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      Mabch 28, 1846. ^^ ______ The Northern S...

      Mabch 28 , 1846 . _^^ ______ THE NORTHERN STAR 3

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      On Tiik Downfall Of Poland. 0, Sacred Tr...

      ON TIIK DOWNFALL OF POLAND . 0 , Sacred Trnth , thy triumph ceased awhile , And Hope , thy sister , _ceas'd with thee to smile . "When _leagn'doppression poured to northern wars Her whisker'd paudoors and her fierce hu 6 sars ; "Waved her dread standard to the breeze of morn , Pealed her loud drum , and twanged her trumpet horn ; Tumultuous horror brooded o ' er her van , _Fresagin _; wrath to Poland—and to man ; Warsaw ' s late champion from her height survey 'd , "Wide o ' er the fields , a watte of ruin laid ; - OH . arens , "h » cried , " my Weeding- country save f Is there no hand on h ' _j h to shield ihe brave T Yet , though destruction sweep these lovely p lains , Rise , fellow-men , our country yet remains . By that dread name we wave tbe sword on hig h , And swear for her to live—withher to die !

      He said , and on the _ramparts heights away ad IDs trusty warriors , few , bnt undismayed ; Firm-paced and slow , a horrid front they form , Seal as the breeze , « nd dreadful as the storm ; low , luurmurins sounds along their banners fly , Revenge ot death—the watchword and Teply . Then pealed the notes , omnipotent to charm , And the loud tocsin toiled their last alarm . In -rain—alas ! in vain , ye gallant few , Prom rank to rank your volleyM thunder flew ; O , Woodiestpicture in the hook of Time , _Sarmana fell , unwept , without a crime ; Pound not a generous friend , a pitying foe , Strength in her arms , nor mercy in her woe ! Dropt from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear , Closed her bri ght eye , and curbed her high career ; Hope , for a season , hade the world farewell , And freedom shriet'd—as Kosciusko fell .

      The sun went down , nor ceased the carnage there—Tumultuous murder shook the midnig ht air—© a Prague _' sproud arch and fires of ruin glow-Ilia blood-dyed waters murmuring far below , The storm prevails , the rampart yields a way-Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay ! Bark , a * the swonlderin _^ piles with thunder fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call : Earth shook—red meteors flashed along the sky , And conscious nature shuddered at the cry . O , righteous Heaven ! ere Freedom fouud a grave , "Wh y slept the sword omnipotent to save 1 "Where was their arm , 0 , Vengeance ! where thy red , That smote the foes of Zion and of God ! That crushed proud Amnion , when Ms iron , car "Was yoked in wrath , and thundered from afar ? "Where was the storm that slumbered till the host Of blood-stained Pharoah left his trembling coast , Then bade the deep in wild commotion flow , And beared an ocean on their march below !

      Departed spirits of the mighty dead , Te that at Marathon andLeuctra bled , Friends ofthe world , restore your swords to man , Fight in his sacred causa and lead the van ; Yet for Samatia ' s tears oi blood atone _. And make her arm puissant as your own . Ob , once again to Freedom ' s cause return , The Patriot Tell—the Bruce of Bannock-burn . ClMPBEH

      S02*Gs For Tiie People, Ho. X. "Fall , T...

      S 02 * GS FOR TIIE PEOPLE , HO . X . "FALL , _TYRANTS , FAIL ! Tbe trumpet of liberty sounds through the world , And tha universe starts at tbe sound ; Her standard philosophy ' s band bas unfurled , And the nations are thronging around . Sow noble tbe ardour that seizes tbe _sonl ! llow it bursts from the yoke and tbe chain 1 "What power can tbe fervour of freedem control _. Or its terrible vengeance restrain ! Fall ! fall , tyrants , fall ! These are the days of Liberty

      Frond castles of tyranny , dungeons , and cells ! The tempest shall sweep you away ; "from the east to the west the dread hurricane swells , And the tyrants are chilled with dismay . The slave , on whose neck , tbe proud despot bas trod Sow feels that himself is a man ; "While the lordly usurper , who ruled with a nod , _Hkes bis bead ' midst the servile divan . Fall ! fall , tyrants , fall ! & o Poor vassals who crawl bj the Vistula ' s stream , Hear , hear the glad call and obey I Rise , nation * who worship the gun ' s sacred beam , And drive your Fizarros away . The cruel dominion of priestcraft is o ' er Its tb . un . dcre , it * faggots , and chains , * . "Mankind will endure the vile bondage no more _. While reason our freedom maintains . Fall ! fail , tyrants , fall ! & _o

      The trumpet of Liberty sounds through the world , And tbe universe starts at the sound ; Hex standard _puilosophj's hand has unfurled , And the nations are thronging around . Shall Britons the trumpet of Liberty bear With a cold and insensible mind ? 2 fo ! the trumpet of Freedom eathBriton shall share And contend for tbe rights of mankind ! Fail ! fall , tyrants , fall ! Death to our bonds of slavery

      39~ "Want Of Time And Room Again Compels U≫ To Omit Our Usual Reviews. We Shall Try To Bring Up

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      Arrears Next Week. Our Feist Of Tub Poet...

      arrears next week . Our FEiST OF TUB POETS will appear in the Star of the Easter holiday week . All poetical contributions must be at the office of tbis paper by Monday , 6 th of April .

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      _¦*— ' _—¦* . - ¦ _—^ _. I' - I w _* _. . „ , _¦» I _gfr The _Misfobtusks as Fortes * . —The following colloquy is related by the Journal des Yallenga to "have passed a few days ago between a gendarme and a thief named Fontaine , whom he bad arrested at Trevieres ( Calvados ) : —Gendarme : "Foolish and wretched man , how could yoa , at your advanced age cf 71 , commit a crime for which jou most make up your mind to pass the rat of your days in prison ?' Fontaine : " 1 am sot bo unfortunate as you think . I have been a thief for sixty years , and this ia the first time I was ever arrested . " Funis . _Fbaxcb , A _Catbduc Pbiist , -was killed at Moodkee , whilst attending a _regiment inaction , in the fond hope that he might assist the wounded and soothe the last moments of some expiring soldier .

      Loxdox juro LirEKFoet . —Taking the young ana old together , it is found that twenty-six years it the average age at which people die in London , and seventeen in Liverpool . _Isrssi Schools . —A subscription for the benefit of "Mr . Wilderspin , the unwearied promoter of infant schools , bas been commenced at Wakefield . FAcarrr ix the Adaptatios or Wobds . —We _tomemberan old lady in Somersetshire , who , whenever accosted with aninquiry after the " rheumatics , " ic ., invariably replied— '"Thankee kindly , sir , I aint n » better nor no _worser _, but vary much the _Bame as vseful . " _DlUn OF THB IIOX . W . N . "RlDUST _COLBORSB , M . P . —We have to announce the death , at a premature age , of the Hon . W . _Nicholas Ridley Colborne , if . ? ., who expired , on Monday afltmoon at Lord

      Colborne ' s residence in Hill- _» treet , in the 32 nd yew of his age . The deceased was only son of Lord Colborne , and was b . rn the 24 _* h of July , 1814 . He was elected at the hut general election for Richmond , which by liis death becomes vacant . m _AccoioiODinos . —A contemporary speaks of _sleepimj on a fence rail with two yards of tape for a covering . Some people ' s accommodation is rather short , truly . —American paper . _LviaoiiDCTios of _Cauco-Pmsxixo _jsto _Exoiasd . — Calico-printing was introduced into England in tho year 1690 by a Frenchman , who in all probability -was a refugee , and who-established a small printing _ground on tbe banks of the Thames , at Richmond . A large manufactory was soon afterwards established at Bromlev-hall , in Essex , besides several others ia the neighbourhood of London . About 1 * 763 itwas carried into Lancashire .

