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      LABOUR IN NEW YORK . ns circumstances _, cohditioss , and _hbwaxds . ( From the 2 * tt 6 une . ) No . 1 . —THE - _* EA 1 ISTB , ESSES . Th _.-re are in this City , according to the closest estimates _. hatcan he mad ? , ten thousand women who exis ' on w _' _. _iat they can earn by the needle . The following are the prices for which a majority of th « se families are ¦ compelled to work—they being such as are pnid by the larg ? depots for shirts and clothing in Chatham-street and elsewhere : For making Common White ana Chocked Cotton Shirts , six cents each . Common Flannel Undershirt " , the same . These are cut in such a manner ai to make ten _Si-nmsin two pairs of sleeves .

      A common fust _aesmptress can make two of these ahirts per day . Sometim _.-s very swift hands , by workinjr fi _*> m sunrise to midnight _, can mak _* - * three . Tbis is equal to 75 cents per week "( allowing nothing for _holies , _"ickuess . accidents , being out of work , & c . ) for thi- first claBS , and Idol- _lsjcenta for th = other . _Go-va Cotton Shirts , with Linen Bosoms , neatly stitched , arc made for _twt-uty . fire cmts . A good seamstress will _niaks one in a day , thus earning Idol . 50 cents per week , * b y constant labour . Tine Linen Shirts , with _PlaUedBoeoms , which cannot ¦ fee made by the very hest hand in less than fifteen or eighteen hour * steady work , are paid fif y cents each . Ordinary hands make one shirt Of tbU kind in two days . Duck Trowsers , Overalls , & c ~ eight and ten cents

      cacti . Drawers anil Undershirts , both Flannel and Cotton , from SIX to eight cents at the ordinary shops , ana 12 } at the best . One garment is a day ' s work for someothers ran make two . » -- _*« . 25 to 50 cen's—the latter price paid only for work of the very hurt quality . Good bands make ono a _3 i _« - Th ' n Coats are made for 25 to 872 cents a piece . Heavy Pilot-cloth Coats , with three pockets , 1 _dollor each . ~ k Coat of this kind cannot be made under three dajs . Cloth Roundabout- * and Pea-jackets , 35 to 50 cents _, three can be made in two days .

      A groat numberof females are employed iu miking Hens' _» nd Boys' Caps . By constant labour fifteen or eighteen hoars a . day they can make from 14 to 25 cents . "We are told by an old lady who has lived by tbis kind of work a long time , that wh _.-n she begins at sunrise and works till midnight she ran earn 14 cents , a day . A large majority of these women are American bom , _^ rom the great middle class of life , many of whom have once " been in comfortable and even affluent circumstanced _, aud have been reduced by the death or bankruptcy of husbands and relatives , and * ther causes , to

      such straits . Many of them are the wives of shipmasters and other officers of vessels . Others are the widows of mechanics and poor men , and have children , aged mothers and fathers , & c , to support , by their needle . If any have drunken husbands to add to their burdens and afflictions , and to darken every faint gleam of sunshine that domestic affection throws even into the humblest abode . Others have sick and bed-ridden husbands or children , or perhaps have to endure tlie agony of receiving borne a fallen daughter or an outlawed son suddenly checked in Mb career of vice .

      Th « manner in which these women live—the squalid-Bess and unhealthy location and nature of their habitations—the inadrquatenesR of their food and clothing •—the impossibility of providing for any the slightest recreation or moral orintellectual culture , or of educating their chUdren—can be easily imagined ; but we assure the public that it would require an extremely active imagination to conceive the reality . These women generally ' keep house '— -that is , tbey rent a single room , or perhaps two small rooms , in tbe npper story of some poor , ill-constracted , unventilated house in a filthy street , _constantly kept so by the _absence cf back yards and the neglect of tbe street inspector—where a sickening and deadly miasm pervades the atmosphere , and in su-nm ? r render it totally unfit to be inhaled by human longs , _depositing the seeds of debility and _disease with every inspiration . In these rooms all the processes of _CeoVin _** " and eating , sleeping , washing , working and living are indiscriminately performed .

      For these rooms the tenants never pay less than three to four aud a half dollars per month—and pay they most and do . Some of the very worst single garrets , destitute of closet or convenience of any kind , and perhaps only lighted by a hole eat in the roof , rent as low as two dollars a month . Of course eveiy cent of the inmates' earnings is exhausted every week , and in many cases is not sufficient to huy any other food than a scanty supply of potatoes and _Indian meal and molasses for ths family . "When winter comes , therefore , they are destitute ofthe means uot only of adding comfortable c ~ _gf _* bing to their wretched _war-1 ro * n * s _, but of procuring an

      ounce of fuel . Their work too , at this season , is frequently cut off , aad they are left no resource bat tbe alms-bouse or a pauper-ticket for bread and coal . Here , too , they aie too often baulked . The alms-house is full and overrunning—the public charities of all kinds are choking with the fierce assaults of shivering and famished Beggary—what can these poor women dot "Weare truly told that when sometimes hunted out by the hand of private charity , they have been found so given over to hunger aad despair at their repeated rebuffs from tbe alms-house or the overdriven commissioners that they had resolved to starve without farther effort .

      THE OPERATIVE BAKERS . _ts tbe _aorroa of the _sobthebst stab . Sib , —Having observed in yonr paper various remarks and communications in reference to the agitation at present going on amongst the operative bakers in London for a limitation of the heurs of labour , I feel so overjoyed that I cannot refrain from making a few remarks in regard to it . It would , however , be superfluous were 1 to ester into any _lengthened detail ofthe evils endured by tbe operative bakers in London , these being brought

      to light in some measure at the pnblic meeting reported in your paper . The _' operatives in Edinburgh have got a humane an 4 discerning public to sympathise with them in their endeavours to emancipate themselves from tha _tyrannical measures ofa system , unjust , oppressive , and detrimental to the best interests of man . Although we could bring forward no cases of snch wanton cruelty as those mentioned-at the . said meeting , yet we had nO power to retire from labour , but when our employers chose ; such was the position in which we stood in Edinburgh .

      " Britons never shall be slaves , " so says the national anthem f but do we not see that the working man has been , and is , the slave of the capitalist ! True , he cannet be sold in the same way as is done -n the Southern _States of America ; but there are more ways of making slaves than one : and many of the capitalists of Britain are , to a certain extent , as guilty as the slaveholders of America . Are not such scenes as those depicted atthe _Pimlico meeting , enough to harrow up the feelings of the most callous and indifferent . To see men compelled to labour for such a length of time , save a brief interval on hard boards . ' Snch wrongs , too , practise' ! in the metropolis of a country calling itself free ! The pernicious effects of an irregular hour system is seen on every

      operative baker . His sallow countenance betokens an over _, wrought frame ; his wan look tells too truly of the evils "he endures ; his depressed appearance shows plainly that he is one ef the slaves of capital ; and his barren mind is not that ef intellectual , progressive man . Ought not such tilings to be rivolntionised , and the operative baker raised up to that status in society which they onght to occupy ? The employers may try to convince the public that , owing to the nature ofthe baking trade , it is _impossible to have regular hours—so argued the employers of Edinburgh , and other towns hi Scotland ; but What signifies arguments such as these , seeing they have proved _fallacious : and" Facts are things that wiona ding ,

      And douna be disputed ;" and if practicable in Scotland , it is practicable in Lon . don ; and I trust that the operatives in London will shew to their employers that they are determined no longer to submit to the despotic arrangements to which tbey have been subjected , May she never forget that " union is strength J" aud under ths banner of unity may they go _forward , proclaiming to the world that they will no longer _endure it , but that they must and will have the liberties they are entitled to . By the insertion of the above you will much oblige Your obedient Servant , William P . Cothbbbtsoo , SeCT _« t * try Of the Edinburgh Branch of the Operative Bakers' Association of Scotland .

