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_POLAKD' 3 HOPI , m mtiT / ean . r Pole *! be free . The words are spoken j B Battle * lost and treaties broken _. Ratify the great dteree t I Hot the wer-hom madly prancing , "J Sot the _bijonet redly glancing , ] Bat the march of mind advancing . Sayt : Be fret i Poles , ba fres ! " Tet we tay not -. P « acet—tothemt Peace 1 Itis acoitlygtm . That a slave cannot afford ; While tht Viitula ' i great waters Swell with tsars of Poland ' s daughters _. And with blood of Russian _tiaoghttrt , _Itever—ntrer _theatht the sword .
Tell the _KtUtr , King , and _Ttar , Thev mart still prepare for -war , Ai lone as there ' s a man to kill ; 'Til the cheater tbey havo cheated ; 'Tis tbe nobles thsy defeated ; 'Tis tbe tyrants that have fleeted ; But the p . ople bravo them still ' . _"Clunia ! launch o'er that great river , From each battery's burning quiver All tha arrows of jour hate : Blood of Poles tbeir fire shall quell , And , for themselves invincible _. Shall make th * Bussian free at well , Soon or lata—coon or lata . Tremble , monarch ! ! lest the slave Learn , from striving with the brave _.
Their great courage , to be free ! Lest yonr soldiers , borne returning , Come with fires of freedom burning , And your worthiest fetter * spurning , Strike at je—strike at ) e t * Ti # no more the olden atory , Sc « ptres golden , eroiier hoary . Worthless waif * of Foll _/ t day : 'Tit the people , _ft-. thly risen , Beat _againit each _nation-prffon ; _SoappealfromFatt ' _t decirion - . Ton or they—yon or they «
"fields art rift _wiili fiery etort ; _Wreedtm ben . lt her harvest o'er , Poland ! not alone for thet : -Throughout man * * _grtat _inheritanet , "Where ' er Cod ' s gtoriout _tunbeame glance , And _breexet blow and billowt dance _. Pout , h mc ! and WollD , be fsib
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I Extinction Of Pauperism. Btphwci Napou...
I EXTINCTION OF PAUPERISM . BtPhwci _Napouox lorj » Buosapabts . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . Princes but rarely profit by misfortune : whether ia { prison or exile they usually "forget nothing and learn notbinr ; " nevertheless , in this « e of progress 1 there are even princes who exhibit themselves at I tKoepiions tothe above universally-recognised rale . * * We _understand that his exiled Highness tbe Bake I p / Brnnswick dm , during his stay _amongstns , become f _Bimrthimr more than a mere political Radical , and - should he ever return to Brnnswick will be very : likely to astonish tlie liberal gentry who some fifteen Tears ago were so excessively revolutionary . In the little work before us we hare evidence that the lessons of adversitv have also had a good effect npon the last ofthe _Nap ' oleoni . The would-be Emperor of France ha s not sojourned in the eitadel of Ham for
nothing _, lie ha * , apparently , left that fortress " a better and a wiser man _; " less intent upon Raining a erown , than of improving the condition _ottheunfeappv ' millions ofhis fellow-creatures . Although we should be vett -wrryto help either the Dake of Brunswick or Prince Napoleon to thrones—for " put sot your trust in princes" is still the orthodox belief with us—nevertheless , we hail with gladness every exhibition by them of a sincere interest in thewel . fare of their fellow-men . If , indeed , they have abjured the arrogance and prejudice of class , and learned to regard all men as their brethren , our wish will be that they may speedily have their term of exile brought to a clots , and consequently , be surrounded by better circumstances than thsy are at present , to enable them to aid ia thegreatworkof mankind ' s regeneration .
In the _littla work before us , the author , after briefly hut faithfully describing the evils ef the present system as _regarda industry , taxation , ngricaltuiv _, and home and foreign commerce , sums up ia the following words - . — The working clattet possess nothing . We mnst make then proprietors of the soil . Thej _postett so wealth save in tbeir arm * . Wt mmt employ _theie , so at to make thtm awful to all . The -iveririn _; classes are Ilka Helott in the midst ofa _Sabjr ite people . We oast give them a position in society , and bind their interests to the soil , finally , the working classes are _without _organitstisn _attachrattiti , rights , or prospects . We most girt them both rights aad future prospects , and elevate them in the scale of society by combination , _education , and disci * plioe . The author next brine forward his remedy : —
To accomplish a project so worthy of the democrat " * and philanthropic spirit of the age , go necessary fer tht general well being , and to useful to the repofa of iocittj . three things are necessary : —1 st , A law . 2 nd , The _advancement of loads from tha budget . 3 rd , Orgaaiiation .
I . -ma iaw . There ave In Prance , according to official agricultural _stetittici . 9 , 151 , 000 acres of uncultivated lands _btlonging *» government , to " wrought or _ineUridaalt . These _fcettb * , commons , or pasture lands _yield a very small _rentofsfrantt aaacre . Tbey art like sunk capital , benefiting no one . _L-t the chambers decree that all th-ee _uncultivated lands shall belong in right to the Working association , on condition that they annually pay to the actual proprietor * the same amount which they receive now . Let tbem consign the idle acres to tbe idle arms , and thete two unproductive capitals will spring into
life , the one operating npon the other . Then the means will have been dissevered of mitigating misery by enriching the country . So at to _avoii the reproach of exaggeration , w « will suppose that two-thirds of these nine nillioni of acres can he given up to the association , and that the remainder may bt either un arable _tr occupied by hornet , rivers , conaU , io . There win remain 6 , 127 , 000 acres to bt cleared . Thit work would be _rendsred possible br the creation of _agricultural colonies , which when Mattered all over France would farm the basis ofa single and vast organisation , of wbich all tbe poor workmen might be members although nut individual proprietor * .
2 . tbb _aaviscc or _rrnos . Ths necessary advance of monejr for the creation of these colonies _» ught to be furnished bv the state . According to our estimate , M 0 million * of francs or £ 12 , 000 , 000 payable in four years , would be required . # * Tbis advance of 100 millions of francs wonld not then be a sacrifice , but a magnificent investment of money ; and could the Stat * on contemplating thegrandenrof the object refuse it , whilst annually expending 18 millions of francs in preventing or punishing attack * made upon property , nhilst sacrificing every year $ 00 millions of francs in teaching the trade o ( soldiering , and whilst proposing so etpenditare of 110 millions ot francs in the construction of new prisons J In short , tbe nation which without _perithing gave 3 , 000 million * to the Invaders of
fiance , nhich without murmuring paid 1 , 009 millions to _emis-rants _, which without alarm _expended S 00 millions _oathe fortificatiout of Ptrit ; will that nation , I aiV , hesitate to advance SOS millions ia fonr years to aboliih _t-eaperiftn , to relieve tha community of tht enormous hardens , _imposed by misery , and to augment tbe _territorial wealth by more than 1 . 000 millions t SOKB or THE ADVAKTACIS Of A 0 _SICCLTU 1 AL CttXOMES . Agricultural colonies would have two ends to fulfil . The first would be to support a vast number of poor by employing them in the cultivation of tbe soil , etc . The second would be to afford a temporary refuge to the floating mass of workmen , whom the _proaptrity of trade , once callrd into activity , and whom its stagnation or the improvements in machinery , plunged into the deepest misery .
All the poor—all who were out of work—would find In thete colonies meant of _employing mind and body for the benefit of the entire community . » * * When private industry required bands , It Weuld Seek tbem at those central _drpo-s , and it is clear that the workman who wat always sur _» to find a living in tbe agricultural colonlts would not accept of private employment _, unless the latter presented greater btaefits tban the _formt-r ; hence a _retaunerative scale of wage * would always be maintained .
