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Alva „ _ ,. _ _. _O O H Vnrnrii . il _ _O _O Q .. .. .. 003 Norwich .. .. 0 0 S Linlithgow .. .. 023 Boulogne .. .. 0 2 t Westminster .. 030 Georgie Mills .. 023 Prescot .. _ .. 0 0 3 Lambeth .. .. 006 Bury „ „ .. 0 3 . 0 0-furd _« .. 009 Marylebone .. .. 606
NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . EXECCTIVE . FES SOU o ' _COSHOB . _Whitaigton and Cat , per Mr . Mills .. .. 030 Mr . Bennett , per ditto .. - .. .. 010 Wigan , per T . Pye 0 S 4 rEtt G- __ - __ L SECBETABT . Brassfounders' W . Salmon ( One Arms .. .. 020 month ) .. .. 006 Newport , Isle of T . Salmon , ditto .. 0 0 6 Wight .. -OH Somers Town .. 0 3 o
TICTOI FCXD . Newport , Isle of Wight .. ~ .. .. 0 2 11 Ebbatcj-. —The £ 113 s . 3 d . _acknowledgedfromLeieester last week should haTe been £ 313 s . 3 d . Two months' levy to the directors wiR he due on tbe 1 st of February . The levy is at the rate of one halfpenny pet share per month , and must be punctually transmitted _ j the _snb-secretair in money- orders sent direct to me , but made payable to Mr . O'Connor . If the amount is small , it can lie sent direct to me in postage stamps . Particular attention is requested to be paid to the method of transmitting this levy . I also _request that ali the secretaries will immediately transmit to me the names of tlie mem . bei-s on their books which have not been previously transnutted , _* ped _ ying the number of shares taken by each , and the amount paid . The quarterly balance-sheet will be in the bauds of the sab-secretaries during the course of tbe ensuing week . T . M . Wheeleb .
The Executivb C _« _-J __ _rrr __ - or the Xatioxa- Chaster Ass-ciatiox feeling it imperative upon them to use all the means in thtir power to make known to the people of England the principles for which tbey have been so loo ; contending , have resolved upsnprinting and publishing the _iclole of tie political aorks ef Thomas Pabie , the ' earless assertor of tlie "Rights of Man . " The work ia to be pub . lisbedin _/ r--u-p **« _njf parts , In a similar form , type , and paper to a -well-known work—C ~_ in $ * i - * Edinburgh Journal—the profits ariang ont of the sale to be added to tlie general fund . The councils in the various localities , _ti-riubors , aud private fiiends , are hereby requested to commence a canrass for subscribers , and forward tha number to Mr . T . M . Wheeler , 7 , Crown-court , _Deauftreet . 0 _ ford-street , London , as soon as possible . The attention of our Scotch friends is called to this matter . Recollect , " _Knowledge is power , " " Union i 3 strength . " P . _-M'Gbath , C . Doyu , T . Claks , F . _O'Cox-s-oe , Thohas Mab-15- Wheekb , Secretary *
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LONDON . Lambeth . —At the usual weekly meetin _? of tbe Lambeth shareholders , on Sunday evening last , tbe 25 th inat ., the following resolution was unanimously passed : — " That , we , the assembled shareholders of the Lambeth branch of the Chartist Co _. operative Land Society , do agree to the alteration of rules , so that the ballot shall precede the purchase of land : such land to be bought for the Society . We also agree to the annulling of rules dividing the Society into _seetionii and districts . With reference to the suggestion of our treasurer , Mr . Roberts , relative to the allotments becoming freehold , we leave the adoption thereof , or otherwise , to the wisdom of our directors" Tower - __ i _ a _* r _ . —Resolution , adopted at the _lHuitington and Cat : — " That this district fall in with thc views of Mr . Roberts , to cause the occupants to bave a vote forthe county . "
_VYEstsasHiBE . —Mr . M'Grath lectured on Sundav evening to a numerous auditory . Messrs . _Wheeler and -M'Grath reported the progress mado in _procuring the enrolment of the Land Society , and the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : — " In case of Mr . Tidd Pratt refusing to enroll the Society under the Benefit Society ' s Act , that , in accordance with his suggestion , " it be registered under the provisions of the Joint Stoek _Comnanv Act" * - _Fnosr _, _Whi-ams , axd Joses . —A nnmerons committee met on Wednesday evening , February the 3 rd , at the Partheiaum , St . Martin ' s-lane , " wheu it was resolved to divide Westminster into districts , and canvass it for signatures to a petition , _prayln" for the restoration of these patriots . The meeting adjourned until Sunday evening , at six o _' clock .
Somek 3 Tows . —Mr . Christopher Boyle lectured at the Bricklayers * Arms , on Sunday " _evenins last . The meeting was subsequently addressed by Messre . Page , Laurie , Arnott , and Humphries . Tbe meeting was very numerously attended , and the lecture was received with much enthusiasm . _Ceixb-uiiox of ihe Birth-DAT or Thomas Paese . —A public sapper was held at the Geonje and Brason tavern , foot of Blackheath-hill , on Monday evening , January the 26 tb . The _lai-ge room was inconveniently crowded with the votaries of liberty , anxious , in this "Age of Reason , " to do honour to tlie memory ofthe author ofthe " Rights of Man , " •' Common Sense , " ic . The tables were liberally supplied with substantial viands of the very best
qualify , which the company did ample justice to . ilr . Allan Davenport _, the veteran patriot and poet , was tuianimonsly called to the chair . In the course of the evening the following toasts were given : — " Tbe Sovereignty ofthe people . " Spoken to bv the chairman in an excellent speech . " Thomas Paine —we meet to respect his memorv and extend his principles . " Responded to by Mr . Julian Harney . " Tlie Rights of Man , the groundwork of which is contained in the People ' s Charter . In pursuit of these , may we be as steady a 3 time , and as relentless as the grave . " Mr . Feargus O'Connor responded to this sentiment in a len » tby and eloquent speech , which excited the greatest enthusiasm and applause . " The Chartist Co-operative Land Society—may tbe _eUorts of its members and its officers succeed in ' _onee more locating the people on their own land . " Responded to by Mr . Wheeler . " The exiled patriots ,
Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis—may they speedily be restored to theii * country , families , and friends . " _Responded to by Mr . Sewell . "Health and happiness to Feargus O'Connor and tbe other members ' of the Executive Committee . " Mr . Christopher Doyle spoke in replyto the toast . " Thomas S . Dancombe , M . P . —may his able efforts soon lead to the _emancipation of the people from political and social bondage , " Responded to by Mr . Stallwood . "Patr ick O'Higgins , the talented advocateof Chartism in Ireland . " Mr . D , W . Ruffy responded . | " Thc Ladies . " Mr . Firth responded . A vote of thanks to the chairrean closed the meeting . Eloquent speeches , patriotic songs , and complete harmony and brotherhood characterised the proceedings throughout . [ In justice to our reporter , we should state that we received from him a very fall and interesting report of this meeting ; press of matter has , however , comnclledus to give merely the above abridgment . ]
XATIO . VAL _AXn-JflLITIA ASSOCIATIO . X . A numerous meeting was held on _Wednesday evening , at the Parthenium Assembly-rooms , St . MartinVlane , for the purpose of fanning an association forthe protection of such of its members . * u mi « rht be drawn forthe militia , and conscientiously object to serve therein . Mr . Milne was called to the chair , and introduced Mr . O'Connor , who _ablyexnlained the objects of the association . A deputation was received from the cordwainere' body , requesting information respecting the objects ofthe society ; information was also requested by various other parties . On the motion of Mr . O'Connor , seconded by Mr . Arnott , Mr . Wheeler was elected secretary , and the following gentlemen were elected as a committee , to act with the committee of ten previously
appointed : —Messrs . Ford , Milne , Arnott . Whitmore , sen ., Whitmorejun ., Bird , Miller , Rowland , _^> hiteh-r a , Parkes , Hutchins , Wheeler , O ' Connor , _Hunmbc-U , Oakley , R . Smith , Greenslade , Crhcbell , Lowrie , Collins , and Earl . On the motion of Mr . O'Connor , seconded by Mr . Smith , the conimittee received authority to add to their number . Mr . Parkes moved , and Mr . Whitmore seconded— "That the secretary be instructed to draw np a code of Jaws for the guidance ofthe society , and present them to committee at its next meeting / ' Carried _unnnimou-Jv . It was jthen resolved that the committee should meet at thesame place , on the ensuing Wednesdav _evening ; sittings to commence at eight _oVoek preciselv , and close at a quarter pa 3 t ten . The _attendance _' of all friends is earnestly requested . Afar some further arrangements the meeting adjourned .