      THE VSITED SOCIETY OF JOURNEYHEH BASKET MAKERS . . Tne storm which at present is gathering over our Union , and threatening to annihilate tbe few advantages we hav _« already gained , will be my excuse for troubling yon with this short letter . _IVrhups , no trade { in proportion to our number ) has ever been threatened with a more formidable coalition of employer * than basket making at present . I am no *• alarmist /* Ht . YAbnr _, but _yut I have every reason to _lAlicve Hunt th « _lusjeterc modi lute u general turnout , for VIk ** j » ri » t _yyryjix < _+ f i , rc » _islri ;; up _« , ur Union . That _ttucj wUlfj"i ' u their _aUttU-pl is . _julte certain , if not _astitVc / i by _vtrihiu _touHem iodivi _^ uaU of our own ranks ; kiiO the _tKUi / _ju l write U Uj _enprtts my disapprobation of

      thv _WtWiVtA u * «" few , ( Who _< V tho _prcjenl shall be name-Icet ) who have _thea-ly _, like cnrMidt _biieiikeii out of our _ruJikz t / j _* v < A 4 _xiit _cjuietl . H uw , _vthul do Iba men ex _.-pttu to / _at _< i by 4 _eaerti « £ us in nach a positiojj ! lly way 'J < _sJ » . ii ,. Jui th _* m ut their en ' _oc and hastening their return , we will auj . _( Kjt > e the worst—we will suppose tbat the masters do beat tis , will they in that case fare better than we shall t will thc _musters give them higher wages , Or treat them with _greater reaped than thoy will those who have baldly stood their ground ! or wil ! thev in fact gain anything- which we shall notgain ! Yes , tbey will gain what we shall not they will gain thu merited contempt of all honourable men , and will n _* i doubt receive the reward of their treachery from the very masters they may thus slavishly serve .

      In conclusion I would 3 sy , men stand to your position , and you have nothing to lose but all to gain—desert your position and you have all to lose . That these remarks on the subject may have the _effect of bringing back " the . runaways before their names ar 8

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      _xposed , or cheeking any who may 'feel , wa aring , is the sincere wish of A JODBtlBVMAJI . Edinburgh . ' ; - ¦ IMPORTANT TO Til *** MEMBERS OP THE CORD . WAINBRS GENERAL MUTUAL _ASSISTANCE

      ASSOC 1 ATION . TO TUB _BDITOB 0 J THE MOBTHBBN STAB . It wil be in the memory of those readers of the Star , who interest themselves in trades' movements , that a string of , resolutions , ( purporting to emanate from the Boot and Shoemakers of Manchester , but which , in reality , turns out to be only from the Womens' Mens ' branch , ) condemnatory of the character of the General Secretary of the above named association , appeared in jour paper ofthe 17 th of October last . It will be necessary here to state , that in September last , these men put certain questions to the said secretary concerning the accounts of the association , which questions arose entirely out ofthe printer's error in the balance sheets . The general secretary replied to them by letter , stating

      at the same time , that if his answers were not satisfactory , he would go down at his own _espense to Manchester , and take with him the books of , the association , together with tbe receipts for all monies that passed through his hands during his time of office . Notwithstanding which , the resolutions alluded to above appeared in the Star , but no sooner did the general secretary see them there , than he at once repaired to Manchester , and on his arrival appealed against their proceedings , whereupon a General Delegate Meeting was called of all the sections in Manchester , namely , the Grecian Head , Pack Horse , Oxford Road , and Hat and Feathers . When the delegates assembled , the general secretary demanded an en masse meeting of tha men of

      Manchester , which was at once denied : it was then moved by Mr . Pemberton , and seconded by seme oiher delegate , " That the accounts be gone into , by tbe delegates assembled , to ascertain whether a general meeting was requisite or no . " Motion carried . It was next requested by the general secretary , that any man who had already made him guilty should not be placed on his jury again , that , too , was refused : so he was obliged to submit to having the same men , whose names appeared in the denunciatory resolutions in ths Star , again placed in the triple capacity of judges , jurors , and accusers . Uawever , the accounts were gone into and the following is a copy of the resolution founded upon the inquiry . A MlHCHESTEB _SUOPMATE _'

      Resolved . — "That this meeting _having heard the explanations of Mr . Clark respecting the monetary affairs of theassoc ! _atlon , and having examined his accounts and receipts , are of opinion that the said explanations aro highly satisfactory , and clearly exonerate Mr . Clark from any blame , and- that this meeting lay before their respective sections such explanations , and forward this resolution to London , to be used as Mr . Clark may deem proper . " ( Signed ) Jams Caixav _, Secretary . October 20 th , 1846 . Thomas Roubke , President of the Grecian Head . John Padok , ' J Jons Flbtcbeb , > Committee . Utice Bobke , j EnWABP Cabik ., President of the Pack _Horss . Samuel Pembebton , " i _Cbsbles Bum ., U _^ _" _^ . _ARCHIBALD P . A . BK , I

      John Johnson , / Isaac Mobbicb , President of the Oxford Road . John Penman , * l Thomas Weight , > Committee . _Fxahcis Tinam , J _Gioaae Walkeb , President of the Hat & _Featbtrs . Geobge Going , _} _Geokqe O'Neill , > Committee . John Bowen , ) John HbaIiET _, Chairman , _Ueetinq of _Eactobt _Wobkebs . — On Monday evening a very numerous meeting of the factory operatives of this town and district , was held in tho Town-hall , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of calling upon the manufacturers to commence working short tune , in order to avoid the great mischief of stopping altogether , or of having to submit to a reduction of wages . The chair was occupied by Mr . Jobn Mills , an operative , who addressed tha meeting at some length . He referred to the period of 1842 , wben all the

      _comidtrable mills in the district were working two , three , and four days a week , and many were entirely stopped . That state of things continued for two successive years . The workhouses were filled with paupers , and iu that town alone there were upwards of 1 , 000 cottage-houses untenanted . He felt quite certain that , unless something was done , tbe remit of the present crisis would be more disastrous . After alluding to some statements ia reference to the cotton trade , he concluded by reading a letter from Mr . Charles Hindley , the Member for Ashton , after Which the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — "That in the opinion of this meeting itis highly desirable , both for the welfare of employers aud employed , that we work short time for a season , seeing , as we do , that tbe price of cotton has advanced much more than the price of yarns and manufactured goods , and that unless a stop be put to the sp . eolations in the raw material , it will end in loss of capital to the employers , and consequently a very large number of operatives will be throwa out of employment . " After some farther proceeding , the meeting _separated .

      Frightful Acciriknr Hy Machinbbt.—Onmond...

