choice
jewellery and other valuable articles , to an immense amount , together with a quantity of hard cash and notes , lhe whole proceeds ofthe fraud have been , S 2 _m- _n - the P P tribunal to amount to ] _oo , 70 o florins , to which there is still to be added 100 , 000 florins , supposed to be due to various tradesmen who have not as yet made any declaration of their losses The goods procured in this way during the latter portion of their practice principally consisted of wine , Eau de . Cologne , & c . King set out for Paris on the evening of the 18 th of October , under the pretence of meeting his wife , and on the morning of the 19 th Nesle took his departure for _Wisbaden , where they had both stayed i ' or a long time , apparently with a view of winding up their affairs . Their late bills on London having been
returned protested , no remittances having been made to cover the amount , it was considered that they had acted the part of fraudulent bankrupts , and the criminal jurisdiction of Frankfort issued warrants for their apprehension as follows : — "Under the treaty of reciprocity , we request all the authorities of the various nations to render us such assistance as it is in their power for the _earlieBt apprehension of the two persons hereafter described , with all the property in their possession , consisting of jewellery , merchandise , apparel , and money . To such persons as will give information leading to the apprehension of these parties , and the recovery of the goods , a reward of 25 , 000 f . will be given , together with whatever expenses may have been incurred . Should only a part of the property
be recovered , the reward will be proportionate , but at the same time it will not be less than 5 , 000 f . It will , perhaps , assist in leading to the apprehension ot the parties to state , that a woman , who passed as King ' s wife , was confined some weeks since at Paris , and of whose person a sketch has been issued with this notice . Some of the jewellery has also been lithographed , and copies issued . To judge by tlie lithograph , the woman appears to be about thirtyfive years of age , with masculine features , high cheek bones , animated expression of countenance , and with the intellectual part of the head not forming full one-third of the whole . Her person is large , and her appearance stylish . Neale had a passport belonging to Jacques Hahn , of Frankfort , dated August 18 th , No . 1 , 696 , and one available for a six
months' pleasure tour through Bavaria , Austria , Italy , and Switzerland . Mr . Hahn is a banker of Frankfort , and in age , person , and complexion , not unlike Neale , who is described as follows : —Between 20 and 30 years of age , five feet five inches high ( Rhenish measure ) , hair deep black and curled , eyebrows very black , eyes small , dark , deep , and swimming , pug-nose , mouth middle size , lips full , with handsome white teeth , beard and whiskers black and bushy , covering the chin , complexion fresh and generally warm . He speaks with a thick and rather heavy tongue . Neale represents himself as having been born at sea , as having travelled through various parts of the world , and long established in business at Calcutta . Both he and King were on habits of intimacy with the family of a person named
Walton , an English Jew , who represents himself as having lately arrived from Canton . King , who is between fiO and 60 years of age , measures five feet Rhenish , wears a round grey short wig , his forehead is low and flat , eyebrows bushy and greyish , eyes small and supposed to be greyish , nose sharp , mouth common , teeth small and well-formed , no beard , face and chin round , complexion tawny . He is particularly remarkable for a short neck , fleshy flabby hand , and walks with a short quick step . On the inside of his wig there is a pink circular label with the name of the maker , G . Evandrc Hayden John , coiffeur Frankfurt a M . He nevertheless wears his own hair underneath . Neale has been in the habit
of daily dyeing his hair , whiskers , and moustaehios , with a black colouring mixture . The signatures of the parties , _fac-similcs of which have been issued , arc widely different . King ' s is a bold hand , whilst Neale ' s is cramped , narrow , and timid . Fac-similes of some bracelets , which form part of the plunder , together with a drawing of Neale ' s favourite breast-pin , have been forwarded to the various police stations . It is to be observed that Neale had a passport from the British Consul at Frankfort , dated May 18 th , 1845 , and countersigned for Paris on the 18 th of October . As the jewellery was regularly forwarded by post in paid parcels , that fact may assist in leading to the discovery of the delinquents . "
Susrected Mhrder,—On Tuesday Morning The...