Instead of seeking containers in China Ut us increase our territorial wealth . Let thera employ all » _ht idle arm * for the benefit of all the wretched and indusiriou _* . and let tbem not forget thai Frtn w , which has been so richly endowed by heaven , tontains within herself all tbe elements of _protperity . It is a stigma upon our civilisation to think tkat , in the nineteenth century the tentk Part of our population should be in rags and _perishing from want , _utnielt : manufacturing produce which cannot be told , tud agricultural supplies which cannot be _Wruumed .
It would not _become u _* i to quote the entire of this " work ( which may be had for the small charge of sixpence ) ; we , therefore , paw over the author ' s system of _management for tlie agricultural colonies , and his calculations as to the expenses , receipts , _» Hd profits . " e confine ourselves io the concluding observations Of the author : — Every one _enitnatid bv a Jove fir his species demandt _JUitice tor ths _workiag e ' _aiSM _, who teem to be disinherited of all the _beuefiu of civilisation . Our proj tet toa . fer * _upor _, them all that is calculated to improve the condition of man , comfort , edntation , order , and tht chance _wbicji Is afforded every one of elevating himself b y nil
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own nW _* "' * » nd industry . Our organisation tends to _tVlthtag leu * Aaa tha making in the conn * of a fen years , the poorer c 1 a *? ' » richest association In all " ? r _«« ce . Row _tnertwara ' ofUbourls left to _elittoe or vlolenee . The mtiter either _opprtsitt , or tht workman revolts _Aecordiagto oar eysttra wages would be find , as ali human things ought to bt regulated , not by force , bat 6 ceordlBg _* sollieJMt equilibrium established between tht wants of those wbo toil and the necessities of those wbo provide work . In the present day all flock to raris , which i , s a centre , _obtorbt all the _tmrglet of the country ; our tjstem , without injuring the centre , would carry life to farthest
the extremities , ba bringing into action SB new ¦ jiternt , working- _nn-ler the direction of the < "ovtrnm * nt . What it waoUd to realise such a _projtct ! Oae year ' s pay of the array is fifteen time * the turn given to America , or an expense equal to that employed on the fortifications of Paris . This adranct would , after twenty years , bring b * ck to Trance 1 , 000 millions , to the working _cltites S 00 millions , and a . revenue of 37 fflilli' -ns of francs . tet the Government put our project in to execution , modifying it aco _-rdlng to the experience of men well versed in such complicated natters , and who m » y snpply uieful bints and cast new lights _apon them . L « t it take _toheatt the great national interest . Let it establish the comfort of
the masses on an Immovable batit and it will b-come _immoveabls itself . Poverty would no longer become sed _« _tt-ms , when wealth was no longer oppressive . It is a great and holy miisiou , and worthy of man ' s highest ambition to strive to subdue human nature , ; o heal all wounds , to soooth the sufferings of humanity by unities the people ofthe tame country in one common interest , and by accelerating that future which _civilisatioa will sooner or later other In . 1 b the beginning of tho last century Li Fontaine uttered this sentence , which is too often true , but always sad and so destructive of society , _ord-r , and bier « rchie»— "I tell you In plain French our enemy is our matter . " lo the present day the aim of every wise Government should be to bring about a time when it might be said , " the triumph of Christianity hat destroyed slavery . The triumph of th * French revolution hit destroyed servitude , and tht triumph of democracy hae destroyed paupttism . "
The rnifitary discipline which forms part of Prince Napoleon's _tystera may suit Frenchmen but weuld not Er . glisli « en , and in other respects tbis plan for the extinction of pauperism may not meet the concurrence of those who are already engaged in trying ether plans , in despite ef the want of government help ; still thit little book deserves our hearty recommendation _, and sure we are , that with ail the faults of this plan , there are few indeed of our readers who would not see Prince Napoleon called in to administer to Ireland in her present wretched state , rather than longer trust her in tbe _buns-lin _? hands of the quack Russell , or the old bleeder O'Connell .
Tiie Reasoner. Pania 8 And 9. Edited By ...
TIIE REASONER . _Pania 8 and 9 . Edited by G . J . Holyoake . London : Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . We are glad to see that the _Rfitoncr bas been doubled in site with onl _> a slight advance in price . This ia prool of progre ? s . In these two parte there are many well-written and truly valuable essays , among which we may distinguish articles on " The Laws of Nature ; " Sir E . B . Lytton ' s "Zanoni ;" " Influence of Lord _Rosse ' s Telescope on Theology ;" and " The German Divines , " ( translated from Quinet . ) The last number ot _PartO ( February 17 th . ) contains an interesting account of some discussions at Northampton and Long Buckley , in which Mr . Holyoake has been acting as Reason ' s champion , and appears to have had by far the best ofthe fight . In the same number is contained some remarkable _diiclosurefconcernin < : " Henry the Eighth ' s scheme of Bishopries ; " which , it appears , is the title of a book , of which we have the following - strange ac- j
count : — The book itself tells how such revelations happened to be published by Charles Knight , of Iudgate-hill . Two gentlemen ofthe Central Society of Education went to examine tome MSS . in the _Ausmentation Ofice _, and found there no leu than 20 O ( lundl . _t , or volumes , having all reference to tbe commissions _appointed by Henry tht Eighth , to visit and scrutinise all the abbeys and monasteries ofthe Uuited Kingdom . Their curiosity was naturally excited by the importance of tbe subject , and the _tcandalous neglect in tome quarters or other of having lett t * moulder in dust for 300 years documents founded on authority , evidently proving that the church _estiblithment it anything but what it should be . They immediately set to extracting what appeared to them mott
important to be known by the publie at Urge , and bad actually _beguu to print tiro or three sheets , when suddenly , to their great _disappointment and surprise , they were told that , the 200 bundles of the MSS . h » d been removed by authority from the Augmentation Office ( where the public had access ) to the Treasury . The gentlemen of the Central Society of Education , whose laudable undertaking had thus abruptly been interrupted , wrote Immediately to Lord Jobn _Itassell , then Under-Secretary of _Statefer thellome Department . Hit _lordthlp replied , that he had ordered these MSS . to be removed from the Aug . _mentation Office tothe Treasury , because _thegovernment being itself employed oa the investigation of the same , with th * intention of publishing them , his lordship did _aot consider it proper that they should come before the
public through any other channel . The sheet * already printed were forwarded to Lord John to convince him tbat the publication wat actually begun , requestiog it might be allowed to continue . This , however , was denied , and all thsy could do was to publish the very little book now with you , in which , bowtver , there is _enough to show , by the correspondence of the commissioners , Thomas Cromwell , Archbishop Cranmer , and others , that the reforms intended by the ne , w _A-ngeUcan _biehopriei were principally the _applieatitn of church revenues to the education ofthe people—that is to say of all tbe poor , and even ofthe ploughman and labourer's children , and of all those whose parents ' annual income did not exceed £ 40 per annum , equal at least to £ 140 of the _present currency . Tou will see further in that preclous little book , that churches were to be built and repaired out of the church revenues ; bridges to be built
and road * repaired oat of the church revenue ; schoolmasters and teacher * to bs paid , and the schoolboyt to _havu weekly pocket-money out of the thurch revenue ; in short , it It trident from the authentic documest there imprinted , tbat if the church had continue' ! to be established according tothe _intentioas of its founder at the _rMunnition , neither poor-rates nor county-rates would ever hare been charged on tbe people ; for although ptuperiem bas much increased with the population , the amount of clerical tithes have increased ia three hundred year * with the increased value of property ia tbe proportion of at least a hundred to a thousand . In short , had the bishops been compelled by the Crown ( head of the church ) to _a-lhere to Henry the Eighth ' s Scheme of Biehopricks , pauperism would never bave become what it _unfortunately now » , ane ! th » _Injliih nation would be composed of tho belt educated people of Europe .