      Frightful AcciriKNr hy Machinbbt . —OnMonday as John Derrick , a workman in Mr , Henderson ' s iron and tin-plate works , Birmingham , was wheeling off a barrow loaded with iron faf / gots . the barrow swayed on one side , and threw him head foremost against a large pair of shears , worked , as is usual , by steam , and constantly going . Hewas thrown _^ in such a position , that to save his head from being crushed or cut off , he was compelled to thrust his hand and arm into the month of the shears—he did so—his hand and a part of his right arm were cut oft two or three inches above the wrist .

      Accident in the Dorchester Railway Tunnei _.. --On Saturday last another accident occurred in the above tunnel , to a man named John Stone , who was removing some plankings in the tunnel when a great portion of the earthwork fell in and completely buried him between the area and the side cuttings . It was upwards ef half an hour before the man was dug out , and not the slightest hope of Mb recovery is entertained . MrsiKBions Death . —A sad affair transpired at the _residsnee of E . _VVodehoaae , tsq . M . P ., last week . Mr . Wodehouse resides at Thorpe , by Norwich , and in the service of his ladv are three sisters .

      One ot these ( the lady ' s maid ) was found a _oorpse in a private part of the premises , with her throat cut in a most dreadful manner , ami only a few minutes after she had dressed her mistress , and had been observed to be in good spirits . There appears to be some mystery in the affair , and some attempts are being made to smother the matter , so far as the public are concerned . An inquest was held the next day before Mr . Pilgrim , one of the county coroners , but at which none of the re porters of the public press were present , when the verdict of the jury was , ** That the deceased had cut her own throat in a state of temporary derangement . "

      EnucATiON foe THE Poor . — -The National Incorporation Society for the Promotion of the means of Education amongst the Humbler Glasses , made a report , from which it appears that the society have advanced during tbe past month of November , £ 466 , for the erection of thirteen schools and five residences for teachers , in the north of England , and JE 358 forthe support of other schools , as well aa 42 , 800 recently expended on the training schools at Battersea and _Whitelands . _Rkfhgks foe thk Houseless . —In consequence of the inclemency ofthe weather the three establishments at Playhiuse yard , _Whitecrous-street ; Great

      Ogle-street , Foley-place ; and Glasshouse-street , East-Smithfield , were opened for the season on Monday nigkt . There were admitted iuto the western asylum 22 , to the centre asylum 111 , and to that at the east end 84 , all of whom were in a most destitute condition . Ths regulations aro the same as in _previohs years , each applicant having the accommodation of a bed of hay in a wrapper of tarpauling , with a akin of leather in which to envelope themselves , and which is found the most conducive to health as ¦ w ell as to cleanliness . A portion of bread ia given to each inmate night and morning , and those who remain in the institution on Sunday are supplied with an additional ration of bread and cheese .

      SeBIOCS _AcCIUKNT AT THE QuSEN ' S ThBATRE , Tottenham-street . —At the close of the performance on Monday evening , a younc man , about twenty years of age , named Sharpe , fell from the gallery into the pit , and was removed , to all appearance dead , to the Middlesex Hospital ; the audience were leaving the theatre , so thatthe unfortunate young man fell on the seats of tbe pit , and no oue else waa in * jured . _Frightfdx Death . —On Saturday an inquest was taken at the London Hospital , on the body of William Whitelock , aged twenty-one years , an appren . tice to Messrs . Hartley and Read , mast and

      blockmakers , I in Fore-street , -Limehouse . On Friday morning last the deceased and several other men wore employed in heaving a mast out of the warehouse into tboriver . Tbedeoeased wasat the winch , and he incautiously left the " pall" ofthe crane on the ground , and before he could prevent the chain from running out , the motion ofthe handle instantly reversed , and struck the unfortunate young man a most violent blow on the head . He was rendered insensible , " and before he could be conveyed to the Above institution he expired . His head presented a most frightful appearance , it being literary _sma-hed iii . Verdict , "Accidental death . "

      _DuxiEHons _Robbebt i . v a Bams . — Last week a clerk of Messrs . Munn and Co ., commission agents in Manchester , went to Messrs . Jones Lloyd , and Co ' _s . bank , and presented a cheque for payment . He received in payment ten £ 5 notes and the remainder in gold . As the notes were first tendered him , he put thera into an outside pocket of a Chesterfield coat , and whilst he was holdit purse into which the clerk of the bank was to put in the gold , some dexterous knave or other having seen Messrs . Moan ' s clerk so carelessly depo _.-it them contrived , whilst the gold * was being put into the bag , o extract the whole ofthe £ 5 notes , with which ho t clear off .

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      THE DEFENCE FUND DEBT . TO THS BDITOa OV TUB _NORTBEtH STAB . ' Respected Sir , —It has been repeatedly proposed by the people to do something to show our gratitude to Mr . O'Connor , for his many services to the working classes , » nd now the viHDiCTiVENESB of a _certain functionary hath given us an opportunity of putting our good iutentlons into practice . I think we OHght to remember , that it is a good maxim , " be honest before you are charitable ;" then acting upon that maxim , I say , discharge a Debt which , by the by , is not very creditable to us as a body , and thus cheer our Chief in this his time of need . As on easy mode of doing so , I beg most respectfully to sug . _gest the following p lan . If any class is more indebted to Mr . O'Connor than another , I believe it is the

      shareholders of the land Company . By his writings , his speeches , and his lectures _. _^ hehas opened our eyes to the valueof the LAND ; and showed us the means ofbecoming Independent of our taskmasters ; and consequently raised us to our present proud position . I believe by ' this time we have nearly or quite 12 , 000 members , now ' If each shareholder was to _son ' _rifttife step « i _«« , 12 , 000 sixpences amount to £ 300 , which would more than cover the debt . But some _ars ready to say , there are hundreds who cunnot raise sixpence to give—I admit it ; but there are many , very many , who could give enough to make up for their poorer brethren , and thus raise enough to pay the debt , and have a triflo over to assist in satisfying the rapacious mow of one of the " Young _Hannibals . "

      Hoping , Sir , that as we have often sung with enthusiasm . " It was Feargus O'Connor was valiant then , ¦ Well rally around him again and again . " We shall now do so , and show the tyrants that if they attempt to injure the head , tho whole body will arise to bear him " - . armless , and thu » render their efforts futile . I remain , Your humble and obedient Servant , Wm . Ad * sc « Bristol , Dec . H , 1846 .

