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„ _ MONDAY . ihk OuaABCHT . —We hare always shewn that the jreakneaof the veil-fed , stalwart , agricultural interest , consisted in the feet of its members being thinly scattered orer the country , while the strength of their opponents was manifest in the facility with which their adherents could be called together by placard , advertisement , or ring of belL The confidence of the country party consisted mainly , indeed altogether , in their Parliamentary strength ; and while the tenants knew and felt that the links which bound them to their lords were oppressive , and so many restrictiona upon industry and capital , yet , nevertheless , the old feudal system still prevails to such a degree that the tenants with leases were
VOLU ^ fEERS , coerced by anomalous conditions to fight the repugnant battles of their masters , while tenant farmers , which means tenants at will , were pressed into the same force from the fact , that- * lthough their tenure was uncertain , and might be destroyed at will , neverthe : ess such course inevitably entails the breaking up of estabhsUments ; the necessitous , and therefore ruinous , disposal of stock ; as well as the surrender of any little improvement that might have been made , and the forlorn hope of the realisation of distant anticipations , with tke still stotngcrtie which binds man toa home . Now , these 107 , « uu tenant slaves at will coustitute more than a fourth of the county constituency of England , numencally speaking , whiktin realitythis slave-class
, , noids the balance of power , inasmuch as they are the ready , the neter failing reserve of the tyrant lords , to whose will they are bound upon the day of election . The country party-that is , the old , hanging , torturing , crucifying , ducking , transporting , cruel , cjrorcn and king party , are now perfectly aware of this Jatent strength ; and we learn from the numerous Protectionists' meetings , that they have at length resolved to bring the country muscle and sinew , to bear npon the enervated franw of the echau 3 ted operative , rather than abandon their power without a struggle . Now , this 13 precisely what vre have always predict ; d — that the landlords would create a bloody revolution rather than abandon that political power
which has so long preserved lor them ail the ehanaels of corruption as suatenanee to feed their young broods upon the tares of the country , while their elder children monopolised the land of the country , and made population presa too hardly upon the means of subsistence . The operatives , however , if weak ui body , are strong in mind , and have leaders who have led them in the moral fight , that will head tnem ; if necessary , in the physical nwisUuce ; while we beg to remind the bull frog yeomanry , that when tne people petitioned for a repeal of the Corn Laws w 1819 , before machinery had achieved the sole dominion of trade , and when the removal of the restriction would have conferred essential benefit npon the . manual operatives upon the respectable old
hand-, loom weavers , the bull-frogs cut them down , and trampled npon them like so many do > -son the field ef Peterloo . This oligarchical interest , this land monopoly , bound together by political power , is the nightmare that has long pressed upon society—the demon that the waking country has resolved upon dashing from its breast . But yet we will foster even that demon , in the hope of using it , rather than accept tha simple measure of free trade in corn , without those collateral changes which must of necessity place the country interest ia antagonism to the unrestricted use of machinery and unopposed power of capital . The landlords , shorn of their mouoiiulv , must , of neceuity , drop into the school of labour protection , and agricultural improvement ; and it is
therefore that we will hail their last moan with gratitude , or receive their tardy co-operation with gladness , if not with respect . The ball is up , and how we play the game depends npon the dexterity , the courage , the energy , and the prudence « f the working classes ; for the owners of machinery , the arbitrators of wages , and the possessors of capital may rest assured that an OLD DISTINCT and long muted party will not sanction disruption without having a blow , and a heavy one , at the despoiler . Lord AsHur axd the Tex Hoobs' Biu .. — With the biasing of God !"~ Ao use Lord Ashley ' s words—the uoble lord has resolved upon retiring fr .-m a hopeless contest for the representation of Dorsetshire , as well as from the leadership of the Ten Hours' Bill ; nevertheless we still impress u all
, pon whowBuld still picktheic own blemishes out of Sir Robert Peel ' s free trade measure , the necessity , the pressing . and increasing necessity , of testing the " dyiug House of Commonsnponthe question oi Short Time ; and , above all , we remind them that Russell is still grasping after office , and that he is pledged to the support rf the measure , while tie Protectionists will gladly purchase a hustings toleration , and election support , by joining with them ; while the very opposition or the League will furnish the strongest ' grom'da and mest cogent reasons for giving to it their support . We would impress , with all our weight , upon the friends of Short Time , that it is just a question , nay , just THE QUESTION , to test the present house upon , and that it will not be a question to be so prudently submitted to a new House of Commons .
Thb Reform Box . —Everybody knows that it is a high breach of privilege for a peer of Parliament to interfere with an election , yet we find that a tew uoble dukes have contrived , despite of " the Bill , tke whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " to retain possession of so many pocket boroughs as to give them an undue and dangerous influence in the House of Commons . We look confidently to the day whea neither the peer nor the son of a peer shall be qualified tosit in the House of Commons ; when members of the goremment and their subordinates may speak , but snail not vote ; and when the measures of the Commons shall be submitted , not to hereditary dotards , but to a senate of grave , wise men—none underthirty-five years of age—elected by the countrv
, and whose mature wisdom will be a check upon the enthusiasm of the younger branch of legislation . This was a portion of our constitution , propounded in island published and euloguedin "Cobbett ' s Register" of the same year : a change which , amongst many others , we hope to see , and at no very distant period . In fact , we are tired of peers and their sons' governments and their creatures—old women in pantaloons ; old ladies in wigs and lawn sleeves ; annv officers asd navy officers , all looking forpromotion ; baronets , knights , merchants , bankers , manufacturers , stockjobbers , lawyers , and bull-frogs making laws to circumscribegenius , to coerce labour , to regulate wages , levy taxes , and squander them npon their creatures , their pimps , their w s their bastards , their crippled offspring and useless menials , while the toiling slave is but allowed the remnant that remains upnn their plate to feed himself and his
industrious famil y upon . Who dared to write like this in she good old times of Church and King , and what povercan now resist the liberty of speech that we have -wrenched from the griping tyranny of the Law - , or who can obstruct that knowledge thatflutters upon every passing breeze , and whistles the necessity of repentance and change , or obstinacy and destruction ? Mosey xsn Shahs Market . —We have no hired Uty slave ; however , we can read the sign 3 of the tunes , and were thefirst , by many weeks , toaunounce the fact that Peel would endeavour to prop the funds by the railway deposits , pending the discussion of bis great commercial measure , and we were the first co proclaim the disastrous results of this cunuin " policy . Now , Jet us see how the daily press that lags immeasurabl y behind tlie people ' s PIONEER treats the subject now . We take the following few lines from the Times of this ( Monday ) mornin" —
SOME APi-BEHEXSIOX IS FELT THAT THE INSURIOUS I 5 FLUEXCE OF THE PAYMENTS FOK Railway deposits will be made manifest SHOHTLY AMOSG TRADERS OF THE LOWER Class THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM . AMONG VliOU tub MAMA PRINCIPALLY SPREAD . AND WHO ARE SOT IN A POSITION TO OBTAIN ACCOMMODATION IN THE POESEHT STATE OF THE DI 3 C 0 C 3 T MARKET . if our warning note has failed to alarm the confiding , will not the above extract from tha Thunderer awake |
a just suspicion ? ^ . Tbe Rjtowatb ssb ihe Lawtebs . —Very many Months ago , in partitioning the spsil of the confiding dupes , who had paid their railway deposits , we announced that the " gentlemen of the Jong robe " would not be found amongst the minor recipients ; in confirmation of this assertion , we can now state that THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ACTIONS , all arising out of railway litigation , have been instituted ; and allowing that they proceed no further than the service of writ , entering
of appearance , consultation , declaration , and plea , and allowing the small sum of twenty pounds cost on each action , we have the enormous sum of seven millions of railway deposits , orfundsfroni depositors , in some shape or other , modestly appropriated by the craft ; and happy is the man who escapes with this small taste of legal knowledge . Now , of all money in the worid , that most onprofitably spent , indeed thrown away , is that wasted in litigation . It does act return in any profitable way to society ; it is hoarded up as funded property , or lent on mortgage
to tne aristocracy . Trade . —The same cause that lias had the effect of propping the funds , has also had the effect of crippling trade , as we learn from all quarters that there is a delicacy to increase stocks until the result oi Peel's measure is known and understood . ., ^ . V ? Trade . —The hope ef famine induces tne philanthropic farmers to keep up grain for the ^ w ^ T 81 wHe ' ^ rtbekss , thread of Sir RobertPeelsmeasnresKhavingthe effectofkeeping prices down , as millers are unwilling to speculate beyond the mere hand to month supply .
