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THE "REBECCA" MOVEMENT SOUTH WALES.
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The Icxius Isles —The following appears in the National * - * ' We hive received letters from the Ionian Idands , confirming the reports of disturbsnecs in these islands , -which were speedily suppressed , feat an extreme agitation prevails , and the insurrection is probably adjourand to a more favourable opportunity . The success of ihe English Go-TenuEent is -Attributed to treachery , A plan of insurrection was prepared , which was denounced l > y trailers . The police having been appri 3 ctt of the fed , the oppressors of ice IoniaBS hastened to areid the danger . Corfu , placed Tin&r llio guns of the citadel and of the ships of war , caused them no uneasiness , bnt the other idands -were lets easily to be
^ narced , ss the garrison of 3 , 500 Scotchmen were not Hiffieiest to restrain the population . The English jndged it more prndeofc -to compromise a portion of tbe population cy foTcicg ibem to revolt , -without gifing ? hem an opportunity to choose their time . Oreof those mea ercr at the sernee of tbe police offered to become an agent to excite a rising , and , arming himself with a jfun , be pretended to be a sporomaain pursuit of ^ ganje . The police pursued him , with , orders to arrest him for carrying arms -iriihoat a license . They commanded him to surrender , bat he resisted , and the gendarmes not being in the secret shot him -dead . Such an event natoraJ 3 j excited public indignation . A body of armed peasants proceeded to the police-office , and
threatened to marder tbe police . The Lord High Commissioner was ready , three companies of Scotchmen were sent against-the peasants , and tbe latter were cut to pieces % y an over whelming force . The ^ English did not sto p there ; they proclaimed martial law , and ja order to disorganiza the plans of the insurgents they arrested their chiefs . The English GoTemssent , as hypocritical in the face of Europe as sfcT < aleBS towards the unfor unate people subjected to iis laws , las proclaimed that this affair was merely sm aSair of plnnder suppressed by the activity ef tho Lord High Commissioner . The truth is now known , and the language of the English Government cannot again impose on Europe , too long deeerved , a £ to tte true conduct of ihe protectors of the Ionian Islands . "
Pbjlscs . —Tse National announces the acquittal , ai the sssaes of XavaL of M . Ledru Rolfin , a Member of tbe < 5 iamber of Dapuaes , whom the Government had prosecuted for some oSensire language be held long ago , In-addressing Ms constituents . The MerAteur contains a series of report ? , addressed by Marshal Bngeaud to the Minister of War , underrate Alters , 20 ih uli ^ giTH ^ g an account of the military operations in the dif&rent provinces of ihe regency during the first fortnight of September . On the 12 th Colonels Grey aud O'Keiffe surprised tho
eamp of Abd-el Kader , at Assian Tirein . The Emir lad just time to Ilj , and on reaching the adpining mountain ? , he rallied his fugitive force and mde a "bold stand , fighting himself in the foremost rank , said vainly "urging Iis discouraged cavalry to follow him and charge the assailant * . At last , however , overcome by numbers , he abandoned the field , leaving seventy killed , his tent and those of his Agas , mules , horses , carpets , &e-, in the bands of the French . On the following o " ay Abd-el-Kader fell in with the division of General Lamoriciere , and experienced another defeat .
Stobh i » PjlBis . —Erom the violence of the gale yesterday morning , the streets and squares of Paris were covered with slates , tilts , and fragments of every kind , torn from the roofs of the houses . Many of the flags at the public buildings were either brought down or torn to slips . The Tnileries did not escape , for the roof of the Pavilion deFIore , which has only just been re-covered with slate from Angers , was Btripped in many places . The gardens and the Champs Elysees were strewed with branches from the trees . Several women and children were blown down on the blidges . An accoustic pneno-XLenon was to be heard on the Pont des Invalides throughout the day . The wind , in forcing its way between the bars of iron , on which it is suFpended , produced Eolian Bounds as deep as those on the diapason slops of the largest church organs , the vibration extending to the whole of the bridge . —GaRgncnVs Messenger '
Dheadfdx fffit- In the night of the 25 th nit ., a farm , with , all its buildings , lire and dead stock , "was destroyed by fire as Bouillargnes , in tbe-Gard A girl of ten years old perished in th * flames . The calamity would have been much more terrible , but for the almost supernatural courage of the mother of the family . Awakened from her sleep in a state of EnfFocation from the smoke , and finding hex husband in the same condition , she carried him in her arms to a window at a further part of the house , and when he was somewhat recovered , induced him to make his escape through it . She then in like manner saved her mother , upwards of seventy years old , and two of her three children . She returned for the third , but tbe poor ^ bild , in sepkifig her own safety inflight , got involved in the flames and was burnt . Her body was afterwards found in the ruins , reduced to a cinder . —French Paper ..
Kobwat . —A Towir Bcksed . —A Stockholm letter slates that ihe town of Egersund ( . Norway ) , was entirely destroyed by fire on the 4 th September . Dtjtch a 3 d Fulxdebs Mail . —The Bagtjk , Oct . 19 . —To-day , at one o ' clock in the afternoon , the Minister of the Interior closed tha session of the Siatcs General for 1842-43 . The latest accounts from Java say , that on the might of the 9 ih of January there was an -earthquake in the island of Nias ; the shock continued for some minutes , maryliOUEes were overthrown , and the inaaates buried in the ruins . A portion of the
mountain Horessa gunk down mto ine valley and over--whelmed tha buildings belonging to the Government , except the Governor ' s house . A large Kuupoug , called Mego , was swept away by an enormeus wave , and many persons perished . Tue same waTe carried off , near Moant Sie-Tolie , a leagne fhrther to the north , several Indian proas , with such "ridlence , that these vessels , among which was a Government cruiser , were thrown ont of the river , to tee distance of 100 to 160 paces on the shore . The fear thai the Aehinese of Glora would take ad-Tantage of this opportunity to attack the garrison of Iviashad not been realised .
Last Satnrday night , there was a violent hurricane , and thunder storms , with torrents ef rain , at Jf amur / On the following morning , tbe streets were strewed with fragments of tiles and slates . Spaix . —Bxtokkk , Cer . 8 . — Almeria rose on the 1 st . antf proclaimed the Central Junta . General Concha left Madrid on the evening of the 3 rd , to assume the command of the army of JLrragon . Cctobeb 10 . —There has been an attempt at a xisrng at Granada on the 27 th of Sepitmbfr . There was fighfeig , and some persons were wounded . Order was . re-established . On the 2 nd there was no change at Almeria .
Permgjus , Ccr . 10 . —On the 7 ih the Junta" attes-pted to storm the citadel of Barcelona with the 1 . 0 W of tbe 1 , 500 men nnder their command . They were repulsed with the loss of 8 O . men . iL Bosch , the "rice-president of the Junta , wa 3 mortally wcunded . In consequence of this attack the citadel and foils fired on the town . The fire ceased in the evening , and did not recommence oh the 8 th . Thb -Jovxsxl des Debate gives tbe following account of the affair : — * ' On the 7 ih , half an hoar before day , the 400 ¦ volunteers silently descended into tbe ditch , and applied ladders to the ramparts , which they ascended
wiih the most perfect good fortnne , withcut any sentinel having . the alarm . Having reached the top of tho embankment , they gave the signal agreed on for a false attack , intended to draw the attention of the garrison to another quarter . At ths fame time the insurgents unmaskea a battery of eight pieces of « anncn , which commenced a well-directed -fire against the citadel , whilst 2 , 000 volunteers placed in the trenches of the esplanade and in the houses of Santa Haria directed a rolling fire of musketry against the ramparts . The garrison was not moved by this ioiBe , to which they were accustomed during the last month .