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      uu WHAT THE AGHICCXTURAL LABOUBBRS THINK . ¦ ' A _chlel's amang ye takin' notes , An * faith _hs'll print ' em . " Man thinks nations are made up of men—classes and orders of society exist Separately , but I adl _Ofdor , tO 90016 extent , affects the thinking habits of others , and there _, fore , the action of all are to some extent affected by those with whom they are surrounded . The country squire rides his full . brad hunter , and the village butcher , in imitation of the village lord , mounts his half-fed pony . The village king handles his gun , and talks of pheasants and wine ; the butcher loads and primes his fowling piece , and discources loud endlong of hares and rabbits . The Village blacksmith hints that it is quite possible tbat the young squire may ba a fool ; the shoemaker answers , thai he is sure of it , and what is more , he is pretty confident that the parson is a rogue . The barber laughs aud snys —I could have told you that long ago , but I thought everybody knew it . In a similar manner exists and

      acts the train of thought , in every division of society in the city , as in the village ; and in the cibinet , as in the workshop . The external acts of men are an index to their internal thought , not in one particular , but in all ; in tbeir assemblies as well as in their households , and though wehave not the thunder of open rebellion , nor the flash of swords wet with blood , we have signs in the atmospdere telling us truly ofa change , and signs too , all ominous for the future . Mind is acting on mind , and there is a coherent and evident bearing in the thoughts of the people . The agricultural labourers , and the operative of the manufacturing districts , think like each other , differently educated [ and ] living estrangedfrom each other by many circumstances , yet both suffer from the same cause ; both have thought , and the voice Of eternal nature has breathed within , and now speaks aloud to all , and will as assuredly effect a change in the government and institutions of this country .

      Reader , will you , with me , forsake the ordinary paths of research , leave tbe cumbrous bu t valuable statistics of wealth and misery on your book shelves , roam at leisure in the highways and byways of life—be an observer of the people , and from them laarn the Signs of the times . In doing so _| I shall write to you , not fiction , but / acts , in plain language pen the sayings of my fellow-labourers , and reflect , as nearly as I can , the _thoughts and feelings of the people . It was the first of December of this year—a cold clear morning , when I lsft the old town of Bury St . Edmunds , and sauntered along the turnpike-road leading to Thetford , in Suffolk . It was the day of llury cattle fair , and scattered alonj tho turnpike road were herds of oxen and droves of sheep ; the fields were bare , and everything looked chilled and wintry . I observed before me an agricultural labourer , who was driving some twelve or

      fourteen _atunted-look ' _ng Highland cattle , which are brought over by the Scotch drovers and sold to the English farmers , who fatten them for the market , and sell them , probably sometime in tbe fall or winter of next year . My friend , the labourer , was dressed in corduroy trousers and waistcoat with sleeves , covered by a coarse frock ; his hat had evidently seen some service , and his feat were encased in a pair of strong hob-nailed shoes . A cheap yellow cotton _handkerchief was loosely tied round bis neck , and in the spate open between his fiock and handkerchief could be seen part of a shirt clean and white as snow . He was a stout man , between forty and fifty years of age , with a face neither prepossessing nor repulsive—a fair specimen of an English agricultnr . il labourer . Addressing him , I said , " Thi 3 is a cold morning , Sir . " " Yes , master , it is very cold , " was the brief reply .

      " The air smells wiutery , I fsar the cold weather has set In . " "I fear it has , master , and we poor folks will feel it too . " "Oh , I don't doubt that , hut it would be as pleasant to live in winter as summer if you were well housed , clothed , and fed . " . "So it would , but we cannot get victuals enough , and God knows there is nothing to spare for clothes , and the farmers are too greedy to repair our cottages . " "So , you are a farm servant % " "Vet , I work tor Mr , O— , _his farm is along here about 5 miles from Bury , my name is _, I have been 40 years in the same parish . " " What is your average wages about this part of the country f " " I get ls . 8 _d . a day when at work , some men ls . 6 d . " " Are you not engaged by the week then ?"

      " No , we ars often idle at some seasons , and the farmer * always pay by the day . " * 'How the deuce do you mana ge to maintain a wife and family 1 " "I often wonder how we do manage , as I have a wife and five of them ; it costs us 7 s . a week for flour , we cannot do with less than _tlirae stone of flour , and then we are often hard pinched for bread ; so _i'ou will see there is not much left for clothing . " " Is it a large farm where you live 1 " " I live a mile from the farm , and pay £ 3 10 s . a year

      for a cottage—my master farms about 500 acres . " " Is it good land , think you ! " " Ah , it is very fair . " " What rent does be pay an acre ?" "About 22 s . " " How many men does he employ , en an average «" " Well , sir , sometimes he has more than at other times , { hesitating for a short time ) , I should say 16 or 17 men and boys together , he has always ii or 6 boys . " Do any of your family work for him V

      " I have only one son at work , and we work together , he is seventeen years of age , and gets three shilling and sixpence a week . " " A stout lad _ofseventeen will do almostas much work as a man . " " My boy does more work than some men , but you see they call him a lad , and farmers just do as they like , and If you don't take what thej offer you , they tell you to go to the Union . " " I wonder you can stand it as you do . " - " Why , Sir , I often don ' t care which foot goes _foremost . God surely never meant that men should be treated so . " " Why don ' t you ask your roaster to let you 2 or 8 aores of land !"

      "Ah , Sir , he won ' t let me have more than half an acre . I wish he would . " •¦ What rent do you pay for your half acre !" "I pay one pound a year , but I would pay 2 pounds before I would want it . " " How do you crop it now 1 " " I grow potatoes , cabbages , and that like , for myself and family , and generally sell a quarter of an acre of carrots , which bring me from £ 2 to £ 3 , and enable me to pay the shoemaker , and I keep a pig , that is a great help to us . You see , Sir , if it was not for my little bit of land we could not lire . " " Is your land about the best on the farm V " So , Sir , it is far from that , but I grow more on my half acre , than my master does on any acre and a half . I work only on it at spare hours after my day ' s work is over , and that like . " I asked my road-side companion "what he thought of emigration ! Told him of getting lots of land almost for _nething . "

      He told me that he could never save money enough to take himself and family out to America , besides , he had no notion of going to far away places ; bethought men had a right to live in the land of their birth . I next explained to him the Chartist allotment plan . He at first sight , appreciated the practicability of such a scheme , and expressed a hearty wish tobe in possession of £ 5 , and he would be independent of farmers aud landlords also . Our conversation next turned on the Qamo Laws . He said the system of game preserving induce ! wen to poach , and in his own manner , declared that our aristocracy had lost all taste for sport , and the question now was , not who was the best sportsman—but whose preserves were best stocked with game , aud who was the best hare and pheasant murderer . I asked him if he " did not think , after all , " That hares , pheasants , and land , belonged as much to the people , as tbey did to ' either the Duke of Grafton , or any of his tenantry !''

      He _ar-. swered , " They do , and if great folk don ' t make some _t-hange , it will corny to that ; we won ' t always be treated thus . " Such , render , is a truthful , _andin noway overdrawn picture , ofthe condition and opinions of thc agricultural

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      population of England . I have conversed with hundreds of them , and all experience teaohes me that thesi men are beginning te think . . The ' above dialogue calls but for little comment , it it pregnant with truth , and speaks for itself . Our agricultural labourers are men nf quiet and solitary habits , and are not prone to open their minds on all occasions , but be familiar with tbem , and they will unreservedly unfold their thoughts . They possess a strong sense of right and wrong , and are yet destined to play an important part in the _i-evolution now going on . The labourer I have described , pays £ 4 15 s . a year for a cottage and half an acre of land , the land one mile distant from his home . The small farmer , under the Chartist Co-operative Land Company , pays £ 5 a year for a good cottage and two acres of land adjoining . The small far mer is a freeman , my road . side friend , a hired and dependant serf .

