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ihe potatoe does not appear m any way to suffer . " Our trials having been made in Dublin , and but on a small scale , and also the pressure of circumstances forcing ns to make known every _plar likely -Jo prove useful without loss of time , we do not wish to nave this notice considered as decisively stating that _steening in bog-water will stop the progress of the disease ; but we consider it highly important that the plan should be tried by persons residing in hog districts , "where circumstances render a possible failure in a certain quantity an object of no
importance . "Robert Kase . "d 0 Ui . LlKDI . ET . "LrosFiAvrAm . "
FIFTH REPORT uJb' THE IRISH COMMISSIONERS . « ' To his Excellency Baron _Heytetbury , Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland , d _: e , " Board-room , Royal Dublin Society . Nov . 7 . ** My Lord , —Having laid before j * our Excellency onr views as to the best means of storing the p » tatoe _, and converting to _nseful purposes such as are too much _diseased to offer a probability of beingpreserved , we now have . the honour to bring under your consideration the question of seed for a future year . If in our former reports we have found it difficult to determine what course , _uhder the peculiar circumstances of Ireland , it might be most advisable to pursue , we are stiU more embarrassed , on tlie present occasion , in consequence ofthe conflicting testimony
that has been presented to us , and the absence of all decisive evidenee as to the _. cause ofthe potatoe disease . The want of experience derive from previous visitations of the same nature also renders it impossible fo affirm in what manner the potatoe may be affected in the course ot the next few months , "Wehave , however , endeavoured to ascertain all that is positively known upon these subjects , by the examination of agreat variety of publishing documents , both foreign and domestic ; by personal observation ; and by inquiries addressed to persons of practical experience or scientific reputation . "It is a very general opinion , and one entertained hy men whose extensive knowledge entitles it to respect , that parasitical fungi , similar in tbeirnature
to those which produce mildew and dryrot , are the Teal cause of the malady . It is stated that one of these plants belonging to the genus _botrytis , and similar to that which some years since produced great mischief among the silkworms of France and Italy , hasattacked the potatoe crop . It is described as entering the potatoe plant by the breathing pores of its leaves , and then . passing down through the interior ofthe stem into the tubers , in which its mycelium or spawn fixes itself , traversing the cellular mass , separating the cells themselves , causing _alteration in their chymical condition , and thus producing _-Jecay . In other cases , where the spawn is not apparently distinguishable in diseased portions of potatoes , even bythe most practised observers , itis suggested that the juices ofthe plant may be vitiated fay the parasite which destroyed the leaves , and that
particles of it . too obscure to be distinguished by the eye may be circulating with the juices and producing disease by irritation . The . presence of the parasite is not to be detected by the naked eye , unless it make its appearance on the outside ofthe potatoe in the form of mouldy tufts ; bnt its spawn niay be detected in _toe'disea _^ d" _portions by the microscope , whether any external indications of its . presence can he perceived or not ; hence it is inferred that it is produced exclusively from within . It is , however , within our knowledge that when apparently sound potatoes are pitted in places where the mouldiness of a diseased potatoe is able to appear , that mouldiness rapidly establishes itself on the sound potatoes at eveiy point where there surface has been wounded orbruiscd ; and that , under such circumstances , the disease ia immediately extended through the entire
mass . "That the spawn or fungi is present in a large quantity in diseased potatoes is undoubted ; the evidence of the best microscopical observers would he with us conclusive on that point , even if we had not verified the fact by personal observation . We also -regard it as well ascertained , that these parasites spread rapidly in warm and damp situations , producing infinite mischief under sneh circumstances , and tbat their advance is only to be successfully _reeisted bv dryness . But it does not appear to us that their being the original cause of the disease has been well established ; if It wereso _. itis difficult to conceive why fields of potatoes placed very near each other should be differently affected , or whv certain varieties of this plant should be much Iessinjured than
othersthe Irish apple potatoe for instance , which appears to bare suffered more extensively than others . We are also unable to reconcile with the theory ofthe potatoe disease beingcaused by parasitical fungi the remarkable fact that in lis present form it is certainly of modern origin . That it may have always existed is possible , though of this we have no proof ; but at least there can be no doubt that is has only manifesied itself to any considerable degree within the last few years . "Wc cannot suppose the botrytis , which observers find to be the kind of fungus that attacks the potatoe , to be a recent creation . We must assume it to have been co-existent with the _potatoe itself ; and , therefore , we mast conclude that some recent causes have come into operation favourable to its increase to the present alarming degree .
- "Withont pretending to deeide what the cause really was . we may state that it seems to be connected with the cold , cloudy , ungenial weather which has characterised the present year over the north of Europe—conditions highly unsuited to the constitution of a plant which , like the potatoe , is a native of a warm , dry , sunny country , and insufficient for the ripening of the tubers . Without adverting to solitary cases , which require to be examined with more care than wc have the means of giving to them , we may state , that amidst the mass of conflicting evidence which we have obtained , thc following facts appear to be established : — " 1 . That potatoes planted early in the season are more healthy than those p lanted Liter . " 2 . That the crop has suffered less in dry , ele-Tated , sandy _^ districts , where the influence of the season was mitigated by slowness of growth , or compensated for by the natural warmth of the soil .
" 3 . That the late varieties of potatoes are more diseased than early ones . " _ L That the present disease seems to he confined to the northern parts of Europe and North America , and to be unknown in the countries to the southward . "If we are right in the conclusion at which we have thus arrived , there will not be cause for serious alarm as to the crop of another year , unless an equally unfavourable season should be experienced , or the supply of healthy seed should be insufficient , or that the parasite should be found to have so entirely taken possession of this . year ' s plants as to overcome the natural power of living bodies to repel the attacks of such enemies to healthy vegetation . " To Providence we must turn in the hope that a second season like this may not bc visited upon us . Should the Almighty , in his infinite mercy , avert
sneh a misfortune , we entertain confident hopes that tho other two sources of danger may be guarded against by human foresight and diligence . " _Inproviding seed for a future year we may look with confidence to such potatotoes of home growth as shaU have resisted all tendency to decay _during the winter ; and we trust that a considerable quantity of them will be found remaining where the precautions for storing which we have recommended shall have heen observed . We do not anticipate any danger in the use of them if they are planted early , especially if before being planted they are exposed to light till they become green . Another source of supply may doubtless be found in the southern parts of Europe , where , we have reason to believe , -that disease has not shown itself , and we would -strongly advise the pnblic to lose no time in securing what may be procurable from that quarter .
" It is stated by M . Scringe , secretary to the commission appointed in the department of the Rhone , in a report just published by him on the potatoe disease , that it is unknown at Genoa and the warmer countries . Our own advices describes the crops about Marseilles as being perfectly healthy , and therefore we may conclude that mercantile enterprise will make np by importations a large part of the deficiency to be apprehended . "It has also heen ascertained by actual experiments that potatoes , although diseased , wili grow and produce apparently healthy plants . The Rev . Mr . Berkley , a gentleman eminent above all other naturalists of the United Kingdom in his knowledge of the habits of fungi , and whom we have consulted on this occasion , states-that although there would eertainly be some risk of raising a diseased progeny from a diseased stock , yet the _^ growth of fungi so evidently depends on atmospheric conditions , that it does not follow that because germs are present ihey sliould he _develoi el .
