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      TIIF . POPE AND TUE AUTOCRAT . _POLAND'S APPEAL TO EUROPE . "Though Poland mourns , She shall not die ; Her watch-fire burns Anil help is nigh _, jler _runled eagle speeds from shore to shore , Till natious rise to bid her weep no more . " Tlie important article from our French contemporary VAtelier , wliich appeared in onr last number has , wc know , been read with thrilling interest bv _jnanT of our readers , and , we doubt not , has been _rcsj-onded to by ail . The terrible , but too true , stories of the martyrdom of the priest Sciegexst and the patriot _^ Levitoux , cannot fail to excite throughout Britain the bitterest indi _cation towards the oppressors of Poland , and the liveliest sympathy jur the unhappy _-vietims of those remorseless

      oppressors . Rightly does our French contemporary say of Nicholas , " lie martyrizes the Catholics because they refuse to abjure their faith , and to _recognise him as their spiritual chief ; he puts to death the Poles because they refuse to acknowledge him as their king , and so his career , as au executioner , never terminates . " With tlie Catholic religion we lave no communion nor sympathy ; rightly or wrongly , in : all sincerity , we hold it to be one oftbe most pernicious systems of priestly delusion and priestly domination ever invented to keep the minds and bodies of men in ignorance and thrall . But so believing , wc , nevertheless , respect thesincerity ofthe great mass of those who belong tothe Catholic Church , and hold as sacred the right of that church ' s members to celebrate their forms of worship _^ and act , in all respects , with the fullest libertv , which a due regard

      for the liberty of others will admit of . Opponent * ol all churches and priests ourselves , we , nevertheless , claim for all churches and priests full freedom of conscience . Toleration is a word we despise , implying , as it does , a cowardice that fears to be honest , and a tyranny that would , if it dared , exhibit its oppressive character to the fall . Liberty , entire and perfect liberty , we claim for all men ; both in matters civil and religious . We demand that liberty for ourselves , and we _doraand it not less for others . Not the most zealous Roman Catholic , therefore , can more sincerely denounce the horrible persecution of the _Basiliaiinuns than we do . . Not the most zealous believer in _Pexi-b's successor could more readily brave all , in defence of his Catholic sisters aud brethren of Poland , than we would do , was it in our power to show how truly we burn to aid in avenging their wrongs tuid sufferings .

      But we cannot say that we _eoncar with our French contemporary in desiring to s = ce a renewal of the crusades directed against Russia . __ Regarding war as one of the very greatest of evils , we certainly regard a religious , or what is called a "holy war , " as the most frightful , and the most to be deprecated . "Wc , as well as the writers in L'Atelier , " will do all ia our power to assist at crushing the tyrant of Poland under the chastisement of his crimes , " but we wish to see this effected by other means than the stirring np of nations to a war of fanaticism , for , was such a war once begun , and the now oppressed Polish Catholics victorious , the experience of thepast warns ns that they would retaliate with fearful vengeance on the members of the Greek church , and the devotees of each church woujd be satisfied with nothing short of the extermination of each other , of course , all "for the glory of God . "

      "What our French contemporary says respecting the J _* ope and his alliance with -Nicholas is specially deserving the consideration of such of our readers as may belong to the church of which the Pope is the head . The Italian Pope , as bead of the Romish eliarcli , declares his to be tlie only true church of Christ ; tiie Russian Pope , or Emperor , as head of the Greek church , declares his to be the only true church ; and each anathamatizes the church of the Other as schismatical , heritical , and damnable . The Italian Pope is not in a condition to propagate the tenets of his church by fire and sword as many of his predecessors have done , because his temporal power is weak ; but the Russian Pope , placed at the head of the ni 03 t powerful , political , and civil despotism in the world , lias ample power to employ the favourite

      means of priestly propagation , and these means he dues not scniplelto use , as the accounts we have laid before our readers of the horrible peiSieution of the Catholic Poles abundantly testily . As the heads of rival churches , these two worthies of course hate each other with all that sincerity of hatred which the champions of rival systems of priestcraft have in all ages exhibited : yet despite this mutual hatred , see Low these two scourges of the human race coalesce so that thev may prop np that tyranny , wliich , though differing in forms and names , is really "but the same system of fraud and wrong . The Catholic Poles in their tribulation and sufferings naturally turn to the Pope as their spiritual protector for counsel , aid , and sympathy . The tortured Abbess , Miecztslawska , throws herself at the

      feet of "his Holiness / ' recounts her sufferings , the sufferin' _- 's of her sisters , and those oi . the Polish people _generally . The Pope , we are told , hearkened to all _those detai ' s " with tears in his eyes" ( travellers tell us that even crocodiles shed tears before tearing their victims ); but behold , accompanying this news , we find that ihe autocrat was expected to be in Rome bv th «* beginning of December , and that preparations were making to give kirn a " grand reception . " Thus the holv Catholic Pope is aboutto - "fraternise" with the " schismatical" Russian Pope . Why ? Because both tremble for their tottering power , and both , _des-dte their mutual hatreds , hate and fear liberty muck mote than they do each other . The wholesale

      executions and military barbarities committed on the friends of liberty in Italy by the Pope , are scarcely less _monstrous than those committed by Nicholas on the people of Poland . The great difference between the two , is , that the Pope , as temporal sovereign , is a petty contemptible tyrant , whose rule is confined to a small space , and whose _Tictims are consequently few in proportion . _XicnoLAS , on the other band , lords it over lands of almost illimitable extent ; he rales whole nations with his iron rod ; and , consequently , instead of scores and hundreds , as in Italy , the victims of Nicholas must be numbered by thousands , even millions . Here is the only distinction between the Romish and the Russian Pope , mc tyrant of Northern Italy , and the tyrant of _North-Eastern

      _Durope . "ffe earnestly entreat the friends of liberty , whobelon" to the Catholic Church , whether they be English , Irish , Polish , Italian , Spanish , or of any other nation , to ponder on the words of our French contemporary , TAtelier , they deserve to be repeated : — "Can . a more monstrous alliance Iw imagined ? Vvhat ! the Pope the ally of thehead ofthe Russian schismatics ? "What ! is the successor of St . Peter almost the bosom friend of the executioner of the _Catkoiics ? Teriiy a strange sbectacle ! If the nations lose their faith in Rome , it n because Rome has abandoned Itself to thecnemies of the faith ! 'Ihe cause of this _unwerthv aboadonment by the Catholic clergy and their head , is , that the head is himself also the tyrant of a portion of the Catholic family . All the tyrannies all the oppressions , are bound amongst them inskdo-. the decrepit old man , who reigns in the _Vatiran . wants ths strong arm of the _Pt-tersburgk

      despot for his own maintenance . . More solicitous about his temporal power than of his Christian functions , he turned king . As king , as an unfit ami bad kia" he _^ presses those whom he calls his subjects ; he co ' nr . ress-s their insurrections against his tyranny oalvbvhis hangmen and gendarmes ; being accustomed to see human blood shed around him , how can lie fed when a tyrant is about to died it afar off ? Therefore , _geed understandings between the Pope and the Czar arc officially and regularly carried on , -ndit is wot impossible , that the day may amvc , ¦ when the Roman Pontiff will be surrounded by _Rus-« ian _<^ di' > ra for the cxnress purpose of anmbilntivg , in ' _Ita ! v _, every Christian idea of liberty . The " ° 1 ih of _Ivovembcr passed by this year without anv other demonstration than the meeting of denio-/* - ii » Pi , i « . a notice of which appeared in tne star

