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      H The Land Company.

      H THE LAND COMPANY .

      W The Following Letter, Relative To The ...

      W The following letter , relative to the transfer Pof Land by allottees , has been forwarded to \ me . Tbis is the letter ; and at foot will be _; _Afound my answer . _S- _' From Tanner , occupant at Lowbands , to _£ - - Mr . Morgan , of Deptford : — ' _, ' "Jan . 21 st , 1319 . " ~ - "DEUr _Mobgas . —I received your letter tliis morning , _C ? ? and you wish me to send jou the particulars respecting the & _S allotment that is for sale . A party , vrhohas left , has _hadno-» thing of the Company but the Aid money , and the interest tr o f that will be chanted in the rent _Th-re is one _gear ' s st rent to be charged to all those who sell , and three years ' _~* are allowed for those who buy to pay it to the Company . Se Tlie Directors have nothing at " all to _' _doirith it If a man * 3 "* - likes to _seU his _aUotment , nobody can interfere with him .

      _^ REPLY _, _l-f- ' My answer to the above letter is , that , as _S soon as the Company is completely registered , j _£ every man who has taken possession of ad al-W lotmeni , or rented an allotment withont paying the Aid money , and all amounts due to the £ Company , will be summaril y . ejected ; and , I- therefore , those , who purchase from the occu-\ pant , and pay to Mm . any portion of money f due to the Company , will have committed the : : wrong withhis eyes open , and cannot blame the Directors . Jfo donbt the occupant would be an a very fascinating situation -who received

      , j £ 30 Aid money , besides the cultivation of his allotment , and also received a bonus from the purchaser , without returning the demands of the Company . The proposition in my letter , relative to the postponement of payment of rent , does not refer to transfers made since the Conference , or since the potato rot , nor does it refer to those who are able to pay their rent . Let it therefore be distinctly understood , that auy allottee who has sold , from the commencement of the Company , without refunding all that was due to the Company , has committed a fraud upon the purchaser _^ who will be instantly ejected , and the allotment assigned by bonus .

      All purchasers must return the Aid money ; the Loan money ( if had ); the amount chargeable for cultivation ; and the amount of rent due up to . tho day of transfer _; and all those who have sab-let will be dealt with in precisely the same maimer ; as I am resolved , that , let the growth of tho Land Company he slow or rapid , it never shall be converted into a society of Laud sharks , allowing the most fortunate to rob the industrious , who is willing to purchase , and the _nulocated members . Feargus 0 * C _oxxon .

      P . S . It isbutjustice toT . _o-XKRtostate , that the letter does not refer to his own allotment , . and is written in ignorance of the facts ; that the remainder of his letter is written in a very -good spirit , stating that any distress that exists is consequent upon the wetness of the weather , which the oldest inhabitant does not remember being equalled for twenty years ; and , of course , Morgan was quite right in forwarding the letter before he committed himself , in ignorance of the rules . F . _O'C .

      To The Chartists. I Insert The Following...

      TO THE CHARTISTS . I insert the following letter received from the solicitor who defended Mr Verxox , and I entirely agree with it , that it is a hardshipnay , a scandal—that aprofessionalgentlemaii , who paid money out of his own pocket , and conducted the defence of his client ably , should be p laced in such a situation ; and I assure you that it not only mortifies me , as a gentleman , but it considerably damages you , as a party , to be guilty of such real dishonesty .

      Don ' t talk about the people ' s inability to discharge their just debts , while they will drink on Saturday night next ten thousand times as much as would pay all their liabilities , and leave thousands to carry on their cause . They know that their principles are my principles ; they know that no power on earth would buy me , ' bribe me , frighten me , or induce me to _give up those principles ; and , therefore , they most ungenerously , unfairly , aud dishonestly make me the scape-goat to bear all their sins .

      Famine is raging in Ireland ; thc Irish people are derided and mocked at , but I will venture to say that the poorest Irishman has never been allowed to go to trial for a political offence without the best and ablest counsel ; and that no Irish solicitor has ever been left without his costs . Perhaps you may say , that in Ireland they would have no one to ap-X _» eal to ; but my answer is , that no appeal is ever necessary : while you in England would . saddle mo with all yonr responsibility . However , I have the honour to remain , A Chartist , though all should abandon the principles , and neglect the performance of their duties , Feakgus _O'Coxxon . Barnard ' s Inn , 24 th January , 1 S 49 .

      Dear Sib , —It is with some satisfaction I read your letter _a-ldressed to the " Defence Fund" in the _AortAent Star ot * the 13 th inst , and I would askwh . it inducement can there be for tlie professional man and legal adviser to defend any ofthe Chartist leaders , if all the time , labour , and expense is to be paid out of Ids own pocket . In the case of Mr . Vernon , I was solicited by that gentleman to _conflict Ms _deivuee . I t _«* ., V his defence up , but hare not jet been paid , with about £ 80 out of pocket—my claim being , in fact , nearer to _Zl' . O or JE 1 S _0 , than £ 70 or £ 80 , as

      mentioned in your letter—no doubt an error in the printing , as my bill , _delirered to you some mouth * _ajo . amount ' nii * to £ 163 and upwards , will show , and several claims have been sant to me since on the part of witnesses , short-hand writers , < Le . In your letter you use the terns " _Grasping Solicitor * . " I presume tliat as my claim is still unpaid , and as I hare brought no action against you , the appellation does not allude to myself . I remain , dear Sir , yours faithfully , J . G . Xixox . Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., _JLP .

      To Tile Working Classes. M Y Friends, M ...

      TO TILE WORKING CLASSES . M y Friends , m y Dear Friends , If ever you read any production with attention , I invite—nay , I implore—your strictest attention to the following communication , extracted from the " Times" ne-wspaper . Do pra y read it ; and you mechanics , artificers , artisans , and perfumed Athenaeum gentlemen , who would be ashamed to eat a potato or cabbage if you knew they grew in dung , and were produced by vulgar agricultural labour— - recollect , that if you turn up your noses at tbat labour , that nevertheless it is the labour - —the only labour—which gives vitality and

      briskness to your several trades ; as the vulgar ag riculturist docs not make his own spade , his own shovel , his own rake , his hoe , or his ¦ wheelbarrow ; his hat , his breeches , or his 7 _'rogues ; his shirt , his flannel waistcoat , or his stockings ; that he does not grind his own flour for which you make machinery—he is not his own butcher , his own baker , or his own maltster , which trades you supply with tho neccssary implements ; but , though lie does none of those things , he coins his sweat into the _exchangeable medium which enables manufacturers and tradesmen to deal more _extengiyriv with you , to supply liis several wants .