* jYe cannot , however , recommend the U 3 e of dis-€ il _¥ _"i _$ H _*? ' * s for seed , except by way of experiment , or m <* as _ s _« _falHolute necessity , and it will alwavs be | ™ _g ™ dust them with powdered line before _' they _' rwitfa _^ _Selte _Jt _^ 0 _*^ mdecd , be proper to dosq when _rnliSfea _^ _YLr- _! _- CTer 80 un * in-appearance , are _em-^ _AM _^^^^^^ < -be minute seeds _«** _SSL _^? L' T _^ eV- _TnlSy be stickins _ to ' the the _^^^ JW those Wh ; eh arc Tying in ' _' ¦¦¦ ' coutse tll 0 £ e Potatoes being selected
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which ' on _< a « ful-ingpeetioB ; i _shjwno _^ gn , of < b _* ease , and ¦ *«*» afford the fairest _prospect _, nfai sonnd and healthylgrowth . w ; _^ _- ' x _^ _s _«™* -x _=- _*? _c . t . _* - -j . ; . _£ \ " . "Where _homegrown _* iets- are to * be . employed . ior mother crop ; -we would _raggest with . vei _^ -great confidencei the adoptionof the system of _autumn _^ lanting ; a method of cultivation- which has proved advantageous in regard to the crop , which is _Attended with no unusual expense , and which seems ; _particularly adapted to the circumstances of , the ; present case . It has been shown by Mr . Grey , of _Dilston , that , in Northumberland j -his potatoe crop has been coniaderablvincreased in quantity by . this practice , and that he had no disease in it this'year . In . 1844 his autumn-planted crop produced 100 and 111 loads , when the same ; quantity of spring-planted land
yielded but eighty loads under the same circumstances . And in the present season tliis gentleman states that his autumn-planted is one-third better than-, bis spring-planted crop . There can , therefore , be . no doubt that autumn planting may be safely practised . On this occasion'it- has these peculiar . advantages , that it offers an additional chance of security against renewed attacks from the parasitical fungi .. On this point the evidence of Mr . Borkely is positive . , ' Au- * tumn planting , ' he states , ' seems to me to offer the best chance of ebtaining healthy sets . _What are now planted will produce their tubers before , the atmospheric conditions requisite for the growth of the parasite in the leaves can be realised , and without such growth the particles , if present , will be too few
to cause much evil . I think , under existing circumstances , the commissioners cannot do a greater service than by encouraging and enforcing as much as possible autumn planting . ' Concurring , as we e & - tireiy do , in this recommendation , we trust that the planters of potatoes who have it in their power to adopt it will do so at once . "All that we conceive it necessary to state with reference to the practice is , that it should be performed at any time before the end of January , * . that the sets should be thoroughly dried by exposure to light and air ; that they should also be well dusted with lime ; and they should be planted in drills six inches deep , with farm-yard manure below the sets . We also recommend that where the potatoes are not
large , they should be planted whole , and even large potatoes should be cut into not more than two pieces " We have ascertained that autumn ; planting has been already practised thronghoutFihgal for the early suppl y of the Dublin market ; and that although the practice has been nearly discontinued , that has not happened for any reason-that , affects ithe present question . Neither do we learn that the early period at which the leaves appear above the . ground in spring is attended with any greater risk than what attends precarious crops like the potatoe in any season . The effect to be anticipatedfrom autumn plant ing consists , not merely in a probable increase of quantity in next year ' s supply , ' but in thesaving of potatoes which may perish before spring , if the slow growth which goes on during winter is arrested , and in the early ripening of next year ' s crop in the event of a second unfavourable season supervening . We
may add , that experience has shown the small refuse potatoes ofthe year to be suited to autumn planting , if sound , and prepared in the manner we have re commended . ¦ _-.-; "It hasbeen supposed by many persons that the potatoe has arrived at a state of great debility , and that the crop will continue liable to disease like the present until new varieties shall have been raised from seed . We do not find any satisfactory evidence to support this opinion . It is doubtelss true that great constitutional differences exist among the varieties of the potatoe , and that some are much more delicate than others ; but we do not find that the oldest varieties are most tender , or the newest the most hardy . On the contrary , it is within our own knowledge , that in the present season very healthy varieties , recently raised , have suffered much more than kinds that have long been in cultivation .
"While , however , wewithhoW our assent to the proposition that newly raised varieties ofthe potatoe are exempt in any peculiar degree from the attacks of disease , we fully admit the fact that some varieties are much more subject to it than others , and we therefore recommend the cultivation of the tender kinds tobe discontinued , and-that _those alone be used for future cropping which the experience of the present year shows to be the best suited to unfavourable seasons ; and on this point we-may further remark , that all concurrent testimony points out tlie Irish * cup' variety as that which has suffered least from the attacks of the disease . " We arc also of opinion that it will be imprudent to plant potatoes for the next-crop in land which has
oeen just cleared of them . The latter is in all probability filled with the seeds of fungi ,- countless myriads of which must have been scattered over thc tainted field ; and although they probably have been borne by the winds to every portion of the country , yet it may be conceived that the soil will be more impregnated where diseased pstatoes have just been growing than in fields in which decaying matter was not actually present . ; " Under these circumstances , we are decidedly of opinion that , prior to putting any kind of crop for the coming year into land that has been this season under
potatoes , it wDl be prudent , if not absolutely necessary , that the ground should be torned up and exposed to the action of the atmosphere with care , and that it should be thoroughly manured with lime . We have already recommended that the potatoes , whether whole or cuttings , used for seed , should be dusted over with lime previous to planting ; and we further urge , that in the case of corn or seed crops of every kind , the seeds should be steeped in lime water , or in the solution of blue stone and salt well known to farmers . Evidenee has already been laid before us of injurious effects where _precautions such as we have described have been neglected .
"We forbear from adverting to the possibility of replenishing the diminished _supHftr _. of potatoes by sowing the seeds formed by the flower . This is an operation which can only be carried on successfully in a garden—is unsuited to the means of the small cultivator—cannot in any waj affect the question of immediate supply—and may be safely left to thc intelligence of the gardeners scattered throughout thc country . " Hitherto , we have laid before your Excellency , for the purposes of publication , several reports , in a merely popular form , suited to tbe present emergency . We are confident that the recommendations contained in them , if carried into effect , ' will tend to
mitigate the evils arising from the attacks ot the disease in the potatoe crop . We now propose to proceed forthwith to apply ourselves to the investigation ofthe important scientific questions involved in the _suljject ; and to report in due time the result of our inquiries , in order that , from past experience , we may derive knowledge for future guidance . These investigations will occupy us for a considerablo time ; and , while we do not contemplate the necessity of publishing further popular directions , wc shall hold ourselves in readiness to give our immediate attention to any question which your Excellency may submit tor our consideration , or to report from time to time for your Excellency's private information . We have the honour to be your faithful and obedient
servants . "Robert Kahe . " John Lindlet . "Lion _Platfaiu . "
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TIIE _TOTATOE DISEASE . [ From the Liverpool Times of Tuesday . ] This destructive malady still continues to rage in all parts of the three kingdoms , and daily to sweep away large quantities of the food oi the poor . In this part of the * country it is as bad as ever , and on the eastern side ef the island it is so intense , that whole cargoes of potatoes , shipped in the Hiimber for London durinij the Jnsfc week , _wlich were apparently in good condition , have been found to be decayed be- _* fore h : ilf the voyage was accomplished , and have been brought back to Hull as worthless . Many of the accounts from Ireland are quite unfavourable as these ; and , notwithstanding the bold assertions of persons who are afraid to face the truth , there is no doubt that , great as the evil now is , it is becoming greater every day . Even in these few cases in which the potatoes were quite sound when
they were got up , and in thc still fewer ones in which they have been kept sound by the only effectual method , tbat is , by causing abundance of fresh air to circulate through them iu the heap , they will not bear the usual treatment . The cargoes brought back to Hull on Thursday last , were quite sound when shipped , and under ordinary circumstances would have reached London just as sound , but like all the potatoes of the present year , they had much more than the usual quantity of moisture , and much less than the usual quantity of alluvia , and the consequence was , that they heated aud decayed alter a few hours confinement in the hold of the ship . This shows that the best potatoes arc unusually tender this year , and that the slightest relaxation of care in keeping them is fatal to them . Under these circumstances it is absurd to expect that the malady will cease .