No doubt Lord John Russell , _whnsejackal ancestor _packedso large a share ofthe plunder of the Roman Catholic Church , had good reasons for suppressing thh strange book . Why does not some member of Parliament put a question concerning the said book to his little lordship ?
Koyal Polytechnic Institution. During Th...
KOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the week Doctor Bachhoffner has been engaged in delivering his annual course of lectures , in which he introduced a most eloquent and comprehensive _description ofthe matured views of onr modern _aitronomers . The clear and comprehensive style of the learned gentleman , aided- ** he i » by the gigantic apparatus of tbe establishment , renders the course of lecture * a most _valuable and instructive one , not only to the rising _jteneration , hut to those of mature growth . The lecture was rendered more pleating by musical illustration * performed by the orchestra of the institution , conducted by Dr . Wall's . Most of the airs , we understood , were original by this gentleman . In tbe chemical department . Dr . 3 . Ryan bas commenced a course of lectures on general chem ' _atry , in which he exhibits several mott beautiful and brilliant experiment * ,
explanatory of tha wisdom , power , and goodneu of the Sr < t s _*"*><* t cause . This gentlemnn'tltctureon the gun cotton * tm attracts great interest , and the Doctor continue * to lecture en tht subject three timet a week . In speaking of the rapid actios ofthe cotton during an ' explo-ion , the Professor showed a most remarkable experiment . He took a few grains of tbe cotton , and screwed it up in a soft pieee of paper ; after making a few boles in the paper with a common pin , he placed the paper in the barrel of a pistol , the rotten towards the breach ; he then fired it off , and although the cotton exploded with force enough to expel a bullet , yet tbe ptper _renutimd untoni and un _' _tajurvel . At first sight the result seemed the effect of some slight ef hand , bnt the Doctor referred it lo the rapidity of acti'in , the newly-formed gases escaping through pin holes , without tearing the ptper In the least .
Trials At Luobrxs.—The Judicial Proceedi...
Trials at _Luobrxs . —The judicial proceeding * concerning the individuals accused of complicity in j the assassination of M . Leu have been brought to a close . The judgment discharges M . _Corragioni as j _suspected , condemning bim to an eighth part of the : costs . The game sentence has been pronounced against _Ueussler , who , moreover , for having taken part in the _expedition of the Free Corps , will have toimden ; o ten months' detenti _« _in in the Ilouse of Correction . Roue Felix , mother of the assassin , _Jncques Muller , has been condemned to ciRhteen years' hard labour . M . Ackermann has been crude-fined to death , at the instigator of the _assacsin . At tbe pamo time , as it was he that denounced him , in con _< _-ideration of a _promise of impunity , there ia reason to believe that his appeal for pardon will be accepted . The absent aoeuaed have been treated like M . Corragioni , but several of tlicm , especially MM . Hnhler , Brunner , and Freiehcn , have been condemned tu death aa leaders of the expedition oi the Free Corps .
> _orriNGniH . —Lacx . —There has been more selling in each _department , since our last , than during any _pveceiling week this year . A similar demand , and _without increased supply forthe next month , would of necessity clear the market of stock and bring _tiling * 0 lto a Tery healthy state . GiASGOW . —Corro * _l Coobi . —For somo descriptions ol piece goods ne are , unable te repot , auy improvement in our market ,
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THE DEMOOh _^ _TIC COMMITTEE FOR POLANFS _REGENERATION TO THE WBMOj CRATIC POLES . IN RBFliT TO THEIR ADDRESS W _EUROPE
Poles ! Brothers ! We congratulate the friends of Poland And the democracy of Europe on the glorious evidence in behalf of liberty you hare once more given to tho world . You have established the eternal truth tbat the canse of justice cannot be quelled on the field of battle , nor buried under the ruins of stormed _capittla ; yeu havo proved the superiority of democracy Over _mUu'ircby ; Since monarchical Poland has Mien before _herenemie _* , but democratic Poland is _gaiiiing additional strength with every struggle .
Thanks , brave soldiers ! Thanks , gall * nt brothers ! You have founded * the note of hope and the tocsin of revolution to every slave , —and though your measure ei suffering surpasses that of most , those , even the _lettt oppressed , behold in the _' _reckless violation of all treaties by your tyrants—the omen of laws to be infringed , and constitutions to be disregarded , by their own . Placed in the _vanguard of European liberty , Poland has _recstved in her breast the blows aimed at the heart of western democracy . Across her prostrateuform advances the Cossack charge of
despotism , even self-interest therefore _csdia on the people of Europe to drive the foe from the house of their neighbour , before they are forced to struggle at their own fireside . Brothera _. lwe hail with delight _tbisj fresh proof of _JOlir _undaunt- _'d energy , and in its acknowledgment intend not only to convey the expression of our htartfelt sympathy , but the assurance . of all that support whieh English democrats are authorized to give . Erkbst _Josbs , President . ? G . Julia * ** Hauhet , Secretary . London , Feb . 22 , 18-17 .
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Tub Sociai. Condition Of Ireland. To Thb...
TUB _SOCIAI . CONDITION OF IRELAND . TO THB _KDITOn << r THB -VORTHHn"f STAR . Sis , — . The majority nf your readers will , 1 have no _doabt , agree with me that neither would the Btilway _motsareof Lord Oeorgt Bentiuck , ( had it been _ctrried , } nor that of the Oorernmen _* _, have any tendency , exaept temporarily , te alltviatt the condition of the Irish nation , but that wbich it required I will with the utmost brevity endeavour to explain . In 1 S 53 Sir Robert P . el said , " Ireland was his chief difficulty , * ' and here 1 will venture to ' asitrt , that that country need not be so to aay minister who has honesty and courage sufficient to grapple with the _lubjact . Hitherto the panaceas for
Ireland , have beea bat so many " beating * about the bu < h ; and at a time like tht present when famine » talks _through tha land , it Is no use mincing matter *; suffice it to tay then that Ireland it crucified betwwn tha landlord aad the parson , and no measure of relief can embrace permanency whieh hae uot for itt object , to render the possession of tht land , not at miserable cottiers , or tenants liable to ejectment and all the evils connected with subletting , Ac , dec .,- —but as proprietors , accessible to the people _» f tbat unhappy country , —and here I would suggest , tbat if a company similarly conducted ti the Chartist Land Comp-ny hue , was established in _Ivaland , it would not fail to ultimately accomplish that great desideratum .
I am , your obedient servant , R . C . _StllTON , An Elector ofNotiingham , Grey Friar's Gate , Feb . 20 th . 1-547 .
Tdk Rate-Paying Clauses. To Th< Bditoa O...