      The revolution now begun is uot one of destruction , but a revolution for re-possession , not doubting as to right , but resolved to have no theory to puzzle and embarrass the understanding , but a practice to give comfort to the labourer , and produce only to the producer . The general desire of all classes tu possess the land is only one _ofjthe many signs of the ' _times—and the Chartists in this as in other things arenobly taking _theli-ad . The capabilities of the land , have been long demonstrated , and the Chartists have proved the possibility to possess at least part ot it . Aristocracy , moneyocracy , and their institutions , laws , and government , will one day be too old for

      the people . The " sacred right of insurrection" against injustice ! and fraud , is becoming day by day better under _, stood , and will yet supplant the priestly doctrine of obedience to errer . I can fancy ' the day in the better future , when men will universally feel the true spirit of freedom , and say with Thomas _Gampbsll , the poet ;—• Eternal natural whsu tby great hand Had heaved the flood , and fix'd the trembling land , When life sprang startling at thy plastic call _. Endless her form * , and man _> he lord of all ! Shy , was that lonely form inspired b y thee , To wear eternal chains and bow the knee <

      Was man ordained the slave of man to toil . Yok'd with the brutes , and fettered to the soil ; Welgh'd in a tyrant ' s balance with his gold ? No;—Nature _stamp'd us in a heavenly mould ! She bade no wretch his thankless labour urge , Ner , trembling take the pittance and tbe scourge . A Leaf fkom tub Annals op a _Shobmakeb ' s Qarbet .

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      TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC _HIERAfiCHT OF IRELAND . Right Rev . and Rev . Sibs , I have stated that your gratitude so liberally bestowed for the boon of emancipation was abused by Mr . O'Connell , who , with Iiis accustomed shrewdness , perceived that by holding you in his interest he would be able to command the support ofthe great mass of the population comprising your Hocks ; he well knew that if you supported liini" with your voice , the people would support him with their pence , and as he had an eye to " Banking" speculation , he knew the value * of accumulated farthings , and that a certain number of halfpence were i quul to a certain amount of sovereigns . He knew , also , that without your support he could not long enjoy

      public favour , and thus we find him using his very best endeavours to retain you in bis service . He is a most extraordinary man , A v « ry " camelion" in his political character . Unlike " Jim Crow , " he does not directly ' Jump about and wheel about ; " but retains his apparent form whilst he varies in his hue . .. He is never consistent , and his friends of to-day may possibly be classed amongst bis enemies of to . morrow . Tie clergy of the Roman Catholic church were not always so _^ ig hly esteemed by the Liberator as they now are , for if we rem- mber rightly his testimony before a committee ofthe . House of Commons wouldmukethemappear tobenotonly " meanly " descended , but incapable or undeserving to exercise or possess influence amongst the people . This * _g one of his d _« rk shades , but he becomes black by comparison ,

      when we see him subsequently cringmg , and fawning , and " kissing" the consecrated hands of the very men whom he attempted to malign ; but this has ever been his practice , and his only clamour about "Godlesscolleges" was only raised to link you to him still more firmly . You have heard him say thathe could " drive a coach and six betwixt every act of parliament in the Statute book , " and you believe tbe assertion , and rest upon his legal opinion as the dictum of wisdom herself . He is a Catholic , and goes to mass every day and has a private chaplain to administer to his spiritual wants , and for this you give him credit with being endowed with the spirit of Christianity , and your pulpits have rung with language little short of blasphemy in laudation of his acts ; but , gentlemen , notwithstanding all this display of

      piety he "falls" like the just man , not " seven times , but seventy time *) , " and it is to be regretted tbat he does so with impunity so far as it regards the clergy . Neither the bishops , nor the priests , nor even his chaplain , appear to have ever _impresstd upon him tbat there is such a command &»— " Thou Shalt not bear false _v-itnuss against thy neighbour . " He would have borne false witness agaiust you , * most rev . 3 _* us . lie ius borne false witness against the last remnant of your national liberty in the persons of the Forty-shilling freeholders . He has brought false witness against every man or set of men who dared to differ with him on Irish affairs . He has borne false witness against such men as O'Connor , _O'llh-ginR , and the members of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , who know and practice true

      patriotism I He has borne false witness- against th .-Chartists of Wales and the people of England , and has offered his services to exterminate the one , and has laboured to p rocure pains and penalties for the other , for doing that which himself approved of , and wbich he recommended for their adoption . . In short , he has borne f Alse witness against every measure which was calculated to expose his political jugglery or be in any way detrimental to his interests ; and now we have him bearing false witness { by his own avowal ) against his bosom friends and brother repealers , " Young Ireland , ' ? and has he not by thu vilest despotism attempted to ; suppress public opinion by his efforts to annihilate the A ' a ' ton newspaper ? How can you , Rev . Sirs , come forward and in the * face of these ' facts express your "UNALTERED

      AVD UNALTERABLE CONFIDENCE" in such a man ? Remember the eyes of nations are . turned upon his acts , and if the friends of liberty condemn him , and they aln-ady do so , you , as his abettors , must share the odium of having contributed to delude and cheat your couutrymen . You are too easily imposed upon , gentltmien . Your special _pleaderJ-u' _-wb bow to "blarney , " and make sweet speeches to win your confidence ; be has the happy knack ( for him ) of hitching on a little rag of religion to the fag end of a political jumble , and thereby throws dust in you : eyes to prevent you seeing the real nature of the questions which he proposes ; but all this triokory will not do , the cheat must be discovered sooner or later , aud if the clergy cannot or will not see it , the world will see it , and the people of Ireland are beginning

      to see it , and wilt all soon know the true reason why Repeal has been sacrificed to Whig patronage ; and there can be uo doubt when that hour shall arrive , the people will fly _filom the _liberator as they would from a serpent . And then I would ask you what will your position be ? Unaltered and unalterable i No ! No ! That must not bo ! You must be where you ought to be , with your flocks : the " _Liberator " («) win be no c _iiiipanion for you ; he is not a fit one now to let . d you to political redemption for his measures falsel y taken"hypocritically" kept , are now "knavishly" forsaken ! And thu judgment of eiery man in Christendom , who is a lover of political honesty , has fallen upon him ; even the "Whigs , to whom he has sold his country and himself , ridicule his inconsistency and despise him for his duplicity .

      Hasten , then , let me implore of you to sever a connexion which is so injurious to your country . Bestir yourselves , aud make atonement for the errors of tho past , by advocating such measures as will be profitable to the community , aud which will give " Irel « ud" to the "Irish " and make th » Irish people happy and prosperous . Leave the old political sinner to the tender mercies of his conscience , which will one day , perhaps , frighten him into repentance of his numberless transgressions against his country , and let him have solitude to indulge in reflection upon the iniquity of the traffic , whieh could barter the interests of the poor for vile and filthy license . O ! Rev . Sirs , when the wasted forms of desolate widows and famished orphans shall flit before his eyes—when tlieir last convulsive sighs and groans shall be _barne on

      the wind to disturb his slumbers ; let him if he will pray for mercy , but never le ) him hope to obtain it until he ceases to " hunger , " after the FLESH POTS OF THE PEOPLE'S ENEMIES . I have now shown that yeur agitation for repeal was not based on political honesty , and I will now endeavour to prove to you that tbe materials which you use , and your mode of applying tbem , cannot be depended on , and that it is impossible with such various and conflicting elements , where self is ths ruling spirit , to render your agitation other than what is ; a failure and a disgrace to the Waders or it ; and in this assertion , I class tbe princi p les of the two partius " Old and Young Irelanders ; " they are both in error , aad no matter _wh'ch may henceforth assume the leadership , they are both equally _tesponsible

      for thu consequences which must arise , and which now exists through pursuing a course of policy which , lu its very nature is opposed t » politioal raason and common honesty . Without consistency of principle and honesty of intention , " n _» cause can stand or con deserve to stand ; for it has ever been the policy of the people's enemies to diride their councils , and thereby thwart their measures . As soon as dissention _manifests itself , they labour to engender a spirit of rivalship , and widen the breach by every secret means within , their power , and having at length succeeded iu their crafty designs , it only remains for them to make an offer to whichever Jc . idurs chose to _accept it of a certain amount of mercy _oi'patroniige , ( _whiohisihe _giune _. ) ta hribo tliem to re .