      Oh , how I think I see the perfumed engineer or rnillwri ght taking his Sunday walk , with liis kid-skin gloves , cocking uplnsno 3 e at the bare idea of being in any way associated with the vulgar clodpole , who is , perhaps , at that moment cleaning out his pigsty . But , _howlieit , this Labour Question must be traeed from its source , andthat source is the Land ; aud it must be refreshing to mv many dupes to find that , as I predicted , the Press , of all classes and factions , is now beginning to nibble _« t the Land . But here follows the extract from thc "Times : "

      '• Lord Palmerstvn Is Continuing, With I...

      ' Lord _Palmerstvn is continuing , with increased _vipour , the itnvT '' Tfciutnt 3 < m Ms _propertr in the county of _Sn {* o , mi , < _-oiistqu « milv . i * ginni * _employment to his tenantry . _Tin-y have made considerable progress since I List noticed _tlifir _o-tratiuiis . _fk-me of the large fields are made wortli _d-mMf what thej were . The quantity of stones du _>* up , aui _gatheri-d out of one field is bejond _couce-jtion . When _tii- .. _;< _Tatiims bow in pn _^ _gress are completed it will make ' _. \ wonderful change iii the _apjiearance of the property , and in the value of it : but all the _landlords in the west aud tli - niirtU aL «> , are _caet into the shade by the exertions of _J-miii Hamilton , uf St , Ernan ' s , near _lluuegaL Every _jinnifcv . for the last two or three years , I have marked , i _wiili intense iimrtM Mid increasing pleasure , the } rro ** _ri'SS i . ie is making . He has now fulh- two acres in his own j _& lands , nearly all tlior « . _ush-drained , levelled , and trenched _£ _eiflitren tu twenty , inthe * deep , laid out in large beautiful "ft ntMsKkealawn . U pwards of 40 J acre * will , this Tear ~ :-, l _»? under _active cultivation , and that aU bv spade labour ' - i A . _cis _Etiunga , _^ ,, _^ to _vtreiYi _im-at's deep for te , ed '

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      the statute acre . The men work in gangs of six each . They take care to match themselves , as some are much more expert than others . At present he gives employment to 500 men . Often he has as many as 1 , 000 . Nearly , if not aU his labour , is done bv task-work —« ven the reap ' mp . He encourages digging matches , by _offering premiums to the best and quickest _j-angs 0 f six ; and by thb means his men have become so expert , that even at the low rate of 6 s . 8 d . the acre they _crh earn from lOd . to ls . 3 d . per day . IIow noble his conduct appears to be , compared to tliat of many of thc narrow-minded country squires , -who have declared to me that . they would not improve one inch of their lands , because , in so- _doing , they would benefit the neighbouring property as well as their own , by keeping the rates down .

      ' John Hamilton is now draining a large extent ot the land held by his tenants '¦; bnt I cannot state on what terms . If all the landlords of Ireland would follow his example , we should have _buttrifrnigpoor rates , no able-bodied labourers wanting employment , and conld spare food that would support one-fourth of the people of England , and leave plenty for all our own people . " . As an instance of the difficulties and obstructions which strangers , bent upon _amelioratm _**; the condition ofthe Irish people must be prepared to encounter in their career of usefulness , Mr . Lamb quotes the following : — " With the last number- of my notes I gave soma extracts from the report of two Manchester merchants , who _traveUed over nearly three-fourths of our island last autumn , to see , with their own eyes , the true ttate of Ireland and

      the Irish . When in tlie County-of Limerick , at Castle Connell , they inquired if there was any one in that locality reclaiming waste land ? They were directed to James _Al'Nabb , of Mona-lodge . They called on him , and he politely showed tliein over his farm , and explained the whole " process of reclamation . They say - . — ' We were _highly interested in wbat wo saw ; and are convinced that the bogs of Ireland , under similar circumstances and management , maybe reclaimed . The farm consists of 272 statute acres . Eight years ago he set to work upon tliis bog kind , which as land for s { -rieulture , was not then worth fid . an acre . He lias reclaimed 120 acres ; sixteen is under plantation , and the remainder ( 104 ) under crop . The produce of his potatoes , wheat , and oats , was equal in quantity and quality , to that of the be § t land in Ireland ;

      and his garden produces as fine vegetables as any in the island , which is saying a great deal . The condition of the cattle and sheep upon the farm waa most beautiful . We saw a fa-Id of clover , which had been three times mowed ilus year , and was then most luxuriant , where there was nothing but deep bog Jive years ago . The land reclaimed is on a bog , six feet deep , yet the surface is sound , elastic , and hard . On this farm of 104 acres , which eight years _ae-o would not have fed a coat , he notr has twenty milch cows , fourteen bullocks , twenty-six calves , fifty sheep , three horses , and twelve pigs , lie sends 131 ) boat loads of turf to Limerick annually , — each load , on an average , is worth £ 10 . This gives great employment to the people , besides reclaiming the laud ; the handling of the turf

      employs old men , women , and cluldren . This bog was let , twenty-three years ago , for a term of 993 years , at a fixed rent , ye * the present proprietor brought and action to recover _possession , and it was tried last July , at Limerick . The pica set up was , that the father of the present proprietor had no power to grant such a lease , and that the land was poached . Tlie idea of poaching a bog was laughed at , and scouted out of court by a verdict in favour of Mr . M'Xabb . Tlie landlord threatens to carry the case to the House of Lords ; it is possible that he will see the folly , if not the injustice , of such a step . The jury were composed of landed proprietors , not farmers . We feel confident that , should he foUow out his threats , " and the case become _, known , a subscription in England would most readily be raised to assist Mr . M'X & bb in defending the action . "

      When Lu > _T > rF 00 T , the great snuff merchant , made a large fortune , Curran advised him to accept the following as his family motto : — " Oh holy Moses ! Who'd think that noses Could do all this . " Now though I have a very old family motto , an Irish one , which translates into " Fair and easy goes far , " I repudiate the antiquity , and adopt the following : — " Oh holy Argus ! Who'd think that _Fargus Could do all this . "