TDK RATE-PAYING CLAUSES . TO TH < BDITOa OV TBB _HOITHBBN 8 TAB , Sin , —For some _waeks past I have looked forward with intense anxiety to the proceedings of tbis evening , with regard to tbe fat * of tht Bill for the abolition of the Rate Paying Clause ! of the Reform Bill , introduced by the patriotic member for Finsbury . I must _inf-. _rin you that I hare just retunrned from tho heme of ( at present ; _Incurablei , where I bare been alternately gratified and disgusted , delighted with the manner in which the people ' s claims were enforced by Mr . Duncombe , C < ipt , Pechell , Mr . vfakley , Oeatral Evans , Mr . Plume , Htr . Williams , Sir B . Hall , Commodore Napier , iie . In fact , all the speaking worth listening to was decidedly in favour of the measure ; but Lord John , as might he _expicted , opposed the _pttitiont of the people , in a crafty ,
selfish , ana" equivocating speech , and , of COUttC , _WSS backed up by his colleague , Sir George Grey ; but oh ! my God 1 when another champion of Class _Lagislation rose for tbe purpose of opposing the motion , I felt that degree of disgust for the institution ! of my country , that I blushed to _flad myself an Englishman , and I wondered how , inthe namtofeommon sense , a constituency could be found to return such an ape to Parliament . He commeaced with his _"ifs , ** and " ahs , " hy meaning to say that " every body should cheerfully pay all rates and _taies , and weuld vote against the motion , " but how the reporters will be able to put hit speech into plain Engl ' uh . I re-Hy cannot divine , and feel assured that no respectable paper would faithfully publiih _. what he said ,
for it would be a gross intull to ootmnon sense and it < readers , in fact , lit said at much in about ten minutes as any ether idiot would in half a second , which would amount to thete three words , viz ., " D—a tha people !" On inquiry , I foiled thit was the immaculate member for _Cariitle , a descendant of the n » ble hoase of _Norftlk , whose crest is a lion , and whose motto sayt , " Sola virtu * invicta , "—which means virtue is alone invinciblebut as to tbe amount of virtue thehtnourable gentlemttn possesses , I will leave you and his constituents to infer from his sentiments to-night . I doubt not , Sir , he was sincere in tha expression of them , tor it ' s precisely the same sort of virtue tbat was exercised by bis noble ancestors when they came over with * Willi 3 m the Conqueror and his rapacious crew of brigands ;
Itreutmj friend Arthur , and brother Chartlstl of Carlisle , will look to this , and at onee prepare to remove the disgrace of having tbeir borough misrepresented by such a poor fool ; aad if they cannot find a better men at the neat election , it is my intentien to oppose " the hon . member" myself . The next , and only opponent of tbo measure , was Lord G . Bentinck , at which 1 wat very much grieved , for I had soma little hope that bis lordship would espouse tne popular cause , but , alas 11 am convinced that Whig , Tory and Protectionist , are ever united in crushing th *
hopes , and resitting every measure of ' asttce to the toiling millions , and nothing short of a complete reform of tbat corrupt haute will ever emancipate the people ot this country from the burdens under which they groan , Lett the people new bestir themselves , secure the return of a few staunch Chartist members , who will continually ring into tbe ears of tht _lojislaturo the wants and wishes of the masses , and so retard the progress of ( what is called in Parliataemary phraseology ) public business , that they will bt eompell . d to a * : ede to the rights of the many , until all are fully and fairly represented .
Hoping for a _spsedy consummation of my wishes , and still clinging to my motto , " The Charier and the Land !" I am , Sir , yours truly , J . Shaw . Gloucester-street , Commercial-road , East . Tuesday Night , Feb . 23 rd .
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. Si-DDE * ' Attn _ArrscTitra Dbath _* . —The sudden an affecting death ot Mr . Charles Thornton Cuntiiufjbani , Lieutenant-Governor of St . Christopher ' _^ and of thc Leeward Islands , is announced in the West Indian papers which have just arrived . It appears tbat this gentleman had driven in from the country to llas-. _aterrc , the seat of the government , in apparently vUorous health and cheerful spirits , to open tha newly-elected Houses of Legislature . After transacting some business with his private secretary , and despatching a note to invite some officers in s * French ship of war just come into port to luncheon at Government-house , he rode down to tho mailofKce to meet hit letters and a box containing a picture of a much-beloved sister , recently deceased in Encland . He stated to more than one person ,
that lvm earnestdesire to possess tho picture was twit unmixed with fear as to the effect the sight of it might produce . upon him . So strongly had this apprehension fastened itself on his mind , that , on the arrival of the box at Government-house , he sent a servant in quest of a friend who _mij-ht be with him wben the box was opened . Having failed in finding him , he proceeded to open the box . His butler , who was pi-went , reports that ho looked at the countenance earnestly , turned pain , whispered a few words to himself , walked hastily up to his own mom , was heard almost instantly to tall as ho entered it , and his servants following upstairs found him _stretshed on the floor a corpse . The St . Christopher ' s Gaulle , as well ns many other public and private communications , bear the strongest testimony to the ability , vigour , and high moral charaoter of this gentleman , and to the- tenderness ana munificence with which hi
all times , and _^ _eBoecially under a recant visitation of Island fever , he had ministered to the wants and sorrows of the negro population . The houses of Assembly met immediately after his death , and passed an unanimous vote for a funeral at tho public expense , to testify , aa they expressed it , at once their respect for his official rank and tho hi « h _esteem in which lie was iioldby all _classosef the ; co » imunity . On the nest day he was followed to the grave by all the public auUioritiej , _tbejneiuben of the two houses , the _bios'u _distinguished persons in the colony , and by _thousands of grateful and mourning negroes , to whoso welfare ho had _larj-ely contributed . Mr . Cunningham assumed the government of St . Kilts in May , 1839 , and fell a victim , as his physician ' states , partly " to ihe exhausting influence of _troi pical climates on the nervous powers , " and partly to ' the intensity of brotherly affection , in tho 30 th year ' of his age .
i Died at Boliou , on the 17 th February , Robert V , link . j horn , who for fivo or six years lias been an active rjiember of the Chartist Association , alio a member d the Land Company . He was followed to his _grt- _vtt 00 _Sunday last j by bis frieatJs _deepl y regrett . d _.
The Ketf Poor Lawbrougham Wzs Brougham. ...
THE _KETf POOR LAWBROUGHAM wZs BROUGHAM . [ Mr . Oastfer has recently addressed the folio-ring to the Editor of tho ifornwo Pott . ) If tho elevation of the social condition of thepeople of England be , indeed , the object ef Lord John Rus-«* 11 d Government , his Urstact will be te restore the Christian and constitutional rights ofthe poor . The social edifice can never be safely reared on _injustice _, our _legislatoH may _frtrire to give peaoe and secure order _amonir ths diffdrerrt ranks ef society , but their efforts will be vain until they hare filled up that wide _pulf which the New Vow Law ias caused between the rich nnd the poor . The friendly sympathy of the payers to the receivers of the poors' _rutes is destroyed fey that law ; it must be re-established ere their union can be hoped for .
Parochial government , the distinguishing feature of the ancient Constitution of this kingdom , has interwoven itself into the very nature of Englishmen ; its absence festers and irritates the national mind , and will for ever prevent a willing obedience to * the laws : it has destroyed that veneration for our laws and institutions which distinguished the loyalty of this people from that of all other nations . These thoughts have suggested _therasolves from the perusal of the observation !! made by Lord Brougham , on the 23 rd ultimo , in the House of Lords .
It ia _pamlrd to hear one who has beon Lord High _Chanee-Hor of Encland , who should b ** a constitutional lawyer , when speaking of the meditated alterations of the New Poor Law , sty— " I do hope that no one part ofthecornerstoneofthe 8 _ystem , namely , centralsuper . intendence—that no one inch or atom ol that corner stone of the whole important fabric will be touched : " for . Sir , it is manifest that centralisation is the matter grievance of the whole system . It is that which entirely separates the ratepayers and tho receiversit destroys all sympathy between the parties—eradicates those local ties tbat were the strongest bulwarks oi the nation—removing from the breasts of the wealthy the fostering care of the poor , and from the latter their _\ ttachment to the dispensers of the national bounty . It destroys the influence of the clergy and the aristocracy , and makes them the mere toots of commissioners .