      linquish the agitation , aud to complete the destruction of a p irty whose power they dread to meet iu open and honourable conflict . By this means , they _effectually frustrate the _effirts of the people , and what is most re . markable _, geuerally contrive to escape unsuspected of being the promoters of the nefarious traffic _; and thu base leaders , who are guilty of such horrid perfidy , contrive to walk out of the transaction with smiling nuil sanctimonious countenances ; they plead some Important necessity or _visitaiiou of _Provi-leiicc _. as an excuse for broken promises aud violated faith ; and even th people themselves—too generous in their nature—are more inclined to behove in the miserable subterfuge , than to examine its , truth . Tftvro are in . society a number of men who live bv

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      their wits , or on the credit of a , former . reputation ; an if by chance the last has failed _^ procure the " needful , ' iheir inventive genius is immediately pat into requieition to manufacture a mode by which they can "raise ihe wind , ' . These _individuuls are . generall y great ene . _mies to personal labour / and ' hi , ve the greatest horror of being supposed to have any affinity with the _vul KOr and productive classes ; they possess nothing but their impudence , seasoned , perhaps , with their i gnorance—and heir laziness is proverbial . These individuals must Mowever , be fed ! they will be dressed in the bargain , if they can ; they will even condescend to live upon the productions of the low and vulgar herd , whom they despise : and sooner than suffer privation , or demean them _, _telves by labouring for their bread . * they will do anything nnd everything in their . power to quarter themselves upon

      tho nation ! Now . Reverend Sirs , to render your position , as it regards Repeal , so simple that the meanest _eapaeity _niay ' _umlerstand It , I will suppose the case of a man calculating on the merits of a former reputation , arid casting about him f « r a measure by which he can replenish his coffers . A skilful cuctioneer will at onco open a shop , and if he be a political one , he would as soon sell bis own father er himself as he would any other article of commerce , provided always that ready money and full value be the terms of transfer . When such a man commences business , it is his interest to magnify his abilities and depcant on the merits of the stock he has to sell—or , in plain terms , to " puff" himself and it as much as possible . The next great and indispensable thing is to surround himself with a suitable

      number of assistants to act aB clerks , porters , and gentlemen to bid against honest purchasers , and to raise the price or the commodity , and by that means , of course , earn a ah re of the plunder . Only think of the scene ta be enacted , stripped of all its tinsel and flimsy covtr . ing ! Go to _TattersalVs . or Dysart _' s , and witness the sale of some old , worn-out hack , which may have changed masters every year of its life , and see how the very last drop of its blood Is excited to make it move upon limbs which have lost their muscular power , Fancy yourselves , gentlemen , at Conciliation (?) Hall , _Mullaghamast , or Tara ' s Hill , and see your poor country led along like an old hack , with a halter round her neck , by the _anctionfifr's lacquey , Hear the man wiih the " hammer" sell his victim !

      " Erin is a fine animal , gentlemen—strong wind and limb ; though she lost a great deal of blood on this very spot—the grass is red yet : Repeal ia bid for her . Re . pnal , once , twice . Show her up a bit , Rrpeil is bid for her ! " . " A Voics— "Justice to Ireland for her !" "Thank you , Sir ; justice to Ireland—that ' s some _, _thlnj ? to begin with . Trot her down again , and let the gentlemen see her . " " National education for her . " " That's a Tory bid , I can ' t take it . Trot her up and down a _^ ain . There she goes , gentlemen ! See what a * 'TAIL " 8 hecarrii 5 l Who bids more for her ? -Justice once—twice—Repeal and Justice for ber !" " Whigs In office for her . ' "

      " Did I hear a bid , gentlemen ? Thank you , my Lord ; I knew you could appreciate the value ' of 80 noble an animal . Trot her up and down again . You see what symmetry and grace she possesses . I can assure you , gentlemen , she is equal to any weight ; her speed is _astonishing » and she is ai sure of foot as a mountain goat . Whigs in for her ! Notice , gentlemen ; I pledge my _veracity she never kicks or bites . I h » v » trained her my . self , gentlemen ; therefore , I can warrant bfr . R » peal and Whigs in office for her—all done ! " —Trot her down once more—only look at her again , my Lord ; she is going as cheap as dirt ! Shall I say a little more for you ! I aiBure your Lordship she requires very little food to keep her in condition . Shall I gay a little more ? Once—twice—all done ? " Patronage I " "Thankyour Lordship ; I knew she would fall to you . Patronage once—twice—third nnd last time—Patronage —Whig Patronage ! - GONE !!!"

      And _tlus Erin is knocked down , and the && er . ; U ( wous hand which struck the blow is stretched out to clutch the deposit , and to grasp the money-bag which contains the "thirty pieces of silver , " and the modern Judas betrays his country with a kiss , and _censhns sight mil . lions ot hlsfellow-creatam to a life of toil , misery , and despair . Gentlemen , your office is one of peace ; _yeu profess to be _dispensers of Christian charity ; you preach against slander and hypocrisy—I hope you are lovers of genuine truth . I believe you to be so , and have confidence in your integrity , when the scale shall have dropped from your eyes—I have hope that when you see the error In politics to which you have given support , that you will be amongst the first to remedy tbe evil ; for it is melan . choly to reflect on the abuse of your confidsnee ; it is painful to know that if yon and the people only exercised half the energy you have exhibited—if properly directed

      —your country would ere now have _havs been in a different condition to what she is , and the people would era long be in a position in which they would learn to despise the arts of _pslitical speculators , and be beyond the reach of land grubbers and " middle men , " whom you know to be the curse and bane of Ireland . As the friend to whom you are so " unalterably attached" is one of this class , I will endeavour in my next te point out a few of the sideral measures wbich he has declared to be _necessnry either to the attainment of Repeal or its efficacy ; their fallacy will be apparent , and your convictions will . I hope , be strengthened hy comparing them » ith the acts of other nations and people who had to struggle for Iheir freedom , as the Irish have ; and I further hope , that their example will not be without its salutary effects on your future political careers . I am , Right Reverend and R <; verend Sirs , Your most obedieDt Servant , W . H . Clifton .

