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      «««« laff «« .- _ Krpl . The government has already « Wirf « i thatlaics should be « aUed to form partoftueirft geS sjnod Ktacn is shortly to be convoked ; but as 552 determined not to accept any proposition on thectanJes the Protestant church except from the ecclesiastical auttontus themselves , U cannot decide a » ytlTng rdatW 1 * 1 ^ 7 ^ ™**™ * tte pmiMialinoJ , before Sfn * T ^ * " **««» of the general synod . 2-S ? noftb » Mi ™ nofthecodeS andtheintroduction of thejury . _ Repls : Considering the importance of theqnestaon preparatory studies of ereat extent are recalafif « K . --KrpW- The govermnenth -r- !>* pt 3 £ af 22

      quired , and they are not yet terminated . The Diets are therefore recommended to wait with confidence the result of the delibera ions of the competent authorities . 3 . Meeting of the States-General , and proclamation of a constitution for the whole kingdom . —Reply : The DieU , in their address of March 10 , 1815 , having expressed their confidence in the promise which we made in 1813 , relative to the devdopuient of their constitution , we do not see why they make mention of the petitions addressed to them on this subject . We thank the minority for having shown the inutility of such a proceeding , 4 . Publicity of the discussions

      in the Diets , within certain limits . —Reply : We refuse to comyly with the prayer of this petition , a . To communicate to the Diets at least six weeks before the opening of the session the propositions which the government wishes to bring forward . —Keply : We shall com . munieate to the Diets such propositions as we please , and when we think it advisable . 6 . To reduce the amount of ten years of territorial possession , required as one of the conditions of eligibility for the representatives of the tjtvns in the Diets , and in general to increase the circle of eligibility in towns . —Reply : Peremptory refusal . 7 . Reform of the legislation relative to the press , and less severity in the censorship . —Rvply : The complaints-of the petitioners are anything but well-founded . The press , in fact , needs an amelioration , but only to prevent in a more efficient manner the transgression of the limits

      which are imposed upon it , in the interest of public order , and of the reputation of private individuals . S . Emancipation of the Jews " . —Reply : The government is bnded with a general system of legislation for all things relating to the Jews in a civil as well as a religious point of new . 9 . To replace tlie duties on the grinding of corn and the killing of cattle by a direct tax . Keply : Not at preseut ; but the government w . ll see if it be possible to lower by degrees the amount of those imposts and to prepare a general modification . 10 . The Diet pronounces agaiust protective duties , and demands the free entry o : iron into the province . —Reply : In the changes which are to be effected in the tariff , th « govern , ment will take into consideration the interests of the whole kingdom . As to tke free entry of iron , it cannot be granted . "

      lliis thanking of ; the minority reminds us very much of friend Sturge ' s abandonment of the chair and conference at Birmingham , declaring that the minority had all the wisdom and justice on their side . However , hi that as it may , the Autocrat of Prussia may rest assured that men with , arras in their hands , are net going to be goreraed by the Jierlin State Gazetu editor , with a goose-quill in his band ; for . as sure as the sun rises and sets , so sure will the enlightened mind of Prussia give to Europe the next signal of constitutional advance , unless , indeed our Charter twinkles in the firmament before .

      Another RotAL Iratxr . —We give the following specimen of the terror that ever haunts the guilty raiud . Cromwell was afraid to sleep two niguts in the same place , and the tyrant Nicholas , as will be learned from the following sketch , fears least the very walls of his room should hear his dreaming grunts for blood and cruelty . There is great hope for genius and justice when tyrants tremble before their thrones , while there can be but little respect amongst foreigners for the English , who allowed the

      same devil to be feasted in their laxd while their own poor were starving . But it was the press , the base , bloody , and brutal press of England that brutin \ -d the English mind whilst smothering the moans of Poland , aud the wail ' ings that were only heard in the desert , because their creator was the guest of our 0 . BEES forsoath . We rejoice that this tvrant cannot sleep quietly in his bed . We wish , frani our souls , that the chambermaid or lacqueys had poked him into the leather bag , and sent htm as a welcome offering to the inhabitants of the wilds of Siberia :

      The Expenoit of Rossia . — " A letter from Venice , ' says the Coiutitatiwtnd , " speaks of the extraordinary precautions taken hy the Empuror Nicholas to escape all attempts that might be made against his life . On his arrival at Padua he himself visited the apartment in which he was to sleep , striking the walls of his bedchamber with a hammer , lie then caused the mattresses of the bed to be removed and replaced by a leather mattresses , which was filled wit ' i hay under his eyas . The Einf eror refused to taste any of the dishes prepered for

      Jus supper , and called for his travelling case , ontof which he took a bo tie of Malaga wine aud a cold roast fewl , which he shared with count Orl . ff . At Venice the public expected him with much impatience at die theatre , but he remained in the b > tiom of the box , and could scarcely be seen . Count Orloff sat in the front , attired in a rich uniform . When the play was over , four carriages drove up to the gate , aud nobody could tell which was the one intended for the Emperor . The same precaution was observed when he left Venice , and no one could tell whether the Emperor repaired by sm . or land to Trieste . "

      ihank God for that . What honest man would lire au hour if he was obliged to hammer the brains out of the walls for fear lie should talk of his own misdeeds in ids sleep . More op the Amiabimtt of the " Pet" of the English Press . — " The Emperor Nicholas ! eft Vienna by the Olmutz road , in the morning of the 2 nd inst . lie had a conference of several hours with Prince Metternich on the 1 st , and dined in the evening with the Imperial family , llis Majesty paid , on the 1 st , a visit to the Duke of Bordeaux , who had just arrived from Frohsdorff . Our own private letters refer to ( in Russia ) a must extraordinary

      proceeding . It appears that the brother of Madame Ktssiliff , lady of the Russian Minister in Paris—a man of immense wealth and influence—had been exiled " towards" Siberia , by order of the Emperor , llis sister ( . Madame Kissiliff ) , when she heard of the outrage perpetrated on her brother , remonstrated so forcibly , that she received an order to join aud accompany him in his exile 1 Immediately on hearing j these facts , M . Kissiliff sent orders by express to I arrest the culprits ( if we must so call them ) on their | reute , and release them from a punishment so odious . I' Further , ' says our correspondent , ' we know not of I this wti' / ueaffair . '"

      WEDNESDAY . Free Trade Again . —The Times , true to its calling , and determined to have its " Daily Bread" whoever shall tall short , belabours the Dukes of Richmond aud Buckingham even more sordidl y and vulgarly than Cobden and Bright were wont to receive chastisement from the Thunderer , The article of this morning is so truly descriptive of the conduct of a thorough-paced bawd , after she finds that out and out prostitution is to constitute her future stock in trade , tiiat we should like to place the w s before our readers , bat for her im . neme length . There is one passage which so bzspi-aks the virtue of patriotism that we cannot avoid quoting it . The Times says , " Once let everybody iu England get his mouthfni of bread , and there is an end of our glorious constitution , which it now appears was framed with the

      express intention of preventing so horrid a consummation . " We would ask the Tines , who U as hopelessly ignorant upon the subject of free trade as Joe Hume is of arithmetic , whetiicr the free traders , with the commanding power of machinery , are just the meu to allow of such a catastrophe as that of the constitution being tivertkrown or even weakcued by so dire a calamity as that of every labouring nun having enough of bread . Ths TkunuWer argues that the measure of free trade will not receive opposition from the Lords because all the old " fogies" are not to be found upon the public ' mstingd . This is purely Timss reasoning , for we might with equal propriety argue that it would not receive much support in the Common !! , as we find its advocacy on the hustings confined to Cobden and his Mile . By this day week we shall be able to have a hearty laugh at Great Jove when he runs away from his own Thunder .

