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or the _poorJjjUhat -detestable law , which , it is-to _| je hoped , will not be permitted to cumber the _statate-hook another session of Parliament . The political world is remarkably quiet . There area few rnmonrs of changes at the next election and intending candidates are a lready putting forth _preUmmary puffs and feelers . The Reg istration Courts seem to have attracted very little attention and certainly have excited no interest Itis felt evemvherethat tbe whole machinery of thehnmbnjr " called the Reform Act is cumbrous and useless , and , long , even the lawyers and agents to whom the system of chicanery created hy it has given emp loyment , will find the game " no go . " People will not pay for so dull and wretched a performance _^ that which usually takes place before Revising Barr isters ;
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a . terrific hurricane at . Newfoundland , which has occasioned a great destruction of life and property , _« cd a farther account of the continued sufferings of £ 12 Cape of ( Jood Hope colonists , and the continued blunders of their incapable governors , constitute the colonial intelligence of the week . As _regards the Gape , we have some hopes of being in a position to announce , in a few moslbs hence , the commence , ment ofa better slate of things ; the incapable _go--pruor having been superseded by the appointment _rg-r Henry Pottingcrto the Governorship of ihe fane of Good Ilope .
The French journals seem to be at length tiring ofthe Spanish marriages' question . The concluding acts of this infamous drama we have reported in _artiher column . We may take leave of the subject hve » pjing the following portrait of Louis Philippe , { romTaiis Magazine' : — iouB Philippe is a roi _tnurgeoU in a very different _stcse fiom what hi < 5 flatterers attribute to him . He _Jccks njnn Prance as a farm , upon his kingly office as a _lBcrarivtappointment ; lie is hon pere de famille ; he -will aa _nothhg that can bring bim to rub shoulders with Ihe gallovs ; he will m ike money by every means that jo not make him incur the risk of being sent to Coventry ; he w £ l settle his _daughters well , and set up his sons ia a good way of business . His every thought centres in
sit asd in his children , because they are part of himself . He only _difers from a tallow-chandler in _having to do _vita ministerial partfolios and national accounts , instead ft country orders , Petersburg invoices , and the _ledger asd day-book of Melt , Drip , and Co . lie bas put off a _& E _» _hter on bis neighbour the King of the Belgians ; he ias got one son a footing in Brazil ; and be is bent on _estifn-r another in a way to get upon the throne of Spain . l (?! Uf-Pbilippewitb his homely , friendly ways , ias the smirk of a mercer or man-milliner showing off his _nares ; and , with bis plain pot-luck dinners to all who rimes across bim , of a Lord _Mayor who thinks a good feed is everything . No wonder tbat he is such a _farewrite with the Lord Mayor of London ; he is , in fact , ihi Lord Mayor of Paris .
Louis Philippe , finding tbat there were invincible _obstacle , to the marriage of his son with the queen , so _plave 3 bis cards that he has forced her into a marriage _jriti a man who can bave no hope of offspring , and ma . n « uvreslomrrryhissonto her younger sister , the next in the order of succession . There is a callousness of feeling in this procedure , a moral filibiness , a recklessness of consequences , that is revolting in tbe extreme . All the moral aberrations which doubtless await the unfortunate young woman who has been the _vic-im of _jhe 3 _eplots , may fairly be charged upon Louis Philippe . His conduct is tainted with some profligate abuse of natural impulses ; the same disregard of the sanctity of
tie marriage connexion that stained the Court and nobk-sse of France before tie _Rsrolntion . Louis Philippe is a moral man in his family circle , after the fashion of eld George in . His queen is a pious lady ; fastidious on tbe score of ber female acquaintances ; a great _patrenness of missions to the Heathen . —ice to sensual ai £ ? e . ion 5 of a seraphic glow of devotion . Tbe young _Dsehess of Montpensier will be brought to a home of the purest sentiment , —a / _ac-simffe of the Ycarage of _Tfake _Jiild . She will there be taught , in Ghristain charity , to kite her sister , as that pattern-woman , her mother-inlaw , bated the Duchess de Bern , and to be equally unscrupulous in tbe means she takes to lay bare that sisters weaknesses to the world . Aad when she and ber bnsband mount the throne from which her sister has
teen—removed , Louis Philippe and his queen will say , _niih the unction of a brace of Tartuffes , Thus God _rewards purity and continence . And , perhaps , the pair of Sams may not have enough of _unperrerted conscience lift to feel that the whole shame and criminality ofthe transaction is theirs , and that their motives have been of the lowest and most , sordid character . Theirs is the irae morality of a Genlis , the decorous mistress of _IgaKte , who lived in the family with his wife , teaching his children to mouth moral precepts aad be externally decorous . France never can tolerate a king with a Pare ce Cerfi ; but neither can that dynasty be permanent wliich is merely moral in externals , and tampers with the voluptuousness ofthe former one , not from passion , let as a mercantile speculation .
We agree with the writer in Tait , that tbe awfully aih _' eal state of Ireland much more demands the attention of English statesmen than do the filthy intrigues at Paris and Madrid . The ordinary session of the Dutch Legislature was epened by the lung in person on Monday last . The speech contains nothing very remarkable , merely speaking in general terms of the prosperous state of _fte country . We have elsewhere commented on the state of affairs in Switzerland . It was rumoured in Paris ,
ca Tuesday , that the liberals of Basle-country tad attacked _Baale-city _, with what results was no : stated . On the other hand , Friburg is arming to resist the liberal Cantons . The London Globe ( Whig ) , like the Moemxg _Chkosiclb _, gives a sm of half adhesion to the new order of things in Geneva , and says : — " The fact is , that , as in Paris ia 1739—82 , there i 3 in the lowest depth a lower deep ; and the insurgent militia of St . Gervais are better fellows to deal with than the grimy faces and hard hands behind them—such classes as came to
compose , in Paris , the cannonlers ef the _National Guard , and completely altered the original orderly composition of that body . " This Whig chuckling serves to strengthen our fears as to the intentions of tie new government ; we hope , however , that the men of the " grimy faces " and " hard hands " will net allow themselves to be humbugged by the new , any more than by the old government .