" Tbe men who had mounted the breach , who had Riven the agual , and had descended into the Intenor of the citadel , found themselves arrested bv an unforeseen obstacle—a second ditch , which they could not pass . They then endeavoured io draw op their ladders to Bcale the second artienchment . But the opportunity was lost-daylight had appeared , ^ Wi ^^ ^ i ° «« " 0 Wi * to return to the ouch , and to retreat under the fire of the garw » n , fiie TolunteerB lost 100 men killed or wounded . But i ; must be admitted they had very nearly succuceeeded in their alUopt on the diadeL
,. k *^ *™? Madrid , dated October 3 rd , oublished in thb Chronicle * has tbe following : — » { mp . tioned yesterday that communications had tab * n place between Canedo , the commander of ths Go-Teramentforoes before Saragossa , and the corporation ef that town , with a view to arrive at an amicable arrangement , if possible . The Saragossa people , It appears , hare not been bo easy to dupe as those ef Madrid . The terms they demanded were that the National Guards should remain on their present footing , and the junta retain its powers as a local board ; giving up , however , the demand of the formation , of a eentral juntas These demuidq
were acceded to by Canedo provisionally . They hare been submitted to a Council of Ministers here , who , however , refuse to Tatify them , and General Concha is appointed to leave to-night to snpersede Conedo , and , in the language of the Narvaez school , to bring the Saragossa folks to their senses ; so that we shaQ , probably , hare some w&rm work . A letter from Saxafosea , of the 29 th , in to-day ' s Eco } says that a very determined spirit prevails there ; that they had . 12 , 000 men under arms , and 100 pieces of cannon mounted on . their defences . It is also Ftated that they had ^ tade a brilliant sortie , and some of the troops fansiflg the blockAde had gone over to ihea , " --- "" ¦ ' ' - Tne same Cwwepondeni , in afeiter dated Oci . 4 th , » y«—• Two battalions of the llegiment of Africa men ordered , woe tuw fiince , from / varare , to reic-
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force the gOTc-riimfnt tfi > op 3 before Sara ^ ofsa , but ' they had repfitedly shown svmptoms of defection , and several officers aad sergeants had been separated and sent prisoiiers to Tolosa , and others arrested at Onate . Many ayTests have also taken place in other corps at St . Sebastian and Vittoria . An order has been issued to the troops , constantly stationed within aud about the Post-office , not to form in groups of -more than eight ; so little confidence have the-military authorities in the only force which keeps them on from xlay to day . Their fears are , no doubt , great ^ but the way in which they display them is quite ridiculeuB , The travelling tinkers that are wont to go about here , and as tney traverse the street , inform the inhabitants who have pots or
pans to mend , of their presence by striking an iron rod against a plate of the same metal , have all at once been discovered to be a most dangerous race of men ; and the sounds which were wont to call the maid-servants from ihe aitic 3 to the gronnd Ibor , -with their cracked tea-kettles , &c , are now ascertained to portend revolutions , and to be nothing less , in short , than a new mode of beating the generate , so thtir tiskling proceedings have been peremptorily prohibited . It was only the day before yesterday that the whole town , from the Bilb&a-gate to the Puerto de Sol , was in high alarm from the guard of theTalladolid diligence blowing his horn as he
entered the city ; whereupon all the guards turned out in a great fright , prepared for action ; and when it was ascertained that there was no other foe than the heavy diligence , their oonrage greatly increased , and a corporal and four soldiers were detatcbed in pnrsuit of the unlucky horn-blower , who was captured in due course , and ensconced in the guard-house of the principal station . The Madrid anneal fair is now going on ; and it is usual , among other things , to have arms "of various kinds , as pistols , swords , &c , in some of the stalls ; but the dealers—those who had anything of the kind in their stalls the first day , did not venture to show themselves on the second j their career was soon stopped .
A letter from Barcelona , of the 30 th , states that General Sanx had given notice to the foreign consuls of his intention to attack the towa the next day , and the French had all embarked . Prim had returned , aad obtained a re-inforcemtnt of 1 , 000 men , to act against Araettler , who was raisiog recruits at Gerona . The Junta had been unremitting in strengthenifig their defences , and there was no talk of surrendering , as the government papers here have so often reported to b 8 the case . Alcani z , a town near Saxagossa , has declared for the Central Junta . Dou Manuel de laSerna , Espartero ' s minister of ihe interior , and who is now in London , hs-8 been returned as a deputy for Seville .
The Er&cnoiiS- —Up to the present time ( October 8 th ) , 18 / Deputies have been appointed . The opinions of thirty of them are not known . The rest may be classed as follows : —Sixty Moderados , and sixty to seventy entertaining the opinions represented by MM . Olozsgaaud Cortina ; thirty Franc ' uquhtes , Centralists , Republicans , &c . Of the Chamber , which is composed of 240 Deputies , only about 180 ordinarily meef . The Parliamentary majority will be considerable . At Grenada , according to the dispatches of the
Political Chief , an insurrection took place , which was promptly suppressed . Two battalions of the National Guard revolted , and attempted without success to cause the people to join it . The Political Chief , in conjunction with the Captain-General , proclaimed martial law , and harangued the people . A pangninary coifi . ct took place between the troops of the line and the revolted National Guard ? , near the quarter of St . Jerome . Several were killed and wounded on both sides . At length the revolted soldiers , not being supported , deliver * d up their arms , and the insurrection was suppressed .
-Granada was trai ; quil on tbe f > : h . There is no news of Seville or Cadiz . But the towns of Gallicia seem all to have proclaimed the Central Junta . A letter from Perpignan , 7 ih inst ., in the Emancipation ef Toulouse , says : — M On the 4 ; h , Pejm ^ who not seeing any possibility of attempting a coup demain against the fort of Figueras , had retired towards Girona , and commenced an assault on that to wn . It is impossible to describe the energy and valour displayed by the in-Sirgenls in the defence . All fongbt with a courage and ardour that did not abate for a single moment . Women and childrea were seen to take part in the action in rolling frcm the top of the wall on the assailants heavy articles of furniture and masses of stone . Tae struggle was desperate between the two parties , and Pbix was forced to retreat . It is said that the losses are great on both sides . "
According to the Honxteur of Saturday , " Almeira submitted on the 5 th . ** On the 8 th the negotiations for the surrender of Saragossa were still proceeding . " Psbpjgsan , Oct . 12—On the 9 : h , the Junta invited all foreigners to quit Barcelona , allowing them only a delay of twenty hours . On the 10 th , the . departure of the French and their embarkation took place without accident . The Consul took up his residence at Barceionetia . ** Commander Martell , havingbeea closely pursued by the population , surrendered at discretion to the commander of Tortosa . " The advancid guard at the Gate of France , at Girona , had deserted to General Prim with its captain . "
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CRIMES OF THE RICH-SUFFERINGS OF THE POOR . The condition of the poor is a subject which , altogether irrespectively of the Poor Law and its collateral questions , must ever excite tbe attention of thinking men . Above all , it sheuld in London , waeTe the condition of the poor is moat strikingly appalling . It appears from the report of the proceedings at Marlborough-street Police-office , in our columns of yesterday , that there is an average number of fifty human beings , of all ages , who huddle together in the parks every night , having no other shelter than what is . supplied by the trees and hollows of the embankment . Of these the majority are young girls who have been seduced from the conntry by the soldiers , and turned loose on tho world in all the destitution of friendless penury , and all the recklessness of early vice .