      , cf Safurdftv last , and a meeting of another section ef P « le « whose _proceedings would be of no _interest xo our readers . Wpt _the _^ _rneetivigs tUe 20 _. H of _November was permitted to pass unnoticed , to the eudurin" disgrace of those " anstocntical and ie-S - " s vmpathiscrs , " _whohave hitherto monopolised the patronage ofthe Polish cau < e Inat , _however , this vear sanniver _, ary ot thereyolution may not pass without the voice of Poland ' s iaithful sons being Lard in her defence , ne give the following extracts from an address which was adopted at the anmvcrsarvmeetin" holden at the Crown and Anchor , on the " 29 m of _November . 1814 . . The address not haying _ai . _^ ared in auy English journal , will be new to il _^ _n-U of tie British people , and , for the truths enunciated , arc certainly as valuable now as twelve months aeo : —

      TliUTcrv evening , when _London , Pans , Brnssels , and _manv a town and village of western civilized Europe are _lingin _: ; witli shouts for Polaucland gladdening the Hearts of & e « u \ - _&«•* , toward the east , on tho still inundated shores of tlie _Visrula . under Ihe heavy yoke of a tyrannical oppression , on a soil profaned hy _«** _*«* <> f an lu f " lent invader , and in homes deprived of the last _consolation ofthe wretch _^; the safety of funis -intercourse ai _dcunueiuialontpourings-ouroW _^ _iid infirm pareins ; our _oi'dian children grown ap without having enjoyed the _cliecr iuz embraces and watchful direction of their exiled _faihers-our wives , _rfsters , and tho = e of Our brethren whom infirmity or absence has prevented from taking an active part in the revival of their fatherland , shed many a silent tear aud compress in their bosoms many a sign over the _serious event which we cuinjntmorate publicly , _r-ecau-= e . nlihoueh it failed to free Poland , it proclaimed hi r vitality , andwou . d have attained its _ol-ject , but for the want—not of _puiver ( every battle was a triumph)—not ol _lamuiiiin ( seldom had a people shown more

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      energy and- * > _: _* - i . d , v ., t _,: ! _:. e _33 ) -but of experience , and the _eon _« . ; , - _* _,,. „„ _., ,, f men and „ f partics > _llHrtetpBr . ec j * . *; .: it ii .-cw . Aary condition of success , eight moat . so , tlu ? flu . . _,.,- .. lorious victorie 3 > and af [ er ear , _¦* ' _e"'' ' ' * ' _'•> " ¦ « _* ' 5 _'i _''» ttttnieut 3 , sufficed to give it tj the ; . _«» . ; , . _,- .. ivj ; _: _; _,, _! . ym serva ] lt 3 ot - the despots of U- _^ va - '' ,: * d :. v . ,-i . i . iiMted ambition had thrown into the ran- ** . * : A Hi .. n . sar . ei . ts ) wcre driven from their usurped st . t _c-ii . c : m .-i : _; . _., ] _, toSeek amidst bayonets a shelter against _, _opnlai in :: Snation . And there alas ! they found means , i notto rc-terc their power , at least to crush that of the patnots . By them * tweaty-two thousand men of the eli'e

      were prevented from coming to the rescue of beleaguered and stormed Warsaw—by them they were , after its surrender , induced to resist the imperative orders of the commander-in-chief , who required them to juin the main _bodjof the army , which then would yet have been able to save l ' _oland—by them they were conducted out of the Polish territory and obliged to surrender their arms to one of tbe co-partitioning powers : to Austria—and Poland fell again—fell into the hands of a revengeful tyrant , whose sway had been preferred b y a few of her _degenerate sons to a popular government—she fell wiser indeed than a few months before , but more oppressed , more unfortunate than ever !

      B iser than she _iutd been ! Englishmen ' . tha is _tl-. e point we wish to impress upon your _minQs—beoatse wisdom is power—and because the power of a nation to reconquer and to defend her independence is a neeessarv condition of her nationality . And this great and _funda * - menta ! truth was precisely one of those common lease truiams in the minds of the many , which still remain mysteries to the sophisticated wisdom of our statesmen . They looked for help from cabiuets leagued together against ihe rights of the people and of nations—they reposed their confidence in those very courts who had ( _lismtmbered Poland , and therefore were interested in retaining her in her former subjugation—they shrunk

      from any infringement of the liberticide treaty of Vienna , which had confirmed all the former partitions of l ' oland , aud Riven over to Kussia even the last of her still existing fractions under the nameof the Duchy of Warsaw . They paralysed the energies of the people , beeause they believed in its power inasmuch only as it went to harm their interests , and thought it insufficient to save the country —they , in short , had no faith in their _country ' s cause , aud therefore ruined it . But along with tlieir country , vanished their influence and their power , and were survived by a people , taught henceforth hy them how to appreciate their leaders , taught to rely upon themselves , made fitter for the achievement of a new struggle for independence—in a word wiser , and therefore better _.

      Tes , better— because popular wisdom is not only power , but justice . Justice to the enslaved millions may , among the privileged , be considered as a sacrifice to duty , as an act of _sclf-devotedncss and of virtue ; among the oppressed it is the consequence of a clearer insight into their , own welfare , of a more exalted feeling of human dignify revolting at the infliction of wrongs . Who was it who dared several years ago to say that liberty to Poland would be slavery to the many , and to represent the tyrant of fifty millions of slaves as their emancipator from tbe bondage of the Polish nobility ? When a quarter of a century ago the landed proprietors of Lithuania peti . tiontd the persecutor of theXithuanian youth , thepseudoliberal Alexander , for pel mission to emancipate their bondsmen , they were refused . What has become of the freedom of those Lithuanian , Ukrainian , Volhynian , and _Podolian peasants , whom the _iusurgents of those

      countries , their own masters liberated in 18 S 1 ! They are serfs again under the domination of the Czar ; and the good will of their patriotic masters has been of no avail to them . Bui why talk of this good will ! The people of Poland will require no boon from tlieir masters—no granting of what it wiU he in their own power to obtain . A large majority of our fellow emigrants have already proclaimed andpledged themselves to—notonlytlieliberty of tbe serfs ( this indeed would have been but a paltry concession of that which could not be refused)—but also to assure to the cultivators the full and unconditional property of that soil , for the usufruct of which they had _hitbert- * performed statute labour : and what the intention of a large majority of the emigrants is , cannot but be the necessary result of tlie will of the people at large , when once restored to that sovereignty , which the full independence of a Poland re-conquered by the efforts of her own inhabitants will secure them .