IRELAND . Famine . —Still the cry of hunger rings through the sea-bound dungeon , while the wretched hovel ; - of the peasantry are deserted at night by the misera-Kg occupants in search of food or reckless -vengeance Upon those whose laws and monopoly have been the cause of starvation and want . It is a sin , ttat while pestilence and famine are raging through a fertile and productive country , that the poor inhabitants should be driven to exasperation and . crime , while
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their representativesarenightlyfightinisthe bj-battle of their respective orders . S&SSSiE ? " ** -- ***
TUESDAY . Thk Gbbat Qcesiiox . —The resumption of the debate on the great question last night , has this week , like the last , stripped the papers of all inte resting matter ; indeed it would appear as if society at large entered into a contract to suspend its usual pranks until the Commons had closed their jabber However , the tedium of the long-protracted debate in the Commons was a little relieved by a few shots from the Protectionist outpests in the Lords We must repectfully request our friends U keep sternly before them the reasons we have assigned for approving Peel ' s tariff of 1842 , as well as hit present measure . Now these two changes must be taken as d no «* separatedIn 1841 in
uS ?^ . ? . ^ l , , our letter read by Mr . Wakley in the House of Commons , andpubhshed in the daily press , we designated the tariff of that year as a precursor-Chartist measure , we relied upon it as the wedge to break up the old oligarchical factions , and we asserted that it would be followed by other measures , which would lead to the complete and entire overthrow of what is called the constitution of the country . We predicted that the funds would beattacked ( they have been reduced by a quarter per cent . ) , we prophesied that the Clmroh would not escaDe the mawling hand of the paralysed agriculturist ; we prophesied that a party wiwliy distinct from commerce and agriculture would spring up , who would see not only simplicity
but beauty in Chartist principles : we even said that many of our colonies would be given up , or would throw off the yoke , and that a minister of agriculture would be added to the cabinet . The history of a country is not like the history of a family ; a fact or two may constitute the records of the one , wliile tha other consists of innumerable incidents . Let us now go to the progressing proof of our predictions . In the House of Lords last night ( Monday ) Lord Beaumont moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the burdens on real property ; and in considering the question , the supporter of the Poor Law Amendment Act is now compelled to speak of the poor in the following terms : —
The support of the poer was a national ODjeCt , JUSt HI much as the maintenance of justice and the national defences ; nor did the original Poor Law ever contemplate Ierying these rates from one particular class of property . He then attacked the operation of the ( Poor Law with respect to the Law of Settlement : — To that law he had an unalterable objection , as being injurious in the extreme to the agricultural body , and listless to the manufacturer ; -while agitating for free principles in the corn market , they should secure the tame ADTANTAGB IN THB LABOUR MARKET , and the first step to thb would be to DESTROY ALTOGETHER THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT . * In his opinion , it was impossible to estimate the loss of protection , and he would defy the most ingenioui calculator to arrive at a satisfactory result .
Here , then , we have the title of the poor involuntarily forced upon the consideration of the indolent , thoughtless lords . In explaining the mode of doin <» away with the Law of Settlement , Lord Beaumont said—That he differed from Sir James Graham's fire year ** industrial residency for he thought that the poor man was entitled to settlement and relief WHEREVER HE HAPPENED TO WANT IT .
Now , we ask the pettifogging brawlers agaimst our encomiums upon THE ALL-MIGHTT MEASURE , whether that ono single avowal of itself does not characterise Peel ' s measure as worthy of more praise than even we bestowed upon it ? Lord Dacre said that the country laboured under an enormous weight of taxation , and that it was most important that justice should be done to landed proprietor ! , tenaat fanners , and householders by the remission or equalisation of their peculiar burdens .
Yes , Lord Dacre , we have told you for the last thirteen years that the way to adapt taxation to the exigencies of the State was by making the LAWMAKERS the TAX-PAYERS ; and as soon as this change is effected , then children will laugh at the notion of a people crying out against famine being called upon to pay over fifty millions a-year for manbutchers , and sailors , and your younger sons , and your royal w s , and bastards , and placemen , and pensioners , quartered upon industry . When you have to pay for royal prostitutes , you'll see crime in prostitution ; when you have to pay tor war , you'll see virtue in peace .