SusrECTED Mhrder , —On Tuesday morning the town of Merthyr was thrown into considerable alarm by thc news of there having occurred , on tiie previous night , and that morning , three separate deaths from drowning . One of them appears to have been connected with _circumstances that require explanation . Ann Meyrick , aged 23 , the wife of John Meyrick , tiring at Ith ydycar , a-small vlJlago in the vicinity ol Merthyr , was , on Tuesday morning , drawn out of the Cardiff and Merthyr eaual , within a short _distansc of her own house , quite dead . On being taken to the house , the body bh _y } profusely , and the blood was found to issue from two frightful gashes in the lower part of her abdomen . The bank of the canal was literally covered with blood , from the place whence she was taken out to the archway over the canal—a distance of forty yards . She was last seen
in thc company of her husband , with whom she left the Heathcock tavern about one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , both of them very much intoxicated . He was seen coming home alone , and though inebriated , was not so far gone as not to be able to go and place some hay for the cow to eat . In the morning he was found asleep , his head resting on the table , as he had evidently not been to bed . When he heard of his wife having been drawn from the canal , he began to cry ; but to tho spectators it evidently appeared more feigned than real . He accounts for his not having noticed her absence , by stating that she frequently slept at her father ' s house ; and states that on his way home in the early part of the morning he had turned on one side to obey a call of nature , while she went on , and that he had never seen her since . A coroner s inquest was postponed to Thursday , with what result we will hereafter relate . —Cambrian .
Fatal Railway Accident . —An accident of a very frightful character occurred on Friday evening last on the works of the Shrewsbury , Oswestry , and Chester Junction Railway , between Cresford and Wrexham , by the overturning ofa train down a steep embankment , by whieh one man was killed on the spot , and several others were seriously injured . The workmen and stone-masons employed on the works at _Greslbrd , it appears , were in the practice , on leaving their work in the evening , of getting into the earth waggons , and being propelled up the line to Wrexham . On the evening in question about forty of them had taken their seats in the trucks , anil were proceeding at a rapid rate , when on arriving opposite the race course , near Wrexham , the fireman ' s waggon got off the line , and r an down the embankment , dragging with it the remainder . One
man , Peter Edwards , was found among the lower trucks , frightfully mutilated and quite dead . Another labourer was discovered with his left leg severed completely . A' third poor creature had his left leg broken in three places , while seven or eight others were more or less injured . As soon as possible the sufferers were placed in a truck and conveyed on to Wrexham , where they were received into the Hope public-house , and met with every medical and other assistance . On Saturday au inquest was held at the above on the body of P . Edwards , which occupied a considerable time , in the course of which it was shown that the accident arose by the rails sinking into the earth below the level of the road , the rails not being properly laid on the sleepers . Thejury returned a verdict of " Accidental death , " with a deodand of £ 5 on the carriage .
Skkious Accihext at _Newbuet . —As Mr . Wm . Somerset , Marlborough , Wilts , a large grazier , farmer , and dealer , was going to the cattle show , held here on Friday , driving a spirited horse in his gig down the hill approaching Speenliamland , there meeting a carriage , Mr . Somerset ' s horse took fright , running furiously into the town of Newbury , _dasiiing with frightful speed until he ran the wheels of the chaise against a lamp-post , throwing out Mv . Somerset , Upon Ida being taken up and conveyed to a surgeon ' s ( one happening to be near ) , it was discovered the fall had caused a fearful wound on his head and other parts of his body . He was taken up quite insensible , with but little hopes of his recovery , and is still remaining in a very precarious state . The chaise was dashed to pieces , andthe horse also much hurt .
The Murder Of An Aged Female In Westmins...
THE MURDER OF AN AGED FEMALE IN WESTMINSTER . __ Monday being the day appointed for the examination of Martha Brownrigg , n girl twenty-four years of age , who stands charged with tlie wilful murder of Elizabeth Mumiell , au aged female with whom she resided , the approaches to the Queen-square policecourt were at an early hour crowded with persons of all classes , anxious to hear the proceedings . At half-past three o ' clock the accused , who had been privately brought into court , was lifted into the dock , apparently in an insensible state , but
whether feigned or otherwise it is difficult to say . She had , on her first examination , the appearance of a pretty , fresh-coloured country girl , but was yesterday much altered , and had evidently been _sutt' erlng groat mental anguish . Ann Gaze , the daughter of the deceased , was first put , and in answer to inquiries from Mr . Edwards , the chief clerk , witness said , as soon as I discovered my mother lying upon the box in her room , I ran for a doctor , and I should think that it was not twenty minutes after I first saw her in that position before he came . The cord which had been found round my mother ' s neck was cut off by a baker ' s boy before the medical man came .