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_In-cexbiart _Fiue . —On Sunday night last , a lone barn , containing a quantity of barley and oats , in the occupation of Mr . Scroggs , of Houghton Regis , near Dunstable , was discovered to be on ( ire between eleven and twelve o ' clock , and its contents , together with a hovel adjoining , were entirely consumed . It is supposed to hare been thc vileact of an incendiary . The same _aisht , three ploughs , the property of Mr . Cook , of Houghton Regis , were broken in such a manner as to be rendered totally " useless . —¦ Aylesbury News . ' ¦ .: "''
AxoTnER Winosor Election . — The rumour which hasbeen current at _AYindsbrfpr _some'days '; past that ilr . Neville was about to receive . !* ' government appointment , which would necessarily compel him to vacate liis seat for _theboiough , has resolved itself in a more definite . shape ; the , i _* ep 6 i't now , being , that Mr . Neville : is to have a < iommi £ siqnersIup ; . ( saidtobe of customs ) to which a ' salaryisi attached of - £ 1 , 200 siyear .. ' In that event _.-inothei-eleetiohfor the borough would not be far distant _.
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_rppikvaiwicE'llINCr * IN ST _^ P / _t-KCRAStpTvO _-PET & IONFO & _'THE * RESTORATION *' 'OF via . compliance with 'resolutions passed . , at the late ' Chartist Convention , and by the Exiles Restoration poin r mittee , tb _« Somers Town locality : appointed a deputation to wait on the gentlemen composing the St . Pancrns vestry , to " request the use of the vestry rooms , for thepurpose . of holding a public meeting to petition Parliament to address _her . Mojegty to restore the above-named patriotic exiles to their country . Tho' vestry , with their , usual . . __ . _„ _-- _« . __» . _ , •_____
liberality , immediately granted the request , and on Mon . day evening , November 17 th ; we had the pleasure of , wit . nessing one of ' the _latest meetings ever congregated together ia this part of the great metropolis . The rooms , 6 taiica 3 e , arid large hall leading thereto , being most _densttly crowded . ; _Athaltpast seven o'clock Mr . Hornbj was _unntimduslyealledto the chair , and . briefly stated the objects of the meeting '; also that Sir B . Hall , Bart ., and Sir C . Napier , Knight , memher _3 for the _horough , had been written to requesting them to attend , but neither of them had returned ah answer . ( Groans and _hissea ) .
Mr . Johw Abnott said , that Frost , _WmiamB , and JoneB liad been convicted for taking part in the unfortunate outbreak ' at Newport , in the year 1839 . At the trial counsel raised a point of lnw in their favour , and thc _judgi-s seemed to agree that theindictment was not good ; nevertheless , by a gross p iece of ; inconsistency , they decided that the trial should proceed ; Of course they were found guilty , The raised point of law was again brought forward , when the judgeseame tothe marvellous conclusion that yesterday and to day was one and the same time , and ordered those highly moral and strictly virtuous
patriots for execution , ( Shame , shame . ) Fortunately this part of the tragedy-was not carried out , hut , instead , they iver * sentenced to transportation for life . Messrs . Daniel O'Connell and Gray had'been liberated from prison , and the ' Canadian " rebels , " who Were taken with arms in their hand * , had received a free pardon ; and he did think that the severe punishment already undergone by those banished men were l ' ar more than commensurate for any crime thej might have * committed , and that the time had arrived when clemency should _» be showed them . ( Great cheering . ) He had much pleasure in moving tho following resolution _> - : -
"That this meeting are of opinion that no one should be punished only in accordance with the injury inflicted on society ; and are further of opinion that John Frost , Zephaniah Williams , and V 7 illiamJones , havefullyatoued , by the punishment . thej * have already received , for the crimes alleged against" them ; and seeing that Gray , O'Connell , and otlierg , have heen liberated , and the Canadian " rebels' * pardoned , do consider that the said exiles should also be restored to their homes and families . Resolved , therefore , that this meeting petition the House of Commons lo _present an address to her Majesty praying for a free pardon to the above-named exiles . " Mn . Gahble seconded the motion .
Ma . C . Doii _ b in rising to support the motion was received with great applause . He said , the resolution was one embracing such weighty matters , that even a man who had been much before tlie public couid scarce do it justice . Tho gentleman who had moved it had given the meetiug a brief history of the trial and subsequent proceedings . Tho counsel employed in their defence were certainly some ofthe most eminent men that had at any time _adorntd the bar , Including the present Baron , Sir Frederick Pollock , and her Majesty ' s present Solicitor . General , Sir Fitoeroy Kelly , both of whom were opposed to those great principles of democracy which he ( Jfr . Doyle ) deemed essential to the political salvation of the masses . ( Loud cheers . ) Yet these men pledged : their professional honour that the indictment was bad in
point of law : The talent ofthe advocates , backed by the imergies of the people , had the affect of saving the victims' lives ; but tbey were taken in the dead ofthe night , dragged from their beds without being allowed to take a last look at their wives , families ,- ahd friends , - and banished to torture , _w-rse than death , in a felon land . ( Grtat » sensation . ) He would not defend insurrection , but this he would say , that any man had a right to take a barn or other place in which to advocate any political opinions he might hold , and in this opinion he was borne ont by the learned judges who presided atthelate Chartist trials . He deplored the attempt made in 1839 , but what was done , he had no doubt was merely the effect of reading English history . ( Hear , hear . ) The people . seeing all their prajers treated with the utmost contumely , no
doubt said , wo will no longer _parley with them , but use our sovereign might and right to achieve our liberties as our fathers did of old . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Ho reiterated his objection / to physical force ; he wished to see an holy union of brotherhood established to effect the triumph of liberty , and only let the mass of _wealth-producers be thus banded together , and such an union must prove irresistible . Since 1842 no body would be rash enough to charge the great democratic body with being the advocates of violent measures . He decidedly . concurred with a previous speaker , that more than ample punishment ' had been administered to meet any offence these unfortunate ) men might have committed , and sure he was , that there , was not one friend of humanity , but would agree with him _. that these ; men ought now to be restored to their native land , their families , and friends .