Lord Stanley wai anxious to enter his protest against the opinion put forth by Lord Beaumont . The tithe was net a peculiar burden on land ; on the contrary , he agreed with Lord Brougham in thinking that the land tax and tithe were hardens upon land IN THE SENSE OF WHICH THEY AVE&E SOW TALKING OF BURDENS . Yes , ye 3 . Lord Stanley , you'll talk of burdens now in a very different sense when you have to pay them yourself . He continues : — If the land were unprofitable the rent fell , hut the eiaini of the . titlieowner was undiminished ; and being undiininlshed , must he added to the price actually paid for the production of corn . Xor was the case altered bj commutation , for if after that comaiutaion the legislature lowered the price of the article produced , and iasisted the producer should pay the same amount for his com .
mutation , u was an increased and ADDITIONAL BURDEN . In conclusion , he could not agree with Lord Beaumont in thinking that the abolition of protection was already settled , though he concurred with him in his desre that the opinion of the country should be deliberately taken ou the question . Now , here we have the very highest Churchman meditating an attack upon tithes , while we have the rec rdof the Northern Star , ot 1840 , showing precisely the advantage that free trade , unaccompanied by a tithe adjustment , would confer upon the Church . In fact , we assert , without fear of contradiction , or without the pusillanimous dread of being thought egotistical , that we have analysed , for five years , every argument that is now brought to bear upon the question of free trade . As to Lord Stanley ' s threat of a dissolution , and his opinion that the question of protection is not settled , it but confirms us in the belief that Stanley and the old Tories will die hard , and sive the Church a kick in their last throes .
House op Commoxs . —The Duke of Richmond ' s eldest son Lord March , and who has no earthly business in the houje , spoke first and said nothing . Mr . Milner Gibson said , ' with respect to America , it waa notorious that ? he price of labour was nearly double that in England . " A good reason , we think , for enforcing the principle of restriction , because the good wages in America is a consequence of the paucity of hands in proportion to the work required to be done ; and when we can weed the rattle-box and the sweating-room of their exotics , we shall have double wages to that paid now for labour . Mr . Gibson contiuu&s : — The question was now in such a position that it c « uld aot be endangered It was carrind , indeed , already—not , indeed , by this Parliament , or by politicians in either House oi Parliament , but by the force of public opinion out of doors . There was 110 truer barometer of public opinion than Sir Robert Peel . If thev wished to know
what the people out of doors were thinking of , let them look to what Sir Robert Peel was doing . If Mr . Gibson mean 3 that free trade in corn , without the collateral measures , is carried by the force of popular opinion , lie ' s grossly mistaken ; for , we tell him , that , notwithstanding an approval of the whole measure , as a wedge to split up the block , we would , nevertheless resist to the death thesinglemeasnreof free trade in corn ; while , we are ready to confess that Sir Robert Peel is a good barometer of public opinion , l > ut k la ot' Char tist opinion—not free trade opinion-Chartist opinion , which he hopes to crush by timely concessions , but which he inevitably fosters , as the principle ean neither he killed nor arrested . I " Mr . Halsev wished to know , if the price of En « - lish wheatshouldfall , ON WHAT PRINCIPLE SIR ROBERT PEEL VFoULD SETTLE THE TITHE COMMUTATION ACT ?"
Ot course Sir Robert Peel did not answer that question ; but we will . He will settle it upon the principleofdogeatoog ; pull baker , pull devil ; pull landlord , puil parson ; and the devil part the couple . Sir Robert Peel dwell mo 3 t extensively on the threatened faininu in Ireland , aBd for the purpose of strengthening his position , he read A serits of letters received by the laiit two Irish mail * from Sir D . Roche , Lord Stuart deDefies , and Tarious other gentlemen in different parts of that kingdom , giving the most appalling descriptio * of ths scarcity of the potato in Ireland . One-eiuhth of the crop was always wantsd for setd ; and if that quantity was not laved from
consumption as food , Ireland would hare to struggle with famine in die next year also . U was impossible to suppiv that quantity of potai-j . s Jom any foreign country ; and the government therefore proposed to get » he seed potatoes into its keeping bj giving othw food in exchange forthtai . Now . iu that case , would it be possible for him iu May next , « rith a duty of 17 s . on the importation of foreign corn , to call on the peopla to pay such a duty for the food to be distributed to the people of Ireland to save tbera from starvation I SupjMsmg fatnine that to ensue , KOuldthearistocracy beoNetobtartteoJiumof saying " W * will throw on the government the responsibility of supplying tiizpeople of Ireland icithfood , but one iota of the Com laws we tn ' i not i > art tci ' X "
&ow , in simple justice to ourselves and the Executive , we ask the reader to hold the measure of the Executive in one hand , and the last passage of the above paragraph in the other hand , and ask himself whether the burthen of that message was not that , if FAMINE CAME , which Sir Robert Peel asserts WILL COME IN MAY , the Chartists were prepared a 3 a body to resist a measure , the intention , if But the efitct , of which waa to arrest pestilence , staivatioi ' . anil famine . Were we not ready to hazard our policj upon this point alone , aud was it not unanimously acquiesced in ? Did w e not declare and reiterate that we would not jeopardise the character and the very existence of tuo Chartist partv by resisting a measure which , it stopped by our obstruction , wou : d have afforded the League the onuortuuitv of saying- " HERE IS FAMINE- 4 Sd have
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' S arrested it , but your friends opposed us , and is not a hungry man S susceptible ef hopeful impressions when those in want have built so much upon the cry of cheap bread ? les , we assert , without the fear of contradiction , that , UNDER EXISTING CIRCUMSTANCES , a successful resistance to tie measure upon our part would have given to the League the undivided confidence and support « f the working classes . We believe that scarcity-that is , eveS greater scarcity than Ireland is periodically visited with , has already come , and we cannot too much rejoice at having stopped the League and O'Connell kowl of "OH . THE RASCALLY CHARTISTS ^ i ^ fflSSSiSS
STARVED YOU !" Peel proceeds : — H « reminded the House that in November last ha had adriied , and three of his colleagu » had supported the iHipension « f the existing duties on corn b y an order in council . In November last , we used the followin * language - "If famine threatens Ireland , and if scarcity threatens England , why doesn ' t Sir Robert Peel without waiting for the meeting of Parliament ooen the ports , and trust to the people for an indemnity against his accusers . He goes on : —
That portion of his measure which related to the Coin Laws might berejected , and the otherponion accepted , or «{« « r « a . He wished it , however , to be considered as a whoU ^ and rejected or accepted as such . It was also the intention of the government to adhere to its own proposal . He stated this , however , distinctl y to the house —that if the agricultural body should be of opinion that immediate was preferable to deferred repeal , and if by uniting with the Anti-Corn Law League they placed him in a minority , he should only consider what course he
ought to take to give effect to the law so amended at their instance . He would do all ho could to carry the proposi . tion of the government . He preferred it . He did not pretend to say now what effect success in tho House of Commons mi ght produce elsewhere ; but his opinion that it was n » cessary to procure a final adjustment of thia question was so ttrong that ha should prefer immediate repeal so carried against him to the chance of throwing this Country into confusion by postponing for 811 months the settlement of a question which was now paramount to all others .