This is truly horrible . Poor there must be everywhere . Indigence irill End its way and set up its hideous state in the heart of a great and luxurious city . Amid the thousand narrow lanes and bystreets of a populous metropolis there must alwayB , we fear , be much suffering—mnch that offends the eye—much that lurks unseen . But that witfein the precincts of wealth , gaiety , and fashion , nigh the regal grandeur of St . James ' s , close on the palatial splendour of Bayswater , on the confines of the old and new aristocratic quarters , in a district where the cautious refinement of modern design has abstained from erecting ene single tenement for poverty ; which seems , as it were , dedicated
to the exclusive enjoyments of wealth , —that there want , and famine , and disease , and vice should stalk in all their kindred horrors , consuming body by body , bouI by soul I It is , indeed , a monstrous state of things . Enjoyment the most absolute , that bodily ease , intellectual excitement , or the moro innocent pleasures of sense can supply to man ' s craving , brought in close contact with the most unmitigated misery ! Wealth , from its bright saloons , laughing—an insolently heedless laugh , at the unknown wounds of want 1 Pleasure , cruelly but unconsciously mocking the pain that moans below ! All contrary things jostling one another—all contrary , save tho vice which tempts and the vice which is temoted !
It is a sickening theme . It brings iome to the heart the utter weakness—the utter harduesB of © ur nature . There is wealth , there is skill , there is art , there is science , there is theory , — all these enough , and more than enough , in England . Most abundant are they in the heart of England . Yet does the life-blood rash in a more healthy stream Doeb the pulse of the nation beat with a more generous rapture ! Wh ° ^ * wealth made happier 1 Whom has its skill taught to shun the moral pestilence that consumes its tens of thousands ! Whom has its theory taught the high and paramount duty which man owes to the infirmities of hb brother man \
There are men of many theories abroad . Some would build in the human race within parallelogram ? , and bid them go and practise virtue ? intnitively . Others would amputate tariffs and navigation law ? , crying to alL the halt , and the blind , and the penni ' iess , " Go trade , and be rich . " Soma there are who , believing that society is hollow , false , and tottering , would restore long-forgotten rules , and bring ihe vague and casual charity of men under the cognizance and direction of the church . But these men are laughed at by ihe age . For is not the age
utilitarian , and therefore wise ! But let all men , whether of theory or of practice , remember thiB—that within the most courtly precincts of the richest city on God ' B earth there may be found , night after night , winter after to ™ . *—women yonng in years—old in sin and suttericg—outcastB from saeiety—hotiixg pbom 3 > ahin £ , pilih , and deskase . Let them remember ttas ,, aad learn not tostheorise , out to act . God toows , there is much room for action now-a-d&ys .-
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THE " REBECCA" MOVEMENT SOUTH WALES .
l lrom oar own Correspondent . J In the appendix to my last week' 8 letter , I informed your readers of a fracas which had taken place in the early part of that -week , between the daughters of Kabecca , and two of the administrators of legal processes , who are best known by . the name of bum-bailiffs . The affray came , off at a place caUed Tyrypound , in the parish of Llangnnnor , which is in the occupation of a Mr . Wn Phillip , against whom a distraint was issued forth 8 sum of £ 7 10 a . being balf-a-year ' s rent of hh little farm . As your correspondent has had an interview with " PliH-o' -the-Pcund , " since bis liberation from gaol , be will give an account of the scene in Phillip ' s own words : — "I was on my way to Car-1
marthen' says that personage , " In order to transact a little buBineaB ; and when about n mile on my road , I met tbe two bailiffs , who informed me that they were goisg with a distress to my house . I remonstrated with the fellows , and told them that I bad a set off against the account ; as I bad furnished my landlady with Lay , straw , and other farm produce , for which I bad not got credit ; and which would make a material difference in the amount , if it did not leave a balance in my favour . But they paid no attention to this , and persisted in their determination of executing the warrant . I accompanied them back , and as we were passing a public-house at Nant-j-cws they began sponging for something to drink ; but aa I did notfeelindebted to them for their civility , I was in nowise disposed " to stand treat" When we
arrived at tbe farm , they began rummngiug among the thiBgB , and one of my sons had some sharp words with them . While this quarrel was going on in the barn , an old woman appeared at the bain door , who seemed as if scarcely able to totter on her staff . She said ¦ my litUe children , what's tbe matter with you here ? ' and my son explained to her tbe nature and business of our tititora . ' Bailiffs l . said tbe old lady in great apparent surprise , ' Bailiffs ! in my peaceful dominions ; no , no , Ibis must not be ; come here , my daughters , and give these men tbeir gruo \! ' On looking out , '" continued old Philip , " I saw that the barn-yard was quite full of people , all dressed in women ' s clothing , and tbe most of them with handkerchiefs over their faces . When John o ' -Uie , Ball Court ( one of the bailiffs ) heard about the
• gruel' he darted off through the crowd , followed by a band of the sto-apping dames ; evtn the o ' id lady herself pursued the flying hero with wonderful agility , and showeted some weighty blows upon his shoulders with her staff . Few ef her daughters were able to keep pace with her ; and , after a cbace of about a quarter of a mile , the ranaway -wa-i secured , and brongbt back to the house . John the llermaid got off with much less injury tban his comrado ; for , as he was captured immediately , he escaped all the blows which were plentifully administered daring tbe flight . The bailiffs were then ordered to fe down on their , knees , and Eat the WRIT ; but when they manifested their willingness to obey her mandates in this particular , by esch of them swallowing a part of it , 'Becca declared
herself satiaSed , and ordered them to put the remainder in the fire , which was douts accordingly . The old lady then observed * that as they were strangers , they should be hospitably treated ; ' and asked one ol her dcogfaters ' what was in the pig trough' ? Grains , mother ! ' was the reply . Bring here a couple of platesfuil , and two Bpoons ! ' was the next order . The bailiffs showed no great inclination to feed ; but , after receiving sundry admonitions from the oak saplings with which each of the young ladies was provided , and making certain wry faces at the quality of their repast , they at last got through with their breakfast , and desired to be gone . Bat , no ! the edibles only bed been despatched ; and the old lady urged that it wonld be a want of courtesy in her to permit their departure without having partaken of something to drink . Two jogs were accordingly
Slled with not very clean water from a neighbouring ditch , which they were desired to drain to the dregs . Having finished their repast , they were ordered again te go down on their knees , and take the following oath on the Bible : — ' As the Lord livetb , and as my soul livetb , I will never come here to siake a distress again ! ' They were then permitted to take tbeir departure , which they did , mentally vowing that no earthly consideration should again tempt them out on such au errand . " The old man further informed your correspondent that on his arrival in Carmarthen , after the bailiffs went away , he was apprehended on a charge of aiding and abetting ; and , after four days' imprisonment , was liberated on being jbound over , himself in £ 200 , and two sureties in £ 100 each , to answer any indictment that may be preferred agninst him .
