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Febbuary 21, 1846. The Northefln Stak, 5
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MONDAY . The _Ouoabcht . —We have always shewn that the weakness of the well-fed , stalwart ) agricultural interest . Consisted in tbe fact of its members being _ lunly scattered over the country , while the strength of their opponents was manifest in the facility with which their adherents could be called together by p lacard , advertisement , or ring of bell . __ The confidence of the country party consisted mainly , indeed altogether , in their Parliamentary strength ; and while the tenants knew and felt that the links which bound them to their lords were oppressive , and so many restrictions upon industry aud capital , yet , nevertheless , the old feudal system still prevails to such a desrrce that the tenants with leases were
_VOLUYrEEltS , coerced by anomalous conditions to fight the repugnant battles of their masters , while tenant _farmen ., which mean , tenants at will , werc pressed into the same force from the fact , that although their tenure was uncertain , and might be destroyed at will , nevertheless such course inevitably entaiis the breaking np of establishments ; the necessitous , and therefore ruinous , disposal of stock ; as well as the surrender of any little improvement that nik'it have been made , and the forlorn hope of the _tesllisation of distant anticipations , with the Still stronger tie which binds man to a home . _Xow , these lti _; , 0 iH - tenant slaves at will constitute more than a fuarth ofthe county constituency of _Euglaud , numerically speaking , whilst , in reality , this slave-class
holds the balance of power , inasmuch as they are the ready , the never failing reserve of the tyrant lords , to whose will theyare bound upon the day of election . The country party—that is , the old , " hanging , torturing , crucifyiug , ducking , transporting , cruel , church and King party , are now perfectly aware of this latent strength ; and we learn from the numeral- * Protectionists' meetisg _., that they hare at length resolved to bring the country muscle and sinew , to bear upon the enervated frame of the exhausted operative , rather than -bandon their power without a struggle . Kov , this is precisely what we have always predicted --that the landlords would create a bloody _icvoiutioii rather than abandon that political power
which has so long preserved lor them all the chancels of corruption as sustenance to teed their young broods upon the taxes of the country , while their elder children monopolised the land of the country , and made population press too hardly upou tb . means of subsistence . The operatives , however , ' if weak in body , are strong in mind , aud have leaders who have led them in the moral fight , that will head them , if necessary , in the physical resistance ; while we beg to remind the bull frog yeomanry , that when the people petitioned for a repeal of the " Corn Laws in ISIS " , before machinery had achieved the sole dominion of trade ; and when the removal of the re striction would have conferred essential benefit upon ihe manual operative ., npon the respectable old
handloom weavers , the bull-frogs cut tbem down , aud trampled upon thorn like so many dogs on the field of Peterloo . This oligarchical interest , this laud monopoly , bound together by political power , is the nightmare that has long pressed npon society—the demon that the waking country has resolved upon dashing from its breast . But yet we will foster even that demon , in the hope of nsingit , rather than accept the simple measure of free trade in corn , without those collateral changes which must of necessity place the country interest in antagonism to the unrestricted use of machinery and unopposed power of capital . The landlords , shorn of their monopoly , must , of necessity , drop into the school of labour protection , and agricultural improvement ; and it is
therefore that we will hail their last moan with gratitude , or receive their tardy co-operation with gladness , if not with respect . The ball is up , and how we play the game depends upon the dexterity , the courage , the energy , and the prudence af the working classes ; for the owners of machinery , the arbitrators of wages , and the possessors of capital may rest assured that an OLD D 1 ST 1 XCT and long united party will not sanction disruption without having a blow , and a heavy one , at the despoiler . LORD _ASHLET ASD IHE TeX lloUKs' BlLL . — " With the blessing of God . '"— -to use Lord Ashley ' s words—the noble lortl has resolved upon retiring from a hopeless contest for the representation of l _* oreet T shire , as well as from the leadership of the Ten Hours' Bill ; nevertheless , we still impress npon all
who would still pick thei . own blemishes out of Sir Kobert - Peel ' s free trade measure , the necessity , tbe pressing and increasing necessity , of testingthe dying Ilouseof Commons upon the question of Short Time ; and , above all , we remind tbem that Russell is still grasping after office , and that he is pledged to the support of the measure , while the Protectionists will gladly purchase a hustings toleration , and election support , by joining with them ; while the very opposi tion ofthe League will furnish the strongest grounds and most cogent reasons for giving to it their support . We would impress , with all our weight , upon the friends of Short Time , that it is just a question , nay , just TIIE _QUESTION , to test the present house upon , and that it will not be a question to be so prudently submitted to a new House of Commons . The Reform Bill . —Evervbodv knows that it is
_ . high breach of privilege for a peer ot Parliament to interfere with an election , yet we find that a few noble dukes have contrived , despite of " the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " to retain possession of so many pocket boroughs as to give them an undue and dangerous influence in the Ilouse of Commons . We look confidently to tbe « lay wheu neither the peer nor the son of a peer shall he qualified tosit in the Ilouse of Commons ; when members ofthe government and their subordinates may speak , but shall not vote ; and when the measures of the Commons shall be submitted , not to hereditary dotards , but to a senate of grave , wise men—none under thirty-five years of age—elected by the country and whose mature wisdom will be a check upon the
enthusiasm of the younger branch of legislation . This was aportion of our constitution , propounded in 1 . 3 i , and published and eulogised iu "Cobbett ' s Register" of the same year : a change which , amongst many others , we hope to see , and at no very distant period * . In fact , we are tired of peers and their sons' governments and their creatures—old women in pantaloons ; old ladies in wigs and lawn sleeves ; army oflieers and navy officers , all looking for promotion ; baronets , knights , merchants , bankers , manufacturers , stockjobber ., lawyers , and bull-frogs making laws to circumscribe genius , to coerce labour , to regulate wages , levy taxes , and squander them upon their creatures , their pimps , their w s , their bastards , their crippled ofispring and useless menials , while the toilinsr slave is bnt allowed the remnant that
remains npon their plate to feed himself and his industrious family upon . Who dared to write like this in the good old times of Church and King , and what power can now resist tbe liberty of speecli that we have wrenched from the griping tyranny of the Jaw ; or who can obstruct that knowledge that flutters upon every passing breeze , and whistles the necessity of repentance and change , or obstinacy and destruction ? _-Moset axo Share Market . —We have no hired City slave ; however , we can read the signs of the tunes , and were the first , by many weeks , toannounce the fact that Peel would endeavour to prop the funds bv the railway deposits , ponding the discussion of Ills great commercial measure , and we were the first to proclaim the disastrous results of this cunning policy . Now , let us see how the daily press , that lags immeasurably behind the people ' s ' PIONEER , treats the subject now . We take the following few lines from the Times of this ( Monday ) mortiinir : —
SOME _APPEE 1 _IESSION" IS FELT THAT THE INJURIOUS KFMEXCE OF THE PAYMENTS I'OU KAILWAY DEPOSITS WILL BE MADE MANIFEST SHORTLY AMOXG TKADERS OI * TIIE LOWElt CLASS THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM , AMOXG "WHOM TIIE MAMA PRINCIPALLY SPREAD , AXD WHO ARE NOT IN A POSITION TO OBTAIN ACCOMMODATION IN THE PRESENT STATE OP TnE D 1 SCOCXT MARKET . 3 f our warning note has failed to alarm the confiding , will not the above extract from the Thunderur awake a just suspicion . Tile Railways axd the _Lawters . —Tery many months ago , in partitioning the spoil of the confiding dupes , who had paid their railway deposits , we announced that the "gentlemen of the long robe " would not be found amongst the minor recipients ; in confirmation of this assertion , we can now state
that THREE HUNDRED AM ) FIFTY THOUSAND _ACTIONS , all arising out of railway litigation , have been instituted ; and allowing that tbey proc eed ho further than the service of writ , entering of appearance , consultation , declaration , and plea and allowing the small sum of twenty pounds cost on « acb action , we bare tbe enormous sum of sevex kill-Oxs of railway deposits , orfundsfrom depositors , in some shape or other , modestly appropriated by tbe _traft- _. andkappvis the man who escapes with this BDiall taste of legal knowledge . Sow , of all money in the world , that most nnprofitebly spent , indeed thrown away , is that wasted in litigation . It does Hot return in any profitable way to society ; it is hoarded up as funded property , or lent on mortgage to the aristocracy .