England owes more of its greatness and glory to the sympathy ofthe different classes in society than to her science and wealth . When that link is weakened her power and glory wanes . Lord Brougham may hare become enamoured of centralisation by his residence in France : it is the duty nf every Englishman to resist the establishment of that system here , where parochial government is tbe distinguishing and life-preserving printiple that pervades alt our institutions . That Lord Brougham is possessed of great and varied talents , none can deny ; that hid lordship ' s judgment is sound—that he understands the English
chnractcr—I h » ve yet to learn . The settled conviction of tho people of England , _expressed in thoir manly denunciation of the New Poor Law , he calls " clamour . " Their meetine in _peaeeful assemblies to petition for its repeal he styles " violent , unscrupulous agitation . " The strong constitutional arguments ( backed by the opinion ofthe late Lord Chancellor Eldon ) that aro used to persuade the Legislature to repeal that law . Lord _Brougham calls "the most senseless theories , ""the most injurious for the people of this country that can be entertained , "— " the pressure from with out . "
Lord Broiwham should remember that it was " clamour , nnd violent , unscrupulous agitation" that rahed bim to the woolsack—it wan "tbepressure from without" tha obtained the Reform Bill . May be . Lord Eldon indulged in "the most _semieless thcerie _*! , "— -perhaps that venerable and constitutional lawyer was not so deeply read in the principle of our laws as his ocoentric _suocessor . The learned ia Westminster Hall Judge otherwise . Ose point , however , is ' capable of proof . Lord Brougham now says , "That Bill ( the New Poor Law ) was for the benefit of the poor , and not oi the proprietors ; that I shall over maintain . " Lord Broueham , on the second Teadin' * of the New Poor Law Bill in thu House of Lords , said— " AH property is Bhaken to mooes , and the times aro fast approaching when it shall be no more . " It is , then , impossible that his Lordship can speak correctly now . Aeain , Lord Brougham told tbeir lordships that
*• the rental was crumbling down daily and hourly into the poors' bnx . " Was not this 'to _alaria his hearers in respect of their property ? His Lordship also . aid— " Thus _utands the case ; suppose I am a Westmoreland _paupor—as I oertainly very soon may be , if the present system continues ! " How , then , can this same orator , with truth , assert that "the New Poor Law waa not for the benefit ot the proprietors ?" Lord Brougham is , forsooth , very anxious that the consideration of the New Poor Law shall be first had inthe House of Lords , in order to secure "the greatest circumspection , deliberation , nnd the most mature refieetim . " Thc following quotation from his lordship ' s speech already quoted will at once exhibit Lord Brougham ' s peculiar qualification for " circumspection , deliberation , and reflection . " and convince him that he greatly mistakes when he assures their lordships that tho New Poor Law " was for the benefit ofthe poor , and not of the proprietors : "—
" I will not tay that as yet the [ old Poor Law ] system has so _workdd at to !» y watte any considerable portion of territory ; thit It hat a direct and _necemry tendency to do so ; that unless it * _progrett be arretted it must go on till it gain that point ; that ore long we must reach the brink of the precipice , towards which we are hurrying with accelerated rapidity that the circumstance of one perish being thrown out of cultivation inevitably and immediately tends to lay three or four others watte , » nd tbat _tbit _devastation , gathering strength as It proceeds , mu « t needs cover the land . On these facts no man who consultt the body of evidence before your lordships can entertain tht shadow of a doubt . Stand where we are , we cannot . I might tay with others , whoso minds aro filled with despair and the dread of coming _uvents , that I could be content never to have
things better , so I were assured they would never be worse . But tills—even this wretched compromise—le impossible , with the frightful _sconrge that it ravaging our e _* mntry . Tht question ib , saall we retrace our ttept , or shall we he pushed forward , and down the steep wc stand on . by the _momentum of this weight which we have luid upon ourselves ! That tuch is our position—that tuch is the course we are pursuing—thnt tuth it the _jtnlf towards which wt are _hastening , no man living , gifted with an ordinary mtasure of sagacity , can deny . This , then , it tbe picture of our _situation ; harsh in itt ontline , dismal in its colouring , in every feature tad and awful to behoM . This it the aspect of affairs , menacing the peace of society , undermining the tafety of dominion , nil assailing the tecurity of property , which the syttem , as now administered , _enhibitt to the eye . **
Such was the wild declamation ofa Lord Chancellor , who now insinuates that the Members ofthe House of Commons may not Bafely be entrusted with the consideration of tbe _mensnro _, about which , in the House of Lords , he so wildly raved and raged—a measure which he now says , and declares " he will ever maintain , " " was not for the benefit of the proprietors !" There can be no mistake about these extracts : they are from Lord Brougham ' s corrected speech , cf which _thoupands of copies were sent to different and di tant places , at the public _oost ; among the rest , one was sent to mo .
I think 1 have _demonttrated—Lord Brougham being witness—that the New Poor Law was forthe benefit ofthe proprietors , and not for the * poor . If I mistake not , I have shown , on the same authority , that , while Lord Brougham is _preseat , tho House of Lords is not the plaoo where we _roay expect tha New Poor Law to be treated with " the greatest circumspection , deliberation , and roost mature reflection . " Really , Sir , it is high time thabthis _momcnlwns subject should be treated with its _deserved _attention . It is absolutely necessary that decs ?* should no tenger be practised upon our Legislature . We have _raeently had an awful exhibition of the-want of truth in another place . I havo furnished ) ground in tMs letter for Lord Brougham to apologise tu their Lordships and the country for the _mitwepresentatiwiofamo- _'t important fact ; if his Lore , shin fails to correct his
misrepresentation , the pubfiecannot have great re * _spcet forthe _truthfulnessof his character . If you will allow me _sptwe , I will , in another letter , prove ( Lord Brougham feeinc again my only witness ) that his anticipation * of tho benefits to be derived from the Now Poor _I-aw were vain and delusive . On his own authority _\ will , with your ' _permission , establish the faot , ibat ths Nkw Poor Law is a Failurx ! I remain , Sir , Your obedient servant , _ . _ . Richard UastijU * . London , Feo _., 1847 * P . S . _—Hwwatranae ! _Thosoverv men . who told u » that the 43 d of Elisabeth had caused the ruin of England , nowproposo the _samej measure forthe cure of Ireland !
Believe mo , there is ' . noro in the question of the Now Poor Law than man . y are willing to believe . The times nre _approaching -when the poor must really re ceive the most _serioi-, 3 and benevolent attention of the _Legislature . Let the Pro _^ _tt _^ _tOTiists eschew centralisation , 01 cease to ; prof ess allegiance to the principles of the _Constitution . R . O .
Ii'aww Distiubby. — On Wednesday Morning...