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MONDAY , War . —The Times of this morning has a tremendous warlike article , intended , ns doubt , as a sideblow at our anti-warlike declaration of Saturday . Tho rimes , as is its custom , extols and eulogises peace , while it has the effrontery to declare that the aristocratic antipathies and dislikes of England to vulgar republican institutions and manners would render a war with America most popular . The object of the Times doubtless is , to convince its readers ot ' a popular feeling that does not exist . But this is always the case . The shrouded Thunderer recognises no noise that does not come from itself , and is
reduced to the necessity of silencing popular disapproval by a flourish of its own trumpet . Upon this , as upon all other questions , the Times falls into the error of supposing that the unrepresented few represent the national feeling , and would put down the acquiescence of poor Joe Hume as a counterbalance to the rejection of war by a majority of the people . In tbis peculiar case , however , it happens , unfortunately for our Oracle , that a very large majority of the voting class , whom , we presume , constitute a portion of the people , is as much opposed to become GOVERNMENT VOLUNTEERS as the unrepresented slaves themselves , and , therefore , our answer
to the Times is— . S 0 T 0 I-, S 0 M * -S _ ST ' . Fhee Tbade . —Never was there mortification hke that sustained by Sir OracU with regard to the Ministerial message from Belphos . Parliament did notmeet ' upon the first week in January ; the Cabinet was not unanimous upon the alterations to be made in the Corn Laws , while perfect unanimity prevails upon the detennination that tbey shall not be repealed , and yet , strange to say , our cotemporarv contends for the perfect fulfilment of the prophecv . We shall have more rough work yet upon this question than scribblers , speculators , shopkeepers , warehousemen , and paid demagogues are aware of , or capable of understanding . for
The Cors Tbade . —As we havo anticipated seme weeks , the clodpoles' acceptation ofthe Ministerial _declarationhasledtoacessation ofthe flail and threshing machine ; and holders , now finding that protection is not to go by the board all at once , are overholdingforarise ; and , as we also _predicted , if the Minister's plan has not an immediate effect of lowering the price of corn , and of inviting foreign competition , we shall have the famine-mongers again upon the stretch , as the farmers will overbold for a rise . Upon the whole , if we were mischievous , which we are not , we could not possibly , desire a more satisfactory confusion than the Minister , the Times , and the League have unitedly created ; while , for ourselves , whatever their _iutore operations may be , our portion must be—heads we win , tails they lose . Tbade . —The accounts from the provinces are various . In some departments , where spring trade
has commenced , _sanguine hopes are entertained of good traffic , while the manufacturers for the India and China market arecompelied to stare surplus in the face , and to meet the monster with a stoppage of machinery and a dismissal of hands , which , together with the prospect of a considerable rise in the price of food , threatens to add a new difficulty to the already long Ministerial catalogue . Thespinners , it appears , have done too much work iii the time allowed by law , and must now remain idle ; without wages ; whereas , if they had had a Ten Hours' Bill , a sixth of the idleness and consequent misery would have been spared ; if they had bad an Eight Hours' Bill it would have been better ; but if a Three flours' Bill , as advocated and ably sustained by John Fielden , at the great spinners'dinner , it wonld be better still ; and now we'll niakea prophecy , and we'll print it prominent ! v ; _itisthis : —
" That no satis £ _ ctory settlement of [ the social question in dispute between masters and men , the people and their rulers , thc rich oppressor and the poor oppressed , can be final , conclusive , and _satisfactory , until an arithmetical sum of the number of hands working for hire , and the capability of machinery to produce , is fairly made , and the result carried into legislative practice . We believe , nay , we feel confident , that a Six Hours' Bill to begin with , as one of the necessary concessions , would
enable the Minister to sweep away eveiy vestige of protection now given to corn , labour , and every thing else ; but , unless an adjustment is made between machinery and labour , no feeding ofthe League upon the landlords , the landlords npon the poor , and the poor upon the taxes , will give satisfaction ; tbat is , that tbe first grand move must be , not the ratriction of machinery , but the curbing of the abuses of machineiy , whereby machinery shall he made man ' s holiday instead of man ' s curse . " Now , that ' s our prophecy .
_Mb-VET _MiREEr . — The ghost ofthe Accountant-General , which appears to have two faces under a hood , is smiling upon Government securities , and at the same time frowning upon the jobber ' s speculations . A bird in the hand is better far Than two that ia the bushes are : And the stern resolve of the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to take waste paper on account of railway deposits , promising an interest of 6 per cent ., has induced a preference for consols over railway shares . The poor York draper , Hudson , is in hydrostatic s , as Mrs . _Malaprop would say , at the sudden check given to his railway kingship . Well , to be sure , how little bubbles ave sometimes blswn into great big ones by
a chance breeze , and how soon they vanish before an adverse gale I This big-little man was great in local election committees , in railway matters , and family concerns , but how soon he has found his level in the big bouse . He bas learned that there is a great dift _. r-nee between the little bon . e in York and the big house in London . If ever there was a disgusting attempt , it was the endeavcur . to make this little creature into something more than nature designed him for— -. great person during the railway mania . _^ Now , what we prophecy with regard to railways is this , that ths good trunk lines and their tributary branches will run to a higher premium than ever , when relieved of the flood of muddy streams that have so long flowed on the surface .