      V . nnr Vmetatio 5 . —Vegetation is about two months earlier than it was la-t spring , and the young grass and rye , and -vetches and winter barky , hav * now more feed than there wag at the commencement of May last jest . Had not the turnips been topped , they would in many places hare been out in full flower before this time ; and so mild has the weather been , that when they have been pulled up and thrown in heaps , they hare continued to push out their seed stems , and it is a very difficult matter to preserve them from being exhausted of their nutritious qualities . Feed is now moBt abundant , and hundreds of acres of good turnips could be had for nothing . A great part of the ev . es have now _brought forth , and the increase in lambs will , we think , be as great as usual . _—Beriskbrs Chronicle . _"Ebopiiosb . —A quack doctor , in praising hi * medicine aa a cure for eruption , said it would euro the eruptions of Hecla !

      As _TLvcunuu _) Lima is now lying at the Blackburn post-office , with this address : — " My dear grandmother , Blackburn , Lenkishur . " The "Wab is Lsma . —We have __ obtained leave to copy the following portion ofa private letter irom an ofheer who commanded one of the _regimentsenga _^ ed in ihe severe three days' battle on the bank of the Sutivj : —* ' Gamp liurretka Ghaut , on iheleftbank ofthe Sutlej , loth January . —God only knows how this desperate war will terminate . Our loss in killed and wounded has been almost three thousand . God only knows Low 1 escaped . I commanded the

      — -th on the 18 th , at the dose of tbat battle ; and 1 commanded in the " battles of the 21 st and 22 nd . My Arabcharger was shot on tbe night of _theSlst ., while in SQuaie . Lord Ktaoy Somerset ' s son received iis death wound in the ranks ofthe 50 th ; he was a noble and gallant soldier . " JIascbe . — -At Glasgow a company has been formed whose object is to make sewers to convey the soil ol the city to a distance , and there to he accnmulated in ahr ° e ' reservoir , whence it is to be taken and prepared as a manure for _agricultural purposes . The capital to be raised is 430 , 000 .

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      Till* Carpenters And Joiners Of Manciies...

      Till * CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF MANCIIESTER . The Address of the Central Association of London _Tradw _, published in lagt Saturday ' s _& ur , will have informed our readers of the origin of the great turnout ofthe building trades in Manchester . Thcstrikc was commenced by the carpenters and joiners ; the same day the bricklayers quitted their work . The masters ascertaining that the slaters , p lumbers , _gbmci-Sjplasterers _. and painters , with their labourers , were nobly supporting the men on strike , gave notice to the men in those trades to leave their employment , and those trades accordingly _ceased to work at the termination of the week . The number out of

      employment is about 4 , 000 . Such is tue tyranny practised by the great _mauters , that they have not only turned out the workmen in the whole of the building trade , bat they havo also tried to intimidate the small masters , by stating that if they would not torn out their men aHd join the masters' union , they would prevent them from having work at any jobs they might have anything to do with . lt will be seen , therefore , _fthat the masters are determined to crush the men , if possible ; but it is to be honed that the working classes of every trade will at once contribute their pecuniary aid in support of the tradesof Manchester , and thus foil the tyrannical intentions of the despotic masters . The men have nothing to fear if their Mow-operatives will keep out of the town , and not be allured from their homes by tiie placards which the masters have circulated through the country , for " 401 ) 0 men at good wages . " They only "want them as tools , to enable them to crush the men whose sweat and toil have made them

      what they are . As usual , the press is arrayed against the operatives—the great Lancashire Liar , the Manchester Guardian , being foremost in the unholy work of calumniating the men . Anarticle , full of thegrossest _misrepresentations , _appeared in that journal , directed against the men ; but when the men desired the fairplay ol being permitted to defend themselves , their reply was refused admission except as an advertisement . The following is tho reply of the men , which also embodies the principal misrepresentations replied to , and for inserting which the Manchester Guardianchargei and plundered the men of £ 2 . We re-publish it without money and without charge : —

      To the Editor of tha Manchester Guardian , Sir , —Your publication of Saturday last contains an article headed " The Joiners' and Bricklayers ' Strike , " which , for gross falsehoods and slander stands unparalleled in our experience . As a large body of tradesmen , we have a right to demand of you , as a public journalist , the same means of rebuttiug those charges as you have afforded space for making them ; but we do denounce emphatically the system pursued by you , of publishing a party statement in favour of the employers , without inquiring on both sides of the question ; for we are prepared with the most incontrovertible testimony , to prove that the statements you have made are directly untrue . We deny , in the most unqualified terms , that we ever attempted to impose restrictions

      on our employers , either as to the mode ofcarrymc on their business , or as to whom or who they should not employ ; and you unhappily cite the case of Mes « n . Pauling as an instance , a case which must be fresh in your memory . Mr . Pauling required every man in his employ to work 105 hours more every winter than any other master builder ever did : u _« nce the dispute with Mr . Pauling—and so much for your selection of an illustration of our present position . But it would seem that no stone should be left unturned by you to place us in a false position with the public We deny that we ever interfered with our employers as to the number of apprentices they should have . Wedeny that weever extorted the reluctant consent of our employers to

      shorten the hours of labour ; the time that we now work , taking the year round , is the same as it always baa been . You , sir , state that the old hours were , during the winter , from six o clock to six , and from the 17 th of November to the 2 nd of February , to light up and work until seven o ' clock in tha evening . This , sir , is directly untrue ; and never was such a rule acted upon in Manchester . The working rule , prior to last autumn , was , from the 17 th of November to the 2 nd of February , to commence work at half-past seven o ' clock in the morning , and leave off at seren in the evening and from the 2 nd of February to the 17 th of November , to work from six o ' clock to six , except Monday and Saturday , when we commenced at seven o ' clock on the former , and left

      I off at four o ' clock on the latter . Now it must be i obvious , that before the 17 th of November , and immediately after the 2 nd of February , there are several weeks we cannot seethe whole time * this has been unpleasant alike to the employers and operatives , and also to the public . In order to allay this unpleasantness , we submitted two propositions to our employers—the one to adopt the hall-holiday , by commencing at six o ' clock in the morning and working until six ia the evening , the year round , except Monday and Saturday , to commence at seven o ' clock on the former , aud leave off at twelve o ' clock on the latter ; and the other , by commencing at tlie same time and working until half-past five o ' clock , and leaving work _s » t four o ' clock on

      Saturday afternoon . The former proposition was unanimously adopted by the whole of the master _buildors , with one exception , and was forthwith acted up » n , each party considering they had neither gained nor lost by the alteration . This chan ge took plaee in October last . Now , mark the dishonourable attempt on tke part ofthe employers to filch from us the halfholiday , which is due to us until October next , in consideration ofthe time we worked extradcringlast winter . We ask the public , is this fair and honourable dealing ? Give us the half-holiday which is our due until next October , and we are then willing to _re-consider the subject of time . AU we require at our emplovers' hands is fair and honourable dealing . We deny distinctly tbat double time is charged by us

      after having worked two houre overtime . i / OUOle time does not commence until after tea o ' clock at _nL-kt , and this was made for doing away with _nijjht labour . Your remarks respecting wages in London , Liverpool , and other towns , are also untrue ; the wages in the two former being 2 s . more than you have stated . After other remark-, respecting a few individuals ruling and over-awing the mass of the men , and other equally untrue statements , jou _assert there are 1 , 700 men outof work . Here again , sir , you stand convicted of falsehood . The number taken from the books was , last week , 1 , 002 ; and you further state they have to depend on the miserable pittance of from Ss . Gd . to On . per week . This , again , ia untrue . Every _aan wh »

      answered his name for the first three days , received 7 s . Gd ., the books being made up to Wednesday night according to rule ; and every man last week , on strike , received a full week's strike pay ; so much for the state of our funds . In fact , the whole paragraph is , from beginning to end , line for line , a tissue of gross falsehood and calumny , published with the evident intention of prejudicing the public against a body of working men , endeavouring to raise themselves in tbe scale of society without injury to any party . If a public journal be of any moral use , it ought to be the medium through which correct information should be convoyed to the public , especially in matters of dispute : and not asin this case , the means of slandering and calumniating a body of

