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POLAND'S HOPE . BI ElilEST JONM . Poles ! be free . The words awspoteu-Battles lost and treaties broken , Ratify the great decree ; Sot the war-hone madly prancing , Sot the bayonet redlj glancing , Bat the march of mind Advancing Says : Be free ! Poles , be free ! Yet we say not : Peace !—to them ! Peace ! It is a costly gem . That a slave cannot afford ; While the Vistula ' s great waters Swell Kith tsars of Poland's danghters , And with blood of Russian slaughter * , Kever—never sheathe the sword . Tell the Kaiser , King , and Tsar , They most still prepare for war ,
As long as there ' s a man to kill ; Tii tie cheater they have cheated ; 'Tis the nobles they defeated ; 'Tis the tyrants that hare fleeted ; But the people brave them still ! Russia ! launch o ' er that great river , From each battery ' s burning quiver All the arrows of your hate : Blood of Poles tlieir fire sha'l quell , And , for themselves invincible , Shall make the Rassian free aa well , Soon or late—soon or late . Tremble , monarchs ! lest the sltwe Learn , from striving with the brave . Their great conrage , to be free ! Last your soldiers , home returning . Corns with fires of freedom burning , And your worthless fetters spurning . Strike at ye—strike at je !
'Tis no more the olden story . Sceptre golden , erozier hoary . Worthless waifs of Folly ' s day : 'Tis the people , freshly risen . Beat against each nation-prison ; No appeal from Fate ' s decision : You or they—you or they ! Fields are rife with fiery store ; Freedom bends her harvest o ' er , Poland ! not alone for thee : Throughout man ' s great inheritance , Where ' er God's glorious sunbeams glance , And breezes blow and billows dance , Poles , be ike ! and Woiu > . be ms {
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EXTINCTION OF PAUPERISM . BtPbisce Kapoleon Loms Buo . vapabtb . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . Princes but rarely profit by misfortune : whether in p rison or ex ! e they usually "forget nething and learn nothing ; " nevertheless , in thisase of progress there are even princes who exhibit themselves as excep tions to the above universally-recognised rule . "We understand that his exiled Highness the Pake Of Brunswick has , daring his stay amongst us , become Dmetuingmore than a mere political Radical , and Ehoild he ever retain to Brunswick will be very Jkely to astonish the liberal gentry who some fifteen years ago were so excessively revolutionary . In the little work before us we have evidence that the lessons of adveutty have also had a good effect upon the list of the Napoleons . The would-be Emperor of
France has not sojourned in the citadel of Ham { or nothing . lie has , apparently , Jeft that fortress " a better and a wiser man ; " less intent ppon gaining a crown , than of improving the condition of the unhappy millions of his fellow-creatures . Although we should be Terv sorry to help either the Duke of Brunswick or Prince Napoleon to thrones—for " put sot your trust in princes" is still the orthodox belief with us—nevertheless , we hail with gladness everv exhibition by them of a sincere interest in the welfare of their fellow-men . If , indeed , they have abjured the arrogance and prejudice of class , and learned to regard all men as their brethren , our wish will b 3 that they may speedily have their term of exile brought to a close , and consequently , be surrounded by better circumstances than they are at present , to enable them to aid ia the great work of mankind ' s regeneration .
In the little work bjfore us , the author , after briefly but faithfully describing the evils of the present system as regards industry , taxation , agriculture , and home and foreign commerce , sums up in the following words : — The working classes possess nothing . We mast make them proprietors of the soil . They possess no wealth sire in their arms . We must employ these , so as to make them useful to alL The working classes are like Helots in " the midst of a Sabrrite people . We must give them a position in eockty , and bind their interests to tho soil . Finall y the working classes are without organisation attachjnents , rights , or prospects . We must give them both rights and future prospects , and elevate them in the scaln of society by combination , education , and discipline . The author next bring forward his remedy : —
To accomplish a project so worthy of the democratic an 4 philanthropic spirit of the age . so necessary far the gentral well being , and so useful to the repose of Boci ' ty , three things arc necessary : —1 st , A law . 2 nd , The advancement of funds from the budget . 3 rd , Organisation .