ihe woman Cheshire , who resided in the next room to the deceased , and who , proved on thc last examination that she heard the deceased cry " murder" twice , and also heard her say , " What are you doing to me ? what are you doing ta mc ?" was then put into the witness box in order to finish her evidence , which had only been taken in part on the previous occasion in order to justify the remand ofthe accused . Mr . Bond : When you went to the door of deceased's room to inquire what was the matter , did you find it locked ?—Witness : Yes . I tried the handle and could not open it .
Examined by Mr . Edwards : After I had been to the room door , and inquired what was the matter , I returned to my own room and went to bed again . In about a qv . arter of an hour after I heard the prisoner unlock the door of deceased ' s room , and come out and go to the cupboard in the passage ; and then she knocked at my door , and came to my bed side with some wood in her hand . She said that the old lady was very poorly , and had begged of her to go to her daughter ' s , and fetch her . I said she had better do so as soon as she could . She stopped for a minute or two , and then she said she thought she would . I begged of her again to run and letch the old lady's daughter , and then she left my room , Mr . Edwards : Did you then go into the deceased ' s room to see how she was ?—Witness ; No , I did not . Prisoner never asked me .
Witness continued : Prisoner , after leaving my room went into deceased ' s , and shortly afterwards came in to me again with her bonnet on , and said that if _^ I heard a ny noise in the room ( deceased ' s ) would I go in . Mr . Bond : Did you hear any noise after prisoner went out?—Not the least . The room was as quiet as it is now . Hearing no noise I did not go in . Edward Oaze said I am thc husband of Ann Gaze . On Monday night , after the inquest had sat , I was in the deceased ' s room when they were about to lay her out . ( Witness here described appearances in the bed such as are consequent upon dissolution . ) The female on seeing this refused to lay her out until I fetched a doctor . Mr . Bond : Was the prisoner present ? Witness : She was and shuddered , and ever since the inquest has been afraid of being left alone .
Witness continued : -On Wednesday I went to deceased ' s room accompanied by the prisoner , who actually kissed the corpse ; and putting herself in an attitude of prayer , said , " God knows all . " After this , whilst in the room , prisoner said she had a £ 5 note , and offered to lend me & sovereign . I then asked her to let me get it changed as I knew the landlord : but she said she'd go herself . She then went to a public-house close by , and immediately returned , saying the gentleman had played a trick on her , having given her a Bank of Elegance note instead of a Bank of England . I told her she had better go back immediately . She asked me to go with her , and I asked to look at the note . She hesitated , and at
length gave it to me . The moment I saw it , I knew by the grease it was one I had frequently seen in my mother-in-law ' s hands . After this I suspected her of the murder , and I insisted upon accompanying her to see where she had obtained the note . As she went along she said she wanted to go and see " Jem , " ( a comrade of his ) with whom she is acquainted , which I opposed , and persuaded her to come along with me . On getting through the Horse Guards , she fell back on my arm , and said she was so ill she could not go further that day . I told her I must get the assistance of a policeman , if she could not go further . y , Mr . Bond : Did yoii say anything to'induce lier to suppose that you suspected her of the murder ?—Witness : I had my suspicions , but I did not tell her .
Witness continued . "Good God , " she said , "do not get a policeman , and I will try and go a little further . " I assisted her across thc road , and after she got on the pavement she fell back in my arms . Mr , Bond : Be particularl y ' careful to say , as well as you can remember , the precise words she used . — Witness : She said , * ' I can't keep it any longer ; 1 murdered the poor old woman , and deprived your wife of a good mother . " She then caught hold oi me , asked me to pray for her guilty soul , and to forgive her . I then gave her in charge . The note produced is the same which the prisoner showed me , having had it in my hands frequently during the deciased ' s life .
