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The Murderous Miscreant Johnstone, Op Tu...
dd Mo « d _MoirsTH asd thi Welsh _Exiies . — The _fouowisiglettijg letter has been received b y Mr . F . Hirfield _, ehaitiiian ofian ofthe Barnsley Restoration Committee : — "Lonown . Febn , _FebruarvSi . —Sir , _ ltisal *» jsn »? aian toeomply fiiith _tbith the aesire of jnj constituents , but , in justice to isisny v » ny wbo are sentenced to even severer punishments oiorlesfor less serious offenees , I do not feci myself prepared o o voteo vote for a remission to men whose offence was not » e » euig Wing Chartists , but rebels and shedders of blood . I _laavetiave the honour to be . ar , yonr faithful servant , _Moae _ethveth . — Mr . Frank SOrfield . "—[ Will the Whiglord ever blare tuwe to go to Barnsley again ? We shall see . Hehad 11 wan warm reception in 1 S 41—much wanner than he iUked-ifced—bnt the devil help him next time the Barnsley ;«; ids g id ? get hold of him . ] ( SGkegGsegobt . —We believe the cheapest edition of Byron ' s
[ _xpoemsioeBis is the volume edition , published at fifteen shulilings _^ ings _, by lir . Murray , Albemarle-street . This edition mnay , may , we believe , he procured at stul less cost at many oof tlof the London book dealer * . Onr correspondent will fitind ifind in onr advertising columns all the information we rirotthhmld impart to him concerning the "History of Ainerrica . Tica . " Our correspondent ' s third question we have f _fovwfovwarded to the Executive . _uisiES una Wiilums , So . 9 . Lowe-street , Hillgate , Stockrportport , wishes all sub-secretaries in South Lancashire to iinfoiinform bim whether their respective localities are _iprcpprcparedto act onthe suggestion offered by fhe South _llani _Lancashire delegate meeting—viz ., to hold a delegate i mee meeting of all Branches ofthe land Society in South ] Lan Lancashire , on the second Sunday in Jfarch . Mr . ' Will Williams _mshes to bave tbis information by , or before , i the the 3 rd of March . .. . Skell _. _Cole-bbookbaie . —We are compelled to post ; por pone the notice of your communication till _nextweek .
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Bbeeeceipts Of The Chartist Co-Operatiye
_BBEEECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIYE
LAND SOCIETX . 8 HAEE 9 . te * xb . _o'coasoa . £ S . d . _iiloueiouen , France , per J . Sidaway .. .. .. 5 IS 2 WrslVrshore , per W . Conn .. „ .. .. 400 iishtishton-under-Lyne . perE . nobson .. .. 4 1 ( 5 6 _llorjorsie Mills , per W . Median .. .. .. 200 _Halilalifax . perC . W . Smith .. .. .. 450 _UuiUiliunghain , per S . Widdof 14 0 " res _' rescut . per J . Kohinson .. .. - „ 0 IB o ' _' unftinderland , per W . Hobble ,. .. .. 4 19 6 iiiiociiockpurt , per T . _Wooohouse .. ., 300 _llldhldham . perW . Hamer 5 0 6 Hurjurv . per W . Ireland 3 19 6
_vartarlisle . per 3 . Gilbertson 7 0 0 < _S ' orS ' on \ ich , perJ . Hurry 2 0 0 [ OoOodburst Brow , per 3 . Bowden 3 0 0 IBa _* 5 arnsley , perJ . Ward -5 0 0 _( _CaCaningtoii , perJ . Ley * 1210 0 EPhGlasgow , ih ! rJ . Smith 0 12 0 IHefIeywood , perIL Wrigby .. .. ~ 4 IS 3 ILvCveds , per W . Brook .. .. ., .. 500 _IN ' _oSottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 6 13 0 IHuHunter Osborne , per ditto .. . " . .. 0 7 o IBoBocudale .. .. „ 2 0 0 ( _C _5 if _5 KofIiOwdonuuiTriet , pery . Wyatt -. .. 3 19 2 rrl ' _rcstOH . perJ . Brown .. .. .. .. 310 6 _'TliThiinas Sutton , _Salisbury 5 0 0
MOlanchester , per J . Murray S 9 10 4 11 : lhmlev and Shelton . per H . Foster .. .. 500 _fcK * _'i-huale , iierE . Mitchell .. .. .. 4 . 0 0 l _* . _i _Bradford , per J . Alderson .. .. _~ 6 0 0 AVAVnterloo , near Bradford , per ditto H .. 400 HH « ddeMfida , perJ . Stead .. .. .. 9 18 '' AJtdiford . iicTA . Doxy - A ° B Bacup , per J . Mawson -. .. ~ .. 500 B Bolton , per _Edtv _^ _Hoagldnson .. - 2 0 o r _< * r < * vwcastle , per Martin Jude ,, .. * w 10 * This sum was stated in the letter as being advised _tltaroiurh a London bank , but upon application , no such n remittance had been made . We wish the mistake corr rected at once , as we are already £ 5 > S out of pocket by c our depnty-treasurership . _jn f- __ £ trvr so * ihe land _cosfebesce . j j ' * ' _,
TEE MB . O CO _* SSO » . i Sunderland , per W . Dobbie .. .. 013 1 Hrvwood , per R . Wrigby - .. .. 0 1 !' < Citv < . _fLondonihstrict , perJ . Wyatt .. .. 0 0 G A _? lrford , perA . Doxy 0 0 9 lEVt FOB DrBECTOSS . ? EB MB . O ' COXSOB . Ad 4 ra _< jliam . perS . _Widdof 0 0 G City of London district , per J . Wyatt .. .. 6 13 KAT 10 SAL AST 1-MIL 1 T 1 A FCSD . A
PEB SB . O ' COSSOB . J . Sweet , _Nottingham .. .. .. .. 018 KATIOSAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . _rxEccxrrs . t _» _pq __ . o _' c _^ _jc _^ oa . Itam locality - -- - • - ° c * * i . Breariley , Triangle 0 0 7 BECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE
LAXD SOCIETY . SHABES . PEB GESZBAI . _eECBETABt . £ s . d . £ s . d . _Sjlbv 2 0 0 Boulogne .. ,. 320 Mr . ' W . Fox .. .. 21 ? 9 Burnley .. .. 4 0 « Alfred Brians .. 017 Hyde 1 1 ti Chorlev .. .. 212 0 Somers Town .. 2 0 0 Westuunstcr .. 186 Armley .. .. 011 _JEIdersIie .. .. 1 19 0 Mtxenden Stones .. 0 17 4 Whittington & Cat -5 11 S Rachel Rowall .. 009 Lambeth .. .. 510 0 M . X 0 16 _Surtou-Hi-Ashfield 0 2 6 Mottram .. .. 117 < i Jliudlev - .. 0 1 4 . Hanley £ Shi-lion S 6 2 _Lrieester .. .. 400 Hull .. .. .. 200 Birkenhead .. .. 200 . / m < y BBtES . " " _Norwich .. .. 006 Hanley .. .. 008
_1 EVT FOB THE USD CGSFEKESCE Brighton .. .. 003 Lower * W _» , riey .. 009 _Eiderslie .. .. 023 _Oarringttm .. .. 026 _ICoruieh „ .- 8 0 S Secretary „ __ O 1 O 1 EVI FOB DIBECTOBS . « _Brishton .. .. 036 _Darbston 1 ' ' . .. 0 0 6 Carlisle ~ .. 013 Lower Woriey .. 014 Staleybridge .. 017 Bury 007 Stockport .. .. 075 _>* ewca = tle-ou-Tyne 013 The new rules are now out . All parties needing cards and rules are requested to immediately apply for the same . An error of a verbal nature occurred in the balance-sheet , in Mr . O'Connor ' s name being substituted for that of Mr . Roberts , as treasurer . When tlie sheet was sent to press it did not contain the name of the treasurer or secretary , only those of tlie auditors . The printer supplied the _omission , placiug F . O'Connor instead of W . I * . Roberts , and the error was not detected until too late to be altered . The name of one of the auditors should l' . ave breu James Knight , instead of William . T . M . Wbeeleb _, Sec .
_XATIOXAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION * . FEB _GESEHAl SECBETABT . Whittington and Cat ' . cards ) 0 12 Greenwich , 'd itto ) .. _.. .. .. Mr . Doyle's lecture at _TurnagainJane .. .. 0 5 « -Leicester , profits ou Sorthem _Utar .. .. 8 : ; 0 Carringtou .. .. ,. _.. ., 010 EXIKS * BE 5 TOBA-IIOS IC 5 D . Mr . Allnut .. .. 0 0 G Mr . Coleman .. 0 0 6 _Thojias Mabtis Wheeies _, _Swretary . THE LATE _DUNCOMBE SOIREE AT THE CROWN AXD ANCHOR TAVERN .
Atthe meeting ofthe General Comnuttee , held on _Monday evening , February 9 th , at tho Parthenium , 7- _? , St . 3 _Jartin " s-lane , Mr . CuSay in the chair , the annexed balance-sheet was presented and received . A vote of thanks was unanimously given to Messrs . l > anatt and Stallwootl the Secretary and _Assistantiieeretary , lor their eincicnt services ; also to tlie office hearers on thc night of thc soiree , for the very aukmanner in which they conducted the proceedings . It was _unanimously resolved , " That thc surplus remaining in hand be presented to the Secretaries . " Balasce Sheet of the "Duucombe Soiree , " held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , Januarv 2 o'th , 1 S 4 G .
-EXPE . _VWTCKE . £ s . d . To Teas , and use of room for public meeting aitenvards 35 -5 0 Printing and other expenses S 'J 0 4 : j 14 0
INCOME . By cash for tickets SC 10 0 By cash admission to public meeting ... 7 11 C 44 1 ( Balance 0 7 < Oue ticket , 2 s ., only remaining due . Thomas _Bakratt ) Seeretaries > Edmcsd Staiawood , J
Mtstebiors Death Of A Gestlemajts Bctler...
MTSTEBiors Death of a _Gestlemajts Bctler . — On Wednesday , Mr . Bedford held an inquest at St . Oeorge _' s Hospital , Hyde Park-corner , onthe body of James Morgan , aged forty-four , late butler in the service of — Sanderson , Esq ., M . P ., of No . 40 , _BelgraTe-sguare . Rflbert Urown , a mechanic , deposed that about half-past six o ' clock on Saturday morning last , he was going to his employ in Grosvenor-ereseent , Belgrare-square , when he found the deceased lying on the pavement at the end of the crescent , in a state of total insensibility . His hat was lying a few feet from him , and the lower part uf his dress was disordered . There were no marks of external violence , beyond a slight bruise on the lett side of his face . A man who was pntting out the gas
lights in the crescent came by , and recognised the deceased , and shortly afterwards , with the assistance of two of the deceased' s fellow-servants , he was removed to the above hospital . Frederick Waters , steward to Mr . Sanderson , stated that the deceased had lived upwards often years in the family , and he was a Tery sober , steady man , and had not had a day _^ s illness during the whole of that time . After waiting at dinner , on Friday evening last , lie went out for an honr , as was his usual custom , weli and . hearts . Mr- Mason , landlord of the Triumphant Chariot , Pembroke-mews , _GrosTenor-place , said that the deceased was in his compauy fur two hours on
Inday night , and left the house about half-past ten , to return home , quite well and sober . Police-constable Moore , 119 15 , stated that he was on duty in _Eelgrave-square on Friday night , and passed the spot where the deceased was found every twenty-five minutes during the night , and he was not there a few minutes before six . o ' clock , when he went off duty . The coroner said , that in addition to the mystery in which the case was already involved , it had been intimated to him that the deceased ' s watch and some money was missing from his person . He should , therefore , advise the adjournment of the inquiry , to _obtain further evidence . ; which the jury agreed " to .
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MONDAY . Horrible Slaughthr . — -The first annOUtlferaent that meets the eye on this , the first day of the week is the account ofa horrible slaughter that has taken place in India ; and , as we do not belong to that class who rejoice in triumphs over the British soldiery nor yet in their triumphs over the native Indians fighting for the re-possession of that property previously stolen from them , we have only to reoret the great fact of torrents of blood having been shed without reference to the GLORY OF OUR ARMs _| or the establishment of our power iu India . It ap l pears that sixty-twoofficers have been killed , and one hundred and fifty wounded ; while the returns are very imperfect , and that , upon an average , every regiment fighting under the British flag has lost one hundred and fifty rank and file—so that , when the returns are complete , we hate little doubt that from 8 , 000 to 10 , 000 men will have been destroyed , or
made pensioners upon the industry of the British people for life ; whereas , if those 8 , 000 had been applied to the cultivation of two acres cf land each , they would have produced a surplus , after good living , of _£ 400 , 000 per annum , to exchange for the manufactures of the country . It is a truth , that what the eye does not see the heart does not feel for ; and tbat there is more horror at seeing one man dasUeiliromflscanbld , orotherwisosuddenly destroyed , than of hearing of a whole distant empire being swallowed up . If such a havoc of British life had taken place on British _groand , the country would beinniouraing , whatever the loss of the enemy might have been ; while , to our horror , the ears of the relatives and friends of those who fell in the late conflict were shocked by the firing of cannon in honour of OUR triumph ! We have given an account of tho slaughter at such length as to render further comment unnecessary .
The Great Meascbe axd the _Pbotectioxists . — Whenever a country is taken by surprise , the boldness of the measure that creates it for a short time has a paralysing effect , but reaction is sure to follow ; and hence we find that the majority calculated upon excitement is dwindling down as thought progresses , while the rejection of the measure by the Lords is no longer spoken of as a mad freak of that mad assembly , but as an almost natural result . Before we go to press , it is not at all unlikely that the Earl of Lincoln , the son of his Grace of Newcastlewho , it appears , has NOT A RIGHT to do what he likes with liis own child—may be added to the list of rejected free traders . The Duke of _Newcastle ( no
doubt emboldened by the defence offered by sir Robert Peel , on the motion of Mr . Collett , for those peers who interfere at elections ) has addressed a very significant letter to the electors of South Nottingham shire , calling upon them to reject his son , and to Send him back to the place from whence he came . Will the people be now prepared to believe that the "ELECTRIC SHOCK"is now at hand-and will they be prepared to meet it ? Again we tell them , that Stanley , the Lords , and the farmers that whistle at the plough , will risk a revolution ( if the working classes are prepared to bear the blows } rather than surrender that portion of their property with the loss of which the measure threatens them .