TEE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS PORTUGAL _May us easily explained . The " constitutional government" of Donna Maria having fleeced and ground the people past enduring , wringing from t _& sa t «« which the " despot" Don Miguel wild never have thought of imposing , some few months sinee the popular discontent exploded , and those worthy blackguards , the Cabrals , " her most faithful Majestv _' s" chief _bravoes _, were ignominiously
driven from power and compelled to fly from Lisbon . The popular insurrection , although it assumed , or lad given to it , a politically "liberal" character , "was at tbe outset a protest against state-robbery . The peasantry of the province of Minho finding themselves taxed in every conceivable shape , and under every possible pretence , refused to pay , and showed themselves quite ready to fight rather than pay . Tnese Peasants being the best fighting men in Portugal , Won drove the government mercenaries before them , aad thus did the work which the "liberals " of
Lis-« n profited hy . OfcouRfi ,, her most faithful Majeaty" at once responded to the will ofthe people , when she found she must do that , or pack up and be gone . A " liberal" Ministry was formed , with _& at drivelling Whig-Aristocrat , _Vxvuelu , at their head . Imbeciles and humbugs though the new _Jaiuisters were , they were nevertheless compelled to attempt some good , in obedience to the popular e * amom * against taxation ; tbey therefore issued a decree for the reduction of the governmenial expenditure , with the view of _reducing the burdens of the
F _^ pie , and saving the country from the ruinous expedient of loans . This decree set forth " That , all _Claries , pensions , and allowances payable by the * _--a-. e shall , during the present financial year , be subject to a deduction of 20 per cent . The interest paid _« n the internal funded or unfunded debt shall , in r _* _manner , be subject to a deduction of 20 percent . The interest on the foreign debt shall be subject , _"" _nng the current financial jear , to a deduction of 2 -percent "
« _, * _riders will see at a glance that the above _Auctions" would necessarily excite against the _Wff government the hostility of a great Tariety of
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public oormorants , who rather than - _' - _' bleed" far the public good wonld hail the restoration of the Cabrals with joy , or even welcome Don Miguel , or the devil himself , provided those worthy princes would guarantee the aforesaid jobbers and robbers their old power of public plunder . Of course the loudest in their denunciations of the new-system were the debt men . The lopping off of twenty per cent of their plunder was exclaimed against as " spoliation" and " robbery . " The "foreign" lendersprincipally British capitalists — and nearly every English paper from the Times downwards , denounced the poor Portuguese as rascals and _repudiators—in fact little better than Yankees !
We coafeBS we felt no sympathy for the " foreign public creditor . " In the first place , the _lenders of British money to Portuguese Governments never came by that money honestly ; in some shape or other they had fleeced the British people to o btain the money , which if they could spare or afford to lend , they ought to have invested in schemes to better the condition ofthe millions at home from whom they had wrung it . Their object was , however , to impose themselves upon the Portuguese people as receivers
of Portuguese money to " the > nd of time . " We , therefore , were glad to see the biters bitten . The people of Portugal had nothing to do with contracting the " foreigndebt . " and rather than they should be cursed as we are—the fruits of their industry plundered from them to gorge tbe ravenous maw of the " public creditor "—wo would gladly hail their determination to pay neither interest nor principal . " Public faith" is a very good thing , no doubt ; hut" public justice" —justice to tiiepeopleshould claim precedence .
Now comes the counter revolution . The new Ministry , though they could plan " reductions" for the future , wanted money for the present ; the exchequer was empty and not a single conto could be had . The Bank of Lisbon were in full conspiracy with tho court against tho new Ministry , and even the sum of £ 3 , 000 wa 3 refused the government , who would bave been content with even that small sum to meet present demands , waiting the incoming ofthe public revenue . Added to this , the new government had played a weak and cowardly part in permitting
the Court to fill the provincial offices with tbe creatures of the Cabral dynasty . The army too was discontented , the soldiers being without their pay . Tho fruit was ripe , and "hermostfaithfulMajesty"showed herselfnot wanting in nerveto pluck it . -Theniidnight summons to the palace , the imprisonment of Paljiella and Bomfin , the silent occupation by the troops of the streets of Lisbon before the dawn of morning , with the rest ofthe acts of the royal and money-juggling conspirators , our readers will find fully detailed in our seventh page .
Portugal is now cursed with the rule of an absolutism , a thousand-fold more hateful than the despotism of Don Miguel . That absolutism is the absolutism of the moneymongers with Donna Maria for their head , and Louis Philippe for . their ally . How long will this last ? What wi ! l the Portuguese do ? We know what they should do . They should bundle Queen , bankers , aristocrats , and military conspirators into the Tagus . Before banking was , and before such an animal as a banker was known , the Portuguese were a great and powerful people . "What need then of bankers
now 1 In the days when , as sea-warriors , they rivalled the English and Dutch , they were great , not by the help of tbeir kings , but in spite of them , for their kings , like those of other countries , haTe been nearly all imbeciles or scoundrels ; what need then of king or queen now ? The once living aristocracy with tbe priests ruined Por tuagal , why then , allow the galvanised corpse of aristocracy to play its pranks now ? Portugal has but few colonies , and at home has no need of a standing army , why then support a useless and mischievous body of military conspirators and executioners ?
" The sun . -wonld shine the same . The rains of Heaven as seasonably fall , Though none of these accursed pests existed . " Portugal needs neither Queen , bankers , aristocrats , nor soldiers ; she needs" but the labour of ber useful children—the workers of her soil . When will the Portuguese , when will the people of all lands , come to their senses ?
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LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . Loxdos , Satcrdat , October 24 . Louis Philippe has been shooting a number of unfortunate Carlist officers who were attempting to enter Spain . The accounts ftom Madrid are of the 17 th instant , and bring us nothing but accounts of court balls , hull fights , and festivities of all kinds , given in honour of the two royal marriages . It appears , however , that , amidst all the apparent gaiety of the scene and its real _ splendour , the principal performers are not without- _anxiety and uneasiness owing to the undisguised hatred of
the Spaniards towards their French guests . The Journal de V Am of the ICtb instant announces that French troops had been ordered to march towards the Swiss frontier . A battery of artillery , detached from Lyons , was to be stationed , partly at Nantua , and partly at Ferney . The rumour that Basle city had been attacked , is not confirmed . There have been some disturbances at Berne , which originated in the dearness of provisions . The disturbances are said to be aided by the under-hand conspiracies ofthe aristocrats lately expelled from power .
The accession of Friburg to the liberal cause will , it is feared , not be obtained without a struggle ; a great popular meeting was lately convened atMorat , the centre of liberalism , for the purpose of adopting such measures as the crisis demands . The government of Friburg , in the liveliest state of anxiety , has filled the capital with troops , but although they selected the militia generally from those districts which were devoted to them , their fidelity was nevertheless doubted . On entering Friburg , some detachments , to the great despair of the ruling party , chaunted the Marseillaise .