I have learned that ou Thursday night last , another of these much dreaded officials w&s enjoying " tired nature ' s sweet restorer , " at a farm called Towy Castle , hi the parish of L ' . andefoilog , near the town of Carmarthen , where he was lawfully in possession , under a sheriffs warrant for £ 130 . He was roused from his balmy slumbers by the unwelcome eouud of a horse ' s hoofs , which he at once guessed to be the signal of the approach of the hwlees Rebecca . He rolled himself up in tbe counterpane , hid himself below the bed , and used every effort to avoid coming in contact with a lady of whose prowess ho had beard so much . But Rebecca insisted on an interview , which the frightened " bum " ultimately consented to , under & promise that her ladyship would do him no harm . Rebecca received him most graciously , told him he was not to blame , and urged him at once to depart and make the best of his way to Carmarthen , or vengeance would be sure te overtake him . The alarmed bailiff instantly consented .
and proposed making his way home through tbe fields , as tbe road Was shorter snd more convenient . " Your convenience , " said 'Becca , " is not to be consulted ; you mast go by the main read , that my daughters may see you go . " "Any way , " said tbe officer , " that will please you ; only let me go . < " and away be scampered as fast as bis legs coula carry him . Rebecca ou this occasion is said to have had the mane of a horse hanging down her back and , a large feather in her cap . Her daughters were ail disguised and well armed with 2 uns , pistols , and swords . They saw tee bailiff clear off tbe premises , and fired 8 evera , \ shots after him to make him quicken his pace . They then returned to Towy Castle , and wished to convey away the whole of tbe properly ; tut MrB . Phillips , the occupant , begged of them not to do so , as tho whole would be settled in a few days . 'Beeca replied , th&t unless tbe business was settled to her satisfaction , she would pay them another visit .
Oa Monday night , a large party of Rsueccaites perambulated the neighbourhood of Earl Cawdoi's lead-mines , at Rhandir Jlwin , in Carmarthenshire , for the purpose of intimidating the workmen , who are from the county of Cornwall , from pursuing their mining operations . A degree of jealousy has existed for many years between the Welsh and Cornish minerB who are employed nt these works ; and it would seem that the former are not averse to huve Rebecca ' s all potent aid to expel the latter from the neighbourhood .
I mentioned last week the destruction of & gate between Builth and Llandovery . After the demolition of the gate in question two policemen were despatched from Brecknock to guard the toll-bouse , and to prevent , any further outrages . These two guardians of the peace and tbe pikes found their avocation too dry for tbeir taste , and accordingly adjourned to a neighbouring public-house to " veei tbeir whistle" with something comfortable . The evtr-vigilant Becca , taking advantage of their absence , set fire to the house ; and the whole building was consumed before the policemen returned . On Thursday night last , a farm-house and buildings were burnt down , about sis miles from Carmarthen , on the Swansea road , in the neighbourhood of L ' . anddarrog . The cause as usual ; taking the farm over the head of the old tenants The whole was reduced to a heap of ruins .
On Saturday night , five prisoners were escorted in from Llandovery by a troop of dragoens , charged with being participators in some of the outrages in that quarter . They were two tailors , a stonemason , a labourer , and a Boy . When the examination and committal takes place ( for they will be committed as a matter of coarse ) , I shall forward you the particulars .
THE STATE OF WALES . Tbe inhabitants of South Wales are not only a serious and thinking race ; but they are also a patient—an enduring—a long-suffering people . Difficult as they are to rouse , bard as it is to awaken them from inaction into activity and life , their resentment when roused is fully equal to their former endurance ; and their resistance of oppression is as powerful and stringent as their former patience . They have suffered long ; they have suffered silently ; and they have suffered much . Tbe grievances to which they have been snbjeeted were partially detailed in the last week ' s Star ; and these , coupled with the rapacity of landlords and the depreciation of agricultural produce caused by the Free Trade Tariff of Sir Robert Peel , operated so powerfully upon
tbe interests cf the agriculturists , that one vast , general , and overwhelming ruin seemed about to engulph all who were engaged In agricultural pursuits . The burdens which they were called upon te pay were annually increasing to a fearful amount ; their rents , already screwed up by competition far above the real value of the laud , were increasing also ; many of the farmers wer reduced to euch an extremity of poverty as not to have in their possession even a change of linen , but were compelled to keep their beds while their shirts were in the wash-tub ; many more enjoyed tbe near prospect of being turned adrift from their homes—those homes which were endeared by raaBy a tender recollection , tho cottage in whieh they and their fathers were born
with no other alternative before them than the wide world , or the detested Bastile . Cases like these were neither isolated [ nor rare , but were beginning to form the rule ; whilst comparative comfort was regarded as the exeeption . Tbe situation of tbe farm labourers is truly pitiable . They wall remember the time when they could enjoy tbe present , and look forward to tbe fature . They ctuld at all events regard that future , witkout the fear of actuil starvation casting a gloom over their miuds ; for they knew that tbe then law of tbe land kept acual want from the threshkold of their homes . Bat sow , in these days of maud ling sentiment and mock philosophy , the comforts of the labourer are fled , and his peace of mind has nVd with them .
The stats of degradation to which our Welsh farmers have been reduced , should act as another stimulus to our Chartist brothers never to lose sight ot the great objects for which they are united , viz : —the franchise '; and not only this , but the fullest and most ample protection in its exercise .
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The farmers here nominally enjoy the franchise ; bat it is only the semblance of freedom , without the reality ; for they are driven to tbe poll , tbe helpless tools by which tho aristocracy hope to keep the manacles of slaver ; rlvetted on tke limbs of freeborn men . A new era has however dawned upon the minds of the Welch . They are now beginning to see , nob exactly as their fathers saw ; and daring to think , aye and act , for themselves , -without consulting any lordling's will . A spirit of enquiry is abroad ; and the more that the people enquire the more they are convinced ; that the present system is not , as they bad hitherto been taught , the very height of human perfection . However the Times , asd the other half-fledged brood , which follow in its wake , may . trumpet forth their cuckooo notes , the
Welch people are daring to reason upon " broad principles and deep foundations ; " and another election may perchance convince tbe country that they have not thus been reasoning in vain . I neither hope nor fear that the present " Rebecca Movement" will diverge into a "Chartist Movement ; " because I am certain that it will do no such thing ; but I am equally well convinced that tbe numerous public meetings which are held almost daily , and the doctrines which are there advanced , are rapidly preparing the public mind for the recipiency of " Chartist principles ; " and when they shall have been fully convinced of tbe fallacy of tbeir present " movement ; " when they shall be fully aware that their hopes are vain of : thereby obtaining substantial relief , it will then be the duty of the Chartist public to take advantage of " the tura of tho tide , ' and allow their principles to have full scope . It would
be madness , nay it would bo worse ; it would be traitoristn to the hallowed cause of Chartism to attempt to mix it up with the present movement Rebecca must be permitted to run her course . This may , and I have no doubt will , take her months to effect ; but sooner or later her agitation must come to aa end ; and then wHl be the time for our Chartist friends to be « p and doing . The ground will be ready cultivated for its recaption . All that they will have to do will be to sow tha seed , and ll ' my basnetfc to a 'prentice cap" a plentiful crop of back-bone Chartists will be the result . Not that I would counsel apathy or indifference for one moment , to any portion of the Chartist public ; we have bad rather too much of this already . Let the individual Chartists be unceasing in the diffusion of a knowledge of their principles ; and let our organized Welsh societies be prepared for united and energetic action , so soon as the present excitement shall have passed away .