I . TBE LAW . There are in France , according to official agricultural Statistics , 9 , 190 , 000 acres of uncultivated lands belonging to government , to boroughs or individuals . These heaths , commons , or pasture lands yirld a very small rent of 8 francs an acre- They are like sunk capital , benefiting no one . Let the chambers decree that all these uncultivat d lands shall belong in ri ght to the working association , on condition that they annuall y pay to the actual proprietors the same amount which they receive now . Let them consign the idle acres to the idle arms , and these two unproductive capitals will spring into
life , the one operating upon the other . Then themeans will Ii 3 ve been discovered of mitigating misery by enriching the country . ' So as to avoid the reproach of exaggeration , we will suppose that two-thirds of these nine millions of acres ran be given np to the association , and that the remainder may be either unarable er occupied by houses , rivers , canals , &c . There will remain 6 , 127 , 000 acre * to ba cleared . This work would be rendered possible by the creation of agricultural colonies , which when scattered all over France would form the basis of a single and vast organisation , of wbich all the poor workmen night be members although not individual proprietors .
2 . THE ASYASCE OF FFNOS . The necessary advance of money for the creation of these colonies ought to be furnished by the state . According ta oar estimate , 300 millions of francs or £ 12 , 000 , 000 payable in four years , would be required * TLis advance of 309 millions of francs would not ttenbe a sacrifice , but a magnificent investment of money ; and Could the State ou contemplating the grandeur of the objectrefo . se it , whilst annuall y expending 4 G millions of franc 3 in preventing or punishing attacks made upon property , whilst sacrificing every year 300 millions of francs
in teaching the trade of soldiering , and whilst proposing an etpenditure of 120 millions of francs in the construction of new prisons ? In short , the nation which Without perishing gave 2 , 000 Bullions to the Invaders of France , nhich without murmuring paid 1 , 000 millions to entrants , which without alarm expended 800 millions oa the fortifications of Paris ; will that nation . I aik , hesitate to advance 300 millions in four years to abolish pauperism , to relieve the coirmunity of the enormous barii 3 ns , imposed by misery , and to augment the territorial wealth by more tban 1 . 000 millions !
some or the advantages of agbiccltckal colonies . Agricultural colonies would have two ends to fulfil . The first would be to support a vast number of poor by emytojiug them in the cultivation of the soil , ic . The second would be to afford a temporary refuge to the flottmg mass of workmen , whom the prosperity of trade , once called into activity , and whom its stagnation or the imjirjvements in machinery , plunged into the deepest misery . All the poor—all who were out of work—would find in these colonies means of employing mind and body for the benefit of the entire community . * * * "When private industry required hands , it would seek them at those cestral depo-. s , and it is clear that the Workman who was always sure to find a living in the « gr « unural colonies would not accept of private tnmloyiaent . ™ ieBs the latter presented greater benefits than the fjnner-, hence a remunerative scale of wages would always be maintained .
Instead of seeking consumers in China let us increase onr territorial wealth , let them employ all theidle arms lor 'he benefit of all the wretched and industrious , and let them not forget that France , which has been so richly endowed by heaven , contains within herself all the elements of prosperity . It is a stigma upon our civilisattw to think ftat , in the nineteenth century the tenth fr 2 ° l < P < 'I'uhUonrtould belB " 8 s « " * PerishiB ? from want , am . dst manufacturing produce which cannot « » M , and agricultural supplies which cannot be consumed . It would not become us to quote t ' ue entire of this work ( which may be had for the small charge of sixpenc e j ; we , tnerefore , pass over tbe author ' s system w mana gement for the agricultural colonies , and his calculations astotheexpense 3 f receipts , aHd profits , ^ on hne ourselves to the concluding observations
be nnhS » it n ^ bow sncb re « « on « happened to SSSeliS'J " * ^ ' ^ Sate-hill . Two a i !! « Central Socirty of Education went to StheTrT ^ 'Ja the A"P « tt **» Office , and ¦» whence to the commissions appointed by Henry the
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Eighth , to visit and scrutinise all the abbeys and monasteries of tbe United Kingdom . Their curiosity was naturally excited by the importance of the subject , and the scandalous neglect in some quarters or other of having left to moulder In dust for 300 years documents founded on authority , evidently proving that the church establishment is anything but what it should be . They im mediately set to extracting what appeared to them most important to be known by the pnblic at lar e , andhad actually begun to print two or three sheets , when suddenly , to their great disappointment and surprise , they were told that , the 200 bundles of the MSS had been tl moved by authority from the Augmentation Office ( where the pubhc had access ) to the Treasury . The gentlemen of JklS ' h * S * " ? ° Edaw «™ . "hose laudable undertaking had thus abruptly been interrupted , wrote immet , I ° .. ir 4 Jolm Ru « e " , then Undersecretary of Stalker theHome Department . His lordship replied , that he had ordered these MSS . to be removed from the Aug-Xd £ htil . tAvloffc Anil fftrntfnlcA « 1 I tfin &triiA * l fln £ **«»•* ...