      workmen for the interest and gratification of their employers , calculated only to excite the worst passions of men , and widen the gap of friendly intercourse which ought to exist between the employer and operative ; and which you , as a public journalist , ought to be the foremost to cultivate . In palliation of your statements , you may contend you have made them upon wrong information : but it _wa- * your duty , as an editor , to have consulted both parties , and then yon would hare arrived at a more correct report . It may not generally be known what wages our employers pay : but we Will set the public right upon this | _ioint . We take the seven principal employers , and in them w » find 16 men receiving more than 2 os . per week ; 219 at 26 s . ; 92 at 25 s . ; 103 at 21 b . ;

      and 152 receive less than 24 s . ; so that the public will see that our wages do not average more than 24 s . 6 d . per week . You taunt us with dictating to the men when tliey shall work , when they shall strike , what wages accept , and what offers refuse ; which is altogether uutrue , as there are more than six hundred of our members at work . But can anything equal the tyranny of the master-builders going to the small tradesmen , and threatening , if they do not turn their men out and join their union , they will withdraw the whole of their trade from them . Again , you state the good workmen are mainly disposed to return to their work at the offer made . This again is untrue ; for it is the best workmen who want rewarding for their talent . We also

      deay tbat weever borrowed from , or stand indebted to , any trade in any town , as we hare so far been able to pay our way . The whole of the charges we have denied , we are prepared to prove are untrue ; and challenge either yourself , or the masters * union , by deputation , v otherwise , to meet before themayor , or any given number of arbitrators , and incontostibly prove they are directly and unqualifiedly false . And now , sir , lor the whole matter in dispute . It was agreed last autumn that we should ask our employers for an advance of ( Sd . per day OU OW then _tftte of wages ; and , at the commencement of the present year , each employer was served with a formal notice

      to that effect , —the notice terminating on the 2 nd March : aud we confidently appeal to the public whether our demand is unreasonable or not . Glance at the iron trades , and compare tbeir wages with ours , without taking Mo account the amount of money it takes to furnish ourselves with tools , and a constant expense for the wear and tear of the same , that no other trade is subj ect to . This , then , is the whole of the dispute , unconnected with any other matter . It was this , and this alone , that caused Air . D . Eelhouse to summon the masters together to form their present union ; and the _justness of our demand we shall leave to a generous and impartial public . By order of tho _Carpeatew aad Joiaere .

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      The SAitoKi' _Smikb AT HttM .. —The sailors of Hull having been foully maligned by an anonymous calumniator , _signing _binrielf " _Shipowner , " in the mockliberal paper , _tha . ff « K Advertiser , we have received the following reply from th * ni « n . * fil 9 brave fellows hare our hearty sympathy , and w » tru * _t will j > ncve »& in their struggle . No clans of men are _woko _treated than _Britiali seamen , but it tU « j uuiwdl y _iw-ia _* upon _justics , no _clas * could more easily tiraanci _pata _therawlves : — " A _letttr having appeared In tha UnU _Advtrtieer of Friday , the Mth of March , animadverting on the _rtrike of tb « sailors of tbis port , we , the seamen of the port of Hull , deem it right and ju _« t to eoutradict the false _statemautu therein _containm _! . it is true we are striking for £ 3 10 n . per month , o * ln to the partial employment of about seven

      or eight months In the year . The ' Shipowner' says' wfl are paid mere than the _sailws in an / other porl in the kingdom . ' We r . fer _nini to Sunderland , Shields , Newcastle , aud the small pong in Yorkshire . He nays that ' our partial employment is our own fault ( if _, he looks at th » number of ships in thu docks that will coutruilict _niw _) , for there is the _coastinj ; trade the year round . ' Wu a * k , will that employ all our seafaring men t Also , lie 8 » y « , ' there is the Irade to Hamburgh aad Holland . ' There are eight small vessels employed in the Rotterdam trade , averaging- * _kmt fire able seamen each , and frequently some of them are laid bye . Jts to Hamburgh , there lias been no more than three English steamboats runuiag there , and a small sailing _vossel occasionally . He ssjs , ' tkere are many glii ps sailed to tho Mediterranean , South America , aud the East Indies . ' The owners of _tluse ships have riven £ 2 5 s . or 1210 s . per

      month , and most of them will not allow half-pay on shore . How is it likely that a married man can leave his family for sueh a long time without something to subsist upon ! and where the half-pay is left , what is £ 1 _* « . fid . pur month for the support of a family of seven or eight Children , and three parts of the seamen of this port are married , and have families t This is the reason why strangers are allowed to take our berths from us , the most of lliein beiug aiugle men , or those who have run away from tbeir wires aud families , leaving them on the parish . These men can get berths before men who wish to support their families decent and respectable . The 'Shipowner' further says , that * the seamen of this port will not go to sea in tlie winter . ' This is false . How often do wa sign for half-pay daring the time Hie ships are frozen up in all parts of the 13 al tic , and other plates , where we do the same work as if we were on full pay ; and when we come home we are sometimes in debt to the

      owners not having been allowed sumcient to make us comfortable during such severe winters . Also , when we arm e home in the month of June , all the American ships are gone , and we are obliged to pick up with any short trade we can . This is proof that we will go to sea ill the winter if wa can . He ( th * 'SMp » w »» T' ) asks , 'is our demand just or reasonable V We ask bim , is it anything but just and reasonable ! Is £ i 10 s . per month an unreasonable charge f » r working botb night and d * y ? Freights have risen one-third , while we want no more advance _Uian one-sixth of our wages . De _sajs , it is Well knewn that many men woultl go _l _» r JB 3 per month , out they dare not sign articles , or go on board , fearing the lawless proceedings ofa set of idlers , who might have had employment all the winter through . ' Wo tell bim

      this is false . At our meetings resolutions have passed not to touch the half man , or scabbed sheep , that would undermine us , and rob bis own and our families ot a bare subsistence . He culls ug 'lawless fellows ; ' we aflKuiuitomicli _thsHull calendar , smdseewhat number of seamen have either been hung or transported , or paid our creditors witb one shilling _tothe pound , within the last twenty years . Our most particular business before the magistrates is , in general , some lawful claim for wages , from individuals desirous of taking advantage of us . He says , 'he cannot compete with the foreigner , when they are paying only from twenty to thirty shillings per month . ' These men ( tbe foreigners ) are kept on all tbe year round , and they carry double the number ol men tbat our ships carry , and aro allowed _everything

      requisite , whilst we are paid off as soon as the ship arrives , and find our own stores . He says . that ' the only remedy is to allow them to buy foreign ships , and employ foreign man , te make ut sensible of our situation . ' Wc wish he would man the navy with foreigners to protect his property . W _« can assure him we are sensible of our situation , and arc not as seamen wero fifty years ago . Tbe Legislature bas done a great deal to enable him to _eomptte with the foreigner , and the Legislature has done much for us . We are allowed by Act of Parliament a proper allowance of everything . How often does it happen that we are half the voyage without vinegar , sugar , lime juice , and only half tbe quantity of meat and

      bread which i * allowed by government , yet on our arrival home have passed ic by , aud not brought it to law ? Hut for the future we wish to inform this and other shipowners of ear determination to enjoy those benefits which the legislature has seen fit to grant us . And now to conclude , we , the sailors of Hull , think , tbat as the gentleman ' s ideas refer principally to timber and deals , bis head _anust be made of the same material ; and we hope he will go on his knees and pray to God to give him grace to speak the truth ; for it people of sense read the letter , they must think the same a * wa do , that it il nothing but a composition of senseless trash and falsehood . —The _IIbmbbbs of tbe _Uabikms' I ' nio . v . "