Ii _' aWW _Distiubby . — On Wednesday morning , M _x-sra . W . Bay / brd and J . _Lewins , the active officers jf Excise , proceeded to No . 5 , Triangle-place , _Kennington-cross , where they knocked for a considerable time , but , no answer being returned , they ; got a ladder , and gained an entrance by a first-floor back window . In a lower room they found a large copper still , capable of containing nearly 200 gallow , and a quantity of fermented wash of malt and molasses No person was found on the premUeaj but the null bad recentlv been at work ,
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geology , the lecturer stated that the _anusa . valuo of ¦ I *" ! : !**" ¦& ro , ln o *» of this country at ! iob ? ts to about £ 25 , 000 , 800 . -of this $ 0 , 100 , 000 . h Mm coals ; £ 8 , i 00 , 000 . from iron ; £ 1 . 200 , 000 " from copper ; * 820 , 000 _Jrom . lead ; £ 400 , 000 . from ant ' i " 390 , 000 . trom tin ; _* 60 . 000 . from _musanne \ £ 35 , 000 . fremailver _; £ 22 , 000 . from alum ; £ 8 , 001 ? hem st lie ; and £ 25 , 000 . frora various other metal *? ' as antimony , bismuth , » r * enic , < sc . ' Railboabs i . v Earn . —The _barrago and embankment of tho Nile are _prrjuressiiij ; satisfactorily , ami in December last 20 , 0 ( _$ * persons were employed thereon , working alternately day and night . Ali Pasha , in fact , eontemplattHr- great structural improvements in Egypt , _wliirfl-he cortainly will carry out if hie life be so far prolonged . Amongst these is a railroad from Alexandria to Cairo , another from Sues' to- Cairo . An _embarSraent of tho Nile in _Jvubia ( l ) 'i » also spoken of .
Tw o ** Btwi _* to na _IIuho _wii _/ _t-NsvinDROwit . —« Tke Emperor of Russia w about to construct a 8 US « pension _bridgeat thepoint where-a'short time ago he narrowly escaped being drowned in crossing the _Nte mer , near Kowno . The works will be commenced ia spiing . Swanuitw-r k » thb Metropolis . —Information has been received by us as to a must extensive and artfully concooted system of plunder , _attemptst ! to be carried © n _* at present by partios in _Lwidon , somo of whom reside west of Tottenbam-eourt-road , and another who advertises by certain ¦ < initials ,. Par * ties requiring _loemji must be on their guard . —Sun my _Twmk . Skow w tub _MiftusM —It is somewhat _sinuular "
what in tlie * midland counties generally- and ia ther bMak regions of tbe Peak of Derbyshire in particular' lees inconvenience was experienced-from deeplying _, snow , and ,, in fact , that _leus _snowhas felleo than perhaps _in _^ any other district in Great Britain . _ConrUBSaKI _* ' Bkah Charcoal . —Mr- Jasper Wra . Rogers _^ proposes- to cut up the peaty superstratum of tlie * irish _bojr-land into portions , subject these-to hydraulic pres » _nr » and then convert them intocharcoal' "thus affording employment to multitudes , prepariatg the land for useful purposes , and affording the means of _amalting British iron into material equivalent to-that of Sweden . Turf , too , at 5 s . a ton , will prod-ice as muoh steam as Scotch _ccei at 10 s . a ton .
_SiBAne-B Fioubb- 09 Spbech . —The Hon . Mr . ! Eickliniof Illinois , im allusion to division on the war question dn- the Whig party , said , " they gobbled witk the Turkeys and ro * . i * ed with tho _chickunsi _'*' A _Qi / bbr Chick *—The lady of a respectable _citisKn in > BhiIadelphia . _gave birth to a fine son in ene of the public sleighs on Wednesday . —New Rrk Amtricam ¦ A _SuBsoRrwrio-i for the relief of the distressed Irish has been commenced alt Geneva , and hu already produced more than £ 110 t Lau _»>** a * ih , —Two boys , one of whom is nine and tho other eleven years old , have been committed for trial at Loughborough , on a charge of burglary .. _PnoPBRtT-Tax-, *—The grand council of tha'Swiss canton of Berne has resolved to impose a property tax , whioh will not exceed one thaler for every thousand thaJers-of capital _.
Musical _Mic-b _. —It would appearth . it musical mica are _bocomingxommon * . for the Ipswich / oama ' eaya that a bootmakerof that town has trapped a singing mouse , whieh that paper describes as " a most- _interesting and , at the « amo time , a most wonderful performer . " Acld Rbikib , —In _> ISiO , among 4 . 503 _priwners _conSned in the prison at Edinburgh , 2 , 400 _were-convictod drunkard * . IiiDROPuoBiAi—Very serious mischief h « lately been committed by dogs in a rabid state in the neighbourhood of Penrith , and in different parts of Westmorel-md . A Good E _* sa ** _ipi , b . —Messrs . Chubb and Sony the eminent look and fireproof gate makers have , inconsequence of the _risa-iu tht ) price of provisions , raised _, the vases of their workmen for three month 3 : certain . This is the more creditable , as it _was-unso _* iieited .
A Ciiaubn & b . —Mi \ It . Newall , of London , has challenged to row the- best four men at Newcastleupon-Tyne , for JE 3 D _0-8 > sido . The match to be rowed on the Lomlon river . if not , he was remly to meet them half way , each party paying theirown expenses . Austria : * _Ttrashv _;—It i _« , _nocording to tha -Austrian code , a grave oftciicoto smoke a _eiijar whilst passing before a sentinel . If the unwary passenger , on the first summons , does not remove the offending pipe or cigar from . hi * mouth , hu is admonished-by a stab from a bayonet ,, and several inhabitants of Cracow hare been thus wotmdod since the occupation of the city by tbe Austrians .
_DhSBRIKRS _7 R 0 M' THB UxiTBD StATRB _AffiliT-. — The States Police- Gazette advertises tho names ol 718 _doserters , for each of whom a reward of thirty dollars is offered . Of this number , 102 deserted the 10 th of _Oetobar last . The names comprise only tha men belonging to the standing army , and docs nob include the volunteer _^ who amount to 10 , 514 meD , very nearly douMo the number o { the _regular-ttoopa , as stated in the Adjutant-General's report up . to the 5 th of December , last . It appears from this- 'statement that more men desert from the _UnitsdStatos army of S _. _ttT'Saue-n than ftoui tho _Freneh army , of 300 , 000 . _Homu-opatihc—The Aulic Chancery- at Vienna has published a deeree which subjects the . honiCBOpathic _doctot-s _to-a-ir-ore severe control .. Formerly they wero alloweditoi prepare their own medicines ; they aro in future obliged to procure thoir ingredients and medicaments from the apothecaries .
Gaol Pj-iiQuisini'k—It came out in . . the _* course ot proceedings at Lambeth Police-court , that-the Governor of _llor-iemouger-lane Gaol makes a perquisite by giving copies of-the commitments of . tho . prisoners to tlieir friends , for which half-acrown -is charged . A * _iMMaxsu _SsafiULATio _!" . —In tha _Uni-ed States Senate Mr . Morehead presented & . « cniprial _J-xioly from the editor of a daily Cincinnati pap , . " _-. ¦ _liw- _'i , * Congress-to . invest him with power to fo . n , _* . ;/• : - pany to _extendithe magnetic telegraph " ¦ _¦• _cij _. the AtlanticOcean . _!!* " Referred to the . Post •¦ . 1 le * . vommittee . _Ha » m *> 08 . _—Tjlio Norwegian herring 1 -bory . _h-i * been very plentiful , and the fish haye _betii . ; c <* _< _•{• . lent quality " . , , , , Tom . _Tiiv ** iJ . —Mr . Atkins , ofthe _Lnrernoul _Zoological Gardens , hat purchased l ! j 6 . tniiiiaturo equipage of General Tom Thumb . . . .