mentation Office to the Treasury , because thegovernment twnguself employed on the investigation of the same , with the intention of publishing them , his lordship did » ot consider it proper that they should come before the public through any other channel . The sheets already printed were forwarded to Lord John to convince him that the publication was actually begun , requesting it might be allowed to continue . Thisi however , was denied , and all they could do was to publish the very little book now with you , in which , however , there is enough to show , by the correspondence of the commissioners , Thomas Cromwell , Archbishop Craumer , and others , that the reforms intended by the new Angelican bishopric * were principally the application of church revenues to the education of the people—that i » to say of all the poor , and even of the ploughman and labour's children and of all those whose parents' annual income did not exceed £ tO per annum , equal at least to £ 140 of the present currency . You will see further in that
precious little book , that churches were to be built and repaired out of the church revenues ; bridges to be built and roads repaired out of tbe church revenue ; schoolmasters and teachers to be paid , and the schoolboys to have weekly pocket-money out of the shurch revenue ; in short , it is svident from the authentic document there imprinted , that if the church had continue ! to be established according to the intentions of its founder at the Reformation , neither poor-rates nor county-rates would ever have b « en charged on the people ; for although pauperism has much increased with the population , the amount of clerical titfass have increased ia three hundred years with the increased value of property in the proportion of at least a hundred to a thousand . la short had tha bishops b « en compelled by the Crown ( head of the church ) to adhere to Henry the Eighth ' s Scheme of Bishopricks , pauperism would never have become what it unfortunately now is , and tha English nation would be composed of the best educated people of Europe ,
The military discipline which forms part of Prince Napoleon ' s system may suit Frenchmen but would not Englishmen , and in other respects this plan for the extinction of pauperism may not meet the concurrence of those who are already engaged in trying other plans , in despite ef the want of government help ; still this little book deserves our hearty recommendation , and sure we are , that with all the faults of this plan , there are few indeed of our readers who would not see Prince Napoleon called in to administer to Ireland in her present wretched state , rather than longer trust her in tbe bungling bands of the quack Russell , or the old bleeder O'Connell .
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THE REASONER . Paris 8 and 9 . Edited by G . J . Holyoake . London : Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . We are glad to see that the Seasoner has been doubled in size with onl > a slight * advance in price . This is proof of progress . In these two parts there are many well-written and truly valuable essay . * among which we may distinguish articles on " The Laws of Nature ; " Sir E . B . Lytton ' s " Zinoni ;" " Influence of Lord Rosse ' a Telescope on Theology ' "
and "The German Divines , " ( translated from Quinet . ) The last number ol Part 9 ( February 17 th . ) contains an interesting account of some discussions at Northampton and LongBuckley , in which Mr . Holyoake has been acting as Reason ' s champion " and appear * to have had by far the best of the fi ?! it ! In the same number is contained some remarkable disclosures concerning " Henry the Eighth ' s scheme of Bishoprics ; " which , it appears , is the title of a book , of which we have the following strange account : —
Every one animated b 7 a love for his 6 pecies demands justice for the workiBg classes , who seem to be disinherited ef all tho benefits of civilisation . Our project confer * upon them all that is calculated to improve the condition of man , comfort , education , order , and the chance which is afforded every one of elevating himself b y hie own merit and industry . Our organisation tends to nothing less than the making in the course of afewyeare , the poorer classes the richest association in all France . Now the reward of labour is left to chance or violence . The master either oppresses , or the workman revolts . According to our system wages would be fixed , as all human things ought to be regulated , not by foree , but according to the just equilibrium established between the wants of those who toil and the necessities of those who