IREIiAND . His Majesty Kiso Phath has been severely indisposed since the announcement of the medicine prescribed for his family of tbe Murphies by the State Physician , and we are now told that hi 3 majesty is beyond recoveiy . Irish Coautiox . — The greatest danger that threatens the Peel Cabinet is the disunion evinced among the seven Irish Repeal members that met at Radley's Hotel , on Friday last , in obedience to the huntsman's call . Just think , only seven out of forty-three Repeal members , and only think those seven divided upon the twe great questions mentioned in her most gracious Majesty's most gracious speech —the Corn Laws and coercion . Ban is for a repeal
of the Corn Laws , Smith O'Brien is not . Young John , Ban ' _sreprescntative , is for COERCION FOR IRELANB . if it is accompanied with MINISTERIAL PROMISES to enaet sueh a Landlord and Tenant Bill aa will put a stop to Irish _assafsination . It is curious thai neither the young Liberator nor the OLB GENTLEMAN ever mention the agrieHltnral labourers or tbe trades of Ireland . The _ofd Liberator got frightened at tbe young fellow's treasonable proposition , and Smith O'Brien and I / iUon Browne enforced such an alteration in the terms of the resolution , as naturally and unequivocally convicted its proponnder of treachery against the Irish people . Altogether , the note of the Liberator is so low , and tbe voice of O'Brien is so loud
and patriotic in comparison with the old bird , who , if not caught with chaff , bas bad salt sprinkled upon bis tail , that we give it elsewhere . Come , at last we bave some hope tbat tho rogues will fall out amongst themselves , and that the Irish people will come by their own . God send it soon and sudden . Ban , you're a broth of a boy , but , be my own sowl , Paddy is not half the fool you took him to be , he can see as far through a stone wall as any other blind horse ; and as we have often told him , he has now discovered that you are a pompous and defying general , after you have recruited strength at Berrynane for the rint campaign , and tbat you arc a
tricking , _sha-Hing , whining courier of social ease for the remainder of the year . Oh ! how quick the Irish thermometer rises to blood heat in the autumn , and how rapidly it sinks below Zero in the spring . D __ sa 5 » the Obascemes . —By thc report , of the meeting ofthe Dublin Corporation , we sec tbat even the Orange faction has rejected all alliance with the okl deceiver , and Ban was obliged to sing from the opening ofthe meeting till its close _^—Oh dear , what will become of me ? Oh dear , what shall 1 do ! _5 o Orangeman coining to marry me , Nobody coming to woo .
Ban , yoa re an owld woman , and we'll tell you what the old Irishwoman said in her distress about her high caul cap , and the answer she got . What shall I do , tar starch and blue For my high caul cap , fer my high caul cap t 1 Tl tell you what you'll do , cut a pratie in two , . And that will do , and _veiywell too , for starch and blue For your high caul eap , for your high caul cap . Ban , in God's name , put on your night cap and stiffen tbe border with pratie starch , for you are last asleep while Ireland is wide awake .
The Mtmxojui Special _Commission . — We also refer our readers to the news which will be found under this head in its proper place , and we think that the old cry ofthe difficulty of setting Irish jurors to serve will be fully answered by the treatment tbe jurors 6 f our sovereign Lady the Queen received at the hands of their lordships . Their crime was constructive murder , and were near being starved to death in consequence of a difference of opinion . This surely is a bold invitation to the Irish people to unite , and we trust they will profit by it . While we oiler no palliation for the erime of murder , or attempt
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to murder , we must _nevcrtholeaa _aay that time should have been allowed for the very natural excitement to subside before the unfortunate Seery was subjected to a second trial . However , Irish justice is a phenomenon . Once upon a time the foreman of a jury dissented from the eleven other * , and upon being naked by the judge if there was any prospect of a unanimous verdict , the foreman indignantly _exclaimad _, " No my lord , there appears no likelihood of mv convincing those eleven obstinate men . " In conclusion , for the sake of justice as well as public convenience , and with the new to preserve the lives of innocent men , we wish _smeerely that the legislature would give the judges a , discretionary power in such cases ; but there are instances in which judges , like other men , do not relish a power which maybe humanely exereised .
_Co-rcion fob _lBEUsn . —Was it not even as we predicted—that Ban and his toil would attempt a compromise with g overnment upon the question of coercion ? Aye , m-faith was it , and Ban , who is perhaps at _thiajmoment in London , will discover thai there is more Saxon feeling there than is to be found in Conciliation Hall , for their Irish brethren . Thb Liberator ahd Cheap _GovERsitEjji .-lOne of the most fruitful themes of the fruitful mind ofthe FRUITFUL Liberator has been the blessings of cheap government ; and referencetoour Irish news will shew how the practice and the theory of the Liberator square upon the subject . No wonder that he should contend for extensive corporate reform for Ireland , when he is enabled to create strength or neutralise opposition by the unjust use made of corporate taxation . We cannot sufficiently commend the _straicht-Wlt
o ° _X _??^ manuness _« which Mr . Reynolds and his SCUT have contended ag ainst the Liberator and his I AIL . It is monstrous that the monstrous legai item of neariy £ 100 D for legal , expenses , together with theamountfor cutlery for the Lord Mayor , the redecoration of the Mansion-house , the furbishing of an old picture , and such like casual and disgusting items , should be carried to theaccount of general expenditure . Who wouldn ' t be a corporation printer , when the accounts are admitted without more than a passing comment ? Ban would tickle , his hearers by the assurance that voting the bulk sum did not necessarily entail the expenditure . Oh , Ban ! if you had five times as much , you would have thc whole nest of Irish patriots chirping and gaping for as much more ; but it has always been your policy to smother public opinion by the shower of gold dust that comes from other men ' s pockets .
FOREIGN . ' For the news under this head we must refer the reader to our general and more extensive Summary .