      Moxet Mauket . —Notwithstanding that the Government Commissioner still continues to " operate , " upon tlio patient , the disease is but little abated , ami symptoms of decline have become more and more manifest . The reasons , it is true , are now peeping out as Parliament is about to meet , and when they cannot much longer be concealed , and when , notwithstanding the polite reserve of the "fascinatity pwrncier" aud chief bookkeeper , the minor clerk * on 'Change arc beginning to " smellthe rat" as he comes to the month of the hole , long as the tunnel may be . Texas and Mexico , then , are the rat-holes , and Republicanism is the great nit ; but . of this under its proper head . Piuxce Albert and ms Landlords . —We take the following 4 Kira ; ranh from the Times : —

      We are authorised to give the most express contra , diction to the statement put forth at the late vestry meeting at AVindsor , that the late King George HI . and his successors uniformly paid rates for the Flemish Farm , such bung directly coutrary to the facts . It is true that when this farm was let to a tenant tlie rates were paid in tlie usual course , but since the tenant quitted possession , in 1 S 30 , the farm has uniformly been in the hands of the Crown , aud no rates have ever since beeu paid . We have every reason to believe thit when tlie memorial agreed to at tlie vestry , disclaiming the legal liability , has been presented , it ie his Royal Higlmess ' s intention to pay a sum equivalent to the rates , as no question touching the 1 'rerogative of the Crowu can now arise .

      Now , was there ever such rubbish as the above ? What , then , if members of the Royal family purchase a whole parish , the result must be that the paupers in that parish lose their title to relief . Wa are told that when George the Third held Flemish Farm he paid no poor-rates , but when a tenant subsequently took it lie ( tlie tenant ) paid poor-rates . This admission may be made to serve a double purpose , firstly , one of tke principles nf political economy , and secondly , the principle of royal dependence . " We are told the population already presses hardly upon the means of subsistence . No wonder , when the Prince steals the paupers' laud , aud feeds pheasants where peasants should be allowed to feed themselves . Secondly , it

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      ii The Ibish Millek . —If laws are to be made to grind the faces of the poor , we don't see why the miller should Lnot grind those who execute the laws ; at all events , we give the following attempt at the practice : — In our last we mentioned the search for unregistered arms on the premises of William Buckl y , the miller , at BaUyclonghduff , and we have been furnished with the following particulars by an eye-wituess : —Sub-inspector Pallon having got information that Buckl y had a quantity of arms concealed in his mill , prodded himself with a warrant and proceeded to Muate , ordered head constable Green to turn out a certain number of the constabulary under his command , and marched at their head to Ballyclonghduft ; where , dispersing the men , so that no one could escape , he proceeded to Bac % " s house , and The Ihish Miller . —If laws are to be made to a ^^/^ CX ^ l ^ Ai 6

      showing him the warrant , asked him to give up the double-barrelled gun and the other arms mentioned in the warrant . Buddy replied if the police were drawn off he wonld surrender them . This Mr . Fallin refused to do , and on finding that the head-constable and four police were on the water-wheel searching it , he cried ont to his son to lift the sluice and drown them alL This young rascal proceeded to do so , and was in the very act of effecting it , when one of the police ( sub-constable Pennell ) sprang forward , and , placing bis carbine at his breast , swore he would drive the contents of it through htm if he did not desist . Had this diabolical attempt succeeded , it would have earned the deaths of head-coxstable Green and four meu with him on the wheel where the arms were found .

      VTiut ' s sauce fou the Goose is sauce tor THE ixAXDEH . —TnE ' * XaTIO . n" AXO TUE AlIOKxet-Iieseral . —The Siition * aw no reason why Patrick O'lliggius should not be served up to the O'Connell repast with sedition sauce , but now that the Xation is served up Trith thesame sauce to the Attorney-General ' s table , there is tremenlous lowling . It appears that Jonathan Qenn , the very ablest advocate at the Irish bar , was retained by the Crown for the prosecution of Mr . Duffy bsfore the informations were sworn , and upon Mr . Duffy applying to retain Mr . Qenn , that gentleman announced the fact that he had b ^ en already retained bv the Grown . Now , great as our hatred " is of all prosecutions and persecutions for the expression of opinion , we aver , without fear of contradiction , that but for the servility of the Irish press , aud but for its baseness aud prostitution when the English Chartists were

      prosecuted , the law of sedition , or rattier the whim of authority , would now be an obsolete tiling , a mere remnant of ancient absurdity . O'Conuell and the Irish press ferrettjd us out for prosecution , laughed at oar sufferings , and denounced us as traitors . They have each in turn had a taste of the sauce aud 110 \ V DO TUEY LIKE IT NOW ? Not a word about all the ablest counsel being retained against the Chartists . Not a word about packed juries aud bloody-minded judges . No , no , it was all right then , but now ! that the fox has got amongsttue Irish geese , Mr . Duffy tells us that nothing ever has been done or ever can be done for the liberty of a country except bv the publication of seditious libels . Well * then , why did'nt Mr . Daffy publish Patrick O'llig gins" seditious libel , especially when he had the opinion of the Literator that it was the verv MOST SEDITIOUS PUBLICATION he had ever seen

      We must presume , according to Mr . Duffy ' s mode ot arguing , the greater the sedition the greater the benefit " to IrishlUlorty . Again , theu , we ask , why did he not publish it ? Two young Sheers two of the most noble spirits that Ireland ever gave birth to , were hung in

      1703—Who fears to talk of ' 35 . By the brutal law of Edward it required tv ? o witnesses to prove an overt act of treason , the father of those two young men , bursting with loyalty , brought a bill into the Irish House of Commons to make one witness sufficient , and scarcely was the Royal assent dry upon the parchment , when the two sons were dragged from the dock to the prison , and there hung , embowelled before they were dead , then beheaded , and after death their bodies divided into fourqiurters , according to the law made by their own father . JJoral : If men will dig pits for others , or assist tyrants in making Jaws , when they fall into the oue , or are entrapped into the other , tiiey have no oue to blame but themselves , and should lie without murmuring in the bed they have made far others .

      The persecution of O'lliggins is but a poar return for the maulv indignation of the English Chartists at the prosecution of O'ConnelL Daffy , Gray , Barrett and Co . Three of those worthies have the management , we were about to say the command , of news papers ; and the other has the coatroul of the liberal press , and yet not one has dared to ineution the name of O'lliggins except to damn him . Mr . Daffy lias printed three columns in the Xatioa upon his own case ; if he had printed one upon O'Ui g ^ ins' we would publish every line of his , but he must be just before we aw generous .