      You will find from the ahovo , that it is asserted that the starving Irish could each year export to England a fourth of the necessaries required ' hy her people . And this , mind , in thc teeth ofthe invitation to emigrate , and the moonshine _ahout over-population . See the fact , that the property of Lord Palmerston , cleared and cultivated by the spade , has been doubled in value in the course of a year or two . See , and read , and think , upon the faot ,

      that Mr . Hamilton , whose letter to Mr . Cuakles Coultiiuhst , I quoted some weeks ago , has adopted the system of spade husbandry , and ponder w ell upon its result as regards " proprietor and labourer . The man who can earn eightpence a-day in Ireland is only too happy , - while you find * some gangs working for Mr . IIamiltox earning fifteen pence a-day by task labour—and I -will warrant that those

      LAZY , IDLE , REPROBATE , UNTHRIFTY VAGABONDS , breakfast by rushlight , and are watching for daylight to commence their task , and are longing tor moonlight and the long nights to continue it . Now , do you think that any one of those labourers would shoot Lord Palmei _* sto >* or Mr . _Hamilton ? Not a bit of it . They would constitute their body guard , and risk their lives in their defence . So much for Irish ingratitude , Irish idleness , and Irish propensity to commit crime . Then , observe the value of spade husbandry , as practically illustrated , although the RAVEN , the bird of prev , the Poor Law Commissioner , produced bv the HAYTER to damn the Land Plan ,

      had the insolence to declare that spade husbandry was the worst , thc most slovenly , and least productive mode of cultivation . Now , what do you think of that fellow ? Six and eightpence an acre—a STATUTE acre—is the amount paid for digging the land ; a statute acre , like the English acre , is 160 perches , but the English perch is only sixteen-and-a half feet _square , and the Irish is twenty-one feet square , so that five statute acres are eight English acres , and Mr . _Hamilton pays at the rate of 4 s . 2 d . per English acre for digging his land , from nine to twelve inches deep , and the lazy Irishman , who earns fifteen pence a-day hy task work , digs an acre in less than threeaud-a-half days .

      Now , I pay twelve shillings an acre for one ploughing , when I hire horses , for the English acre , which is within a fraction of a pound for the statute acre , not to count harrowing , scuffling , rolling , & c , while one digging is worth six _ploughings—and thus , I show you the value of manual labour . Then , again , look at Mr . _M'Nabb _' s 104 acres of reclaimed bog , not worth sixpence an acre some time ago , and now feeding ''twenty cows , fourteen bullocks , twenty-six calves , fifty sheep , three horses , and twelve pigs , " and enabling him to defend his right in a court of law against a tyrannical landlord .

      I Now read my farming work upon the reclamation of waste land , starting at the standard when the land is worth a shilling an acre , and showiii" - what it would be worth in eleven years ; and think of the number of hands that the cultivation of these 104 acres must require , as the horses , you may he sure , are employed in carrying the " turf from thc bog to the wharf . I should like to know what one of my growling children wonld say if he was asked to dig an acre of ground , from nine to twelve inches deep , in three days and a half ? Bnt yet I venture to assert , that many an English agricultural labourer would do it ; and those are themeu we should have commenced our agricultural experiments with—or rather , our agricultural operations , as the production of food from the Land , and the requital of the labourer , is by no means an experiment .

      But , then , my friends , there is another great theorv—the _wildness , the folly , insanity of which is practically illustrated by the operations of Mr . _Hamilton . The writer says , "thatthe work being task-work , the gangs match themselves ; " and could there he a stronger refutation of the practical results of Socialism , as defined by its advocates . Socialism in its true acceptation , means the fitness of things to society ; but it has received a religious , as well as a social tinge , aud therefore the term " Communism" is the fit and proper one to apply to the social theories of Communists . And what I assert is this , that Govern-

      '• Lord Palmerstvn Is Continuing, With I...

      ment—under Monarchy , Republic , Autocrat , or Despot , would be Christian , philanthropic , just , and equitable , when coinpared with Government _, established upon social princip les . Nay , more—to argue it in detail—if society was classified , and if human beings were selected according to any standard of fitness , experience , ability , or BkHl , -. and marshalled into sections , the war . j _^ _a & ectiqns would be more bloody and _destru _^ fyg than the present war of class against _cluis .

      Take , for instance , twfeiity , men , each with a wooden leg , and nineteen of them with hut one arm , the twentieth ; with two arms and two hands , would rebel aghinst the nineteen who were to be equal partldipatlts of the produce . Or imagine the case b _? _ttji author , tho writer of a most splendid woHtj ' dividing the proceeds of his labour _equally , either with inferior authors , or with eoiriWitors or pressmen ; that , I may be told , is classifying them too minutely ; so that suppose you take it generally and universally—imaginctheindolent and unintellectual portion of society living upon the intellectual portion of society , and do you hot think there would be a war of intellect and

      industry against ignorance and idleness ? and it is folly to attempt to refute this position by the vague assumption , tbat under the social system none would he either ignorant or idle " for as long as the world lasts—no matter what the governing system may lie—the ruljng maxim will he SELF-INTEREST . - , I am aware that , especially abroad , in countries where the people are wholly ignorant of the Labour Question , the principle of Communism is being extensively adopted ; but its adoption is based upon the ignorance—and not upon the knowledge of its advocates . They have nothing else to talk about that will enlist the sympathy aud attention of their hearers ; while thev themselves live in idle affluence on

      the means wrung from the credulity , enthusiasm , and hope of their dupes . I trust , therefore , that in England the people will base their hope upon self-reliance , with the full confidence —that when the channels of industry are all open—no matter how classified—all will have equal protection and be well provided for ; and then ¦ should Communism , in its real and only practical meaning , be the adopted principle , the comfortable majority , will cheerfully provide for the otherwise comfortless minorityand then the really philanthropic , and intellectual Communists mi ght be amongst the most useful members of society ; but I implore of you never to allow our Political or Social Movement , or the Land and Labour Question , to be mixed up with Communism or Socialism .

      _JNext week Parliament meets , and before many days of the Session we will be able to gather the meaning of Ministers from their mumping . I invite your attention to a report of tho proceedings at a meeting of the middle-classes , held at Notting-Hill on Monday last ; and , being present and one of the speakers , it delighted me to find that the most aristocratic of the middle-classes took the first

      dose of Chartism without a wry face , and one great and most beneficial effect of the agitation is this , that the working classes may speak out upon the new financial move more boldly than they would dare to speak of their own principles , because the Jury-class would be more friendl y in the former than in the latter case . Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connok .