Mr . John Charles Atkinson , of 16 , Rodney-terrace , surgeon : I had known the deceased for two years , having attended her late husband , and I _hava had occasion to remark that she generally was in the possession of good health , and equally level , and at all times in good spirits—a circumstance which I remarked from her spirits being neither depressed or excited during the changes which occurred in her husband ' s illness . I was called upon at about twenty minutes past eight on Monday morning , and my assistant went , and on his return at a little before nine , in consequence of the communication he made to me , I went myself . On my entering the room I found the body of the deceased on a box about two feet six , the whole of the spine and head being deposited there . I examined the place to ascertain whether her death had been occasioned by hanging or strangulation .
Mr . Bond : Was the cord at that time round her neck ?—Witness * , No ; it was on the floor by her side . Mr . Atkinson continued : Observing some pegs over her head I examined them to ascertain whether they would bear her weight . I found that they had no power , and were such begs as a bonnet might be hun / r on . I then examined her neck , and I was satisfied that she had died from strangulation . There were two identations in front of thc neck , and only one at the back . There was also a vacuum at the back of tho neck . Mr . Atkinson here illustrated the view he took of the matter with a piece of cord , by showing that the power used to tighten the rope must have been from behind in a right line . Mr . Bond : —Could such appearances as you have described have been produced by a person strangling themselves ?
Mr . Atkinson : It is doubtful , certainly not probable . To have made such appearances as the neck presented , a person must , in my opinion , have fastened the rope from behind to a peg or some other thing ' which would bear them in a right line with the neck , and keep up the pressure on thc front . Mr . Atkinson continued : On examining the room I found no place on whieh she could have been suspended . Had she hung herself , instead of the marks of the rope being horizontal , whicli they were , and from the left to the right , they would have been
slanting . I examined the deceased ' s hands , to ascertain whether they were marked with thc pressure whieh the form of strangulation required , and which it would have produced on them , and 1 found they were not . There were some slight marks above her mouth , which in my impression were , or might have been , made in the agony of death by strangulation , from a desire on the part of tiie person to open her mouth and breathe . Witness added that the cord marks were on the lower or tougher part of the neck , and made some observations to show that her death had not been occasioned by hanging .
Mr . F . Partridge , an inspector of tho A division , said : On the 3 rd inst ., at about half-past one in the afternoon , the prisoner was brought to the station in Gardoner _' s-kine . in a fainting condition . I entered the charge against her on the police-sheet , "that of causing the death of Mrs . Mundell ; " and having read it over to her , cautioned her that she was not bound to say anything . On hearing thc charge , she observed , " All I cau say is , that it is all right . I am an unfortunate creature . You may do with me what yon like , " Ami she then commenced tearing her hair . I had her thoroughly searched , but nothing was found . On the day after she had appeared at this court I went with the soldier , Gage , to 1 ,
Providence-place , where , on searching a box pointed out to me as belonging to the prisoner , 1 found some rope , exactly corresponding with that round the deceased ' s neck ; as also two duplicates of trifling articles pledged on the 24 th aud 28 th of November lust , the one for a shawl , i ' or ls . Cd ., and the other a gown , for 8 s . [ Tliis evidence was produced to show that prisoner , who had represented herself to be in possession of some money , whieh she had saved in service , and which she pretended to go to Bedford-street for — was in distress ; a fact which leaves the inference that the murder was committed to get possession sf the sham notes , which were supposed to be genuine . ]
On the case for the prosecution being completed as above , Mr . Bond said : Docs the prisoner wish to say anything ? Prisoner iu a calmer voice : " I have not done the murder , " The witnesses were then bound oyer to prosecute , and the prisoner was committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial .
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" Mr Temrleto.V. —This Eminent British V...
" Mr TEMrLETO . v . —This eminent British vocalist is now oil a professional tout * in the United States ; and from the tone of the public journals on his nrSt appearance , his visit must turn out a most succcsstui one , The Coast Defences . —Captain Addison ' s invention for heating shot red hot , which was recently tested in the marshes at Woolwich , having been approved by the board of officers appointed to ascertain and report on its advantages the inventor has been
, requested to state the amount he would require to supply 200 furnaces similar to the one approved of , but placed on higher and stronger wheels , to enable them to be moved with greater facility , fllld WilllOUt being liable to break down when employed on _icttial service . This invention will prove a great acquisition to the coast defences , as its power of _rendering . 32-pounders and other shot red hot in a limited time has been fully and satisfactorily tested , and the object is attained at a much less expense than by any other mode hitherto adopted .