No Sir Robert . we won't have the free trade fat without our own bone ; we'll have all or none . And then , if you choose to tako that responsibility which musi inevitably Mow the settlement oi the question , without the three years' adjustment , why , well and good ; we must only see how we can scramble the people ' s share out of the mess-trough : We now come to the conclusion of the Prime Minister ' s speech , and we give it verbatim , that we may luxuriate in another bit of sell-adulation : — Those times may recur ; the years of plenteousneis may pass away , the yean of dearth inuy succeed ; aud _ if they do come , and if it should be our duty again to express sympathy with suffering , aud again to exhort to fortitude , I do ask every man who hear * me to commune with his own heart , and ask himself this question—If these calamities do occur , if we must express sympathy with suffering-, if we must
repeat the exhortation to fortitude , will it not beaconsolution that we have relieved ourselves from the heavy responsibility of regulating the supply of human food ! Will not our expression of sympathy be more consolatory , our exhortation to fortitude more impressive , if we can at the same time say , and say with pride , iu tLat time of comparative prosperity , urged by no necessity , yielding to no clamour , we anticipated this difficulty , andrtmoved every impediment to the free circulation of the bounties of creation ! Will it not be ' a great and lasting consola . tiou to us to be enabled to say to a suffering people , " These are the chastisements of an all-wise aud beneficent Providenct , sent for some great and humane purpose , to abate our pride probably , to convince us of our nothingness , or to wuken in us a sense of our dependence upon God ; they are to be borne without murmuring ; " and we shall then be able to think that the disptm . tations of Providence have not been aggravated by human institutions preventing te the people the suuply of food !
Those are Sir Robert Peel ' s words ; now mark ours , delivered a thousand times : — " How comes it to pass that if famine falls upon the land the industrious alone are the sufferers ? Why it it that these who tamely bear all the pangs of hunger are to be tatu-£ ed with royal and aristocratic sympathy , or te brave the law ' s oppression if they complain ? You murmur now , and murmurjustly ; when famine falls unequally , you are bearing all the horrors , but if every man had the means of working out his own salvation , and if famine came upon the land as the dispensation of an all-wise Creator—if the Queen , the peer , and the squire , suffered a comparative diminution in the coinforts , you would be cheerfull y reconciled to an abatement in your necessaries of life . This is the reason that I complain , and I will complaiu ' until I see an attempt to remedy this crying , this unnatural disparity . " Now , where i « the Chartist that has not heard that passage twenty times over ?
NoMMATHMt for Wbsimisskb . —Our express has just brought the overland mail from Covent-garden , by which we learn that the General beat tUo Captain in the show of hands . We trust to-morrow he will beat him by a show of tongues ; however , they are both pledged to vote for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones , so that our dearest cause will have a friend in cither . Fkost , Williams , and Joxes . —It will be seen with delight by every man in the kingdom , tlu . t Mr . Duncombe has named Tuesday , the 21 th , as the day for presenting petitions , and moving an address to the Crown for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . . Now , Chartists , you have a week from
this « Uy ( Tuesday ) , three days after you have read the Star , and if ever you delved , spun , or wove for three days aRd three nights , delve , spin , and weave as you never spun before , lor the short time allowed you , and we firmly believe , that as the time is named , more will be done in three days than would have been done in three years . Sign , scribble , scrawl away ; tend your petitions both ends opnn , double tied with a piece of string , addressed to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., House of Commons , London , and heaven will bless every man , woman , and child that joins in the righteous demand , and every tongue will hoot and hiss every candidate who refuses to swell the cry for their restoration . Oh ! what a day for England when those three men land .
Moset Market . —Still Consols are going down . IRELAND . Free Tridi . —The Irish Protectionists who have not got anything near like their legitimate Bhare of plunder and patronage , and who have not got the safety valves of commerce as a substitute for protection , are beginning to muster all their strength to oppose Peel ' s measures ; but , like their English brethren , they'll fail . Why didn't they read our letters , written from York Castle , apprising them of the coming storm , which they now vainly hope to resist . Just think of those usurpers , those descendants of Cromwell ' s soldiers , crying out about their privileges and protection , while TILE NATIVE IRISH ARE STARVING . Mr . Gregory asd his Consthuenis . —Thchon . Conservative member for Dubliu , Mr . Gregory , has been served with notice to quit by his constituents for supporting Sir Robert Peel ' s policv .
O'CoxxKiA v . 0 llwoiss . —Elsewhere will be found a communication from our Dublin correspondent , by which it will bo seen that a county grand jury of landlurds threw _ out the bills against O'Ili-j » ins , while the grand jury of skopkeeping cits found them , after a wrangle . It will also be seen that the trial is removed by eertiorari to the Queen ' s Bench , so that , in the language « f our reporter , it bears the aspect of a great State trial .
FOREIGN . By a reference to our foreign summitry it will be seen that oppressed Poland has at length resolved upon rising as one man to face the bayonet , the musket , and the cannon of the tyrant autocrat . All that we can say for the present is , may tho Lord strengthen their arm in defence of liberty , and may they sweep every vestigo of the tyrant * ' power from off the fair land of Poland !
WEDNESDAY . The debate and the Westminster election are the all-absorbing topics of conversation , aud all news not connected with thoao two topics i * rejected ai trifling , until the is > ue of one and the result of the other is known . True , tha wearisomencss of the debate ia a little relieved by the novelty of some o the preliminary skirmishers;—for instance , petition ! againit the embodiment of the militia were pvelented by Mr . Trelawney—three from Cornwall ; from tke southern division of Leicestershire , by Mr . Parko ; from a large body of inhabitants of Bristol , by W . F . II . Berkeley ; from 3 , 000 of the inhabitants of Leicester , by Sir John Easthope ; from JMonmouth , by Mr , BlewiU ; from various puisnes in London ,
by Mr . Duncan ; from 7 , 000 inhabitants of Salford , by Mr . Brotherton jlfrom the West-Riding of York , by Lord Morpeth ; and similar petitions from several places , by Air . llumo . OUR MAN presented a petition m favour of the Ten Hours' Bill , and also " I 1 o * ? . t 0 brin K iu a biU ^ a <« end the Friend y Societies Act , which was read a first timo and ordered to be read a second time this day week ; the reaions of the hon . member for introducing the bill will be found in his clear and explicit speech , which we give at length . It is reall y a very singular thing that a person who is neither lawyer clwym&n , manut « cturer ,: Po , t-master , nor officer , should be able to mako himself go minufeW acquainted with all tlia technicalities aud practices " of tUouft several professions .