      An independent Poland will be a democratic , a progressive Poland ; and , as in former ages , she has been the constant champion of the liberty and civilisation of Europe against the slavery and darkness of _Hahoiwned : \ n and Muscovite despotism , so will she in future be the means of disseminating to the remotest confines of Eastern Slavonia , the social , political , and intellectual progress elaborated in the west _« f the civilised world . The above address is important , as being calculated to set right those who may have doubted the veritable patriotism ofthe Polish emigrants , and who mistrusted their aims as to the future . That address tells truly the cause ofthe failure of the Polish Revolution . The base selfishness of the privileged classes , who would rather see llussian tyranny triumph than consent to give up their infamous

      usurpations , and make the revolution a struggle by the people for the people , was the cause of Poland ' s second downfall . In denouncing these selfish aristocrat's , many of whom are to be found in the ranks of the emigration , and are even now plotting to restore the old system of Polish aristocracy , merely changing the masters , but not the tyranny , the name , but not the fact—in denouncing these partisans of Prince Czabtobtski , and adulators of Lord Dudmi Stiart , the Democratic Poles do well ; for , most certainly , the " men of the progress" in this and every other land will never give sympathy nor aid to the partisans of royalty , aristocracy , and caste-distinctions . The most important portion of the address is that , where the emigrants declare themselves pledged , not only to destroy serfdom , and establish

      the civil and political rights of the entire Polish people ; but also , " to assure to the cultivators tiie full and unconditional property of tiie soil . " These words are what , in this country , wc call " plain English , " there is no mistaking them , they announce the veritable deliverance ofthe Polish people from all slavery ; they guarantee the only liberty worthy of the name—the liberty to live , unp _' lundered by tyrants or masters of any description . The lovers of justice are sick of _ine-rfc words and p hrases ; they desire a liberty real and tangible . " Many will seek to persuade yon , " says the Able De La JMessais , " that you are really free , when they shall have written on a sheet of paper the word ' liberty , ' and shall have posted it up in the streets . Cut liberty is not a placard to be read at the corner

      of streets . " No ; liberty is "the safeguard of our social rights , and the first of these rights "—the rig ht to enjoy the fruits of onr labour , leaving to those who will not labour the pleasant privilege of starving . "Poland for the Poles" is a phrase we can under _, stand when explained as above by the democratic emigrants ; how different is the phrase " Ireland for the Irish I" The words are similar , - but their import how different , "l ' oland for the Poles , " _we understand to mean equal rights , and equal enjoyments for _aMthc Poles ; but " -Ireland for the Irish , " means a change of masters nothing more ; condemning the miserable masses to a continuance of political slavery and social debasement , sweetened by the wholesale pride and selfishness of " nationality . " Give them only an Irish Parliament , an Irish flag ,

      and instead of Victoria and _Pkel , the Pope and King Das for their rulers , and these loud-mouthed patrioU ( themselv _&! , instead of the " Saxons , " enjoying the privilege of plundering the working millions ) ys" 5 \ be tally _satisfivd . Will the Irish people themselves be so easily satisfied ? If so _^— " God save the greens ! " The next revolution in Poland must and will be social , as well aspolitical and national . Why should the Polish people fight for a country , all the blessings oi which have hitherto been monopolised by a selfish privileged few ? "Why should they fight for a land , which for centuries repaid their toil with slavery and misery ? Why should they fight for their Polish lords , " who have constantly paid their sacrifices with contempt and hnniiiiation ? No , jt will be for tiic common rights and common happiness of all , that

      the _Polish millions will combat when next they rise a » ainst Russia . When that day comes , and come it will , when a really national war shall be kindled , when each for his own hearth and homestead , for the rights of himself and the happiness of his family , slKill go forth to the conflict , no power on earth can prevent the triumph of Poland . From the Oder and the Carpathian mountains to the Borysthencs and the Dwina , —from the Baltic to the Black Sea , her ilag will proclaim a triunpbaut , free , and happy people , We have said that day will come . It will ; Poland is neither dead nor sleeping , but anxious !; _, waiting the hour of vengeance and freedom . Even

      in Prussian Poland , or to steak more properly , lor wc do not recognise the usurpation of Prussia , that portion of Poland seized by the Prussian despotism , even there , where the people are not outraged by the horrible persecutions waged against their compatriots under the llussian usurpation , they cherish the hope of freedom , and , it is said , have been detected " conspiring" to cast off the domination of their Prussian oppressors . Some accounts oi the _distovcry of this alleged conspiracy , and the great number * of arrests which followed , have already ap-TjCOTeuin this journal , wc add the following important extract from a letter from Pcsen , received within tiielastfew davs bv an eminent Polish democrat : —

      Poses Df . c 2 . —I must break my silence to tell you _sotfethins about the new misfoi tunes of our beloved mother ( Poland ) , whose sobbings reach Our ears from each of her confines . On the 8 th of November , between eight and mmo ' clock in the evening , wc heard suddenly a noise of horse-steps , cries of" soldiers , " and ofthe worthy " police . In the _course of not more than half an hour , about mty men of the working class were arrested , not only m the town itself , but in its environs ; and also at _Czerwole , if you still recollect this place . You undoubtedly know the bookseller _Stefanski , whom they also imprisoned , because thev found with him ( us it is rumoured ) an esact phin of the citadel of Posen . A mass of noblemen were also arrest _' - 'd , and all the prisons are overflowing with victims , although they emptied for them the criminal jail , of which tho inmates ( thieves ) were transported to Bawicz ( a small town in the Duchy of Poscu ) , besides which they have converted a private house , in the _neighbourhood of the police , into a state prison , and residence of the criminal officers . The police director , Mr . _Jkinier , has already

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      made his appearance _amongst us , after having first paid one of his greedy visits ; to tho district of Krotoszyn . The soldiers forming the gar . rlsotl « t «* to be sent into the Rhenish Prussian provinces , and their place will be filled by others , because they disoocct ' c < t some connivance between them and the _amstedpersons . /<¦ _**<< _% 300 individuals from Warsaiv _xeere sent to _Siberia . Out ' Gu *' _- « « f _t-J-Uay suites , that in the territory of Cracow , anv 1 hi Galicia ( Austrian Poland ) , arrests are taking place da . i " _. Three hundred more victims sent to Siberia ! " Is there not some chosen i . 'urse _, Sonic hidden thunder in the stores ot , heaven , Red with uncommon wrath , to blast th " ¦ m '

      Who ones his greatness to a nation ' s 1 U 1 . " " _AmsDgst other crimes of tho miscreant I _^ _icuolas _, the forcible abduction of thousands of Pojis « 1 , ttl 9 children ought not to be forgotten . This at miii ' took place in 1 S 32 , and was repeated in _IS _& _t . A considerable body of Pviissian gendarmes , _eoss & fc . _ks * and foot soldiew , fell unexpectedly upon the _housv . ofpoorfamilies . it Warsaw , and seined all _tlielittlcbo _? ' * they found therein , and eyen those they found in tin ? streets . The affliction of the wretched mothers at tbe moment when tlieir children were seized , thrown into carriages provided for tlie purpose , and immediately conveyed to Russia , no words- ean describe . Some of the unhappy mothers died broken-hearted , one _plunged a _kniie into the heart of her child , and then into her own . About two-thirds of tlie poor little creatures _pcrishsd on the roads , and the survivors have since sunk , or yet continue io suffer under tlie miseries of ltussisB slavery . Alas ! that we should have to say it , that

      " Heaven looked od and would not take their part . " But , surely if heaven strikes not , at least man ' s vengeance will yet be terribly manifested . * Ye infamous privileged sycophants , ye vile , heartless she-aristocrats , who bailed as a god this Moloch of the _Iforth , when our land was dishonoured by his tread , did ye know of the above single atrocity , only paralleled by the " murder of the innocents i " Base and heartless as ye ays , we can hardly believe it of ye . Oh it was well done , Queen Victoria , " wife" and " mother" as yo » are , it was well done that you shonld welcome to _yeur table this emulator of the Jewish _Hunon ! And you . Sir James

      Graham , your name "Exalted o'er your less abborr'd compeers , And festering in the infamy of years . " will be remembered by generations to come , as the name of a minister of state , who descended to do the dirty work of a spy , to serve the ends of this monstrous incarnation of imperial crime and despotism . We must , for the present , conclude our commentary on Poland ' s wrongs . The space we have devoted to this subject for three successive weeks , will , probably next week , bedevoted to the consideration or announcement of the stete or progress of our brethren in some other land ; but , in taking leave , for the present , of this subject , we beg to assure the Polish exiles that the _.-, e columns are open to them whenever tlity shall have cause , or sec fit , to make known to the English people , the wrongs , or vindicate the rights of their countrv .