provide work . In the present day all flock to Paris , which as a centre , absorbs all the em-rgies of the country ; our system , withou * injuring the centre , would carry life to the furthest extremities , by bringing into action 85 new sjstems , working under the direction of the Government . What is wanted to realise such a project J One year ' s pay of the army is fifteen times the sum given to America , or an expense equal to that employed on the fortifications of Paris . This advance would , after twenty years , bring back to France 1 , 000 millions , to the working classes 800 millions , and a revenue of 37 milliuns of francs . Lst the Government put our project into execution , modifying it according to the experience of men well versed in such complicated matters , and who may supply useful hints and cast new lights upon them . Let it take to heart the great national interest . Let it establish the comfort of the masses on an immovable basis and it will become
immoveable itself . Poverty would no longer become sedi ti ' us , when wealth was no longer oppressive . It is a great snd holy mission , and worth y of man ' s highest ambition to strive to subdue human nature , to heal all wounds , to soootb the sufferings of humanity by uniting the people of the same country in one common interest , and by accelerating that future which civilisation will sooner or later usher in . 1 h the beginning of the last century La Fontaine uttered this sentence , which is too often true , but always sad and so destructive of society order , and hierarchies— " I tell you in plain French our eoetaj is onr master . " In the present day the aim of every wise Government should be to bring about a time when it might be said , " the triumph of Christianity has destroyed slavery . The triumph of the French revolution has destroyed servitude , and the triumph of democracy has destroyed pauperism . "
No doubt Lord John Russell , whose jackal ancestor sacked so largea share of the plunder of the Roman Catholic Church , had good reasons for suppressing this strange book . Why doe 3 not some member of Parliament put a question concerning the £ aidl » ok to his little lordship ?
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- ^ ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the week Doctor Bacuhoffner has been engaged in delivering his annual course of lectures , in which he introduced a most eloquent and comprehensive description of the matured views of our modern astronomers . The dear and comprehensive stjle of the learned gentle , man , aided as he is by the gigantic apparatus of the establishment , renders the course of lectures a most rateable and instructive one , not only to the rising generation , but tothoseofmaturegrowth . Thelecturewasrenderedmore pleasing b y musical illustrations performed by the orchestra of the institution , conducted by Dr . Wallis . Most of the airs , we undmtood , were original by this gentleman . In the chemical department , Dr . J . Ryan has commenced
a course of lectures on general chemistry , in which he exhibits several most beautiful and brilliant experiments , explanatory of the wisdom , power , and goodness of the firstgreatcause . This gentleman ' slectureonthegun cotton still attracts great interest , and the Doctor continues to lecture on the subject three times a week . In speaking of the rapid actioa of the cotton during an explosion , the Professor showed a most remarkable experiment . He took a few grains of the cotton , and screwed it up in a soft piece of paper ; after making a few holes in the paper with a common pin , he placed thepaper in thebarrel of a pUtol , the cotton towards the breach ; he then fired it off , and although the cotton exploded with foree enough to expel a bullet , yet the paper remained untorn and
uninjured . At first sight the result seemed the effect of some slight of hand , but the Doctor referred it to the rapidity of action , the newly-formed gases escaping through pin holes , without tearing the paper in the loast .
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Trials At Lucerne . —The judicial proceedings concerning the individuals accused of complicity in the assassination of M . Leu have been brought to a close . The judgment discharges M . Corragioni as suspected , condemning him to an eighth part of the coats . The same sentence has been prouounced against Ileussler , who , moreover , for having taken part in the expedition of the Free Corps , will have j to undergo ten months' detention in tiic House of Correction . Rose Felix , mother of the assassin . Jacques Muller , has been condemned to eighteen years hard labour . M . Ackcrmann has been condemned to death , as the instigator of the assassin . At tiie same time , as it was he that denounced him , in consideration of a promise of impunity , there is reason to believe that bis appeal for pardon will be accepted The absent accused have been treated Vi »« i , i ^ R ?" ' but several of them , especially AIM . Buhler , Brunner , and Freichen , have been condemned to death n leaders of the expedition of the tree Corps .
J « OTTiXGlU . M .-LACE .-There has been more selling in each department , since our last , than during any Iirc-Cedllljf Week this year . A Similar demand , and without increased supply for the next month , would of necessityclear the market of 8 t jck aud br ' mg tilings into a very healthy state . ' Glasgow . —Cotton Goods . —For some descri ptions of pU . ce goods we are unable ti > report any improvement iu our market .