It 13 now some twelve months ago since the "Rebecca ' warfare against'toll gates begun , it has been carried on from that time to the present , without having experienced any considerable interruption . The Government took no stops at the commencement either to allay the excitement , to remedy the grievance , or to curb the lawless spirit which had begun to manifest itself . Toe popular commotions " had no connection with politics ; " therefore , tho Government did not feel called on to interfere . But no sooner did these commotions cause the people to tarn their attention to the study of political questions—no sooner did they bend their itquiries to the workings of the infamous New
Poor Xaw , to the revenues and management of ecelesiastical affaTs , or to any one of the thousand questions in which the people feol an interest—than tbe tactics of ' those ] in power were instantaneously changed ; their craft was in danger , " ami ; come what may , Rebecca must be put down . A solitary itinerant , a Bow-street magistrate , was sent down to Wales as a Government Commissioner , iu order that the farmers might be led to suppose that the Government actually desired to remove their grievances . But old " Bjcca " wes not to beguiled ; she saw that this was only an expedient to draw her off from the consideration of her wrongs ; and , consequently , her career was not for a moment interrupted .
A rural police was next established ; the Principality was inundated with soldiery , horse , feot , and artillery ; every village , nay , every elachqn is now garrisoned with troops ; and hordes of spies and London police are prowling the country in every direction . Still the old Lady is unsubdued ; nay . she waxes bolder and bolder in proportion to the energy displayed by her opponents ; and tbe more determined they appear to be to pat a stop to her proceedings , the more ehe seems resolved to bid them defiance . Tbe terrors of the judgment seat are now to be added to the formidable array ; and on the day in which these observations shall be given to tbe publio in tbe oolumua of the Star , the Special Commission will be opened in Cardiff for the trial of the Glamorganshire prisoners . Whether this will put a stop to the old Lady ' s progress is a mystery which I dare not venture to attempt to solve .
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Dublin Workhouse . —Mr . M'Donough , school * master of the South Dublin worfcbtuse , was obliged to resign from drunkenness . Mr . Skelly , clerk of the Drogheda workhouse , is discharged . He was a R 3-pealor . Irish Soldiers in the Legion . — -There are no where to be found more amusing fellows than Irish so ( Hers , full as they all are of qaaint humour and fim $ rfc repartee . " I have heard many droll traits and stories of the Irish soldiery under Evans . Oa the 16 th of March , I 8 S 7 , when the Queen ' s troops were in full retreat , my squadron was formed up on tho road to Hernani , occasionally charging down when the ODPortuirity presented itself , in order to cover the
retreat . Up came an Irish infantry manc who , although following the example pretty generally given him , 'and retreating , still seemed to doit a a conlre cceur and kept up a . sort of running fight on his own account , perfectly independent of any body else in the world . The fellow was steaming from what appeared to bo a mixture of heat and fury , and his face was as red as D . m O'Connell ' s after a few hours ' speech to the Sliest pisanthry . His lips and che-ks were black wich biting cartridges . * Be G—d !' said he thumping his musket butt down to the ground , and wiping his face with a rag he took out of his shako . Be 6—d ! and they call John Carlos a pretendher ! What a devil of a fellow he'd be if he was in airnest . '" —New Monthly Magaz ' me .
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From the London Gazette 0 / Friday , Oct . IS . s bankrutts . Joseph H&rriRon , of Brighton , coach-builder , to surrender October 39 , at twelve , and November 24 , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitor , Mr . Cross , Surrey-street , Strand , London ; official assignee , Mr . William Turquaud , 13 , Oid Jewry Caambers , London . William E iward Filey , of Norwich , wina-merchant , October 25 . at ten , and November 16 , ab half-past one , at . the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitors , Messrs . Hill and Matthews , 1 , Bury Court . St . Mary Axe , London ; < flkial ass gnee , Mr . James FoBter Groom , 12 , Abchurch Lane , Lota bard-street , London .
James Leonard Woodruff , of G ; eat Missenden , Buckinghamshire , innkeeper , Octob&r 25 , at three , and Nov . 15 , st ten , at the Cmrt of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitor , Mr . Pateraon , Bouverte-street , London ; official assignee , Mr . Lackington , 3 , Coleman-street Buildings , London . JiMt'ph Ridge way , of Manchester , merchant , October 26 , at eleven , aad November 21 at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester . Solicitors , Messrs . Barlow and Aston , Manchester ; and Messrs . Bower and Back , 46 , Chancery Lane , London ; official assignee , Mr . R , Pawdreli Hobson , Manchester .
John William Harrison , late of Stockton-upon-Tees , Durham , grocer , October SfO , at eleven , and Nov . 20 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newc 3 stle-npon-Tyne . Solicitors . Messrs . Conwell and Ridley , Newcastle-upon-Tyue ; < and Messrs . Maples and Co ., 6 , Frederick ' s Place , Old Jewry , London ; official assignee , Mr . Thomas Baker , Newcastle-upon-Tyna . Thomas James Whidborne , of Liverpool , chemist , October 26 and November 14 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Liverpool . Solicitors , Mr . John Neal , Liverpool ; and Messrs . Hall and Co ., 2 , VerulamBuildings , Gr ay ' s Inn , London ; official assignee , Mr . James Cazsnove , Liverpool .
John Smalley , of SnomtoB , Nottingham , iron-founder , October . 26 , at one , and November 28 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham . Solicitors , Mr . John SinitQ , Waterloo-street , Birmingham ; and Mr . John Bowley , Nottingham ; official assignee , Mr . James Christie , Birmingham .
DITIDENDS DECLARED . John Nottingham , of Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , picture-dealer , dividend of 3 s . 6 d . in the pound , payable at ' 2 , Nicholas-street , Bristol , on October 25 , or any succeeding Wedaesdiy . William Densem , of Bath , tailor , dividend of 2 s . 3 d . in tbe pound , payable at 2 , Nicholas-street , Bristol , oa October 25 , or any succeeding Wednesday . John Stevens , of R ^ odeswell , Limehouse , road-contractor , first dividend of 7 s . in the pound , payable at 12 , Abcburch Lane , London , on October 18 , and three following Wednesdays . John Moss and Co ., of Haalingden , Lancashire , cotton epinnera , second dividend of 6 i . 0 ^ 1 . in the pound , payable at 72 George-street , Manchester , on October 24 , and every following Tuesday .