Trade . —From every manufacturing town wc have notice of declining trade , fall in prices , and a general despondency , owing to want of confidence and tightness in the money market . It is expected , however , that Sir Robert Peel ' s commercial measures , WHEN CARRIED , will alter the state of affairs . They may when carried , but those who are likely to suiter in tke interim . must never losesightof our _oftjexpvesaftd dread of the time of settlement ; a period in which we have asserted that the poor alone will be the sufi ' erers , while the rich can fold their arms aHd wait the change , living in idleness upon the produce of their slaves , white their slaves are bearing thc blows iu their battles , or supporting a miserable existence for another hour of misery in the Poor Law Bastile . Now is the time fora TEN HOURS' BILL Now is the time that the Protectionists will support it . Now is the time that the people should demand it with a loud and irresistible voice .
Cons Trade . —This branch of trade is bearing its full share of the doubt and uncertainty created bv Sil" Robert Peel ' s measure . The farmers , _thoujli unwilling to sell , cannot get prices up , even though a scanty supply . The patriotism of the millers does not induce tnem to purchase more than a mere handto-mouth supply , and therefore , even with the threat of famine staring us in the face , we have asimultaneous decline ia the price of all kinds of grain . Mosey axd Shake Market . —Notwithstanding the coalition between the Government and the Bank of England , both these departments are very fiat , and , in fact , together with aU other channels of traffic , appear to partake of the general uncertainty produced by the government measures .
IBBLfl . NI > . Sih Robert Peel ' s Measure . —We take the following from the Tipi ) eraru Vindicator , as thebest proof of the indomitable courage and resolution of the labourers and cottier tenants of Tipperary : — Sis Bobebt Peel's _Heasuses—Tippehabt _ijj a Blaze ' . —Sunday night , the couuty for many miles was a . -htet of flame . The fires were so singularly numerous and brilli 3 at , that nothing of the kind to surpass them has been remembered for a very long period . They appeared xo have originated in a northerly direction , and to have been caught up with surprising velocity on all sides , so that for many minutes their appearance iras _extreniely grand , and attracted universal attention . The Dutiarrow
Hills , keeper and Latteragh Mountains , the Devil's Bit , and ou to the Shannon at both sides to Galiray and Clare the tires were everywhere lighted np , and all nearly at the same _uwment . There were various conjectures as the cause of them , but we believe we may state , with some degree ef truth , that they originated in a rumour having gone among the people that Sir Robert Peel ' s measures had been sanctioned by a large majority in the Ilouse of Commons , and that there was a positive certainty of their becoming law . There is no doubt that among the great bulk of the agricultural populationtliat is , among the labourers and the cottier tenantryas far as they comprehend the nature of his measures , Sir Kobert Peel ' s plansareextremelypopular . —Tipperary
V indicator . The labourers and cottier tenants are perfectly aware that they will be the first and greatest sufferers from the " proposed change ; " and yet , from a wise belief that benefit must result from an } change from a condition that cannot be worse , induces them with heroic virtue to brave all chances in favour of alteration , whatever it may be . It is seldom that the Irish people have had occasion to hail the measures of a Saxon Prime Minister , and the Tipperary boys have been induced tothe approval from a conviction that it is the wedge to split the Protestant Church , to destroy the monopoly of the landed aristocracy , and to compel them ( if they wish to live ) to bring their estates into the retail market , where an Irish Catholic will be held to lie of equal value with the English Protestant or Scotch dissenter .
TUESDAY . ' _Fnosr , Williams , axd Joxes . —Themost important news of this day is the fact that petitions are arriving from all parts of the kingdom , praying for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . One has just come to hand from the brave fellows of Manchester , signed by nearly 40 , 000 , carriage paid , and which we instantly despatched to Mr . Duncombe . This will be the best answer to the lying fabrications of Mr . Macaulay , which we shall distinguish with more extensive reprobation than a mere comment in our summary . We shall use it here , however , to ask one simple question ; itis—whatchance of justice , or even respect , the working classes can expect from this babbling , hired lawyer—this wordy , glib philosopher—this devil , that looks more like a shaved baboon than a human creature ? Of all men living , we don't believe that this miserable speech-maker has a friend on earth out of the friendless rump ol 1 thc Whig cabinet .
Asother _Gnosr _ron the Times . —Tho Times ot this morning has an article from " a correspondent " on the present state of affaius ; aud in which we find the two following significant passages : — The consequences of this hesitation may be serious . In conjunction with the new elections , it may considerably impair tlie Minister ' s strength , liis expected majority may dwindle from ninety or one hundred to eighty , or Seventy , or even sixty . In that case the question , " What will the Lords do 1 " assumes more than ever importance . _lFill they _tfiroiv out the hill altogether , or petition the Queen to dissolve Parliament ! Then tbe country will again be subjected to the process of an agitation such as it has not wituessed since the _daj-8 of the Reform Ilill . Again , " we may lament over this significant chapter in the history of human nature , but we can hardly wonder if the Lords turn it to account . " Well , if the Time * had profited by our early intelligence , the _question would have been beyond wonder by this time .
Tub Debate . —Mr . E . Buller confined himself wholly to statistics and figures , for thc purpose of mystifying the brains of the muddle-pated Protectionists . Captain Bateson , an Irish Protectionist , said : — four millions of waste lands in Ireland would have been brought iuto cultivation under the fostering influence of protection ; but the heath would still contiuue to nourish on one part , and the bog to encroach upon the remaining part of them , Under the system now _propositi For such a loss , what pecuniary graut could ho a compensation !
Wo would ask the gallant captain , in passing , if the high prices produced by protection , had not insured the cultivation of those four million acres for such a long period , what right we had to anticipate that its continuance would have led to such a result ? It ts ouly now ihat the Protectionists are endeavouring to tickle us with whatTllEY WOULD HAVE DONE , while we simply ask them WllAT THEY 11 AVE DONE * Mr . Lockhart expressed the deep re » ret which lie felt at being compelled to vote against Sir It . Peel on this measure ; but he had no choice , as he was convinced that it would sweep away all the _swall / _araerj of the couutry ,
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and would throw out of cultivation all the inferior land in thecountry . No , Mr . Lockhart , the effect of the measure will not be to sweep away the small farmers , but it will bo to brea k the farmers who havo leases at such a rent as they cannot pay with reduced prices , and who have landlords who will vainly hope to keep up the price of the raw material with diminished price for . the produce . We ask Mr . L ., also , how it comes to pass , that neither he nor his class ever thought of the small farmers until their own interests were at otolrp J Sir George Clerk , a government hack , made a long speech about prices , potatoes , Germany , Poland , Russia , and America , but literall y threw no new light upon the subject . Mr . Liddell approved the proposed change in the law of settlement as a great boon to the agricultural interest , and an act of justice to the labouring artisan . Mr . Huttsaid : —
They had supported the Corn Law of 1811 , and the last tariff . Step after step they had supported all Sir R . Peel ' s measures , relaxing protection and approaching to free trade ; but now , when they came to the best tariff of all , they stopped short of a sudden , and began to prate of their virtues and their sufferings . Does not Mr . llutt see that there was a pleasing mystery in thc sliding scale of Sir R . Peel , suiting the weak intellects of the agricultural class , but that there is a certain understandable thrust in the present measure which defies solution in their muddled pates ? It possesses just the quality that they don ' t wish lor —the quality of certainty .
