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      .- -'"- Monday. The Potatoe Chop.—Many O...

      .- - ' " - MONDAY . The Potatoe Chop . —Many of the IsEU " _^ thoUc clergymen who have a muck more _^•^ _Saintauce with the people and their y _^ than tlie clergy of any other nation upon cJB < f _' uon _Ywho are much more efficient judges _tjiibi _"" eet than all the Government commisfi ** I-ire within the last week given it as their _^ oiiersi _" * t _tj , e total loss of what appeared sound of _i- _"' _^ toe crop is fast approaching _. It must be _ik P ° - mind tbat the Roman Catholic clergy of hym e _^ give this opinion , receive their _un-^ rmoresi 0115 from a source from which no _Go-$ * ** _tuvase 8 * can expect it , and that so far from _^ _iinuiSnsc of the priests leading or misleading i * he <» -H i _^ ing true , itis the people who lead the _tac l " - _* _] ' _^ _un d conclusions , thepriests in turn directl _^ i . access ary action , and especially on a subject ! _*§ ,- - dear "to every Irishman , and of which he _** icrcf <> re - _^ supposed to have some knowledge _riS _* " _—«»• m ? _ww vnnnl Tr . _mnv lint . Iio nut nf

      l _^ _state two facts here , which will account for l _*? Liicars paradoxical to the English mind . The _*** - the _^ _^ tue _*^ _' P _* _?^ "ate and detest , _•^ . ard and disrespect , and think it an honour to _eff ; the Saxon laws . The other is , that the _^ n Catholic clergy have been their trainers in _^ _tliou- _'ht , and their abettors in resistance . Now , lSS duiit ' botn facts , and honour the priests and the * _f i , _ijccause they are sustainable upon every _prin-J _' _vof law and justice . The triumph of England { Ireland was marked by the degradation , the rciou , tlie diastisement , the punishment , and _de-Scnientof the Roman Catholic priesthood bv law . Z _^ _ks the most penal , the most savage , the most _Cj _flrons that ever disgraced a statute-book . This total ity _, added to the indomitable courage of the

      _Fc- niau Catholic priesthood , served to make them _Vtcts of admiration as -well as of reverence , and to _% Uish their double claim to popularsympatby and _Import . The shafts of the law were always aimed ' Jitie yo or priest , while the most tender of the flock _j-niru becaine a little shepherd to guard the hunted _j _^ -tor _. This state of things very naturally produced 5 knit the bonds of _aifection between priests and _C-ijue , and rendered them mutually dependent upon Sell other for counsel and support . The priest was _jieonly man above his own station in life to whom lie peasant could look for any consolation , and his ( fln ] 'laint being always of the law , and the law always king the priest ' s avowed and bitter enemy , the priest

      _ynght the people to hate the law , while the people _resulted together how they could break the law _ftie for the prostration of their religion and the ; aailiation of their pastors , and until time and the _B-toration of the RomaK Catholic clergy of Ireland _jsfl-eir proper position shall heal this old and deep _* . aud , thepriests and the people will hate the Saxon _jjirs as much as ever they did , and we honour them flit . As this is a very interesting subject , and one _jC _^ ja -which the mind of England has been grossly _jjSvd and deceived , we shall further illustrate our _nation bv indisputable facts , and we shall show that ij _knotso much to Protestantism , to Orangeism , or ] _i , llonlisin , as to the Saxon law , that the Irish te .-4 . lc are opposed . For instance , then , we will

      _supt-cbc that the most griping clergyman , tne most _rackjail landlord , or the most bloody Orangeman , whose 5 « a have been spent iu acts of tyranny and oppresga _^ to come within the faugs of the law ; that is , _spjlose a _judgment , or other legal process , to be e _« uted against either landlord , parson , or Orangeran , the very parties who have been oppressed by H _' u _' oucand the other will watch night and day to lie vengeance on the Saxon law through the miserj & - process server or sheritt _' s officer , whose only ( _SMice has been so far liis connection with ihe _adimstration of Saxon kw . Hence we have solved _axstlier riddle , and one which required solution , _beaaa : wc honour both priests and peop le for their hossifiivopposition , and courage . We now resume the

      , _aUfcct of the potatoe . It appears that the speculators Wins laid in their stock , have now succeeded in _ftircm- _'au illegitimate rise in the price of the article , sflihuswc Have to face the double calamity of _pomac famine in Ireland , and low wages famine in _"belaud ; while it is a notorious fact that the _culpa-IkaesYijeneeof Government , the ignorance of the _su-cbv Irish commissioners , the folly of tlie Irish haMords , the tricks of the Dish patriots , and tie _peculation of the Irish " food foresiallers , " have fcmbined to cause the consumption , the waste , nnd _k- _* of a scanty crop to an _enm-mous extent , les ,

      waver that panic gave rise to the notion , a correct ( w too , that the potatoes would not keep ; this _tohou created glutted markets , g lutted markets _erat ' _.-d low prices , and low prices created waste , so _Aat , in point of fact , panic has served its end ; and _tutr the patriots are beginning to get afraid of their tan monster , and hence we £ n < l some of _those _jdriois , made dumb by Whig _patronage , enforcing E « a ihe Government the necessity of meeting an fr 3 which they themselves mig ht have prevented . _Vi give the following as a specimen of what the _Iri-ii patriots propose as a lneaiis of staving oif their era trial : —

      • Resolved , —That tlie several commissioners wliich of ke years have inquired iuto the suite of Ireland , all _couca-iu demonstrating that the misery , poverty , stud _desiku ; i » n of tlie people are extreme . "Tbai tliisunbappv state , mainly caused by want of smj _.-Vriiit-nt , will , we have reason to dread , he frightiaily _hu-reased in the approaching season by ihe _projrrasirely _augmenting malady that has seized on the _jtnatoe nop . " That to avoid the evils of the impending famine , every _t . atiun should he made to procure employment for the _i-.-4 _'Iv , and that speedy legislation on the Irish railway 13 k . of whicli so many notices have been given , would suidv promote such employment .