TUESDAY . Tra Thunderer and ms Pets Verily , we live in a strange world . It is very hard for tbe schoolmaster to unteach ' what he has so indefatigably laboured to inculcate . As long as we can remember , the Times has uniformly eulogised the laconic letters , answers , and speeches ofhis _Gruce the Buke of Wellington , until this morning we find the Thunderer castigating the short soldier , THE STUNTED CORPORAL , for his brevity . The Times is outrageous with the Buke for not having told all he knew about those differences in the Cabinet which the Times assures us did not exist ; but , to be sure , our coteraporary also lauds the Prime Minister for the abandonment of his untoward secrecy , and the
adoption of a more comprehensive loquacity . In faitb , we apprehend that Sir Robert will see the necessity of relapsing into his usual secret style , especially as the _ watchful agriculturists , his old and satisfied disciples , are _anxiously alive to the importance of every syllable that drops from his lips , and aa anxiously panting for some bait from his hook that will be swallowed unanimously by his opponents . The Railway Mania . —The prime minister administered a copious dose of Turbet mineral to the railway mad-dogs last night , no doubt for tbe purpose ot preventing a further decline in Government securities . However , be that as it may , it will now appear that he thinks twenty-three millions and a half too large an amount to be expended in each ofthe next three years in railway traffic , and three hundred and fifty millions much too large a sum to be eXDended
upon the many wild projects to bs submitted to Parliament . Will not the working people say , when jobbers , have realised as _miich from their labour as would pay off half the national debt , and without crippling tlieir trade capital , that it is high time the people should be relieved altogether from the burthen of such a national faith . It will be seen that Sir George Grey proposed devolving the arduous and onerous duties now imposed upon hon . memberofthe House of Commons , upon a roving commission of speculators from without . Lord John supported the view , while , in our opinion nothing would more tend to accelerate the speed of trick , traffic , jobberv and speculation . H tbe honourable bouse could not control its own members Benham and Boldero , surely it could not control a set of perambulating jobbers , who , with their friends , would discuss the relative merits of the several lines over THEIR WINE AND
BISCUITS . Our Friend op Richmond . —His Grace of Richmond has thrown up his castor , and taken up thc gauntlet for his friends , the farmera . He has presented several petitions to the noble landlords from tbeir tenants against any destructive interference with the rights of his clients . It is strange , most strange , that in tbis diversified warfare we never hear a word from the labourers' friend . We think we may apply the old invitation to the Government in their
case" HIT 'EM AGAIN , THEY HAVE GOT NO FRIENB !" Moxet Market . —The Government has actually beaten tbe brokers . The pulse of security beats . little higher , while the railway pulse _tetokens a slow and languishing _feverishness . No wonder that tht Dai y News should advocate the system of monetary centralisation as a substitute for political squabbling .
IRELAND . Famine . —It will be remembered that somo weeks ago we published the * . Yiie assurance of the bailiff ol au Irish landowner , that there was plenty of food in the country if the people only had money to buy it ; and the sagacious Buke of Wellington has wisely discovered , that though millions may die of want , still there will be no scarcity * , —in good truth , if his Grace died of want we should be scarcely able to find his successor , for , ' take him for all in all , we ne'er shall look unon his like again "—and God forbid we should . He tells us that he has served tbe Crown for fifty years . He might have added , that hc served himself at the same time , but Irish modesty rendered it impossible to say that he had served his country .
The Brof of Water in the Ocean . —Sir Thomas Fremantle has proposed a loan of £ 50 , 000 from the consolidated fund for the reclamation of wastelands in Ireland , npon the condition that a like amount shall be subscribed by the charitable of that land . Boesn't he wish he may get it ? He also proposes to serve Ireland by a further unnamed grant to be appliedtothe FORTIFICATIONS ANB HARBOURS OF THE COUNTRY . That ' s the way to treat slaves!—to make them build fortifications for their enemies . Brown-bread Joseph had no hesitation in ? oting supplies for the augmentation ofthe arniy , but hie economical soul shudders at tbe bare notion of granting anything for the relief of the starving Irish . They ask for food , and they get fortifications .
WEDNESDAY . The "Stab" and the " _TiuBg . " -By St . Pail , but we have beaten the Thunderer—the Oracle says so . Sir Robert broke the seal l _*> st night , and as fairly muzzled the poor Thunderer this morning . The Parliament did not meet the FIRST WEEK in January ; the Cabinet WAS NOT UNI TED upon the question of free trade , for it never was submitted to them , _snd the sliding seals still reigns triumphant as the regulator of tbe price of corn . Now , it was very shameful for a journal , with power , if not with character , to have ventured upon so mischievous a practical joke . Tbe injury sustained by parties who have acted upon the faith of the Times , is beyond all calculation , while the seeds of disappointment sown
m the minds of the sunorers will not be easily eradicated , and the League , lulled into partial security by the anticipated revelations will sprout like mushrooms from the soil , and denounce both the Thunderer and the Premier . Tlie fact isjust _asiwcstatcd , and we were tbe only print that did state it . Sir Robert Peel hangsby tlie sliding scale for tlireeyears , well knowing _thatjin this active age , that three years ' grace is a political eternity . Long before the prescribed time shall have expired , the collateral measures ef Sir Robert will of themselves have repealed every vestige of the Corn Laws . We never write hastily or capriciously , or , at all events , minutely , upon subjiets that we do not understand ; while , upon the compr ehensive subject and its several
minute details , and almost imperceptible results , wc have published more real knowledge than all the books , pamphlets , magazines , newspapers , and demagogues put together ; while the Times is as hopelessly ignorant of the bearing ol the subject , "as a dungbill cock is of a holiday . " It is one thing to tickle the advertising _propensiti » e of ignorant shopkeepers , who arc taught to believe that every shilling saved in the purchase of food will be au additional twelvepence spent at their counters—to cram ignorant speculating manufacturers with a false notion , that their fortune depends upon the conversion of wheat into an exchangeable currency for manufactured goods—to convince the working-classes that ehcap food is ever accompanied with high wages , and it i » another thing for a Prime Minister to
in-( niresuclt legislative co-operation as will convince the majority ofthe House of Commons of those newspaper accepted dogmas . The mighty measure , the gigantic scheme , the overwhelming disclo-ure , and statesmanlike resolution of Sir Robert requires more than a mere passing glance in our weekly summary ; and , as public opinion looks more to the Star than to any other , or all other mediums , for a fair and disinterested review upon thc mighty revolution proposed by Sir Robert Peel last night , we must bc pardoned if we devote to its consideration an amount of space which its importance demands at our hands . Its principal merit , however , is , in the language of Mr . _Waklny—it is not likely to please either party who command the votes of thoir respective slave-classes , while it will be read with becoming calmness and due attention by those who have no votes .
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Mom * . Marsei _. _^ _as we anticipated j the rise in the national pulse was but of short duration , and the patient has again relapsed into its former languor . Three years is a long day , my lord .-short to ilie criminal who stands upon the verge of eternity , but long to the maid who pants to become a bride . The jobbers thrive best in an unsettled atmosphere that is susceptible of transient calms and continuous squalls . The amount of money necessary to pay the duty upon corn now in bond , according to Sir Robert ' s brand at 4 s ., will cause a further decline in government securities . Upon the whole , we are very near the settling day .
The Railwat Jobbers . —The iron-hearted _pbilanthropigts , so anxious for the prosperity ofthe nation , and so solicitous about the convenience of the poor , whom they were compelled to stroll along at the rate of thirteen miles an hour , are moved to becoming and characteristic compassion by _ttye kick the prime minister has put in tlieir gallop . As we observeyesterday , the good trunk lines , with judiciously formed contributary branches , will rise in value , while Hudson and the bubbles will vanish into air .