Trade . —The same cause that has had the effect of propping the funds , has also had the effect of crippling trade , as we learn from all quarters that there is a delicacy to increase stocks until the result ot Peel ' s _x _ e _ 3 _ re 5 s known and understood . The Cobs Trade . —The hope of famine induces the philanthropic fanners to keep up grain for the famine squeeze - , while , nevertheless , the dread of Sir . Robert Peel ' s measures is having the eflectof keeping prices down , as millers are unwilling to speculate beyond the mere hand to mouth supply .
IKELAND . Fju - ise . —Still the cry of Lunger tings through the sea-bound dungeon , while the wretched hovels ofthe peasantry are deserted at night by the muera-Ue occupants in search of food or reckless vengeance upon those whose laws and monopoly have been the eause of starvation and want . It is a sin , that while pestilence and famine arc raging through a fertile and productive countiy , tbat the poor inhabitants should be driven to esasperation and crime , while
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their representatives aremghtlyjtightins the b ,- attle of their respective orders '
, TUESDAY . Thb Great Question * . —Tlie resumption of the debate on the great question last night , has this ireek , like the last , stripped the papers of all interesting matter * , indeed it would appear as if society at large entered into a contract to suspend its usual pranks until thc Commons had closed their jabber However , the tedium of the long-protracted debate in tbe Commons was a little relieved by a few shots from the Protectionist outposts in the Lords . We must repectfully request our friends to keep sternly before them the reasons we hare assigned tor approving Peel ' s tariff of 1812 , as well as his present measure . Now these two changes must be taken as a whole , and cannot be separated . In 1841 in our
, letter read by Mr . Wakley in the Ilouse of Commons , and published in the daily press , we designated thc tariff of that year as a precursor-Chartist measure . We relied upon it as the wedge to break up tbe old oligarchical factions , and we asserted that it would be followed by other measures , which would lead to the complete _' _-atid entire overthrow of wliat is called the constitution of the country . We predicted that the funds would beattacked ( they have been reduced by a quarter per cent ) , we prophesied that the Church would not escape tbe mawling hand ot the paralysed agriculturist ; we prop hesied that a party whohy distinct from commerce and agriculture would spring upwho would see not only simplicity
, but beauty in Chartist principles : wc even said that mauv of our colonics would be given up , or would tin-air off the voke , and that a minister of agriculture would be added to the cabinet . The history ot a countrv is not like the history ofa family ; a tact or two mav constitute the records of the one , while the other consists of innumerable incidents . Let us now go to the progressing proof of our predictions . In the House of Lords last night ( Monday ) Lord Beaumont moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the burdens on real property ; and in considering the question , the supporter ofthe Poor Law Amendment Act is now compelled to speak of the poor in the iollowing terms : —
The support of the poor was a national object , just as much as the maintenance of justice aud the national defences ; nor did the original Poor Law ever contemplate levying these rates from one particular class of property . He then attacked the operation of _thejPoor Law with respect to the Law of Settlement : — To tbat law he bad an -unalterable objection , as being injurious in the extreme to the a 3 . 1 c _ ll . _ r _ l body , aud useless to the manufacturer ; while agitating for free principles in tbe corn market , they should secure the same ADVANTAGE IX TIIE LABOUR MARKET , and tbe first step to this would be to DESTROY ALTOGETHER TIIE LAW OF SETTLEMENT . * * # In his opinion , it was impossible to estimate the loss of protection , and he would defy the most ingenious calculator to arrive at a satisfactory result .
Here , then , we have the title of the poor involuntarily forced upon the consideration of the indolent , thoughtless lords . In explaining the mode of doing away with the Law of Settlement , Lord Beaumont said—That he differed from Sir James Graham ' s five years ' industrial residence , for lie thought that the poor man was entitled to settlement and relief WHEREVER HE HAPPEXED TO WANT IT . How , we ask the pettifogging brawlers ag . -ii __ t our encomiums upon
TIIE ALL-MIGHTY MEASURE , whether that one single avowal of itself does not characterise Peel ' s measure as worthy of more praise than even we bestowed upon it ? Lord Dacre said that the countiy laboured under an enormous weight of taxation , and tbat it was most important that justice should he done to landed proprietors , tenant fanners , and householders by the _remission or equalisation of their peculiar burdens . Yes , Lord Dacre , we have told you for the last thirteen vears that the wav to adapt taxation to the
exigencies of the State was bv making the LAWMAKERS the TAX-PAYERS ; and as soon as this change is effected , then children wiil laugh at the notion of a people crying out against famine being called upon to pay over fifty millions a-year for manbutchers , aud sailors , audyour younger sons , and your royal w s , and bastards , and placemen , and pensioners , quartered upon industry . When you hare to pay tor royal prostitutes , you'll see crime in prostitution ; when you _lia-vc to pay for war , you'll see -virtue in peace .
Lord Stanley was anxious to enter his protest against the opinion put forth by Lord Beaumont . The tithe was not a peculiar burden on land ; on the contrary , he _ajrreed with Lord Brougham in thinking tbat the land tax and tithe were burdens upon land IX THE SEXSE OF WHICH THEY WERE XOW TALKING OF BURDENS . Yes , yes . Lord Stanley , you'll talk of burdens now in a very different sense when you have to pay them yourself . He continues : — If the land were unprofitable the rent fell , but the
claim of the . titheowner was undiminished ; and being undiminished , must be added to the price actually paid for tbe production of corn . Nor was the case altered by commutation , for if after tliat c _. _tnmutaion the legislature lowered the price of the article produced , and insisted the producer should pay the same amount for his commutation , it was an increased and ADDITIONAL BURDEN . In conclusion , he could not agree with Lord Beaumont in thinking that tbe abolition of protection was already settled , though he concurred with him in his desire that the opinion of the country should be deliberatclv taken on the question .