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_——^ LATEST NEWS FROM IRELAND . Loxno . v , Satueday , October 24 . On Monday last in the _neighbourhood of Dungarvan , sixteen persons were added to the very great number already in custody for intimidating the farmers and others to pay back the con acre rent received by them this year . A poor , miserable , half-Starred wretch named Gleeson , who bad been for some years employed as bailiff and collector of tolls in Nenagh , the father of a large and most impoverished family , proceeded to the lands of Garnafadda , near Toomevara , to serve some persons with _latitats tor the May rent , at the suit ofa Mr . "White , who
resides , we hear , in the county Limerick . He was found by the police on the roadside , cruelly mangled . The contents of a blunderbuss had been lodged in the right shoulder ; four balls penetrated the side and through tbe liver , whilst bis bead had been beaten with stones till the brains exuded . Life was not extinct . On Monday morning a number of labourers went to Milebush , to the demesne of Richard Barrett , Esq ., J . P ., and drove into Mallow forty-seven fine sheep . Tbe armed police and a party of the 55 th regiment were ordered out , and for some time a fearful collision was apprehended . Ultimately , on the magistrate ' s assurance that _evei-y means should be used to get the people employment , the sheep were given up .
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_nouBE . —Mr . Mills , on Friday , concluded an inquest , adjourned from Tuesday last , at the Gloucester Arms , opposite the Kensington Workhouse , on the body of Henry Shephard , aged fifteen weeks , the child of an inmate ofthe workhouse . The inquiry arose in consequence of tbe allegation that the child had died from having administered to it , by the nurse , a powder intended for its mother . After hearing some additional evidence the jury returned tho following verdict : — " That deceased died in convulsions , Occasioned by administration ( by mistake ) of a narcotic poison ; and recommended that the parochial authorities be requested to appoint competent persons to receive and administer the medicines sent to tbe workhouse by the parish surgeon , and thai he be requested to write the directions in a more legible manner . "
Abolition of _Cahtal Punishment . — A public meeting , numerously and respectably attended , . was held at the lar » e room of the Royal British Institution , Cowper Street , Finsbury , las £ ( Friday ) evening , on the subject of the Abolition of Capital Punishment . Charles Gilpin , Esq ., took the chair . The meeting was very effectively addressed by Mr . Alderman Sidney , and Messrs . Miall and Rowton . Resolutions in favour of the object of the meeting were carried , with only three dissentients .
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THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! PUBLIC MEETING 1 _N-BERMONDSEY TO ADOFT THE NATIONAL _PETITIOxV : A Public Meeting in support ofthe Central Registration and Election Committee , and also to adopt the National Petition , was held in the large room of the Ship Tavern , Long Lane , Bermondsey , on Alonday , October 19 th ; Mr . Jame 3 Knight was unanimously called to the chair , who in a few brief emphatic and appropriatesentences introduced Mr . Samuel Kydd , to move the first resolution ,- as follows : — — — _ :
"That this meeting is of opinion that the present system of registration is exceedingly unjust to the working classes , inasmuch as it entails on them great trouble and loss of time , as well is exposing them to the contradictory opinions of barristers , whose dictum so far as they aro concerned is final , whilst Parochial officers , and the more wealthy classes , having funds at their command , employ legal talents , thus escaping personally such putty annoyance , and if needs be " gets n case and thus obtains a decision in the superior couits , this meeting , therefore , emphatically calls upon the working classes to combine , end by their co-operation enjoy those advantages , now mouopolised by the middle and upper classes . "
Mr . Kydd said , the resolution put into his hands complained that the present system of registration was unjust—true , it was . There was no Ilouse so lax in its morality or more profuse in words ; than the present so-called reformed Ilouse of Commons , ( hear , hear , ) and the consequence is , that Acts of Parliament are so mystified that no one can understand them . The Reform Act based tbe Borough franchise on a rental of £ 10 a year , but the taxing clauses , and the want of clear description as to what constitutes " House or other Building , " so mystified it , that an appeal to the Barrister became necessary ; and what was law and equity with one Barrister was anything but law and equity with another , ( hear , hear , ) consequently amendment after amendment
was proposed , until it reminded him of the childish story of " The House that Jack Built , " so imbecile were the laws that were formed . He could not help thinking there was a purpose in all this , for if laws were plain and simple , as they ought to be , no Barristers would be required —( hear , hear . ) Those lawyers forcibly reminded him of two dogs quarrelling over a bone , they did not appear to care which won , as grist came equally to their mill —( hear , hear . ) lie repeated , the laws of a country should be written so plain that everybody could understand ihcin . He would have them like the notices to vagrants , stuck up at the entrance of provincial towns , and these were so comprehensible that you never or rarelyfound mentiicancv carried on within the reach of a
beadle , _constable , or policeman . ( Loucr cheers . ) The resolution spoke of the system being an injustice , it was unjust ; for time was laoney to the working man . It was also a rude annoyance to ask you , do you pay a rental of £ 10 per annum ? have you paid your taxes ? It was literally a turnine out of your cupboards , and shewing to the world that you have neither jam nor jelly , that you are in point of fact a jmcre brown bread sort of man . ( Laughter and great applause . ) The present state of things was well adapted for keeping colonial offices , church livings , aad all other slap up pickings , for the younger branches of aristocratic families . ( Loud cheers . ) Labour deserved protection , seeing that it is the most valuable of all property ,
producing , as it does , and rendering useful erery other description of property , ( Great applause . ) The Reform Act was , from beginning to end a mere farce , but he remembered the time , when if you had ventured to doubt the Patriotism of its authors , Lords Grey and Russell , you would have stood an excellent chance of being ducked in a horse pond , or being tarred and feathered , ( hear , hear . ) but the delusion was now manifest , the errors of the Reform Ace was acknowledged on all hands . ( _Cheers . ) The principle on which the Reform Act was based , was the vicious one of money ; thus a wealthy shopkeeper might at night go to bed comparatively wealthy , and consequently an Elector , but during the night a barrel of turpentine or oil takes lire , his
shop orwarehou-e is burnt down , his property is destroyed , and with it bis intelligence , for the morning finds him poor , and consequently too ignorant to give a vote . ( Great cheering . ) The resolution called on them to combine , co-operate , and ' centralise" their power , but in the letters of Richard Oastler in the Northern Star of Saturday last , he perceived that the principle of * Centralisation" was condemned , now he told Richard Oastler , and them , that it was not " Centralisation" that was bad , but its misdirection , ( llear , hear . ) He would illustrate his arguments ; under the New Poor-law , wealth and power had " centralised" for the oppression ofthe poor , this was undoubtedly bad —( hear , hear )— -but on the other hand , the Operative Coal Miners ofthe
North , had combined and " centralised" their power , and had thereby been enabled to employ their attorney , Mr . V . P . Roberts , who by bis legal acumen , ability , and perseverance , had thrown down oppression , trampled on injustice , and upheld the just _Tigbta of Labour ; this was undoubtedly good . ( Immense applause , ) Again , the Charaists had " centralised" their power in the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , they had subscribed their pence , which grew to pounds , until in its aggregation it now amounted to the noble sum of £ 1 G , 000—ihe result of which was the pretty state " _O'Connorville , " anil the once degraded , despied Chartists , were now admitted to be a portion of the landed proprietory of this great empire . ( Vehement cheering . ) Believing that the adoption of the measure asked for in the resolution , would tend to the comfort , convenience , and happiness of themselves , their wive 3 and families ,
he had much pleasure in moving its adaption . — ( Great applause . ) Mr . John _GATHAnn in seconding the motion related the trite anecdote of the musician and the organ blower . The musicians said . "Did we not perform that piece of music well ? " "Yes , responded the organ blower , we did . You said the musician , what had you to do with it . On the next occasion when a fine magnificent piece of music was to be performed all at once the organ ceased , in a most difficult portion of the music , the musician shouted out most lustily , " blow up ! " The organ blower coolly put out his head and very quaintly said , " then shall it be we V ( Loud cheers . ) Now , be thought they had been organ blowers to the aristocracy long enough , and that the time had arrived when we should let them know that the industrious portion of the people are somebody . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was carried unanimously .