These fellows did more real mischief than landlords and free traders put together . West Ridino Election . —This struggle comes ofl on Wednesday next , and we do trust that if Lord Morpeth shall have a walk-over , that the sons of toil will ask him some questions relative to his opinion about labour , and so forth , and that they will require more satisfactoiy answers than that of noble sympathy promised by his lordship to the Short Time Committee , whose address we have much pleasure in publishing this week .
IRELAND . Conciliation Hall . —After an announcement from the Liberator , that he was about to leave for England that evening to compel the Prime Minister to establish granaries and storehouses ( how fine ! how highsounding ! how patriotic !) where famin « most threatened , some other M . P . ' s indulged in suitable harangues , when the rent for the week was announced to be £ 196 Oj . 2 d . We beg particular attention to the following fact . Sir Thomas Fremantle proposes to advance £ 50 , 000 for reclaiming waste lands in Ireland , upon the condition that the Irish philanthropists shall raise a like amount . Now , the Liberator has fobbed , to his own cheek , one half of _tlierequiredsum ; while the League , who would ground
their immediate demand for free trade upon the threatened destitution of the Irish people , are about to subscribe £ 250 , 000 to insure them a cheap supply of food . Let us add , the £ 50 , 000 of the government loan , the £ 25 , 000 O'Connell tribute , and the quarter ofa million League money , and we have £ 325 , 000 ; to which should government add a like amount , would make a labour fund of £ 650 , 000 ; which , at the rate of £ 3 an acre , would reclaim 216 , 000 acres , tlie improved produce of which " would pay more than 10 per cent , for the money , whilo its addition to the ffresent amount of arable land would be an immediate provision for the increasing population , so horrifying to the Malthusians . If we estimate its average
production of wheat alone at one quarter per acre , we have an increase of 216 , 000 quarters , which would bo no small addition to the present annual supply ; while we leave out butter , bacen , pork , milk , beef , mutton , oats , bariey _. potatoes , garden vegetables , wool , poultry , eggs , and all the rest of it . Verily , we have good reason to be proud of the high position that our agricultural opinions now hoid in the literary and scientific world , and whereof we present the following testimony from the Prime Minister of England , which , though we publish it here , shall adorn many other-parts of our broad sheet , and ,, with the consent of the directors , shall stand as tho frontispiece of the rules of the Chartist Co-operative Land Association : —
"THERE IS A DREAD—A NATURAL DREADOP _-O-IPETITIO- * _OJf TUE PART OF AGRICUL . TBBISTS . IT IS IMPOSSIBLE , I THINK , FOR ANY MAN TO DENY- THAT AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IS YET IN ITS INFANCY IN THIS COUNTRY . BUT THERE ARE MEANS OF MEETING THIS COMPETITION WHICH IS SO MUCH DREADED , BY THE APPLICATION OF CAPITAL , SKILL , AND INDUSTRY ; AND BY THE ADOPTION OF THOSE UEAKS I FEEL PERSUADED THAT BOTH THE AGRICULTURISTS AND THE LABOURING MAN WILL IE ABLE TO MEET THE COMPETITION WHICH WILL BE RAISED UP AGAINST THEM , AND , IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE EFFECT , WE PROPOSE THAT THE STATE SHALL ENCOURAGE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY . "
Bravo , Sir Robert ! that's it . The science of agriculture is but in its infancy . We have taken off its swaddling clothes—do you wrap it in the garments of competition , denuded of the flimsy rags of protection ; encourage it—foster it ; bug it to your soul ; tail- of bulls , and spade . ; and cows , and their dung , and never heed the assaults of tools , the revilings of maniacs , and the contempt of slaves . Yes , cherish native agriculture , and you promote an emulative and honourable competition , round which the sons of toil will rally , aud triumphantly fight your battles against protectionists , anti-monopoli » ts , and crotchet-mongers of all classes , shades , and denominations .
FOREIGN . Although the London pres _. affects to sneer at the resolutions proposed in Congress by Mr . M'Connell , and although we are led to suppose that they were received witli laughter , yet we cannot forbear calling especial attention to them , and especially the last , wliich has reference to sympathy for , and co-oporation with the Irish people . The resolutions wiil be found under their proper head * , and , while we strongly approve the terms in which they are couched , we fear the proposer egregiously miscalculated when lie relied upon Irish admiration of Republican principles . He was not aware , because the press would aot convey the fact , that the English delegates who were sent to propound Chartist principles in Ireland had a narrow escape of their lives from the ignorant
dupes of an interested juggler who has cunningly mixed up Infidelism and Republicanism in the same _category , nor was be aware of tlie great fact published by the Dilfast Vindicator , that tbe Catholic people of Ireland . hated democracy , and were the stanchest supporters of monarchical institutions . Our far west friends have yet a great deal to unlearn before they can judge of the relative strength and adopted principles of the _respective parties in Great Britain . Mayhap our anti-war and anti-militia declaration may lead to a friendly notice of Chartism and the Chartists in the American Congress ; while we beg to assure out * transatlantic friends that tlie Irish Liberator would much prefer £ 25 , 009 a year , with abject slavery , to half-pay consequent upon the possession of perfect civil and religious liberty .
THURSDAY . FitEB Tradb . —We learn , with no small pleasure , from different sources upon which we can rely , that it is the intention of Mr . Cobden and the leaders of the League in Parliament to support the measures of Sir Robert Peel . This is as it ought to be , while we ate sorry to be obliged to state , tliat tlie lecturers who , above all things , fear the settlement of , to them , so profitable a difficulty , have resolved upon keeping the fire of agitation alive . Now , if ever a nation has suffered from one tiling more than another , it has been from the duplicity , recklessness , and rascality of demagogues , who rouse every passion and excite every feeling for the __ attainment of a special purpose , and as soon as their labours promise
success , they become horrified atthe prospect ot that triumph which threatens to strip tliem of the wages of corruption . When Chartism was on the eve of victory , tbe Birmingham patriots were sopped off by corporate emoluments ; the _Londonjphilosopliei's were bribed by government toleration in an exemption from stamp duty , and by the promised patronage of Brougham , Roebuck , aud | Co ., while the physical force adventurers , Carpenter , Vinccut O'Brien , and Co ., betook themselves to denunciation of their own principles . We trust , for the sake of peace _. _' . for the sake of industry , for tke sake of labour , and of the poor , that the League leaders will act with a stern and bold authority , allowing tlieir servants to pass over to the Richmond ranks if they cannot procure honourable
employment , but not allowing them to tamper with a national strength as a means of upholding aristocratic sway and oligarchical oppression . TRAn-. —Wherever shrewd guess has been made as to _tlw probable result of the Premier ' s ALLMIGHTY proposition , a corresponding firmness has been exhibited ; and as . we have ever wished to base the demand for political rights upon sound views rather than upon " agitation consequent upon a hungry howl , we shall perhaps more than any other parties living rejoice in the success of a measure which is calculated at one and the same time to meet threatened famine , to adjust conflicting interests , and to break down old landmarks which new opinions had rotted and destroyed . We often expressed our
satisfaction at the fact , that if Chartism had slumbered for the three past years , apathy had been occasioned by comparative prosperity ,. and we now more than over hail its promised continunnce , because we have created such a mind , as will use the present opportunity as a means of insuring permanent happiness through the possession of LAND OF THEIR OWN . No measure , nor no set ot measures , could more tend to the advancement of our Land plan than those proposed by Sir Robert Peel , while no sentiments or opinions could more strengthen the propriety of its adoption than those to wliich he has given expression , nnd some of which we shall retain for constant use . Cohn Trade . —Last week , and the week before , wc prephecied that the measures of Peel would cause a re-action in the corn trade , the' effect of which
would be a rise in prices ; and that we wero right , the market note of this morning bears amplo proof , as the position of buyer and seller bas been changedthe seller now sceptical , and the buyer rather anxious to purchase ; while vc also foretold that the cry of famine would bo simultaneously heard . The grain market , as wc foretold , has a tendency upward . Monky Market . —Some hocus-pocus , in which tho application of the sinking fund has had a harleq uin effect , has had the tendency of creating a gleam of hope on 'Change , and things , especially Exchequer Bills , have assumed a more healthy appearance . The government practitioner continuing to OPERATE to a considerable extent , has no doubt had its share in the affair , and all this , although thc city blockheads have not yet , ve are told , had time to scan the merits of £ ___ _teil-miglity propositions ,
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- _* . ¦ Shaiib . Market . —As we have , foretold of . this dc parlment also , the bubble- are burstin _* _. and the good lines ave preparing to go a-hoad with railway spe « d . The York draper , who , not Ion ? since , was the Colossus of Railroad ., is biting his fingers , and finds that he has got out of his depth , by his foolish plunge into political watera .