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      Financial Reform. Important Meeting At U...

      FINANCIAL REFORM . _IMPORTANT _MEETING AT _UOTTLNG HILL . ( Prom our own Reporter . ) On Monday last , a numerous and influential meeting of the middle classes was held at the Prince Albert Tavern , Nbtting Hill , for the purpose of discussing tlie _sevi-ral propositions and resolutions of the Financial Reform Association . It . Hartley Kennedy , Esq ., of _Resington Lodge , late candidate for a Scotch hurgh , and candidate for the Chelsea district , when enfranchised , was in the chair . He opened the proceedings in a very effective and straightforward speech , acquiescing in the objects of tho meeting , but evidently anxious to go a little

      further . Mr . Skrle , of Bark-place , Bayswater , thecelebrated dramatic author , made an admirable speech , in which lie showed the advantage of direct over indirect taxation , the extravagance of the government , and the unprofitable expenditure of the national resources , and showing tne establishment of forty-shilling freeholders to constitute the main ingredient in the Financial Budget . [ While this speaker was on his legs , Mr . O'Connor entered the room , and was partially cheered . ] Mr . Gaskell , of Chelsea , surgeon , and Chairman of tho West Londou Reform Association , also spoke , and very characteristically described the system of

      government pillage , and the superior ability of . the labourer , and his consequent fitness to vote for a representative . To illustrate his first position ,, he said , that , some few days ago , he was reading to _hjs family an account of the manner in which they pluck gee 3 e in Lincolnshire three times a year , that there was a lady present , who exclaimed— " Oh what brutes I" " Yes , " said Mr . Gaskell , " but are not we geese also to allow ourselves to be plucked every day in the year . " ( Laughter . ) And then as to the ability of the labourer , he was crossing a street the other day , and saw a sweeper doing his work , as he thought , very imperfectly . He showed him what he considered the best method of sweeping , but the sweeper very soon convinced him that by his method ho did three times as much with one dash of the broom as he could upon his ( Mr .

      GaskelFs ) method . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Now , did not that prove even the sweeper s right to he represented ? and he hoped that the district ol Notting Hill would follow the example of their Chelsea neighbours , who , though but in infancy , had thrown off their swaddling-clothes , and promised speedily to attain a giant ' s strength , as they already numbered 000 , and wore determined to go on until they proved to the aristocracy that the middle and working classes were able to represent themselves , without the assistance of government patronage , and such lavish expenditure of monies that might be more profitably applied . ( Cheers . ) Thc _Chairman then asked Mr . O'Connor if he would address the meeting , and upon that gentleman rising he was received most enthusiastically . Mr . O'Coxxor said : Mr . Chainnan and

      gentlemen , this is the first middle class meeting I ever attended , and I would not have attended this if your object was solely confined to a reduction of your own burthens . ( Hoar , hear . ) hi this financial crusade I see more than the mere saving c \ ause-l see the destruction o Whiggery through the destruction of patronage-throug h the slaying of corruption ; and if your movement was to stop with the achievement of your own object 1 should , as of _vore , be in opposition to you ; and the reason that I have acquiesced in this movement is , because its leader , Mr . Cobden , has declared

      " WE WILL NOT STOP THERE . " ( Cheers . ) It is not to the middle classes , who arc the forgers of their own chains , and to their release from taxation , that I look , but it is to the adjustment of the Labour Question , by a proper settlement oi wliich all those shopkeepers and traders by whom I am surrounded would be immensely benefitted , ( Cheers . ) You must make taxation direct , and levy it not on industry , but on real property —( cheers)—ami then when the tax-payer is the law-maker he will sec through Mr Cobden ' s telescope , and find that peace through contentment is cheaper than peace through bayonets . ( Loud cheers . ) Ho was opposed to the Free Traders , because he looked upon the thing as moonshine ; and he would equally oppose this move if , through it , he did not see some better prospects . The Timet opened its whole bat-.--. »?' _„„„„„„; , _linmiMv . Cobden , but the Times _icrv oi im

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      cheers . ) Mr . O'Connor continued — Hallo , why that smacks of the Land , and , you seem to like it . In talking of the New _/ _J _& _eeat , the Times tells us , that , " formerly , its 3 _iirfnce was covered with smiling hamlets and homesteads until the second William . _fihd his successors ruthlessly swept those habitatfij & s away , in or & r to nufce _. room for a vast for < _$ _ Wwwt ! b . tl | ejP _^ ht ' t _# _iKelfe pastime . ;!* sa '__ - _^ _. _^^ _AWt _^ SI _, _« fi _*? S _? ¦ _%$$ > ' _?¦ WHAT _IJIK A * n _^^^^ _» ia * d ' . ; b _« _oihkks nAyj * _t-osiiKDiiD . It _^ plS THAT MUCH OS THB _XMO > finOUIJ ) . _BfeTCBK to _pp-, . _sEoneir-Asn to & _haukow . Whebb corn * _lua . _^ feo . WN coun _tvitx enow again , _ xo tbe xatio _$ _Mwm > thus poaaHH i THmrae DISTRICT 1 » -

      " _•• p ¦ . ¦ _<** . AN _UNrBODHUitFiC waste . " Now , . ( _gj-id ? _W _<*> nnor ) , the _^ i _^ ddinissi (* n of tho _lead'"jra _Wrnal , and ; _^ htIemS _^ % fiiIe you are proud of y _* _™ g _^ . nthng may I mei _$ i » fe * jaihe , the odious and ' vl _^ _'mpple-theohfl thai w to _accomphsh tbis _grtgftn-itwnal purpose ;? .. < .. ; i _^ 9 _SWRU - u _'> -- _? es - yes , _*« t . with it . m <> Con ** ob , turning to tV _' mecting . —May I ; and will _yoapro . _mis ' e' _-qot . tb fee frightened ? ('' -Yes , yes , . _^ frojn all _stdfea . ) * Tukn iris thk CHARTER ( Ij _^ tfrcheering' and clapping of hands . ) Well , but do . hot mistake me , lam not geingto intrude this consideration

      upon you YET , hot am I going to gritify the Whi g enemy by causing a splithetween the middle and the working classes , when tbiir united _exeHfons _' afe _calculated t » overthrow Whig t * _nigju . y ,: _, ( Lpud cheers . ) I have ; been invited ( said M _^; _© ' Conpp ' r ) by sonic of the aristocracy to oppose thll _^ nove-- _^ but ,-unlike other demagogues , I never * - _^ _lif * oo mc ; an instrument in the hands , of faction , n _^ _ahall any desire of popularity or dread of _re-_^^\ over prevent me from performing my duty to _ffil _^| _jga *»* 3 _; _aae , _x . _-i iuifC . _X have straggled for years and r wlh _^ omTw 1 tr _^ fr _% gg l-e to " th _^ _tfeSth—thc _wotting men —( loud cheers , amidst whieh Mr . O'Connor resumed his scat . )