Now , here we have the very highest Churchman meditating an attack upon tithes , while we have the rec rd of the Northern Star , of 1 S 10 , showing precisely the advantage that free trade , unaccompanied by a tithe adjustment , would confer upon the Church . In fact , we assert , without fear of contradiction , or without the pusillanimous dread of being thought egotistical , that we have analysed , for Jive years , everv argument that is now brought to bear upon the question of free trade . As to Lord Stanley ' s threat of a dissolution , and his opinion that the question of protection is not settled , it but confirms us in the belief that Stanley and the old Tories will die hard , and _siive the Church a kick in their last throes .
House of Commoks . —The Duke of Richmond s eldest son , Lord-March , and who has no earthly business in the house , spoke first and said nothing . Mr . Milncr Gibson said , * ' with respect to America , it was notorious that the price of labour was nearly double that in England . " A good reason , we think , for enforcing the principle of restriction , because the good wages in America is a consequence of the paucity of hands in proportion to the work required to bc done ; and when we can weed the rattle-box and the sweating-room of their exotics , we shall have double wages to that paid now for labour . Mr . Gibson continues : —
The question was now in such a position that it c _. uld not be endangered It was _carried , indeed , already—not , indeed , by this Parliament , or by politicians iu either House ot Parliament , but by the force of public opinion out of doors . Tliere was no truer barometer of public Opinion than Sir Robert Peel . If they wished to know what the people ont of doors were thinking of , let them look to what Sir Robert Peel was doing . If Mr . Gibson means that free trade in corn , without the collateral measures , is carried by the force of popular opinion , he ' s grossly mistakeu ; for , we toll
him , that , notwithstanding an approval of the whole measure , as a wed » e to split up the block , we would , nevertheless , resist to the death thesinglemeasure of free trade in corn ; while , we are ready to confess that Sir Robert Peel isagood barometerofpublicopinion , but it is of Chartist opinion—not free trade opinion—Chartist opinion , which he hopes to crush by timely concessions , but which he inevitably fosters , as the principle can neither be killed nor arrested . " Mr . Halsey wished to know , if the price of Eng-. Mi wheatshouUfaU . ON WHAT PRINCIPLE Sill
ROBERT PEEL WOULD SETTLE THE TITHE COMMUTATION ACT ?" Of course Sir Robert Peel did not answer that question ; but we will . He will settle it upon the principle of dog eat dog ; pull baker , pull devil ; pull landlord , pull parson ; and the devil part tbe couple . Sir Robert Peel dwelt most extensively on the threatened famine in Ireland , and for the purpose of strengthening his position , he read A series of letters received by the last two Irish mails from Sir D . Roche , Lord Stuart de Decies , aud various otlier gentlemen in different parts of that kingdom , giving the most appalling _description of the scarcity ol tlie potato iu Ireland . One-eig hth of the crop was always
wanted for se-d ; and if that quantity W 3 S Hot saved from consumption as food , Ireland _wonldhave to struggle witb _faoinic in the next year also . It was impossible , to supply that quantity of potatoes Joni any foreign country ; and the government therefore proposed to get 'he s _^ d potatoes into its keeping by giving other food in exchange for them . Now _. iu that case , would it he possible for him iu May next , with a duty ofl 7 s . cn the importation of foreigu corn , to tall on the p _. _ojila to pay such a duty for the food to be distributed to the people of Ireland to save them from starvation ? Supposing famine then to ensue , imtld the aristocracy be aUcto bear _tlnoiiiwn of saying " We wilt throw on Vie gocernmenl the responsWtlity of supplying the people of Ireland with food , but one iota ofthe Com Laics we tcttt not part with . "
Now , in simple justice to ourselves and the Executive , we ask the reader to hold the measure of the Executive in one hand , and the last passage of the above paragraph in the other hand , and ask himself whether the burthen of that message was not that , if FAMINE CAME , which Sir Robert Peel asserts WILL COME IN MAY , the Chartists were prepared US a body to resist a measure , the intention , if not the effect , of whieh was to arrest pestilence , starvation , and famine . Were we not ready to hazard our policy upon this point alone , aud was it not unanimously acquiesced in ? Did we not declare and reiterate that we would not jeopardise the character aud the very existence of the Chartist party , by resisting a measure which , if stopped bv our obstruction , would have afforded the League the opportunity i of saying- " HERE IS FAMINE ; we would have
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arrested it , but your '" ends opposed us , and is not 8 hungry man susceptible » f hopeful impressions when those in want have built so much upon the cry of cheap bread ? " _^ _** _»»*« . without the fear of contradiction , that , UNDER _EXISTING CIRCUMSTANCES , a successtul resistance to the measure upon our part would have given lo the League the undivided confidence and support ef the working classes . We believe that scarcity— that is , even greater scarcity than Ireland is periodicall y visited with , has already come , and we cannot too much rejoice at having stopped the League and O'Connell howl of " OU , THE RASCALLY CHARTISTS
STARVED YOU !" Peel proceeds :--He reminded the Ilouse that in November last he had advised , and three of Ids colleagues had supported , the suspension of the existing duties on corn hy an order
in council . In November last , we used the following language — "If famine threatens Ireland , and if scarcity threatens England , why doesn ' t Sir ltobert Peel , without waiting for the meeting of Parliament , open the ports , and trust to thc people for an indemnity against his accusers . He goes on : — That portion of his measure which related to the Corn Laws might berejeeled , and the otherpora _. u accepted , or vice versa . He wished it , however , to be considered as a whole , and rejected or accepted as sueh . It was also the
intention of the government to adhere to its own proposal . He stated this , however , distinctly to the house —that if the agricultural body should be of opinion that immediate was preferable to deferred repeal , and if by uniting with the Auti-Corn Law League tbey placed him in a minority , he should only consider what course he ought to take to give effect to the law so amended at their instance . He would do all lie could to carry the proposi . tion of the government . He preferred it . He did not pretend to say now what effect _succt-ss in the House of Commons might produce elsewhere ; hut his opUviou that it W 3 S necessary to procure a final adjustment of this question was so strong that he sliould piefer immediate repeal so carried against liim to the chance of throwing thc country iuto confusion by _postponing for six months the settlement ofa question which wus now paramount to all others .