      Following this article , will be found a notice of a meeting , holden , not on the Polish anniversary , but in consequence of no anniversary meeting having been held . The resolutions only are given , the speeches , owing to peculiar cireainsiances , we cannot give ; but the resolutions , adopted unanimously , express unmistnkeably the views of the meeting . That meeting _vvas composed of natives of every European state , with the exception of one or two , yet the most peifect harmony and enthusiasm prevailed . To see so many men assembled , born and trained under sueh widely varying circumstances , each and all originally strongly imbued with tbe selfish and blasting vices of national prejudice and religious intolerance , and yet .

      to see those men meeting in brotherhood , was a cheering and ennobling spectacle . From London to _Constantinople , from Paris to Berlin , from Stockholm to Rome , from the confines of frozen Russia to the southern shore of sunny Spain , brethren hud gathered together to declare their sympathy for a suffering but noble people . They were comparatively few . Yes , but they were the voices of many , they spoke for whole nations , to whom speech is denied , but whose hearts yearn for the future . When tyrants conspire , patriots should combine . When despots take counsel together their victims should unite . The absolutists are coalescing and marshalling their forces , and so should we;—we shall best do so by promoting the The FjuTXBNmr of Natioxs .

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      THE POLISH REVOLUTION . IMPORTANT FRATERNAL MEETING . A democratic fraternal meeting was holden on Sunday evening , December 7 th , in the large room of the lied Lion , Great Windmill-street , for the purpose of protesting against the continued oppression of Poland , and expressing sympathy for the sull ' ering Polish people . The meeting was composed of British , Polish , French , German , Spanish , Italian , Swiss , Swedish , Norwegian , Danish , Hungarian , TransyIranian , and Turkish democrats . The room was crowded to excess . At nine o ' clock Mr . Henry Rots was called to the chair , and in a brief but truly patriotic address , explained the object of the meeting . Mr . G . Julian Ilarney then proposed the adoption of the following resolutions : —

      lit . That the 29 tli of IN ovciiiuer , the anniversary of the memorable struggle lor _Tolish liberty , _baviug passed by without those demonstrations of public sympathy usual in this country , _tliia meeting , composed of natives ol ' nearly aU the states of Europe , feel themselves called upon to supply the omission , by declaring their views on the question of Poland's freedom , tlieir sense of the present sufferings of the _I'olUh people , and their hopes as regards the future . _iiid . That fourteen years of unmitigated oppression wliieli Poland has undergone siuce lier last revolution , added to the preceding sixty years of dismemberment

      and slavery , instead of diminishing , enhance her claims to national independence . The revolution of the 29 th of S _* ovemh £ r , lS 30 , was an act reclamatory ofthe rights , and demonstrative of the wishes , of the people at large ; it was an effort made to expel from Europe the inioads of Asiatic despotism , and , therefore , not only imposed on all the European nations the duty of assisting Poland in a cause which was equally theirs , but still continues to impose upon them the obligation of co-operating in all her future struggles , lleuce , also , none of the _sairilcgions treaties concluded with her oppressors , from 1 V 72 to the present time , can affect her imprescriptible rights to national independence and freedom .

      3 rd . That this meeting recognises the Democratic Polish Emigrants as the only true and veritable representatives of Poland , aud tbe cause of Polish liberty , they liaving n . anifested to the world the purity of their motives , and the comprehensive character of their patriotism , by acknowledging the just claims of the working classes , not only to the enjoyment of equal civil and political _righ ts , but also to the full and unconditional property ot the soil which they have hitherto cultivated for the benefit of others . That the democratic Poles have alone proved their faithful adherence to their patriotic mission ; and this meeting regards as betrayers of that holy mission those who have accepted , or may in future accept , any Russian amnesty . And this meeting will regard any at . tempt to barter the Polish national sovereignty , in recognition ofa would-be royal dynasty , as an act of treason not only to Poland , but to the cause of mankind .

      4 th . That the accounts which have horrified Europe of the persecution of the Polish monks and nuns of St . Basilius , tlie horrible tortures and cruel murders to which they were subjected to compel them to change their rtlU gion , combined with the martyrdom of the priest Sciegcnny and the patriot Levitoux , added to the long list of similar cnormitius , _perpctrati'il by the command of _Nicholas , proves the unappeasable cruelty and unanielioratod savageism of the Russian usurpation . That although this meeting is composed of men who hold diversified views on religious questions , each andall solemnly recognise the sacred right of every human being to hold to such faith , or abide by such opinions as each may bclicvo to be true ; this meeting , therefore , Uenouncesin tlie strongest conceivable terms the abominable _tjramiy exercised

      against the _puople of Poland to induce and compel them by corruption , force , and tortures , to abjure their religion . Sth . That the Polish revolution of 1800 was ruined by the intrigues and insidious opposition of the native aristocracy , owing to their reliance on foreign assistar . ee , by the conspiracy of cabinets , and by the delusion wliich the principle of national selfishness , ( under the name ol _noii-iiitei-cnitioii _^ , succeeded in disseminating among the western nations of Europe . Poland will ensure her restoration by the exertions of her sons , by eventually realising for herself the final triumph of equality , liburty , and the sovereignly of her people ; and proclaiming the great principle of the fraternity of nations . Such is the Volant ) tins meeting will bail witli brotherly feelings , while they now express their unqualified detestation of

      her oppressors ; the treaties concluded with them ; the treachery and falsehood of aristocracy and diplomacy ; and above all , the selfish . and immoral _system of national non-intervention . And this meeting trust that their brethren of the Slavonian race ( of which the people of Poland are an integrant portion ) groaning beneath the yoke of the two spoliating governments , Russia and Austria , will strongly sympathise with , and endeavour to emulate the exauiplc _' of such a Poland . They trust , also , that such a Poland will _uvt-rfiud an _enhsMonedsy- 'Vip'llllJ * amongst the natives of the third spoliating country , rrussia , who will thus _repudiate and condemn the infamy of hting participators in the despoliation of ancient _Pokud ; a . despoliation perpetrated by their _iminOrttl rulers .

      6 th . That this meeting regards with distrust and anxious suspicion the visit of the tyrant Nicholas to the despots of Iialy , including ( it is believed ) the Pope of Rome , who , both in his tunporal and spiritual capacity , has scourged and betrayed the friends of liberty and progression iu Italy and Poland—both Catholic countries . That regarding the visit of the Russian tyrant to Italy , as intended to strengthen the combination ofthe enemies of liberty , this meeting appeals to their brethren of all the European states to repudiate national prejudices , * A lithographic print , representing one of these barbarous scenes , was published in Paris in 1834 , and ought to hi republished , the lirst edition being ( we believe ) quite exhausted . Its re-publication , at the present time , would be of great service , and owing to the public wind being just now occupied with the new ei imes uf the Czar , the sale , we think , could net fail to at least pay tlie cost of republication .