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THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF IRELAND . TO TDK EDITOR OF MB NORTHERN STAR . 8 iB , —The majority of your readvrs will , I have no doubt , agree with me that neither would the Railway measure of Lord George Bentinck , ( had it been carried , ) nor that of the Government , have any tendency , ex . aept temporarily , to alleviate the condition of the Irish nation , hutthat which ii required I will with the-utmoit brevity endeavour to explain . In 1835 Sir Robert Peel said , "Ireland was his chief difficulty , " and here 1 will venture to assert , that that country need not be so to any minister who has honesty and courage sufficient to grapple with the subject . Hitherto the panaceas for
Ireland , have beea but so many " beatings about thebuMi ;" and at a time like the present when famine stalks through the lasd , it is no use mincing matters ; suffice it to say then that Ireland is crucified between the landlord and the parson , and no measura of relief can embrace permanency which has not for its object , to render tbe possession of the land , not as miserable cottiers , or tenants liable to ejectment and all the evils connected with subletting , &c , &c ., —hut as proprietors , accessible to the people « f that unhappy country , —and here I would suggest , that if a company similarly conducted ts tho Chartist Land Company here , was established inlreland . it would not fail to ultimately accomplish that great desideratum . I am , your obedient servant , r H . C . SrJTTON , An Elector of Nottingham , Grey Friar ' s Gate , Feb . 20 th , 1847 .
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THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSES . TO TUB BB 1 T 0 B OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sib , —For some weeks past I have looked forward with intense anxiety to the proceedings of this evening , with regard to the fate of the Bill for the abolition of tho Rate Paying Clauses of the Reform Bill , introduced by the patriotic member for Finsbury . I must inf . rm you that I have just retunrned from the house of ( at present ) Incurables , where I hare been alternately gratified anil disgutted , delighted with the manner in which the people ' s claims were enforced by Mr . Duncombe , Capt . Pechcll , Ur . Wakley , General Etana , Mr . Hume , Mr . Williams , Sir B . Hall , Commodore Napier &c . In fact , all the speaking north listening to was decidedly in favour of ttie measure ; but Lord John , as might be expected , opposed the petitions of the people , in a crafty ,
Selfish , and equivocating speech , and , of course , was bscked up by his colleague , Sir George Grey ; but oh ! ray God ! when another champion of Class Legislation rose for the purpose of opposing the motion , I felt that degree of disgust for the institutions of my country , that I blushed to find myself an Englishman , and I wondered how , in the name of common sense , a constituency could be found to return such an ape to Parliament . He commenced with his "ifs , " and " ahs , " by meaning to say that " every body should cheerfully pay all rates and taxes , and would vote against the motion , " but how the reporters will be able to put bis speech Into plain English , I re , lly cannot divine , and feel assured that no respectable paper would faithfull y publish what he said
for it would be a gross insult to common sense and its readers , in fact , he said as much in about ten minutes as any other idiot would in half a second , which would amouat to these three words , viz ., " D—n the people !" On inquiry , I found this was the immaculate member for Carlisle , a descendant of the nsble house of Norfolk , whose crest is a lion , and whoso motto saj » , " Sola virtus invicta , "— . which means virtue is alone invinciblebutas to the amount of virtue the honourable gentleman possesses , I will leave you and his constituents to infer from his sentiments to-night . I doubt not , Sir , be was sincere ia the expression of them , for it ' s precisely the same sort of virtue that was exercised by his noble ancestors when they came over with William the Conqueror and his rapacious crew of bricands .
Itru 6 tmy friend Arthur , and brother Chartists of Carlisle , will look to this , and at once prepare to remove the disgrice of having their borough misrepresented by such a poor fool ; and if they cannot find a better man at the next election , it is my intention to oppose "thehon . member" myself . The next , and only opponent of the measure , was Lord G . Bentinck , at which 1 was very much grieved , for I had some little hope that bis lordship would espouse the popular cause , but , alasl I am convinced that Whi g Tory and Protectionist , are ever united in crushing the
hopes , and resisting every measure of justice to the toiling millions , and nothing short of a complete reform of that corrupt hmise will ever emancipate the people of this country from the burdens under which they groan . Let the people now bestir themselves , secure the return of a few staunch Chartist members , who will continually rine into the ears of the legislature the wants and wishes of the masses , and so retard the progress of ( what is called in Parliamentary phraseology ) public business , that they will be compelled t > tc .-edetothe rights of the many , until all are Jully and fairly represented .
Hoping for a speedy consummation of my wishes , and still clingiug to my motto , " The Charter aud the Laud !" I am Sir , yours truly , J . Shaw . Gloucester-street , CommercuJ-road , East . Tuesday Night , Feb . 23 rd .