Putter , Lever , and Co ,, of Manchester , merchants , final dividend of ji . in the pound , payable at 72 , Georgestreet , Manchester , oa October 24 , and every following Tuesday . "Jotau Fletcher , of Mnryport , Cumberland , boiler-manufacturer , first dividend of la , 6 d . in the pound , payable at 57 , Grey-street , Newcastle-upou-Tyne , on October 21 , or any succeeding Saturday . John Biylis , Jan ., and James Baylls , of 15 , Gattex Lane , London , crape-manufacturers , first dividend of 3 s . 6 d . in the pound , payable on October 14 , and the following Wednesday . DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED , AT THE COURT OP BANKRUPTCY , IN L 0 ND 9 N .
Joseph Boyd , of 189 , Piccadilly , publican , November 6 , at half-past twelve—Jackson Barwise , of 16 , Pall Mali , house-desorator , November 6 , at one—Skinner Zwhary Langton , of Barge Yard , Bucklersbury , City , merchant , November 6 , at eleven .
DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED IN THE COUMTRT . Edward Ollerenshaw , of Manchester , hat-manufacturer , November 7 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester—Herbert Hardte , of Manchester , merchant , Njvember 2 . at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester—William North , of Bath , tavern-keeper , Novembs r 10 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol—Thomas Hooper , of Hay , Breeonshbxe , chemisi , November 7 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Biiatol—David Edwards , late of Pembroke , Haverfordwest , miller , November 7 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol—Richard Pitt , jun ., of West Bromwich , Staffordshire , hatterj Nov . 9 , at half-past eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham . certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to t tie contrary on the day of meeting .
Henry Andrews and Charles Twininsr , of Peckham , Surrey , brewtra , Nov . 6—James Watkics , of 65 , Exmouth-street , Clerfcenwell , draper , Nov . G—John Elliott , of Cbichester , builder , Nov . 8—Joseph Marriage , jun ,, of Moulshaui , Essex , wilier , Nov . 3—George Jackson , of Hertford , upholsterer , Nov . 10—Jumea Smith , of Goldsmith-street , Wood-street , London , warehouseman , Nov . 11—Caarles Christelow , of York , woollen draper , Nov . 7 '—John Blount Herbert , late of Gloucester , timber-dealer , Nov . 14—David Edwards , late of Pembroke , miller , Nov . 7—Joseph John Monk Mason Scott , of Liverpool , corn-merchant , Nov . 7—Henry Bourne Joaes , of Btrkenhead , Cheshire , - plumber , Nov . 14—James Hellings , William Smith Bate , and T . Bate , of Rugeley , Staffordshire , brewers , Nov . 8—Thomas Hitchcock , of Alrew&s , Staffordshire , worsted manufacturer , November 8 .
certificates to be granted by tbe Court of Review , unless causa be shown to the contrary on or before Nov . 3 . Abraham Harris , of Sharp ' s Buildings , Tower Hill , slop-seller— Robert Jones , of Carnarvon , draper—Byce D * vie 8 , of Abeicarne , Monmouthshire , grocer—Edward Rawlin 8 on , of St . Helen's , Lancashire , alum-manufacturer—Thomas Skinner , late of Godalming , but now of Dorking , Surrey , butcher—Charles Holebrook , of Ufctoxeteir , . Sta . fibfdsb . iTe , plumbex— Jobn Ogden Burnley , of . Heckraondwiko , Yorkshire , corn-miller—John AJex .
Lee , of Liverpool , iron-founder—John Harriman and Thomas Harriman , of Nottingham , drapers , —Jamea Bottomley , of Dslph , Yorkshire , wooUen-mannfacturer —Eoderby Laugfcon , of Wisbech , Cambridgeshire , brewer—Richard . Gooddy and William Edward M'Kee , of Kingston-upon-Hull , millers—John Swallow , Jan ., of Skircoat , Yorkshire , corn-miller—William Henzey Bond , Kingswinford , Staffordshire , wine-merchant—Joseph Oates , of Glossop , Derbyshire , innkeeper—Joseph Rtsep Beer and William Henry Bastick , of St . Thomas tbe Apostle , Devonshire , coal-merchants .
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . Blackburn and Stausfield , Bradford , waste-dealers—T . W . Polding and S . Cowell , Liverpool , wine-dealera —Buckley and Aspdbn , Manchester , engravers to calico printers—W . El burn and Co ., Marsden , Yorkshire , coal-proprietors—E . am Brothers , Oxford-street and Huddarsfield . truss-makers .
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m From the Gazette of Tuesday , OcL 17 . bankrupts . William Hollis Frearsen , draper , Wood-street , Cheap-Bide , to surrender October SO and November 30 , at one o ' clock , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitors , Messrs . Willoughby and Co ., Clifford ' s Inn , London ; official assignee , Mr . Turquand , Old Jewry Chambers , London . William Dickinson , merchant , Bsxley , Kent , Oct . 30 , at half-past twelve , and Nov . 39 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Lindon , Solicitors , Messrs . Walker and Gridley , Southampton Row , Bloomsbury Square , London ; official assignee , Mr . Graham , Coleman-street , City . Richard Sharpe , draper , Chelmsford , Oct . 26 and Nov . 14 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitor , Mr . Sole , Aldermaubury ; official assignee , Mr ] Lackingtod , Colernan-street Buildings , London .