      The Polish Revolution. Important Fratern...

      aspenties , and ambitious follies , and to promote to the utmost of their power ' the fraternity of nations , that go tney may present a combined and fraternal phalanx to acmeve their own freedom , combat for the oppressed , anu establish throughout Europe the reign of equality Mr . IIaunky spoke at great length on the merits of \ t _^ ! ' _£ _- olutlo ns > after which they were seconded by i , _to » i . _° m ? s Ireland , and supported in eloquent and heart-st pmg speeches by Dr . Berrier Fontaine , Cap . tain Stolzman , Colonel Oborski . the citizens Schanper _, ftliehelo ! , Pruszynski , and Mr . C . Keen . The speeches were delivered in English , French , German , and t _onsii , and excited an indescribable enthusiasm _, i he resolutions were adopted unanimously , and a vote of thanks to the chairman , moved bv citizen Schanper , seconded hy _Caotain Stolzman _ninsod tho

      proceedings . The meeting throughout was most admirable and inspiring , and exhibited that true fraternal spirit which each and all present so ardently desire to see universally triumphant .

      Extensive Plunder. Notices In The French...

      EXTENSIVE PLUNDER . _Notices in the French language , to the following _cffcfi . _' _i have been forwarded to the various police _distriefct . Ol . tho United Kingdom . For some time past , but jwr . ticularl y during tbe close of last summer , two Engiisbn . 'on , described as below , one named Henry King , » up /> oscd to be a Jew , and the other named George J » eii 'e , have transacted business on a _Jarce scale , as well . in this city ( Frankfort on the Maine ) as in other parta . of the Continent , paying for the goods in the firsC mitonce partly in cash , and partly by bills of _exclia . _igtroiiIo . _ndonjWJiJclnveiediilyJionoured . Towards the isi'ddle of last October , by representing themselves as a _$ snts to large houses , they obtained , partly through n _« . _sonal credit , and partly br bills on London , a quantity of property , _consisting of choice

      jewellery and other valuable articles , to an immense amount , together witfr a quanJity of hard cash and notes . The whole _procasds of the fraud havo Ibsen _d _^ _'jH'cd before the proper tri bunal to amount to 1 j 5 , 705 florins , to wliich there is still to be _added 100 , 000 florins , supposed to be due to-various tradesmen who have not as yet made any declaration of tlieir losses Tlie gewds procured in _tln ' sr way during the latter portion of their _pratiice _prinuigally consisted of wins , Eau tie Cologne , & c . King set out for Paris on the evening of the * ISth of October , under the pretence of meeting liis wife , and en the morning of the 19 th _Neale took lis departu ? e for Wisbaden , where they had both stayed for a * long time , apparently with a view of _winding up- _Sheir affairs . Their late bills on London bavin * : been *

      returned protested , bo _remittances having been made to cover the amounS , it was _considered thai they had acted the part of _-fraudulent bankrupts , and- the criminal jurisdiction * of Frankfort issued warrants for their apprehension as follows- ;—"Under the treaty of _reciprocity , we request ' ail the authorities of the various nalions to reader us such assistance as it is ia their power for the earliest apprehension of the Swo persona hereafter described , with all the prsperty in their possession , consisting of jewellery , Merchandise , apparel , and money . To such persons 1 as will _giva information leading to the apprehension ) of these parties , and the recovery of the goods , a reward of 25 , 0 *) 0 f . will be given , together with whate ? _er expenses- may have been incurred . Should only * a part of the property

      be recovered , the reward will' be proportionate , but at the same time it will not be less than 5 , 1 ) 001 ' . It will , perhaps , assist in leading So tlie apprehension ol the parties to state , that a woman , who passed as King ' s wife , was confined some weeks since at Paris , and of whose person a sketch lias been _kme $ with this notice . Some of the jewellery has a . _' so * been lithographed , and copies issued . To jud _* . e by the lithograph , the woman appears to be about thirtylive years of age , with _lnasculin * features , high check bones , animated expression of countenance , and with the intellectual part off the head not forming full one-third of the whole . Her person is large , and her appearance stylish . _Nsale had a passport belonging to Jacques Halm , of Frankfort , dated August 18 th , jNo . 1 , _U 90 , and one _available for a six

      months' pleasure tour through Bavaria , Austria , Italy , and Switzerland . Mr . Halm _19-a banker ot Frankfort , and in age , person , and complexion , not unlike Neale , who is described as follows- _^—Between 26 and 30 years of age , five feet five inches high ( Uhenish measure ) , hair deep black and curled / eyebrows very black , eyes small , dark , deep , and swimming , pug-nose , mouth middle size , lips full , with handsome white teeth , beard and whiskers black and bushy , covering the chin , complexion fresh and generally warm . Uc speaks with a thick and rather heavy tongue . Neale represents himself as having been born at sea , as having travelled through various parts of the world , and long established in business at Calcutta . Both he and King were on habits of intimacy with the family of a person named

      Walton , an English Jew , who represents himself as having lately arrived from Canton . King , who is between 50 and 00 years of age , measures five feet Rhenish , wears a round grey short wig , his forehead is low and flat , eyebrows bushy and greyish , eyes small and supposed to be greyish , nose sharp , mouth common , teeth small and well-formed , no beard , face and chin round , complexion tawny . lie is particularly remarkable for a short neck , fleshy flabby hand , and walks with a short quick step . On the inside of his wig there is a pink circular label with the name of the maker , G . Evandre ilayden John , coiffeur Frankfurt a M . lie nevertheless wears his own hair underneath . Neale has boon in the habit

      of daily dyeing his hair , whiskers , and _inoustachios , with a black colouring mixture . The signatures of the parties , fac-similes of which have been issued , arc widely different . King ' s is a bold hand , whilst Ncale ' s is cramped , narrow , and timid- Fac-similes of some bracelets , wliich form part of the plunder , together with a drawing of Neale ' s favourite breast-pin , have been forwarded to the various police stations . It is to be observed that Neale had a passport from the British Consul at Frankfort , dated May ISth , 1845 , and countersigned for Paris on the 13 th of October . As the jewellery was regularly forwarded by post in paid parcels , that fact may assist in leading to the discovery of the delinquents . "

      Susrected Murder.—On Tuesday Morning The...

      SusrECTED Murder . —On Tuesday morning the town of Merthyr was thrown into considerable alarm by the news of there having occurred , on the previous night , and that morning , three separate deaths from drowning . One of them appears to have been connected with circumstances that require explanation . Ann Meyrick , aged 23 , the wife of John Meyrick , living at Rhydyear , a small village in the vicinity ot iMerthyr , was , on Tuesday morning , drawn out of tlie Cardiff and Merthyr canal , within a short distance of her own house , quite dead . On being taken to the house , the body bled profusely , nnd the blood was found to issue from two frightful gashes in the lower part of her abdomen . The bank of tbe canal was literally covered with blood , from the place whence she was taken out to the archway over the canal—a distance of forty yards . She was last seen

      ill the company of her husband , witli whom she left the Heathcoek tavern about one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , both of them very much intoxicated . He was seen coming home alone , and though inebriated , was not so far gone as not to be able to go and place some hay for the cow to eat . In the morning he was found asleep , his head resting on the table , as he had _evident ' y not been to bed . When he heard of his wife having been drawn from the canal , he bogan to cry ; but to the spectators it evidently appeared more feigned than real , lie accounts for his not having noticed her absence , by stating that she frequently slept at her father ' s house ; and states that on his way home in the early part of the morning he had turned on one side to obey a call of nature , while she went on , and that he had never seen her since . A coroner s inquest was postponed to Thursday , with what result wc will hereafter relate . —Cambrian .