( Loud cheers . ) He had visited Newport , and made it his business to inquire into the charaoter of John Frost ; men of ali shades of politics agreed that he wus a good citizen , a worthy neighbour , a . kind magistrate , and an excellent mayor ; in a word , a philanthropist . ( Loud cheers . ) Witlians and Jones , although not so widely known , were equally respected in tho neighbourhood in which they had resided . He thought , after the enduyance of six years exile hy these patriots , it was ; high time that the people should raise their voices for their restoration . He trusted this meeting was only a beginning , and that the excellent example set by the men of Somers Town would be followed throughout the United Kingdom . Mr . ; Doyle resumed his seat amid the loudest acclamationi of applause . The resolution was carried _iinsuiniously . ' Me . Stahwood read the following petition : —
" To thc Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . The Petition ofthe inhabitants of the Parish of St . _Paneras , in ( lie Borough of Afarj _/ lebone _, in Public Meeting in tiie Ve & try-, oom assembled , . . . ' " Shewcth—That your petitioners view with feelings of sorrow and eommisseration the long and painful sentence of transportation inflicted upon John Frost , Zephauiuh Williams , and John Jones , for participating in an outbreak at Newport , in Wales , in November , 1839 . Your petitioners l . elicve that the time has at length arrived -when clemency may be shown to these misguided men without any forfeiture of national justice or national
interests . Your petitioners have seen with great pleasure that her Majesty ' s Government is favourably disposed to this humane measure , _rb evinced by the mitigation of the sentence of banishment passed upon the Canadian prisoners , taken in arms in the late insurrection in that country ; they , therefore , pi-ay your Honourblu House to present an humble address to her Majesty , praying her to take tho case of these men into her consideration , and be graciously pleased to remit the remainder of their sentence , and thus . restore them to thoir distressed wives and families . And in return for this boon your petitioners wiU ever pray , "
In moving the adoption of the petition , Mr , Stallwood recounted the several enthusiastic meetings held in the parish of St . Pancras for a similar purpose , and was sure this meeting would be characterised by a like unanimity . The petition he had read spoke for itself . . It required no help from him to ensure its adoption ; and , knowing so weU as he did their humane feeling and devotion on this subject , it would be an insult to their better understanding were he to say more . He should , with great pleasure , move the adoption of the petition . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Llewelltn , a compatriot of Johu Frost , seconded the motion , and recounted many an interesting scene in the Welsh movement ; and , from a thirteen years' acquaintance with John Frost , spoke highly of his great iutegrity , humanity , and patriotism , Mr . Llewellyn was loudly applauded .
Mr . Davio Ross , of Leeds , rose to support the motion , and met with a most hearty and enthusiastic welcome to London . He said he had entered the metropolis on Sunday , and had heard by accident of this , meeting , and thought he should have been highly culpable had he not attended and added his mite of sympathy to tHeirs . The persecution of then * virtuous men had first converted him to democracy . Frost had suffered worse than death . He had been compelled to herd with thieves and murderers , in a foreign land far away from home , far from the wife ofhis bosom , andthe children of his affection . None could appreciate the value of their / native land so well as the compulsory exile , more especially such a one as John Frost , who strove to make it " Tlie home of the Briton—lhe land ofthe free . " ( Great cheering . ) Surely
it was high time that mercy interceded . ( Loud cheers . ) But the Government was not to be blamed ; the peop le , and the people only , were to blame ; had they only exerted themselves as they ought to have done , those truly great and good men would have been restored to their country and friends long ere this . ( _Cheers . ) It was not yet too late . He was proud to see on the , platform one whose poesy " gave light and life to his dungeon . He had but once hefore had the pleasure of seeing Mr . Cooper , and then , as the song said , '" Twas in a crowd . " He had , in conjunction with Mr . Cooper aud many others , appeared as a representative of the people iu Carpentcrs ' - hall _. ManchcBter , in time of peril . They separated , Mr . Cooper to his dungeon , and he ( Mr . _Uoss ) to be hunted as a fugitive through the land ; but now both _, were here , and the cause still progressing , a
proof" That freeedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft is ever won , " —( Loud cheers . ) The petition was unanimously adopted amidst loud hpplause . Mr . Fakkeb had much pleasure in _moving the subjoined resolution , and hoped the members of the present committee w ; ould not be seared from tlieir purpose by police spies os former cominittees had been , hut stick to their purpose until , their object was effected . Without douht Mr . Ellis had been treated with indescribable baseness .
"That this meeting . _areiof opinion that Wm . Shcrrat Ellis was innocent . of , . tlie-. crime , with whicli he was charged , and that his conviction was . based on evidence procured at tbe expense of honour and conscience ; under these circumstances this meeting therefore ' resolve to petition the House of . Commong . tb cause ah address to bc presented- to her Majesty , , praying the . ' exercise ' , of the Royal clemency , for the restoration ' of _. _thCsaid Wm _-iherrat Ellis to his . country and _. disconsolate fajmij _* . " / Mr . EnwAiiDs seconded _themotion , which , was carried unanimously , ' - ¦¦ - ¦ _- . ¦¦ _,,-, :.....
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. _ . Mr . iTHOMAS" CoopEB , - _j anthor _ of . ; ' *; _- T _^ Suicides , " rose , loudly _apjjfoudejj ' and ' . read ' _^ _e'MiTwlng petitiontrrr . n ; lii : ¦ _&¦ : ¦ _% W \ n _, y ;> _x X , _^' _I' _^ _tfv . Z \ _l > _7-"To _theJffonouraVle _^ the Commonscf . Gfeai _Bntainandlrg _lanibn- Parliamentasstnd _^ d f _^ " lie _^ u _»^ e _jPetMftm _, _^/ ' . - '" _tlieinluMantsgf , ' _^ _. F _^ m _^ i . _^ Bot _^ h of _^^ ' '' Uomi « , _inpubUQinMlingAn _^ iii _sheweth-r-That . -your petitioners are deeply impressed witli the eonviction that William Ellis , at preseut ' a tran 7 sport in Van Dieman ' s Land , for the alleged crime of aiding and abetting . the . burning of the Rev , W . Ailkcn's house , at Hanley , in the StaiFordshire _l'itteries , on the ni _^ ht of -the . 13 tho'f August , 1842 , is . entirely innocent of tiie ssiid . crime . ; _,.- / . _-..,.- ' .... ;¦ .. ; i , ..,. :- _-.- ¦ ,. __ ; rr _™_ . _Mi a" _ _1 n _ _w > _- _ . » . _«¦_« , _ . _ - __*™ _W
, , "That your Petitioners have learned from . evidence , which they believe to be worthy , ef entire credibility , that the said William Ellis was , at all . thnes , opposed to > yiplence and disorder , and was distinguished for the unswerving honesty and uprightness of his life ; and tiiat the said William Ellis most solemnly denied all participation in the crime laid to his charge , and for which he was sentenced to twenty-one years' transportation . " That your petitioners entreat y _« ur Honourable House to , weigh in your minds the important facts that an alibi , comprising the evidence of several highly . credible witnesses , W' & s produced for the said William Ellis ut his
trial ; and : that the evidence against , the said . William Ellis ; depended on one witness only , who first ' stated that ha saw , at the fires , a . tall figure with its back towards him , and that he afterwards saw only tbe side face blacked , of the said figure , and yet could swear it was . William Ellis . That your petitioners , depending on the high sense of justice which ought to characterise the English mind of your Honourable . _Housed entreat you to review the circumstances upw severally brought before your consideration , and to recco ' _mthend to lier Most Gracious Majesty , the Queen , the immediate full and free pardon of the said William Ellis , aiid your petitioners will ever pray . "
Mr . Cooper said— -beanug in mind . night and day , hia solemn pledge to poor Ellis in . the dungeon , ' he had in . eessantly laboured , privately , to . secure interest for that injured andinnocent man ' s restoration to his nativeland _. Yet he thought he had a right to eompluinof theindolent neglect shown by the Exiles liestoriition Committee . He was told they had called the meeting now held : he could only say they had not called it before the proper time . " It was necessary for some one to speak out . He had often purposed to try and get up a meeting of this kind in London ; but it so happened that the god-like cause of freedom was disgrured , by the evil partisanship of petty spirits , who weie ever ready to calumniate men for ovei * -busying themselves , and so his efforts had been confined to privacy , with the exception of starting two .