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Scddes axd Afpectino Death . —The sudden an affecting death ot Mr . Charles Thornton Cunningham , Lieutenant Governor of St . Christopher ' s and of the Leeward Wands , is announced in the West Indian pupcrs which have just arrived . It appears that this gentleman had driven in from tho country to Basseterre , the seat of the government , in apparently vigorous health and cheerful spirits , to open tbe newly-elected Houses of Legislature . After transacting some business with his private secretary , and despatching a note to invite some officers in a French skip of war just come into port to luncheon at Government-house , he rode down to the mailolfi ' . e to meet his letters and a box containing a picture of a much-beloved sister , recently deceased
in England . lie stated to more than one person , that his earnest desire to possess the picture was not unmixed with fear as to the effect the sight of it might produce upon him . So strongly had this apprehension fastened itself on his mind , that , on the arrival of the box at Government-house , lie sent a servant in quest of a friend who might be with him when the box was opened . Having failed in finding him , he proceeded to open the box . His butler , who was preient , reports that ho looked at the countenance earnestly , turned pal ** , whispered a few words to himself , walked hastily up to hia own room , was heard almost instantly to tall as he entered it . and kis servants following upstairs found him Stretched on the floor a corpse . The St . Christopher ' t Gazette , as well its many other public and private communications , bear the strongest testimony to the ability , vigour , and hij ; h moral character of this gentleman , and to the tenderness and munificence with which at
all times , and , espec " ! ally under a recent visitation of Island fever , he had ministered to the wants and sorrows of ihe negro population . The houses of Assembly met immediately after his death , and jiassed an unanimous vote for a funeral at the public expense , to testify , as they expressed it , at once their respect for his official rank and the high esteem in which he was held by all classes ef the community . On the next < iay he was followed to the grave by all the public authorities , the members of the two hcuses , the most distinguished persons in the colony , and by thousands of grateful and mourning negroes , to whose welfare he had largely contributed . Mr . Cunningham assumed the government of St . Kilts m May , 1839 , and fell a victim , as his physician j ^^ P artl y " to the exhausting influence of tro-I pical climates on the nervous powers , " and partly to the intensity of brotherl y affoction , in the 30 tU jear ol his age .
» ied at Bolion , on the 17 th February , Robert Blinknor . i , who for five or six years has been an active member of the Chartist Association , also a member of the Liud Company He was followed to his grave oa Sunday last by . his friends deeply regrett d .
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24—total , 13 , 467 . . - -- ^ ncans , Mendiciiy . in Manchester .- " A Ratepayer , " in a letter to the . Manchester Guardian , states , that £ one hour last Saturday 31 becga ' s called at his door —m the course of the day 134 . CAUTION . —On Saturday evening a person gentcellv dressed , without a hat , and wearing spectacles , and s anding in the passage of a house in Red Lion-Btreet , Holborn ( used as a billiard-room ) , accosted a youth who was passing by , and tapping him on the shoulder , requested he would get a cab for him , as he was in a hurry , promising to give him sixpence forhia trouble . The youth having a bag with him , he invited him to put it behind the door , as he would go quicker without it On the return of the boy with the cab , it is needless to s : iy the bag and its and without a hat , had d sanni'arrrl .
Ihe * eveb at SiKRiuLKONr ..-Lmtm from SierrvLeonc up to the 26 th of December have been received , reporting that the fever prevailed to such an extent in her Majesty ' s sloop Wanderer , that she was kept at Anchor there , and had been placed in quarantine . Up to the above day she had lost Lieutenant W . H . Walters and nine of tho crew , and had twenty-one sick in their cots . Dkath of General Darrock op Gouhock . —We have to record the death of General Duncan Darroch of Gourock , which occurred at his mansion on Tuesday tho 16 th instant . SuiPWBECK . —The Moniteur announces that the steam-frigate Oaraibe wont on shore on the 10 th of January , at about five leagnes from the French establishment « f Saint Lnu ! s ( Seaegal ) , and that about twenty of the crew perished .