DlCKKKs _' s FORTHCOMING _CllRISTMAS _WoUU , " _Thfi Cricket on the Hearth , " is being dramatised for the Adelphi . Will of the late Dk . _Waoe , which was in liis own handwriting;— " Saturday , August 13 , 18-12 . —1 , Arthur Savage Wade , D . D ., vicar of St . Nicholas , Warwick , give and bequeath to Miss Mary Anne Crafcr , third daughter of the late Mr . Thos . ' Oafer , of East Dereham , Norfolk , all my property and effects , and monies in hand and due to mc , and all my shares in Cornish mines , money in annuity offices or banks , and also church stipends and ices , and ali other effects of what kind soever , of which she is my sole executrix . " His personal estate for the payment of probate duty was valued at £ 1 , 000 .
Witchcraft . —A Wick newspaper gives the following recent instance of gross ignorance and credulity : — " Not far from Louisburgh there lives a girl who , until a few days ago , was suspected of being a witch . In order to cure her of the witchcraft , a neighbour actually put her into a creed half tilled with wood and shavings , and hung her above a fire , setting the shavings in a blaze . Fortunately for the child and himself , she was not injured ; and , it is said , thatthe gift of sorcery has been taken away from her . At all events , the intelligent neighbours aver that she is not half so witch-like in her appearance since ake was singed . " The Militia . —In anticipation of the calling out of the militia , the " militia clubs" for providing substitutes have commenced making arrangements for their reorganization .
Death of Towxsesd , the Pedestman . — The " veteran , " so well known in sporting circles , *< ~ pircd lately in the Cliffe workhouse , Lewes , and was buried in Southover churchyard . He was fifty-four years of age . Townsend was considered one of tho first pedestrians of liis day , and from his possessing great powers of endurance was able to perform extraordinary teats , particularly matches against time . Fohtification op Jehsey . —Things are now proceeding in earnest towards ensuring the complete security of Jersey against the dangers of foreigii invasion . Clothing was received a fortnight ago from London for the use of our island militia , _together with twenty-four brass nine-pounders . The whole island militia force is divided into five different regiments . Altogether it may be considered to bc about 4 , 000 strong , and in any case of emergency 1 , 000 more could be brought to the field .
AsOTnER "ISTERBBTISO" NUISANCE TOR POOR John Bull . — We havo great satisfaction in being enabled to announce that an event , calculated to strengthen the affectionate attachment of the people to the throne , and at the same time increase the happiness of her Majesty ' s domestic circle , may be expected to take place early in April next . —Post . Unequal Taxation in Jamaica . —The planter pays two shillings and sixpence for a mule ; the negro is charged eight shillings for an as 9 . This is as bad or worse than it is in the mother country , whei _* e the poor are pauperised by the burthens of taxation .
Thimy-oke pounds of Shropshire iron have been made into wire upwards of one hundred and eleven miles in length ; and so fine was tlie fabric that a part of it was humorously converted , in lieu of the usual horse hah * , into a barrister's wig . Warlike Editors . —The editors of the National and Presse ( French papers ) being at variance , a list of six editors of the National , all ready and willing to fight , was the other day presented to the editors of the jFYcsse , but he politely refused to make any selection .
Watches , remarkable for their extreme thinness _, arc now manufactured at Geneva . They are not thicker than a line and the sixteenth of a line ( little more than the twelfth of an inch ) . This change doea not , however , militate agaiust the lull play of the movement , for that remains the same , the thinness being obtained by placing the hands at the side , instead of over the works . This arrangement makes tho watches rather large in . circumfercnce . A _Pleasast Place . — Eighty-nine outrages have been committed in the county Limerick within the last six months , as reported to Government . PnEsmENT Polk completed his fiftieth year on the 2 nd November .