No , Sir Robert , we won ' t have the free trade fat without our own bone ; we'll have all or none . And then , if you choose to take that responsibility which must inevitably follow the settlement of the question , without the three years' adjustment , why , well and good ; we must only see how we can scramble the people ' s share out of the mess-trough : Wc now come to the conclusion of the Prime Minister ' s speech , and we give it verbatim , that we may luxuriate in another bit of sell-adulation : — Those times may recur ; the years of plenteousncss may pass away , tho years of dearth may succeyd ; and . if they do come , and if it should be our duty again to express sympathy with suffering , and again to exhort to fortitude , I do ask every man who
hears me to commune with his own heart , and ask himself this question—If these calamities do occur , it" we must express sympathy with _sufferitig , if we must repeat the exhortation to fortitude , will it nut be a consolation that we have relieved ourselves from the heavy responsibility of regulating the supply of human food ? Will notour expression o ' f sympathy be moro consolatory , our exhortation to fortitude uioru impressive , if . we _^ _-can at the same time say , and say with pride , iu tint tiute ' of comparative prosperity , urged by no necessity , yieldfiVg to no clamour , we anticipated this difficulty , aud removed every impediment to the free circulation of the bounties of creation ? ¦ Will it not he a great and lasting consolation to us to be enabled to say to a suffering people , " These ars the chastisements of an all-wise and
beneficent Providence , sent for some great and humane purpose , to abate our pride probably , to convince » s of our iiutliin _^ ne-s , or to waken in us a sense of our dependence upon God ; tbey are to be borne without murmuring ; " and we shall then be able to think that the . dispensations of Providence have not been aggravated bviiunian institutions preventing to the people the suppl _^ _if food ! Those are Sir Robert Peel ' s words ; < . _j _ o _\* _$ . mark ours , delivered a thousand times : — " How . conies it to pass that if famine falls upon theland the industrious alone are the sufferers ? Why is it that those who tamely bear fdl the pangs of hunger are to be satisfied with royal and aristocratic sympathy , or to brave
the law ' s oppression if they complain ? You murmur now , aud murmur justly ; when famine falls unequally , you are bearing all tke . horrors , but if every man had the means of working put his own . salvation , and if famine came upou tue . land as the dispensation of an all-wise Creator—if the Queen , the peer , and the squire , suffered a comparative diminution in the comforts , you would bc cheerfully reconciled to an abatement in your necessaries of life .. This is the reason that I complain , and I will complain until I see an attempt to remedy this ' crying , this unnatural disparity . " Now , where is the Chartist that has not heard that passage twenty times over ?
_Nomination- _fou Westminster . —Our express has just Drought the overland mail from Covent-garden , by which we learn that the General beat the Captain in the show , of hands . We trust to-morrow he will beat him by a show of tongues ; however , theyare both pledged to vote for the restoration of Frost , Williams , arid ' Jones , so that our dearest cause wiil have a friend in either . _Fiiost _, Williams , and Jones . —It will be seen with delight by every man in tlie kingdom , that Mr . Duncombe has named Tuesday , the 21 th , as the day for presenting petitions , and moving an _aiddrfcss to the Crown lor the restoration of frost , Williams , and Jones . Now , Chartists , you have a week from this dav ( Tuesday ) , three days after you have read
the Star , and if ever you delved , spuu , or wove for tliree days and three nights , delve , spin , and weave as you never spun before , for the short time allowed you , and we firmly believe , that as the time is named , more will be done in three days than would have been done in three years . Sign , scribble , scrawl away ; send your petitions both ends open , double tied with a piece of string , addressed to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., Ilouse of Commons , London , and heaven will bless every man , woman , and child that joins in the righteous demand , and every tongue will hoot and hiss every candidate who refuses to swell thc cry for their restoration . Oh ! what a day for England wheu those three men land . _Moxur Market . —Still Consols are going down .
IRELAND . FnEE _Tiuoe . —The Irish Protectionists who have not got anything near like their legitimate share of plunder and _patronage , and who have not got the safety valves of commerce as a substitute for protection , are beginning to muster all their strength to oppose . Peel ' s measures ; but , like their English brethren , they'll fail . Why didn ' t they read our letters , written from York Castle , apprising them of the coming storm , which they now vainly hope to resist . Just think of those usurpers , those descendants of Cromwell ' s soldiers , crying out about their privileges and protection , while THE NATIVE
IltlSfl ARE STARVING . Mn . _GnEuonv asd iiis Constituents . —The hon . Conservative member for Dublin , Mr . Gregory , has been served with notice to quit by his constituents for supporting Sir Robert Peel's policy . O'Connell v . O'IIiugins . —Elsewhere will bc found a communication from our Dublin correspondent , by which it will be seen that a county grand jury of landlords threw out the bills against O'Higgins , while the grand jury of shopkeepingcits found tlicm , after a wrangle . It will also be seen that the trial is removed by certiorari to the Queen ' s Bench , so that , in the language of our reporter , it bears tbe aspect of a great State trial .
FOREIGN . Uy a reference to our foreign summary it will be seen tbat oppressed Poland has at length resolved upon rising as one man to face the bayonet , the musket , and the cannon of the tyrant autocrat . All that wc can say for the present is , may the Lord strengthen their arm in defence of liberty , and may they sweep every vestige of the tyrants' power from off tbe fair land of Poland 1
WEDNESDAY . The debate and the Westminster election are the all-absorbing topics of conversation , and all news not connected with those two topics is rejected as triiliug , until the is _?« e of one and the result of tlie other is known . True , the wearisomeness of thc debate is a little relieved by thc novelty of some of the preliminary skirmishers;—for instance , petitions against the embodiment of thc militia were presented by Mr . Trelawney—three from Cornwall ; from the southern division of Leicestershire , by Mr . Parke ; from a large body of inhabitants of Bristol , by W . F . 11 . Berkeley ; from 3 , 000 ofthe inhabitants uf Leicester , by SU * John Easthope _ from Monmouth , by ilr . Blewitt : from various parishes in London ,
by Mr . Duncan ; from 7 , 900 inhabitants of Salford , by Mr . lirothcrton _£ irom the West-Riding of York , by Lord Morpeth ; and similar petitions from several places , by Mr . Hume . OUR MAN presented a petition in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill , aud also obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the Friendly Societies Act , wliich was read a first time and ordered to be read a second time this day week ; the reasons of the hon . member for introducing the bill will be found in his clear and explicit speech , wliich wc give at length . It is really a very singular thing that a person who is neither lawyor , clergyman , manut . icturer , ; po . st-master , nor officer , should be able to make himself so minutely acquainted with all the technicalities and practices of those several professions .