Mr . 0 Connell introduced bis measure for relief to Ireland , and concluded b y humbly thaukiug tho Saxon Parliament , mhisownnamo , and in tho namo of the Irish nation for ihe patient and indulgent manner in which thu hououralleSaxom mde-cmdeu to hear him . He , didn't mention the threatened coercion - , nertuec did sir James Graham give any pledge as to the future course to be pursued by government , beyou . a some temporary relief to be administered to tho starving people . Not a word about the Landlord * and Tenants' Bill did Sir James say ; and thus the Irish have come off with a withdrawn motion by V . io Liberator , and now they are to depen <
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Sn ^ ulera " < X **™ m oi tUeir tenil 6 r - hearte ( i Lord John Manners , son of the Duke of Rutland , opened the great debate , but said very little . Sir Charles Napier , a jolij oid gaU 0 l . and a capital good te low , amused the house by describing the mode in which he has improved a form of forty acres of bad land , which formerly grew only four or five quarters of oats , perjacre but now produces eleven quarters , and on which , after losing . 4 200 for the first year , he bow by drainage and SPADE CULTURE , taught him V ,,, J V , " mble neighbour , realises a CONSIDER . ABLE PROFIT . Tho gallant admiral also stated , that it the » =-
gentlemen opposite would do with their iand what he had done with his , that they need not bo afraid of foreign competition , as England would soon become a great corn exporting country . And when the Protectionists laughed at the jolly admiral sailor ' s little patch of forty aures he gave them a broadside , in the assurance that what was true of forty acres would equally hold good as to 400 , 000 acres , and that his land was of the very poorest , coldest , and impoverished description , and ho now realised a handsome income by it . Well done , jolly old tar ' and may you long liv » to pace the greensward—it is better than pacing the deck of the ' wooden walls of old England . "
Fnend Bright , after a regular Covent Garden flmg , contended , that under our existing policy tho ^ i ' iop , . labourera received the SMALLEST bUARh of the produce of the soil . Now , we should be jjlad to know what share of the produce of Mb mill those who work the machinery make ? '' dDunean moved the adjournment of the debate till Inursday next , so that we are to have another coil of the snake before we have done with it . By St . 1 aul ! its the slowost cookerv for those that are
waiting for a breakfast that we ' have ever heard of . The Irish are starving aud the English are beginning to j ; et hungry , the Prime Minister announces tho certainty of famine coining before May , while weaeo an equal , if not a greater certainty of the debat * lasting till the end of June . It is good for auother week in the Commons , it is good for three weeks in the liOnli . it ' agood for a month in committee , and , with a fortnight ' s Easter holidays , brings us to the middle of May ; and this is barring acoidents that may happen outside and changes inside .
Sir Robert Purl . —It is confidently stated by Sir Robert Peel ' s most intimate friends , tliat in the event of his measures being carried , he will abandon office , and leave to his Whig successors the precarious inheritance of seeing them carried into effect . In such an event , however , tho people would now insist upon having their say ; and with Peel ' s measures once carried , whole and entire , we safely affirm , that without a bold , a sweeping , and comprehensive Short Time measure—not a Ten Hours' Bill , though we'll take that first—but » uch a bill as will so regulate tho working of machinery as to render the existence of a competitive labour reserve impossible , but that the hours of labour shall be governed as well by the improvements in machinery as by the amount of population requiring work . Uuleas we see » uch a measure as will make " machinery MAN'S HOLIDAY
, INSTEAD OF MAN'S CURSE- " and mind , thoie were our own words , enunciated at Stuckport eleven years ago—unless we see such a measure as that , with Lord Beaumont ' s Law of Settlement—that is , that the poor man shall receive relief IN THE SPOT WHERE HE SHALL WANT IT , we would rather sett a military despotism in this country than a government of LEAGUE WHIGS . The time , we believe , is come , when tlie whole question of PARENT and CHILD ( LABOUR and CAPITAL ) , must be taken into consideration and legislated justly upon ; and , as we prefer obedience to the fifth commandment to t . budience to the commandments of political economy , wo shall honour the PARENT in preference to the CHILD . If the people do not now bestir themselves for a Ten Hours' Bill , we hope they may be fed in the Unions upon bones for the remainder of their natural lives .
Mosbi Market . —In spite of the best endeavour * to keep the funds up , a considerable re-action has taken placo ; and well would it , have been for the flats if they had given ten guineas each for a copy of tha Northern Star , and had profited by our timely warning . Court Ciscular . —JOY FOR THE xMILLION !—Providence always takes care of the poor , and in its mercy promises them another DEAR ROYAL BABE in April next , though the ill-natured political economists would dash our loyal aspirationsby
defer-, ring the joyful event till May ; but her Most Gracious Mi'jesty takes , we are sure , too lively an interest in the happiness of her naost loyal subjects to be any party to such a disappointment . Oh , dear ! oh , dear ! what a tribe of royal paupers the royal coupla threatens us with ! Is there no parson Maltlius to relieve the ROYAL PARENTS from the INFLICTION of a large family ? We wonder what the Malthusians would say if the female operatives were as fruitful in industrious children as Queens and Pe « r-« ses are in idle one *!
IRELAND . Poor Sibrt . —This poor fellow , who was found guilty on his SECOND TRIAL , at tho Commission held at Mullingar , was MURDERED on Friday last , and from a perfect consciousness of his innocence , his remains were escorted to the burial ground by 60 , 000 of his insulted countrymen and woman . We have read the evidence npon which he was murdered , attentively , 3 nd we iiave no hesitation ill saying that nojust man would "hang a dog" upon such evidence . The Irish priesthood , how ever they may be reviled by those who have despoiled them of the right of administering monastic property to the poor of their flocks , are not just
the men to sanction murder , or to withhold from the murderer , or the attempt at murder , that censure which justly belongs to him . Such is the confidence of the poor in the only pastors that have never deserted them , through torture , lingering punishment , and death , that we would as soon believe that we were now walking upon our heads , as that Seery would die with the guilt oi falsehood upon his soul , aud the crime of withholding his full confession from his pastor . Neither would all the money in tke English Exchequer induce so many pious priests to join in the lamentation over his murder , if they wero not convinced of his innocence . Sir Francis Hopkins lives , so does Bingham Burin" but
Cooke and Seery lie in the cold tomb . We cannot envy the feelings of thu two living murderers , nor those of their coadjutors upon the two juries . Those upon the first who held out against the judgment of the majority , and those upon the second , who were awed into an act of murder from a dread of the treatment their predecessors had received . It is hard to write on cold-blooded murders committed upon the defenceless Irish people , in lejjal phraseology , but if " great libels" are the best correction of great crimes , thon would we ransack the catalogue of stinging-, branding , damning wot ds , for epithets to stigmatise the murderers of this poor but honest peasant . We rejoice to Iind that his
own class sympathise with his widow and his orphans , and that , though stripped of their protector , vengeance will not bo satiated by an offering of more victims . Subscriptions havo already been entered into for tlie support of Scery ' a J ' amily . We shall send our mite to Mr . O ' lliggins ; and if ever wo were justified in making an appeal to the English Chartists , for a humane ami charitable purpose , it is aH appo ; il on behalf of this murdered man ' s family . We shall be happy to receive anything that will betoken Chartist abhorrence of cold-blooded murder , and to transmit it to Patrick O'Higgiiw , Esq ., who has taken a lively interest in the family of poor Seery .