      TUESDAY . Free Trade . —Still the war rages between the land and money slave-drivers , and in order to show that the Protectionists are resolved up-m lighting the League with their own weapons , we give the following advertisement , duty free , from a protectionist journal : — The Mascfaciubisg of Votes . —Under this title the Sussex Express of Saturday has the following : — " The Anti-Corn Law League have commenced their labours ot purchasing freeholds in Su « sex . Tneir plan is to iurest any person who will pay them ££ > with a comity vote .

      We , however , are in a position to supply Protectionists with the qualification for £ CU , bring £ 3 less ; and therefore any person who maybe anxious to become a voter for East Susses can attu ' n his object by remittiug us that amount , with his proper name aud address . We beg it to be perfectly understood that we have no connotion whatever in this undertaking with auy society ; but through private arrangement , and with a determination to meet the League with their own weapons w e have placed ourselves in the position of securing to any Trotectionist , for the sum nameJ , the rights of a countv vote . "

      _ Thar 3 what they call in Ireland shooting a man Trith his own gun . Now we'll make a bit of a prophecy about this question of free trade , aid we won ' take so long a time as the Tiuits did for the fulfilt ment of its prophecy , we take short of a week , audwe prophecy that the free traders sill be marvellously nettled at Peel ' s version of free trade , while the landlords won ' t nibble at the bait . The landlords appear to have made up their minds that the free traders are to have a bite out of their "haunch , " and that in return the landlords are to have another gorge on the bellies of the poor—that is , that the poor ' s relief fund is to be transferred from the rates to the

      consolidated fund . Thesijuires , however , think that the relief would bs but Irish salvation , as they'd have t « contribute their proportion fc > that augmentation of the consolidated fund out of which the support of the poor was to come , llut , as we cannot disraissTUis sciUEcr with a mere commentary in our summary , we will content ourselves at present by merely observing that Protectionists and Anti-: nonopoli-ti would agree , without a murmur , to doom the last remaining vestage ot the privilege of the paupers , was it not from fear of that vengeance which the poor oppressed will one day assuredly take upon the rich oppressor . We shall wait with feverish anxiety to see what part the poor are to be made to act in this new protection

      The Cors Trade . —We have no change to note since yesterday ' s comment under this head , with the exception of the terrible denunciations which appear in this morning ' s papers , by the farmers , of the suborned coadjutors of the plunderers of labour . Corn continues to tumble like " rolley policy" on the wall , aad all the Qaeeu ' s subjects , * aud all the ( | ueen ' s men , won ' t make " rolley polley right again . " Mjsey . Market . —Worse and worse is all that we have to note in this department of jobbery . There

      is , in spite of ministerial confidence , the Times assurance and the League ' s effrontery , some evil genius presiding over the pockets of the grubbers . They all appear to bs buttoned up , and it will take a slashing tailor to open them for a bit . Court Circgiar . —The tiueen and the royal babies have had a difference as to the terms of the royal speech , the ladies of the household have brought about a mutiny in the nursery , and the Queen says that she'll have a UEADAC 11 E on the 22 ml if the speech is not modified to the taste of the children .

      The Council of llis Itiyal Highness the 1 ' riHee of Wales for the Duciiy of * Cornwall has presented a donation of £ l < J ! i to the Royal College of Chymistry .

      IRELAND . Kkg Pratie Agaix . —What a magical effect the letter and restoration of " little John " had upon the Irish Murphy ' s . Not a word was heard abaut His Majesty and all the diseases with which he was being consumed when the Whigs came back to power and the jobbers hoped to come back to patronage ; but , now that it is all up with them , the Corpor ation Committee continue to reeeive the most frightful accounts of the rdajae of his Majesty . These philanthropists no longer confine themselves to a fourth or a third or a half loss , —we learn now that threefourth ? af the family is dead aad rotten ; and if money dees not come at once for the employment of the poor , * ll Ireland will be a wilderness . Quere , — Will any of j , he Committee starve ? Muslia , nor the devil a'one .

      Foheigs . —Chartism is Prussia . —In one of Mr . 0 Connor ' s leiiere alter his return from the Contia « at , he stated the fact of the Prussians , through tJiejr several ioeerporated boJieu , bavin * 'demanded » eosstrtmaon fran the King absut six years ago , and that themover was laughed at . Twoyearssub-Kqoeotly he brougW it forward again and had a decent nusonty ; after the Chartist petition was presented , Caartism m Frassia made a rapid progress and when the same proposition was recently prtw psnnded the mover had aJar ^ e mrjority in its favour andupanthe reasons teiag ^ subiaitted totheAuti ' crat , he condescended to vouchsafe the following reply , through his representative , the Berlin State Gazette : —

      THE KISC GF PBCSfli ASD BIS VEOtLt . IhtBerlin State tiattltegivvs ihe folloniag as the replies made by the government tu ths demands addressed to it by the Viet of the province of Prussia : — ¦ " 1 . Participation of the lay member ; of religious eommnitieiin th e-iiscussions and resolutions on % cl ? si 8 £ ti .

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      "«"lL ? nYo ? d f ^ . whether the ^ al *' amilj ought to hold any land , or whether they should not rather , as the principal paupers , be dependent upon an annual vote of supply . &w we C 0 P nteml fo it that a monarch has no right whatever to any particle of property beyond whatis annually vote d by ailouse of Commons , representing the whole peSle and turns are the first peep into the slSfC ^ a ^ f ' SLffA *^* i . ** .. * v * ^ i

      sently the astonuhed gazers , when thcy ^ the rat possessions of the Crown and the arstocracy-S race-courses , the deer-parks , the preserves tlm ft . rests , the sheep-walks ? the exercise Sds with mansions for horses , the Commons encCd and all the rest of the embezzlement ,-wiH exclaim , "Eh ' dearee me , why ever should we go to America to ll ™ L ° m& , them « " » TS ? fcJ Eie tat L in « ' 7 ieft T . could have il at £ n £ Jr »™ n / f thera . there k " ^ and lords and S ^ » i J ?? and parsons ' g » anlians and gamblers , and fat horses and do « s , and deers and nlr V tyv- ' , ktter protected by law nor wepoordenls be , that all is talking so feeling lmkeabout . hh ! d- d if it baint better for £ ?'« T i . « olves . « " « ee if we baint better w the land and wi ' owt them there tomfoolery than wi owt the land and all tkat there rubbi

      sn . " Perhaps such change asis referred to above may be aho referred to m the following squeak , which we take troiu the Morning papers : — Another Sign . —At the Gloucester sessions , on Tuesday last , Mr . Craven Berkeley , M . P . fer Cheltenham , objectid to an increase of the expenses of the county , on the grouud that " a great change was about to take place iu the agricultural interest ; " and Earl FiUhardinge observsd , that" Uioy could not shut their eyes to the fact thatseme greatcuange would tike place . " Possiblv Earl FitiUardiuge does not care how soon .