Mr . O Conncll introduced his measure for relief to Ireland , and concluded by humbly thanking the Saxon Parliament , in his own name , and in the name of the Irish nation , for tho patient and indulgent Manner in whieh the honourable Saxons » . nde . c _. iiOed to hear him . He didn ' t mention the threatened coercion ; neither did Sir James Graham give any pledge as to the future course to be pursued by government , beyond some temporary relief to be administered io the starving people . Not a word about the Landlords' and Tenants' Bill did Sir James say ; and thus the Irish have come off with a withdrawn motion by thc Liberator , and now they are to depend
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upon the tender mercies oi their tender-hearted Saxon rulers . Lord John Manners , son of the Duke of Rutland , opened the great debate , but said very little . Sir Charles Napier , a joll y old sailor , and a capital good fellow amused the ho use by describing the mode in which he has improved a iarm of . forty acres of bad land , which formerly grew only four or five quarters of oats , _perjacre but now produces eleven quarters , and on which , after losing i _ 200 for the 'first year , ho now by drainage and SPADE CULTURE , taught him ' by a humble neighbour , realises a CONSIDERABLE PROFIT . The gallant admiral also stated , that it the gentlemen opposite would do with their laud what iie had done with his , that they need not be afraid of foreign competition , as England would
soon become a great corn exporting country . And when the Protectionists laughed at . the jolly admiral sailor ' s little patch of forty acres he _gaive them a broadside , in the assurance that what was true of forty acres would equally hold good as to 400 , 000 acres , and that his land was of the very poorest , coldest , and impoverished description , and he now realised a handsome income by it . Well done , jolly old tar ! and may you long live to pace the greensward—it is better than pacing the deck of the " wooden walls of old England . " Friend _ Bri « ht , after a regular Corent Garden fling , contended , that under our existing policy tinagricultural labourers received tho SMALLEST S HARE of the produce of the soil . Now , we should he glad to know what share of the produce of his mill those who work the machinery make ?
Lord Duncan moved thc adjournment of thedebate till Thursday next , so that we are to have another coil of tke snake before we have done with it . P > y St . Paul ' . its the slowest cookery for those that are waiting for a breakfast tliat we have ever heard of . The Irish are starving and the English are beginning to get hungry , the Prime Minister announces thc certainty of famine coining before May , while we see an equal , if not a greater certainly of the debate lasting till the end of June . It is ___ ood for another week in the Commons , it is good for three weeks iu the Lords , it ' s good for a mouth in committee , ' and , with a fortnight ' s Easter holidays ; . brings us to the middle of May ; and this is harriiig accidents that may happen outside and changes inside . - .
Sm Robert Peel . —It ; _is . C-iifidently stated by . Sir Robert Peel ' s most intimate friends , that . iu the event of his measures being carried , he will abandon oih ' ce , and leave to his Whig successors the precarious inheritance of seeing them carried into effect , ln such au event , however , the people would now insist upon having tlieir say ; and with Peel ' s measures once carried , whole and entire , we safely aftirmj thai without a bold , a sweeping , and comprehensive Short Time measure—not a Ten Hours' Bill , though we'll take that first—but such a bill as will so regulate the working of machinery as to render the existence ofa competitive labour reserve impossible , but that the hours of labour shall bo . governed as well by thc improvements in machinery as by the amount of population requiring work . Unless we see sueh' a measure as will make "machinery MAN'S HOLIDAY ,
INSTEAD OF MAN'S CURSE— " imd mind , those were our own words , enunciated at Stockport eleven years ago—unless we see such a measure as that , with Lord Beaumont ' s Law of Settlement—that is , that the poor man shall receive relief IN THE SPOT WHERE HE _SIlx-LL WANT IT , we would rather see a military despotism in this country than a government of LEAGUE WHIGS . The time , we believe , is come , when the whole question of PARENT and CHILD ( LABOUR and CAPITAL ) , must be taken into consideration and legislated justly upon ; and _ns-we prefer obedience to the fifth coiumandment to obedience to the commandments oi political economy , we shall honour the PARENT in prefiirente to the CHILD , li the people do not now bestir themselves for a Ten Hours' Bill , we hope they may be fed in the Unions upon bones lor the remainder of their natural lives .
Money Market . —In spite of thc best endeavours to keep the funds up , a considerable re-action has taken place ; and well would it have been for the flats if they had given ' -ten guineas each for a copy of the Northern Star , " aii'd had profited by _ourtiinely
warning . Court Circular . —JOY FORTHE MILLION !—Providence always takes care of the poor , and in its mercy promises " them another DEAR ROYAL BABE in April next , though the ill-natured political economists would dasii our loyal . aspirations , by deferring the joyful event till May ; but her Most Gracious Majesty takes , we are sure , too lively an interest in the happiness of her most , loyal subjects to be any party to such a disappointment . Oh ; dear ! oh , dear ! what a tribe of royal paupers the royal couple threatens us with ! Is tliere no parson Malthtis to relieve the ROYAL PARENTS from the INFLICTION ofa huge family ? We wonder what the _Malthusians would say if the female operatives were as fruitful in industrious children as Queens and Peeresses are in idle ones !
Ireland. Poor Seery.—This Poor Fellow, W...
IRELAND . Poor Seery . —This poor fellow , who was found guilty on his SECOND TRIAL , at thc Commission lield at Mullingar , was MURDERED on Friday last , and from a perfect consciousness of his innocence , his remains were escorted to the burial ground hy 00 , 000 of his insulted countrymen and . women . We have read the evidence upon which he was murdered , attentively , and wo have nodiositiition in saying thatnojust man would "hang a dog" upon sueh evidence . The Irish priesthood , how ever tliey may be reviled by those who have despoiled tlicm of the right of administering monastic property to the poor of their Hocks , arc not just the men to sanction murder , or to withhold from the murderer , or the attempt at murder , that . censure which justly belongs to him . Such is the confidence ofthe poor in the only pastors
that have never deserted them , through torture , lingering punishment , and death , that we would as soon believe that we were now walking upou our heads , as that Seery would die with tlio guilt ui falsehood upon his soul , and the crime of withholding his full confession from his pastor . Neither would all the money in the English Exchequer induce so many pious priests to join in the lamentation over his murder , if they were not convinced of his innocence . Sir Francis Hopkins lives , so does Bingham Baring , but Cooke and Seery lie in the cold tomb . We cannot envy the feelings of the two living murderers , nor those of their coadjutors upon the two juries . Those upon the first who held out against the judgment of the majority , and tliosc upon the second , who were awed into au act ol murder from a dread of tlie treatment theii
predecessors had received . It is hard to write on cold-blooded murders committed upon the defenceless Irish people , in legal phraseology , but if " great libels" are the best correction of great crimes , then would we ransack the catalogue of stinging , branding , damning wot ds , for epithets to stigmatise the murderers of this poor but honest peasant . We rejoice to find that his own class sympathise with his widow and his orphans , and that , though stripped of their protector , vengeance will not be satiated by an
ottering of more victims . Subscriptions havo already been entered into for the support of Secry ' s family . We shall send our mite to Mr . O'iliggins ; and if ever we were justified in _making an appeal to the English Chartists , for ii humane nnd charitable purpose , it is aa appeal on behalf of this murdered man ' s family . Wo shall be happy to receive anything that will betoken Chartist abhorrence of cold-blooded murder , and to transmit it to Patrick O'lligsins , Esq ., who has taken a lively interest in the family of poor Seery .
Coercion. — Not A Word Has The Liberator...