Tub new MoNBT-onoKR Opjick . —On Monday next the new money-order office in Aldorsgate-street , will be opened for the transaction of public business , and tha payment of money on money-ordors . Influx op Emigrants prom the South op Irkland to tiib Pori o ? Lokdon . —The Ajax steamship with a . full cargo , and aa immense number o : deck passengers , consisting of men , women , and children , apparently in very poor circumstances , arrived on Monday afternoon at Wapping . Further more , numerous bodies are , it is said , preparing to follow . Alt EWJBLIBIIT SUBSTIIUTB FOR 1 ' OYATUKS French Kidney or haricot beans are superior to every other kind of grain or pulse in point of nourishment They contain , according to Einhoff , 84 por cent , of nutritive matter , of which 50 is pure farina , the reat gluten and mucilage .
Execution b ? Ether . —A man , condemnci to death by the Court of Assize 3 of the Ardeche , bas petitioned tho Minister of Justice to permit him to undergo his punishment by inhaling ether , death by such means , lie understands , being without pain . Extraordinary . SnoT . —An extraordinary Bhotwaa last wesk made on the Hampshire coast by Colonel Hawker with one barrel of his 2001 b . gun , and a 12-ounce patent cartridge by Eley . He picked up , at this one shot , 178 oxbirds and a plover , exclusive of about three dozen more birds that escaped in tho scramble of collecting the killed and wounded . The Mackarbl Fishery . —During the past week large catches of mackarel have been taken , or Saturday last thousands were sent off by the railroad to the London and Bristol markets , and a market for them is now procured through railway agency in Birmingham . Thousands were retailed on that day in this town at one penny each .
# The New Comet . —The comet is rapidly increasing ii \ brightness , and will continue to do so until its disappearance , about the end of tho second week iu March . The other evening , notwithstanding the moonlight , it was distinctly seen through an ordinary night- ^ lass . Fbver has considernbly increased within the last few days , among the Irish paupers in Liverpool . Sermon 3 , Prick Ten and Sixpence . —Tho following advertisement appears in the John Bull of Sunday , under the head of" Manuscript sermons supplied : " — " Many young ministers from press of parochial business , a » d from inexperience in composition , being sometimes obliged , very much against their inclination , and to the serious injury of their ministry , to
copy sermons from books , the advertiser , an experienced clergyman , engages to supply original sermons of good composition , of decidedly Evangelical doctrine , and of practical application , on the receipt of ha ! f-a-sovereign for each . Persons requiring sermons may choose their own texts , and need not disclose their names , as the sermons can be directed to a fictitious signature , at any post office they are required to be sent to . Yarmouth IIerrmos . —The town of Yarmouth is bound by ancient charter to send to the sheriffs ot Norwich a hundred herrings , which are to r . 3 baked in twenty-four pies , or pasties , and then delivered to the lord of the mannr of East Carlton , who is to convey them to the Queen .
Horsej . —Never since the establishment of hoi ^ e racin ? in England have thare been so many horses in trnining as there aro at the present time . Club < . —The Army and Navy clubs are going to astonish London with the most magnificent clubhouse ever yet built . Destructive Fire is Waikrford . —On Friday morning , about three o ' clock , a most ruinous fire broke out in the extensive bacon concerns of Mr . George Courtcnay , in William-street . No clue can be ascertained as to tho origin of this awful calamity , which has destroyed property to the amount of £ 7 , 000 .
Determined Suicide . —On Monday morning , as a man was walking tewards the entrance of Victoriapark , he perceived a quantity of blood close to a gravel pit , and on proceeding towards it discovered the body of a man in the pit with his throat cut , and quite dead . The deceased was about 38 years of age , anil was respectably dressed . Population of Flanders . —The last Belgian census bas brought to light the singular fact that the population of Plunders has decreased in late years . In 1816 , the population of West Flanders was counted at 642 , 000 , a decrease of 22 , 000 on the former year , and that of East Flanders was 791 , 000 or 15 , 000 less
thaji in the former year . In the other provinces , po pulation had increased during the samo period . A Revenue Cutter Sunk at Sea . —Between two and three o ' clock on Friday afternoon , the Nimble cutter , Mr . J . P . Blundell , commander , wasstanding along shore , between Berry Head and Dartmouth , in chase of a small smack , when her progress was suddenly arrested by a sunken rock , and caused a rapid leak ; the vessel fell over on her starboard sido , drifted from the rock , and instantly sunk in an upright position , in deep water . The crew were saved by hastily cutting away the boats from the tackles , but without clothes , bags , or berfdincr .