      - Tliat the faciUry for passing such railway hills would kjreatly increased were the inquiries on them to take ] _ice in Dublin , much expense would thereby be saved to flsiiromoters , much Inconvenience avoided hythe witl ~ m _* , and much money retained to fructify in Ireland ii ! , ui . dtr tlie present system , 3 s spent in London . ' That _therefore our respected chairman , Sir G . _Hodi-st , KarL , he requested in the name of this board to lay iic » « ur unanimous resolutions before the Lord Lieuton : * , and to pray h _' s Excellency to use his influence _liilier Majesty ' s Government to induce them speedily _"•«!! Parliament together , and to adopt such measures _i-aiU enable all inquiries on railway bills to sit without < _% iu Dublin . " Signed on "behalf of the meeting , •• _Geoece Honsoji , Bart ., Chairman ,

      • " llatliuown Ujiion . _Xow let it be borne in mind , that this Mr . Christopher Fuzsimon , Ihe Clerk ofthe llanaper , a snug berth , I _> lir . _O'Conncll's son-in-law , and was Kepeal _menil-a- for the county of Dublin , which he sold for the _terlfrhip of the llanaper , and our conclusion is , that tlierc must lie something very tempting or very diKsitcuiug in famine when it makes _thejmtrio _te , who have been so long dumb , speak out . Q—Docs ilk Fibslmon consider his salary as a sineeurist _a-y injustice towards Ireland ? and does it require tie Repeal of the Union to induce him to surrender ii to the Saxon Government I Wc arc now about to

      Sale one oilier fact connected with Irish patriotism _, h is a fact , which we assert upon the authority of one « die highest legal functionaries in Ireland , and if not _injc , we ' « hall be happy to receive a contradiction of _« trom the iVtitfon or the Freeman s Journal . The 6 fi _, as stated to us . is this—that Mr . _O'Dwyer , _Re-It-al member for Drogheda , was sopped off , by the _^ fe , upon a salarv of £ 600 a-year , for which he hadio do little , not much , —that his ofliee has since _Wa abolished , and paradoxical as it may appear , we

      "" re informed that Mr . O'Dwyer receives a conipen" _atloil OF THREE _THOCSiXD _AVO SIXTT _POCXDS _I'KR _•» W 5 i _fot _dttiag aotliiug , iu lieu of six hundred a Jar for _doins little ; and the question we now ask is , * _tftlier the three thousand and sixty pounds a year , " ¦ rtae three thousand and sixty pounds , was given to ilr . _U'Dwver for compensation , aud in either cas ? , _~*' _ti the dumb patriot require the Repeal ol the ' " _hk-ii to induce him to surrender the _kewjihd of _tjuti s . 1 Oh - ' Ireland has a terrible account to settle lv uii her friends as well as her foes .

      Sun : of InELiXD . —It appears that a special _comsisjiiffl is to issue for the trial ofthe persons charged _» itii the attempt to murder Sir Francis Hopkins , m the countv of Westmeath , while we learn that Mr . l % d , of Longford House , so nocnr the _eesi lasd-- _' _¦ _w ix the world , and the poor man ' s magistrate , ia * been fired atnrthe county Tipperaty—that a man tamed Guilmartin has been _fii-cd at through the _window of the house , and severely wounded in the 1-ead , andihatamannamed Molowney , also in the _<* ouutv Tipperary , has beeu killed for biking land over tie heads of parties that were ejected . This , we far , is onlv the be £ inning of the end . _£ xr _.-uxii—Tie all-absorbing topic , in every circle , 2 nd in cverv newspaper , is the _twelt conversion of _Y'nl John " Russell to the principle of free trade , and _^ e t . MT , _EMEMTAiEB coixcidexce of orisiox between tee noble lord aud the ex-Secreuuy for Ireland , Lord _ilorneth . As far as we can learn from the most

      _lepuiiate sources , nta _majestt ' s subjects , we arc _f ? l'py tc find that thev are perfectly alive to the "hig _do-i ge . and will he prepared to resist to the o « - . t ! i . _Sc : > ie of our letters have such significant _l-a--sages as this— "Well , _Fersus , isn ' t that a ' sew _^ vr . : ' _Kirl but vou were _rinht _, aud if they come out at 3 won't vve floor them . You must be up aud at them again , and never fear the people . " _V ? c * id be up and at them again , and we never did fear the people , the Whigs , nor the League , and we don ' t 5 _« ar them ugw .

      _ Ihe Stock _Exctusge . —The bloodsuckers and the _"Exevese _Tiuveixes who writes for the Times have cot afraid of their own " thunder , " and are now endeavouring to mitigate those feare created by the Oregon cl . md , as their stocks have already suffered woefully from the apprehension of war . The majority of English capitalists would just as soon trade in human blood , human sutferin" _-, and human misery , as in railway scrip ; and this is one of the greatest horrors of an unconstitutionaloliearchy . The alarmed bring tne old trickster , Daniel Webster , to their aid , its if this money " bawd" was America , and because Daniel Webster makes a speech a ? ainst theuneon-

      .- -'"- Monday. The Potatoe Chop.—Many O...

      • iitional assumptionoftheOregonterritory _. themoneym {>? ge rsh ave actually succeeded in getting stocks up a tot . We shall now put our opinion upon record with- reference to this -Oregon question . We hate w _t- ' _^ - we look to _tte weak"ess of England , by which is meant the over-taxation of her industrious people , to bear the expense of war as a popular triumph . "We speak not of the legitimate claim of the republic to the whole ofthe Oregon territory in dispute ; we do not stop to inquire whether or no the immediate casus helli is the apprehension least the English Hudson Bay Fur Company should take possession pending negotiations ot the most important posts of the commanding pesitions of that territory ; we do not stop to inquire whether 900 Englishmen ,

      under the double protection of the bye-laws of an association and of Acts of Parliament , shall have committed depredation upon the rights of four thousand Americans ; nor do we stop to ask what the benefit to either country would be of the possession of more land than either of them can possibly want ; but we do hesitate to inquire of what possible benefit the war can be to the people of the respective countries who will haye to bear all the burthens . We fling from our minds the debasing expectation of any national improvement through the bloody process of murdering , wherever it takes place . The long continuance of an European war created lewdness , presumption , aud expense amoni ; our aristocracy ; while the power that war ever confers upon the great , has ,

      above all other enemies , keptdown the rising genius of political progression . War is a thing that may be jocosely canvassed by those who have not to bear its horrors , to feel its wounds , or sufl'er its desolation . War may be a joke with those who fatten upon its fruits ; but war is a thing not to be thought lightly of by those who have to bear all its hardships . We hope that the day is not far distant when all national disputes will " be submitted to the wise arbitration of nations having a mutual interest in the preservation of peace , and , therefore , as we look to the inseparable interests of eves y member of the American Republic to set us a wise example , in this instance we trust that rather than embroil brothers , fathers , and sons in an unnatural war , which is only to add an

      incumbrance of more land to already overstocked states , that we think the matter should be left to arbitration , rather than to the sword and the bullet . War is to trade what the hotbed is to the plant , it forces it but strengthens it not in its growth ; while peace is as the pure air of heaven , which forces it not , but strengthens it till it arrives at a wholesome maturity . We conclude our comment upon this painful subject with the following extract from the letter of a Genevese traveller to the Times . The writer says ' . — "If , however , on this point _Imistal-e ike feelings of the British Ministry , titen war is inevitable , and a -war tn _wlach every American , of every faction , will cordially and zealously unite . " Let the reader compare the above , which appeared in the Times of Monday , December 1 st , with the following passage from the Star of Saturday : — " Thus the

      leading journals of both sides would endeavour to foment strife between the _Northern aud Southern States , and xow open their eyes to theabominatlons of slavery . We will say merely a word here upon the relative destructive capabilities of the two nations . Our fire-ships may , in pasiing _. pay their compliments to Sandy Hook , and may bury . New York in its ashes , it is true ; butif we consign their buildings to ashes , as the old women , in olden times , cast their tea to the dee - , may not their successors consign their cotton to the same element ? " "Pooh , pooh , nonsense , " responded the speculators who know not the meaning of patriotism , "the Southern States know their interest too well . " True , so they may ; but a war ot pride will absorb all personal considerations and private interests , and die battle cry ivill not be " cotton and money , " but " liberty and vengeance . "

      " 1 { their subjects were _rnse , War is a game that princes would not play at . " People of England , avoid _tvar as you woidd avoid plague , pestilence , and famine . If Napoleon had not been a tyrant looking for his own personal aggrandisement , and if a long war against his aggressors had not been undertaken , you would have had your land and your Charter long since . Therefore again we say , avoid war .