Mr . Edmuxd Stallwood then rose to move the second resolution as follows : — Resolved , Tbat whereas the system of representation as established under the Parliamentary Act of 1832 , commonly called the _lleforin Act , excludes from the rights of citizenship six . _sevcutlis ofthe male adult population and whereas such exclusion is not less injurious to the best interests of the community than unjust in principle , this meeting considers that right and sound policy combine to demand a veritable radical reform of the representative system at present existing , therefore this meeting resolve to petition Parliament for the enactment ofthe People ' s Charter a measure which _embodying Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , No Property Qualification , Equal Representation and Payment of Members , will restore to the people the active exercise of their inalienable rights and thereby afford them tha means of correcting all grievances and enacting all necessary measures of Reform .
Mr . Stallwood said the resolution embraced the principles contained in the People ' s Charter , and as those principles had been explained so frequently in tbat portion ofthe metropolis , ho apprehended they were tolerably well acquainted with them ; but it was nevertheless but right to suppose that there was something like one-fourth of a meeting like that , that might not understand or even have heard of them " except from tbe tongue of slander —( hear , hear)—and as the Anti-Corn Law League had carried their measure by the iteration and reiteration of their principles , he would venture to enter into an exposition of those great principles . Mr . Stallwood then lucidly explained the principles of the People ' s Charter , evidently to the satisfaction and delight of the meeting , as evinced by the attention paid and the applause elicited .
Mr . Ernest Jones then addressed the meeting at considerable length , setting forth the necessary tendency of class-government , as leading to the gradual declension of the working and shop-keeping classes , and establishing a numerous body of rich paupers , living on the industrious , while it fills the workhouses with daily increasing numbers of their victims . Mr . E . Jones then expatiated on the form of government best calculated to ensure a just system of legislation , and proved that the Charter was the document best calculated to produce such a result . } jMr . E . Jones then set forth the advantages which would follow the adoption of that measure as the law of the land , and demonstrated by the clearest argument that it would heal all those wounds under which our body politic was now suffering . The most marked applause was bestowed on the speaker during bis address , which he concluded amid the reiterated cheers of the meeting . The resolution was put and carried unanimously .
Mr . William Hewitt read and moved the adoption of the National Petition . Mr . _SrKATiox , in a few words shewing the advantages of united efforts , seconded its adoption , and it was carried unanimously . A committee was then formed . A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman , and the meeting separated .
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ter , the president of the Manchester Reform Association , declined to act as a member of the deputation appointed to wait on Mr . Bright . Mr . Potter has since tendered his resignation of the office of president , on the ground that he cannot cordially concur in the nomination of Mr , Bright as the future cardidate for tho borough .
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MR . _j ? OYLE'S MISSION . _LANARK * On Tuesday the 13 th , a i / _wiereus and _highly respectable meeting was held inth ° _-Town Ilall _. Lanark , to hear Mr . Christopher Doyle e . _?» ou » d the principles _* of the Lund Soeiety . Mr . James Scott filied the chair , ai ? d opened the business in a brief but impressive speech ' , and then called upon Mr . Doyle to address the _meeting . Tlie lecturer ' s speech occupied an hour and a half in the delivery , and was listened to with earnest attention ; at the conclusion he received the hearty applause of his hearers . We believe Mr . Doyle ' s address will be productive of much good in the town of Lanark . There was giVCn three cheers for Mr . O'Connor , and three for Frost , Williams , and Jones .
HAMILTON . # Mr . Doyle delivered a lecture on Monday the 12 th mst . te a most respectable audience on " The Rise and Iropesg ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land Society . The lecturer elucidated the principles of the above society , in a masterly and eloquent manner , shewing it to be the onlv plan under existing circumstances for bettering the condition of the _industnousclasses . The lecture occupied nearly two hours , at the close of which several questions ' were put and answered in the most satisfactory manner .
EDINBURGH . Mr- Doyle addressed a Inr _^ o and enthusiastic meeting ot the Edinburgh Chartists on Monday evening last , with the best results ; a great many of the democracy , old and new , having joined the Chartist Association . We have had the promise ofa lull report of this meeting , but up _tj the time of going to press , the report has not come to hand . '
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MESSRS . M'GRATH AND CLARK'S TOUR . CnATHAM . Tub Land ! The _Laivd !!—On Thursday even in < r , a public meeting of the inhabitants of the throe towns of Chatham , Rochester , and Stroud , was held in the large rooni ofthe Five Bells Inn . Rochester _, to consider the objects and means of tlie Chartist Co-operative Land Society . At the hour for _commcnciiis business , Mr ; Paine , a working man . ras unanimously called to preside , and after makinir a few prefatory observations , introduced Mr . P .
M'Grath who explained the nature ofthe land plan in a clear , lucid , and eloquent manner , and much to the satisfaction of the numerous meeting . —Mr . T . Clark followed , and proved beyond the possibility of a doubt that the Chartist Co-operative Land Society was quite equal to the _aecomnlishnicnt ofthe object , which it contemplated—lie quoted some of the most eminent agricultural authorities , showing that the amoun' of land , which the society proposed _toftive was amply sufficient for themaintenance ofa moderate family . Both speakers appeared to give the _highest satisfaction .