      IRELASB . CoxcaiATio . v IIall JuuoLenv . —Look here , mv friends—you see that plain sheet of paper ; there " look at it , it ' s what the clumsy old jugglers used to turn into my lady ' s table , my lai . ' y ' s bedstead ; now you see it ' s an arm-chair—now you see it ' s a fishiii » boat , to go a fishing in—now ' it ' s ray lady ' s nigh £ cap , now it ' s a baby ' s cradle . Now , ladies and gentlemen , this here was the old rubbish that them there old pickpockets was in the habit of deceiving hoaest folks with—but see here , you sec that ? No . Law , Mr . Showman , what is it ? Eh , my little dears , it ' s nothing at all yet ; but look now , there ' s ould Ireland ! Oh dear , how beautisome ' . —there ' s Catholic emancipation ! there ' s justice to Ireland ! There ' s the Repeal of the Union—there ' s the Precursors ' Society , to see if we can do without it . There ' s a Jury law ; you see twelve men there upanyourvight , that won't find no Irishman guilty whatsomever he

      does . There ' s a great sight for you—there ' s the " glorious , pious , and immortal memory , " in a glass of the Botne Water . There ' s Federalism . Eh , whatever is that ? Muslia , but that ' s a quare thing ! And there , ladies and gentlemen there ' s a great sight for you—there ' s the " Holy Protestant Alliance ! " And is that all , Mr . Showman ? No , my little dears , one more . Look here ! Oh , how beautisome . What ' s that , Mr . Showmau ? . THAT ' S TUE ROT , MY LITTLE DEARS ! : Well , so Dan has actually offered to merge the Repeal into the lloly Protestant Alliance , though , of couwe he says in the outset , that he never will abandon Re peal ; but then he'll join the lloly Protestant Aliance for ould Ireland ! Oh , you humbugging old rascal!—is it to get rid of the Holy Protestant Alliance that the brave Irish have been struggling for centuries !—and but for you they'd have done it in 1 . 831 , in 1 S 32 , or in any year from that to 1810 !

      The Yousg Liuebator . —The second Daniel , it appears , is to be returned for Dunilalk upon the Repeal interest . In 1834 we had 43 Irish Repeal members a staff that could have shaken tyranny from its throne , and could have carried every beneficial measure for Ireland , even to the Repeal . Let us see , now that another Repeal election farce U to be enacted , what has become of the Master Quills in the Repeal wing . Dan has been silent and has said that it is treason to mention the subject in the house . His son Maurice says ditto . His son John echoes it . llis son Morgan has a snug place for life and dare not mention it , and gave up the county of Mcath for tlie bone . His son-in-law , Fitzsitnon has a very > nug berth and gave up the comity of Dublin for the fat ™

      His son-in- ' aw , Charles O'Connell gave up Kerry county for his share of the pickings . His brothel in-law Finn , the best of the lot , resigned Kilkenny county for "a consideration . " Carew O'Dwyer evacuated Drogheda upon a like INSULT . Sir Nicholas Fitzsiinon , the potbelly police justice , abandoned the King ' s county for his share of the dripping . All the others who would not answer for the tool box have either been denounced as the greatest enemies of Ireland , or whipped to the Conciliation Hall , to whistle in chorus with the great juggler—to live in hope for the next day ' s sale . Now this is a picture so faithful and true , with the names « f the traitors who deserted for pelf , that no mortal man can either deny it or justify it .

      Dufft and the Saxos Law . —Dan didn't open Ii ' lips upon Duffy ' s sedition at Conciliation Hall , lest he might be answered with the cry of " Muslia , be gorra , bus its worse nor Paddy O'Higgins ! " The grand jury wore to find true bills of indictment against Mr . Dutfy yesterday . We say were to find them , for the business of a Saxon grand jury u to find true bills against ever } - Irishman that goes before them . This reminds us of rather a curious anecdote . In 1832 , when the Liberator enrolled the Irish Volunteers , and exacted a guinea each " smart money , " instead of giving " bounty , " honest Jack Lawless and Feargus O'Connor were amongst the first who enlisted ; and upon the same day Mr . Lawless dined with Mr . O'Connor , when Lawless , shoving his fingers through his hair , as was his custom when

      anything amused him , exclaimed , with an oath " By G— , O'Connor , this is the funniest thing 1 everheard . The Colonel of the Irish Volunteers has registered a vow in heaven NOT TO FIGHT ; anil byG— , I think the Colonel of the Irish Volunteers should figlit every man that asks him . " It is the duty of an Irish grand jury to find bills against all Irishmen . Oh , if the Xation had dealt fairly , justly , and honourably , by our Chartist friend O ' ' lli «« iiis ' what sympathy Mr . Duffy would have had ironTtuis side of the water ! What resolutions what meetings , what addresses , and what le . iding articles ! We would have adopted nis sedition , and thus tested the difference between PURE Saxcn law based upon bold opinion , and Saxon law emboldened by the subserviency of the Iri- h press .

      Tub Grubbers . —The Irish grubbers are to meet at Conciliation Hall before thev come to London in a body to give the POOR L ' iTTLE FACTORY CHILDREN cheap bread . The Rest for the week was £ 164 ; many districts having refused to contribute anything in aid of government prosecutions . We rejoice that the Irish people are at length beginning to open their eyes . UOURIBLK AND lillUTAl . ATTEMPT OF Moi . LT Maguire to Dkstrot Human- Life . — "A most diabolical and wicked attempt to murder a highly respectable family residing in the city ef Oxford was made on the night of Friday last , betwecu the hours of ten and eleven o ' clock , but most providentially frustrated . It appears that the policeman on duty

      on the above evening observed at a distance something attached to the front sitting-room window of Mr . Samuel Quartermaine , who resides in Alfredstreet , High-street . He immediately went to the window shutter and took it down , when he discovered that it was of a combustible nature . He then took it into the house , and to the horror and consternation of the family it proved to be a petard , containing three and a half ounces of gunpowder , bound very tightly round with paper forty folds thick , and covered ° with string which had the appearance of having been dipped in turpentine , the whole weighing eleven ounces and a half . It was attached to the shutter by an awl similar to those used by harness-makers and shoe-makers , having the mark " of wax-thread round

      the handle ; and upon further investigation it was discovered that tlie fuseo had been lighted and had partially burnt the shutter , but fortunately , owing to the materials being damp , it did uot explode . If it had , the consequences must have baen dreadful in the extreme , as Mr . Quartermaine had all his family and a friend at his house that evening , who were sitting in the front parlour . Himself and daughter were occupying seats clo * e to the window , and , had the explosion taken place , they could not have possibly escaped with their lives . A reward of £ 100 has been offered for the discovery of the miscivanr , and we hope ore long that he will ba brought to condign punishment . Mr . Quarteriuaiue is a highly respectable livery-stable-keeper , and is well known in the sporting world . "

      We really beg Mrs . Maguire ' s pardon ten thousand time ? . We extracted the above from the Times newspaper of this morning , and from the base assassinlike attempt , and from seeing it in the Tims , we presumed that it must have been perpetrated by Mrs Maguire or some of her numerous family , butlookin » over the paragraph again we find that it occurred in tue very seat of science , literature , civilization , cliristianity and the arts ( Oxf ord ) -ft xvas a lark o / some of Vie / ly / t-. witcti Colleyians . We would recommend the heads to make immediate application tor a stiuxgest Coercion Bill .