      TUESDAY . Ireland . —Railway * speculatiox . —We take the following graphic account of railway aituirs from the London papers of this morning , and irom the Nortliern Whig of Saturday : — ItAHWAT _Sfeculatioks . — The recent failures in DuMiii , and circumstances connected with one In particular , to wliich it would not be prudent to allude , have thrown a gloom over the city , wliich , if but one-fifth oi the current rumours turn out to be well founded , it would be dinicult to foretell the ultimate consequences . -Money is scarce and difficult to be obtained at any sacrifice . The pr ices of provisions arc rising cv .-ry day , and owing to tlie suspension of business by several large _establishments a number of persons will be depr ived of

      respectable and profitable employment . The panic in railway speculations must by this have nearly readied a crisis . Private sales were , I am informed , made within the last two days at a loss to the sellers which a few months ago would be regarded as wholly iucredible ; and these not the scrip of any of the numberless babble lines which are just now worth so much waste paper , but shares in what were deemed legitimate and solvent projects , and which with a deposit of £ ' 2 10 s . paid realized a premium ranging from £ 7 to £ S and upwards . These very shares could only he got rid of no later than yesterday by the holders submitting to part with them at a discount of £ 3 each . The following melancholy statement bearing upon this subject appears in the _Nortiiern Wliig of yesterdav : —

      "AnEnglish friend of ours , who called at our office yesterday on business , gave us tlie following account of the melancholy results of railway speculation . It was contained in a letter to him , from a friend in the north of England . The parties referred to are all personal friends of his family ; and it is to be feared that the details but too faithfully represent a wide and extending field of misery and ruin brought about by the mania of railway speculation . The following is an extract from the communication : — 'Trade here is in an awfully stagnant state ; and we are expecting sueh a crash as Las seldom or never been known in L You will , before this , have heard of poor H " * s suicide . The family have wisely kept all as secret as _possible ; but speculation has left his widow and child dependent ou

      their friends for everything . His widow will be confined of her second child in the ensuing montli . A -has stopped payment ; he has lost in speculation £ 12 , 000 . He is able to oner _Cs . 8 d . in the pound , which will be accepted . F—— poisoned himself this morning , solely from the consequences of injudicious share-jobbing . He leaves a largefainily with sorry prospects . Twenty years of unsullied reputation have thus been blasted by six months of folly . _T and Go . have shut up - , aud the j have told me themselves that they have not one penny left Six months ago II came into the house with a eapital of £ 5 , 000 , and it 13 all gone . We have mauy more minor cases of suffering ; and perhaps no family in this district can say that , individually and relatively , they are unscathed by this devastating mania . '"

      Is not this horrible ? In our summary of last week we stated that three shocking suicides had occurred within the week in Liverpool , and here we have two of them accounted for . The other case was as follows : — A person with a wifeand family , who had gone beyond his depth in railway speculation , hired a boat for the ostensible purpose ofa pleasure trip , and as soon as he found himself in a convenient situation , he threw himself overboard , exclaiming , in agony , "The railways have done this ; oh , my poor wife and family !" _Coxseqvexces of Famine , axd Landlord _lvnAXST . —The Limerick Chronicle of Saturday contains the following : —

      «'• To show that no rank or station , from the humble cottier to the noble peer , is safe from outrage , which now is become a system in the country , we have to announce that on Thursday evening last , so early as six o ' clock , the _gatekeeper ' s lodge at Mountshannon , the seat of lord Clare , was entered * by an armed party , who demanded a gun , and abused the inmates when they could not find the prize they sought . The Earl of Clare has offered a reward of £ 30 f « T the discovery of the audacious miscreants . What ran be the object of such daring aggressions as this indicates on a nobltman resident in Ireland , who expends a large f _irtune in labour and improvements upon liis demesne and estate , all the year round , iu which his tenants bcneficiaUy participate , and whose excellent private character is a theme for praise and model of imitation in even circle of society ? We cannot believe . the magistrates * of Castleconnell will remain inert under this _gxoss affront to the highest and most esteemed member of their order in tbat district . In the neighbouihobdof

      Newcastle , near this city , notices are posted demanding an increase of wages and a reduction of rent . At Bridgetown , in the county of Clare , notices have been posted , _signed _JIollvMaguirc , ' not to pay rents ; the tenants to keep the money in their pockets , and to have the fear of Mollv before them . On Thursday night a notice was served on a farmer named Arabill _, at Erina _, in the countv of Clare , the estate of Sir Hugh Dillon _ilassey , not to nav ren t and warning the other tenants to follow Ins example . Eight armed men were observed traversing that district a few nights before . " Such ever has been the result , and such ever must be the result of tvranny , oppression , and bad laws ; and had iwt Providence now and then afforded . opportunities such as the present famine presents , for bringin " the foul deeds of the best landlords ia the word and tie poor man ' s justices to gusUce , we should still continue to hear of their great saenfices and him *® and of the foul and bas * ingratitude of the barbarous Irlshpeople . '

      m Hunger will Break -nntotrcir Sro . Wails . — The following is from the Kilkenny Moderator : — Mctij-t is Kilken-st . Gaol . —Mr . Duncan , the _« overnor of the city prison , having lately received private _mfownation thatan attempt to effect an escape was m contemplation amongst the prisoners , and that the actin- ' libertv-man , a person named Quirk , under sentence _forbui-glary , was concerned in the conspiracy , active measures were adopted to prevent the success of the project , and the liberty-man was changed . On _Thursdiv morning _, between ten and eleven o ' clock , Quirk having been sent into the yard to work with other prisoners , tlie conspirators at once perceived that their plot was discovered and their hopes of success destroyed ; where-

      .- -'"- Monday. The Potatoe Chop.—Many O...

      upon , acting at the instigation of Quirk , some of them refused to work . The governor , finding them thus en . gaged in a mutiny , directed the turnkeys to remove the ringleaders and to place them in solitary confinement . The mutineers , however , resisted , pelted the turnkeys with large stones , and knocked the governor down . Mr . Dnucau ' sson having given the alarm at thellayor _' s-offlce , Head-eoilStable Lynn , -with a party ot * police , was promptly in attendance , and after a desperate resistance , succeeded in placing the mutineers in irons . The Mayor and the local inspector arrived almost immediately at the prison , and having investigated the case , informations were sworn by their directions on Friday against the conspirators . —Kilkenny Moderator . Address op the Tipperary Magistrates to the British Public—We give the following puling appeal from the above worthies to the British public : —