      Fatal Railway _Accidknt . —An accident of a very frightful character occurred on Friday evening last on the works of the Shrewsbury , Oswestry , and Chester Junction Railway , between _Cresford and Wrexham , by the overturning ofa train clown a steep embankment , by which one man was killed on tlie spot , and several others were seriously injured . The workmen and stone-masons employed ou the works at Gresford , it appears , were in the practice , en _lcarhiir tliGir work in tlio evening , of getting into tlio earth waggons , and being propelled up the line to Wrexham . On the evening in question about forty of them had taken their seats in the trucks , and were proceeding at a rapid rate , when on arriving opposite the race course , near Wrexham , lhc lireman ' s waggon got off the line , and ran down the enibnukment , dragging with , it the remainder . One

      man , Peter Edwards , was found among the lower trucks , frightfully mutilated and quite dead . Another labourer was discovered with his left leg severed completely . A third poor creature had his left leg broken in three places , while seven or eight others were more or less injured . As soon as possible the sufferers were placed in a truck and conveyed on to Wrexham , where they were received into the Hope public-house , and met with every medical and other assistance . On Saturday an inquest was held at the above on the body of P . Edwards , which occup ied . ¦* , considerable time , in the course of which it was shown that tlie accident arose by the rails sinking into the earth below the level of the road , tlie rails not being properly laid on tlie sleepers , The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death , " with a deodand of £ 5 on the carriage .

      Serious Accii'e . m at Newbury . —As Mr . Wm . Somerset , Marlborough , Wilts , a large grazier , farmer , and dealer , was going to the cattle show , held here on Friday , driving a spirited horse iu his gig down the hiil approaching Spcenhamland _, there meeting a carriage , Mr . Somerset ' s horse took fright , running furiously into the town of Newbury , dashing with frightful speed until he ran the wheels of the chaise ngainst a / amp-post , throwing out Mr . Somerset . Upon his being taken up and conveyed to a surgeon ' s ( one happening to be _lie-a- ) , ic was discovered the fall had caused a fearful wound on his head and other parts of his bod y . lie was taken up quite insensible , with but littlc ' hopcsof his recovery , and is . still remaining in a very precnrious state . " The chaise was dashed to pieces , and the horse also much hurt .

      The Murder Of An Aged Femallii Lin Westm...

      THE MURDER OF AN AGED FEMALlii liN _WESTMINSTER . Monday being the day appointed for tho examination of Martha Brownrigg , a girl twenty-four years of age , who stand . ? charged with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Mundell , an aged female with whom she resided , the approaches to the Queen-square policecourt were at an early hour crowded with persons of all classes , anxious to hear the proceedings . At half-pnst three o ' clock tlie accused , who had been privately brought into court , was lifted into the dock , apparently in an insensible statebut

      , whether feigned or otherwise it is difficult to say . She had _, on her first examination , tbe aupearancc ot a pretty , fresh-coloured country girl , but was vester d . iy much altered , and had evidently been suffering great mental anguish . Ann Gaze , ihe daughter ol the _deceased , was _fii _^ t put , and in answer to inquiries from Mr . Edwards , the chief clerk , witness said , as soon as I discovered my mother lying upon the box iii her room , I ran for a doctor , and I should think that it was not twenty minutes after I first saw her in that position before he came . The cord which had been found round my mother ' s neck was cut off by a baker ' s boy before the medical man came .

      The woman Cheshire , who resided in the next room to the deceased , and who , proved on the last examination that she heard the deceased cry " miirder" twice , and also heard her say , "What are you doing to mc ? what are you doing te me ? _" ' was then put into the witness box in order to finish her evidence , which had only been taken in part on the previous occasion in order to justify the remand of the accused . Mr . Bond : When you went to the door of deceased ' s room to inquire _wliat was the matter , did you find it locked ?—Witness : Yes . I tried the handle and could not open it _. Examined by Mr . Edwards ; After I had been to the room door , and inquired what was the matter , I

      returned to my own room and went to bed again . In about a quarter of an hour after I heard the prisoner unlock the door of deceased's room , and eomo out ancl go to the cupboard in the passage ; and then she knocked at my door , and came to my bed side with some wood in her hand . She said that the old lady was very poorly , and had begged _sf her to go to her daughter ' s-,-ami feteh her . 1 said she had better do s 3 _* as soon as she eotrhi . She stopped * ibr a minute or two ; and then _shesaiW she thought she would . I begged * of her again to ran and letch ths- old lady ' s daughter , and then she left my room . Mr . Edwards : li ) id _yoirthen go into the eeceased ' s room to see how she was ? - —Witness : No , 3 did not . Prisoner never asked me ..

      Witness continued : ¦ PrisoE'sr , after leaving my [ room , went into deceased ' s-, a *» d shortly afterwards I came in to ifle again with- her bonnet ou . _unSs snid ; that if'I heard any noise hi' tlie room ( deceased ' s ) would I go in . Mr . Bond : Ibid you hearany noise after prisoner i went out _?—NoS the least . The-rram was as quset ; as it is now . _Hsaring no noise I _dhi not go in , [ Edward Gaze said I am the husband of Ann Gaie . ¦ On- Monday night , after the inquest fond sat , I was i » the-deceased ' s room-when they were about to lay her out- ( Witness here described _appeai'iinces in the bod sucli-as are _consequent 1 upon _dissolufcios . ) Tlie female on seeing this refused to lay her out until I fetched a _docfnir , Mr . Bond : Wastheprisoncrpresent 1 Witness : She was and * shuddered _^ , and ever since the _inqwest has been afraid of being left alone .

      Witness continued : @ mWednesday 1 went to de ceased ' s room accompanied by the prisoner , who actually kis ! _-e * i the corpse ; and putting , herself in an attitude of pi ' ayer , said , " God knows all . "' After this , whilst in the room , prisoner said she had a £ 5 note , and offered * to lend me a sovereign . I then asked her to let me-get it changed as-1 knew the landlord ; but she said- she'd go herself . She then went to a public-house dose by , and immediately returned , saying the gentleman had played a * trick on heir , having » iven her a Bank of Elegance note instead ofa Bank of England . 1 told her she had better go back immediately . She asked me to go with her , and 1

      asked to look at the note . She hesitated , and at length gave it to me . The moment I saw it , 1 knew by tiie grease it -was one I had frequently seen , in my mother-in-law ' s hands . After this I suspected her of the murder , ami I insisted upon accompanying her to see where she had obtained the note . As she went along she said she wanted to go and see " Jem , " ( a comrade of his ) with whom she is acquainted , which I opposed , and _pevsviiided licv to come along with mc . On getting through the Horse Guards , she fell back on my arm , and said she was so ill she could not go further that day . I toid her 1 must get the assistance of a policeman , if she could not 20 further .