      The Chairman * rose and was about to put three of the resolutions , carried at the Manchester meeting , when Mr . Lovett , upholsterer , said : Mr . Chairman , I _ajn-cc with the distinguished gentleman who last addressed _^ the meeting—that it would be imprudent and injudicious to oppose the middle class move , as it is one in the right direction , but I cannot consent to the resolutions being put , as proposed by the chairman , as the most important , —that proposed by Mr Milner Gibson , at Manchester , with reference to the extension of the Suffrage—is omitted . ( Hear , hear . ) The _Chaiiiman . —I beg to assure the gentleman that that is not an intentional omission of the

      Committee , as he will seo the resolutions are taken from a newspaper ; we sent to the landlord for the newspaper , presuming that it contained all , but we find that the one sent does not contain that of Mr . Milner Gibson , but as this meeting , he was pleased to 9 ay , had no desire to stop short of thc mark , they would make another attempt to get the right newspaper , and if that failed there would be uo difficulty hi framing a resolution in accordance with Mv . M . Gibsons . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Lovktt was perfectly satisfied with the candid explanation ef the Chairman , and would therefore more the adoption of Mr . Gibson ' s resolution . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . _Lessi-ygiiam , houso decorator , said , that he rose with great pleasure to second tlie adoption of the resolution , and that he felt pride and pleasure in seeing the reviled of all revilers—Mr . Feargus 0 ' Connor—amongst them that night . ( Loud cheers . ) It was but for the middle classes to know that gentleman and his principles , and to hear him defend them , to insure his ultimate success . He was a Chartist —( cheers)—and he wasnot afraid to avow it , but as his duty was to ensure harmony at such a meeting , he would give his cordial support to tho resolutions , with thc addition of Mr . Milner Gibson ' s . The resolutions were then put from the chair and carried unanimously , amid loud applause . After which

      Mr . Skrle rose and said : Now , my friends , I have a very pleasing and important duty to perform . We have amongst us to-night thc most influential leader of the working classes ; a man who , though universally reviled by the press , has preserved the confidence of his followers , and has established his title to that confidence by the noble sentiment , that he would not base his popularity as a demagogue upon opposition to those who urged anything for the benefit of the people . Perhaps no ancient or modern event is of greater importance than his presence here to-night , as it will hasten the accomplishment

      of our object by three , four , ay , or perhaps five years , as without his co-operation we would be deprived of our greatest support , therefore , I have great pleasure in proposing the cordial thanks of this meeting to Mr . O'Connor , for his brilliant speech and manly conduct . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Manning , auctioneer , said that he begged to have the honour of seconding the proposition of Mr . Serle , and he had great pleasure in announcing to the meeting that hehad enrolled Mr . O'Connor ' s name as a member of their Association . ( Loud cheers . )

      Thc Chairman said that he would not put thc proposition in the usual cold form , to be carried by a show of hands ; he would ask them to carry it with three hip , hip , hips and hurrahs , and when they went home to-night , let them repeat the following sentence in the eloquent and soul-stirring speech they had heard , " Mr . O'Connor had said , k > t taxation be direct , and when thc tax-payers were the law-makers , they would measure taxation economically by necessity , and not , as now , extravagantly by patronage . " The Chairman then put the resolution , which _wajj unaniinously carried , and followed by cheering and clapping of hands . Mr . O' Connor said : Gentlemen , I thank you , lam not _sroing to detain you longer than merely to tell

      vou I am not to be bought . Some ofthe aristocratic classes have thrown out their feelers to ensuro my opposition to the Financial Reform Association ; they have endeavoured to tickle me by showing what a great man I might become if I would only oppose this move : but , as I never intend to base nominal greatness ' upon actual dishonesty , I have declined their several fascinating appeals . ( Cheers ) I receive many letters , some anonymous and some with real signatures , many of them addressed "from club-houses , inviting me to buckle on the armour of opposition ; but I have declined all . Gentlemen , I thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me . ( Cheers . ) Mr . _Dukford , printer , said that as the father of the bantling , he could not allow the meeting to separate without expressing the joy and satisfaction

      I ho experienced from tho proceedings , and he trusted that the session of parliament would not be allowed to pass away without a just expression of indignation from that district against the cruel and heartless tyranny practised by the government against the Chartist prisoners , who were entrapped bygo vernment sp ies and informers , and then subjected to harsher treatment than felons . ( Loud cheers . ) He was g lad to hear that the Chelsea district had sprung into such rapid vitality ; every beg inning was weak , and he trusted ere long that Kottmg Hill would be able to contrast its strength , its energy , and resolution with any of the surrounding districts , while the working classes might rest assured that he , as the founder of the association , would not stop short at the middle-class point . ( Cheers , )

      After . * vote of thanks to thc Chairman , which was well merited , as no officer could more efficiently discharge his duty , and whom we hope ere long to see a representative of the Chelsea district , the meeting separated , highly gratified with thc proceedings . Previously , however , it was announced that another meeting would be held at the same place on Monday next thc 29 th , [ Note . We give the following as a specimen ofthe letters referred to by Mr . O'Connor . ] Athena-urn , Jan . 13 , 1849 . Sis , —I am a person rather singular among the class to which I belong- ( of English gentlemen ) , in thinking favourably and highly of the working people of England . I want , also , to see them better uwlewtuod by others . I believe that there are very many honest Chartists , who , if they would separate themselves from republicans and revolutionists—with whom they have nothing in common—would soon stand very differently in the estimation of their countrymen , and be much nearer _attainiii- ; their own proper objects .