1 John Wood , tobacconist , Coleman-stroet , City , Oct . [ 2 i , at ten , and Nov . 29 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitors , Measrs . Crossby and Co . - , Church Caarfc , Old Jewry ; official assignee , Mr . Johnson , Basinghall-stteet , London . Robert Te&bitfc Abbott and Alfred Tfawaytes Tebbitt , tea-dealers , Birmingham , Nov . 1 , at twelve , and Nov . I 25 , at half-past ; eleven , at th « Birmingham Diatricl , Court Solicitor , Mr . Mole , Birmingham ; official assig-I , Mr . Whitmore , Birmingham . Anthony Gordon , William Cartwright , and James Biacketfc , niachiue-makere , Manchester , Qot 30 , a * elaven , and Nov . 20 , at twelve , at the Manchester District-Court . Solkitatt , Mr . Makiason , Manchester ; and Messrs . G : egorv , Faulkner , Gregory , and Baurdillen , Bedford Row , Loadon : official assignee , Mr . Fraser , Manchester .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR , CLEAVE . FJR MB . M ' DOUALL . £ 8 d Mr . Rathbone .... 0 0 6 Northampton ( per Harrison ) .. .... 1 - 3 2 0 A few Stuff HatterB ( per Jones ) 0 3 7 Mr . A . Clark ( per Mx . Moir ) ; 0 5 0 Huddersfield ( proceeds of leoture by Mr . D . Ross .-- 0 7 0 H « ddersfield ( perMr . E . Clayton ) 0 5 0 National Charter Association , CarriDgton , near Nottingham 0 5 0 FOR THE VICTIM FUtiD . St . Olavo ' s & St . John ' s Locality 0 7 0 Council , Twr .. Hamlets 0 4 8 Standard of Liberty 0 1 7 | National Charter Association , Carrington , near Nottingham 0 5 0 Wooton-under-Edge , pr . Mr . Lacy 0 4 0 Bingham , Notts ., per Mr . J . Sweet 0 5 0 Keighley female Chartists . 0 10 0 FOR EXECOriVE . Boot and Shoemakers , Golden-lane .. 0 5 0 Mr . Smith 0 1 0 Mr . Rathbone ... 0 0 6 National Charter Association , CarriDgton % near Nottingham ...... 0 5 0 Mr . J . K ., Nottingham , per Mr . Sweet 0 5 0 Wooton-nnder-firfge , from three Chartist Teetotallers . ; . 0 3 0
DEFENCE FUND . National Charter Association , Carrington , near Nottingham 0 5 0 New Rcdford , per Mr . Saunders ( omitted in previous list 10 0 SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED FOR F . O'CONNOR . fob vjerm fond . From Sunderland 0 10 0 Milibank , Sowerby ...... 0 11 0 Norwich 1 0 0 Long Buckley 0 7 0 FOB EXECUTIVE . Sntton-in-Afchfield 0 15 0 Mr . J . Prescott , Redditch 0 10 Ship , Steelhouse , Birmingham , per Mr . D . Pott 2 0 0 Mr . W . R ,, Harmony Hall , Hants 0 5 0 Stofce-upon-Trent , per Mr . W . Easou 0 8 8 MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONNOR . FOB VICTIMS . Half Manchester collection 0 9 0 From Mr . Longbottom's book , by J . Milling ton 0 5 6 Mr . J , Birdall 0 0 6 Mr . Nobody 0 0 6 Mr . S . Pearson 0 1 0 Bedford , by A . Z ......... 0 10 0 Shecrness , per Merry ... 0 6 0 S . H ., ptrJ . B . Merry 0 10 : DEFENCES FUND . Mr . Henry Hart 0 1 0 From Nine Persons at White-lee-V&le .. 0 1 6 From Low Liversedge .. 0 0 3 From tho New Town Class of Chartists at Bishopwcarmouth .... 0 2 0 '
i FOK THE EXECUTIVEMr . Morris Donovan ... 0 1 0 Mr . Robert Bradury ... 0 1 0 Doctor Hulley 0 10 0 Half Manchester collection .... 0 9 0 Mr . A . L ' onsdale 0 10 0 Mr . J . Isherwood 0 1 0 Mr . Geo . j Maredea 0 1 0 Mr . S . Taylor 0 0 6 Mr . Joseph Carter 0 I 0 Mr . John Leigh 0 1 0 From the New Town Class of Chartists at Bishopwcarmouth .... 0 2 6 Truro—^ illiam Farr ... 0 1 0 John Jory 0 10 Edward Tregenzer 0 10 William Burridge 0 10 Bedibrd , iby A . Z 0 10 0 FOR MR . M ' DOUALL . Mr . W . Shuttleworth ... 0 3 6 Mr Robert Bradbury ... 0 10 Mr . John ^ Roche 0 1 0 A Friend 0 1 0 Mr . J-leherwood 0 2 0 Mr . John Wier 0 1 0 M . J . Armstrong 0 0 6 Mr . W . Hughes 0 1 0 Three Friends 0 0 6 Mr . J . Anderson 0 0 6 Mr . N . Duckworth 0 0 6 Per Mr . Dixon 0 1 0 Mr . Thomas Elliott 0 1 0 Mr . Robert Bradbury ... 0 0 10 Collected at public-house 0 4 2 i Mr . R . Paver 0 1 6 " Mr . S . Biggo 0 0 6 Mr . J . S . iBuckley 0 0 3 Mrs . Hewett 2 7 6 A Friend 0 0 4 ' Bradford!—A person at Mr . Jones's meeting 0 10 By Mr . Smyths'book ... 0 3 0 CoHectfdlby friends 0 6 8 From the New Town Class of Chartuts at Bishopwearmouth .... 0 5 0 Sheernesa , per J . Merry 0 3 0
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Dreadful and Fatal Accident . —On Monday tho 11 th inst ., a serious accdent ocpurred at Pa ture Hill Colliery , wherebv seven indifiduals lost their lives by a sudden influx , of water . AU those who were in tho other part of the workings escaped , with the exception of one man , who hastened to warn his feUow-workmeu of their danger , but before he could return , hi 3 retreat was cut off by the depth th water had gained . Mr . Bellamy , of North Sunderland , and tho trustees of Bambro ' , Bent then- nifii to aid in reducing the depth of water and rendering every possible assistance . Thf names of the sufferers are : —Men ~ R . Cochrane , John Arkle , Donald Campbell , and John Arkle . Boys-r-Nicholas Mather , James Stephens , and Peter Gallagher .
Mb . Shiel ' s Seeches . —Of all men living , Mr Shiel is distinguished for eloquence the most fiery and rapid ; he says himself that he is characterized by an " infelicitous rapidity of elocution . " No shorthand writer , however expert , can follow out bis " many membered periods " . Aware of this , the Hod . and Learned Gentleman prepares his Fpceches beforehand , arid after delivery gives them to his favourite paper , the Morn ing Chtonicle , whioh , however , does not appropriate them to itself , but gives what are technically called " pulls" to the other journals . It is only when Mr . Shiel intends to speak for two or three hours that he so prepares himself ; when he . makes a short address , say of half an hour , he immediately retires to the library
of the Houso of Commons , or , which is not unfrequently the case , for greater convenience and quiet , he goes off to the office of tho above-named old Whig paper , and there commits to writing what he has just uttered , giving the slips of his copy to the printer as he applies for them . On the second day of the recent Irish Church debate , Mr . Shiel made his appearance in his c ' ub ( the AthenCeum ) as eorly as eleven o'clock in the forenoon ; ho was supplied with an immen-G quantity of paper , folio after folio of reference , including Johnson ' s Quarto Dictionary were piled before him , and with " itae pen of a ready writer , " he mdieted his speech on the Church question . In the coarse of the day ., . Mr . Ward had an intorview with him , and was delighted to find chat he would have the weight of a thorough searching speech from Mr . Siiiel ; they shook hands and parted 1 ; Shiel resumed , and never stopped writing , musing , cr referring to his books until the clock
btrack four . Off he hied to the Housa , and took his seat half au hour afterwards ; it was soon buzzjd about that he was to open his battery in the course of the evening ; but , as your renders are aware , lhat opportunity was cutaway by Mr . Escott moving that the Mouse be counted , whea there were only a few members 1 above thirty present . Mr . Shiel ' s speech ,-however , will keep . One word more—and I hope the most fastidious readers of the Register will not think that the curtain is improperly drawn—Mr . Shiel , ever since his memorable contre-temps at Penendea Heath , several years ago , where the courier of a newspaper ebtaincd from him three columns of a speech , which was printed in that evening ' s paper , but which , owing to aroiu at the meet ing , was never delivered—Jias always taken the procaution of speaking his speeches before he gives them ia Mb . —London Correspondent in the Edinburgh Register .