Pr caftan .. —The sultan Ira ordered tha abolition _, ofthe Constantinople slavo _niaskets .. Con . _Fisussise . —Tho deep sat cod-fishery has commenced at the Isle of Alan , _animany prime fish have been caught .. Suvirt . —The last _censun-of thc United States gave 42 lV _)&" _'astho numberof f ' onialo . _sl-ives under ten years of age , aud 390 , 00 _C-. as .. the number , between ten and twenty . , Tub Pskiis . —Command _^ .. William _Peely son oj Sir _Kob-Mt Peel , h _* is _bcet _^ appointcd _te . atanniand the _"Etuing , " twelve gun *» loop , on _tUe . Weat India station . . ¦ . „ . _, _ La * *" - ?* _MowtAim . —An nv , _acconntr . *>!» mortality appears to . prevaii in W ( ir ** _ster-tliii-e _amotigthe young lamb _»„ whkh are said to bo dying _iB-WMtraumbei- * , without apparent cause 4
any . _ _ __ „ :. _ . «• ., * _Waro-twvk-Tho A » h _* oath Gu _^ _vmontions that a tumour near a cow ' s udder was late y . opened by a vSary surgeon , at Forfar , aneWinner fork comnlPie . eswrta part of one prong , was taken out . P ITor-. o-i . iThe editor ofthe _^« f _» *» _*«* inform * l _*» readers , thftt haying publislitjl Dombey nil . So ** " and the _P-t-sidenfs Message lie ou « ht to _beesfuaed giving _auj moro fict . efl _. ior the present . _Tii-s Potato _Dis-jasb . —Tho _lo-Ss erased by the _ravjig _* _- " of the potato _discas _* . within the counties of _Aaglesoy and Carnarvon , is _, cstimaJ » d , by parties wlio , » r < - compotciit tn judge ,, _at-lfUv in the pound _iipoa tho annual _-t-eatat of thi _^ laad , rs _assessod to the _DCC" ? rates .
* £ xruA 0 RDi » v 4 _v . —A few _dfl , y > 3 . si (* ce , a policeman stationed at Oakham cau _*^\ y a _roWn with a _cinnalaon-coloured bock , and otiier parte of a cinnamon _, colour . Its breast is red , ateitlio same as others , and . its wings , tail , and legs , aid each , side of its head , are 1 of a hue approaching to _wiiitoness . _PHOTCSIcis FROM -El-- . I | J > _y"fSD STATB 3 . — nie 3 Oxford and Orphan , from _Saw York , Richard i _Anderson . from _BaltimorcDefa-cc and _Hudius . trom a _Charlest-itt , and Lavno from iNow Orleans , whicli li were _renorted at Liverp ool oa tho 22 ml inst .. bring ig 8 , 0 » 1 barrels of flour . 8 , _Gt )& . " _-ags _arui 36 _,-i _74 i VmsbelB > 5 b of Indian corn , 2 , ]* 0 _£ ; barrci * ok" Indian __ _cowi-uieaJ , d , 657 tiwoe ** of rice , and 2 . 00 * buses oi biscuit . the
Suss asd _Diiti'ciBQ .- 'ifhe lato Mr . Suot , he actor , going onco to dintj about twenty wiles from . mi _LosiJoti , ami hem only able to get an outside place ice or tho coach , _ajyivod insuoh a bedraggled state , front nnt tl » incessant sain , and so muffl ed up ia great coats _ats _a-ad _handkershiofs , that his friend _inured , doubt- ibtingly , * ' Are you _StHlf" " No , " replied the w » g , » g , "I ' m _dripping . " , _„ ,,,- __ Good C _^ Affr * _- _** . —Tho lato Lord Eldon hadoeef t- _acftsiontotlijchargottwachman whore-bo suspected of d of _purlotnir _^ his cora . In a few days after , he received ivcd a letter from a merchant , inquiring into tho man a an a i character , and his lordship ' s ropi * was , that he wns _wnsi _sober and _agotul coachman , _buftUo entertained sue- suepicionsthat bo had cheated _fe > v . The man c _« m 8 * _ftme . ne-vt day to return thanks to hi * lordship lor ¦ ro _* _J : _* 'f ; ; ing him so ' excellent a _pltwje _.- ' _"Mj _***** ' _^ _. _" ood iJ _/' _was contented to _fituli wa _** sober am i oed _" , ood coachman ; but n » to -cheating _)' _- _* _-- r K '" 1 ' _/ _jS ' _/ _JSI U _' lought tho 'devil bimxLP could not doit . -Ufit-Ufitt
of _lard mm . r p afc su si .. Suicix . _i" .-0 . i 1 ' ucaj hy . _^ j ; _fjJffle * _Birch-ttrcW _» f W «»«» _^ _X , _^ a _lchmaker , and-, audi all , aged -13 _Uic _d-wased was a d , _jMtee } eetedd during the last nva * I " _£ fu _* c " _Uelcl _' t Immclmma pn , Wl' If _tluoiat Boy _ale-honse , at _lalingtannghma _Sftc » _oS _' _omiel Z th , p . ™ _bleeding ,,:, ; E J aUcro wound in thQ neck , lie _««» y « v _* * , « v ; _i-Si _cVbW-U-d , and by hi * side lay a largo _carvtniuv . _nijj | Si mc ct with _bload , He _*•« _t-nb _^^ enUy _conw conn r ?» _lu to thoaboTO _hwpltal , where he died on Suit , Sunt * [ Vary insanity ,
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_Extbnoaii . vo CIRCBM 8 TA . VCB 8!—A Brussels journal announces that an hotelkeeper and his wife having oeen prosecuted for _nsaassinatiug a traveller , nnd _convertmg _j , dead body into _siiugflgefl , were found _« . « _m _.. ' ¦•¦ * ' addition of _oxtonuating * eircum-K £ L > ? FreDch _* ourna _' th Worms , copie * "t _$ ? l * _foment , and observes , that no doubt the vietpd _nS c w - _»* taMea » wore , tbat the ccmo _^ l _^' _ffi r ,, t 0 _coninrftamurderin _FoRRiesKRs j s CoNBmmon » .-The member tf 657 ; Sardinians . 405 ; Neapoli an J 347 ' . _& _„ _*' 211 ; English , 210 ; Belgians , 182 ; _VuLiaST _/*
Mmmcht m MA » emsnn , — A _Ratepayor " in * letter to th * Manchester Guardian , states , that'in one hour last Saturday 31 begga _* called at his door —in the _coursrof the day 134 . Cautios . _*—OnSaturday evenins a person genteelly dressed , withou * ah « t , and wearing spectacles , and standing in ther passage of » house in Red Lion * street , Holborn ( sued aa a _billiard-room ) , accosted a youth who was passing by , and tapping him on the shoulder , requested' he wouid get tt cab for him , as he was in a hurry , promising to give bim sixpence for his trouble . The youth bavin * a bar with him , ho invited him to puS it behind the doer , as he would go quicker without it . On th * return of the boy with the cab , it is needless to say the bag and its contents , together with the _gentlematn ia _spectaoles and without a hat , had disappeared .
tna _Favan at Siibba-Ebom . —Letters frora Sierr » -Leono up to the 26 th cf Deeomber havo been received , reporting that the fever prevailed to such an extent in her Majesty ' s sloop Wanderer , that she was kept at Anchor there , and' had beon placed in quarantine . Up to the above day sh * had lost _Lieutenant W . H . Walters and nine of the erew , and had twenty-one sick in their _oots . Dbath or _Gbmeral Darrocit o * r Gowbock . —We havo to record the doath of General Duncan Darroch ef Gourock , which occurred at his mansion on Tuesday the 10 th instant .
Shipwuhck . —Ihe Momteur announcw that the steam-frigate Caraibe went en « hore ou the 10 th of January , at about fire leagues front the French establishment ef Saint Louis ( _Seagal ) , and that about twenty ofthe crew perished . Tn * WBW _Moket-obdkb _Owici . —On Monday next tho new _money-ordorolficc In _Aldowgate- 'treet , will be opened forthe transaction of publio business , and the payment ef money on money-orders . Ltplux ev Emioka ! _-ts fbom thb South oj _Ibilod to _xna Port 01 _London The Ajax steamship with a full cargo , and an 'immense number of deck passengers , consisting of men , women , and children , apparently in very poor circumstances , arrived on Monday afternoon at _Wappinjf . Further more , numerous bodies are , it is said , preparing to follow .