Capt . Fitzharris " condemned the present propositions of the government , and regretted that we wereabout to Jose . our place among the nations ot Europe , in order to become a great shop for the benefit of the whole world . " Well done , gallant captain ' . —who are _> bout to lose their place among the nations of Europe ? The landed aristocracy , forsooth ! The fellows who saddled thc > orfcing classes with a debt of eight hundred millions , an overgrown standing army and navy , a civil list of prostitute pensioners , and all the appliances of tyranny , to preserve the country to their kindly use , so that at all times they might enjoy it' while thc people were _st-irvintr .
The Lords . —Coercion for Ikelasd . — The Earl of St . Germans moved the second reading of the Irish Coercion Bill , and having painted the Irish as devilB , and Ireland as a black hell , he threw a bit of sympathy for the poor into his measure , bv assuring their Lordships that it was MORE _ESPECIALLY
INTENDED FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE POOR IN IRKLAND . 0 U , lack a-day , and when did their lordships ever cast a thought upon the condition _Jof the poor of Ireland % His lordship said , that as the crimes committed were concocted at night , the bill , amongst other provisions , should contain one to prevent the inhabitants from being OUT OF THEIR HOUSES BETWEEN SUNSET AND SUNRISE _JjAnd then , with true philanthropy , the noble earl continues—The house must not suppose that this was the only measure contemplated for TIIE RELIEF OF IRELAND ' -Matchless
offrontery ! So , then , to make it a crime tor the Irish peasant to be out of his miserable hut from sunset to sunrise IS A RELIEF ! The people work from sunrise to sunset , and arc coerced to remain in their houses till their tyrant task-masters require them for another day ' s toil ; and yet , instead of rising ono after the other , with manly indignation , to threaten the Prime Minister with defeat , the Irish traffickers will first aid him in his commercial policy , and then , having given him strength , will vituperate him with TARDY VENGEANCE ! The Cameleon , Harry Brougham , hoped there would be no delay in passing this measure , and advocated a clause to the effect , that trials should not take place in a part of the country where the accused would have any chance of escape .
The Earl ot Clancarty objected to a clause in the bill which gave the Lord Lieutenant a power adverse to the interests of the resident , jobbers , and contended that thc power to be lodged in the Executive shonid be vested in the hands of the local magistracy . This , indeed , wouid be out of the frying-pan into the fire . It is the tyranny of those follows , and their jobbing , that has given rise to every disturbance , anil , would to God : that some noble lord would propose an amendment upon the principles laid down by Mr . Swauston—namely , that whenever a disturbance takes place , the nearest parson , the nearest landlord ,
the nearest magistrate , the nearest middleman , and the nearest lawyer , should be hung upon the nearest tree . Every noble lord in succession , even the reforming son of Earl Grey , gave the measure their cordial support , and the bill was read a second time . After which the bloated buffoons adjourned to gormandise and get drunk ; while the demand of the native Irish for food , for thc poorest food , is met by coercion , and every man by law , is made a prisoner in his own hut from sunset to sunrise . Oh for an Emmett , or a Fitzgerald ; but , enough . Ireland has her patriots , and they will add another laurel to their wreath , by actually making a merchandise of Irish
coercion . "Alas ! poor country , Almost afraid to knon- itself . "
IRELAND . From all parts of the country there is sad intelligence of famine and increasing pestilence .. Wc give the accounts as we find them in the several provincial papers , and we fear they are not overcharged . The Cork Constitution says—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Treasury have been pleased to extend the Warehousing Act to the port of _Toughal ; and his Grace the Duke of Devonshire has already contracted for the building of warehouses for that purpose , which will be a great advantage to the traders of the town , together with giving present employment to a number ot tradesmen and labourers in a locality where much distress prevails .
Another Cork paper ( the Reporter ) adds : — We have reason to believe thatit is the desire of government that those important buildings about to be erected in the city should be commenced as early as possible , and that , with that view , the arrangements for the purchase of sites are now in active progress . Thc new District Lunatic Asylum will , it is understood , be built on the lands of Shauukiel , and as the Hoard of Works have a power of causing a valuation to be made , we expect to find all the preliminaries for that irork soon arranged . TllC site for tile college will most likely be Sans Souci , and when both buildings are in progress of erection they will attbid extensive employment to our deserving local artisans and labourers .
The Reporter also announces , that yesterday { TJiursday ) " the ship Emerald , Captain Thomas , arrived at Cove , from Naples , with a cargo of potatoes , consigned to Messrs . D . and W . D . Seymour . Through the kindness of Mr . IV . D . Seymour , Italian Consul at Cove , we have been favoured with a large sample , which to all appearance are as fine and sound as any we have ever seen . The captain of the vessel states that there is au immense Crop in the kingdom of Naples , ami through the Italian states , and that no sign of disease has been found in it . We think it may be useful to our agricultural friends to examine the samples which have been left at our office , as they appear to us most valuable for the purpose of seed . They are of the description called in that country ' Potato ltosse . '"
Spread of Iever i . v the South . — Dr . iitzgcrald , the medical attendant of thc Croum Dispensary , in the county of Limerick , has written an alarming statement to a local paper , respecting the rapid progress of fever among the lower orders , superinduced in a great measure by the badness and insufficiency of food : — " I am sorry to inform the public , " he writes , " that fever iu a most aggravated form is raging here . There is scarcely a family in some of the localities here that is not suflfering tinder the malady . I am sorry to add , that I consider it is produced , in a great degree , by the badness aud insuilicieney of food . "
But why despond ?—there is an easy answer to all tins : — " llowldyour tongues , howldyour tongues , you noisy devils ; arrah , what do you want , and arn't you going to get Coercion from the Saxons ? and arn't they kind to you , when they tell you that if you are hungry your neighbours mustn't _uec it , for you mnst stav at home after sunset , and if you want a brusna ( a bundle of sticks ) to SOFTEN the praties—after sunset you must eat tliem raw , or do without them , and work again to-morrow , ' you sowls , with light hearts ? And isn ' t that relief for you , you devils ?—and what do you want more ? But ye ' s arc always complaining , so ye ' s are ; and , by all the crosses in a check apron , and but if their honours , thc Saxons , would sarve vou right , hut they'd pass a short bill to
let the say flow into every parish where this noisy discontint was hard—and so thev would . What tho devil doye _' s want , ye dissatisfied beggars \ Ramnation to your sowls *!—is it sound praties , lor working twelve hours a day only , ye ' s ' ud be asking for , while the Queen and the quality , here , is forced to give a pinny a pound for them , and they hasn't the trouble of working at all ? Now , I tell ye ' s what it is ; take the Liberator ' s advice , and starve and be tranquil , or , by the holy Queen Mab—God forgive me for swearing—but ye ' s never will seethe Repale till vc _' s are all dead aud buried , and yer children after ye . " The " _AlcmiKiiED" Seery . —We give the following excellent letter from the Bev . Mr . Savage , the clergyman who attended the murdered man in his last moments : —
The Kev . Mr . Savage , the clergyman in attendance on the late unhappy criminal , has addressed the subjoined letter , in reference to the recent COIIimUHication Of Sir PrmieU Hopkins , to the editor of the Freeman ' s Journal .- — "February 19 . "Dear Sir , —I have seen In your paper of yesterday a letterfrom _Sirl ' ranis Hopkins , which I consider deserves some notice from the Catholic chaplain to the Mullingar gaol , as in that letter the young baronet takes a bigote'j lling at Catholic moralitv .