The _hisher a monkey climbs , Tho more ho shows his —— . # W _. si Rimnq Election . —As faraa _IheProtectir-nist 3 are concerned , the West Riding of Yorkshire is going a-begging , and would have been uncontested altogether , had not tho energy of Mr . Ferrandferretted out a Lame Fox to _unbajf for the amusement of the field upon the occasion . ' We were quite disposed to aid in a searching examination , and sharp _castigation , ot Lord Morpeth , rather than that he should have received the conviction that his policy in every way accorded with the popular mind , but we really cannot recommend the adoption of one of the most bigottad old _ionos that ever tho world saw . IREI-AND .
Welcome _Din .-WeU , Dan , my hearty , so you are come to Saxon land to ax the Saxons for a bit o ' relief for the poor boys , after taking i . 2 ., 000 and £ 300 a-week , out of their pockets . Ogh , Dan , ' your sowl , biit it ' s you that ' s mild as a sucking _dove ' when you conies over here to blarney the natives , but thc divil a one of uz ever sees yon , barring it ' s about a juggle ofa bank bill , or a railway Bclieme , or appail on behalf of the poor starving paddies . Musha , Dan , but you should have entered the Saxon house with a board before and a board behind , with these words on tlicm : — Pity the sorrows ofa po » r old man , Whose trembling limbs ha-e borne him to your door ; ¦ Whose life is dwindled to the _ahortest span ! Oh ! give relief , and heaven will bless your store . _Trns _Pomoe .-The following appalling account appears in the Clare Journal : —
Wehave received a document of great importancenamely , a return of the sound and unsound potatoes in possession of the tenantry in the parish of Kilfidane , made on the 29 th of December . "Wo have written the word important as attaching to this return , we should have written the word appalling . It is so in great truth . Let us _soe , then , what the report referred to states . There are upon this townland D 18 families , consisting of 3 , 186 persons . There are amongst those persons 2 , 050 barrels of sound potatoes , and thero are _M-H barrels of unsound potatoes . Let us now state how much food remains for consumption to those personi until the 1 st of August , and that is an early day . Three barrels to eacli family for seed wiil take 1 , 554 barrels , and this will leave 496 barrels for the support of 3 , 182 persons to the time we
mention—that is , thirteen stone of potatoes for the sup . port of each person until the 1 st day of August . This i » not sufficient for one month out ofthe six ; and we would now ask the landlords , large landholders , tbe magistrates and gentry , however immediately or remotely connected with the parish or with the county , will they suffer the people to meet the famine that _Btares them , withoutinakiug some effort to procure food for them » This is really . an appalling prospect for the poor people , and one which will demand something more than the slow and sluggish process of Parliamentary relief administered by the crippled hand of Irish philanthropy . We would strongly recommend the government to send a commission of five honest , unassuming , kind-hearted nieii to Ireland , not to report upon the state of destitution that may present itself , but to relieve those who suffer under it .
FOREIGN . In the news of to-day , under this bead will be read that portion ofit which refers to the sanguinary conflict between the combined forces of England and France and those of South America with remorse , while that portion of it which refers to the progress making in Prussia , by the democratic party , will convey no small pleasure to the friends of freedom at home . It will bc seen that the Autocrat of Prussia has been compelled to fly from Berlin , in consequence of his refusal to grant a constitution in compliance with the rational deinand of the improved mind of the country . Again we beg to remind our readers that Mr . O'Connor , in his first letter on his return from the Continent , predicted such a result . America . —It will be seen that while England is publishing " tlte thunder of her arms , " Jonathan is not indifferent , ns we learn his intention of building a steam navy capable of competing _withour " wooden walls . "
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SUSPECTED MURDER AT MANCHESTER . On the evening of Wednesday the 10 th of December , about nine o ' clock , the body of a young woman was found in the Rochdale canal , noar the Ten Acres Bridge , Newton , having apparently been in the water only a short time , but life was quite extinct . The body was removed to the Thro- Crowns public-house , in Newton , and the following day it was ideitified as that of a woman named Ann Ellison , thc _daughtsr of a person residing in Mariastreet , Manchester . No clue could then be obtained as to how the _dsceasod came to her death ; and , consequently , at the inauest held before Mr . Rntter _, on the Friday ensuing , an open vtrdict of "Found drowned" was
returned . Circumstances , tending to throw some light on the subject , having since been discovered to the relations of the deceased , further inquiries were made of various individual * about tho neighbourhood of tho spot where the body was found , and information was communicated to the police , which led to a further investigation of the matter . The result was the apprehension , on Monday last , of a man named Nathaniel Currie , a str _. tcher , in Mr . Murray ' mill , Ancoats , and under whom deceased was employed as a piecer . He was brought up for examination at the New Bailey , on Tuesday , before James Ileywood , Esq ., when the following evidence was adduced : —
Mr . Richard Beswick , chief superintendent of the Manchester police , stated that the prisoner was apprehends- on _su _. pision of having caused tlio death of Ann Ellison . The deceased , who was twenty-on _. years of ag » _,-reaided in Maria-street , Manchester , and worked in Mr . Murray ' s mill ; The prisoner was a stretcher , and the deceased had been engaged under him as a "big piecer . " She was stated to be an exceedingly well-conducted girl , and a teacher in the Sunday school . On the 10 th of December , after leaving work , the deceased came to her father ' s liouse , and after remaining there a short time , she told her father she wished to go out to meet a frieud , named Jane Pilling . Her father consented ; she went out , and about half-past nine , her mother , who had been at a friend ' s house in the interval , returned , and
was surprised to find her daughter absont . At ten o ' clock the father went to bed , and between twelve and one he was awakened by Mrs . Ellison , who stated that Ann had not returned , and she was very much alarmed . Ellison got up , and went out to look for his * daughter , but she could nowhere be found . He was aware that she worked under the prisoner at the mill , and he won't there in the morning , for the purpose of inquiring whether ho knew anything ot * her . He stopped tho prisoner as he was about to entei the mill , told him that his daughter had not been homo on the previous evening , and asked him if ho knew anything about hor . The prisoner said , "No ; I went to the Free Tiade Hall last night , but it was so tbrongod that I could not get in , and after that I came home and went t _» bed . " Ellison renuested