      Fsie . nmi Societies . —The bill o f Mr . Duncombe to amend the act of the 4 th and Stb "William IV ., relating to friendly _societies , bas been considerably altered iu tbe committee . It was printed on Saturday with fifteen clauses , instead of three , as originally issued . It bears the nanus of Mr . T . Duncombe and Mr * II awe j . Furposes for which friendly societies may be formed are de . dared , aad all existing societies , for which rules have been sanctioned , to be deemed to bo within the provisions of the recited act from the allowance of such rules . & lr . Tidd Pratt is to be paid a salary equal to tbe net average amount ef fees received by bim during the last three years , tor certifying the rules of friendly societies , after

      deducting the necessary expenses of his office , & c . He is to be styled the Registrar of friendly Societies in England , and the registrar hereafter to be appointed in Eng . land is to receive not more than £ 300 a-year . In case the Uss ate insufficient , then the remainder for salary and expenses , to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund _, lt is declared that after tbe passing of the act the barrister or advocate appointed to certify tbe rules of friendly societies , shall be styled tbe Registrar of Friendly Societies in England , Ireland , and Scotland respectively . Disputes are to be referred to the registrar ; and when a trustee is absent fram England , bankrupt , insolvent , iic , the registrar may order the stock ofa society to be transferred and dividends paid .

      Tcbk-obt or i \ _iRK LABOURERS at Incb . —IVo hear the farm labourers at Ince bare not been working- for tke last few weeks , having struck for an increase of wages from 12 s . to 15 s . per week ; some of them , we understand , are trying to obtain employment at the new works of the Liverpool Docks , and other places in the tonu . — _Liverpool Mercury . _Lancashire IfiMiBB . — "William Grocott most thankfully acknowledges another donation of £ 10 for the miners of Lancashire ( who have been compelled to leavo their employment ) from the miners of Holytown , per William Cloughan . Tbe miners of Bolton and its vicinity are still oat . Monies sent for them will be thankfully received and duly acknowledged by William Grocott , No . 1 , _Camplins-buildings , Mount-street , Ancoats ; or Mr . Charles lteadowcroft , Astley-street , Dukinfield , Cheshire . Mr . Charles lteadowcroft acknowledges the receipt of £ 2 ( Js . from _Rewcaitle-on-Tyne , per John Hall .

      The Stockingers. To Thb Xd1tob Of Tue M0...

      THE STOCKINGERS . TO THB XD 1 TOB OF TUE M 0 BTHKB !* STAB . Sib , —Ton would much oklige tbe stockingers by inserting the following letter , addressed to the editor ot the Times , but which has been refused insertion . llarcl » 2 tth . l & 16 . _Thojaas _TitNTEUS .

      To the Editor of the Times . " Stockingers are unfortunatel y , by the nature of their employment , doomed to a perpetual place iu the rear of enterprise , and the lowest class of rewards . They are persons who stana still while all the rest of the world are moving on . Their trade admits of little or no improvement in skill , capital , or power of production . But it is easy . It scarcely requires a week ' s apprenticeship , or a moment ' * thought . "—The rimes , March 16 th , 1810 , Sic , —In reading the above extract , I could scarcely forbear smiling at tbe idea of an editor of the first journal in the world becoming a stockinger , or , at least , to write on a subject upon which he was so little illformed ; for , I am sure , bad be been practically or even theoretically acquainted with the system by which the

      trade is governed—the skill required m its several departments—the improvements in frame machinery—the increased power of production—the thousands engaged in the manufacture—the accumulation of apitnlbythe manufacturers at a time when the workmen were getting poerer , he would not have written such fallacies , or Iibelled the skill and ingenuity of so large a class of arti . sans as the stockingers , by designating them " the Pariahs of manufacturers . " They are not unsusceptible of skill , or are they the intractable portion of society f They are class sunk in the depths of wretchedness and toil , through tbe eruil system by which tho trade is governed , or the local customs to which they are subjected . They are governed harshly , and despitefully used ; jet they are loyal and peaceable . They aTe the lambs under the wolfs

      care , to be fleeced at their will , or tlie will of those who dictate and measure the terms of remuneration for labour . They may be ignorant of their strength and value to society , but they are not ignorant of those who daily inflict injury upon them . The enterprising capitalists may be termed tbeir best friends—such friends as employ them for the sake of large profit * , as they would by employing any other auimal ; and when labour fails , or old . age creeps on , that they become useless , are sent to other fields for grass . The golden , though unchristian theme of the political economists , of "buying cheap and selling dear , " is too much acted upon—in fact , it is not buying labour , but offering a price which the workmen dare noS

      refuse . Tbey labour from morn till ere for otbers _' gainnot their own . Hosiery goods ia the market realise good prices ; wages in the labour market will not allow tbe operative to live—only exist . The wealthy _mannfaelurer accumulates his thousands , while the workmen drag out a miserable existence on an average of 5 s . 6 d . per week . They have risen _as it were from the dunghill to the heights of opulence . They commence business with little conscience , and end with none , determined to " get . " * matter iu what form or at what cost . A case was brought before the Leicester magistrates on the Kith of January , 1846 , for adjudication , where a hosier had deducted from a workman ' s wages 9 s . lid . out of 9 s . 2 d . earned , for what they were pleased to term frame rent , ic . The magistrate * dismissed the case , as they stated "it was

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      the rule . " Itwas formerly the rule for JackSheppard to live by open plunder ; it it now the rule to get it in other and perhaps more convenient forms , such an frame rent winding , standing , giving out , taking in , turning , mending , needles , coal , lights , profits , 4 c to be deducted irom the operative ' s labour , whether full work or half work ill * well , much ur little . The stockinger may well be the "lowest , " while such abatements and _infringemeats are sanctioned b y the manufacturers and author ! - « es . Instead of the stockinger standing still , and no improvements made , no less than UG inventions have been applied to the slocking frame aud iu manufacture

      , while the power of production in some cukgs _hna multiplied tenfold , steam power is made applicable to the manufacture of stockings , shirts , drawers , pieces , and other kinds of hosiery ; which I think is sufficient to prove that great progress has been made in the hosiery manufacture . The stockinger is required to bo ai skilful in his occupation as any other artisan ; he is necessitated to understand as complex a piece _» f machiuery as most trade * , and keep it in a workable condition . The frame is composed of more than 100 parts , whieh , should even mie remove from its proper position , lie cannot manufacture stockings in a workmanlike aianner . The more

      moving ol the machine is certainly monotonous ; so is the movement of any other machine ; hut manufacturing nn article is widely different . It is easy for a person to work a printer ' s press , but it is not so easy to arrange the type , and prepare it for the _preBS . There is a greater difference between the simple _prosrai of moving the frame and manufacturing the article . It is not easy learned . It may be easy for a boy to hold a pen , but not S 3 easy to make a figure ; or either is it so easy to _niaKe a stocking . The business of a stockinger is one of a peculiar construction , and needs the whole human frame to he in action at the same moment . He sits on a board ,

      moving both hands and feet , and le compelled , _lu wide nnd fine guages , to watch from 1000 to 2000 loops , which move iu quick succession . Thousands have been apprenticed , and never could make workmen ; and now there is . scarcely one who understands it in all its ramifications . It _jb divided into branches and sections ; such as stockings , shoes , shirts , gloves , caps , cravats , shawls , coats , cloaks , pantaloons , drawers , mitts , _dse ., ic . The stockingers , und others connected with the trade , amount to lo 0 , 000 ; tliey are the most wretched of all classes ; despued , illused , ill-treated—cheated by their masters—wronged by the press , but have a heart to feel the injury inflicted upon them .

      All we want is justice , a fair day ' s wage for a fair quota of labour , aud our proper share of the benefits arising from increased consumption , which hitherto wo hare been deprived of . I am , sir , your humble servant , Tiiomas Wintbus , a Framework . _knittsr . 15 , Eaton-street , Leicester , March 17 th , 1 S 16 .