" All Ireland , at present , mourns over the sad and appalling fate of Bryan Seery , who solemnly declared _before his God that he had neither act , hand , part , nor 1 mowledge in the crime for which he was to be hanged .. His innocency is believed and proclaimed by the Vef iple anu by the press ; subscriptions pour in from _KnjfJ and , and from every part of Ireland , for the support of lr is afflicted widow and his fivelittle orphans . The _niauw _. ho actually
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attempted the assassination of Sir Francis Hopkins , tor m _» nted by his own conscience , and in a fruitless desperation , openly declares that Bryan Seery is innocent , and that he himself is the man who fired at Sir Francis Hopkins ! There is no secret in this affair , the man is known to the _magistrates in the neighbourhood and to the police Under such circumstance * it might be expected tliat the prosecutor would pause , reflect , and say , " many mistakes have occurred in the identification of assailants ; I was attacked in the darkness of night : the rattling of slu _^ s was ringin g in my ears ; I was excited-, and , perhaps , I was mistaken in swearing against Seery ' . " Such
would be the thoughts of a diffident and humane Christian ; but Sir Francis , in his own conceit , is infallible . He i 3 vexed at the sympathy for Seery as an innocent man aud a martyr ; and , not satisfied with the result of his swearing at the commission , he rushes into print , ana attempts to fasten the infamous stain of perjury , on the memory of the man who was sent hy his testimony to a premature grave , Bryan Seery , on the scaffold , solemnly culled God to witness the truth of his declaration of his innocence . Sir Francis , in his letter tothe Freeman , says that , " notwithstanding the reported dying declaration of innocence by Seery on the scaffold , I again affirm tliat he was the person who fired at me . "
" It was better for the prosecutor to allow the ashes ef Seery to sleep quiet in the grave than in such a spirit of bitterness to come out with his angry assertion that Seery was not only a murderer during life , but a perjurer in his dying breath . The public will _easily decide whether they will believe the lustsolemn declaration ofa pious Catholic on the scaffold , or the angry affirmation of the prosecutor at the Sackville-strcet Club . "Sir Francis is annoyed at the comments that have been made by the press on the contradiction between the testimony of Mr . French , the stipendiary magistrate , aud his own . He tells us that he has letters from a
policeman and an attorney ' s clerk to prove that he himself was right , and then , in triumph , he concludes by saying the " public can now fairly judge between Mr . French ' s testimony and my own . " How a drowning man catches at reeds ! I wish the baronet may attempt an explanation in his next letter ofthe contradiction betweon Sir Francis Hopkins on the first trial and Sir Francis Hopkins on the second . Will the police or the attorney ' s clerk stand to him on this point ? Report states that Mr . French is to be sent out of the country for his swearing on the trial of Bryan Seery , and why it was that the prosecutor volun . tcers an explanation on thc contradiction _. _' with Mr . Frer . Ji , more than on his contradiction with the other witnesses ,
I am not able to tell ; but this 1 can soy with truth , that if the Tories send Mr . French out ofthe country , he will take with him the blessings of the poor , and the good wishes of every man who loves justice and the impartial administration of the law ; while , if Sir Francis Hopkins sells Ilochfort and goes tothe continent , as it is reported , his loss will not be felt either as a guardian or u landlord , and his few poor workmen can then hear mass on the holidays of the Catholic church . —1 have the honour to be , dear Sir , your humble servant , "J , Savaos . " _Chapel-house , Mullingar . " There , young baronet , how does your young Sirship like that' The sooner you leave the scene of your former glory the better the Irish people will love you . The O'Connell Tkibute . —In the midst of famine , pestilence , coercion , and national degradation , we find thc tollowing disgusting passage in the Liberal papers : —
Tne O'Cohneil Tbibbtb . —Tlie subjoined ample contributions to this great claim upon the country speak for themselves . The tribute of 1845 is to be completed iu all thc patriotic parishes still outstanding , in the course of the next mouth , and early arrangements for the purpose will materially facilitate and secure the success of the collection then . We shall not trust ourselves with a single comment upon this wholesale patriotic plunder of the poor by THEIR LIBERATOR . We wish Sir J . Graham would answer his jabber about famine by reading the above , and ask him if it is true .
WEDNESDAY . The slaughter and the debate take up so much of the public attention , and require so much of our space , that we are compelled to be brief in our summary , and must devote the entire space allowed , to a review of an artit-Jc , in thc Times of this morning , in justification of the murder of Bryan Seery . The - Times , according to its hi gh Protestant vocation , labours hard on behalf of its Protestant client , Sir Francis Hopkins . But it is one of those strained fanatical effusions which carries with it its own conviction . The advocate , in attempting to prove too much , weakens the principal points upon which he makes his client ' s case to rest . We shall quote a few of the passages from thc Times . Number oue : —
"Both tlie assassins fled , but not before Sir Francis had seen the countenance of the first fully and looked at his profile—the countenance of thc man was indelibly imprinted on his mind . A . hat was afterwards found on thc scene ofthe outrage , which two policemen swore to having seen on the prisoner ' s head some months before . " Again , thc Times says — "With regard to the evidence of identity , we would ask these plain questions : — ' Will any one deny thc possibility , the probability , thc almost certainty of one man ' s remembering the features of another so close to him , though but for a moment , and even in a gleam of uncertain light , when the two were struggling face to face , in a contest for life or death ?" Now , such is the case against Seery , suggested by
the Times , and such is the evidence the probable , the possible , the almost certainty by which the advocate sustains the charge ; as to the general reasoning , we shall say a word presently . We have before thrown over the evidence of Sir Francis Ilopkins upon the question of identity altogether , or rather Mr . French has done it for us , and we can only offei a derisive laugh at the testimony given by the two policemen against Seery ' s hat . As to the probability , the possibility , the almost certainty of the witnesses' knowledge of the prisoner , tliey are not altogether sufficient to establish guilt . The question
is not , " Are you almost certain as to tlu £ identity ?" but the question is , " Could you by possibility be misraken ? " And if the fact is not thus clearly sworn to , the identity is not proved ; but when an Irish Catholic is murdered , then circumstances , whioh in other cases would go to cast doubt upon testimony , are here relied upon as the strongest possible proof . For instance , having seen Scerv ' s features BUT FOB . A MOMENT , and in a gleam of UNCERTAIN LIGHT , and during a struggle for life or death , wlij , merciful Providence ! was there ever defence stronger than this would have been upon tho trial of a Protestant for murdoriii' ? a Catholic ?
Seeing tlie features but for a moment in a gleam of uncertain light , and in a life and death struggle , the very time of .-ill others when a man would pay all attention to the mode of defending himself , and little to the appearance of his assailant ! If a technical doubt existed as to the murder of Seery , the Times has relieved our mind of that doubt , and has established the fact beyond the possibility of doubt . The Times admits great uncertainty in all things , while the law presumes certainty as indispensable . We did not wait for the hanging of this poor Catholic to proclaim the fact that if he w . is executed upon the finding of the second jury he would have been _imn * - dered .