him , if his daughter came to her work , to send word to her parents , whieh he promised to do . The father then went to the police office , and gave information that his daughter was missing . In tho afternoon he was _tQjd that a body had been found at Ten Aeres Bridge , Newton ; and on proceeding to the spot , he identified it as that of his daughter . He remained for some time there , and on his return home he found the prisoner in his house , when he became very violent , aud said "You ' ve been the death of my daughter ; get out of my liouse . ' The prisoner said , " Oh , if you wish me to leave I will do so , " and walked away . He ( Mr _/ Beswick ) would be able to show , that about twenty minutes past eight o ' clock on the night in question , two young women , named Mary Russell and Rhofta Farrington , who reside in Cheetham Fold , near
Newton , passed through three fields called the Ten Acres Fields , about a mile from the spot where thc decensed was found . They were going to have somo bonnets made up , and when they got into the second field they saw n man and woman standing together , The bonnet tbe female had on struck their attention very much , and they resolved to hare theirs made up in a similar wanner . Tho night was moonlight , and both the girls said they would be able to identify either of thc parties agaiu . On Monday afternoon , shortly after the prisoner had been apprehended , he was placed amongst fivo other men , some of them dressed like himself , and the two women pointed to Currie as thc person whom they had seen with the female . About nine o ' clock these young women were returning home ; and wh « n th _» y
wero passing over the Ten Acres Bridge they were told that tho body of a female had been found in the canal ; but they were very tnuch frightened , and _vau home . They could , however , identity the bonnet found on the female in the canal , as being that which bad attracted their notice in the fields . A man named Jaums Tetlow , and a boy named John Hamer , wero pausing this bridge about nine o ' clock , when they observed something floating on the water ; which , _onclosorexamiiiatioti proved to be the body of the young woman . Tetlow got a stick , with which he drew the body to the side , and gent the boy to give information at the polico station . At this _tirao threo other men came up , two of whom went , as
they said , te send a peliceman , and the third put his foot on deceased ' s dress ; and when Tetlow said it would be as wi'll to take tho body out ofthe water , this man ( who was proved to he theprisoner ) said it should not be taken out till the arrival of the polico . When a constable was seen coming towards the spot , he went away in an opposite direction , and was not seen afterwards , The inquest was held on the body on the Friday following , and in thn absence of any proof as to how the deceased came to her death , a verdict of "Found drowned" was returned . A female who laid out . the body would state that there wore various marks upon it ; there were bruises upon the lips and hoth sides of the mouth , and the thighs were considerably scratched .
Thomas Ellison , the father , was then examined . He gave in evidence the facts which Mr . Beswick stated , and also said the prisoner appeared very much excited and confused wheu lie spoke to him about the deceased on the Thursday mornimr . He produced tlie bonnet which the _deceased ' wore , wliich was identified . by the next wit .
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• ness ,. Mary . Russell ,,. who . _i-tatud ., that .. she , _worked at Briscoe ' s Mill , iii Newton , and tliat on the ' _evening of tbe 10 th _Deeombar-hc . went with a person mimed Rhoda _Partington to th « Ten Acres Fields , where tliey passed close by a man and woman who were standing together . The prisoner was the man , and witness lookwd \ ery earnestly at them , biting in such a lonely spot . The bonnet pro . duccd was the one which thc female wore . Witness had since seen the place where the deceased was taken out of the water , wliich was one field aud a little mor . from the place she had se-n them together . Rhoda Farrington confirmed the testimony of this witness , and statoi likewise that the prisoner had on at the time she saw him in the field a black and white _scart ; which was _pro-iuced by Inspector Green . The woman had on a plaid shawl , which Ellison said his daughter bad on when she left the house . i
JameB Tetlow was then _calloil , and described tlio finding of thc body , shortly after nine oVlock , and the _conduct ofthe prisoner in not allowing it to be taken out of the water till the arrival of the police . John Ogden and _Jam » s Crossley severally _stuttd that thoy saw the body taken out of the canal , and also that tho priioner ' had said it should not ba taken out tiil the arrival of the police . The latter witness was called on to serve as a juryman , the number not being complete , but hi said there wero no witnesses examined after he was called in . He told the coroner and thejury that the _prisonor was " favoured" like ( resembled ) the man who prevented the body from being taken out ofthe canal , but he could not swear t _> him . He believed hiin to be the
man . _Eliznboth Duftield _, the woman who laid out the body , _described tho marks which she had seen upon it . The deceased ' s mouth was very much swollen , and appeared to have been struck . Each side of the mouth was black and bruised . Thero were the marks of throe dirty fingers and a thumb on htr neck , aud four scratches on thv inside of the right thigh . Eliza Coates stated that on the morning after the day in question theprisoner called her and asked her to _ca-au his shoes . They were very dirty , and covered nearly all over tho top with clay , wliich she sempud of ? with a knife . The prisoner said to iiw in the morning , " I can hardly feel my wheel handles , for I tremble so bad . " _Inspuctor Green » tatcd that he had searched the prisoner ' s house , and found the scarf produced , which was identified by the witness Farrington .
Mr . Beswick stated that he apprehended the prisoner the previous day , and , on being told the cliarge agaiust him , ho reiterated the statement about being at the Freo Trade Hall in the evening . Mr . _Aspinwall called a woman , named Mary Ann Cooper , who said she lived neit door to the prisoner , aud that she had heard him at home on the evening of tho 10 th of December , getting in coals . —On being cross-examined by Mr . Beswick , she stated that it was nearly ten o ' clock before she heard him in the house , and it was stated that the spot where ( he occurrence took place was only distant a mile and a quarter from where he resided .