      Iorbion . —Spaw . —The Old Bloodhound . —Naryaez was compell e d to admit iH his speech , as a legislator , thathe had acted illegally , but thai necJtv , the tyrant a prolific plea , had rendered it necessary for him to pumsh the editors of the Clamor Vablieo . We wish that we had a Narvaez in Ireland to nerve the arm of our Irish , cotemporaries . The same tyrant has banished Prince Don Henrique from the kingdom lor having written a liberal address , but the Cortes Mjem perfectly satisfied with every act of the devil ' s tyranny , upon being askured that his Holiness the Pope had written a Ming letter to the Quoen of Spain , in which he addressed her as- " My beloved daughter . Ihere is one portion of the tyrant ' s speech so funny w-A so characteristic of that ascendancy which tyrants think they hold over nature herself

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      «that we cannot forbear publishing M J it . In talking Jof me Hjueen s marriage he says , " Her Majesty has not as yet signified her desire to ' conlractmatrimony . Mnisters have not thought it w . eessary to awake in htr bosom any such sentiments . " We would recommend general iNarvaez to pass an net for the destruction of tupid and all his darts and arrows . Upon the above announcement the folks in the gallery instantly sftiek up the following national anthem , to be sung to the tiueen at the approaching festival : — Do you ever bethinking o / young men Confess the truth I charge ye , For if ye do its a terrible sin Yon should think of none but your clargy . *^ ^ , ™ . ^

      When under the . clothes you are going to repose And find wicked notions intruding , The virgin invoke , give your stomach a stroke . It ' s as good as any charm . When sinking to' rest be thase last words express'd Queen of Angels between us and harm . America , Fbasoe and England . —So , then , wo were not tar wrong after all , when we asserted that Oregon was in the back ground of the belligerent group and that the non-intervention ghost stood prominently in the foreground . It how appears and it would not appear now if it need not appear in the ( iueen s speech ofThursday next , that the annexation ot lexas is after all to be t . ' ie cusus belli , ( the cause of

      war ) between Monarchical Europe and Republican America , Elsewhere will be found the correspondence between M . Guizot , the French minister of war , and his deputy at Washington , and the assurance of Lord Aberdeen , that communications of a like nature had been made to his deputy at the same place . Tlie raising the English militia of 40 , 000 and an American militia . of 200 . 000 , is no \ y ; perfectly explained , but still there is a difference between the order to raise militia and the doing of it—The mind of this country has undergone a tremend < us change since meii allowed themselves to be 1 allowed for like slaves , mercenaries , and , cut-throats to light for the privileges and properties of their opprussors . We ' trust that the cry of

      NO VOTE , NO MUSKET , will fly through the land like wildfire . We early announced the importance to America , and to the democratic force all over the world , of the non-intervention policy . No doubt the Autocrat of Prussia will be very glad , " usinsa existing circumstances , " to join the league of Kings against tlie league of People . Upon the Queen ' s first visit to the Kins of the French , we announced the real intention of that visit to be the formation of such a league for the preservation of those silly privileges and dangerous powers which wisdom and knowled ge are now attacking on all sides , and before which they must , sooner or later , "drift as snow before the wind . " M . Guizot ' s deference to the wish of the majority is very

      statesmanlike . He says that although Franoe and England will consider their wishes RESPECTFULLY , yet they wont tolerate their fulfilment ; and , knowing that thcy can "opbiutb" upon the breeches pockets of Mr . Houston , the President of Texas , M . Guizot , in his practical love of democracy , is satisfied to consider him as a MAJORITY against the Republic of America and Texas . The cunning minister would arouse our sympathy by persuading us that it is altogether a question of the slave-owners of tlie Southern States , but he appears to have forgotten that Lord Palmcrston boldly and truly declared in the House of Commons last session that the whole pre * of France was in the PAY OF THE SLAVEOWN EltS . Now then we shall have a rumpus , and no mistake . So , hurrah for

      'Sokillee , no havee , Massa ;" No Vote , no Musket , Mabsa

      THURSDAY . Free Trade . —The mice had a play of their own last night , at Covent Garden , as the cat was away . Cobden , we presume , was starring it in the provinces , or rehearsing his part in the new piece to be performed at St . Stephen ' s . The fiddle was also absent , and consequently the proceedings were deficient in fun and interest . Cobden is certainly the best actor in the company , and Bright , within himself , comprises the estimable qualiiies of the useful man , wlio combined the heavy and the light by bringing on a trunk and taking " offa letter . We are not aware that we ever mentioned the gag put upon Bright ' s mouth by a shoemaker at the Northampton meeting . "See , " says Bright , '' what impracticable people the Chartists are ! They have their six

      points , which I will compare to six waggons ; and they want to drive these six waggons through a gateway together , while we find it too narrow to get one waggon through . " ( Great cheering from the League . ) — " D—n thee , thou fooile , why doesn ' t thou help us to make gate wide enough to send all through together ? " ( Tremendous laughter and cheers followed this trite observation , which literallv flabbergasted poor Bright , when he was driven to the necessity of teaching the meeting how to make bread ont of iron ; when anailor again stopped him with , " Why , mon , our guts would all get rusty ' . " )—Upon the whole , we have a . notion that Cobden and the fiddle arc beginning to look from the moral to the political of free trade—from the big loaf of the operative to the loaves and fishes of Do wning-street .

      The "Times" and its New Masters . —The . Times of this morning evinces the truth of the old proverb , that it is impossible " to serve two masters . " We really long for Wednesday , in the hope of seeing a refreshing journal from the pens of Jorrold and Dickens . The Thunderer , in its attempt to keep up the tree-trade clash , is absolutely piling rubbish upon rubbish until it is difficult to tell whether its notions upon agricultural and political econothy are drawn from Virgil , the Bible , or Arthur Xou ' ng : but one thins is quite certain , that in the attempt to prop the free trade building the architect is dilapidating , nay , pulling down the old temple of political economy . It is a favoured maxim of tho League that population presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , while

      the Times assures us that deficient roruLATios all over the world will preclude the possibility of furnishing a surplus of food . Perhaps the Times , or the political economists of sixty years ago , would have enforced the impossibility of producing a surplus of cotton stuffs , and of the fallacy of supposing that the manufacturers of them could be waked in the midst of their own production . The Times does not understand a single particle o ? the science of agriculture ; we do , and we now tell the writer of this newspaper " stuff , " that ere long tho improvements in machinery will set the disinherited operatives thinking as to how they can get the land , and when they do acquire it , England alone , with her how surplus population , cracking stones , picking oakum , and crushing bones

      within the ' walls ot the unions , would produce in England , which is not the most highly favoured wheat growing country , an annual surplus of over twenty million quarters . Now , not justifying the non-consumption of wheat by the Irish people , and supposing that all the oats grown in the country , as well as the potatoes grown , was consumed at home , which would be a vast improvement upon the present diet , what docs the Times think of the answer that t \\ e Irish export of wheat gives to its folly ? The Times commits . in cgregrioHS blunder when it presumes the incapacity of a farmer incrcaring his production from twenty to thirty quarters—not that we mean to say that this ratio * ot progressive improvement could proceed odin / mitum ; but , we do contend that the adoption of the principle laid down by Viv ^ l , which we do not forget having read in our schoolboy days , namely , the dibbling and

      afterculture ot wkcat would ensure a fouv-fold product from the amount of land usually devoted to that crop . What we assert is this , aud no booby with a goose quill in his hand can refute it , that there ar e uot one hundred acres of land in one lo t in England , Ireland , Scotland , or Wales cultivated to one-third of their power . We beg our contemporary to confine his remarks to a comparison of the value and weight of the oratory of the individual belligerents , allowing him the full privilege of alternately praising and bespattering kivlnnond and Cobden , Arthur Lennox and friend Bright ; but , in the name of common sense and decency , to abstain from strictures , comment , or guess upon the capabilities of the soil , because the ignoraHce displayed upon this subject may , and probably will , lead to " the conclusion , that the Thunderer ' s noise is not from Jupiter , but from behind the scenes of that theatre at which the Times maj have an engagement .