SECOND MEETING-. ADOPTION OP THE NATIONAL _PETITION . On Friday _evening , at eight o ' clock , a second meeting was held in the -same room as the previous night , and was more numerously attended . Mr . Paine again occupied the chair . A resolution condemnatory of class legislation , was agreed to , having been ably and eloquently supported by Mr . M'Grath , who was rapturously applauded during h _» lenethy address . The National Petition was proposed by Mr . Willis , master tailor , seconded by Mr . Williamson , and supported by Mr . T . Clark , who propounded the theory of Chartism in a manner which convinced all present of the benefits which would result from its embodiment in the form of _law . The petition was unanimously adopted . Alter which , three cheers were given for the Charter ; three for Mr . O'Connor and the Northern Star r and threo for \ j _uuuiiui iiuu niu _uuruwrit ujur aim _unciIUI
, ; Messw . M'Grath and Clark . SWINDON . _GLOiuoua Mketisg _, —On Monday evening last , the " Odd Fellows' Hall , " was crowded to hear Messrs . M'Grath and Clark deliver addresses on the benefits to be derived from _joining the Chartist Cooperative Land Society . Mr . Clark first addressed the meeting and was listened to with breathless attention , all seeming anxious to learn the particulars of this labour redeeming Institution . Mr . M'Grath supported his colleague in one of his usual and effective speeches . At the close of the proceedings several questions were put and satisfactorily answered . Mr . D . Morrison proposed a vote of thanks to both . _*> p ° akeis and in so doing challenged any man to come forward and discuss the question with him . The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation and the meeting _ssparated . BATH .
On Tuesday evening last , the largo room of the "• Porter Butt Inn , " was crowded to suffocation to hear the Land plan of the Chartists explained by Messrs . Clark and M'Grath , two of the directors . who had come from London for that purpose . Both gentlemen delivered lenghty addresses which were loudly applauded . A second meeting is to be beld to-night ( Wednesday ) for the adoption of the National Petition .
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GREAT MEETING AT NOTTINGHAM FOR TIIE ADOPTION OF TIIE NATIONAL PETITION . On Monday _evening a meeting was held in the Town Ilall of this town for the purpose of adopting the National Petition . The Hall was crowded to excess-On the motion of Mr . Sweet , Mr . Charles Roberts was called to the chair . lie opened the meeting by reading the handbill convening ir , and requested a fair and impartial hearing for all who might address them . Mr . J . Barber proposed the first resolution : — That this meeting is convinced that the elective fran . ehise is the natural right of man ; and therefore considers thu exclusion of six-sevenths of the male ndclt population from the rights of citizonship to be grievously unjust ; and determines that every _le- _^ al _agency shall bo
immediately put into operation to effect such an organic chun _^ e in the constitution of the Commons House of Parliament as shall guarantee to every adult male inhabitant of this empire , of sane mind , a voice in the _election of that body . He said , —It had been affirmed that when the Whigs were in office the Chartists cemmencod an agitation , and when they were out , tlie Chartists were still . This was not true . He thought there had been as much agitation during the administration "f the Tories as during the administration of the Whigs ; but suppose it was even so ; what did it all amount to ? , Why to this—that the Whigs were the professed friends of the people—the professed friends of an extension of the suffrage , while the Tories were
the avowed enemies of all reform ; ana , therefore , the people were justified in _ceminencing agitation during the administration of the Whigs , in orter to show to the country , that the Whigs are not really the friends of the people . He was , in opinion , opposed to petitioning . He would not petition if there were any other means by which ; the people could make themselves heard in the Ilouse of Commons ; but as there was not , he was willing to give up his opinion for the general good . lb believed , that if tlie whole of the working classes were to sign petitions to Parliament , the Government would take no notice of them . Why ? because they were not powerful , they were not wealthy , they were not capitalists ; and . therefore , their petitions wero treated with
contempt . Wealth , _now-a-days , is power . 'I here had been an illustration of that during the last session . The Anti-Corn Law Leage forced the Government into a compliance with their wishes because they were wealthy . He contended that the working classes , if they were well informed—if they were united—would produce wealth for themselves instead of for those who used it to _oppress them , and then fchfiy could force their claims upon any Government . This was a land of Bibles and parsons . There were whole armies of parsons going forth to teach man his duty to his fellow , yet the greatest amount of misery and destitution existed . If the parsons were sincere , why did they not set about in real earnest to bring about a better state of thinjrs ? why did they not set about remedying the social condition of the people ? They preached against worldly riches ; but they take the "dangerous stuff themselves , and
leave the heaven tor you . " If the people had political power , they would not have bishops with their tens of thousands a-year composing prayers for the people to offer up to Almighty God ; to avert a famine they themselves had created . It was said that property would be insecure if the people had the franchise . This was all nonsense . In democratic states property was as secure as in England . lie thought that if the people had political power all elasses would be banished . Mr . Gregory _veconded the resolution . Ho said , that truth was mighty—it was all powerful : truth was making rapid strides , aud he was confident would ultimately prevail . The people were becoming more sober , more thinking t a better spirit existed among tiicm . He wished they would forsake the publichouse _, lie did not like kings , but lie should like to see Feargus O'Connor king for one month , in order that he might level the " gin palaces . " Mr . Sweet proposed tbe second resolution
'•That it is the opinion of this meeting , that the Bill entitled the People ' s Charter is an embodiment of tlieptin . ciplos of equal representation , with details for se » uving their beneficial operation ; this meeting thercforo agrees to the presentation of a National Petition , praying _Parliament to render the document aforesaid a statute oi this realm . lie said , —We have met en an important occasion . Petitioning is the only means by which wo oan make our cause known . All understood tho Pcoplo ' s Charter ; but if there should be some who did not , | he trusted they would before they left tho meeting .