Coercion . — Not a word has the Liberator said about the threat of Irish coercion since ho camo to Saxon land . Here his waitings are as plaintive as a sucking dove , while he roars away in his letter to Conciliation Hall , "Hurrah for Repeal ! " Now we tell him , and the Irish people will very soon discover the virtue of our policy , that his course instead ot thanking the Saxon Parliament in his ' own name , and ia the name of the Irish people for hearmg him , would be to demand of the Prime Minister a lull development of his intended Cuoreien Bill and then , in reply , to say , " I call from this spot upon every Irish member to join me in resisting
th&comlercial policy ol tho government , if Ireland's , share is to be caercion . If he has fifty ft . llowet ^ whose eats depend upon obedience to this just call , they would break up the administration , and 4 hu Irish will soon iind that their strength consats ia the policy of OBSTRUCTION , and that thai ? greatest weakness is manilVnt in the prostitution of their representatives to the support of measureB-which may entail toleration or patronage . Fifty Irish members standing together would be able to st \ a . p any government that was hostile to the interest of the paoplo , but the fellows forget country , and Took to self , the very moment they enter the House of Commons .
FOREIGN . From every country in Euro-pe each posi brings intelligence of the struggle being now made for the overthrow of despotism , and the establishment of democratic princip les . The great Chartist petition of 1842 has awakened the spirit of liberty throughout the continent of Europe ; the next , signed by five millions , will establish its temple . Switzerland , almost in the heart of the Italian serf states , presents to the slaves all the bcautie ; i of republican institutions ; while France , ready to assist tho Austrian despot , fears to encounter the wrath of Switzerland ; the heart oi Poland is beating high for liberty , and Prussia ' s despot is cowering before the united voice ef a people looking for a constitution . Belgium , with her agricultural constitution ; Switzerland , with her republic ; Saxoay , with her small farms , stand undisturbed in tho midst of the European volcano . Land is the basis r , f the constitution of thuae threo , little countries ; v . hilo those based upon king-craft ,
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THTJH SDAV . Tdr City op Westminster without a Repkkskntatiyk . —This is a curious fact , but nevertheless true , evon as regards the electoral body . General Erans and Capt . R 0 Us unitedly polled CG 41 , and there are 14 , 043 electors in the city , leaving 7 , 402 , or nearly 1000 of a majority , unpolkd . This is such an abuse ot the vote held for others in trust , that we conU not possibly urge a stronger reason for restoring the trust to those from whom it has been w lone withheld .
« . SiJ ? * r ? l , confe , ss selves , though not last night ( Wednesday ) , on entering the » reat Leeture Room which the Greenwich Charfoto hi , with a spirit peculiar to that indomitable body , ventured to lure ior a meeting on behalf of Frost , Williams and Joiws . The building is a magnificent one , litted in the style of an Amphitheatre , with great taste and elegance , and was not only filled , hut in sotna parts , and especially in the angles , was literally wed ged . Three-fourths of the meeting consisted of the middle and higher orders , and never was there an audience belonging to those classes that did themselves movo honour than did those gentlemen kst night . They not only paid attention , but like an audience at a theatre , nearly every neison nn > s « iit
liijd a copy ofjthe new plav ( the Charter ) in his hand , wnwu was very prudently distributed X ratuit « usly m uie door . As if the working men were capable of Srr ^ V the ? S c"cy , we never heard teT n lmi 8 ° e «^ speeches , thou , h we have heaid them make many good ones , a « they made last night , ftinding such an audience , instead of simply confining themselves to the mere cry ot the restori turn ot tho exiles , they entered into a statesman *) ike view ol the times and circumstances that lud to their conviction . Doyle made a most powerful speech , embracing the questions ef novuru . crime
ignorance , unjust distribution , drunkenness , dinrog * rd oi the superior classes , and many other evils flowing from class legislation . We were not fortunate enough to hear tho speech of M'Grath , winch is always good ; but for ourselves , the other speakers , tho Chartists of Greenwich , and the cause itaeif , wo return our best thanks to the audience for their excellent and praiseworth y conduct , while we cannot sufficientl y congratulate tho people upon'the impression their principle * are now making when auvocatetl by lecturers who have a sinet-ro desire to witness their progress .
Mo . vey Maiikkt . —Again the funds are very , very flat , mid tlw share market partakos of the epidemic .
-IRELAND . Bin i ' BASCIS HorlCINH AND THE MunDlBUD SbkRY . —It will be remem bered that Mr . French , - the stipendiary magistrate , swore upon the trial of Seery , that Ssir irancis Hopkins had not mentioned his ( beevy s ) name in the first information he teudered Mr . a rench swore this distinctly , and now that poor seery is dead and gone , his prosecutor writes a letter to the freeman ' s Journal for the especial purpose ot ' meeting the evidence of Mr . French , and which he concludes thus : — It wa » sworn on the trial ( but this fact has not heen commented on in your journal ) , by a . coustabl * of th « Sysart police station , distant sis miles fro m Hullin >; ar , that he hud received a written oi'dei- at live o ' clock in th « morning to arrest Seery . The first information * wcra sworn at 11 a . m ., six hours subsequently . Tliig should satisfy most persons that the name of Seery had been mentioned before the first informations were sworn .
^ ow , _ so far from this fact establishing the credit of Sir Iwancis , it will convince any reasonable man ot the correctness of Mr . French ' s evidence . Nav it is the strongest confirmation that Sir Francis Hopkins , at five o ' clock in the morning , was in doubt as to Saury ' s identity , and that at eleven , ho w » s satisfied that he waa mistaken . Now , here is the plain analogy of the last paragraph . Sir Francis Hopkins sends to arrest Seery at live , to have a peep at him ; he sees him at eleven ; swears informations ; and the stipendiary magistrate swears that lie did not mention Seery ' s name , neither does the paragraph we quote state that the Dysart police constable had received tlie written order to arrest Seery
from Sir Francis Hopkins , though we give him tho benefit oi the presumption ; neither can he expect to shake the sworn testimony of the stipendiary magistrate by the whito-washin ! , ' letters which he say / he subsequently received from the Crown Solicitor and iMib-mspi-ctor of police , lie says— " The public can now fairly judge between Mr . French ' s testimony and my own . " Yes , the public will judge , and the judgment is that Mr . French is right and vou are wrong . It is a very easy way for the Baronet to cot ovtr the murder of poor Suory ( who has not the power ot judging between him and Mr . French ) bv riding oft on a squabble with the stipendiary magistrate . J b iitie .