      Further Particulars Of Tiie " Con Sl'lra...

      FURTHER PARTICULARS OF TIIE " CON Sl'lRACr * CASE OF THE BELFAST SHOE MAKERS .

      TO TUB EOIT 0 B OF THE NOltTUEBN STAB . Sib , —It has already beeu made known to your readers that a charge of " conspiracy" has for upwards of two months now been hangiug over the heads of some six or seven ofthe journeymen shoemakers of Belfast , though on what foundation this charge has been really got up has all along been , and is still , a profound secret . It has merely transpired that the offence it to be _piQVBd at common law—this " common" law being just such au uncommon nondescript as the judge himself may best please to propound to tlie very learned auditory of a jury _iiox , _taking , as it may be made to do , every _camslion-like hue— "now this and now t ' other . " Well , theu , as almost every action of life , where poverty is brought into contact with power , mav , in this way , be construed as BU

      "indictable action , SO , I suppose , thero is no help , and tho still unnamed and unnameubJe Jaw must , in proper legal phraseology , " take its course . " It is a fact , however , that this '• _courie" is evermore most cross-grained whenever there is alack ofthe necessary fue-meney to pay for all such " common law , " for it is then , indctid , a most " uncommon" prize to catch . To the poor who claim it , the attorney is deaf—the magistrate is dealtlie judge is deaf ; and iu proof that such is the case , I may just hrro state that the thoughtless Belfast shoemakers took it foolishly into their heads the other week to try if thoy could not , in turn , indict their masters

      ou a charge of " conspiracy , " at common law , these same masters having , in the first instance , combined amongst themselves to discharge from their employ , at almost a moment's warning , between t _* vo and _thrtse hundred _aien because tlmj refused to give up thair trade society—their only protection ; and next , for having followed many ot these , their unemployed victims , from time to time , throughout the neighbouring towns ; and wherever they found an ) of them linu obtained work , to suchnew employ er or employers at once to go , and by such representations as they judged best for the purpose , to get them discharged again ! And yet no " common law" eould be hud for the protection of the _suft ' erers in _thit case .

      On Friday , March 6 th , Air . Hitchcock , an attorney in Belfast , brought this couutvr-charge in behalf of thu men before tho " impartial * " of the _bsnth , alleging in his statement , as given in the Zfanwr of Ulster of the Tuesday following , that they , the masters , had " entered into a resolution that tliey would not girc werk to any man unless he would quit the society . " This they would not do , for they were supported by it . They were , as lie had said , thrown out of employment , and obliged to leave Buli ' ast . If ths vengeance of the musters had stopped even here , tbeir case , perhaps , would not have looked so

      ill as it now did , for these poor men , whom they had thrown upon the world at that inclement season , might have procured work somewhere . But the masters' society were not content with what they hud already done , they sent deputations from their body to other towns , aud even to Scotland , who solicited employer * from whom the Belfast men had obtained work to turn them off ; aad in this object they suceeeded in many instances . If he succeeded iii proving these acts agaiust the masters , he submitted that he should have established a sufficient case to bring home to them the charge of conspiracy , aud ot having acted in concert .

      Ue did uut , however , _tacited . —there was no " common law" for the common man !! And , then , as if to make the decision stnl more unholy-looking , toon after , a second conviction was obtained by the employers against four of the men on another charge of " conspiracy , " as to be proved at the assizes in virtue ef this same most eonvtnient " common law , " These assizes are now over ; they commenced on Tuesday , the 17 th inst ., and ou the next day these strange shoemaker revelations were to be put to the test ; and lo I what has beeu the result ? Why , just this , as I copy my information again from the Banner of Ulster of Friday , tbe 30 th : —ilr . Dix , as counsel for the prosecution , read an affidavit awuru by the attorney for the prosecution , to the fcf & et that the combination entered into by the _journeymen boot and _shotmuktrs of Belfast ngaimtt lae masters was extensively supported by the trade generally , and in order that a system fraught with such injurious consequences might be fully and fairly exposed , time was

      required to make inquiries in regard to its workings in various parts of the three kingdoms , and particularly in London . Meanwhile the parties might be allowed to stand out ou bail as formerly . Mr , Moore , on the part of the defendants , objected to this course of proceeding , and to the affidavit pat in , as not being made by either of the parties who had originated the prosecution , la the exercise of his duty to those for whom he appeared , he felt bound to say that the course proposed had a tendency to perplexUhe traversers , and entail upon them great expense . They had feed counsel at considerable cost , and had been called ou to plead to an indictment , which _deserred to be called a monster indictment as much as the celebrated oue so called . Instead of the plea for postponement made by his learned friend , he would suggest tbat the prosecution should be entirel y abandoned . Informations had been taken as early as the titli of January , and the natural result of keeping the charge pending for . such a _letigth of time , would be to exasperate those against whom it was directed .

      This objeetion , however , of Uv . _Moote , on the side of the defence , was of no use , for the trial was put off to the summer assizes . "This course , " writes the editor of the Banner , in _uino comments which be makes upon the case under notice , " necessarily _involve * the _parties charged in gr . at additional cost and inconvenience . Tliey are all poor men , dependent for their weekly living en their weekly earnings ; and although they may be perfectly innocent , yet this delay inflicts , in their case , very severe punishment . The proceedings _agaiast them n _« ir « commenced more than two months ago . They hare been f rom that time under arrest , although thoy wane admitted to bail on slight _recognisances—two , of live pounds

      each . These _securities , however small thej may _appear , are considerable for mt-B iii the position of life occupied hy the prisoners . We could suppose journeyman shoemakers being unable to Und two good securities , even for five pounds each , but we can scarcely _suppose that the Crown anticipate the possibility of _establishius anything very serious against these men , when _theyarftalloirwd to be at large on these trilling- securities . If tlte men were unable to find them , they must be exposed _u > tiie evils of imprisonment , and their families , if the _^ have any , to . the hardship of want for six months , in addition to ti * time that they already have been in _sufptuse , in order to enable the Crown to make up it . case . "

      Surely it is impossible that society , tan go on Jang thus t Them : most be a _ciuhob ! . And these men propose to make a _coinnieucemsut towards this _changethey are about to wotk for themselves . Yours , very _uslij , Edit ** , or tub " _CoanwawsRs ' _Cosa » _Axiox . " - 1 '«» don , March 24 th .

      'Ihe Jvturdlut Or Tnu Pouca Cos ' Stavji...

      'IHE _JVtURDlUt or _Tnu _Pouca Cos stavji AT _Dltrl-j _£ & bd . — On Monday the _adjourned inquest on the body oi * James _Hastie , the yoiiee constable- , whs- was so brutally maltreated on the evening of Friday , tht 20 th ult ., in _Tinderbox-alley , Deptford , _wasmuiuaxi . Tho only additional _evidence fives on this occasion was that of Timothy 3 )« iscoll , one of the men takon into custody on the cutwfie . It * . yent to show that tho men charged with th * offence ( Sullivan , Brogon , and Collins ) went home soon _nftor tliey left the Uodney , in his company . Macarthv , another of the men charged , he ( Dviscoll ) did not ate after half-past eleven o ' clock . The coroner , having gone _throujh the evidence , most minutely summed up at considerable length , ami the jury retired to consider their verdict . After an absence of upwards of an hour they returned into coin * _* 6 with a verdict of "Wilful "Murder against Collins , Sullivan , _Erogon alias 0 _' lveeffe , ; md Marurthy . The coroner issued his warrant for the _Qo- uinuttalof the accused to Newgate .

      The Polish Insurrection. The Massacltifl...