_benevolent funds for the relief of _sufterersat-home . . He would tell that meeting , however , that ho had laboured in this great cause privately . On account of having published a book be hud been sent for by certain great people ; but whoever sent for Thomas Cooper , the Chartist , always heard something about Chartism , much about the injured Ellis , and still more about the wrongs and sufferings of werking nun throughout this country . , ( Cheers . ) He did not hold himself at liberty to mention names , generally , but the name of ono noble-hearted and nobleminded , as well as titled lady , he would mention : it was the CountiSS ' _= of Blessingtbn . ( Cheers . ) That lady listened , not only with patient attention to a description of the wrongs of Ellis , and of the sufferings of working msn , and the injustice and oppressions
practised- upon them , but her line countenance evinced a deep sympathy with what she heard , and her eloquent tongue gave utterance to the indignation she felt for the tyrants and oppressors . '" I know that we have bad laws , " was her languAge ,- ' and I have long said that they who labour for all we enjoy are unju 3 tlyand-ungratefully used . Nothing fills rae with greater abhorrence ; than the New Foor-law ; and it is my daily wonder that : such a law remains unaltered . Wherever I go I state this openly and unflinchingly ; and you may depend upon it , Mr . Cooper , that I slut . ! take care to spread , in my own circle , the truthful and distressing details you have given mc this morning . " Mr . C . then related the account he had given to-the countess of'the fraud practised on the Duke of Rutland , when he went to view the union-house , or
. "bastile , at Melton Mowbray , in Leicestershire . The grim prison-house was " got up , " to use a milliner ' s phrase , to receive his grace . It was arrayed in such " apple-pie order , " that the duke proclaimed himself surprised and delighted with it . Thus , these horrid 'dens were displayed in such a state as to deceive influential visiters . The dreadful misery they contained was concealed , and a false and pernicious impression raised . in their favour . Tlie duke- had gone to visit the place in consequence ofa conversation ' with his generous-minded relative , Lord John Manners , who was well known to be most energetically opposed to that hateful law : but though he went there halfdisposed to believe that Lord John Manners was right —* he > vas so completely duped by the _vilain-sliowmen of the
Melton bastile , that he _declared , on his return te lk-lvoir Castle , he was satisfied with his first convictions , and he would not join his relative in opposing the New Poor Law . lady B , would , no doubt , take care to spread tb . at fact ; and itwas-one that he ( Mr . G . ) could easily substantiate . ( Cheers . ) Mr . C . then made a few brief observations on thc . p . ctition for the recall of Frost , Williams , and Jones , which had been already adopted by the meeting . He was glad , he said , that it had been worded in such a way as 'to take away offence : none of the middle . classes could refuse to sign it , because of what they might havo termed "inflammatory language : "it ivas so worded , that even the members of the so-called " People ' s House" might take out their quizzing-glasses and scan it through , and yet he compelled to pronounce
it respectful : " they could have no excusefor not receiving -. it-- —no pretence for rejecting it—on account of any offensive phraseology . In the same spirit , and with the same impressions as those which had evidently guided the framers of that petition , he had drawn up the petition for poor Ellis ' s recr . 1 .. ( Hear . ) True , if he liad to choose the way of proceeding in this business , without regard to the prejudices and hostile feelings of influential parties , it would not ' heiu the language of humanity , that he would approach tliem . He would be bold to proclaim either there , or at the bar of what was called "justice , " or onthe scaffold ' itself , that if Hampden were justifiable ; if that great patriot Ought to have a column raised to his memory on Cbalgrove-field , and tliey had raised one;—if hcought to hare a statue in the
new Houses of Parliament , —and Prince Albert , and tne rest of the committee had decreed that he was to have _one;—thc-n was _& lm Frost justifiable , — -then oiight hi to have a column at Newport , —then ought he to have a statue in the People ' s House—( cheers , )—aiid wheu that house truly became tho people's he would have one . ( Cheers . ) Noblo as Hampden ' s struggle was , it was less noble than Frost ' s—if the purpose that moved thehreasts of either wero considered . Ilampden "drew the sword and threw away the scabbard" to overthrow high tyranny in ' government and religion , —hut his mind , large and comprehensive as it was ,. did not design the enfranchisement of every Englishman arrived at the age of manhood : he was not filled , like generous Frost , with the wish , to see every toiling son of labour exercisingtho rights
and possessing tho substance of the rights of a veritable tree-man . ( . Much cheering . ) Passing the strict truth of the case by , _however , in order that our combat with prejudice might not injure still more deeply , the suffering Exiles , these petitions had been worded in such a tone as to avoid offence ; and he wis sure , from the feeling now evinced , they could , each and all , have but one wish , namely , that the petitions might speedily succeed . ' Mr . C . then entered into a feeling recital of William Ellis ' s ease , especially pointing out the facts that Ellis himself most solemnly denied the crime alleged against him ; that an alibi was produced at his trial , proving that he was at kome and in his bed at the hours when Aitkeu ' _s house was on fire ; and that his conviction depended on but one witness who first said he saw the
6 dcfc of a tall figure at the fire , and , then , for a few moments , saw its side-face , blacked , and yet could swear it was Ellis . Great indignation was expressed by the meeting as Mr . C . recited theso facts ; and , after making an earnest appeal on behalf of poor Ellis ' s wife and three children , who have been driven to seek relief from the parish authorities , Mr . C . concluded by holding up to the imitation of all present , the example of toiling patriots in all ages . They had been maligned , persecuted , chained , exiled , or martyred , but their spirits were unbroken , and their struggle had not been in vain . Whenever one of these great and good beings had stept forth to hold up thc lamp of truth , he was assailed , seized , and perhaps dragged down into the mire ; but soon another was found to take up the lamp , as it lay flickering , and tohold
it up again . "See , " cried the minions of tyranny , "that fellow is now flashing the lamp in the people ' s eyes Ihey will soon bc too many for us—seize him!—down with him ! " And no sooner was he seized , and the lamp thrown down again into the mire , than another high and generous spirit viewed it , and said "That . is truth I ";—" Do not say so , " whispered the tyrants , fawning round tho new advocate ! "Say that this is truth ! " "I will not ! " cried out this new bold spirit ; " _nhit you call truth is a lie , and I will proclaim it to the death ! " and again he rushed forward and plucked the lamp from tho mire , and flashed it again upon the multitude , till they began to feel its glorious spirituality of light . Aye , spirituality ! for there was no cant , no priestly mockery in employing that word on such a
theme ! The light of truth was so veritably spiritual that it could penutrate the head and the heart , and vivify both . And that lamp had never been extinguished . No ! it was even now being lifted up and flashed in the eyes of the multitude , and they were receiving and wclcomingits light—and tyrants were trembling , _^ 'thrones , and dominions , and powers" were quaking , and dreading the mighty result . " Try to hold up the lamp ! " . concluded the speaker ; . " light yourlesser lamps at the pure beam spread the . effulgence on every hand , till every child of man catches the renewing influence , and at length the united human family—a hand of brothers—together rise to swell the choral shout on every shore , and from sea to sky—' Liberty , liberty , liberty !' " . ( Prolonged and renewed cheering followed this thrilling _^ peroration . ) *
The petition was then put , and adopted unanimously . The petitions were ordered to lie . at convenient places in tho parish during the ensuing two mouths for signatures , then to be placed in the hands , of T . S . Duncombe , M . P .,. for _presentation . - . -Mr . Thomas ' Laurie imoved , . that the best thanks of tliis meeting are due , and hereby given to , the , vestrymen of this parish , for the handsome manner iii . which they granted the use of " tlie rooms -on ibis occasion . The motion wassi ; i ; oridcd and carried by acclamation . - ' , ; A ' vote o . thiiukswas then _-given-to the chairman , and ' the _dehstly crowded meeting departed , highly gratified with the _sood feeling exhibited for the exiled patriots _.