      I he Coax Tbauk—We learn from this movninVs reports tram all parts of the country , without exception , that the millers are bitten with the no stock masu , and merely buy from hand to mouth , waiting tor information from St . Stephen ' s corn-mart . Every species of grain " rules" lower , and is more difficult to quit , even at the reduction . The farmers are frantic , the landlords arc rabid , the free-traders are funking , and the iMinister is quaking , as we learn that another black sheep has expressed some squeamishness in the Cabinet .

      Iiie Stock Exchange . —As the time for ministerial development approaches , panic appears to increase in a geometrical progression . All is flatter than yesterday ; while Exchequer-bills , which above all other descriptions of scrip denote ministerial strength and confidence , have partaken of the prevailing epidemic . Agaiu the Government Commissioner has been operating , but the breeches pockets of the patient remain tightly buttoned . Oh ! what a day we shall have on Thursday next , when the Peel balance-sheet makes its appearance on 'Chance ; for mystify it as he may , the shrewd arithmeticians there will see much more in the indefinite term , sundries than all the rest put together . ,. '

      Court Circular . —Her Majesty walked alone in the preserves , for the purpose of rehearsing her part in the new drama , entitled BREAD or NO BREAD to be produced at St . Stephen ' s on Thursday next ! She got amongst a clump of trees , and addressed them as " My lords and gentlemen . " We trust that sue will use tlie expressive and characteristic words ot her august grandfather , George the Third , on Ihursday next , and address tlism as " My lords and peacocks . ' The Queen , Prince Albert , and the Court have had entire new Court dresses from Moses and Son for the occasion . Tlie DEAR little babes were taken their accustomed airing , and went as far as I'lemish Farm , where they were met bv a « roup of starving paupers from Windsor . We are told that the ( iueen s stock of potatoes are running low , anil

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      that ordewhave been issued to lay in a store of Irish oats as a substitute . ^ Prince Albert and the Paupkrs op Windsor . — Common law is based on custom , and nothing but the subserviency of a people can ever constitute bad common law . The truckling authorities of Windsor liavo had the biseness to forego the claims of the poor to tlieir rhjht divine rent from Flemish Farm , and have accepted as a gracious gift that that was ajust , and holy , and Wai claim . The paltry lick-. _ .,.. . .

      spittles , we suppose they dine with the palace scullions now and then , but we trust to the independent spirit ot the kitchen boy and shoeblack , that they will ask . them how they came to compromise the poor ; and we trust to the poor themselves to call them to an account for having received as a gracious royal git , what was theirs by right divine , and to which they had a better title than Prince Albert or the Queen herselt ? It is melanchol y to see how the poor are bought and sold like cattle at a fair Oh tor tlie vote , to make every man his own overseer

      ' Iiie Famine . —On Wednesday next Sir Robert Peel gives a full dress dinner party , to which 200 of his turnspits have been invited . The Queen ' s speech will be rehearsed there , and the two gentlemen nominated as mover and seconder . We understand that a . positive order has been issued that no potatoes should be served up , lest the mover and seconder should get an untimely cholic . We long very much to see this speech ; we suspect that it will be very much like the old gentleman and his ass .

      Iiib Railways . —The frightful accidents that have recently occurred upon several lines from the negligence of the companies' servants is likely to become subjects of parliamentary interference . It is a rule with the directors of the several companies not to allow certain newspapers to be sold at tlieir stations . 1 wo vendors have been threatened with the loss ot STANDING for having so far outraged all decency by offering the Northern Star for sale . How we pity the poor devils who thus reject knowledge , and luxuriate in tlieir ignorance .

      IRELAND . Molly and her Children . —By St . Paul , Molly is an admirable recruiting sergeant , and will soon have as large and much braver a militia than the Government . The news from Ireland is altogether so interesting , that we cannot afford to curtail it by a word . In debating the state of Ireland before the Reform Bill , Sir John Cam Hobhouse said , " You may tranquillisc Ireland when you have a rope round every man ' s neck , or a soldier with a fixed bayonet behind every man ' s back ; " and , from the necessity of distraining for rent and tithes with police and military aid , as noticed in our report , we are inclined to bslieve that one soldier to each Irishman would not be sufficient to insure tranauillitv . When Lord

      Dunfermline was auditor to the Irish estates of the Duke of Devonshire , his grace requested hhn to procure the best information of the grievances of Ireand , and to suggest the most likely remedies . His lonlship , then plain Mr . Abercromby , proceeded upon a tour of instruction , accompanied by the late Mr . Swanston , a driver to the duke , an excellent man , and a Scotchman ( a neighbour of our own ) , who did more to improve the country than half the resident landlords . After a month ' s tour the noble lord was lost in a sea of conflicting representations , and said to Mr . Swanston , we have heard a load of grievances , but I see no remedy , do you ? Yea , mon , replied the Scot , I ken it a ' . What is it says his lordship ? Kasy enough

      was the reply , and itcanna fail whenever an outbreak takes place , I'd hang the nearest landlord , the nearest parson , the nearest attorney , and the nearest agent , on the nearest tree , and you'd never again hear of a squabble in the district . General Sir John Lambert was requested by government to furnish his notion of remedies for Irish grievances , and the gallant general declared that Ireland never could be tranquil until there were milestones on every road , tho names of the owners painted on every cart , finger-posts at every cross road , and until the pavistt beadles wore cocked hats and earned gold-headed canes . Now , . . I j 5

      we say that Ireland never can be tranquil , never ought to be trauqnil , and we hope never will be tranquil , until every man of twenty-one years of age has a vote and a musket , a lease for ever of his holding , tithes abolished root and branch , the magistrates appointed by the people , the bishops removed from the House of Lords , mother church allowed to stand upon her own bottom , the lawyers and barristers sent to the plough , and the Bank of Ireland restored as the senate house of the nation , its members elected b y the free voice of tlie whole people , and , if necessary , separated from English connection , that has operated as a drag-chain upon Irish industry , as a corrupcor ot the Irish press , and as the foul upholder of a devastating church . r

      / The Police and Peasantrt . —The Packet contains the fubjoiueil particulars of a desperate recontre between the peasantry and the police , ift which the latter were repulsed : _•• On Friday , the ! Uh inst ., Mr . 'Williams , contractor , had a number of labourers from Rooskey to work at Carnadg-bridge , on the Shannon , the labourers in that vicinity not being so expert at such work as the Rooskey men . In consequence of some information that opposition would be given , 20 police , under the command of Constable Balfour ( whom I mentioned to you in my last report ) , arrived early in the day in Carnadg to protect the labourers . As soon as this was perceived , scouts were sent off in all directions , and about two o ' clock p . m . a mob of over 800 Molly Maguires arrived at Carnadg and commenced an attack on the labourers and police , all of

      whom were forced t © retire . Unfortunately one of the police was severely injured , and now lies in a dangerous state , hi 3 jaw-bone being broken in two places . jand eight of his teeth being knocked out . It is fortunate that Constable Balfour used such forbearance under such trying circumstances , else the consequences must have been awful . And it is now the surprise of every one in tlie vicinity how they got off so safe . On Thursday , the 8 th , a party of the 8 th Hussars , with a magistrate and some constabulary , accompanied Mv . George Knox ( agent to the Crown ) to the lands of Ballykilcliue , to protect him and his builift ' s while serving some law notices . And on the same day Mr . John R . Malone , Sub-Sheriff , had a party of police and military to protect him in making a seizure for rent , under an execution at the suit of a Mr .