      Antffvv(Wmfjm\ L/L.Piftlur- ' Iheetings*

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      rv .. _- , A _^» _VI' _«^''^'' _VM _* , _^«^ lW <> _kj _>^ 'W' > V < _Artn _^ rtA < * _*> # _, Poor Man ' s Guardian Society . —A public meeting , called by the Poor Man ' s Guardian Society , was held on ; Tuesday night * at the Princess ' s Concert-room , toinvestisate the " frightful case of death from starvation of Louisa Mordaunt , from the cruel neglect of the board of guardians ; " and also to take into consideration the disgusting talcs of _uncleanliness in Marylebone workhouse . The members of the borough had been invited , but Sir B . Hall was unable to attend ; and Sir C . Napier , in his reply to thc communication , doubted whether a public meeting was the proper place for such an inquiry ; he thought it the province of the vestry chosen by the ratenay .

      ers , to punish the board of guardians . Mr . Cabbell , M P ., took the chair . The meeting was then addressed by Mr . C . Cochrane , who moved a resolution declaratory of its full confidence thatthe verdict of the jury in the case of Louisa Mordaunt was a just and conscientious one , and denouncing the treatment she received as a disgrace to a Christian country . Another resolution , condemning the present Poor Law , and its administration , was adopted ; and a third , founded on the two former , establishing an Auxiliary Poor Man ' s Guardian Society for Marylebone , as the best means of protecting the destitute against the oppression there practised . Statements

      were made during the evening of gross cases of _neglect and mismanagement in several metropolitan parishes ; notwithstanding the attention drawn to it , it is said that in St . Pancras "tlte _** hed" is still , as before tlie late inquiries , in a wretched condition ; in St . Giles ' s and Bloomsbury cases of extreme cruelty and suffering have occurred very recently , proving the necessity ofa searching investi 0 ation . There was a disposition in a small part of the meeting to interrupt these statements , but no open contradiction was given them . The resolutions were moved and seconded by Messrs . Cochrane , Hoggins , Uillis , Dr . Stoddart , Dr . Bird , & c .

      Thk Parish of St Pancras and thu Poor Law Commissioners . —At a meeting of the directois and guardians of the Poor of St . Pancras . held on Tuesday , a mandate from the Poor Law Commissioner . - * was read , containing rules for the future management of the poor , and _assuming absolute control over the parish . The rules and _regulations of the Commissioners are divided into twelve sections—viz ., admission of paupers , classification of paupers , discipline and diet of paupers , punishments for

      misbehaviour of paupers , visiting committee , repairs and alterations ofthe workhouse , qualifications of _ufflcers , continuanoe of officers and supply of vacancies , and duties of workhouse officers . The Commissioners order that the rules shall be in force after the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of the mandate . The communication was received by _tliej-uardiuna with great _indignation , and they expressed a determination to resist the application of the rules . On the motion of Mr . Douglas , the matter waa referred to the vestry .

      Peace Socimt . — A lecture was delifered in Union-street Chapel . Southwark , by the Rev , J . Jefferson , Secretary of the Peace Society , on Tuesday evening , for the purpose of explaining the principle * of that institution , and of snowing the barbarous and _uiiohristiau nature of the war system which it was established to abolish . In the _ontset the lecturer _statt-d that from the effects already made by tho Society , from the information infused into the public mind by thc tracts printed bjr it , and _tholecturas delivered by its agents , tending , as all these did , to prove the inconsistency of war with the spirit of Christianity , to a considerable extent the public mind had beon led to inquire into , and investigate tlie subject ; and he was sure if such investigation and inquiry became moro general , and if the

      Christian public would try the question by the standard of truth , tho period could not be tar distant when the glowing prophecies of tlie Scriptures would receive their fulfillments , and the nations would study war no more . Uo wished to speak of war as it existed in connection with tho governments of the world , more especially civilised governments ; and in this respect hii considered it an organization to effect that by force which ought and could bo more effectually done by reason ami persuasion . He called on the _' mecti ng to use their efforte to get the war system altogether _•( _boHi-lied _, and the nations <>• ' the earth he blessed by its . hallowed influence . They had got the stain ol ' ¦ lavcry blotted out from the annals of the countrylet them use the same efficient means , and the war system would also 599 * 1 become ranked among past ' evils .

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      . FiBtD-LAitB _RiodEn School . —The fifth annual meeting , of the . friends and subscribers ofthe Field lane Ragged Schools was held at tho Theatre of tha Mechanics' Institution , Southampton-buildings on Tuesday afternoon ; There was a very numerous attendance of ladies who have taken an interest in ri'scuingthe destitute children of this district from vice and disease , and in training them to habits of industry , and morality . The Right Hon . Lord Ash . ley was called to the chair , and opened the business _^* i ! f _* " eeting by ohseri , ' inft < that the friends of the neld-lane Raseed Schools had assembled that even _, ine to make an appeal to the Christian public , in order that they _might be enabled to onenafreedav

      _ffl- _' . i , _JT f . _- - _Rag-Md Schnlg were first wX « n " _' k _? i ear 1841 _*' Nos * _e _* _<« . Smithfield . but tbe committee deeply felt that the instruction they wereenabJed to impart being limited to four hours on Sundays and two hours on Thurg . nay evenings , was quite inadequate to meet the _htl _vi i ¦ 1 : _e _? , h ° ? _£ . Mr . Aston , the _Secro-• c f aJ the report detailing the operations of the _SaL _^ * i Pa 8 t y _. ea r" The ave _^ number of _StSW 180 ; the " receipts to vvv * i _**" dthe ( hsbursements to £ 60 . Mr . David the i \ Vv T , r _\ , _? r , CI 5 rke ' Re _* - Mr - _Mu" _-r ° . the Rev . R D . bdm , the Rev . A . Hughe- * , Mr . Payne , Lieutenant Blaokmoro _, and other gentlemen had ad ! _aresscd the meeting , _appropriate resolutions , were pased , and after a vote of thanks to the noblechairman , the proceedings terminated .

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      ANOHIER DEATH PROM DESTITUTION . An inquest was held on Tuesday night , by the City Coroner , at St . George ' s Workhouse , Southwark . on tha body of John Tracy , aged C 4 , who died from starvation in a lodging house in the Mint . The body presented a most deplorable sight , being nothing more than a few bones . The feet appeared sodden with wet and mud , as if the poor old crentur .-had for many weeks been con . pelled to tramp about the streets without shoes or any _Wndofcaverinj ? to protect them from the inclemency of _theweath _. r . HU clothing consisted of a few _filthy rags . ! Cornelius O'Brien , of 5 , Vine-yard . Mint , said the de . _ccated first came to lodge at Mb house on Thursday night , but he did not see him until Friday night . En then enme very ragged and distressed to the doorand

      , they admitted him , but he had no money or any signs of any , and was very old and feeble . When he got Into the room he shook anil trembled so much , and appeared as if he would get right into the fire . A woman w » g mnkitig gruel by the fire , and the deceased _beaged of he _» to give him a drop . She did so , and he drank it scalding het , but trembled so violently all tke while that the ba . sin dropped . Witness said to him— " Why . old man you are dying , " when he replied— " Oh . no . I shall be all right . " He then led him up _stairs to his bed . The following day , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , wit . _ness's wife told him that the old man was not up . He went up stnirs , and supposing the man was dying , sent for a doctor , but before he arrived , the old man expired .