      A glorious opportunity now presents itself to the Chartists to elevate then-character , and " win golden opinions , " hy manfully opposing Cobden ' s ncw- *» roposed agitation—for _invitm- * war , throwing away peace , and every way lessen _, ing and lowering the country—the worst thing possible for the poor ; and they will have the sense to see it . You may win the greatest popularity by standing up against it , and " pitching it" into Cobden , lluine , and Bright , to then- undoing . I have written two ofa series of letters to thc Chartists proper . _1 'irst , t „ withdraw them from the enemies of the

      constitution—which they are nut . but only desiring to share its blessing * ; and , secondly , calling upon them to withstand tlie Cobdunites , who are no true friends of theirs . The greatness nnd glory ofthe country—noble undertakings for the publie good , whieh may find employment for tlie poor , are ever the best for them . There _wv-Ut to he , awl must be , _» sound economy ; hut there should also be a liberal expenditure in great undertakings for thc public good , and to find the people work . Hut it is useless to write , unless what is written can be read - and how to effect this 13 my present concern , and occasions my addressing you , I cliwse _, to the present ty

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      light with my vizor down , that my usefulness may not be impaired hy any personal considerations ; but you need not doubt my high character and respectabUity . * I am inclined to think that you are likely to concur with me in my views to a certain extent , and must possess the inlluem : e to promote wimt I desire—namely , to bring mv sentiments before the Chartist body—not only through the _northern Star , but from your habitual intercourse with theax . : ¦ ..: _to- _^ lS * ** ' aAiressea—'' _-A-fBA , Post Office , _Queen ' _s-rofld , No- 28 ( to he left till _caffled for ) , " witt oblige t ¦ Your _Sjay-he Co-operator , . _ . _^ _.-,.... _-- The BtawiT of _Fuajco . _Feat-gus O'Connor , Bkj . ; JLP . *•

      Taihe Mwtff Oks Of The Ifatiomllanlf Com...

      _TaiHE _mWtff OKS OF THE _IfATIOMLLANlf COMPANY . : " ' : G * _wr » " * MEJ * ,-. _" \ Vc , _thenndersigned shareholders qf the Land Company , in the- Huddersfield _distrj _^ tlieg leave m « st respectfull y to-draw your _immcSu _^ C _itteiition ta the case of John Bradshaw now ; _reding at Minster Lovel , who from his location hof _^ iiig in a productive state this year , finds himsfelf iii a destitute eondition , and ifthe whole or j * arrt of the JE 30 grjiwted him as a loan ,. Yiy a resolution pn ' _Sficd at the late- Conference at Birmingham , be not speedily advanced to bim , the produce of four acres of ground will . be entirely lest for another season , from his inability , for want of funds , to crop it . We can confidently recommend the said John _Kradshaw

      OS an honest , industrious m-tiu _, and one from his knowledge of agriculture , that wonld fully show out the capabilities of the Land . We are , Gentlemen , yours respectfully , Joseph Oldfield , treasurer _; _John Stead , branch secretary ; John _Gledhill , John Oldfield , John Whogden , John Marsland , Thomas Cockshaw , David Carter , William Beaumont ; , Benjamin Farrand _, Charles Booth , William F . irraiid , Henry Scott , Willfam Thorp , Eli Dearnley , Wiffianf Dearnley , Thomas _-- _^ B _ffi _-Wyg _^ BB Sykes , Joseph Boothroyd , William Thornton , John Woffendim , lticliard Woft ' enden , William Sykes , John . Sykes , George Jlogley , Riohard Brook , Henry Wilkinson , John '" Calvert , Ann Kaye , John Moorhouse , George Mooi'houae _, Joseph Knight , Job Boothroyd .

      Gentlemen , Bradshaw , I believe , is every thing you state him to b _* , but he was a purchaser of his allotment , and not a member ; aiKl had thorebeen ample funds in hand , tho Conference had 110 possible right to apply them as aid money to persons who are not members . I told Bradshaw at the Conference , that his good character and ability to cultivate the land , would induce me , when able , to assist him myself ; bnt tho non-performance of duty by 70 , 000 individuals

      —who arc very loud in their professions of philanthropy , lias left it difficult for me to meet my own engagements . I cannot stand paymaster for 70 , 000 Land members ; and for 5 , 000 , 000 Chartists who signed tho National Petition ; and money-lender—or rather , giverto those whose destitution and _requirements are consequent npon the non-performance of duty by the millions . Sampson was a strong man , and Solomon was a wise man ; but neither of them could pay or lend money , if they hadn't it .

      I find that your good-natured appeal is signed hy thirty-two ; and 10 s . from each would furnish Bradshaw with tho means of going on , though it is always much easier to ask than to give . Faithfully yours , Feargus O'Connor .

      To The Members Of The National Land Comp...

      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . Friends—As one of your brother members , bavins ; for some length of timo paid up for sixteen shares for self and family , _suui therefore having au interest in the well-doing of the same , I beg to offer the following for your consideration . It appears that want of money was the cause of nearly the stoppage ofthe Company , and at the late Conference , Mr . O' Connor and the other Directors made an appeal to the delegates , to assist in raising funds tojiarryon operations . I am not so unthinking as to suppose that they can do without funds ; but I contend , if it can be shown ( and there were parties in attendance at the Conference to prove ) that substantial and more useful houses can be built at half

      the cost of thc present ones '" ' it is thc duty of tho Directors and Mr . O'Connor , in justice to himself and the company , to adopt this mode of building , in order to locate the members faster , and this it would do to a great amount by having them ]> uilt by contract ; saving by that method the payment of many useless foremen and deputies , as well as time and tronble to Mr . O'Connor , the contractor looking to his own men and work . Consider , my friends , what a difference it would make in our funds . Instead of being in so crippled a state as at present , that only in the building of 240 cottages you would have had a saving of from fifteen to sixteen thousand pounds . Will you not think that worth saving to buy more

      land ? And according to amount saved in expenditure , you will save from three to four pounds a year in rent . I think Mr . 0 'Connor cannot have any objection to this , as it will enable him to a gvoat extent to carry out his plan ; and he has often told us to get the land , and then you can improve or enlarge your houses after , but that building an expensive house will not enable you to buy land . I might say much more to show you the justice and necessity of adopting this . I hope the different branchcswill meet and

      discuss it , and , if they think as I do , they will pass resolutions respectfully _requesting Mr . O'Connor to adopt this plan for the future , or some other as cheap . In the plan of tho house named they will be built together . If separate , they will cost about £ 10 each more . They would consist as follows , and be built with brick walls : Kitchen , twelve feet square ; cellar under tliis . Back-kitchen or wash-house , live feet by nine . Cow-house , seven feet by nine . Two bed-rooms ; one over the kitchen , the other over wash-house and cow-house . Piggeries , bog-holes , tanks , yards , and wells .