      Uoe against Mr . Little . A meeting of ten magistrates , Mr . \ V . Lloyd , D . L . aud J . P ., in the chair , was held in Strokestown , on the 7 th inst ., to take into consideration the propriety of having a new police-station formed near Hill-street , to protect Mr . Ghnrcli , whose new house was levelled at night a short time siuce . The majority of the magistrates were of opinion that it was more necesary to reinforce the present stations , which have only a few men , wholly inadequate to the state of the country ; the original question was therefore lost , i > nd so the matter ended—Mr . Lloyd receiving a vote of thanks for his conduct in the « hair . Such is the state of this part of the county , 1 eannot help remarking , that if any English county were in such a state of insubordination , I think Sir R . I ' eel would not be so tedious in taking steps to restore tranquillity . The Government arc much to blame foi tlieir supineness . "

      Murder ir : tue Counti of Limerick , —A correspondent of the Evening 1 ' ost says : — "On Sunday evening , a man named Leahy , a tenant of Sir Matthew Harrington , Bart ., was shot dead on the lands of Drumbaniiy , county of Limerick . " To which may be added the following : — "Limerick Chronkle-otiice , Jan . 12 th . To the catalogue of agrarian outrages detailed in Saturday ' s Chronicle , we have to add that tho Aunaody police party , while on patrol last night , encountered an armed band of about twenty Rockites , near Aherne , the seat of General Sir Richard Burke , when : v conthct took place , and shots were exchanged , hy which two policemen were wounded , one severely , and some of the Rockites , who retreated . All the city of Limerick police left this last night for the scene of outrage , and to protect the Annaody police branch , —P . d . The military force returned to this garrison on Saturday night from Knoekscnlry , the estate of Sir C . Molyneux , with three prisoners . "

      Explosion on Boabd a Yacht About two o clock this morning an explosion of gunpowder took plncc on hoard the splendid yacht the Slower of Yarrow , the property of the Marquis of Conynguam , now lying in the Custom-house docks . The vessel immediately took fire in several parts , and but for the prompt attendance of the watch on duty , aided by the plentiful supply of water , would have been speedily reduced to a heap of ashes . By half-past three o'clock the fire was completely extinguished , but not before a vast deal of damage had been done , to the amount , it is supposed , of from £ 500 to £ 1 , 000 . I have heard it stated that the accident occurred from a package of bluclights having ignited and communicated with a canister of gunpowder , which blew up with such violence that a man and boy on board were literally blown out of theiv berths , without , however , suffering any material injury . How the Times bawls for coercion !

      Mb . Duffy . —True bills have been found against Mr . Charles Gavan Dully , by a Saxon grand jury , for the publication of a malicious and seditious libe ' , published in the Nation newspaper . WHY DID'NT

      UE DEFEND 0 'LUG GINS ? Foiieign War being an unprofitable thing just now , the Times recommends that General Narvaez , whom th » Thunderer informs us lias done so much for constitutional liberty in Spain , should proceed to Mexico , as the rallying point against American interference . We guess , however , that the gallant officer has quite as much upon his hands as will confine his operations to his own country ' s sphere for a bit . The fact of the matter is , that the American struggle against European intervention is the contest of the new world of science against the old world of exploded ignorance . Princes are trembling upon tlieir thrones from the just thunder of popular knowledge , directed towards a searching investigation ol long-established tyranny and misrule .

      The Cloud in the West . —As the time approaches for Ministerial development , the butter is coming out of the stirabout , as the Irishman says . Horace says that the first blow is half the battle ; and from the following it will be seentliat Sir Robert fe of the same opinion as the great satirist , A Callao letter , of November 1 , posted in the Liverpool Underwriters' room , says , "The admiral , in her Majesty ' s ship Collingwood , 80 , is at the Marquesas ; her Majesty ' s ship Modeste , 18 , and the steamer Salamander , are in company ; and , after having made the round of the island , he will proceed , it is said , to the Columbia river , where he will bu joined fcy her Majesty ' s ship America ,

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      —^» ALARMING STATE OP THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK . Dublin , Jan . 15 . —The Limerick Chronicle says : —We have to auuounce another conflict between the police and insurgents , in which two of the former were fired at , aud one dangerously wounded ; and not less fearful , two atrocious murders in the county of Limerick , in which respectable farmers were the victims . Add to these a greater number of houses than ever attacked ; in every instance an immediate demand for fire-aims , and in nine cases out of ten the seizure effected . An " encampment of the insurgents" is thus described : —

      "Major H . Doyle , 24 th , in command of two fnll companies of the 24 th and 83 d Regiments , and u iroop of th « 3 d Light Dragoons , left this on Saturday last at one o'clock to disperse a lawless multitude of 1 , 200 to 1 , 500 men , who had collected with fire-arms on the lands of Knocksentry , near Castleconnel ) , the estate of the late Sir Caple Molyueaux , to vesistthe usual process of ejectment for nonpayment » f rent . The insurgents had lormed a sort of intrenchment on the ground , where they bivouacked for 48 hours , with camp fires lighted , and regaled themselves with bread aud whiskey , discharging signal shot to intimidate the bailiff of the property and his assistante . The Castleconuell police party reconnoitred this formidable brigade on Friday , but did not venture within gun-shot range , as the insurgents manifestly

      dared any local force that could be broughtagainst them ,, and kept possession from Thursday night to Saturday , forenosn , without interruption or hindrance . William . S . Tracy , Esq ., police magistrate of Castleconnell , not seeing them disposed to break up , drew out a requisition to Colonel Mancel , K . H ., commanding this garrison , for military aid , as the police under fcis direction ware quite inadequate to cope with the audacious multitude . This gallant veteran promptly responded to the call , and sent out tlie military under Major Doyle , who were accompanied by sub-inspector Brownrig , aud twenty police from this city , and at whose approach the insurgeuts cautiously reduced their outlying scouts , but still kept firm possession of the grounds , and distinctly refused to move off . The surrounding hills were covered with

      peo ple , who began to conceal tlieir fire-anut , but made a strong shew of pitchforks , spaces , aud shovels . Mv . Tracy advanced quietly within hearing of some of the main DOd . v , and stated that it was his duty to order an illegal assemblage of persons like that before him to disperse , and he would be compelled to enforce the law if they did not obey the constituted authorities ; that he did not come there to serve ejectment processes , but to protect the pease from hostile demonstration . This explanatory remons . nuice induced some of the crowds to retire , but many held on and would not stir until Mr . Tracy had twice read tlie Riot Act , and was doiiif so a third time

      when the police and military advanced at s charge , aud the whole multitude rutreated before them , some quietly , others slowly and reluctantly , whilst more at a distance were suen weilding iu defiance their larin implements , and Rhouting to their friends , before the military , ' Steady ; keep your places . ' Having cleared the ground of the insurgents , who dispersed iu various directions , fortunately without a collision , the military and police , after about au hour ' s halt , returned to garrison at 7 in the evening , having brought in with them three prisoners , Patrick Ityan , John O'Brian , and John Bourke , who had been taken with stones iu their hands , shouting and exciting to a riot . "