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DREADFULFIRE / AND LOSS OFTWOLTVESf ' . _"ffnSunday ' mo _^ fire , attended with loss . of life , ocou rred in the antique _andinferestingibuildirig'k ' uownasrtheBaths-of St . Agnes le ' _Clairi famed for many _^ eara for medicinal y _irtues said to . characterise the-watcrs . ? . " *¦ _- ' " < ¦ ¦ _: -Tlie' fire _wM _' . T 3 r 8 t .. di 8 ( ioyefed _''" _'by police-cohstablo Dearrnaii , ' _j G , burning in the lower part of the front dwelling ' attached to the baths / in the occupancy of Mrs . Moore , and whicli are situate in Ta . bernacle-square , Shoreditch , near to the junction of the Old-street-road and Pitlield-s'treet . The premises were built many years since , and were full of timber . They possessed a considerable frontage , great depth , and the house consisted of not less than twelve or fourteen rooms . The communication between this and the adjoining buildings was very slight , the only protection being a thin wainscoting of wood , which aided the progress of tlie destructive element from north to south , and from east to west .
Itwas riot wiUiout considerable trouble that the constable succeeded in arousing the inmates , not less than fen of whom were asleep in the building at the time , and they were rescued with great difficulty from the flames . One of the yountr Mr . _Moores was saved by police-constable Poller , 214 G , who courageously mounted a ladder ; and , taking the young man upon his back , brought him down and lodged liim . in a neighbouring house . The poor fellow appeared to be nearly _suffoi-ated , and his face was severely burned , the eyebrows and hair ofthe head being muchsinged . A brother of his , fearing to perish in the flames , jumped from the . window of the second floor , and fell
with fearful violence upon the edge ofa waterbutt : in the yard , by which he was severely cut about the head and face , and his back considerably contused . jQc was picked up b y the constable If 3 G , who took oif his great coat to cover the naked and wounded man , and conveyed him to the house of Mr . G . Titterton , a licensed victualler , in the Old-street-road , who received tlie sufferer , and sent for medical assistance Several other persons escaped by jumping out of the windows , and some of them were considerably injured . Mr . Charles Moore , who escaped in this manner , was so seriously injured that he still lies in a very precarious state .
. While these efforts were being made te save the lives of thc inmates , the flames progressed with frightful rapidity , mounting from the lower to the upper floors . Messengers wero dispatched to the several engine-stations , and in a brief space the Whitecross-street , Jeffry-square , and Watling-street engineB ofthe brigade ,, under the superintendence of Mr . Braidwood , and the direction of Mr . dockland : the parish engine of Shoreditch , and the West of England , with Mr . . Connorton and the company ' s firemen , arrived at the scene . The fire-plugs were immediately drawn , and copious streams of water were directed upon the fire , but it was quite clear that all attempts to save the dwellings in front of the baths must prove fruitless . The attention of the
firemen was consequently directed to the critical state of the adjoining property , and extraordinary exertions were made to confine the fire to the area in which it was then burning , nnd especially to prevent its extension to the spirit stores of the Angel and Crown , in the occupation of Mr . Gurney . This was happil y _, effected by the judicious ' conduct of Mr . Braidwood , who , perceiving the progress thc lire was making in that quarter , ordered his men to tear down part of the pannclling and carry the branch of ono of the engines into the bar , for the purpose of keeping down the flames . This had the desired effect ; for although the flame was so strong that it penetrated through the partition and burned the- paper off the ceiling of the bar , itwas
stayed from proceeding further . Shortly after this , the flames having reached the roof , a heavy mass of tiles , it fell in , and at that moment the fire exhibited a brilliant and striking appearance . The attention of the firemen was then especially directed to the rear of- tho building , and there the West of Englaud and Brigade engines rendered efficient service—the baths being saved from utter destruction by the united efforts of the firemen belonging to both . At the rear ofthe Angel and Crown the flames committed great havoc , the side front being much , damaged , the roof of the spirit-room being partly burned off , and the back ol the building seriously injured , Od the north side , the premises in the occupation of Mr . Peel , coffee-house keeper , and those of
Mr . George Beeson , potatoe dealer , numbered two and three , in Tabernacle-square , are seriously damaged by fire and water , and the contents by removal , during the excitement which prevailed when the fire was at its height . Upon making inquiries at this juncture as to the fate ofthe inmates , it was ascertained that two of them , a mother and her child , were missing . The feeling of sympathy whicli prevailed at the time this appalling fact became known was most intense , and the utmost efforts of the bystanders were put into requisition to trace the missing parties . Up to halt-past five o ' clock no tidings were heard of Cither of them , . and shortly before six the body of Mrs . C . Moore was tp , und by one of the firemen who was engaged in exploring the ruins . The poor creature was stretched upon one of the rafters on the second floor , her head
and arms hanging over a charred beam , as though she had fallen iii attempting to escape . The body was most frightfully burned , one of the feet being quite consumed , and the whole of the breast and bade being completely calcined . Samuel Girard and Edwin Perrier , two ofthe brigade , assisted by the West of England firemen , took steps for the removal ofthe remains , and ashell having been subsequently procured , the body was conveyed to the workhouse of Shoreditch . Shortly before eight o ' clock one of the firemen discovered tho body of a youth , shockingl y burned , lying upon the wreck of a bedstead , on a
portion ofthe floor which still continued standing . He was quite dead , and much disfigured , Blankets were . procured , and the body wrapped in them , and another shell' being obtained , the poor lad , whose name is George Ilall , son of the unfortunate woman , who slept in the same room , was ; conveyed to the same piace where his mother ' s . remains await the inquiry of a coroner's jury . Jiow the fire originated is at present a mystery . It is , however , supposed by Mrs . Moore to have been caused by some embers from cigars , as there had been parties smoking in the coffee-rooms the previous evening .
I he following is a copy of the official report of the damage . Kov . IC , 1845 , 12 . 30 . a . m . —Fire at the Agnes le Clair swimming baths , 3 , Tabernacle-square , occupied by Mrs . R . M . Moore . Cause unknown . Nearly tlie whole ofthe front dwelling-house is consumed , as well as the contents therein ; the roofs of tlie baths at the back damaged by fire and water . Engines that ;' attended—Three of the Brigade ; the West of England , one ; and another from Shoreditch parish . Building insured in the lloyal Exchange . The contents not known if insured . No . 3 . —Charles Peel , coffee-house keeper ( adjoining ); house gutted , andthe whole of the contents of a 7 or 8 roomed liouse destroyed . Insured in the Pluonix and lloyal Exchange offices .
lhe Angel and Crown , Mr . Ii . Gurney , victualler . Side front considerably damaged , part of roof off the spirit room , bar and back parlour materially injured by lire and water . Insured in the Sun and _Phosnix offices . No . 2 . Tabernacle-square . —Mr . George Boson , potatoe-dealer . Building severely injuied . Iusuredin the Royal Exchange office .