Coercion . — Not a word has the Liberator said about the threat of Irish coercion since he came to Saxon land . Here his waitings arc as plaintive as a sucking dove , while he roars away in his letter to Conciliation Hall , " Hurrah for Repeal ! " Now , we tell him , aud the Irish people will very soon discover the virtue of our policy , that liis course , instead of thanking the Saxon Parliament in his own name , and in the name of the Irish people for hearing him , would be to demand of the Prime Minister a full development of his intended Coei . it . n Bill , and then , in reply , to say , " I call from this spot upon
every Irish member to join me in resisting the commercial policy of the government , if Ireland ' s share is to be coercion . If he has fifty followers , whose seats depend upon obedience to this just call , they ivould break up tlie administration , and the Irish will soon find that tlieir strength consists in the policy of OBSTRUCTION , and that their greatest weakness is manifest in the prostitution of their representatives to the support of measures which may entail toleration or patronage . Fifty Irish members standing together would be able to snap any government that was hostile to the interest of the people , but the fellows forget country , and look to self , the very moment they enter the House of Commons .
FOREIGN . From every country in Europe each post brings intelligence of the struggle being now made for the overthrow of despotism , and tho establishment of democratic principles . The great Chartist petition of 1842 lias awakened thc spirit of liberty throughout the continent of Europe ; thc next , signed by five millions , will establish its temple . Switzerland , almost in the heart of the Italian serf states , presents to thc slaves all ' ibe _beauties of republican institutions . while France , ready to assist the Austrian despot , fears lo encounter the wrath of Switzerland ; ilie heart of Poland is beating high for liberty , and Prussia ' s despot is cowering before the united voice of a people looking for a constitution . Belgium , with her agricultural constitution ; Switzerland , with Iter republic ; Saxony , witli her small farms , stand undisturbed in the " midst of the European volcano . Land is the basis of the constitution of those three Uncle countries ; while those based upon king-craft
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large enough to _sivallotr them up , are aired into quiescence from the dread of democratic infection and the agricultural mania .
THUKSOAy . The Cm- o _»* _Westmikst-B without a Representative . —This is a curious fact , but nevertheless true , even as regards the _eJa'toral hody . General Evans and .. apt . Rous unitedly polleu _CMl , and there are 14 , 043 electors in the city , leaving 7 , 402 , or nearly 10 U 0 of a majority , unpolled . This is such an abuse of the vote held for others in trust , that we couK not possibly urge a stronger reason for restoring the trust to those from whom it has been so loue _; withheld .
Grkknwicii . —We confess ourselves , thoug h not easily astonished , to have been literally flabbergasted last night ( Wednesday ) , on entering the great Lecture Room which the Greenwich Chartists had , with a spirit peculiar to that indomitable body , ventured to hire for a meeting on behalf of Frost , Williams , and Jones . The building is a magnificent one , littcd in the style of an Amphitheatre , with great taste and elegance , and was not only filled , but in some parts , and especially in the angles , was literally wedged . Three-fourths of the meeting consisted of the middle and higher orders , and never was there an audience _belonging to those _classt'S that did themselves more honour than did those gentlemen last night . They not only paid attention , but like an
audience at a theatre , nearly every p . r . son present had ti copy ofjthe hew plav ( the Charter ) in his hand , which was very prudently distributed gratuitously at the door . As if the working men were capable of rising according to the emergency , we never heard them make half so good speeches , _thouith we have heard them make many good ones , as thev made last night . Finding-such an audience , instead of simply conhuing themselves to the mere cry ot the restoration of the exiles , they entered into a stiitesiuiiiwlike view of the times and circumstances that led to tlieir conviction . Doyle made a most _powerful
speech , embracing the questions of poverty , crime , ignorance , - unjust distribution , drunkenness , di _. regiird of the superior classes , and many other evils flowing from class legislation . We were not fortunate enough to hear the speech of M'Grath , which is always good ; . but for ourselves , the other _i-peakers , the Chartists of Greenwich , and the cause _itacif , we return- our best thanks to the audience for their excellent and praisewortuy conduct , while we cannot sutficiontly congratulate the people upon the impression their principles arc now making when auvocated by lecturers-who have a sincere desire to witness their progress . .
Money Maukkt ;—Again the funds are very , vevj flat , and the share market partakes of tiie epidemic ,
IRELAND . Sir Francis Hopkins anu tiik Muiidekgd _Skkry . —It will be remembered that Mr . French , the stipendiary magistrate , swore upon the trial of Seery , that Sir Francis Hopkins had not mentioned his ( Seer v ' s ) name in the lirst information lie tendered . Mr . French swore this distinctly , aud now tli-. it poor Seery is dead ahd gone , his prosecutor writes a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal for the especial purpose of meeting the evidence of Mr . French , and which he concludes thus : — Itwas sworn on thc trial ( but this fact has not been commented on iii your journal ) , by a constable of the D . vsurcpolice station , distant six miles from _Mullingiir _, that he had received a written order at five o ' clock in tlie _-loi'iiit-ig to arrest Seery . Tlie first intbrtnation _. were sworn at 11 a . m ., six hours ' subsequently . Tliis should satisfy most persons -that the mime of Seery hud lieen mentioned before the first infurmatioiiswerc sworn .
Now , so lav from this fact establishing the credit of Sir Frimcis , it will convince any reasonable man of the correctness of Mr . French ' s evidence . Nny , it is the strongest confirmation , that Sir Francis Hopkins , at live o ' clock in the morning , was in doubt as to _Saery ' s identity , and that at eleven , he was satisfied that he was mistaken . Now , here is the plain analogy of the hist paragraph . . Sir Francis Hopkins sends to arrest Seevy at live , to have a peep at him ; he sees him at eleven ; swears informations ; and the stipendiary magistrate swears that he did not mention Seery ' s name , neither does the paragraph we quote state that the Dysart police constable had received the written order to arrest Seery
Irom bir 1 ' _i-ancis Hopkins , though we give him the benefit ofthe presumption ; neither can he expect to shake the sworn testimony of the stipendiary magistrate by the white-wash ing letters whieh he says iie subsequently received from the Crown Solicitor and Sub-inspector of police . He says—'' Tlic public can now fairly judge between Mr . French ' s testimony and my own . " Yes , the public will judge , and the judgment is that Mr . French is right and you are wrong . It is a very easy way for the Baronet to get over the murder of pour Seery ( who has not the power of judging between him and Mr . French ) , by riding off ou a squabble with the stipendiary magistrate .
Westm1nsteit Election. A Public Meeting ...