      Brothers , I now leave it in your hands , I have only done what I consider the duty and right of every member—to point out anything hehiay conceive of advantage to the company . I remain , yours , & c , Birmingham , Dec . tth , 1848 . G . _T . Tho only comment I shall make upon the above is , that I never will undertake to sup . ply the allottees with cottages built by contract ; that is , a contractor undertaking to j supply materials and build a certain description of cottage at a certain rate , and for this simple reason — because there is as much difference between a contract on paper and a contract in building , as there is between chalk and cheese . No

      contractor will write himself down for a knave , but every contractor is a system-made rogue , and every contractor would scamp the work ; and , if he had his profit , he would not care if the houses tumbled , after the money was in his pocket ; and as to the expense of overseers referred to—from October , 1847 , fo the beginning of June , 1848 , a period of eight months—I built 105 cottages and two _schoolhouses , and the cost for overseers was £ 84 , or about 10 s , a cottage , I take care to have the best timber and materials—a contractor would take care to have the cheapest materials and best profit . As to a cellar under the kitchen , it would be more expensive than any other room , and would occasion greater damp ; and as to a bedroom over the

      washouse and cowhouse , I think , in the long winter nights , the occupants would ho engaged in cursing me instead of saying their prayers , and in the hot summer nights they w ' ould bo engaged in stopping their noses , and 1 should lie set down as a second Drouet ; and then thc saving of tho lessor sum , £ 15 , 000 upon 240 cottages , would amount to £ 62 a cottage , and over ; a saving which , if effected , would not at all reconcile the tenant to his hovel . Then as to building two houses together , it was the plan that I tried at O'Connorville , and which caused the greatest _dissatisfactioiv , aa _everi Socialists are anxious to have the whole of the back of their houses to themselves ; while one of the principal advantages of the Plan is the placing of the cottage in the centre ofthe _altytmwt , and cywv occu-

      To The Members Of The National Land Comp...

      pant having his frontage for a garden . _Jfothmg would give me grcnter pleasure than thT _; adoption of a system which would load to fair economy , and ' through tliat _cei-iiumy to the more speed y looation of the members ; while nothing would _mm-e toiul to _damage the Plan , and give a handle to it 3 enemies _^ than the location of honest Englishmen in beastly Irish hovels , by the Irish juggler . What would the Press say if thoy heard of the Irish demagogue subjecting an English mother to the horrors of being conlmcd over a ,

      a cow-house ? It is quite true that , by a niggardly economy , a certain amount of capital may be made to locate a greater number ; but it is equally true—that economy , wliich would destroy comfort , would justl y subject the plan to the abuse and contempt of the press and the public . All the work is done by contract— -and always has been done by contract- — with the exception of the bricklayers' work at O'Connorville , and at the lowest figure , subject to thp most , critical survey , and done in the _beatinomaer ; and . as l pn _^ _-iii _^ _to _^ _piji _ing _td _^ o _^^ the _^ _uildjjigs _, I ' _ytms % m _^^^ y

      Firstly , — -That it _^ . .. _f _^ v _}^^ m _^ tW ofceiipants _shsslli tbiave & _¥ _ii _# _fejgtj" _§*; _i _j-. _^ sJJ _^ ; :: _SeM _^ Sj | i * _M _* _$ e _^^ ' c & _njtolbfmA ' in _^ ra _^ TOR 'im mim _^ _mmmai _^ * - _* . _* -. ¦¦¦ -.- _^ . _iiapgippsijiwt" '" . _¦ M- _'Xft _^ Wr fYrWi'i ' _^ ' -- _..- ¦ _' ¦ ' ¦¦ -,... •* .

      ];Atest'ni)Ws. : ;:;'; . Saturday , Janu...

      ]; atest _' nI ) Ws . ; : ; ' ; . Saturday , January Ttm . THE TOOTING CHpIiEEA CASE *? . . On Thursday tho adjourned Inquest , touching thedeaths of the four _-jjauper cMluren who , died at Ilaekney , after _ha-viiig _l > een removed from " _3 kfr . Dvouet _' 8 _OstaMiliinentat Tooting , was l ' _esimie-l before Mr . _HSkbr . Thu Cordner ordered _tli * _-iiYqhiry to be ' conducted m _private , . ind tho _-rooin- _'to-is cleared , to the great dissatisfaction of tbo isitepayers . —The jury hiving been closeted _for-jicnrl y two hours , tho court was re-opened , and the Coronet said that tbe jury bad determined to proceed with no fresh evidence , till Mi- Drouet _slioulubu _ablt _* to attend . On Friday ,.. . Mr . Wakley resumed bis inquiry at _y- _^ _-goi-kbtfuae ,. at Olujisen , aa to the deaths of _MW 0 _^ _AF _6 fuiR § flS _^ _4 _@^ l ' }&; ]? _BM »* K _*^ I *«* _iH-} _'age < l 10 , Mary ivillick , aired _U , and George Hartley , aged 4 year ' s , four of the cliildren who died of cholera at Mr . Drouet ' s establishment at _Tootim _* . Evidencewas git-en by Mr . Grainger , _i _' opbam , Kite , and Others , and the im-ue . st was again adjourned .

      MuiiDKii and _Si-K-mi :. —At an inquest held at tin * " George , " Bankside , on the bodie- of Ann Brown , aged twenty-eight , ami her offspring , Cecilia , aired a year and a half , who wero found drowned in tinriver ou Tuesday morning last , the " _m-v returned a verdict , — " That the child Cecilia was wilfully murdered by its mother , Ann Brown , and that _Anii Brown destroyed her own life while in an unsound state of mind . - ' Dbcbv a . ni * oniKits v . thi- _QrnE . v . — -In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Friday , the prisoners were

      brought up to hear the aririiineiits on a writ of error to reverse a judgment which had paused against tbem at thc last _assizos for the county of York . Tho particulars of this case are known to our readers . After hearing counsel , Lord Denman said judgment must be reversed , and as to this judgment thc yu-isouers must be discharged . Mr . Hall said there would be no ultimate failure of justice , as tho prisoners were in custody iijk ) 5 i several indictments . The prisoners were then removed in the custody of the officers .