In 1810 , the Dispatch charged the moral editor of the Times with having administered the sacrament to a jackass : wo presume that it is the same orthodox scribe who now so zealously comments upon the stiff conscience of a dying Catholic . Tlie writer says , in speaking of the inducements to persevere in innocence _, it is but the sentence of man he has to undergo , and that sentence may be revoked by man . To this unreal shadow of a hope he clings with desperate fondness . It deserts him only with his latest breath , anil for it he perils his immortal soul , by adding to a life of crime a death without repentance , and crowned with a wicked lie . How magniloquent ! — how charitable ! — how State Church Christian-like ! But where was Seery ' s life of crime ? His wns proved to be a life of honesty ; and , however the Times may
sneer at the sympathy of the Rev . Mr . Savage , and presumptuously mock the conscious innocence of the murdered man , we tell the Times tliat wc do not believe that there is ar . instance upon record of an Irish Catholic dying without making a full confession to his priest ; nor do we believe that a single Roman Catholic priest in Ireland would assert the innocence of a mail whom he knows to be guilty . That Seery was murdered , no man of common sense can entertain a doubt ; and wc tell his murderers that thc dav will yet arrive when tliey will stand in the awful prcscnceof ' tliat great God into whose councils neither the dictum of a cabinet , the quibble of a judge , the prejudice of a jury , or thc perjurv ofa witness will dare to enter . Where murder will be such , but not by construction of human law or professional ingenuity .
THUKSDAY . South _Nottihguamshikk _Eikciion . —Mr . Hildyard , tke son of a country parson , has beaten Lord Lincoln , the son of the Duke of Newcastle , for thc representation of this division of the county , by a majority of OKI . We have but little interest in the triumph of the Church , while we fear that our very worst predictions with respect to tho turn . that county elections will henceforth take , will bo realised . Wc certainly would prefer even the rule of the
pulpit to tlie rule of tht- ncvor-coasmg steam-engine . We prefer York , with its clmscUcs , to Manchester , with its chironevs ; but there is no necessity fo r ; the alternative The churches may stand , provided those who worship in them maintain them by voluntary contribution ; the long chimneys may stand , pro-Tilled their amolic is o qually divided amongsl all classes . We may now talk of clerical and commercial abuses , because wc have the power , if we but evince the will , to get rid of both . We must take care , however , that our hatred of steam monopoly does not lead us to encouragement of church
tyranny . No Vote ! so Musket ! 1—Thc letter of Sharman Crawford , which will be found elsewhere , will be read with delight ; its tenor is in strict accordance with _t _# r views : — "Let every man have a castle of his own , land of his own , and a musket of his own , and he will fly to the cry of ' My cottage is in danger ! ' with move alacrity than thc hived mercenary will fly to the cry of ' The Church and State aro in danger I * " The letter of thc member for Rochdale . contrasts strangely with the beastly epistle of the
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Whig nominee of Edinburgh . . When the buhot for the militia' comes , as in all other cases the sufferers , when too late , will sing out- " . Oh ! why didn t I pay more attention to tho advice given in lb * Norther n Star ! " Now , weteW once more the unprotected , that the government is only waiting the issue ot the present debate , to bring in a swingeing Mi itia bill ; and then , while we have done our duty , the people will regret that they have not done theirs . ¦ _ Sin Robbkt I _' kki , anp thk "Times . "— if ' . altered tone of the Times upon the question ol tree trade , and upon tne character of the Prime Minister , is no longer a secret , as it now appears that thc Minister and the scribe were in consultation at the period that the Times was so busily engaged making
prophesies , which , however , have not been fulfilled . Fbost , Williams , and Jones . —We rejoice to state that petitions pour in from all quarters on behalf of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and that Mr . O'ConneU and others have promised their cordial support to the measure . The Executive are daily waiting upon members of Parliament , and , notwithstanding tlio beastly letter of the oueat criminal Macaulay , we have every reason to anticipate a . favourable result . London and Chartism . —It will be cheering to our country friends to learn that even in the hottest agitation of 1839 the principles of the People ' s Charter were never so favourably received , or so anxiously looked for in London , as they arc at the present moment .
The Ten Hours' Bill . —It will be seen that Mr . Fielden has postponed his motion fora month upon the Ten Hours' Bill . lie has done this partly upon our suggestion , from thc conviction that the Protectionists are not yet in a fit state of mind to vote , and from a well-founded belief that justice would not be done to the subject pending the great debate . He has acted wisely , and now the question is , ' will the country act bravely and energetically ? Will the country back us in our humble exertions , and send Mr , Fielden two millions of signatures to support his motion ? Will the Short Time party send twenty-one or thirty delegates to sit in London for thc week previously to the motion of Mr . Fielden ? Will tliey bring their petitions with them , and will they take the trouble—for it requires no more—to escort those petitions with 200 , 000 men tothe Ilouse of Commons' ?
If they don't do tliat , they DON'T WANT the Ten Hours' Bill ; if they do that , THEY WILL get the Ten Hours' Bill . The cost of twenty-one delegates at 6 s . a-day each for ten days would be _£ U 3 . Wc'Jl give a pound , making ourselves thc sixty-third part of the nation ; the expense of a room will bo . £ 1 lithe expense of coining and going will average 30 s . a man , that ' s £ 31 10 s ., making in all £ 101 10 s . That ' s just tlie price of tlie Ten Hours' Bill . Tlie moment we hear upon this subject from the ceiitr . il committee , we will take all the trouble of making the necessary arrangements for their reception , and _Nvill engage the Crown and Anchor , White Conduit House , and other noted places of meeting , for them to lecture in , and we will lecture for them ; and wc will farther tell them , that however their pride may ur « e them to do without us , they cannot . Wc tell them more , and with that we close — KINCr
RICHARD IS IN LONDON
IRELAND . The Potatoe , Pestilence , and Famine . — Still we continue to receive the most disastrous and heartrending accounts from Ireland . It ia really treason of the darkest dye to occupy night after night in a wrangle about party interests and class privileges , while a plundered , abused , and trampled-upon people are allowed to pine for want of the commonest necessaries of life . We declare that the House of Commons has rebelled against the people of . Ireland by givingthem coercion when they ask for food .
Mr. Macauley And His Constituents
MR . MACAULEY AND HIS CONSTITUENTS
THE FRANCHISE . —TllE MILITIA—TIIE CIIAll-TIST EXILES . The Edinburgh Chronicle publishes the following letters from the Right Hon . Mr . Macauley—the first being a reply to Mr . David Greig , on the subject of the militia ; and the second au answer to a letter from the secretary _oftl-ie committee for the liberation of Frost , Williams , and Jones : — Albany , London , Jan . 30 , 184 C . " Sir , —You quite misunderstand my sentiments about the elective franchise . I never in my life said that you who have no votes were not interested in tbupublic weal . God forbid ! My reasons for objecting to universal suffrage are very different . 1 believe that the non-electors are as deeply interested as I am in the security of property and the maintenance of order ; but I believe that a \ ery large portion of them do not understand their own interest , and might easily be induced bv the pressure of
_lmmeuiatft distress , to act in opposition to their own interent . That this is so I have proof under their own hands . I refer to the petition wliich Mr . Buncombe presented to the House of Commons in 1 S 12 , In that document some hundreds of thousands of Chartists asked for the franchise , and told us how tliey meant to use it . They avowed that tlieir objects were national bankruptcy , confiscation of the soil , of canals , of railroads , of machinery—in short , the destruction of all property . I was firmly convinced , ami am firmly convinced , that such measures would produce indescribable misery to the _^ reat majority ot the petitioners themselves . 1 refused them the franchise , not from disregard of their interests , but from the same feeling- which would lead me to rjfusc a razor to a man who told me that he wanted it in order to cut his throat ; and I assure you that I have never inquired of any inhabitant of Edinburgh who complained to me of a grievance whether he was an elector or not .