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WESTMINSTER ELECTION . A public meeting was held in the large hall of tlie Parthenium , St . Martin ' s-lano , on Sunday evening February 15 th , to consider what steps the democratic party should take in consequence of tko vacancy caused in the representation of Westminster by the appointment of Captain ltous to fill the place of out ot the Lords of the Admiralty . Mr . James Grsjs-bi was unanimously called to the chair . Mr . Thomas Clark said , although a resident , he came under the denomination of a non-ulectur . lie had placed in his hand the following resolution - . — '• That in the opinion of this meeting no 1 ' arliamuntary election should take place without the working classes manifesting their opinions relative to the merits' of the various candidates , and enforcina their claims to that full measure of representation contained in the People ' s Charter . " Mr . Clark then
lucidly reviewed the qualifications , or rather tho want of qualification , in the two candidates who had presented themselves for the suftVages of the electors . Ho said the people througkout the esuntry were raising their voices loudly against our huge war establishments and against aggressive warfare , yet both candidate * belonged to those establishments—tbe no to the army , the other to the navy ; and , consequently , both had an interest in upholding the present state of things , and were both , therefore , unlit to becomethe representatives of a people who boasted of their civil institutions , and their desire for freedom . ( Loud cheers . ) Neither were advocates or supporters of the People ' s Charter , and hence neither could hopo for the support of the toiling and much oppressed working classes . ( Loud cheers !) Mr . llumphrls seconded the motion , and it was carried unanimously .
Mr . Sotiter , in a few words , . moved the following roaolution : — " That in consequence of the very brief time intervening between this and tho day of election not permitting the democratic party to take such steps as would be necessary to ensure success for a candidate holding their opinions , this meeting is of opinion that it will not be advisable to take any part in the present contest ; but this meeting hereby pledges itself to use every means in its power to secure the return of a candidate , or candidates , advocating the principles of the People ' s Charter at the ensuing general election . " Mr . T . M . Wheeler , in seconding tho motion , reminded the meeting of the words of Thomas Wakley * t the Crown and Anchor— " That the woi-kiii" -men
never would be eiSieiently represented until such time as men of their own order were sent into thai houso "—( loud cheers );—and regretted that they were not now prepared for the contest . He said surely if in tho earl y days of Henry Hunt tho democrats of Westminster could nominate a candidate and procure the votes of eighty-lour gallant mon , in the prosent day , when democracy had made such giant-Jike strides . they might with equal facility obtain the support of thousands for their principles . ( Loudoheors . ) He therefore suggested the propriety of their takiii " immediate steps to prepare for tho fonniii" of a powerful committee . Let them be satisfied with nothing less than a committee of three hundred electors Mid non-electors , and with snch a committee , and attention to the register , success must and would crown their efforts . ( Great cheering . ) The resolution was carried unanimousl y . A committee of thirteen , with power to add to their number , was
appointed . A vote of thanks was given to the chairisan , and the meeting dissolved . T » s NoinsATiox took place on Tuesday , but as the working classes had no representative on tho hustings we need not take up our valuable space in narratinw the particulars . There was a great crowd assenfbleu , Bufccientl y uproarious to do honour to a Uvent Garden nomination . Mr . Joseph . Carter Wood jn-opoaed , ami Lord Francis E gerton seconded the nomination cf Citato ttous . Mr . Bonverio proposed , and Dr . Baiiibrid Kc seccndeii the nomination oi General Evans . The candidates than spoke M great length , and amidst great uproar . Ou the sh . &w ot hands being called for , only a few comparatively mere held up for Captain lious , the rest being held up for his opponent . The nomination was theretore duclared to be in favour of General Evans . A poll was then demanded on behalf of Captain llous , and the assemblage dispersed .
1 ' he Polling commenced on Wednesday morning at tho usual hour , and from-the commencement General Evans took the lead by some hundreds , wlnoh he kept throughout the day . On Thursdav the official declaration of the result of the pollin" was made , when the High . Baliff announced the numbers as fallows : —• For General Sir Do Lacy Evans 3313 For Captain Roua 2 D 0 G n u- , M ^ wity 937 It was his duty , therefore , to declare General Sir De Lacy Evans duly elected , 1 he successful candidate then thanked the electors , who were also addressed by Captain Rous . The proceedings then terminated .
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A spot is now traversing the sun ' s disc , which is estimated to be 20 , 000 miles broad , and to cover an area of 1 , 002 , 282 , 000 square miles-more than five times as large as our globe .
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MUIlDEtt OF A FAMILY AND- SUICIDE OF . THE FATHER . onortly alter seven o ' clock on Monday morning tha neighbourhood of ^ utlmmpton-stiW Cambcrwell , was alarmed by the frantic Ncreams of * woman who lu < just made her escnpe by the backdoor of No . 5 , Jwl ^ ! " P . n ' . swa 11 CBtu 6 » rosidenee ,. on ] v one 2 m * » \ i i > flwt pers ' m wUo wpwml t . ' » the spot was Mr . Pratt , a sur-eon , who rwides at S ,, 1 and who upon entering was horror-struck at the scene which presented itself . In an upper n » . m , upon the floor , lay the lifeless , body of M . PhilianH- i < " reau , a Frenchman , aged fifty-three , with Wthroat cut irom ear to ear ; ou the bud , Ins son , ayi-d u , \ --teen , quite dead , shockingly mutiiatid about , ike rr
throat ; and in a lower room , another son , avC ({ eleven , with his throat cut , a wound on the check , and hi * hand much laci'i-atcd , who was at first , supposed to bu dead , but afterwards showed some symptoms of life , though unable to articulate or give tlio least account of tins dreadful catastrophe ; am ! irt a , short time aftenvanls , n female child , aged oiidit ; months , was found dfiail in a water-butt which stood in the garden , but having no wuunus whatever about its person . Upon investigatim 1 , we jind that tlie unfortunate msin had rvsidutl at iSo . o for nearly ' tho last twelvemonth , . supjtiirtinjj hi * family as a teacher of languagus ; but this mude of existence had been so precarious , that for some time [ msc they had sullcrcd extreme privation and great
pecuniary embarrassment . M . iloreau hail been in the habit of rising abaut . scvcn o ' clock in the niornimr , and usually tools down stsiirs with him one of fits twin inhints ( a boy aud a -ivi ) , who slept in the same bed as he and the mother . This morning , upon dressing himse I , he did the Mine thing , takiu- the temu ! e chid with him , and leavin g the male infant in bed with the mother . In a low minutes the mother was alarmed b y a loud shrieking , which she at first attributed to the two e . ldcr b ( . vs q . imrrc ! liu !; , and tln-: eloro took no turtiier noticu of the matter for a tew moments , but tho jJiriukiua being continued , si . e went to the room , and upon opviliii- ; [ j 10 doop ffag met by the younger boy , who itiiinednvelv ran bl .
eJing down > ti rs , at the bottom of which he fell down apparently nteluss ; and , on entering the room , Mrs . lloreau saw her unfortunate husband in the act of cutting his own throat , and before she could interpose he had fallen down a corpse . Ou locking artherslie discovered her eldest son dead in tt . e bid , but cuuld not perceive any trace of her infant child , who was , limveyor , shortly afterwards discovered to U . ve been drowned in the rain-butt . There is r . o doubt whatever buc that the unfortunate father proceeded to tuc gavdon instantly on leavin" his btdroom , and , having drowned UuicliiW , tlwii swteniled to the children ' s room , where liu afterwards perpetrated the other murder , committing suicide tlie moment an alarm was raised .