      By the _CoronerJ—He told me that he was a native of _Kildiire , and was never married . I said to him , " Why did you uot apply tor relief ! " When he replied , " I went there , but they pushed me away from the door , and I fell from weakness . " He further sai _** , that it was at St . _George ' s workhouse , and that It was on the Thursday when he applied . He never had any food after th _« gruel until he ditd . A woman said she saw him pushed down . Mr . Robinson , the mnstfr of the workhouee , entered into an explanation , and said that it was not improbable the deceased had been pushed down by other parties waiting for relief , but he was _positire none ofthe officers present had done it . Messrs . Carslake and Lockhart , the relieving officers , and William Benton , the door-keeper , all swore _posi . tlvely , that if such a circumstance as the deceased being pushed down had occurred , they must have known It . They never saw him on the Thursday .

      The Coroner summed up at great length , remarking upon tho dreadful sufferings of the deceased from cold and WRnt , which it was evident he had fer some time felt . With regard to the application for relief , it was evident that he had not applied , although he was at the Tforkboufe door , but _unfurlunately be bad gone to the wrong one . The Jury returned a verdict—Natural Death accelerated by want .

      An Unwelcome Visitor.—Last Week The Inma...

      An Unwelcome Visitor . —Last week the inmates of the Fountain Hotel , _Sheerness , were much _Blarmed by the following occurrence - —Shortly after Mrs . Gregory , the landlady , had retired to rest , she heard her bedroom door opened and .-hut , but imagining it to be her husband she took no notice of " it ; but the opening of the door a second time attracted her attention , when she saw , from thc dim light ofa nidit sliaiie , a short figure , wbich she concluded wag that of her mother , who slept in an aiijoining room ; however , shortly afterwards " hiaring a rustling noise under her bed , at the same time noticing a smell as _» fsomething burning , _s-he became alarmed , and hastening to her mother ' s bedroom for assistance , returned to her own bedroom and looking under the bed discovered the naked feet of a man . Alarmed

      at the circumstance tl . ey immediately ran down stairs for help , when Mr , Gregory , accompanied by the waiter , proceeded to the room . The fellow having been disturbed in bis concealment attempted io make his escape , and which he would have effected at thc moment but for two gentlemen who were staying at the hotel , and who intercepted him in his attempted flight . He was then handed over to the watchman , from whose custody he escaped , and runwing down to the pier tookrefuge in a barge lying alongside . The crew being aroused quickly routed the intruder from bis retreat , and after inflicting on him a severe chastisement , he was suffered t » depart . He was dressed in the garb of a sailor , and under Mrs . . Gregory ' s bed were found his stockings with a piece of burnt rag , which he is supposed to have ignited , for what puroose does not appear .

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      Corn Exchange, Decehbee Li. Great Excite...

      CORN EXCHANGE , Decehbee li . Great excitement prevailed during the past week in wheat , flour , Indian corn , and bread stuffs , and a very largebusiuess was done for consumption , for shipment to Ireland , and for exportation , and also some quantity brought un speculation . The weather is very cold , and a severo trust continues to make it an early commencement of whiter . At this day ' s market the supply of English wheat was moderate . Factors at first domuiid very high rates , anil the stauds were ultimately clared at ' 2 s . tn 3 s . per or . over the currency of this day week .

      Provincial Markets. Ricnmon-D (Yorkshire...

      PROVINCIAL MARKETS . _RicnMON-D ( Yorkshire ) Cori * Mabkkt . —We had a thin supply of grain in our market to day . Wheat sold from 7 s . to 9 s . Gd . ; oats , 3 s . to 4 s . 3 d . ; barley , 4 s . 9 d ., to 5 s . ; beans , 3 s . to as . ' id ., per bushel . Manchester Coun Makket . —Influenced by the improved reports from the London , Liverpool , aud Wakefield markets held on Friday , holders of wheat at our Corn Exchange this morning firmly demanded an enhancement of 3 d . to 4 d . per 701 bs . Flour was also held for an advance of Is . to 2 s . per sack and barrel , which , however , rather checked sales _TfAKKiNGTON Corn Makket . —There was a fair attendance at the market , and it was well supplied with new wheut from the farmers , which was freely bought by the millers at 4 d . to lid . per . bushel advance . _Hutli _Coau _JUiiket . —At this day ' s market we had a fair supply of wheat from-the farmers , for which our millers paid the price of lust week . . Birmingham Corn _Exchange . — During the week a good dual of business has beeu done in wheat , a t fully

      previous currency . _^ Newcastle Cob . v Mabket . —Our farmers brought , a moderate supply of wheat to market to-day , but we- had a fair show of samples from the coast , and the attendance _, of buyers being small , caused a dull sale for all descriptions of quality , at a reduction of one shilling perqr . oa the prices of Saturday last Wakefield Cobn Market . —Owing to _adverse winds , we have no arrivals from the East cost , whieh causes our market to be very bare of samples . The quantity of wheat offering is inadequate to the demand , and au advance of Is . ta 2 s . per 0 , 1 * . is readily obtained . _Liveupooi . . Cobn Market . —Two or threo foreign vessels have worked up , but with this eseeptiou contrary winds _havij-again limited the week's supply ot grain , meal , and flour . The improvement » oted iu our graiu market last Tuesday has been followed by alar-.-. * Win- ** in the leading , articles ofthe trade , for consumi tion , _fofjhl . _i uent and 031 _speculation , and prices continue iu advance . "Wheat must be noted Sd . to 4 d . per bushel , flour , 2 s . per barrel and sucki Indian com 5 s . per qr . oats 2 d , and barley So . per bushel higher than on Tuosday last .

      State Of Trade. Lbed».-The Cloth Markets...

      STATE OF TRADE . LBED _» .-The cloth markets haveheen very dull bath on Saturday and Tuesday , the home houses are buying nothing but to order , and the foreign houses are scarce" * ¦ » _% _ru _™ : ! iour cloth and yarn markets are paralysed by the advance on tho slaplo ' -little . m consequence , doing , and prices aro perfectly _unq-mtabto . Q iKAUyoi _* . -Con , bi .. g wools are m more demand th * arises partly from t _**^ su _- » ne _" , _^ " f Jerl _wilUot su b " _.... _i-ilv _fi-oin an impressiun that the staplers »«• ' • - " " _~ _^ _Ks _^^ _ss _^ _r- _** - _" _*" u . fi " , _*? _K : _Ant . Trade _-wieralljr is very dull .

      _SoCHDALB F UKNBI . _^*»«»^ _mXt to _tVport . col _^ _r _^ _nSeS _^ _« . etin _, e , Sl , ss t a thfl _NoTi'iNGiiAM . -Thous U tl _eie ex sts _bou t demand for particular _artieto > . J _« *™ _£ j 0 stllte that , is the whole be considered iu , m . *• > _^» & oine usually the case with it at _'"f _«' 1 _^ „ s are m dai ly houses have large orders in hand , ana expectation of _wscctving such . bus _.-.. ess has been _Glasgow . -CoUoiv _?**»' - * . _£ a % of the excitement 1 done in M anchester , m _consj _«*^ d heve our _spimcrj the cotton m » rkrt _uitw _P ;; 011 | are holding tor on J *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 19, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_19121846/page/6/