      THE POLISH INSURRECTION . THE MASSAClTiflN GALLICIA . I To the Editor of the Times . ] Sir , —1 b « g Uave to enclose f . ir your perusal the translatum of a letter which I received yesterday from Gunoral U— . , residing at Frankfort , containing some striking facts respecting the massacre of the nobility in Gallicia , as reported by an eye witness . I have the honour to be , sir , Your obedient _ssa _tant _, 10 , Duke-street , St . James ' s , lliirch 18 . C * *'

      . Fiunkfort , March 12 . —At a time when , though separated , we miaglcour tears over the calamity that has recently _befailen our country , it is our sacred duty to clear bctore the world the crimes which , as atrap , have been provoked by the Austrian government ; bat a free press , like that „ f England , can alone Servo as an echo to the many innocent and _horriblyniurdercd victims . To you , therefore , I appeal to use your influence that the names of those who wore obnoxious to the blood y government might be seen in their proper light . In order to shorten the necessity of writing , I enclose an extract from a journal published hero , in

      I _' rench , givinjr an account of the atrocities commuted by the peasants on tlie numerous noblo families in Gallicia . liitt the picture would be incomplete without some particulars furnished by an eye-witnejisof these harrowing events , On Sunday , the Sth instant , there arrived here a brother ot * General S in company with another countryman , who both left Cracow iu the night of the 3 rd instant , when all was drawing to a close . The former commanded a detachment of cavalry on the right bank ofthe Vistula , in the environs of ' _iloehnia and _Wieliczkn , and saw the desert into which hare boon turned the dwellings of the nobility iu tho circle of Tarnow . His narrative is as follows : —

      The Austrian government having been informed of the approaching insurrection , nnd the proposed gathering ot the peasants to make an attack on Tarnow , hus _v » s > oto » d te foster , through the captains of the d ' stricm , the most intimate relations \ _sivli the peasants , whom it has deluded by representing to them that the nobility intend to rise for tht auks uf re-imposing on them the ancient yoke with ail its horrors ; aud in order to accomplish this , tho masters invited _tlism to join it under another pretext . The government , feigning great anxiety for tim fate of the peasants , but unable to oiler tlivin any _,-tssistniit-e , li _.-is 'jointed out to tiiem a means—viz ., that when eucu ou the spot appointed for their meeting with the nobility , they should rush-on the latter , and , having put io death every one of thvm , deliver the bodies to the authorities . Besides the _authorities promised , for every dead body brought to them i 0 florins , and for a living one _asiloiin ... It is easy to imagine how tin greedy peasants , prei ' arring 10 florins to 25 florins , have increased ihu _nutubur uf tht

      victims . Ihe whole ot the country presents a must melancholy aspect . The mansions of the nobility hare nov . assumed tho character of luins—the furniture , broken to pieces , is _sti'l stained with the blood of the proprietors . Tlie barns and other buildings belonging to th * farms , tho granaries , have been reduced tu a & _Ues . A picture of desolation equal to the massacre of _i'luuiun offers _itsvlf te the eye , which _accka iu uiu fur u . huiuan creaturu ou this scene of bloody _cm-nugo . 1 must add , that , according to the statement Of S , 500 persons have already fallen a prey to this _insmiablu horde that still continues to ravage by going from one village to another , and by _peipetrating the most cruel enormities , to which the government would now willingly put a stjp . _I ' rom all this you can infer of what paramount interest it WHS for the Austrian government to _.-tttte , through its influential journals , that tho massacre in ( _-uestieu wu < dii act of rcrcuge on thu part of the - > e ; is ; uit » agaiust their masters .

      Later News i'rom Gallicia . —In the eastern districts with the exception of a very small number , tbe }) tasants have not obeyed the order given t / _u-m to lay down their arms and retire to their _lionits : on the contrary , they continue their acts of plunder , in a word , they have taken such a position that it will require the greatest efforts to re-establish complete tranquillity iu the country . The insurgents had already promised them the abolition of the _carvses , the exemption from certain duties , but they will scarcely obtain any concessions from the « wernuient until they Jay down their arms . A large body of troops will occupy the whole of the couutry , so as to btiaWo to dominate the peasants . A number of insurgents Irom Cracow nought refuge in Gallicia , but those belonging to the nobility , or to the better classes , havo either been murdered , or given up to tho Austrian authorities , whilst tho _insurgent _peasunts hare been received as brothers by the peasants of Gallicia .

      Viessa , Marcii 11 . —Twenty-nine Catholic priest * , who took an active part in the _insurractiou , have been arrested in Gallicia . The A > hduk « _l'Vdin-im ! _d'Este arrived on the 9 th at Poilgoi 7 . » , to consult with Counts Laszensky and ZolefsKj concerning the measures to be taken as regards the _peasantiy , aud to confer with . Count "Wrbna as regards thu military occupation of the country . The _above-namcO " councillors have reurived instructions from Vienna . The archduke deems the present number of troops » uf-Jicicnt to establish order . It has , _nevercheicjwi , _beou ileciileu to send a division of ID . 000 men , under tho orders of Count Wrbna , to commence disarming thu country .

      _GunsiAS Sympathy . —According to account * from Cologne ol * tbe 15 Ui inst ., on the Mth inst . all tlie posts were doubled , a .. d the eight companies of the ICth regiment were not all . wed to leave their barracks . iVfany persons attribute this extraordinary measure to the Polish insurrection . During the inst few days many leaders of the insurrection aro » _.-u ' il to have passed through the t jwii on their way to Belgium , by the railway . Tim Polish _Jkivs . —The Counier de la Moselle publishes a letter dated Cracow , 13 th ult ., communicated by a Russian Israelite , who fled to France in

      consequence of the last ukaso of tbe Emperor _Nicholas , and which gives an idea of tho enthusiasm with which the insurrection was hailed by the 1 ' o . _ish dens . Tho following is the substance : — " Tin . _youug mm studying in the Rabinical school at Cracow enrolled themselves voluntarily iu the _insiirrcctioiiai army . They belong to pious and _allluent families . Before their departure the Grand lliibbi gavo them his benediction , and in an animated discourse be told them to follow the cx-uuple of their ancestors , who buried themselves under the walls ef Jerusalem , rather than fall iuto the lunula of the _OUUUlics of their nation . "

      Ciucow . —The Auosbttro Gazette of the 17 » h inst . states , that after a conference between the Generals commanding the Austrian , llussian , .-mil Prussian forces in Cracow , it was determined that the Austrian troops under the command of Count H ' _rhizn _should occupy the city , those troops to _consist of three battalions of infantry , two squadrons of cavalry , and a battery of artillery . The llussian troops are to occupy _Alogila and Krze .-zowire with two battalions and 300 Cossacks . The western part of the territory is to be occupied by one battalion and two _* qiuulrty . is ef Prussian troops . The provisional gowruinv-at is composed ol ' eivii and military agents , of whom Count Castigliene is the head . There is iikewisu a _(• oiumission Appointed to try tho prisoners .

      Latbk News fuou _Cuacoyt . —The city is _sblixrd to lodge , feed , and entertain the trm ps _iiu-artered there nt its oirn expense . __ The Russian troops consist of Cossacks , _JKurdes , _Kirgisen , and _niusMi ' men . These barbarians conmicnecd b y robbing and plundering the houses , and it was found iicccssauy to turn them out of the town to prevent a _j-enenal pillage . Since the 15 th inst ., the prisoners are in solitary confinement . Wolf , the banker , who acted as mini * - * _icr ot * nuance during the revolutionary _administrati » n , is kept a elose prisoner in his house-,, not owing merely to his participation in the insurrection , but also because they hold him responsible for the sum *

      ot money taken lrom the Austrians at Wieliea _* . A number of women have been arrested .. Owing to an _aurecmcut between the three powers , _feeneral Count Wrbna has been appointed ( provisionall y ) ojmmander of the free city ol Cracow for tho those years when _, the protective powers arc to nominate a militarv governor . According to this treaty of tho 15 th of . ' March , 183 A ,, any oersoH guilty of tbe crime of high , treason cannot Sail an asylum in _Russia , _Pruwiav or Austria . The three courts are bound to give up any such nerson on the demand of the power interested , but there is _ncexistSug treaty as , _3 egard » thorepuJblio of Cracow .