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the Whigs formerly advocated the same principles which " we now advocate ; we had carried them to power when they were driven out during tlie _ablation of the Reform Bill . They had promised if we would support them , if we would strengthen them while they had got their pet measure—till they got the wedge in—that they would , when they hail got the wedge fairly in , take care it should he driven fairly Up ; but when they got in what did they do ? Why , they gave the people bullets and cold steel , and to Ireland a Coercion Bill . It was tho duty of erery honest man to oppose the Whigs ; for his own part , he would o ;> pose them to the death . We ought n . ofc , to -, _S-v ; c l > l' the advocacy of our opinions ti lit should lead to the _dunueon and the scaffold . The
right of _cit-zenship ought not to be withheld fnwa any man . It we arc deprived of the right of citizen ship , we have no right to be called upon to _perfuwu citizen s duties . He would now rc-ul to them the opinions of the judges of the law in reference to thu People s Charter . Mr . Sweet here read the opinions ol Baron _Rolfe , Judge Alderson , and others , com * _meutisg on them as iie proceeded ; and lastly the opinions ot 0 _Connell , who said , that one who v . a * not a _Cbartist was either a knave or a fool . He believed that twelve months was long enough to keep a bad servant . As io Payment of AJembers—whv _, lianyone , when we had got the Charter , could tio without his salary ,. he could give it to the poor of the parish , if there should be any poor at that time . lie would advise the people to rally rosnd the members
_iorl'insbury . Let them support them . Lot them send at the next general election twel ? e staunch men to support their own Duncombe , and then iie im- _* - jined we should be able to do something in the House of Commons ; then we should be able to- drive in the wedge ourselves . Our Duncombe , with his gallant band , would be able to scop ail business , if the Government did not attend So the desires of the people _, lhcy would be able to move amendment after amendment ; each speaker might occupv six or | even hours , and if tho other member . * - " _tEd not like it they might go to bed . lie advised Unpeople to keep out of the alehouses , and buy land with the money—to join the . National Ch _.-itrist Co-operative Land Soeiety , and then we should _svon be in a position to bid _dt-iiance to our enemies .
Mr . lopham briefly seconded tlie resolution , which was carried unanimously . _ Mr . _Souter then came forward to m ve tho adoption of the petition . He had made a solemn vow never to petition again ; but circumstances compelled Mm to petition onco more . The _Eavor _. s ol * lUn . y . _nu'de . petitionod with their swords in their hands ; he did not wish to advise the people , to do likewise . He believed that the people could gain their object without any such means . The _bishons and parsons told them to put their trust in God , while thev robbed . The press could do much for thorn , if i ' t wsre honest ; if the press would advocate the cause of the people , we should not be long witiaut the Charter .
Mr . Woodward then asked , whether the petition emanated trom a National Convention , or from onlv a fraction of the people ' s representatives . M _,-. _Woodwai-d _. also made s ; -me observations relative to sonic remarks made by Mr . Barber about the _Stoekmgers Ticket Bill of last session . Air . Barber , in endeavouring to show the hurrying sort of _legislation tor the working classes , made remarks about the bill und its inefficiency . Air . Barber , in reply , said , that if the petition did not emanate from a Convention of the whole people , it was their own faults , as they ' might nave sent
delegates if they would . The petition was no less a national one on that account . It was _betoi-e the whole people , and therefore was , in tiie truest sense , a national petition : the whole _people had tho power _, if they had the will , to sign it . With respect to the Ticket Bill—if the Government had received proper information , it only showed the more their incapacity to gov _.-rn . The Ticket Bill was like all other la , ws , it required hundreds of lawyers to explain it . If the people had the power to make laws , he had no doubt they would be plain and easv , and would not require any vampires , such as lawyers are , to explain them .
There was the greatest good _feeling towards Mr . Woodward . A vote of thanks was then given to the mayor fov the use of the hall , and one to the Chairman ; " three cheers were given for Frost , Williams , ami Jones ; three for F . O'Connor and the Northern Star ; and three for Duncombe . The greatest enthusiasm prevailed during the proceedings . We never had a meeting better attended in this place , though only addressed bv our own townsmen .
The Gueat Britain. — All The Attempts Which
The _Gueat Britain . — All the attempts which
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have been made to float tbe Great Britain having failed , the general conclusion seems to be that tlie total loss of this splendid vessel is now inevitable . Lieut . Gabriel of the Royal Navy , is , however , differently impressed . He thinks she may be released from her present position . Having taken an active part in the rescue of her Majesty ' s steamer Gorgon , the opinion of this officer is entitled to _rejpect . ' There can be no doubt , " he says , in a letter to the Northern Whig , * ' in the minds of any _scientific men , but that she may be saved , and that without
trusting to the treacherous spring tides . Every person who has visited her has expressed his doubts as to her ultimate fate ; and the general opinion appearing t _* prevail is , that she may be give imp as a total loss . From the fust moment I was made acquainted with the exact position of the Great Britain , 1 stated that she could be got off ; since which , my opinion has not been altered one iota ; and the more I see , thu more I am convinced , that ii it is the general wish of the parties concerned in her fate , she may be a _^ ain afloat . My plan of proceeding with respect to thia ship is founded on purely scientific principles . "
_Stokm in FnAsc !' .. —The Marseilles mail ofthe ICth arrived in Paris one day later than usual . There was a violent storm on the evenings of the 17 th and ISth , and the rising of the Loire carried away the suspension bridges of Saint-Just , d'Andrezieux , " and Montrond . Several houses were washed down , and it is said that many peisons perished at Amlrczieux . The communication was interrupted at Belbigny ( on the road from Paris to Marseille *) and the plain of Forcz inundated . Suicide . —On Tuesday , a middle-aged man , name unknown , ran down Robert Street , and deliberately plunged himself into-the water in the lock at the north end ofthe Prince ' s Dock , Liverpool , He was taken out almost immediately and conveyed to the receiving-house , where he died in the course of half an hour .
BuKGhART . — Between eleven o ' clock on Tuesday _nisjlit and seven o ' clock on Wednesday morning , a daring burclary was committed in jBird-court , Walbrook _" . The robbery was effected by opening the door of the room on the second floor , in the occupation of Mr . N ' eedle , the landlord of the house , which is let out in . offices , and the thiGves succeeded in carrying off a brass bound mahogany writing desk , upon which was a brass plate , engraved with Mr . Needle's initials , " W . N . " , and which contained notes and gold to the amount sf £ 300 , as also valuable memoranda . It is supposed that the robbery has been effected by some persons well acquainted with the premises . Unfortunately , the uumbers of the notes have not been at present ascertained . Oldham . —On Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) Mr . Daniel Donovan will lecture in the school-room of the Working Man's Hall , at six o ' clock in the evening .
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TnE nKPKAL association . The weekly meeting at Conciliation (!) Ilall was very thinly attended , the chair was taken by J . M . M'Donnell , Esq ., M . P . for Mayo . Mr . John O'Connkll submitted the usual letter from his father to the meeting . It requested " My dear Ray" to add to the subscriptions of the week ££ for himself and his threo sons ; urging the necessity for the national committee in Dublin , which he regretted had not been taken up by the landlords ; and gave the usual cut at the Young Ireland party . The Hon . Mr . Lawless then defended himself , in reply to certain charges levelled against him by Mr . O'Neill at a former meeting . After which Mr . O'Neill made a spteeb , declaring his perfect satisfaction with the explanation of Mr . Lawless . The two worthies then went through tbe farce _© f shaking hands . The rent was announced to be £ 07 .