      From August , 1844 , to February , 1 S 15 , there occurred in this riding of Tipperary sixteen murders , sixteen attempted murders , and fifty-two cases of firing into houses , robberies for arms , grievous assaults , and threatening notices . To each succeeding Government , have representations and recommendations been forwarded from the magistracy of this county , similar to those contained in our late address , and the answer received is in spirit still the same as though the day were gone by when measures of coercion for Ireland could be proposed to Parliament with any chance of success . We hold a different opinion . Jealousy may exist as to anything like an infringement on political rights . We confine ourselves as magistrates , to the recommendation of extraordinary measures when all else has failed , to prevent the continuance of a system of terror and assassination , and in this righteous cause

      we deem ourselves entitled to call ou good mtn of all par . ties , without distinction , for their support and assistance . The measures which we especially recommend are as follow—first , that a modified insurrection act be placed on the statute-book , to be resorted to by Government only in the case of any particular barony of a county , which shall appear to . the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council to require the same ! and secondly , the . creation of a law imposing a fine on any district where a murder , or attempt to murder , shall have occurred , the proceeds to be paid over to the family ofthe injured party . The insurrection act to which we refer would empower the authorities to enter all houses by night . Persons absent from their homes , or strangers discovered in houses not their usual places of residence , will be obliged to account for themselves , and ,

      failing to do so satisfactorily , might be brought before a military tribunal or a special commission , and subjected to severe punishment . Such a measure would at least afford security during the night to the houses of the humbler classes , who might then be induced with less reluctance to come forward as witnesses in a court of justice . The bad characters , most of whom are well known to the police , would soon be expelled from the country , and detection would be more likely to follow the commission ofthe crime of murder , inasmuch as the perpetrators of such acts are usually strangers who come from a distance . In the sanguine hope that wc have not in vain addressed this remonstrance to the British public , and that the majority of our representatives , of all shades of political opinion , may he prepared to advocate in Parliament the cause of true freedom , and fearlessly stand

      forward in defence of the outraged rights of humanity , We remain , fellow countrymen , your faithful servants , Dunallev , Chairman . Let the English reader reflect upon the above appearing simultaneously with the coercion Whigs attempt to regain power . Think of tlieir modesty . The measures which they specially recommend are , -firstly , a modified insurrection act to be placed on the statute book . Ah ! you tyrants , your Liberator has placed one there already ! Secondl y , tlie creation of a law , imposing a fine on any district where a murder , or attempt to murder , shall have occurred , the proceeds to bo paid over to tho family of the injured party . Aye , aye , we'll agree to that ; but , firstly , let us have a measure placed on the statute book to discover who the murderers ate ! and we wager our

      existence that all the money in _yourcofters would not atone for one-half of the murders you have committed within the last forty-five years . The worthies go on — ' the insurrection act to which we refer would empower the authorities to enter all houses by night . " V ? ou , burglars , that was the worst part of your Coercion biii , and then they proceed thus— " Persons absent from , tlieir homes , or strangers discovered in _boitses not their usual places of residence , would be obliged to account for themselves , and failing to do so satisfactorily , might be brought before a military tribunal , or a sp _' ecial _coramis-Hon , and subjected to severe punishment . " Ilere we have the military courtsmartial again in 1845 . If we were dubious as to the real condition ofthe Irish peasantry , and if wc were at a loss for any justification tor their acts of revenge ,

      ivefind both the one . nnd the other in the exordium of the address to the British public , which was too _lengthy to publish ; but from which , however , we ielect the following landlord condemhation . They say , " the Irish peasant occupies a thatched cabin , in most cases with a frail and ill-fastened door , and without the probability of escape ( now how you would snaffle them ) , he and his family are exposed , during die long nights of winter , to the vengeance of the ruffians , against whose laws he may have offended . " Oh ! horrible , here ' s a state for a people to live in . In mud cabins , with a frail and ill-fastened door , and without the probability of escape from the laws of the ruffians who hunt tliem like wild beasts . This document is signed by the nuble chairman and fifty of his _miOTHER _nohles , and as they ask for a response from tlie British public , wc give it as follows : — "Noble

      Lord and Gentlemen Tyrants—We , the British public , having read and carefully considered your address , beg leave to express our horror at the acts of vengeance to wliich your unmitigated acts of tyranny have driven a brave , a generous , aud confiding people . Are you aware , my lord and gentlemen , that your heartlessness has become a by-word with the British public , and are you aware that we , the British public , have entered into a solemn league and covenant with the Irish people to secure for them houses with wellfastened doors , and from which there will be no necessity for them to fly in the dead hour ofthe night , and into which there will be no possibility of your entering without being subjected to that penalty wliich tlie law inflicts upon thieves who break into other people ' s houses at night . — "We remain , my lord and gentlemen , your uncompromising friend , _* Jou . v ChiAnTEB . Chairman .

      The Potatoe Chop . —An Irish gentleman writes to the Times , stating that its commissioner knows nothing at all about the potatoe disease , but , at the same time , stating that his own crop is all either gone or going . We also learn that provisions of every kind are getting up to an enormous price . *' Exglaxd . —The Russell Dodge . —Thomas "Wakley , M . P . for Finsbury , and coroner for Middlesex , seems determined to lose no time in tendering his allegiance to the Russell dodge . Now , this is scarcely fair , as Air . Wakley's brother , and some more of his family , have tasted the sweets of office under Tory patronage . We should like to know what pickings above £ 1 , 200 a year Mr . Wakley , official assignee for the Newcastle district , receives ? And when this is answered , we have a few more clumsy questions to

      ask . " Last night Mr . Wakley , M . P ., attended at the George Inn Coffee House , llolborn , to meet the overseers of the several metropolitan parishes , ivhom he had invited by advertisement , to discuss the propriety of calling upon the Government to throw open the ports , or repeal the Corn Laws . " Now , this notice is very significant , but unfortunntely the number who accepted tlie invitation being si few , only eight or ta , the meeting separated without coming to any other resolution than to try another go . Our friends will bear in mind that during the last days of Whiggery , we _designated Tom Wakley , Joe II uine , Arthur Roebuck , William Henry Ward , William

      Molesworth , John Icmple Leader , and some fewothers , as the roues staff of Whiggery , who , although they now aud then proposed what they considered popular measures to secure their position with the people , that neverthelesss they were ever ready to fly to the rescue when the Whigs were in danger . We have no doubt that those worthies , every one ol whom are yet unfortunately in Parliament , will endeavour to get up some other new move , professing to go beyond Whiggery , and determined to push WniGGEKT beyond the mere principle of free trade when _tuev get i . _vio OFncE . Against these , our old , our implacable , and most wily foes , we must be prepared to take the field , ibr if Ave let them they '

      SELL CS AGAIX . The Oregox . —Tlie Times of this morning has discovered what we announced iu our yesterday ' s summary , that Mr . Daniel Webster not ' only is . not America , but that he is only the puny leader of a puny minority . The question of the Oregon , notwithstanding the desire of the press of both factions to modif American feeling towards England , is still doing its work on 'Change , although the improvement wc noted yesterday has rather increased to-day , _Inisn Hatred or Saxok Law . —Tiie Times of this morning favours us with an article upon the above subject , but is unable to discover tlie causes from whicli we traced the xatchal aversion in our summary of yesterday . We wish we could spare room for the article from the Times . Really the London press is daily establishing the character of prophet for the ilort / iiTii Star .