      The Emperor oi" Russia has published thd _followhsg ukase * . — " _Wherinis . ill-disposed person 3 , have attempted . to overthrow the ltgitimaU auihoriiwe in the free city of Cracow , and ia some parts of Gallicia , we have-deemed It necessary to . take certain _paecautionary tsaatures to maintain tranquillity in the _governments on tlie frontier - . and we ordain that the kingdom of 1 _' _olanii _. ai also the districts of Volbynia and l _' _cdolia , be declared in a state of _sieg _» _, and pSsced under _tine _ordtrs of _Ifisld _Msrshal Priuw _Piukewitsch _d'Erwan . ( Signed ) " Kmprcor _Nichols " _Earis , _FlUDiT .

      The question of the Polish insurrection was onco more agitated in the . Chamber of Seers on Thursday , on the occasion of the Bill for tho Secret Service Money . There M . Guizot ' s answer to the Count Montalombert'i questions was- mere guarded than was his speech in tho Chamber oi" Deputies . _Althoufh he wtertained life former opinion that nothing couM bo done at , present by the French government _gainst the treaties for the partition of Poland , he still repeated that France was ready to give an asylum to the Polish refugees , and afford _themjNisistance . It is , moreover , asserted that the English and French governments have made a joint application to the three continental powers , recommending them to use , aa far as they would find it possible , every lenieucy towards the insurgents . Paws , _SAiunDAi .

      The debate in the Chamber of Peers on tho Bill for the Sooret _Sorvica Money was again enlivened en Friday by various speeches on tho condition ot Poland and tho lato insurrection , U , Villemain was pre-eminent amongst the speakers . The Bill on the Secret Service _JUwiey was passed by 106 rotes to twenty-two ,

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      Tiik Riot at Toulousb was not _qnite put down on the 17 th , but thero was only a few more cries , and an assemblage of young men in the streets . Public tranquillity was almost entirely restored . The Saturday ( Paris ) journals o » ntain certain extracts from private letters from Germany , which state that the peasants who had been employed of induced to masacre the nobles had successfully re * siated the troo p * sent to disperse them _. Tub i ' _naxcK _Mimstrt and Poland . —( From tha Correspendent of tho Daily News . )— -England , whose _HlSUlar _{? 0 _« itio » detaches hoi from the continent , may be _pormitted io witness with less emotion than any * other" nation the iniquities of wliich a people may become the victims . But France , united to Pi / laud "

      by a fraternity of arms and civilisation—France , whose interests are necessarily affectod by any dwturbancvof the continental equilibrium , has neither the liberty n » r tbe will to remain indiffeient . You cannot form any idea ol" the indignation excited in tho public mind by the speech of M . Guizot , whicli the Chamber of Deputies suffered to pass unanswered . This indignation has already shown itself iu several popular ebullitions , particularly in tha * which took place at Toulouse . But yon will find the most striking proof in the scene presented for the three days in the Chamber of Peers , that peaceable Chamber where the _Opjiositiou _scarcclr _liiiinbeia from _five-and-twenty to thirty supporters . Poland has supplied tho subject for discussion on the liiilfor

      tho secret service money . Legitimists , ministerialists , members of the Opposition , even Prime Ministers , have _pi-otesttd against tlie policy of the government . It was not witWit emotion that M . Villemain , whose intellect _sflins to have Quite rocovcml from tho rude _ghuclu which eom [» uilod him to retire from the Ministry , was heard to utter a magnificent and sound speech in favour of the rights which treaties have preserved to Poland . In a word _, such has been the unanimity of the Chamber , th- . * the government , modifying its first position , _h- _> a thought it prudent to retreat . Compare the language of Al . Guizot in the Chamber of I _' _oers wi h , thai whicli housed in the Chamber of Deputies ei » ht days before , and the difference is most striking . At the Palais-Bourbon , the Minister made _theapoh-j-y _* of Austria—he refused to invoke treaties whore scandalous violation the Chambers _rvc > ll every year ; he even _complicity blamed those protests , under the

      pretext that they kept up illusions and vain hopes . At tho Luxembourg , he declared that tho government had reserved , and would reserve , the _rij-hts rcsiiltinjf from treaties , * in a word , that he would defend Polish nationality , a * if ho c < uld still invoke the stipulated guaranties ol lSlo , without exciting what he , himself , ealJud vain hopes ami illusions . Thus , the Minister wio opened this question by an apology for oppressors , ended by adiiuring to ' the sympathies wliich tho oppressed inspire . Tho government has , iu spite of itself , been brought back lo that system of protestation against the _coudut-t of Russia aud Austria which it tried to avoid . After having scorned at public opin _' oii , it has bix-n _cohsitiained to _Mtbinit and pay homage to it . it _k-avns _linnlly , at the expense of its con-ideiation , that , even in a _period of _universal apathy , there are popular sentiments which cannot be " braved wifcil impunity . 1 _' AhlS , Tl'iSDlT .

      Tho _A-ettioiuit quotes a privato lett « r _suting , " 'I he Austrian Qoveruuiviit is incapable of _putting down the ir . ovt . ui . nt which it has _iiself excited , and which bus assumed a must _ineuiii-iii :. ' appearance . Armed bunds urn organised , which or _* _.-rru » thu environs of 'I ' aruow , _Lipnicltcr , Tymbouk _, and Li & chuiv . _Jlt'tuchimmt * of truups on hor . ubauk lmve been sent t «> tli _.-qi _*) _-., _* tlicin , nnd they have , iu a reneontrt , faced the _ntiukvtry , » nd woundud several _soldiers . Frwh forces have Wn sent _a-fiiiiist tlium .

      A letter from Hungary states , that " a b'idy of insurgents hud shown themselves in tl _. e C .-irpaUiiun . Mountains , _betnueu Mudell ami LiMau . It tlivii approaclied , Tori'U , alld the local _siUlhorilU ., in _^ tsmtly _duypntuhud couriois to _JSpeiivs to demand troops . The _insurgents , warned by tin * _inliahitaiits , whom _tlx-y found hospitable and sympathisiiijr , then prorueded towards _ilekow . eza . " Tim Polish cummittvt ! , which -. » as organised in l'aris a few years nso , 1 ms been rerived , under ilia presidency of M . lo _Ouiiitu Charles Du _LuaU-jrw , deputy . M . _llutroiie is _appointed secretary , « "d il . Vavln , _deputy , U _treasurer ,

      Grand Festival In Aid Of Tiie Funds Of T...

      GRAND FESTIVAL IN AID OF TIIE FUNDS OF TIIE EXILES * ' ilESTURATION COMMITTEE . This Festival took p lace at the _I ' _arthi'iiium , 12 , St . _Msrtitt ' i' -I . tnc , on _Tuoau-ty _evriiiny , . March 21 th . A _la'sje nutiih . r liarimr _partakau of t _« . i , coff « n > , die . ( which , tu _thi credit of ilr . Palmer , the worthy ho « t , w » fetl bound io Miite , we . Hirer y « t _witiiesssd served up raorBpro u < ely ) , the tabUs wer < _uleareil , » nd Mr . l ' _wiusus O'Connor , hi the _sbntm-e _otT . _S , Uuucuinbc , WA ' . ( who was detained by press of _l'arliamrittuiy _butiiit _.-t ) . wan _unanimon _> ly _called to tlu ch » ir .