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The Storm in Scotland . —Up till Tuesday night the weather had been calm , and except for a few light rains , on the whole { favourable for gathering in the odds and ends of the harvest , and for raising the potato crop . Wednesday , however , was ushered in with torrents of raiu , i whioh continued to fall without interruption the whole day , accempanied by sudden and fierce gusts of Jwind , increasing towards evening to the wildest tempest , and the rain pouring out as if the whole sky had become one vast waterspout . About nine o ' clock the hurricane was at its height ; aad Thursday morning was again calm , cold , and clear : but when day broke the whole range
of the Oohills was coated wiih snow as in the depth of winter ; and farther west , Benlidi and Bcnlomond were glittering like two mighty icebergs to the sun , presenting a singular contrast to our own Pentlands , which were still fresh and verdant as in high summflr . Yesterday morning the thermometor stood at 28 , with ice ou the pools half an inch thick . The potatos were to some small extent washed bare by the tremendous rain of Wednesday , and although a few have been injured by the frost of yesterday morning , we were happy to learn from several persons occupied in lifting them , that the injury has been to a very email extent , —Caledonian
Mercury . 1 Suicide . —Mr . Gibson , aged fifty-seven , official assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy , committed suicide , by hanging himself on Friday the 13 mi lust ., at his house , No . 9 , Blandford Square , London . A j ury on view of the body was holden on Saturday before T . Wakley , M . P ., when a verdict "that deceased had destroyed himself , being at the time in an unsound state of mind , '' was agreed to by twelve of the jurors ; one of the jury ( not included in the twelve ) dissented from the : verdict .
Death 0 ? the Bishop of Lichfield . —The Rev . Dr . Bow 6 tead , Bishop of ] Lichfiold and Coventry expired after a painful illness , on Wednesday the 11 th inst ., at Clifton Wells , noar Bristol . The deceased was a Whig in politics and strongly adverse to the tractarian doctrines recently introdaced into the Church . He was consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1838 , and on ithe deaCh of Dr . Samnel Butler , the learned editor of " . / E ^ chyllus" and master of Shrewsbury School , in 1840 , he was translated to the seo of Lichfield and Coventry . For some timo he was pFebendary of Salisbury We understand that , on Friday last , the mortal remains of the Right Rjv . Prelate were removed from Clifton to Eccleshall Castle , Staffordshire , prior to being deposited iu Lichfield Cathedral .
The Clock of St . Clement's . —Our publisher is greatly inconvenienced by ) parties coming into the office to inquire why all the four dials of the clock of St . Clement ' s tell a different story , and why every one of them is always wrong . If the clock cannot keep going let it turn off all its hands , wind up its affairs , and retire at once from public observation ; but let it not attempt to occupy a high and prominent position , if it is unable to fill it with credit to itself and profit to tho community . We have put up with more from this clock than frem any other public servant . We thought it might only want time to
bring itself round ; but finding it will not give us anyhmr , we will no longer give it any quarter . We expected a meeting ofjthe hands the other day at twelve o ' clock , but it did not occur , and things remain in the same uncertainty . We feel justified in calling on the clock for au account of its works ; and , if no minutes have been kept , we shall leave the publio to judge of the entire matter . Since writing ihe abovo , we have been told that it is the hourhand whioh refuses to move in the affair , but that tbe minute-Hand is quite ready to second aaything reasonable . —Punch . \
The late Mrs . GouDiEi Bcrn 9 * Cottage — The Ayr Advertizcr , oflastwejek , notices the death , at Burns' Cottage , of the relict of the late John Goudie , better known in the annals of the laud of Burns as " Miller Goudie . " Mrs . Goudie was in her 70 th year , and till within a few years &f her death wa 3 in her usual health , —receiving , with the same kindly and somewhat maternal hospitality , every addition to the many thousands whom she had welcomed to the humble birthplace of the poet . No one who ever visited the cottage—not even the most eminent and fastidious in the literary world—but dropped something like a blessing upon the tidy old landlady , who kept the cottage as bright and clean as they could wish tho poet's fame . — [ In ithe Star of August 26 th , in G . J . Harney's " Northern Tour " , appeared a notice of Burns' Cottage and its now deceased occupier . Mrs . Goudie , was then apparently well and hearty . She has now followed her partner to " the land o' the leal . ' 1 !
The Heroes of War and op Scifnce . —As au instance of men of a modern era , let us take Napoleon Buonaparte , Emperor of France , and James Watt of Greenock , civil ) engineer . The former applied the energies of a sagacious and comprehensive intellect to His own political aggrandizement ; the latter devoted his more modest talents to the improvement of a mechanical engine . Tho former was and is par exce / tence , a hero of history—we should scarcely find in the worksjof the most voluminous anaiists the name of the latter . What has Napoleon done to entitle his name to occupy so prominent a position f Ho has been the cause , mediate or immediate , of sacrificing the live * of two millions of men . Has the obscure Watt done nothing to merit in the
records of mankind 1 Walk ten miles in any manufacturing district ; enter any coal mine ; examine the bank of England , travel byjthe Great Western railway , or navigate the Danube , the Mediterranean , the Indian or the Atlantic Ooaan—in each and all of these , that giant slave , the steam-engine , will be seen , an ever-living testimony to the services rendered to mankind by its subjugator . Attachment to a favourite pursuit is undoubtedly calculated to bias the judgement 4 but , however liable may be the obscure votary to science j to override his hobby , Francis BacoD , Lord High' Chancellor of England , iu ascribing to scientific discoverers a higher merit than to legislators , emperors , or patriots , cannot be open to the charge of egotistic partiality . What , then , says this illnstrious witness ?— " The
introduction of noble inventions seems to bold by far the most noblo placo among ah human actions . And this was tho judgement ofj antiquity , -which attributed divine honours to inventors , but conferred only heroical honours upon those who deserve well in civil affairs , such as the founders of empires , legislators , and deliverers of their icouutry . And whoever rightly considers it , will find this a judicious custom in former ages , since the benefits of inventors may extend to all mankind , but civil benefits seldom descend to more than a few ages , whereas inventions are perpetuated through the ' eourseof time . Besides , a state is seldom amended in its civil affairs without force and perturbation ; whilst inventions Bpread their advantage without doing injury or causing a disturbance . —Blackwood's Magazine . THE REMEDY . Tho spring pnts forth its buds and flowers , And vernal glories cladjthe bowers ; And bursting from its wiutry tomb , Earth smiles in universal bloom . The feather'd warblors on the spray , In anthems greet returning May ; Agaiu the murmuiiug streamlets now , Aud all seems harmony below . Shall man alone bear grief ' s impress , Unmoved by nature ' s loveliness 2 Shall the belief he soon must , die Call from his breast the ; bitter sigh \ No !—for if nature he' ]]) pursue , Health and long Hie will be his due ; For dread of death no longer chills Those who have taken Parr ' s Life Pills .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 21, 1843, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1235/page/6/
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