      JtiiE Whig Press axd the New Dodge . —The managers of the Morniaq Chronicle have been taking vast pains . to have the first p luck at the new pigeon . The breath of the little Lord has fanned into new life special trains , and " extraordinary expresses , " and all the old appliances of Whiggery . Its columns teem with the most absurd and ill-reasoned calculations upon industrial support , and in order to strengthen our assertion , that the working classes are to look for nothing more than the increased profit of capitalists from the Russell coalition , we

      give the Mowing silly admission from a leader of the Chronicle , which concludes thus : " . The great and terrible league itself is a mere transient association , of the most heterogeneous politieal elements , by the way , for a specific object , which object being attained , it dies a natural death . That object it will achieve ; but its leaders would , evidently , pnfer achieving it with the slightest _]) ossibie disturbance of existing social and political arranaements , that they may have their hands free again " for those pursuits of quiet and profitable industry in which monopoly

      .- -'"- Monday. The Potatoe Chop.—Many O...

      obstructs _^ and injures them . This is , surely , not a temper which even a Tory aristocracy need Imitate about propitiating , for fear of- ' ulterior objects , ' the usual lory bugbear . ' An organisation of tbe industrious classes having no earthly purpose than to sweep away an obstruction from the path of industry , is really one of the very last things that any _just-mintied _bovernnient need dread . The League neither bas , nor can have—so far as we can understand—any other ' ulterior object' than to go about its business , and make up for lost time abstracted from the commerce and industry whicli it represents . " Here , then , is a pretty significant hint as to the people's share of the ' coalition' triumph . We quite agree with our friend that the leaders would

      evidently prefer achieving their victory with the slightest possible disturbance of existing social and political arrangements , that they may have their hands free once more for those pursuits of quiet and profitable tillage in which roruLAR rights would obstruct and injure them . Our friend then says , " This is , surely , not a temper , which even a Tory aristocracy need hesitate about propitiating . " What , then , so the working classes and the Tory aristocracy arc to be propitiated by one aud the same means ? Ah , Mr . Chronicle , your dodge served for 1832 , but thirteen years of experience has taught the working classes the value of your professions , as well its the fact you adnut _^ that there is no difference between a Whig and . a Tory Government .

      fanta , ra , ra , ra , Ilogues all , rogues all . "

      WEDNESDAY . Ireland . —This morning ' s post has brought us a full account Of the Platonic battle between ihe Liberator and the Gutter Commissioners , in which the pugilists mill each other to tlieir hearts' content , and the buttle finishing by the Liberator crying enough . He says "he'll never again mention the name of the gutter commissioner , " while the gutter commissioner invites all travellers in Ireland to visit Cahirciveen , and judge for themselves . Mr . Fitzgerald , the chairma n , amused his audience with an account of his travels , and Mr . Smith O'Brien bid the meeting , amid cheers , that he had no objection to a war in which English soldiers may be shot , but that he had a great objection to a war in which Irish

      soldiers were to be shot . The New Move . —The Liberator , amid deafening cheers , in responding to the appeal of Lord J . Russell , said that the Irish would never unite with the Whigs , or any other party , except for a Repeal of the Union . Well done , Dan ; stick to that ; but we fear the young Hannibals have already been well provided for under the desolating union . The Liberator again announced that , on the next day of meeting , he would be prepared with an act to enable her Majesty to summon her Irish Parliament . We were promised that three weeks ago . 184 . 3 was to have been the Repeal year ; 1844 the clenching year ; and 1845 , now drawing to an end , was to have been tho " Give me but one year of perfect tranquillity , and the

      Repeal is sure , it should always be borne in mind that Dan ' s greatest exertions for Ireland are to be found between the time of his return from Derrynane ( after he has gained strength ) and the tribute day . From the beginning of August to the beginning of October Dan trains , and from the beginning of October till the tribute day he does his work , an J from that till the beginning of August in the next year he prepares his puppet and machinery lor the ensuing season juggle . We cannot dismiss this weekly notice of the Irish tragedy without directing the pointed attention of our readers to the letter of that real philanthropist , brave patriot , and true Christian , Patrick _O'Higgins—a name that will ever live in the hearts of the English Chartists , because

      they know that the greater portion of his suffering has been a . consequence of his steadfast adherence to their principles . Is it not a melancholy and heartrending reflection that an Irish Catholic , whose country's struggle for centuries has been for liberty of conscience , should , in Catholic Ireland , be compelled to celebrate mass for himself on the top of a cold bleak hill , lest his attendance at a place of worship should subject him to the taunts and revilings of his misguided countrymen ? Is this the fruit of that religious liberty wliich the Liberator says he has achieved for his country ? And is the brave O'iliggins to be driven from the sanctuary for no other reason than putting the Liberator ' s theory and pledge into practice and effect ? Ireland demanded

      Repealers . She had struggled through two contested elections—the elections of 1833 and 1835—upon the single principle of Repeal . That principle had grown into the one all-absorbing national aifection . In 1 S 37 , O'Higgins said that he would go with Ireland ' s young love , and would vote for no man who did not _pleiige himself to support the Liberator ' s national injunction—the Injunction to vote for none but Repealers . The Liberator had a country and a family to sell , and met the stern obedience of his pupil with a tyrant lash of the detested apostate _, lie , who had pleilged Ireland to Repeal , said , " _ll-Vio cver asks for further pledge from a candidate than the support of the base , bloody , brutal , and _coercimi Whigs , is Ireland ' s enemy , "

      " Alas , poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . " But fear not , brave O'Higgins ; you have manfully maintained your ground amid the pelting elements , and each day ' s increased knowledge will lead to increased discovery and give you an increased strength . The Rent for the week was announced to be £ 202 Is . 3 id . The Potatoe Crop . —As wc announced in our last , the forcstallers of the people ' s food are gettingafraid of their own monster , and are now beginning

      to assure the country , through tlieir organs , that there is no fear of scarcity , and that there never was a better crop . This is done in order that the ignorant people should abstain from glutting the markets , from an apprehension that their potatoes won't keep , and that the speculators may thereby have the full benefit of scarcity in the certain rise that must take place . Upon the other hand , thepatriots who meet at the Mansion-house , publish weekly accounts ofthe increasing malady . They , as a matter of course , are guided solely by the effect that excitement ever has upon the Conciliation money-market .