INQUEST ON THE BOWES . On Tuesday Mr . William Baker , coroner for the eastern division of Middlesex , held an inquest at the Black Ilorse , _Kingsland-road , on the bodies of Sarah Moore , aged 42 , and George Hall , aged 11 , the unfortunate individuals who perished in the above fire . Thejury having been sworn , and a foreman chosen , they proceeded , accompanied by the coroner , to Shoreditch Workhouse , for the purpose of viewing the bodies . Upon their return to the inquest-room , the following evidence was taken : ¦—
Mr . Richard M . Moore said that he was the proprietor of the St . Agnes Le Clair swimming-baths , in Tabernacle-square , Finsbury . The deceased , Sarah Moore , was the wife of Charles Moore , an assistant at the baths . On themorning of Sunday last , about a quarter before one o ' clock , he was awakened by his brother Frederick , who told witness that ho thought the place was on fire . He then ran down the stairs and traced the smoke to the parlour , and upon opening the door smoke rushed out , but he could not see any fire . Witness told his brother to go down into thc kitchen and procure a pan of water , which he did , and which he threw in the direction the smoke arose from . Witness afterwards escaped upstairs , and was found nearly suffocated upon the roof of the
cold bath , and was rescued by a policeman . The kitchen adjoins the parlour . Mr . Charles Moore , his wife , the deceased George Hall , slept in tlie same room . They were all alarmed ; but Mrs . C . Moore and her son were unable to escape , and they were burnt in the building . He could not tell how the fire originated . It was not' from gass . The baths were lighted only by oil and candles . There was no combustible material in the parlour except the furniture . Witness was in the parlour about eleven o ' clock , and turned the oil-lamp out , but left another burning in the passage . ' There was a report that the fire arose from cigar smoking , but ho was positive that it did not arise from that eause . The baths had been insured for the last ten years and upwards in the Roval _ExchangeFire-office ,
By the Coroner : I had not smelt lire during the ] previous evening . ' m < By a ' jiiror : The smoking and bagatelle room was atthe ; baek of the building , in a different part to wherc ' tlic fire commenced . Mr . Frederick Augustus Moore gave similar testimony . _" , ; i William Deoman , police constable 1 C 2 G ., deposed to having discovered and having aroused the inmates ofthe house .- Witness _ho . d no reason tbbelieve that the fire had arisen-from any other cause than mere accident .
A question having arisen as to the identity of the bodies , the Coroner inquired of Mr . Cbnvles'Moorc if ho . had any doubt ns . to _. swhether .: the remains . were those ofliis wife and child , * lie haring . answcred In thft : _riegaUVe , _tlio Coroner asked hini if he could thiw
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; New Am Cnunx . —The Bishop of Derry has in Yented an atmospheric cliurhi Instead of the m sent unscientific mode of making butter b ychurninr his lordship accomplishes this measure by the _sineS ' lar . manner of forcing ii full current of _atmospheric air through the cream , by means of well-devisui forcing-pump . The air passes through a glass _tiita connected with the air-pump , deaccnding ° nearly _tn the bottom of the churn . The churn is of tin and it fits into another tin cylinder provided with a j _* nel and stop-cock , so as to heat the cream to a necea " sary temperature . The pump is worked by means ofa winch , which is not so laborious as the usual churn . *
Post-office * _Regulation with Reference To the _iTbaksmissios of Newspapebs . —Considerable misapprehension has for some time existed with reference : to the following point in the practice of the Post-office—the right of newsvendors , and the public generally , to write the name of the sender , or the initials of sueh party , in addition to the address of the person to whom such newspaper is intended to be delivered . It has been , at length , officially decided that newsvendors may have their names and address printed on the covers of newspapers , but they are not permitted to write them . Detection or a MunnEiiEB . —Somo months since we published ip . this journal the details ofa horrible and deliberate murder , perpetrated at Claremorrig inthe county of Mayo , by a man named 0 'Donnell _| upon a person named Mannion , a cousin of the muxderer . O'Donnell , who escaped afc the time , has since been captured in America .
Seduction axd Manslaughter . —Last week an inquest was held at Liverpool , on the body ofa man named John Ratcliffe , who was killed by William Charnock . Ratclifie had seduced Charnock _' s daughter , who had borne him a child . In spite ef warnings to the contrary , Ratcliffe persisted in visiting the daughter at her father ' s house . In his last visit , the father ordered the deceased to leave the houso ; he refused , a struggle ensued , and tlic father struck the deceased down with a poker , from the effects of whicli violence Ratcliffe died . Thejury returnod a verdict of manslaughter , and Charnock was committed for trial .
Discovery of a ra _Djamokd Mine in Bka 7 . ii ,, -, An immense diamond mine was discovered in the province of Bahia , in October , 1 S _44 , by a slave , who in twenty clays had gathered 700 carats of diamonds , and carried tliem a considerable distance for sale _. Arrested and imprisoned , the slave obstinately refused to disclose the locus in guo , Tlicy therefore let him loose , and put a number of intelligent Indians upon his " trail . " The latter pursued him for several days , and found him working for the extraction of the diamonds hot far from Caxoeira , the second city of Bahia . Investigations were then made on a large scale along a chain of msuntains called the Sincura , wliich have given the name to this mine . The produce is immense . The works already cover a superfices of more than thirty leagues !
Death amokost the Awstocbact . —Lord Hart _, land died or . Tuesday thc 11 th inst ., at Stokes-tewnhouse , county Roscommon , Ireland . The deceased leaves no issue ; the title is now extinct . The Right Hon . Wm . Dnndasdied at Quarry House , his resi dence at St . Leonanls-on-Sca , on Friday , Nov . 14 th . He was second sou of the Right Honourable Robert Dundas , Lord -Chief Baron of the Court of Exuhe . quer in Scotland . He held , at his death , the ofiiee of Lord Clerk Register , Keeper ef the Signet , and Repister of Sasines , in Scotland . He received a sum little short of £ 4 , 000 annually from the public _purse . The Earl of "Vevulam died on Tuesday morning last , at Gorhambury , the ancient family seat , near St . Alban ' s , Horts . The . deceased was in his " 71 st year . His . son . Viscount Grimston , M . P ., succeeds to the title . The Dowager Lady Holland died on Tuesday morning last , at her residence in South-street . Viscountess Canterbury died on Monday last at Clifton Wells . Her husband died only in J uly last .
Dreadful Accident . —As a miner , of the name of John Rae , was ascending from his work on _Thursday , 6 th current , up tlie No . 3 pit , Wishaw Colliery , near Glasgow , through some cause the machinery ran at such a velocity that the unfortunate man's brains were smashed to pieces in coming up the pit . ltae has left a widow and two children to deplore his loss .
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BANKRUPTS . ( Trom Tuesday ' s Gazelle , November 18 , 1845 J John Sculthorpe , of _Briclt-hill . lane , Upper Thamesstreet , colourinan—William Vickers , late of 12 , Jloorgato . street , but now of 4 , Garter-street , _Wnlworth-road , bill broker—James Crane , of 11 , Crooked-lane , City , and late of Stamford-bridge , r * ulham , maltster—William Absalom Darry , of 3 , Charles-street , _Westbourne-tt-rrace , Paddington , builder—Benjamin Purnell , late of Rupert-street , Whitechapel , and now of New-street , Stepney , dealer in vinegar—John Inveerove , of 57 , Rothcrhithe-street ,
Rotherhithe , barge builder—Thomas "Willsinson , of 77 , Quadrant , Regent-street , aud 9 , Bathurst-place . _Sussex-square , ironmonger—Renjamin Wade , of 111 , Strand , tailor-Hugh Pushe Price , of Holywell , Flintshire , linen draper—Samuel Abbott , of Nether Stowey , Somersetshire , linen draper—Thomas Bailey , of Bristol , builder— Thomas Simpson , of Stourbridge , Worcestershire , livery Stablekeeper— William Ashton , of Picker ' _niR , Yorkshire , spirit merchant—Chuuncey Bobbins and William Smith Martin , of Birmingham , merchants—John Ownsworth Harvey , of Jtf ewarb , _Nottinghamshire , grocer .