And now to the main subject of your letter . I shall give my best consideration to iho measures which may be proposed respecting the militia ; but I must frankly tell you that my conduct will be guided hy principles which dift ' er widely from yours . I hold defensive war to be lawful and necessary . I conceive that the State has a right to call on every citizen to bear a part in protecting his native soil against assailants . That the exertion and burden ought to be reduced as much as possible , and divided as fairly as possible , is quite true . But I suspect tliat all the _iiiconvenir-nces which even a vexatious enrolment can produce would be small , indeed , when compared with the misery which would be caused by the appearance of a hostile armament in the Forth .
I cannot at Sil understand your scruple about joining a protection society . You pay taxes , 1 presume , directly or indirectly . You must be aware that a large part of these taxes go to support the regular army and navy . Now , if you may lawfully contribute to the support of a kind of force which has been and may be employed in offensive war , surely you may , without any twinge of conscience , contribute to the support of a force whieh is , by its nature , strictly defensive , and which is not likely ever to shed a drop of blood , unless danger of the most fearful kind should come . near to our own hearths . I persuade myself that your aversion to tbe useof arms does not go to such a height that you would hold yourself morally
bound to see Edinburgh sacked by invaders without striking a blow for your home and family . Now , the militia is meant to be peculiarly a security against invaders . It is not an instrument of aggression . You must therefore admit it to be , as compared with the regular army , an innocent institution . If , theu , you refuse to pay anything towards the militia , while you are paying the soldiers and sailors who have just been lighting at Buenos Ayres , I must say that you strain at a gnat and swallow a camel . If you havo any special hardship to complain of , it shall receive my best attention . I have the honour to be , sir , Your faithful and obedient servant , T . B . Macal'Uv .
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i Albany , London , Feb . 10 , 1 S 48 . Sin , —I cannot agree with you in thinking that the law has _. as respects Frost and his accomplices , been thoroughly satisfied . Consider what they did , and what they have suffered . They raised a rebellion , which you admit to have been unjustiilablu—led thousands of ignorant men into guilt and danger—rircd on the Queen ' s troops , wounded a magistrate in the discharge of his dutycaused the deaths of several unhappy creatures—aud would ; if their attempt had not been stopped ia the outset , have caused such a destruction of life aud _prop-. rty as has
not been known in England for ages . This is their offence . What has been their punishment 1 Transportation for about live years—a lighter punishment than has been inflicted on many poor lads for picking pockets . You disclaim very properly alt projects of insurrection . But rely on it that there will be insurrections enough if turbulent and designing men are apprised that the penalty of raising a civil war is _heucol ' ovth to be less tlwro the penalty of robbing a hen roost , Thinking this , 1 cannot hold out any hope that I shall vote for any address in favour of these great criminals . I have thc honour to be , Sir , you faithful servant , T . B . _MACAUtEr .
Accident.—Sheehness, Fku. 24.—Ive Are So...
Accident . _—Sheehness , Fku . 24 . —IVe are sorry to have to record an accident of an alarming character , wliich occurred on Mondav afternoon to Mr . Woodgcr , master of the Electra , corvette , fitting out at Sheerness , and wliich had also well nigh proved destructive to several others of the party engaged in the particular duty at the time . It appears that Mr . Woodgcr was superintending a party of seamen and uiaviues iu stocking the author ; and vliilo doing so , by some means or other ( wc have heard that unfortunately there was no shank-painter attached ) the flukes slipped from the forecastle , dragging Mr . Woodgcr by the legs against thc gunwhaic , and so
OYcrboaril into the basin . While in tho act of _siukiii !; _, the fiist lieutenant , Mr . A . D . Gordon , rushed on the forecastle and leaped into the water in an instant , and supported the unfortunate gentleman till the arrival of one of the caulker ' s boats , which was fortunately moored by the stem of the Electra . Having _jjot both gentlemen inboard , they proceeded to land , them by the accommodation afforded by the ladder of the Tartarus steamer refitting in the basin . Mr . Wooilger was then conveyed to the surgery , when his right leg , three or four inches above the ancle , was found to be very severely fractured , and by a large wound exposing the bono for several inches hi length .
The catch of sprats on the _Aoi-tli Lincolnshire coast has been so prodigious , that tliey have been removed by waggon loads ami sold to farmers as manure ,
. Great Ba'm-Es Is India. '"" Victories ...
. GREAT _BA'm-ES IS INDIA . '"" VICTORIES _OFTIIEBlirrlSlI . IMSIESSE _SLAUGH'fElil The extraordinary express from Marseilles , _in-an-! _ticipation-of the Bombay mail of the 17 th of January , brings some of the important details , of the tbreo actions which took place on the 13 th , the 21 st , and 22 nd of December . - . The conflicts took place at MomlUee and _l- _' _erozesliulcur , about twenty miles from Furuzcpore . The Sikhs havini ? passed the Sutlrj in great numbers on the J 2 th , 13 th , ; . nd 14 th of December , proceeded to attack the post of Ferozepore , which was held by Sir John Littler with about 7 , oU 0 men . Aftcrsume feints , the Sikh army finding the Guveinor-Gencral and the _Commantler-in-Chiet were hastening to support the ' Ferozeporo division at the roiu of thirty miles per day , moved oft' to intercept thvin .
In the evening of the ISth the Governor-General , with the British army , after a long march , had reached Moodkec and encamped , when the Sikh army , 30 , 01 ) 0 strong , came hurruug forward ana * attacked . A short but severe conflict ensued ; tie Sikhs retired , leaving their guns Hi the hands ot the Dritish . Amongst the _JtJJJcd was General Sir John _M'Caskil . Sir Robert Sale was wounded , ami died _subseijuuntlv . , _, . . The l'Jtu and 20 th were spent by both armies in burying their dead and procuring r einforcements .
' Sir John Littler , at the head of 5 , 000 men , joined the British on the 21 st , about sixteen miles frum the ca ' mp . _^ The British army then formed itself into four divisions—thc right under ihe command of Sir Hugh Gougli , the centre commanded by Maj ' _or-General W . It . Gilbert , the lelt by Sir J . Littler , and . the rear by Sir Hurry Smith . The Sikhs were conimiinded by Tcj Singh , and hud formed entrenchments iu a jungle country , which i-endmu thcmavcliof Infantry fxccedii'gly difficult . The Sikhs have long been remarkable for their artillery ; they were provided with heavy guns , whicli did great execution . Sir J . Littler failed in his attack on their position . General G'lbert was successful . The first position ol thu enemy was taken : ihu darkness of the ni _^ ht
prevented the continuance ot the conflict . The British troops bivouacked on tlie ground . Tlie Siiclis liuiiiil out where thc _Coiniuaiulcr-iu-Ghief and the Governor-General hud taken their station , and tney opened a heavy fire on it . Thc British troops rose up and drove them off . On the morning of the 22 nd the fight was renewed , and General Gilbert stormed several parts of tne enemy ' s position , although every effort had been made during the night to strengthen it . Thirty large gun * were taken . The British soldiers afterward *; began to collect their wounded , aud to bury the dead :
when large bodies of cavalry ami of the camel corps , with swivels , attacked them . The British Artillery and Cavalry had retired cowards Ferozepore , but the infantry drove the enemy back three several times . tc the point ofthe bayonet . The contest of'the 22 ml appears to have been carried on by General Gilbeit ai . d by the Governor-General , who . headed the ceutie . The Sikh .-, from _theirncquuiuiniicu with the country , possessed gieat auvautage _, of which they profiled Co tho _utuiost . , They worked mines before their entrenchments , and in their front position , which they blew up on the approach uf tlie Mush , and _destroywl hundreds .