      State of Ireland . —We have this day received awful accounts of attempts to murder , as well as frightful instances of popular determination not to dig their potatoe crops , unless the landlords consent to give them free of rent . The poor fellows who found the seed and labour will havo p « id more than double rent when they have completed the operation of digging . Share Market . —This new channel of industry is now pretty nearly closed , and the pigeons who have escaped with some feathers , are seeking a new outlet for the remnant in a little bit of home consumption , through the patronage of Irish railway committees , all sitting in Dublin , and entailing an expenditure , merely upon the working hands , of no less than one million of money . What fat picking for the vermin !

      Exglaxd . —The English press is like the dog that dropped the substance to grasp at the shadow . As if by mutual consent , our journalists have this morning _abandoned the Oregon for little John , the shadow ot Whiggery . Mr . Cayley , one of the Yorkshire members , has addressed a long letter to Lord John Russell upon his sudden conversion ; and tlie Times , after belabouring the Corn Law question in every shape , except fixed duty , which is now thought to be too late , indulges in a running comment upon the respective merits of the manifestoes of the lordly anti-monopolist and the monopolist . The Times , jumping to certain and permanent conclusions upon the most fantastical presumptions , and all through dealing with the present scarcity as if it was to

      continue to everlasting and world without end—the Times , instead of dealing with Mr . Cayley ' s arguments , would put a fringe to his curtain . We give one instance of our friend's sophistry . The Times says— " Compared with gold , wheat is as scarce now at 70 s . a quarter as it was at 90 s . during the war . Compared with the price of clothing , that Is , with those commodities which the Manchester operative has to offer in exchange for food . " Now , although the comparison between the relative value of gold and wheat is admissible , yet we aver that the price of clothing and the price of food is an absurdity , inasmuch as the price of clothing never does regulate the price of wages , which is tlie thing that regulates the labourers' ability to buy . food . The Times launches out of its depth by plunging into an amount of presumptive setpa ' turs . For instance , the Times dissolves the view that many people take of the effect

      that the importation of foreign corn would have upon domestic cultivation , and also tells us that population is increasing beyond the power of the land , under its present management , to furnish subsistence . Well , wc admit the first ; that as a matter of course , the land of England would not go out of cultivation after the question had been finally adjusted , but , then , we also COlltGlld that so far from the change inducing a better system of cultivation , it would bring about a more slovenly cultivation ; and hence the second argument of the Times may be _considerably strengthened , as tlie people would thereby be left dependent upon a still more scanty subsistence . Upon the second proposition we aver , thatalthough . the present system of cultivation does deny the necessary amount of subsistence , yet an _iMPnovun system of cultivation would at once dissolve all the hobgoblins of the Times .

      ' Ihe Morxixg Chronicle—This worthy Whig coadjutor has a very funny article this morning , in which an attempt is made to force Sir Robert Peel into the Russell " consistency" trap ; and let the reader just mark the virtue of our public instructors The CAronitfe _- says "that Lord John Russell has been so inconsistent that Peel need not now be afraid of the charge of inconsistency ; and that if Hansard is used as an evidence against the little lord , it may be quoted with" double effect against the right honourable baronet ,

      " 0 Temporal 0 Mom !" " O Murther I 0 Chronicle !" The _Douge .-As yet the dodge goes bravely on . Like Lord Ross s cocks , the combatants are all on one side ; but next week th « grey gingers will be readv lor the pit in a " main" or a ' shake . "

      .- -'"- Monday. The Potatoe Chop.—Many O...

      I The Markets . —Prom all parts of the country _tht declining markets and stoppage of mills bear unequivocal testimony ofthe power of the capitalists to starve the working classes under the present system . We will now put one question for the philosopher to answer : — " How many years of idleness could the capitalists sustain wit / tout the dread of starvation ujwn tlieir profits during the last three years of prosperity , and hoiv many years of idleness could the working classes sustain upon their share of the profits ! We pause for a reply . The Monet Market . —The jobbers have contrived to give "the thing" a momentarily favourable hoist , and stocks and shares are looking up a bit ; but still all is gloom and despondency , as no temporary improvement can make amends for the permanent in * jury that delusion has sustained .

      Couiit Circular . —We have not been well enough to visit the court tliis week , and not wishing to rely upon the reports of our contemporaries , we abstain from any notice of royal movements , other than we have the satisfaction to know that our hear friends are all well , or wc should have heard from them . The Government . — -A Cabinet Council was held yesterday , when nothing was done ; another will be held to-morrow for the same purpose .

      THURSDAY . Ireland . —The Potatoe Ciior . —Lord Mountcashel , a very extensive Tory proprietor , residing in the county of Cork , writes to liis friend , Lord Bandon , a brother Tory , announcing the fact that he fears that the whole of the potatoe crop is lost to the people . These are parties who are likely rather to suffer than to gain from excitement . Molly Maouirk in the Capital . — We learn that the Castle officials have been busy in investigating the placard that we published three weeks since in the Star , and which has been extensively circulated in Dublin . The officials proceeded in their work with closed doors , and it appears they havo discovered the printer . It will be remembered that the Liberator tendered the services of the Repeal Association as a "detective -force" to aid the inquiry . We really saw nothing in the placard to warrant all this

      circumspection , and were at a loss for an assignable reason for the Liberator ' s alarm , until we read his character asalaudlord , published by the ' Gutter Commissioner . ' England . —A Cabinet Council was held yesterday , at which it was unanimously decided that Parliament should be called together early in January , for the purpose of repealing the Corn Laws—and thus poor little John has been baulked of his triumph . Peel is not just the man to stand over nice points when ofliee and the distribution of the loaves and fishes are at stake . What will the little Lord bid next ? Perhaps as he has swallowed the landlords at a gulp , he may wash them down , with her Majesty ' s subjects , and bid the Charter . The noble Lord has certainl y reserved an extensive field of consistency in his cautious and prudent concessions and equitable adjustment . Will he have the boldness to say that the CnABTER was one of them ?

      The Stock Exchange . —We have heard of over twenty suicides , recently committed , arising out ol the mad railway speculation . The public never hears of those things , as coroners are very credulous , and very easily deceived . There is no better plaister for an awkward wound than gold dust . Upon the whole the money and share market begins to look upwards , arid the jobbers look cheeringly upon the prospect of diminishing their losses . The Morning Chronicle . —The Morning Chronicle has another long yarn upon free trade , and refers to an able document enforcing the principles that was published twenty-five years ago by tho merchants ol

      London . Does our contemporary forget at that very same period the working classes assembled at Peterloo , in Manchester , for the very same purpose , and were butchered and cut down by the merchants ol Manchester ? Then the people were justifisd in looking for a repeal of the measure , and now they are equally justified in opposing it . Then machinery and capital had not assumed that ascendancy which would have converted all the benefits of change to the purposes of their owners , while now the working classes understand full well that every extension ol trade has been promptly followed by a reduction of wages .