WESTM 1 NSTEIt ELECTION . A public meeting was held in the large hall of the Partheniuni , St . Martin ' s-lane , on Sunday evening , February 15 th , to consider what steps the democratic party should take in consequence of thc vacancy caused iit-the representation of Westminster by the appointment of Captain Rous to fill the place ot one of the Lords of the Admiralty . Mr . James Grassby was unanimously called to the chair . Mr . Thomas Clark said , although a resident , he came uuder the denomination of a non-elector . He had placed in his hand thu following resolution : — '* That in the opinion of this meeting no Parliamentary election should take place without the working classes manifesting their opinions relative to the merits of the various candidates , and enforcing their claims to that full measure of representation
contained in the People ' s Charter . " Mr . Clark then lucidly reviewed the qualifications , or rather the want of qualification , in the two candidates who had presented themselves for the suffrages of the electors _, lie said the people throughout the country were raising their voices loudly against our huge war establishments and against aggressive warfare , yet both candidates belonged to those establishments—the one to tlte army , the oilier to thc navy ; and , consequently , both , linn . in interest in upholding the present state of things , and were both , therefore , unfit to become the representatives of a people who boasted of their civil institutions , and their desire for free-< iom . ( Loud -heers . ) Neither werc advocates or supporters of the People ' s Charter , and hence neither could hope for the support of the toiling and much oppressed working classes . ( Loud cheers . )
Mr . Hiimphris seconded thc motion , and it was carried unanimously . Mr . Souter , in a few words , moved the following resolution : — " That in consequence of the very brief time intervening between ibis , and the day of election not permitting the democratic party to take such steps as would bc necessary to ensure success for a candidate holding their opinions , this meeting is of opinion that it will not be advisable to take any part in the present contest , * but this meeting hereby pledges itself to use every means in its power to _secure the return of a candidate , or candidates , advocating the principles of the People ' s Charter at thc ensuing general election . " Mr . T . M . Wheeler , in seconding the motion , reminded the meeting of the words of Tivnuiu . Wakley at the Crown and Anchor— " That the working-men never would be eliicieiuly represented until sueh time as men of tlieir own order were sent into that
house "—( loud cheers );—and regretted that they were not now prepared tor the contest , lie said , surely , if in the early days of Ilenry Hunt the democrats of Westminster could nominate a candidate and procure the votes of eighty-four gallant men , in the present day , when democracy had mado such giant-like strides , they might with equal facility obtain the support of thousands for their principles . ( Loud cheers . ) lie therefore suggested the propriety of their taking immediate steps to prepare for the forming of a powerful committee . Let them be satisfied with nothing less than a committee of tliree hundred electors and non-electors , and with such a committee , and attention to the register , success must and would crown their efforts . ( Great cheering . ) The resolution was carried unanimously . A ' conmiittce of thirteen , with power to add to their number , was appointed . A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , and the meeting dissolved .
Tiik Nomination took place on Tuesday , but as the work ing _classes had no representative on the hustings , we need not take up our valuable space in narrating the particulars . There was a great crowd assembled , sufficiently uproarious to do honour to a Covent Garden nomination . Mr . Joseph Carter Wood proposed , and Lord Francis Egerton seconded the nomination of Captain Rous . Mr . Bouverie proposed , and Dr . Bainbridge . seconded the nomination of General Evans . The candidates then spoke at great length , and amidst great upi-OM _* . On the show of hands being called for , only a few comparatively were held up for Captain Rons , the rest being held up for his opponent . The nomination was therefore declared to be in favour of General Evans . A poll was then demanded on behalf of Captain Rous , and the assemblage dispersed .
The _Pouiso commenced on Wednesday morning at the usual hour , and from the commencement General Evans took the lead by some hundreds , which he kept throughout the day . On Thursday thc official declaration of the result ofthe polling was made , when the High Balilf announced the numbers its follows : — For General Sir DeLacy Evans 3 SR 1 For Captain Rous " . 2 _'JW ) Majority 5 . 37 It WHS Ill ' s duty , therefore , to declare General Sir De Lacy Evans duly elected . Thc successful candidate then thanked the electors , who were also addressed by Captain Rous . The proceedings then terminated .
A Spot Is Now Traversing The Sun' S Disc...
A spot is now traversing the sun ' s disc , wliich is estimated to be 20 , 00- miles broad , and to cover an area of l , 0 C _ , 282 , U 0 _t - square miles—more than _fivu times as large as our globe . . _
Murder Of A Family Anu .. .1cide _F The ...
MURDER OF A FAMILY ANU .. _. 1 _CIDE _ F THE FATHER . Shortly after seven o ' clock on Monday morning the neighbourhood of Smithaiiipton-streut , Camberwell , Was alarmed by tiie fiantie screams of a woman who had just made her escape by the back-door of No . b , Wellington-place , a small cottage residence , only one story high . The first person who repaired to the spot was Mr . Pratt , a sunieon , who results at N . _ . 4 , and who upou entering was horror-struck at the scene which presented itself . In an tipper rei . m , upon the floor , lay the lifeless , body of M . PhillavtHe Horeau , a Frenchman , aged fifty-three , with iiis throat cut from ear to ear ; on the bed , his - _ on , aged thirteen , quite dead , shockingly uiutiiatvd about ilie
threat ; and in a lower' room , another ami , aged eleven , with his throat cut , a wound on the cheek , and his han'd much lacerated , who was at liist supposed to be dead , but afterwavds showed some sjniptonis of life , though unable to articulate or give tlio least account of the dreadlul catastrophe ; and in a short time afterwards , a _li-male child , aged eight months , was found d ead in a water-butt which stood in the garden , but having no wounds whatever about its person . Upon investigation , we find that the unfortunate man iiad resided at No . {> for nearly the last twelvemonth , suppurtiug his iamily . is a toucher of lansu a » es ; but this mode ot existence had been so _pi-carinus , that for some time past they had suifercd extreme privation ai . d great
pecuniary embarrassment . M . Ilor . au had been m the habit of rising iibuut _. seven o clock in the morning , and usually took down stairs with him one of tue twin infants ( a boy and a tin ) , who slept in the same bed as he and the mother . " This morning , upon dressing himself , ho did the same thing , taking the female child with him , and leaving the male infant in bed with the mother . In a few minutes the mother was alarmed by a loud shrieking , which she at first attributed to the two elder buys quarrelling , and therefore took no iurtiier notice of the matter for a lew moments , but the slmekvng being continued , sue went to the room , and upon opening the door was met by the younger boy , who imniediaielv ran
bleeding down sta . rs , at the bottom of which lie tell down apparently lifeless ; and , on entering tne room , Mia . lloreau saw her unfortunate husband in the act of cutting his own throat , and before she could interpose he had fallen down a corpse . On looking farther sho discovered Iter dde . it son dead in tue bed , but could not perceive any . trace of her infant child , who was , huwever , shortly ailerwaids discovered to have beea drowned in -tlic rain-butt . There is m doubt whatever but iliac the unfortunate ftulier proceeded to the garden instantly on leaving his bedroom , and , having drowned the child , then ascended to the children ' s room , where he afterwards perpetrated the otlier mtinier , committing suit-in . the moment an alarm was raised .
As no vital organ has been severed , Jii . pes are entertained that the yuunger boy ' s lite will be saved , although , of course , there is great danger that he will _notsiu-vive the shock . The widow of the unfortunate Frenchman states , that on her husband getting up she noticed no particular change in his maimer . He took his iiiinnt _ , on , William , in his arms , and kissed it very iitfectionately . lie then departed , as she supposed , to the bedroom occupied by the boys , but instead of so doing he must have walked into the hack win ! , and piunged the infant into the water-butt , nml then have kepi it-Utidcr water till it died . She states that she never heard him go down stairs , nor heard the least noise whatever until an . used by tho cries of her two bnvs .