Alt ExOEIiMT SuBBTlTUT 8 P _6 n PoTATOHS . —• French kidney or _harieot beans are superior to every other kind ef grain or pulse in point of nourishment , They contain , according to Einboff , 84 per cent , of nutritive matter , of ' which 50 ia pure farina , the rest gluten and mucilac-e . Exkcctiok nt _Era-tR . —A man , condemned to death by the Court of _Aasiaes of tho Ardoche , has petitioned the _Minister of Justice toparmit him to undergo his punishment by _inhalinjr ether , death by such means , he understands , being without pain . _ExtnAORDWART Siior . —An extraordinary shot was last week made on the Hampshire coast by Colonel Hawker with ono barrel ofhis 2001 b . gun , and a 12-ounce patent cartridge by Eley . He picked up , at this one shot , 178 _oxbirdg and a plovor , exolusive of about three doxen more birds that escaped in the _Hcrambie of _eolleotins tho killed and wounded .
The _Mac-carri-, Fishkrt . —During tho past week large catches of mackarel have been takeB , oa Saturday last _thonsands were sent off by the railroad to the London and Bristol markets , and a market for them is now procured through railway agency in Birmingham . Thousands were retailed on that day in this town atone penny each . Thb New Combt . — The comet is rapidly inereaiing in brightness , and will continue to do so until its disappearance , _afy-at the end of the second week ia March . The other evening , _notwithstanding Ihe moonlight , it was distinctly seen through aa ordinary _nieht-gltiss . _Fkveb has considerably increased within the last few davs , among the Irish paupers in Liverpool .
_Sbrmohs , Pricb Tun asd Sixpbkch . —The followingadvertiaement appears in the John Bull of Sunday _, under the head of" Manuscript sermons supplied : " — ' * Many young ministers from press of parochial business , and from inexperience in composition , being sometime . " * obliged , very much against their inclination , and to the serious injury of their ministry , to copy sermons from books , the _advsrtUer , an experienced clergyman , engages to sup ply original sermons of gnod composition , of decidedly Evangelical
doctrine , and of practical application , on tuo receipt of balf-a-severeiun for each . Persons requiring sermons may choose their own texts , and need not disclose their names , as thc sermons can bo directed to a fictitious signature , at any post offioo thoy are required to bo sent to . _Yt-RttO" _-- _™ Uerbisos . —The town of Yarmouth , is bound by ancient charter to send te the _sheriffs of Norwich a hundred herrings , which aro to bo b ;» ked in twenty-four pies , or pasties * , and then delivered to tho lord of the manor of East Carlton , who ia to convey them to the Queen .
_Horsbs . —Never since the establishment of horso racing in England have thero been se many horses in twining as there are at the present time . Cum—The Army and Navy olubs are going to astonish London with the most magnificent clubhouse ever yet built . Dkstructive F ; re is _Waibrpobo . —On Iriday morning , about three o ' clock , a most ruinous fire broke ont in the extensive bacon concerpg of Mr . George Courtcnay , in William-street . No clue can be ascertained as to the origin of this awful calamity , which has destroyed property to the amount of
£ 7 , 000 . _D-jteuminkd Suicide . —On Monday morning , as a man was walking towards the entranco of Victoriapark , he perceived a quantity of blood close to a gravel pit , and on proceeding towards it discovered the bodv of a man in the pit with his throat cut , and quite dead . Tho deceased was about 38 years of age , and was respectably dressed . PoruLATio- * * ofFlasders . —The last Bolgian _censas has brought to light the singular fact that the population of Flanders has decreased in lato years . In 1846 , the population of West Flanders was counted at ( 142 . 000 . a decrease of 22 . 000 on the former _yaar ,
and that of East Flanders was 701 , 000 or 15 , 000-less than in the former year . In the other province ** -, population had increased during the same period . A Rrvsnuk Cctter StwK at Sra . — Betweea two and three o ' clock 011 Friday afternoon , the Nimble cutter , Mr . J . P . Blundell , commander , w : \ _sstar-ding atom * shore , between Berry Head and Dartmouth , in chase ofa small smack , when hw _pro-jress wa 3 suddenlv arrested by . a sunken rock , and caused a rapid leak ; the vessel fell over on her stavboard side , _driftad from the vock , aud instantly sunk in an upr _*« ht _position , in deep , water . The orow vteresaved by " _taatily eattimr away _thoboats from tho tackles , but without clothes , bags , 01 bedding * . _, _ .,. . „ . __ States this
•• The lloo Crop- " ofthe United year ia thrw _timeatite _wottb of tho cotton crop , the ' standing army" of swine consumes _-annally two hundred million . bushels of corn . . _WnS'EU —fhe Excise officers _^ eized no less _, thlf four Ulleit _^ ilb in the _neighboured of Beth , nal-arcen , on Friday . _Em-ciiuc _TKi _* Bsat \* pH is Pabis . _—Aesystemof _elactro-tclcgraphic communication is being formed round ' Paris betweea each of the octroi _ataiions ( where-the city dues are collected ) , at the several barriers ; _j-Juis establishing between thorn all _amuch more rapid , and direct correspondence than has hitherto _ox ' _-sted . _Intensive Robberiks . —On Saturday informatiwi was forwarded to the polioe , thai ) , the premisosof Mr . Jackson , Comniercial-roftd , Pimlico , had beea entered by _thioves , and £ 111 in , gold and silver , two £ 10 and one £ 5 Bank of England notes and three cheques for £ 11 , 413 , and £ _& abstracted - . and from Mr . Water ' s , _Stoane-street ,. _£ lO 0 in cash , a £ 30 note , and _svlvor plate and _watchee , valued at £ _*& % carried offit is suspected by the same gang .
, , _Sotih _' s Soup j » ob _-rs _* i _Poos . -Wo understand that Mr . Soyor , of the Reform Club , has received instructions from government , to pmeed immediately to the Lord-lieutenant of Is * and , and to submit his plan of a model-kitchen for the preparation of soups on a large scale ; whieh , if approved of . will bo at ouco carried inte effect . Hr 0 D « " . cB . -OniFriday , an Irishman , _miserably clad , and to all appearance Wa t _^ te of « xhwi-A » n from starvation , entered thc K enilworth Castle kept ,, Mr Clamwton , in tho New North Road , and
craved relief . He was immediately nouceu oy tue worth y host and a Mr . Silverthorne , ' who . iraraediately procured him some hot gin and water . After the fellow had partaken of it , a few _slieea of thin bread and butter were placed oeloio him , when the fellow insultingly turned to his benefactors , and coolly told tbem that ho could not eat it without ham . The imagination of the reader _n-ay pietaw to himself tho surprise of the heaws of this doeiaration , and during thc temporary _astonishment that ensued , the fellow walked off .
Vkrt likb Faminb ' . —The grananc 3 m p . nd about Stockton and Yann arc se loaded with tho " staff of life " that man y of them aro iu ' . danger of breaking down . A _RoriL Poet . —The Journal des Debate announces that the King of Bavaria is about to publish a fourth volume , of poems . Mwiibal _WiALin op Gbbat Bbitaix . — In tlie course of » lecture , delivered to the g eneral _fvsm of _I-Unifs College . by Mr . _Tonnant , qu _imnoralog _eai
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 27, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27021847/page/3/
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