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      Destitution and Death from Want . —On Friday afternoon a protracted inquiry took place before Mr . Carter , at the Duke of Gloucester tavern , Crosbyrow , Newjngtun , respecting the death of a female child , the illegitimate offspring of Louisa White , of No . 5 , New-street , New Ivcnt-road . The jury having been sworn , proceeded with the coroner to view the body , but when they reached tlie house , the summoning officer informed them that' it would be dangerous for them to enter the apartment , the room was in such a filthy state . There was also a female in the adjoining room , sutfeviug ivom an attack of typhus lever . The body was therefore brought

      down stairs into the passage by tlie officer , and when viewed by the jury , it presented a most shocking spectacle . Louisa White , of No . 5 , Newstreet , deposed that the deceased was her daughter , and was eleven weeks old . At the time she was eonfined she was in great want , being without the common necessaries of life . Witness sent to the workhouse of St . Mary , Ncwington , Walworth-road , where Mr . Bratlly , one of the relieving officers , immediatel granted some assistance , which was continued for four weeks , but at the expiration of that time it was stopped . During the last seven weeks she had been in a state of great want being at times

      , without food for two days together . She had no firing in her room , and slept on a few rags for a bed . Jane Lee , a lodger in the same heuse , stated that shehad often given the woman a cup of tea and a slice ot bread , and if it had not been for the little kindness towards her , both mother and child would hare perished from hunger and cold . She would keep in her room from morning till night rather than let her troubles be known . Tho jury returned the following verdict : " That deceased died from debility of body arising from the want of proper nourishment , which the mother was unable to give it , owing to her state of destitution . *

      Serious Cab Accident . —On Saturday afternoon , between one and two o ' clock , a serious cab accident occurred , by which the driver of the cab , and numerous other persons , had a . narrow escape of their lives . It appears that a cab was passing down Waterloo-place , at a rapid rate , when the horse took fright , and set off in a furious gallop towards the Duke of York ' s column . The driver endeavoured to arrest the progress oi' the animal , but without effect , and , dashing down the steps leading into the park , the cab was overturned , ? . nd the driver thrown beneath it . At the moment there were upjvards-jjf thirty persons on tho spot , who all foriWat ^ S ^ aped in » a jury , as did the sentry , whoJ * a / , wi { a * o \ tescap 4 hiifi tirclock being knocked out 0 Kn ^ r « alio ^ y ime ' ^ p f ^ frJ wheels . The horse broke lOTW ^^ She ' frpntJp ^ art ^ of the cab and the shafts , anJMdlkMe ^ w . ra ^ p ^ glittt ^ park , in the direction of Stof ^ yWr ^ toi ; iiilhearri ^ ed-g at the railings ending the gmneljvalk ^ agifin ^ wlHcb . ' he rushed violently , ami lrJI / Ah » n : lle ., wnrseciired Jbyv ? some bystanders . The iliivot ^ vj ^^ ktrjcfttpd . ih ^ vihg ^ sustained only a few sligh t b ™ s « u 5 % -n ' ¦ ' CO j : $

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      a 0 . This intelli geHcis is in tome degree vuiinrmen by ift extract from the New York Sun , which says , " Our private adviceg-from Monterey , Upper California ( Monterey is about 600 milts from the river Columbia ) , to the middle of October last , came to hand yesterday . The in-• elligenco is important . A British fleet , destined for Oregon , was passing up the west coast , of which our correspondent at Monterey says— ' The pionear of this fleet the British ship of war Amcrica . touchud here some time ago , and the movements of her commander , Captain Gordon , aroused our suspicions at the time . He refused to give any news , saying men-of-war did not carry news . He also refused to carry a circular letter to the United " States'Indian agent at Orejoncity , remarking that he was not sure of going to Columbia river . I have ascertained that Lord Aberdeen , the British Secretary for foreign Affairs , had a brother on board the America , and one of Sir Robert Peel ' s sons was also an officer orpassenger . We were all vevy glnd that these distinguished visitors had every facility extended to them for collecting facts in this vicinity . '"

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      LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . FRANCE . t Polish Nationality . —In the debate on the address in the Chamber of Peers on Thursday the Duke d ' Harcourt presented the following paragraph , which he profoced by an appeal in favour of Polish nationnf Ur ^ 'T' Sire Jr tl ! at justice is tllB surest guarantee of peace , and your Migerty has not forgotten that among the nations fomerly allied to France , there is one whose existence has been solemnl y guaranteed by treaties . " thfriiln t ' 'Vr ' 1 Crril f ^ Sht that it was beneath » . I lty Ot ^ lianc . oftVr cvei'J y « w sterile and superfluous wishes m favour of a nation which she Had it in her power to insist more efficaciously . M . Charles Dupin warmly supported the . paiagraph , and denounced m energetic terms the spiri ; of inW Wl . ikf"r ! H r anim i ltcdthe E * P »«» of Russia , must Catholics alone were persecuted , France and a few oiher nations , he said , had raised their voice in behall ot their suffering brethren . But in lbto the same system had been extended to Pratestanta , and , as a Catholic , he protested as energetica y against , that violation of the rights of man , as it they were Catholics . He then entreated England and trermany tojom France inremonstratin gaeainst so odious a system , and demanded the execution of treaties shamefully violated for the last thirty-one After a few words from M . Villemain , in favour of unhappy Poland , the additional paragra . h ivas unanimousl y adopted . ' IMPORTANT FROM ALGERIA . Hie AafttmaZ announces the receipt of important , accounts tram Algeria . Abd-ol-Kader has fallenlike a thunderbolt on the tribe of the Beni-zouK-zoue raising the tribes on his passage , and burning the crops of the Arabs who had remained faithful to the 1- rench . Our enemy , " adds the National—Is not more than twenty . five leagues from Algiers ; it is impossible to anticipate die results of such an au dacwus movement . The division of troops commanded by Marshal Uugcaud is in a most deplorable condition ; I orced marches , heavy rains , and want of food , have rendered s number of officers and privates incapable of service . A 8 for the cavalry , it may be said that it no longer exists . The horses have almost perished m consequence of hunger and fatigue , so that the Marshal has been obliged to command General de I < nmoriciere to send him in haste all his cavalry . It isdoubtful whether the 500 cavalry sent forward by General de Lamoriciere will reach the Marshal , as they must pass through the centre of the lnte insurrection . Whilst Marsh > l Bugeaud was employed in putting to the sword afew not very formidable Arabs , Abd-el-Ki . der , who had suftered him to fatigue his troops , when he found the moment favourable , appeared in the Tell , in the province of Algiers , which the lUvshal had fortified with so much care .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1350/page/5/