      Mr . Bond : Did you say anything to induce her to suppose that you suspected her of the murder ?—Witness : I had my suspicions , but I did not tell her . Witness continued : "Good God , " she said , | 'do not get a policeman , and 1 will try and go a little further . " I assisti d her across the road , and after she got on the pavement she fell back ininy arms . Air . Bond ; lie particularly careful to say , as well as you can remember , the precise wordsshe used . — Witness : She said , " I can't keep it any longer ; 1 murdered tlie poor old woman , and deprived your wife ( if a good mother . " She then caught hold ol me , asked mc to pray for her guilty soul , and to forgive her . I then gave her in charge , Tlie note produced is the same which the prisoner showed me , having had it in my hands frequently during tlie deeiased ' s life .

      Mr . John Charles Atkinson , of 10 , Rodney-terrace , surgeon : 1 had known tho deceased for two years , having attended her late husband , and I have had occasion to remark that she generally was in the possession of good health , and equally level , and at all times in good spirits—a circumstance which I remarked from her spirits being neither depressed or excited during the changes which occurred in her husband ' s illness . I was called upon at about twenty minutes past eight ou Monday moviung , aud my assistant went , and on his return at a little before nine , in consequence of die communication he made to me , I went myself . On my entering the room 1 found the body of the deceased on a box about two feet six , the whole of the spine and head being deposited there . I examined tbe place to ascertain whether her death had been occasioned by hanging oi strangulation .

      Mr . Bond : _^\ as the cord at that time round her neck ?—Witness : No ; it was on the tloor by her side . Mr . Atkinson continued : Observing some- pegs over her head I examined them to ascertain whether they would bear her weight . 1 found that they had no power , and were such begs as a bonnet _inhiht be hunt ; on . 1 then examined her neck , and 1 was satisiied that she had died from strangulation . There were two identations in front of the neck , and only one at the back . There was also a vacuum at the back ofthe neck . Mr . Atkinson here illustrated the view he took of the matter with a piece of cord , by _sliowinu that the power used to tighten the rope must have- been l ' _vom behind in a right line . Mr . Bond : —Couldsuch appearances as you have described have been produced by a person strangling themselves ?

      Mr . Atkinson : It is doubtful , certainly not probable . To have made such appearances as the neck presented , a poison must , in my opinion , have fastened the rope from behind to a peg or some other thing which would bear them in a right line with the neck , and keep up tho pressure on the front . Mr . Atkinson continued ; On examining the room I found no place on which she could have been suspended . Had she hung herself , instead of the marks of the rope being _horizontal , which they were , and from tlie left to the right , they would have been

      slanting . 1 examined die deceased ' s hands , to ascertain whether they were marked with the pressure which the form of strangulation required , and which it would have produced on them , and I found they were not . There were some slight marks above her mouth , which in my impression were , ur might have been , made ill the agony of death by strangulation , from a desire on the part of the person to open her mouth and breathe . Witness milled that the cortl marks were on the lower or tougher part of the neck , and made some observations to show that her death had not been occasioned bv hanging .

      Mr . F . _rartrkltic , an inspector uf the A _iliviaion , said : On the 3 rd inst ., at about ha ! f-pa . > t one in the afternoon , the prisoner was brought to the station in Gardener ' s-iaue , in a fainting condition . L < i » teytiu the charge against her on the police-sheet , " that of causing the i ! e ; it ! i of Mrs . Munch- ]!; " and having read it over to her , cautioned her that she was nut bound to say anything . On hearing the cliarge , she observed , " ' Ali 1 can say is , that itis all right . 1 am an unfortunate creature . You may do with mc what you like . " And she then commenced tearing her hair . I had her thoroughly searched , but nothing was found . On the day alter she had appeared at this court I went- with the soldier . Gage , to 1 ,

      Prifridence-phicc , where , on _Bravi'lims _; a b > ix _pi-intcti out to me as belonging to the prisoner , 1 found some rope , exactly corresponding with that-round the deceased's neck ; as also two duplicates of trifling articles pledged on the 2-Hh and 28 th cf November Inst , the one for a shawl , for Is . Ud ., and the other a gown , for 3 s . [ This evidence was produced to show that prisoner , who had represented herself to bo in possession of some money , which she had saved in service , and which she pretended tn go to Bedford-street for — was in distress ; a fact which leaves the inference that the murder was committed to get possession sf the sham notes , whicli were supposed to be genuine . }

      On the case for the prosecution being completed as above , Mr . Bond said : Docs the _prisoner wish to say anything ? Prisoner in a calmer voice . " I have not done the murder . " Tlie witnesses were then bound over to prosecute , and the prisoner Was committed to the Central Criminal Court io * r trial .

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      — -, Cmineiit British Vocalist Is Mb. Tu...

      — -, cmineiit British vocalist is Mb . _TuMrLEiox . _—ihK t ! ie United States ; ' and . now oii a professional tour in _^ _nmals on his fir sts fro -m the tone of the public _.,. -, ||| 0 _Sj successful appearance , his visit must turn out *

      The Coast * Dkpenchs . —Captain _Addi- _* f 0 ? r >> . ., _j _* tion for heating shot red hot , which was _«?»»» . '• tested in the marshes at Woolwich , having been _flfV _^ proved by the board of officers appointed to _asccrtainr and report on its advantages , the inventor lias been requested to state the amount lie would require to supply 200 furnaces similar to the one approved of , but placed on higher and stronger wheels , to enablethem to be moved with greater facility , and without being liable to break down when employed on _aciual service . This invention will prove a great acquisition , to the coast defences , as its power of rendering 32-pounders and other shot red hot in a limited time has been fully and satisfactorily tested , and tho object is attained at a much less expense than by any other mode hitherto adopted . DlCKKXs ' s rOHTHCOMlKG ClIRISTtfAS WORK , " The Cricket on the Hearth , " is being dramatised for the * Adelpbi .

      Will of the latk Da . Wadk , which was in his own handwriting : — " _Saturday , August 13 , 1 S 42 . —I , Arthur Savage Wade , D . 1 X _, vicar of St . Nicholas , Warwick , give and bequeath to Miss Mary Anne Crafer , third daughter of the late Mr . Tlios . Crater , of East Dereham , Norfolk , all my property and effects , and monies in hand and due to me , and all my shares iu Cornish mines , money in annuity offices or banks , and also church stipends and fees , and all other effects of what kind soever , of which she is iny sole executrix . " His personal estate for the payment of probate duty was valued at £ 1 , 000 .

      Witchcraft . —A Wick newspaper gives the following recent instance of gross ignorance and credulity ; — " Not far from Louisburgh there lives a girl who , until a few days ago , was suspected of being a witch _. In order to cure her of the witchcraft , a neighbour actually put her into a creed half filled with wood and shavings , and hung her above a fire , setting the shavings in a blaze , fortunately for the child and himself , she was not injured ; and , it is said , that the ; gift of sorcery has been taken away from her . At all i events , the intelligent neighbours aver that she iu not half so witch-like in her appearance since she _vfas singed . " The Militia , —In anticipation of the calling out _ofiilie militia , the " miJitia clubs" for providing substitutes have commenced making arrangements for their reoreanizsstion .