      The 0 _« _iiiiM . \ N said , Im was happy to find that whilst _tlu-y were , al liome _thuy did not foigel he poor _i-xilus , audio works of this description the _n-omcii ap |> eart _< l to be the b » st psitriois , in fact , th _^ _rey mart was thu better hor * u . ( Clie .-iii . ) S . iiiiti appcnrv't to tliinK that Iho late temporary detent in tl _, « lluu-e _irf C « min » _ns lind dons injury to the _cnusi of which tliey _vcvtv ihe advocutrs , by bringing down thu rtiicnud _tplrt-n anal _ritup-raliou tf the house on tin devoted huaus of thu Wvl . u _mariyrs ; but uot so , lor it i ltd g _ivrn tu the couutry u kuon ledge of tlie present opinion * of the _members ol _tliat house , and _ftti-tliur _, it s !« siv « l au iucrtMSe , and that » laive oiii ' , in tbeir r » r » ui-, tor on ill * iimt diii .-Juii _iliete only appeared four _tinunbtr * aud two tellers in theiv _iutvUV , anu oil th © _reCulit _Ot-caMOii thvru Were tliil'ty-nue niernhel'i ; ruled ,.

      and tw * tollers , in tti « Vr f . _ituur— ( ch _* _wr _>)—Ws ' nks the - country at lar » e b _« ing mitdene <| uamt < d with ihe "{ _p-cat fact" ih-at tiir _. u millions _<>! ' 'i . r . i . m hail ex ; irei _. swl their * _le * irefor tint return » f ilwe _mueh-ivjurni men . I Cheer * . ) He had heard all tiie _oriilencc tlmt couM be ; ufi . ' uc : d a _^' . 'iin > i r ' ro _» t , Williams , a _.-iu _Jhiibs , at their tii : il ; ho had also attended in the _Spe-ilcer ' * frnilu 71 . 11 tl . e r .-vent debute , and heard tho eviileneu _e _^ _raiia , ami he still _eontotided that the verdict ought to imvu _ln-eu uiveti 111 tl _. iip f » Tour . ( llear , hear . ) Air . l _! sliiii ;; iim iljieauley , the _Whij member fur Edinburgh , in his _spe-. _'ch on tha motion , had _draped in the _nuu .. n . l _peim-n a _> _t lulse . y declared , that the petitioners wniiud lo coiiti .. a o / lie laud and othw property . S . _» w _, they did no * ueh h . _i g ; on tl . e contrary , tliey declared ibat the laud had utun taken

      irom iu rightful owners and _w-en u . iw made x _moiw-ioly of for tho _bsntttt uf iht > f « w ; and h « d n _*» h s uovtrine _, _siui-e iho presentation of that j wtiilon _, b « n _-isiiiii Mid again adtei-utud both within ami wiiiiou-. the walls of that house ! ( Hear , hear ) ilr . Hum- ' line , 011 thepresentation of tlut p . t tiou ami the motion coj _» etiu * nt upou it , ns null as on his recent inotioi ., had made most judicious and temperate speech .. * , but mark tm eontrat > t , ilr . Elliot to : _k-, a Protectionist member for _Cambridjji _- - - shire , had last night , on the debate of Sir . _Itobert Veel ' s Corn Mill , _prenouted a petition from what lis was pleased . to term a body of intelligent men , und in ths course ot that _tlvbate had read a letter from one of tha petitioners , who suid thai , iliould Sir llobert _Pael ' a _ucaaure . pass , , the _agriculturists were ready for _insurm-iion , and this , t

      tr » _uno > - _*> ul _« language was mat with loud and general 1 shout * of _"hsarl" * St > w , had Mr . Duncomb * presented ! ¦ audi a petition , it w _» uld have _benn se _> . uted from the t hou 8 » , as > dhimiilfdenounc « dforpres _» ntiugit . ( Cheers . ) ) He had _Ulcsn care to famish the peop le with a list uf if tha _dirisituon Mr . _Duiicombtf ' . motion rolaiire to our v exiled _xriuids , and be bad no doubt , a » tin coming elec- ctiou , their _present _oppoueuts' ears would _tiujle with the ie shouts of " . Frost , Williams , and _Jonss . " ( H » ar , hear . ) - . > About _eleveu months ago the Chartist Co-operative Land , nl Society sprung into Misienee iu that vciy room , _>* nd now , w , without ou * _sinjU shilling _beinj spent in adv « _tiii « g , _W oc puffing of any sort , wh » n the Convention met a month th . _henc * , he should have to report the possession of seven eu

      thousand pounds subscribed in favour of theirolyec _*—>~ - ( great c * _ioerhig >—aud was it not pleasing to know tbatiat _lhsy . already poiisaased one _estata purchased with _their-elr-WMi . money ? ( _Usar _, hear . ) If persevering _eiertiouanji * could accomplish this , might not similar _wail-directuAtu't _exertions roster * tbeir patriotie bui uufortuuat'j _fti-tuji _. nii _, _ths-ffsbni _nuurryrs ! Mr . _O'Connor th . _« _prap-ised _thotho following sentiment , and resumed his seal tuitid _tn >» t'i >» most rapturous _applaus **— " Thomas Bliugsbj Im n < -o m bom t _« and Thomas Wakley , the mover and _sscondur , * tid _i _'; _- * - . ' : •' _thirty-oue members of thu House of Commons _« _no sv . _y-si-. v ; _- _forte-itb * motion tot »» _address to lwr MayMtj , pVfcjhig > l _* Jg hw t _*> « twid ber _nittcj » o our patriotic ftwaiU _, tit * tUm Walsh martyrs , aud m » J _thtvy , backed by the people , cvn cvn _tinu . their _exsrtions until their generous eiYovts ai « am

      crowned with smcets . Mr . rnjuv _M-Saii-rn , In _rtspanding , said—H _» cor corf diaU _; _agit-ttd with tlie sontim . nt . In respect to Hi ) "Uu _DuncounlMi , be did wot think a inor _» trusty friend of rtttf th 1 psopla could b * found . _Vfhenarar th * working _claifelaitc : wanttd au advocate , whether within or without tht tht home , b » was over _reaiv to espouse their cans * . ( Lou ( Lou 1 _chvars . ) "Duncombt was so well known and _respecteiiecteti th * t it was unnecessary for him to recount bis man mam good , _jreat _, virtuous , and noble actions— ( _tatar , hear ) -ear ) - aud Thomas Vfaklej was most assuredly only second tend H

      _hlBO _, and the * W »* _e _Sjrsatly _indebted lo tin . * gentlen _»* le »»> for bringing forward in th * debate to _promiut & tlv titty til political degradation of tha working claues . ( Lot ( Lovt _ehaett . ) 'l'h » tim » was approaching when the m « mb ** m ' B *» must agaiu appear on th * hustings , aud ii was th * dub * dui of all good bin to press forward on _bshalf of th * victimictiui Let them canvass tbe electors , and get a register oJfboof tboo favourable to the _rsturn of th * « xil « e , and pre _** nt tl » nt til register to the candidates , Lit but tho _peopls onlv onlv their duty , and we shall again hear ths music of to of tt noble _esilas ' voices advocating the caua _** f liberty , true , trui _audjustice , _iufhsir own _niachloved native land , _( _Gn ( _Gnn

      chawing . ) On the motion of Messrs . Parks and _Patteodwi , a vD , a _vr of thanks was awarded by acclamation ta Mr . _O'ConO'Conw for his services in tho cbair , to which b » briefly rietty sponded . Tbe ball and concert room were thin olearod , and \\ and Hi mony was kept up with great spirit and good humour uuourui two o _' clotk , when the _aessmblag * broke up , highly dghly lighted with tha instruction and amu » . nien » the evwui evemai proceedings had imparted .

      Strmk* Svncres— 'I'He Co.^ Mwt.Onwj Ate!...

      _StRMK * _Svncres— _'i'he Co _. _^ MWt . _onwJ ate ! _itat that a young milliner in tke Faubourg _Montmaratmarr in consequence ol the _fwthleaMM of he but _low lately _cowwUted » _ui « uo b . _^ - _" _^ _"S ** * l uHrt ot P pt H _iiTunor ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 28, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_28031846/page/3/