DIVIDENDS DECLAKED . John and William Herring , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , timber merchants , second and final dividend of _iid in the pound , payable at 57 , Grey-street , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , any Saturday . 'Martha Chcet . i . _i :-: i and William Cheetham , of Manches ter ,- piece dyers , first dividend of 6 s 6 d in the pound , payable at 72 _^ Guorge . stri ! ct , Manchester , any Tuesday . John Low-thin , and Ilk-hard Jackson Urinley , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , printers , first dividend of 12 s in tlie pound , payable at 111 , filgrim-street , Newcastle-upou-Tyne , any Saturday . ltenjnniin Cohen , of Bishopswsarmouth , hawker , first and final dividend of Sd in the pound , payable at 111 , l _' llgrim-street , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , any Saturday .
_SIVISfNDS TO BE DECLAKED . At the Court of Bankruptcy , London . . Theodore _Locklifti-tDnd Charles Lockhart , 1 S 6 , Cheapside , and 1 ' ulham , Middlesex , florists , December 2 , at oue —David low , of Adam ' s-court , Old _Hroad-strcet , City , merchant , December 9 , at half-past one—Joseph Wilson , of 114 , Jermyn-street , St . James's , boot maker , December 9 , at one—John KnowJes , Henry Rodwell , GeorgeHussell Parker , and John Thomas King , of Throgmorton-street , City , silk brokers , December 0 , at half-past one . In the Country , John Law and Eli Hudson , of _llainsdenwood , Lancashire , cotton spinners , December 12 , at twelve , at the Court of llankruptcy , Manchester—John Backhouse , of Liverpool , merchant , December lo , at twelve , atthe CuurS nf Bankruptcy , Liverpool—Robert Edwards , of Aberdovcy , Merionethshire , draper , December lo , at eleven , at tlie Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—John Milne , of
Liverpool , painter . December 10 , at twelve , at the Court ot Bankruptcy , Liverpool—John Britain , sen ., of Binning " ham , jeweller , December-12 , at twelve , at the Court ot Bankruptcy , _Birmingham — Joseph Ashbarry , of Bo'nl Lacy , Herefordshire , farmer , December lo , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham—William _lluttci'ill , of Sheffield , grocer , December Hi , at eleven , at the Couit of Bankruptcy , Leeds—Fenwick Loraine _, of Kcw- "'s ' _eupon-Tyne , bookseller , December 11 , ftt two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Peter Hansen , "' Newcestle-upon-Tyne , merchant , December 11 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyue-J _oseF Jobling _Ayton , of South Shields , linen draper , _Di-cemlH-r 11 , at eleven , nt the Court of Bankruptcy , _Newcastle-nyM ' Tyne—William Broomhead , of Birminghani and Slieniclj ., merchant , December 11 , at eleven , at the Court of JI' '""* ruptcy , Birmingham . Cektificates to , be granted , unless cause be shown to _tae
contrary ou the day of _meeting . John Lambert , of New Elvet , Durham , grocer , December 9-Christophei * Wakefield , lute of Hamilton Wick . _«• - tualler , December 11-John Hill , of IlammorsmitH . * - _'• • tualler , December 9-Peter Hansen , of _Newcastle-up" } Tyne , merchant , December !)—James Thompson aim _>> "J Thompson , ! of Leeds , stockbrokers , December W—' _^ Wild , of Bristol , glazier , December 0—William La **™* Hall , of Liverpool , victualler , December _D-Georgc _SW _^ Baron , of l'lvmouth , money scrivoner , December , l-John Dawson , of _Spotland and Manchester , calico l" " '"'
December ll _' -Jolm _Adamson _, of Stocltport , gr *'; December 13—George Frederick Stanley _Ishcrwoojjlluhne _, Lancashire , engraver , December 13—Henry l ' of Blackburn , Lancashire , drysnlter , December 13 . Certificates to be granted hy the Court of _Keview , »"_ _*¦' cause bo shown to the contrary , on or before _^ c em jg ( Henry Kohne , of Lawrence l _' ountney-lnne , City . ¦ ¦ ' _Dorchester-place , New North-road , wholesale stay "' ' t facturer—Joseph Thorn , of New Brentford aud W ' Ealing , papcrhanger —John Londe , Tabbenner , o » mingham , auctioneer—Charles Ridings , of 'Manel " \ . cotton mannlactwer — William Best , of SoutUamp _* _' " printer—John Shot-land , of Bristol , grocer .
_ . _AK-.. x __ u » _ - _>_ _ v ___ _r _. » an _?_*> Isaac Green and Henry Green , of Halifax , w _2 ; —Joseph _Lindoii , Joseph White Lindon , and in _^ . Angell Lindon , of Plymouth , merchants , so _** ' A _~'' ., na Joseph White Lindon )—Thomas Frederick waj _-U , Samuel Beetle Cator Barrett , of 17 C , Sloane-s trect , sea , surgeons-William Wreford . Edwin G _^ _wM *" and William EHicoinbo Wreford , of Bristol ,, stock _*** —Thomas Kenworthy . Eowbotham , Henry « 0 W * T i oi and Robert Johnson Kenworthy , of Manchester ,, ' 5 Brinlvsway , Cheshire , bleachers ( so far as rejjarus u' t ( Kenworthy llowbotlinm-J . Woor and 11 . Archer n _« il # of Tutburv , Staftbrdshire _. _fiirnicrs-J i > hn Atkinson »' _lVa ) . ton and Robert Stanslteld Rcvell , of 24 , _Peaton-vo ; . _^ worth , booksellers—Henry Louis Winter and J- "" , { _fa Crampern , of 21 , New North-street ,, _pvoprietoi-. « ¦ _^ North-green Saw-mills-John Brodrick _, _Jim-i " r __ j 0 liu Clarke , of _Kingston-upon-Hull , wine . - ineichai \ u ot ¦ ni . _icflnin A ,. t ., m . Hirst and Charles Edward I *" " mo
Manchester , stock brokers-John Clarke and j ,. Carter Bennett , of Long Sutton , lincohis lnr _*? , _>» tlll _, r agricultural implements - _"ffvederick M » ck' ° ; ... _W aiticlue , and John _"Williaw Swing , of _Lakeiihanw „ 0 wich . _nuvserymcu-E . W . _T ? cmic and Coropan } , »« ( 51 > Williams , jun ., and Brothers , Manganese »* i _"' anyK far as regards the firm of 13 . W . Pome tuid w » n 0 William Masters Gollings arid . Anthony John . _^ _^ Newport , M-onmouthshire . painters-Jane n"V _^ t * Emma O . wiai , of Catterall , Lancashire . P _>» c s . " _.,- « e » ; -Frauci ' 3 Morris and Thomas Moms , -ot w _. _^ road , S > uvrey , the Old Swan , London-W'iO ! . - * ll " _* Tham ' es street , wharfingers .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 22, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22111845/page/6/
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