The action of thc 21 st and 22 nd is called the battle of Ferozeshtth , and is looked upon as one of the severest ever fought in India . The British troops have earned the highest praise for their bulldog valour ; but their ignorance of the country , or of the mode of fighting adopted by the enemy , has been alluded to as having produced an unnecessary Joss of suiuc ofthe bravest men ofthe army . On the 25 th the Governor-General issued a proclamation announcing the victories achieved by _' the British lorces , and inciting all British subjects to " return thanks to __ Almighty God for his signal assistance to thu British arms "
'Ihe valour of the British troops caused dismay amongst the majority ot the turbulent Khalsa soldiery . Some of them _at ' einpted to Jortify their positions between Ferozepore and lluveeka Ghat , the principal _passage of the river on tlie road to Lahore ; but they soon _abumL-ueu them . _Tt-j Singh , then- commander , had an interview with the Governor General , who refused to enter into any terms until the British were under the walls of Lahore . Tt-j Singh retired with some of the Sikhs to an island , where he was threatened by the British and by Ins own countrymen . At length the whole of the Sikhs retired from the British Territory .
Thu conduct of some of the protected Sikh chiefs having been found culpable , ihey have been severely punished . The Rajah of Vimetua was hanged on a tree for treachery . The llajah of Liuiwa , on the 4 tU of Jauuary , approached Luudiana , where he burned the European barracks ; but it was expected that he would be driven back . The Sikh troops having heen disappointed of their plunder , and driven out of the British territory , doubtsare entertained of their uniting to light another battle . A party under lturjoor _Singti has approached Loodiana , a * if _desiruus uf plundering tiicie , but nothing was known of the results of their movements . Ti . e Queen-Mother has , it is said , encouraged the troops to tight in order to get rid of their turbulei « c rule .
It was reported at Bombay , at the departure ot the mail , chat the Governor-General had resolved to niaintaiu his position within the British territory , and not to make any attack on the Sikhs until tlie expedition against Muultau , which was pre * . anna , in Scinde , under the orders of Sir Charles Napier , had begun operations . Tranquillity prevails in the other parts of India .
_FUKTHElt . r ' _AKTIOTLAUS . The grand army of the Sikhs , consisting of 80 , 000 men , and about 110 guns , has been put hots de combat , with immense slaughter , and beaten across tne Sutlej , leaving behind them all tlieir guns , camp _cuuii'iige , ston s , « fcc . Tliey acknowledge the loss oi 0 , 000 men killed , and from 20 , 000 to ;> ' > , 000 wounded . Would that 1 could add that our loss was but small . The official returns have not yet been received , but tho accounts above given show the frightful amount of 57 oih ' cers killed and 50 wounded ; aud the loss in rank and lile is estimated . 'it 4 , 000 . The whole ot the operations leading u > the decisive defeat oi thu enemy arc as yet but imperfectly known . The lul . low ' mjr detail , however , mav be toiisidered pretty
correct : —It was formerly stated that the Guvernoi-Gcneral , accompanied by the Commander-in-Chief , with a numerous body of staff , was pushing on for Ferozepore . Un the ISth of December tliey arrived at n village called M . odkee , about twenty-two miles from Ferozepore , and were encamped ; when , about four o ' cloek p . m ., the alarm was given that a large body of the enemy was inarching to attack them ; and scarcely had our troops got under aims when the Sikh forces , consisting of 20 , 000 horse , 7 , 000 foot , and about " 1 , 000 artillery , were upon liiein , and commenced a heavy tiro ironi about ; twenty-five finis . Here occurred the immense loss which the
Governi-r-Geuevul's staff suffered , ami on thiaovea & Hm fell the survivor ofa hundred battles—Sir It . Sale . Here also fell Sir John M'Caskil ) , Captains Munro and _Herrics , ot the Governor-General _s Staff— Major Gran ; , Deputy Adjutant-General , Captaiii lliller , Aide-de-Camp , and many other officers being wounded . The enemy was , however , routed , with great slaughter , and with thc loss of seventeen of his twenty-five guns . During the 19 th and 20 t . li , the forces halted at Moudkeo ; and on the 2 Ut advanced about ten miles to the attack of thcentrenched camp of the Sikhs , at a place called Ferozepore . Previous to this attack the Commander-in-Chiefs force was
reinforced by General Littler , with 5 , 000 men , from Ferozepore , and it would seem had been joined by a portion of the Loudiana force . The entire force at Ferozepore , Uiiiballuli , and Loodiana , amounted to eight troops of Horse Artillery , live companies of Foot Artillery , one regiment of Dragoons , two ol * _iNative Cavalry , _Govcrnor-Gcneral ' s Body Guard _,, two regiments of Irregular Cavalry , seven regiments of European and sixteen regiments of Kativc Infantry , or say , in round numbers , that they consisted ot _forty-eii < ht Horse Artillery guns ; Foot Artillery , unknown ; Cavalry , ") , 500 ; European _lutaiiirv , 0 , 000 ; Native lulantry , 12 , 000 ; total , 21 , 500 of all anus . But a portion of tlie above must have been left at Loodiana , at Ferozepore , and even at
Umballah ; and ic is not improbable to suppose that thc actual force cmfaged _wicli the Sikhs on tlio " . _'lst and 2-m \ did not exceed 1 \) , DUO men . in aiiilitinii to these may be added the 1 st European and 29 th Foot , perhaps 1 , 500 strong , which would increase our fores to near 21 , 000 men . The force of the enemy is variously _staH'd at from 00 , 000 to 80 , 000 men , and Irom 100 to 101 guns but thc Governor-General ' s announcement to the Vice-President iii Council states the number of troops at 00 , 000 , and of guns in the entrenchment _i-anip at seventy nieces , niaiiv of them of large calibre , and much longer thau is usual in our armaments . As at Maharajpore , the principal loss in our army was caused by the _overwhelmm * . _* superiority of the enemy ' s guns to oursand the
, difficulty of our gallant fellows getting at them witli the bayonet ; for the Sikhs had taken up a very strong position , and fortified it in a masterly manner . Between two and three o ' clock , r . w ., the attack began , our infantry advancing bv brigades in fine from the right ; and when our . artillery ceased tiring our centre column forced their wav into the _eat-niv ' s position , carrying everything before them iu must ; gallant style by the bayonet , _altliouiili hundreds of them were mowed down bv even * discharge of the enemy ' s guns , which were splenJidlv served . The British force was formed into four divisions , the right
having the Commander-in-Chief at its head ; the left , General Littler ; the centre , General Gilbert ; and the reserve General Smith . The Sikh army was commanded by ltnjah Lah Singh and Sirdar Tej Singh , who appear to have made a most uoble stand against us . The attack by our left division seems to have failed ; but from tlielminenseniunberof officers killed and wounded in her Majesty's 02 d Foot , and Uth Native Infantry , which formed a part ot General Liitler ' s force , thev must have met with insurmountable obstacles . The centre , under General Gilbert , was more successful , gallantly penetrating into the centre of the enemy ' s position , and driving
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 28, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_28021846/page/5/
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