She then jumped onto ! bed and ran up _stairs , where she found her husband standing over her eldest sou , the bed literally deluged with blood . She immediately shouted to him , but lit * appeared not to hear her , or else to pay no attention to her cries . She , therefore , ran out and gave a further alarm . The only thing that can accoun . for lier husband having destroyed _liiniseJi and two of his children is the fact of Ids having of late been iu exceedingly distressed circumstances . To such a state have they all been reduced as v > frequently want the common necessaries of life . L pon searching the place nothing whatever iu the shape of loud was to lie found , - neither was there anvthing
in the house that could have been sold to purchase as much as a breakfast . The widow further states that _sir . e believes it was her husband ' s inteiitiou to have murdered her and till the _cliiwren before he destroyed himself , which he doubtless would have donu , had it not been for the screams of her son Phillarote . Sueh precaution , had he taken , that tlie dwoi ' -uliain was found so twisteU that she could not have opened tue street door to escape , had ho made an attack upon her life . She says tnat she has been married nearly twenty year .-, that the deceased was formerly a schoolmaster at Leicester , but had of late been obtaining a scanty subsistence for his _laniily by teaching the French ami Italian _languages .
Mr . _ilocary , landlord of the Lion , Wellingtonplace ( next door but two ta where the dreadful tragedy was enacted ) , says , that whilst standing in his bar his attention was suddenly arrested by hearing cries of murder proceeding irom Catherine-cottage . He proceeded thither when he saw Mrs . Horeau standing in her nigiic dnss iu the garden . She begged of him to conic in to her assistance , us her husband was murdering her children . He told her to open the door , to which she replied that it was so fastened that she could not . lie then lollowed her through the coach-house , and on entering the house found the place in darkness . Having opened
tiie shutters and obtained a light , lie found the man lying in a pool of blood on the Huor , with his head nearly severed from his budy . Behind the iiemlboaru ot a ciib bedstead , he found the boy Helvetius with iiis throat cut from ear to our . The other hid , Pliillareie , was also bleeding at the neck , and one oi his lingers was nearly cut from his l . _ nd , showing that ho must have struggled with his father . Seeing that one of the injured children was alive , lie immediately sent for a surgeon , and Mr . Pratt came and sewed up the wound in the child ' s neck . He then went in search of the infant , and , after some considerable time , it was found in the water-butt q ito dead .
A baker in the neighbourhood states , that he has known the eldest boy to purchase ou many occasions a single penny loaf lor breakfast , and that he came for ono on Friday last , having only three farthings to pay for it , The Rev . Mr . Moore , of Camden Chapel , upon being made acquainted with the distressed condition of the poor widow , very humanely sent her a sovereign to assist her in tiie present emergency .
INQUEST O . N Till . BODIES . On Wednesday an inquiry took place before Mr . W . Carter , at the Bricklayers' Arms Tavern , Southampton-street , Camberwell , as to the deaths of M . Philaret iioureau , and Helvetius and William Horeau , his sons , who were murdered by him on Monday morning , previous to his own suicide . The jury having been sworn , and a foreman chosen , they proceeded , accompanied by the coroner , to view the bodies , which were lying side by sine of each other ou a mattress , in the lirst floor back room of Catherine-cottage . The infant appeal ed as if asleep , but the deceased man and boy presented a frightful spectacle , their heads being nearly severed from the bodies ' . Throughout the house , a very respectable
residence , not a particle ot furniture was observable . Mrs . W ; A . C . lloreau , the widow , deposed as follows : —The family retired to bod ou Sunday about _, eleven . Helvetius and his brother ( who is now going on well ) slept up stairs , where the budivs were lying _, lier husband and she , with two twin children , slept in the parlour below . Her husband got up about seven on Monday , taking one of tho children Ithedoeeascd William ) with him into the garden . It * about an hour she heard a scream , and afterwards _, went up stairs to tlieir sons' room . When she got . there her husband was in ihe act of cutting his owu throat , and holding Helvetius , who had also histhroat cut , down on the floor . She instantly ran down stairs , but found the chain so fastened that ; she could not open the Inn it door ; and having got into the garden , gave an alarm , when several persons cam .. When she got back to ihe kitchen she found another son ( l'hilatre ) standing up , and he
had also his throat cut . The infant ( William ) , she afterwards discovered had been drowned iu the water butt . She had no doubt these deaths were theact of her husband , and that they had been caused _, by great irritability of his mind , caused by extremewant _, lie was olten unable to supply the children with food . He had been a teacher ot languages ia the country , but lately had had no professional avocations , and that caused his extreme destitution .. They had pawned and sold everything they had to procure food , and the hi-t article they , liad was . pawned ou Saturday . Sho was satisiiud . tliis had . produced ft state of temporary insanity , — -Tlic jury returned the lollowing verdict;— " Wis Had a _vcidiet of wilful murder against Philaret _Hor _« iii ,. as regards thc death of Helvetius and William lloreau ,, aiidw _. titid that the said Philaret Horeau _dWtioyed _himselwhile in a state of temporary _insaniiy _., produced by extreme privation and want . " ' .. ' . ...
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_BANKKUl'TS . [ From the Gazette of Friday , hkbruary , _HOt / iJ A . Trebout , jun ., Steward-street * _Spiialfielil _.,, silk -manufacture . —J . Harris , _LeadeiihivHrUiurkiit ,, butcher— U . Docker , Pall-mall , oilman and w __ . -ehau . dlcr— C . Collins , Kidderminster , Worcestershire , mid King Williaui-streot , and Adelaide . place , City , yum nnd _eouunission-aijeiit—H . 11 . Dlacker and 0 . Karith _, _jjiu ., _Uresham . _stri ! et , City , wnrohouseuien—J . Dtdtou , Wam . sv . wi- _ , _gro-tsr and _cheesemonger—J . Knox , Black lUise-yard , _bond-street , carpenter—It . Kinipton , Gjcseont , _Jewiu-stvent , Cripplogate , jeweller—T . JI . I _' ajlor , SttVfe _ . rte-uiion-. jne , merchant—J . _Uirkt-W , Vucl- - . inoi . , C « lllb « rlllllll | tllllner—J . _i'hiiiip _., W . Hague , and-. Hague , Jlaiichuster , cotton . spiinu . rs—C . Collins , Kidil . minister , _yarn-dealer and yarn-agent—J . C . Chambers , _Ipsh-y , Warwickshire , needle mauutiicturer—J , . Milliter , Stourport _, Worcestershire , innkeeper—E . Hoare , Charlield , Gloucestershire , clothier .
"We Learn From The Tailors' Advocate, Th...
"We learn from the Tailors' Advocate , that the annual conference of ihis numerous and usctul tody ot men will commence at Leeds on tho 2 nd of March . _^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 21, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21021846/page/5/
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