      _ACCIOKST OS TUK SoVtU _J- " _** CT 10 * 1 RAILWAY . Two more arches of the South Junction Hallway , Manchester , fell in on Wednesday morning , but its it was at an early hour , and before the men got to work , there was no loss of life iu consequence ? The . inquest upon the three men killed on Saturday b y the fall of part of one of tht ; arches terminated on Thursday ni g ht , when the jury found a verdict of " Accidentally killed . _MUBDKH OF ANOIHEll OFTJIE Dl . KK OF Cl . KVF . HNl > * !' GAMKKKE _1-J---5 . —A shocking murder was _uei'Detrated

      at Trundle Myers , near West Auckland , some tinu * during Sunday last , on a man named Oorge Mav , a watcher , in the employment of the Duko of Cleveland . Deceased was found Iving on his face iu : < . pool of blood with one side of ' his head almost blown off . He had no gun , but in his coat pocket was found a double-barrelled pistol loaded . This is the second murder within twelve months ; and it is remarkable that the men who shot . Shirley in _Fol _. ruarv hist , meant , to have utuvdeved not him but Mav , who ha * now met the fate he then escaped .

      A Dauoiitkii of tuk Postmaster at _Caukuktiiex has beeu committed for trial for stealiu « _- money letters . The members of her family are relieved from all suspicion of any guilty knowledge of the crime of the prisoner . FRANCE . — -On Wednesday crowds assembled for the interment of Colonel It . y , the late commandant of the Republican Guard . The government had the posts throughout the city doubled , and took every precaution against ' an outbreak .

      At one o ' clock , M . Ledru Hollin , and several of the representatives of the Monta . _/ _n- ; went tithe Palace of the El ysee , to _assure the President that there was not the slightest intention on the part of the persons assembled to disturb tinpublic peace , and tlie onl y object of it was to do honour to thc deceased colonel , who w ; ih populn-. - among the people . The number of persons in tin * . funeral procession amounted to several thousand ? - . In the corteije was Ledru Hollin , . 'oily , La ( _Jranu'i-, and some other Republican leaders .

      The Paris papers of Friday are almost exelusiv _.-lv occupied with thc report of M , _Grevv , rejecting ' the idea of fixing any period for the dissolution Jf the National Assembly . PRL'SSI ? IA . —The primary elections at Cologne and Bann have terminated in the complete triumph of the ultra Republicans . HUNGARY . —Kossuth , according to the late .-t accounts , was still in Debreczin . He had placed the regal insignia of St . Stephen in the church , and there the armed peasants swear to defend their fatherland to the last drop of their blood , Military executions have commenced iu Presburg .

      Frightful And Fatal Colliery Explosion. ...

      FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION . _BiK-vsiET , Wednesday evening . —About twelve o ' clock at noon , : i dreadful explosion took place at Darley Main Colliery , which is situated about two miles south of Barnsley . —From inquiries " made on the spot , it appears that there _wt're employed in tho mine forty-four getters of coal , who , with ' their hiirriers , will amount to about _si .-tty-six persons . There were also horse drivers , trappers , and others _, who will amount to six or ten persons , making , in the whole , between seventy and eighty persons who

      Were ill the pit at the time tht- i-xplo . sii . il took pl _.-iuc . At half-past five o ' clock twenty-one persons had boon got out , sixteen alive , most of whom are _srverely burnt , and five dead ; four of the latter are married persons , some with very large faiuilic- _- . Their names arc John I' _-irson - . _* , the _chk- _' r , j md John Parsons , the younger , father nml son ; Amos Harper , who has left apn'giiaiit wife and six Wiilibvii ; Francis Wilson , and a single man named Atkinson . _iivi'i-y ineaii . s .-ire _Jit'i'isr tried to extricate the others who arc yet in the mine , and who , then- is every reason to believe , have become victims to the devouring element . —Built / Notes .

      FniTHEit _I-articclars . —All official list has been published _containing the names of seventy-five victims , others are still believed to be in the pit . It . appears that , at the time ofthe accident , the mm bur of hands in the pit was 110 . It is reported that _, the total number killed is eighty-three . The iuuuest commenced on Friday and was adjourned _.

      Tub Verdict I.V Ths Cholera Oasis And Th...

      Tub Verdict _i . v ths Cholera Oasis and the Dirkciors or the Toon of St . 1 _' axcras . —On Wednesday evening , a special meeting of thu directors of the poor of St . I _' ahcras took place at the new vestry rooms . Air . Churchwarden llcaley in the clmir . — Mr . Pitt read to thc board tlie verdict of the coroner ' s jury in the case of Joseph John Carter , in which thejury strongly censured the board ofdi ; _cctors for not hating entered into a proper contract with Mr Drouet in farming out the pauper children . —Mr Clarke said , that so far as the diiectois of thc poor of St . Pancras were concerned they had been exceedingly anxious to do nil they could for the benefit of the pauper children , but what were the facts ' . The workhouse had become so overcrowded that they were compelled to fa 1 back upon the practice adopted by other parishes , and farm out the ch Idren

      to create room for adult paupers , who were crowding upon them . Thoy would have sent the children to Aubin ' s asylum , but that gentleman had no room , and they wer ..- obliged to send them to Mr . Drouet ' s . Why , however , should thc poor law _commissioners try and get out of the responsibility —( hear ) - ~\ vhen it was actually upon the representations of Mr lufiie . l and Mr . Hall , of the poor-law board , that the directors of St . Pancras were induced to send their girls to Tooting ? Thev did not contend fov pn ? e . _V , Th _. § uve Mr * I ) rouct thc Prire he ask d , and it lie had not _fiillilled his contract the _bl . imo rested with Mr . Drouet .-After other .-speakers had addressed the meeting it was resolved , "That a Committee be appointed to draw up a report for _pubue & lioYi throughout the parish in answer to thc verdict of th ¦ coroner ' s jury , and other allegations against the board of directors , detailim * .-ill the

      circumstances under which the board were com pelled to farm out the pauper children with Mi Drouet . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 27, 1849, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27011849/page/1/