As no vital orga n has been severed , lu-. pes are entertained that the younger boy ' s life wi . l be saved , although , ot course there is great danger that he will notsurviyo the shock . The widow of the unfortunate Frenchman states , that on her husband getting up » he noticed no particular change m his mannur . He t ,, ok his infant son , William , in tus arms , and kissei it very affectionately . lie then departed , as she supposed , to the bedroom occupied by ihu boys , but instead of so doing he must have walked into the back yard , and piuimed tho mtant into the water-butt , and tliou have kept ic under water till it died . She state * time she never Heard him go down stairs , mu- heard iht least nuhe whatever , until aroused by the cries of her two boys
. bho then jumped out of bed ami ran up stairs , where she iound her husband standing over her eldest son the bed literally deluged with bluod . She immediately shouted to him , but iie appeared not to hear ner , or else to pay no attention to her cries , one , then-lore , ran out and gave a further alarm . Tho only thing that can awouuu tor her _ hus band having destroyed himself and two ot Ins children is the fact of his havin" of late been in exceedingly distressed circumstances . To such a state have they all been reduced as to frequently want the common necessaries of life . Upon searching the place nothing whatever in the shape ol toid was to be found , neither was there anything
in the houso that ci-uld have been sold to purchase as much as a breakfast . The widow further states that si-. e believes it was her husband ' s intention to have murdered her and all the children bffore he destroyed himself , which he doubtless would have done , had it not been for tho screams of her sun rlnllarete . Such precaution * had he taken , that tiie lUur-cnam was found so twisted that she could not have opened tne street door to escape , had he made an attack upon her life . She says that she has beea married nearly twenty year * , that the deceased was formerly a schoolmaster at Leicester , buc hud o ate been obtaining a scanty subsistence for his family by teaching the French and Italian languages .
Mr . Docary , landlord of the Liun , \ VVilin"tonplace ( next door but two t * where tho dreadful tragedy was enacted ) , says , that whilst standing ia his bar Ins attention was suddenly arrested by hearing erics of murder proceeding trom Catherine-eat , tagc . lie proceeded thither when he saw Mrs . lloreau standing in her night dn-ss in die aanien . bhe begged of him to eeisie in to her assUcaiice , a , j her husband waa murdering her children , lie told her to open the door , to which she replied that it was so fastened that she could not . He then followed her through the coach-house , and on entering the house found the place in darkness . Having nne'iwl
the shutters and obtained a light , he found the man lying hi a . pool of blond on tne iiuor , with 5 iis head nearly severed from his body . JJ « hind the i ; ca « - board ot a crib bedstead , he found tlie boy iJelveciiu with his throat cut from ear to ear . The other lad , Wullarete , was also bleeding at the neck , and one .. f his lingers was nearly cut from his hand , showin" - that he must have struggled with his father . Seein " that one of the injured children was alive , he immediately sent for a surgeon , and Mr . . Pratt caino and sewed up the wound in tlie child ' s neck . Lie then went in search of the infant , and , after some considerable time , it was found in the water-butt q itedead .
A baker in the neighbourhood states , that he has known the eldest boy to put-chase on many occasions a single penny loaf for breakfast , and that he camo ior one on Friday last , having only three farthings to pay for it . The llev . Mr . Meow , of Camden Chapel , upoa being made acquainted with the distressed condition of thi ! poor widow , very humanely sent her a sovereign to assist her iu the present unwsencv .
INQUEST ON THE BODIKS . On Wednesday an inquiry took place before Mr . > V . Carter , sit the Bricklayers' Anns Tavern , boutlijuiiptun-street , Cambwwel ! , as to the deaths Ol AI . Flularet llourt-au , and Ikivetius and William , iloreiiu , his sons , win . were murdered by him on Monday nuimhi » , previous to his own suicide . The jury having bom sworn , and a foreman chosen , they proceeded , accompanied by the coroner , to view the bodies , which were lying side !> y side of each other on a mattress , in the first iloor back room of Catherine-cottage . The infant appeared as if asleep , but the deceased man ami boy presented afrightfui s : jtctaclc , their heads being nearly severed IVum the todies . Throughout the house , a very respectable residence
, not a particle ot furniture was ub-erval . 'le . Mrs . W . ^ A . C . lloreau , the wiaow , deposed as ibilows : —The faintly retired to bod on Sunday about eleven , llelvetius and his brother ( who is now « mi \ g . on well ) slept , up stairs , where the boditts were lying . Her husband and she , with two twin children , ' slept , in the parlour below . Her husband got up abuuc seven on Monday , taking one of the children ( the deceased William ) with him into thu ^ ivden . U about , an hour she hoard a scream , ami aiterwanis . went up stairs to their sons' room . When she got there her husband was in tho act of cutting liis own throat , aud holding Helvetia , wlio had ako his . throat cut , down on the iloor . Slit ! instantly r ;» u down stairs , but found the eiiain so fastened that she could not open the front dour : and having gob into the garden , gave an alarm , when several persons camo . When she got back to the kkclicn she
found another son ( I'lnlatre ) standing uo , ami he had also his throat cut . The infant . ( William ) she aiterwarils discovered had been drowned , in the water butt . She hail bo doubt these deaths were the act of her husband , and that they had been caused by great irritability of his mind , caused by extremewant . lie was olten unable tu supply , the children wall luotl . He mid been a teacher ot ' laui'iia » es ia the country , but lately had had no prsfossionawivocations , and that caused his extrune destitution , ihey had pawned and sold everyilnag they had to procure fowl , and the ) a > t article they had was pawned on Saturday . She was tuitisfietl this had produced a state of temporary iiiSi ' . nuy . —Tlie iurv rutuj-ucdllvo lolloping verdict ; -- We ' iind a verdict o willu lunnler against l ' uilawt Iloveau , as wcanii fimlWtl ' nV , 11 ' ] au ( 1 Williilla U »>^ ail w > hml that tho satd Plularet lion ™ do » lroved himsttf while m a » tato of temporary iIwanUv , nrodttwd by extreme privation and want " * j . i « um . ui u ,,
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We learn from tne Tailors" Advocate , that the annual conference of this numerous and useful body of men will commence at Lc « ds on the 2 nd of March .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 21, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1355/page/5/
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