POPULAR DISCONTENT . Ddbli . v , Obi . IS . —The proceedings of a baronial sessions held this week in 4 he country of Wexford furnish another instance of the difficulties which beset even tbe best intentioned proprietors , and Wexford can boast of a more than avarago share of such , in-their endeavours to ameliorate the condition ofthe peasantry . At the sessions in question a sum of £ 30 , 000 was passed , half of which for works , calculated to afford immediate _employment , and tho remainder for drainngo . Liberal wages wero promised , and all went off _satisfactorialy until the day ' s _business had concluded , and magistrates amlother gentlemen assembled had gono away , when , savs the report in the local paper , —
A number of poor men who remained became loud in complaining of their privations , and desiring to know from the public officers what had been done for their _re-HeJ . One man spolec at some length , mingl ' nif * menaces with expressions of disappointment . Thoy were not , lm said , in a condition to wait any longer for employment . They had no food for themselves or for their families . They wero honest men , and were willing to enrn the price of food , if tlicy could get It far envning-. But , if tliey _COUld not get it lor earning , lhcy must take It where they could find it . The gentlemon were now gone , without havingdonc anything to afford them support for this day or the next . But they could follow them , and tell them that they must have support in one way or anotherthat , unless they got it for their labour , ttcy _musthavo it at all events , Mr , Dovne hm bow gone ,
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AVoiceSbehind . —He slipped away before the da k ame ; and se did Bolton . to _^ L he > _I- iC _° - W , t mUStg 010 tLfim - and brin 8 them where it , rf ; There is no use in looking for it where it is _bc-uer hfr' Sp ' * fW col , u > " »««—Ho said , they might _ulBofSJS " _, "f _^ _'f tt'o MM , , than doomed to an or > tau vat . on m moir mm country . _£ vcn where thev proTido food fur tl ,, „ _dcpenAng on then ,. He w „ , , lhn . sd « working Jer _od . _a . d . _y . _b _,-,, uou ] d „ _„ _, „ * " _* IIeBotab , ttooat , tobe . uro Iffl , Wh _« cub ! * , „„ , _£ who had a wile and children to _provide lor do Wl : th 3 d _a-day , particularly as price * wero 1 ) f > 1 y j
[ Captain Oyer . —V ou say , my fiium _} _i ! lRt vou ] lilV ( , . ; 5 tl . a-day . Kow , 1 am happy to tell _yoti Ui . it , aft .. r _,-, for , jdstys liion ; , we will _iis able to -jive Is . tr % a-diy to _urery man who is _oble to do a good daj _' s _> vorl .-, - Tiie governi _* eut arc _doing nil in their jHwer to provide fOV you ; and if you have _pitiknce only a few days , yc _4 ' _vVJir have _plenty or _employment , and at good wages toe ' , Tlie man said i't was hard for them to hare _piitience whiiesiiey were _tiieroseivesstarring , nnd saw _ftsfr wives and c ! :
Alt * . _fAiuiKLri , —The _1 _, 'entfonieii art- dmnjr all in _tiieir power . We _ai-a doing ns _nnw ) i as we ar « able , and n : oi _» than you are aware of . Th ' : t 4 _jfi'iitle . _-min ( Cnptv . in Dyer ) neither went to bed nor _closviS hU _eyi-s the night before hst , and I slept hut two hoe- ' * this morning . Wears doing everything Unit men can- do for jou ; nnd , if you- can only have patience for one _wst-lt or tea days , you will get both u-nrk and wnge _.-i lo _suj-wrt _yoe . A _Voiois . —If we wait forttu days there will not be a grain of corn left in the country ; :: _«!! wiil be sent to Wexford or < _3 asileb ; ii ! ge , The man wjo _luul ppokoil fil * -S _exelaimeu that they wonl ' _-i not allow the corn to be taken out uf the country . Theil— 1 a grain _vc-al . l they- let go ; ami tl < -. y v »» _n | . | go now to-look for food where ' it w-u ? to be had . If tbey gut wo ::- ; they were willing to _carii- ; _- . but they must have food whether they got work ' or ! if _; t ' . They all then left the room
It must not 02 supposed th . tt-tJin . se incitements to discontent are only to be tVninl its the letters or speeches of the priests of Mayo _anti Cork . In precisely a similar spirit is _conceivo- _- * nn article which appears in the _Cvsthi / vr Telegraph ' ; Lord John itu . _isell , your advent of power is indeed an unhappy one fur poor Ireland ; far different was the treatment of your clcar-sightid predecessor , . * _-ir Hubert _Pet-. l . 11- _stvaeht not tbe aid of a j > : »;* : j- in the lime of Ireland ' - ! stai - ratinn in the year just past ; be saw at oueo that , _iistlis - first adviser of his _Sovert-i-Hi , he must meet the crisis- like a man , and , though upon -everal occasions we took e * _m'ptitiii 5 to ! _- ; is _prot-i cdings , _. _siiil we must do him justice by sajing lie si-nt us fauri , and lie kept tlie _DraiiontiS- ' to- himself ! Lord John Iti : ? sell . vou have
acted u far ditiertnt part—iuHucneed hy such _nn-ii as Lord I . _ui-au , a bigotied Tory , _togintil ' y them , you send us the dragoons ; but y _. iu keep the food front the starving people . What are the Iri . » h to think of that government who preach plenty to tlie pour while they close their stores upon starThig millions _? What are we to think of those who have Mtthi' country dependent- ' _apon speculators for food , while they permit food to be carried oit _t- > France and Holland , and by _thissuiridul act raise the markets ia tl-. e very depots from which our merchants were to draw their supplies ? Pshaw ! the Whigs wero ever the enemies of Ireland—And ever will be , no matter what their profession may he . Of two evils we would choose the least , and by all means give us ? : v Itobert Peel , a statesman of courage and action — a statesman who knows how to take the nation out of its present diffi .
culties —a statesman who will not keep the . Pod of tho people under lock and key while the poor are left to die by the ditches along the highways , or else have recourse to plundering their neighbours , by killing theircottle to use them for fond . Such _tinkering as fliis was not known in Sir Robert Peel ' s days—it _wiu reserved for Lord John and his co-partners . We regret being obliged o make these remarks ; they _ure forced upon us- by beholding the poor actually staggering in our _strests for want of fooil , and crvin-j for work , which tbey are not g etting ; _whila we behold . Sapper . * and Miners ( Hurried rom England at the dead hour of night , so _pressing was he emergency considered ) walking up and down our streets , as if they had no other business but to divert the hunger of starving . Paddy by gasing on them as they pass by ! _Ajiu ' m , we arts favoured with tho presence of'those
fine men , the Enniskillen _Dragoons , who have been sunt here by the Whig government to assist tin . . armersto eat up their grain crop . They are brave-looking men ,- and we fancy the heroes of Waterloo , if any of them still grace the troops in . Mayo , we find it not . altogethcr the part of a noble bearing on the duty of men _who-shrd lustre on England ' s banners on the _IStl ol'Jiine , to stain their blades with the blood of a starving populace . Again , wo behold troops passing through our streets , and billetted upon tho inhabitants , on their route to other localities in Mayo- ; this warlike preparation while the agents on estntrs are holding offices in the town far tho _colUctlns of rents' And all tills , as -wo beforelv 3 v stated , while the people are kept idle ! While the people are left to die ! Oh , fatal humbug—oh , tinstatesmanlike delusion !