Rare Discoveries !—The Allgemeine Zeitung announces three new discoveries , which , should they receive confirmation , will be hailed with much triumph by the literary and musical world . Of the first , a hitherto unknown epic poem of the great Ariosto , called" Rinaldo 1 'A . vdito , " we have before heard a rumour ; the second is the concluding canto of "Don Juan , " by Lord Uyron , alleged to have been found in Geneva ; and the third , a posthumous opera by Weber , which is said to have lain perdue in London since his death .
A Cure for Profamty . — A schoolmaster , as a punishment to one of his pupils for using profane language , ordered hira to take a pair of tongs and watch a hole in the earth until he caught a mouse . The boy took the tongs , and demurely waited for his victim . Directly after , he saw a mouse peeping out of thc hole . Cautiously placing a leg of the tongs on either side , he grabbed Don Whiskerandos by the nose , and triumphantly exclaimed , By ! I ' ve got him . " The Stocks . —De Foe lived in the age of Justice _Midases and Parson Trullebers , and about the year 1700 , he assails them both thus ;— "Tlic parson preaches a thundering sermon against drunkenness , aud the justice sets my poor neighbour in the stocks ; and I am like to bc much the better for either , when I know that this same parson and this same jurtice were both drunk together but the night before . '*
Fire in Barricax . —On Sunday evening , shortly before twelve o ' clock , an alarmiug _ fire broke out in Graham ' _s-buildings , Barbican , which has resulted in the total destruction of Shrewsbury Academy , the property of Mr . Allen , and tlie printing-office of Mr . Ford . The damage done to Mr . Ford ' s property we understand will be covered by an insurance in the Imperial office , but Mr . Alien is uninsured . The origin of the fire is not known . Incendiarism . —Tuesday ' s Government Police Gazette contains the offer of a reward of - £ 50 for the discovery and apprehension of the person or persons who on the night of the 1 st instant maliciously set fire to an out-building , containing about six loads of unthrcshed wheat , tbe property of John Shand , Esq ., of Rcny-Birn Ilall , near Ruabon , Denbighshire , by which the building and its contents were consumed .
Andrew Snider , a soldier of the revolution , died lately in Lancaster county , Pennsylvania , aged 113 years , the oldest man in the state . Nothing else to do . —Some person , who had nothing else to do , has ascertained that there are 550 , 000 grains in a bushel of wheat , 520 , 000 in barley , 1 , 260 , 000 in oats , 37 , 000 in horse beans . —Ncio York Gazette . The Militia . —We understand that the rolls of names are prepared in this immediate neighbourhood , preparatory to the re-organising and probably to the calling out ofthe militia , in the spring of next year . —Liverpool Times , _WixoERMEnE Lake has not been known to be so high for the last fifteen years , owing to the heavy rains which haye fallen within the last two or three weeks .
The late Editor of idf " Nation . " —The friends and admirers of the late Thomas Davis , editor of the Nation newspaper , have subscribed a large sumamounting , we believe , to upwards of JE 500—for the purpose of erecting a testimonial to perpetuate his memory , The Chiltekn _Uuxorebs . — A piece of land in Buckinghamshire , formerly known as the Chiltern Ilills . They afforded shelter to banditti , and abounded in timber , which is the reason of their being chosen as a retreat for those members of Parliament who wish to cut their sticks . —Punch . Cooke ' s Circus , at Glasgow , which was erected two years ago at a cost of about £ 1 , 200 , was last week totally destroyed by fire . It is only about three weeks since the Glasgow City Theatre was burnt
Caution to Wives . —Mrs . Chapman , the landlady of the Ship public-house , Hammersmith , was _tn Wednesday brought up at the police-court , and fined ls . for slapping her husband on the face .
Hollow Av's Pills And Ointment.—Ed Ward ...
Hollow av ' s Pills and Ointment . —Ed ward White , residing at 45 , Clement ' s-lane , Strand , was an indoor patient at King ' s College Hospital , with an abscess in the thigh , ami a wound nine inches long on thesame _Jinib . He could neither bend his knee or put lus foot to thc ground . He remained there lor live months in bed , when he was informed , " that nothing moro could be done for him . " He was then earned to his home , and commenced using the above invaluable medicines . He can now walk about all tne day long , and 18 qu ite cured bv the means of these wonderful medicines , and this to thc astonishmeat of all who knew him .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 13, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13121845/page/7/
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