      FRIDAY . Ireland . — The Roman CotJiolic bishops arc at complete war concerning the gigantic scheme ol godless education . England . —The Premier's determination to repeal the Corn Laws is no longer a speculation , They arc doomed ; and it is our business to try for our share in the change . The poor little Standard of last night , and the Herald of this morning , are in fits at the notion that the Times should be made the organ of Government , and are jealous that the first intimation didn't come through them . If it had , the country would have thought it a joke .

      The Tarrigrade Coalition held a meeting at Leeds on Wcdnesday _. at the little Court House , in the day time , when tlie working classes were engaged , wlien William Brook , Chartist , moved an adjournment to the evening , and to a larger place . Gardiner seconded him , and although they had justice upon their side—the anti-monopolists and dissenting parsons nearly devoured the poor working men who had time to look in . Tut Stock Exchange . —Securities of all kinds , and especially exchequer bills , have a downward tendency , owing , it is supposed , to private letters from America breathing a warlike _determination . Wo again repeat then , that Peel knows all this , and has merely exchanged the sliding scale for a war scale , to silence the League and tickle tiie landlords . America . —The news from America is condensed , but will be read with intense interest .

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      Savage Assault.—At The Thames Pohoe Cour...

      Savage Assault . —At the Thames pohoe court , on Monday , James Goggin , a brutal-looking fellow , was charged with assaulting and wounding Anne Butler . The complainant , who was far advanced in pregnancy , and had the mark of a severe wound over her left eye , stated , that on Saturday night her husband , who was a sober , quiet man , and seldom frequented publichouses , was drawn into a row with the prisoner and his brother at the Lord Nelson public-house , Robin Hood-lane , Poplar . Being an Englishman among a number of Irish she was apprehensive that he would be killed , as they treated him in a very savage manner , bit at his head , and tore the hair out in mouthsful with their teeth . She succeeded , however , in getting him home , and afterwards went out to procure some supper . In doing so she passed the

      prisoner , who was in company with two women . One of the women , as she _passsed , made an allusion to complaint's situation , and , at the same time , made a kick at her . The prisoner , with many imprecations , swore he'd have some one ' s life that night , and then putting his hand in his bosom , he took out something , with which he struck her near the left temple , and nearly stunned her . He was about to repeat the blow , when two men came along whistling , on which one of the women cried out , " Uncle , there is somebody coining . " and the three of them ran away . She could not say whether the weapon she was struck with was a poker ; but if it was it was a very short one . She was , however , _quite satisfied that it was a piece of Iron , and the blood flowed copiously . The chief-clerk . —Have you any witnesses ? Complainant .

      —l \ o ; they took care ot that . Had 1 had the other blow and been killed , no one would have been aware of it but himself and the woman . Howe , 157 K , was called to the complainant ' s house , 45 , Well-street , Poplar , and found the blood flowing from a fearful wound over the eye . He then went to the prisoner ' s lodgings at Buffets-court , Robinhood-lane , where he found him sitting in a chair , and took him into custody . He said nothing at the time , hut he afterwards swore vehemently at the station-house that he was innocent ofthe charge . The prisoner , in his defence , again vehemently asserted that lie was not the party , but complainant , being recalled , said she was quite certain he was the man . The prisoner , in defalt of bail , himself in £ 40 and two sureties of £ 20 each , was committed for trial .

      Extraordinary Death , — On -Thursday morning great excitement prevailed in the vicinity of Doctors ' Commons , from the extraordinary death of a gentleman named Rice , who lived close * to the Prerogativeoffice , in Doctors' Commons . He had for some time been employed in the Prerogative-office as clerk , but his habits , it is said , have been latelv very dissipated . He went home late on Wednesday night to his lodgings , but was heard in the course of yesterdav morning to go down stairs , as it was supposed to the privy . As he was not seen at the usual hour , some

      persons went to his bedroom , but received no answer to their knocking , and at last thev forced the door . The deceased was not there , but every article of his clothing was lying about the room , even to his shirt and flannel waistcoat . Search was made for him in the privy with a boathook , and in a few minutes the body was grappled with , but life appeared to be quite extinct , and it is supposed lie had been there for some hours . He was quite naked , and must have forced himself head foremost into the soil , which is about ten feet deep .

      Quacks and Quackery . —On Saturday night Mr . Bedford held an inquest at the Plough , Carey-street , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , upon the body of Mary Hoskin , aged GO , late of r \ o . 2 , Vere-street , Clare-market . In consequence of a report that the deceased had lost her life through quack medicines , the inquest-room wns crowded with medical men , parochial officers , and inhabitants , anxious for the result . An unusual number of jurors having been sworn , the coroner stated that lie felt it his duty to have the body disinterred and examined by the surgeon of King's College

      Hospital , in consequence of written and other communications wliich he had received respecting the cause of the deceased's death . Mr . Samuel Sumner Dyer , house surgeon , King ' s College Hospital , stated that he opened the body , whicli in all its parts and organs was healthy , with the exception of the right side , which was inflamed , and contained 34 oz . of fluid , which pressing upon the lung , caused death . That lung was congested , and contained cancerous deposits . Cancer in the breast caused the inflammation which caused the effusion that terminated in

      Savage Assault.—At The Thames Pohoe Cour...

      deatn .-By the coroner : He had not analysed the stomach as he did not deem it necessary , Mving found the causeof death . In his examination he dia not detect the slightest trace of either mineral or vegetable poison . Mr ; Welsh , -licentiate surgeon , from Dr . Walker ' s , Drury-Jane , said that about a a fortnight ago he was suddenly summoned to attend deceased , whom he round stretched upon her bedltt her clothes , and quite dead . Upon inqmring _* V . _i _* _J was her medical attendant , he was informed than

      woman named _Bui-dctt had persoribed lor her , and that all her remedies had been mysteriously applied . Tlie woman Burdett , and another woman who _wasin the room , commenced a series of criminationsand recriminations , in which each accused the other with having given deceased wrong medicines , and Burdett said , " That ail was not right . " Her son , who entered the room at the same time , said that his mother had not been fairly dealt with . The medicines were also thrown away , and these facts , coupled with the fact that she had been buried without a medical

      certificate , her death being registered as the result of cancer , whereas it followed from the effusion upon the chest , raised in his mind strong suspicions that her death had been hastened by the application of improper medicines . Mr . Fitch , the district registrar , ffaid that he obtained the best certificate he eouldof _her'death , and that he had acted in perfect accordance with the Act of Parliament , and that he would again , if an opportunity presented , act similarly . Tho coroner , Dr . Walker , and the other medical gentlemen , and thejury , having consulted for a short time , they arrived at the conclusion that an analysis ot" the stomach was indispensably necessary . The inquest was accordingly adjourned for a week , in order that the analysis may be fully performed .

      Fall Of Three Houses.—Loss Of Life. On T...