The Limerich Examiner sings to the same tnne , though in notes somewhat le .-s harsh than its western contemporary : — However unpalatable _i-tmsiy be , we arc bound to repeat our loudest condemnation of the manner in which the _emergency ofthe moment has been met . The first extMordinary _baroni-jl _susmoiis under the 10 th of Victoria _, fov the county of Clare held at liroadford on- the 14 th of September , now onu month ago ! At those _sessions it was considered necessary _t- » pass a number of presentment * , nmounting to £ 46 , 000 . Up _te-the beginning of' this week not a man hud been set to work in that district , and when a few were employed , they turned out ¦ - _¦¦ jain . 'tthe Sd . a-day , which they said , and said truly , was no more than half sufficient to buy food at the presenS rates . The same story mav be justly told ofthe
entire country , Whilst the ttdious and irksome forms which imperial legislation , and centralisation impose are being _complied with , the starving labourers of the different localities can with the greatest difficulty borestrained from committing acts of outrage , _vioh-nre , and plunder . The engineer must report . The _Boards of . Works must consider and deliberate . The results of the wise saws of Sir Randolph South and Co . must be transmitted to the Treasury . Tlie . su voluminous communications must be yawned ovor by some Irish-hating , Irisheursiug pampered official . This gcntltmau is hi no hurry , and returns the correspondence perhaps to amend some form , fill up some blanks , or make a verbal alteration . Is not this all literally true , whilst the
framework ot soeiety is rocked to its _cc-ntro by tumultuous assemblages of peasantry * And yet we are accused of making ungenerous , inflammatory , nnd _baseless attacks / because we are impelled by public duty to condemn the imbecility of those who have the control of public affairs I Yes , we repeat our expressions of indignation , at the clumsy , and inefficient _innnm-r , of transacting the public business with which the Wltigs at u eUavgeiible . We believe they are not tonal to the alarming emergency which has arisen , and wu consider that it would be a blessing to the nation if Sir Hubert _Peelwiro at tho _hslni to guide the "essel of stats through tl-. e ditTicultic * and dangers that surround us . In making this declaration we but mirror the opinions cf tha great majority of the population .
The following is from . another southern autho rity , the Cork Examiner : — Whilst we write we have before _us . _aceounts . _fir . _'irful indeed , and appalling to the stoutest hearts . Death is striking down the people , and careering over the land with lothal strides . How many _childrtrn . an » l _stiu-fcen women die away in the remoteness of inland districts , iu their mountain home , unknown , _uneamfortcd , and unpttied , save by soma _bereatcd parent or husband , it is . iinpossiblii to tell ; but when strong men . yield up their spirits in the face of the publie , an- ' . _bi-eoii _. i > st lVoi . _e . l ia death from tho most fearful of all visitations ,, it is . high time to cry out against the tardy and nun-kin ,-1 IVort . s of those in huh places , who plan , c ;* . philosophize , while hunger is doing its work . We give to-day the deaths from starvations , of one man in SUibt _^ _rei-u _, or t \* _-o i ; i Ijastlelinvcn , of one in Nncroom , of one in tins _i-mnity of Glare ,
and the letter of the Hev . Mr . M ; ; iule , detailing accnuut-s of numerous deaths from alike aause in Mayo . Where , in the name of God and hmnruity _, are the i > up _«* . -, ted pro . -rUions for the * people—tho _^ _Tages of labour-to _fce-1 the crying wretches in their dark . Snivels , ivlm lift their fear _, ful and _cadaverous facts to Weaven for that _tni-rcy _i- _' _enitcl them here by their rulers : n :. l natural _giiarjliniis and protectors ? Vrtare sick of _li-. _«« _-ningto ali : _T « e details of a michinery , that is to li _«* . _fosproeuring foiK _>—r-f _iiou-isiftrfi-rcncc with free trade ii _*» _proviMi-ns— i . vS tin * , slang of engineering martinets—oi rminff _ciminwi-ioners who do nothing—of ignorant _ar in- iliciunt boards who wiite voluminous _letters—ivltl the _I'lnickesy of governmental Of individual wisdon \ _,.-wh ; ei » , Stt down in j ; _.-o-l set terms , meet thu public eve sail tngagc the _public-ear every day ; tthilettll thu time i-jin aud Btarvatii > n _,- 're allowed , to run riot among _thopoyiilatiou , and _de-iih iu its mast hidious forms lays low it & victim .
Under the _Vj « ul of " State nf the country , " and tho _lirst in _oVtUn- of a . series o ! _- ' c-. Xir . nt 3 _detailir g the _pi-ogi-ess of distress in ilio _ji-nvirn-es , the 1 ' ilot gives the following _iusttiBse of the effects of the ( amine : FniLLimows _, Tuesday , Oct , 13 . —This day I was in . _fanned , on the authority _,- £ ' _seriiial cndible and respectable _persons , of a fact which strikingly manifests tha awful destruction to which tho food of in in , as well as of tho birds of the air . has beta subjected , in the
neighbourhood of Ualtyburuey , between this low" Mill _MtM . berry , there is a grave of _bu-ge trees , which , trom tima immemorial , has been tho resting plaeo ot an _tmmensa _numbarofcrowa ; hist night lbs people o t the locality were alarmed and _la-pt awake by the _contumous cries and sex-earning of these birds ; Uttil * dUJ-brcftlc this morning ( Tuesday ) many people repaired to the pl & ee to asserta . il . the cause of the disturbance , when to their astonishment and alarm , thoy beheld large numbers of _Jtauorom lying upon tha ground , winch , on being examined , appeared to have _baen _reduced to skeletons by hunger , and to have _bet _^ actually starred , to _dwth , __
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 24, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24101846/page/5/
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