Tho prisoner having expressed some _dt-sire to speak in his own defence , the Court gave him the usual caution after which hemade _alengthy statement , thesubstanceof which was , that on his return from Ellison ' s house , after Ellison had charged him with being " the villain who caused his daughter ' s death , " he stated this to his wife . Next morning sho went to Mr . Ellison , and asked his reason for saying so . He said he had a host of _etidm _. e whieh he wonld bring forward at tho inquest . While he turned his back his wife said to the prisoner ' s v _» itV , ** Can you keep a secret . ! " and on promising to do so , Mrs . EHison said , " Ann was three mouths gone in the family way . " Mr . _Ruttoi . caid , thfit _Irdm the external appearance et thebody , at the time ofthe inquest , he -uj . ,. lbed sho was _wcientt . On the application of Mr . Beswick , the inquiry was then adjourned to next _Tuesday .
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Supposed Murder . — Gloucester , Tuesday . — Considerable excitement has burn occasioned in tliis city , during the last few days , in consequence of the body of an unfortunate girl having been found in the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal , on Thursday rooruinglast , under circumstances which indueedtlicsuspicion that she had been murdered _bysoiiiefoi-eignera belonging to a vessel in the port , in whose company she was last seen . . An inquest was held on the body , on Saturday , before J . Cooke , Esq ., and continue-, by adjournment , to this day . Mr . Superintendent Griffin , ofthe county police , applied to Mr . Cooke for it warrant for the apprehension of the men suspected , but he refused to grant one . Mr . Griffin , therefore , proceeded , with his nun and a girl named Mary Aim
Bnnt , to Castle-end , about seven miles from the city , the vessel having sailed . . He went on board , and tlie girl said she would not swear to tho men , as she was afraid . Mr , Griffin told her tlmt he would protect ber , and sho then pointed out t « o ofthe orcw , cousin ** , named _BaptiBte Kibecco and Giovanni Eibecco , the former of whom is more directly implicated . G iobata Coloto and Doniinego Canese having stated that they were in company with the others , wero also taken into custody , who , with their captain and two interpreters , appeared before the jury to-day . Mary Ann Brint deposed that she and the unfortunate girl had been hi the habit of associating with the prisoners for somo time , and on Wednesday evening the decoased _acsompanicd ODe of the crew of a Russian vessel , which has since sailed , and Baptiste llibccco ,
towards their vessel . Brint refused to go only part of tho nay , and told deceased to come back as there were two men on board ; but the wretched girl replied , "No ; I'll go , hit or miss . I don't care wliich way it is . " Nothing more was seen or heard of htr until the body was found in the canal . A seaman named Bick stated that he was in his berth about a quarter before seven on Thursday morning , when he heard a female voice scream " Murder" throe times . The scream appeared t » come from tbe side of fhe Italian ship , and could not have emanated from die banks of the canal . He got up , but could see nothing . He heard no plunge in tlio wator , but it was a very dark and tempestuous morning . Thejury , after a lengthened consideration , decided upon _disuniting Coloto and Canese , but remanded the two Ribeccos for the prediction of further evidenee .
_Dns-EFt / _i _Stmak-Boat Aocidux ? . —Intelligence had b _» en received at New York of a most dreadful steam-boat accident . The particulars ave given in the New York Herald , and in substance aro _asfbllows : —On the night ofthe ISth ult ., the steam-boat Belle _Zane , Captain Grazier while on her way limn _Zanesville , Ohio , to New Yoik , struck a snag ' about twelve miles below tho mouth of White River , ou the Mississippi , and immediately turned bottom up . It was about twelve o ' clock when the accident _occurred , and the night was bitter cold . Out of some ninety souls on board at the time , upwards of fifty perished by this terrible accident , some ofthe unfortunate victims only escaping being drowned to freeze to death after reaching the shore . At the time of the disaster , of course the passengers were asleep in their berths , and so suddenly did the boat careen and go over that such as made out to release themselves were only able to snatch I _lanktt or sheet from their beds .
Sbwubb or Illicit Stills at _Camdkm Tow . v . — Between eight and nine o ' clock on Tuesday evening , information having been given to " the authorities of the Excise-office , the seizure of an extensive illicit ; distillery at Camden Town was effected by an officer named Kiey , aided by a body of police , though without capturing the parties implicated . Tho premises , which are adapted for carrying on this nefarious business , are those formerly known as Strachan ' s ink and blacking manufactory , No . 14 , _Kiug's-road , and in the rear of the large building _occupied as G-odhall _' s catd manufactory , in the centre of a large garden , and at a considerable distance from the road . Dreadful Accident on the River . —Ou Tuesday night a young man named James Bride , who was formerly a brewer in Ireland , met with his death on the river under the following dreadful circumstances . In consequence of reverses , Bride had been compelled to accept of a situation as iv day labourer to tiie St . George Steam Packet Company , and lie was
standing on thc gunwale ot a barge alongside one of the Irish steamers , when another barge coming down the river , which was not very well managed , run foul of it , and he was forced overboard by the collision . Two men in the barge leaned over aiid caught Bride immediately , and they were in the act of raising him out of the water , when the outer barge swung round and jammed him between the two , The men wero compelled to let go their hold of Bride , ami his head was crushed between the two barges . When they separated again , his mangled remains fell into the river , and have not since been recovered . The bystanders expressed the greatest horror at tho circumstance , and the melancholy fate of the young Irishman , who was much respected by all who knew him , is much regretted . His wife , to whom he had been married only ten months , is within a few weeks of her _otveiii' / _iiwiif ; ami it is to be hoped the Steam Packet Company , in whose service her husband lost his life , will nmko . 101110 provision for her .
t . ou . inu . N at Ska . —On the 22 ud of January inst ., tho _Ivtissiati shi p Ocean , 7 o 0 tons , GO days from a Ku _.-wiiin port , wilh timber , bound to I _' ort Mahon , ran into and sunk the French ship _Escuakluna , in hit . -IS 10 iN .. and l _' aris long . 10 -17 W „ or about 70 leagues W . N . W . of the Lizard . The aeeident occurred at a quarter after ten o ' clock p . m . Very heavy weather bad prevailed all day , and tlie Ksenalduna having lights exhibited was lying to under her main-topsail , with the wind W . N . W . blowing strong Captain JM . Boissennie ? saw the Russian ship approaching , and bailed her , but received no reply except by tho barking of a dog . The Ocean took ' tha
_hiscualduna on the larboard bow . and carried away the rigging ami _buVwarfc-, and cut \ ierhu \\ down to thc water ' s edge . Her fore and niizen masts broke , and her crew , consisting of eight persons , leaped on board the Russian vessel , from whose captain or crew no explanation could be obtained . Shortly after the mainmast of the _EscuaUuna gave way , aud the vessel sank . She belonged to Bordeaux , was laden with iron and coal , and bound from Liverpool to Marseilles . The Ocean , with loss of bowsprit , arrived on tlio 24 th at fiymouth , where Captain Poissonnier and his crew were landed , having lost everything belonging to them .
There wore fifty cases of felony tried at the Kirkdale sessions , last week , the amount of property stolen being _uuderJ _. 10 !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 31, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31011846/page/5/
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