      FALL OF THREE HOUSES . —LOSS OF LIFE . On Tuesday night , about eight o'clock , an occurrence that at the time caused great excitement , and has since spread a gloom , over the ncigUbourhood , took place in Cavendish-place , Wandsworth-road , It appears from tho inquiries made by the reporter that Mr . Corrall , a builder , had recently erected four sixroomed houses with shop fronts , in Cavendish-place . They had been covered in , and the lathing and _ikoring had been completed , but there yet was some plastering , and other matters to be done . On the night in question Oliver Carroll , the son of the builder , who was only in his twentieth year , liis brother , and a labourer , were at work on one of the

      basement-floors of the houses , laying concrete , when , as it is supposed , the end wall of the house nearest the Cavendish Arms , bulged out , and in less than a minute the three houses separated from the fourth , which was apparently much more strongly built , and fell with a loud crash , burying in the ruins the two brothers , the labourer escaping with a . few bruises from the falling bricks . An instant alarm was given , and in an incredibly short space of time a large body of men assembled , and commenced removing the bricks and timber with the sanguine hope of _preserving the persons buried . In a few minutes one ofthe-Carrolls was discovered , and brought out ; he was alive , and owed his preservation to two pieces of

      timber falling crossway , and thus preventing the rubbish suffocating him . lie was carried home by two men , suffering from some very severe contusions . In about ten minutes after the accident occurred , Sergeant Emmerson _, 1 G V , with a number of constables , arrived , and cleared away the mob that had assembled , so that the men might pursue their work uninterrupted . The men laboured unceasingly for threequarters of an hour , when a sufficient opening was made for a man to creep in , who reported that he saw the deceased Oliver Carroll in a sitting position , about three yards distant from where he was . The men redoubled their energies , and in another ten minutes they cleared an enormous mass of timber and brick which were on the deceased , and Sergeant Emmerson dragged him out . His head had been driven between his knees , and his back was

      apparently broken . He was , to all appearance dead , but , nevertheless , was conveyed with the utmost celerity to the Cavendish Anns , where Mr . Palmer , a hurgeon , had been in attendance since the accident , so chat he might be of service to the unfortunate sufferers . Mr . Palmer resorted to bleeding , the application of stimulants , die * ., but although _ono or two drops of blood came there was no sign of life manifested , and the surgeon gave it as his opinion that thedeceased must have been suffocated some time . One or two carpenters were in the act of leaving the building at tbe time of its falling , so that their escape may be considered _miraculeus . Tlie materials of the houses were evidently of a very common description , the mortar especially seemed to have beeu nn \ de without that great essential , lime , for there was scarcely a brick to which it adhered .

      Dreadful Fire And Loss Of Life. On Frida...

      DREADFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE . On Friday morning , between the hours of twelve undone , a fire , attended with serious destruction of property , and it is feared with fatal consequences to an aged female , broke out upon the premises belonging to Messrs . Cooper and Willard , boot and shoe manufacturers , carrying on business at iSo . 9 , Bedfurd-place . Commercial-road East . At the time of the outbreak there were nearly a dozen persons in the building , the majority of them being in their beds asleep , One of the lodgers first discovered the fire . It appeared that his intention was arrested by hearing a noise resembling the fall of

      some heavy substance from the lower part of the premises . He immediately opened his room door , andpe rceiving the smell of fire , ho raised an alarm , and having procured a pail of water he hastened to the front shop , which he found wrapped in flames . He endeavoured to extinguish the flames , but he soon found , from their increasing vigour , that he was unable , and he forthwith hastened to the upper part of the dwelling to arouse his wife and the rest of the inmates . Scarcely , however , had he got into the apartment that he had but a few seconds before quitted , than _, flames and smoke , with an immense body of sparks shot up the staircase with sueh rapidity as to out ofi ' all chance of escape by the regular means . In this extremity he succeeded in procuring

      a rope , which he fastened round the waist of his wife , and after much trouble he managed to lower her out of one of the upper windows . Several of the other parties living _instu place were , however , not so fortunate , and to escape being burnt to death , they were forced to resort to numerous expedients . One of the females threw her infant out of the window , and pitching upon the window-blind , the canvass gave way , and the child fell through , - but was , fortunatel y , caught in the arms ofa spectator , and received no personal injury . Several other parties effected their escape by leaping from the upper casements , at the period the flames were breaking through the front window shutters , and extending nearly half across the carriage road .

      On the arrival ot tho engines they were instantly put to work from an abundant supply of water , furnished by the East London Works . Such a firm hold , however , had the destructive element obtained Of every part of the premises , that itat once appeared certain that nothing could save them from destruction . The fire still progressing , it caused several other brigade engines to be turned out , and also the one belonging to the West of England Company , with Mr . Connorton , the chief officer .

      lhc firemen , from their first arrival , set to work most vigorously , and by judiciously distributing the water , they happily succeeding in preventing the fire from extendingto the numerous contiguous buildings , and by a quarter-past two o ' clock the conflagration was safely subdued . At that time the whole of the valuable stock in trade , belonging to Messrs . Cooper and Co ., was destroyed , and the furniture of the lodgers consumed . For a considerable time it was feared a bed-ridden female , eighty years of age , named Lea , had perished , she having been in bed at the time of the outbreak , on the first floor . After much inquiry , it appeared but too true that the poor woman had perished , as not the _sliRhtest tidings could be heard of her , and from the fact of her being bed-ridden , she was unable to help herself , This , coupled with the i ' urv of the fire , makes it but too probable that she had fallen a

      victim to the destructive element . The Late Fire i . v the _Commekcial-k . oad . —Re-MAKKA 15 LE PllKSEJlVATlOX OP AN AGED FEMALE The recent tire at Messrs . Cooper and Wcllard ' s , in the Coramereial-ioad-east , which occurred yesterday morning ( Friday ) was attended , happily , ' with no fatal results ; but the _preservation of Mrs . Lea , an aged and blind woman , who lived on the first floor , was most remarkable , she having been missed for upwards of two hours after the outbreak , and given up for lost by all the inmates who escaped from die burning building . It appears that between two and three o'clock , when the ruins were cooled , Mr . Braidwood , the superintendent of the Lendon Fire-engine

      Establishment , having heard that the old lady was missing , ordered his men to ascend by means of the fire-ladders to the interior of the nearly consumed building , that thoy might explore the parts of the flooring which remained untouched by the action of the fire . Upon entering one ofthe upper rooms _thefireuien discovered that it was only partially burned , and thcbedwasstillstandinginaeorner . l ' _erceivingsomething move upon the bed , and imagining thatit might be the poor Wind creature , a desperate effort was made to reach it ; but this was found not to be a human being , but a cat in the agonies of death , which had crept down the bed clothing to escape the suffoinfluence ot the

      cating smok" The fireman then descended by the ladder to th . fir ; floor front , the back part of which was compleU y burned through , and here a singular scone presented itself . The firemen _,, upon entering the window , turned on their lamp , and were startled at seeing something move . This wasthe poor creature of whom thev were in quest . Perceiving the light , she said faintly , " Oh dear ! here I am . I am very poorly . Is the fire out ? Give me a drop of -water ! " The men then took up the old lady , brought her down the ladder , and took her into neighbour ' s house . She was remarkable how she endured which she must have been hours which the fire was burning

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 6, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_06121845/page/5/