      _De-oth of _Towssu . _vb-, _tjk _Pjspestki . _w . — The " veteran , " so welJ known in sporting circles , k pircd lately in tlie GHilb workhause . Lewes , and waa buried > a Southovcr churchyard , ile was fifty-four years of age . Townsmid was considered one of thelirst pedestrians of his day , and _-S-om- his possessing great _poi ? _ers of endurance was able to perform extraordinary feats , particularly matches against ¦ time . i FuHTiFicAGSoy of _Jershiv-. Things are now pro * -jcecding in earnest towards ensuring the complete [ security of Jereey against She dangers of foreign invasion . Clothing was _received a fortnight ago from _Jaondon for tlio use of our island militia , _iouether with _twonty-foai _** brass _nine-ponnili-r . _*' . __ Tho whole island militia force is divided into five different regiments . Altogether it may be considered to be _al-out 4 , _C' { iO-strong , and in any ease of emergency 1 , 000 more could be brought to the field .-

      AiNOTUKR " Ix ? BRESTISO ' _K-U 18 ASCK FOR PoOB _Jonx Bull . —Wo have great satisfaction in being enabled to announce that an event , calculated to strengthen the affectionate attachment of the people to the throne , and at . the same time increase the happiness of her Majesty ' s domesfcic circle , may be expected to take place early in April-next—Post ' _L-NEituAii Taxation _!*>?• Jamaica . — 'i'hc planter pays two shillings and sixpence for a _ninfo ; : the negro is charged eig ht shillings for an ass . This- is as bad or worse than it is in the mother country , where the poor are pauperised by the burthens of taxation . _TniRTsmsis bounds-of Shropshire iron- have been made into wire upwards of one hundred- and eleven miles in length ; . and so fine was the fabric that » part of it was humorously converted , in lieu of the usual horse hair , into a barrister ' s wig .

      W . _1 . UUK 2 . Envious . —Tho editors of the . _iWoual and i ' _TOWi ? { French papers ); being at variance , a list of six editors of the National , all ready and willing to _^ light , was tha other day presented to the editors off the Presse , but he politely refused to make any selection . Watches , remarkable for tlieir extreme _thinners , are now _lniwuifaetui-ed at Geneva . They arc not thicker than a line and the sixteenth of a line ( little more than the twelfth of an inch ) . This change dues not , however , militate _m-nins-t the It'll play of the movement , for that remains the same , the thinness being obtained by p lacing the hands at the side , instead of over the works . This arrangement _niakcB the watches rather large in circumfcreua * . A _Pleasant Place . — 'Eighty-nine outrages havo been committed in the county Limerick within the last six months , as reported to GovernmeM .

      . _PitKsiDENT foi . K completed his _htueth year on the 2 nd November . Hake Discovuriks '— The _Allgemeine- Xijilung announces three new dUco ' vcrics , which , _shotiM _thi-y receive confirmation , will lie bailed with _inueii _ti-iiiinph by the literary and musical world . Of tiie _ih-.-t , a hitherto unknown epic poem nf tho _i-Tcni ; Ario & to . called " llinaldo _l'Artlilo , " wc have before heard : t rumour ; the second is the concluding _c-aiito _<>!' " Don Juan , " by Lord Byron , alleged to have been found in Ocneva ; and the third , a posthnm ' - 'Us opera ly Weber , which is said to have lain perdue in London since his death .

      A Cuiu : foii _Prci-axitv . — A schoolmaster , as a punishment to one " > i his pupils for lining profane language , ordered him to take a pair of _ti-ngs and watch a hole in the earth until lie caught a mouse . ' 1 he boy look the tongs , and demurely waited for his victim . Directly after , he saw a mouse peeping out of the hole . Cautiously _placinj : a leg of the tcngs on cither side , he grabbed Don Whiskcrnudos by the nose , and triumphantly exclaimed , " l ) y ¦— f I ' ve got liim . " The Stocks . —Do Foe lived in the nee- of Justice Midases and _Pav . Miu TruUebers , and about the jcar 1700 , he assails them both thus;—" The parson preaches a thundering sermon : _>; . ;; iu 5 St _drvuiUcum-ss , and the justice sets my poor _neighbour in the stocks ; and I am like to he much the better for cither , when 1 know that this same parson and this sama jii- _» tice wore both drunk _together but ihe night before . '*

      Finn i . v _Dakiucax . —On Sunday evening , shortly before twelve o ' clock , an alarmim : fire broke cut iu Graham ' s-buildings , _IJarbican , which has resulted iu the ti _.-tal destruction of Shrewsbury Academy , the property of Mr . Allen , and the print ing-ollice of Mr . Ford . The damage done to Mr . Ford ' s property we _unik'i'stanil will he " covered by an insurance in ' the Imperial ollice , but Mr . Alien is uninsured . The orig in ofthe fire is not known . _IsGi-.-soii _« isyi . —Tuesday ' s Government Pol ice Gazette contains the oiler of a reward of .- £ 50 for the discovery and apprehension of the person or persons who on the night of the 1 st instant maliciously set lire to an out-building , containing about six loads of unthrcshed wheat , the property of . Mm Shaud , Esq ., of Keny-Birn llall , near Itunbwi _, Deiibi g _hsl . iiv , by which the building and its contents were consumed .

      Axdkew Snyder , asiddier of the revolution , died lately in Lancaster county , Pennsylvania , aged 133 years , tlie eldest man in the staie . NoTiuxfi else to no . —Sonic pcison , who had _notliiiiu else to do , has ascertained that , there ave -5 . 50 , 000 grains in a busiiid of wheat , . 520 , 000 iu bavley , 1 , 260 , 000 in oats , 37 , 000 iu _liuise Leans . —New York Gazelle . Tub Militia . —Wc ' _undci-slamA that the rolls of names are prepared in this immediate _neighbourhood , preparatory to the _re-nrganising and probaUy to the calling out of the militia , in the spring of next year . —Liverpool Ti mes . WixDKRMEiiE Lake has not been known to be so liiuli for tlio last fifteen years , owing to the heavy mlns which have fallen within the la-t two or three \ vcck 3 .

      The latk Editor or tup " Nation . "—The friends anil admirers t > l" tlie V . Ae _Tlwrcas Uavi * , _ctuv-v of _tUe Nation newspaper , havo subscribed a _hii'ue sumamounting , we believe , to upwards of £ _5-W—' . ' or the purpose of erecting a testimonial to perpetuate his memory . The _Cuilteus IIuxnr . Ens . — A piece of land in Buckinghamshire , formerly known as the _Ghiiu-rn ililis . They nfl ' urtletl shelter to banditti , and . abounded in timber , which is the reason of tlieir being chosen as a retreat for those members of Parliament who wish to cut their sticks . —Punch . _Coomb ' s Cincus , at Glasgow , which was erected _, two years ago at a cost i . f about £ 1 . 200 . was last week totally destroyed by iire . It is only about three weeks since the Glasgow City Theatre was burnt ,

      Caution to u ivr . s — Mrs . Chapman , the landlady of the Ship public-house , Hammersmith , was on Wednesday _brought up at tho _poiice-court-, ami fined is . for slapping her husband oh the face .

      Iiollowav's Pills Axd Oistmest.—Kdwaril ...

      IIollowav's Pills axd _Oistmest . _—Kdwaril While , residing at 15 , Clemcnt ' _s-kne , Strand , was an indoor piitiuut at King ' s College lluspital , with an abscess in the thigh , and a wound nine inches long on the same limb , lie could neither bet . d his knee or put his foot to tho ground , lie _vc-maiv . udihiye ibr five months in bed , when he was informed , " that nothing more could be done for him . " lie was then carried ' to his home , and commenced using tlie above invaluable medicines . Ho can now walk about all ' tha day long , and is quite cured bv the means cf : these wonderful medicines , and this ' to the astonish-I ment of all who knew him .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 13, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_13121845/page/7/