"The Hoo Cnor" of tho United States this year is thret' times the worth of ( he cotton crop . The " standing army " of swine consumes annually two hundred million bushels of corn . Illicit Stills . —The Excise officers seized no less than four illicit stills in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green , on Friday . Electric Telegraph in Paris . —A system of electro-telegraphic communication is being formed round Paris , between each of the octroi stations ( where the city dues are collected ) , at the several barriers ; thus establishing between them all a much move rapid and direct correspondence than has hitherto existed . Extensive Robberies . —On Saturday information
was forwarded to the police , that the promises of Mr . Jackson , Commercial-road , Pimlico , had been entered by thieves , and £ 111 in « n ! d and silver , two £ 10 and one £ 5 Bank ot England notes and three cheques for £ 11 , £ 13 , and £ 15 abstracted ; and from Mr . Water ' s , Sloaiw-strcet , £ 100 in caBh , a £ 20 note , and silver plate and watches , valued at £ 200 , carried off , it is suspected , by tho same ganfr . Soyer ' s Soup for the Poou . —Wo understand that Mr . Soyer , of the Reform Club , has received instructions from government , to proceed immediately to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland , and to submit his plan of a model-kitcken for the preivxration of soups on a large scale ; which , if approved of , will be at once carried into effect .
hiruDBNCE . —On Friday , an Irishman , miserably clad , and to all appearance in a state of exhaustion from starvation , entered the Kenilworth Castle , kept by Mr . Clapperton , iu tho New North Road , and craved relief . Ho was immediately noticed by the worthy host and a Mr . Silverthorne , ' who immediately procured him some hot gin and water . After tho feilow had partaken of it , a few slices of thin bread and butter were placed before him , when the fellow insultingly turned to his benefactors , and coolly told them that he could not eat it without ham . The imagination of the reader iray p icture to himself the surprise of the hearers of this declaration , and during the temporary astonishment that ensued , the fellow walked off . Very like Famine !—The granaries in and about Stockton anil Ynrm are so loaded with the "stairof life" that many of them are in . danger of breaking down .
A Royal Poet . — Che Journal des Dcbats announces that the King of Bavaria is about to publish a fourth volume of poems . Mineral Wealth of Great Britain . — In the course of a locture , delivered to the general classes of King ' s College , by Mr . Tennant , on mineralogies !
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' ** geology the lecturer stated that the annual vmuo of the mineral produce of this country amounts to coals ; £ 8 , 400 , 000 . Irom iron ; £ 1 . 200 , 000 from « W ««"! * mm . Srm lead ; £ 400 , 000 C a 11 * W 00 from tin ; £ 60 . 000 . from man » ; £ 35 , 000 . fromsilver ; £ 22 , 000 . from alum ; £ 8 000 from zinc ; and £ 25 , 000 . from various other meals ' as antimony , bismuth , arsenic , &o . ' Hailuoads is Egypt .. —The barrage and embsinlrment of the . Nile are progressing satisfactorily , und in December last 20 000 persons were employed thereon ; working alternately tiay and night . \\ li Pasha , in fact , contemplates great structural improvements in Egypt , which he certainly will cany out if his life be so far prolonged . Amongst tlaise is a railroad from Alexandria to Cairo , another iVoni Suez to Cairo . An embankment of tho ftilc ia Nubia (!) is also spoken of .
Thojs Bonn to be Ikso will Never Drown , -. The Emperor of Russia h abuut to construct ii suspension bridge at thepoint where a short time a . ; i > he narrowly escaped being drowned in crossing the Xie mor , near Kuvrno . Tho works will be commenced in ting . Swindling in tiie Metp . opolis . —Informal ion has been received by U 3 as to a must extensive and arttully concocted system of plunder , attempts ! to l ; o earned on at present by parties in London , swim of whom reside west of Tottenham-court-roa . l , and another who advertises by curtain initial * . 1 W tics requiring loans must be on their guard .-, S ' « nday Tunas , "
bNOH in the Mim . ANDS . -It is somewhat singular 7 , ffl W l "nffland counties generally , and ii ; the Weak regions of the Peak of Derbyshire in pa ' ticu-, ar , less inconvenience was experienced from ctaa . ymg snow , and , in fact , that less snow has hi !! cn than perhaps m any other district in Groat B . itr . in . Compressed Pkat CHARCOAL .-Mr . Jasper Win . UogerS propose 3 to cut up the peaty superstratum ot tiie man . bog-land into portions , subject these to hydraulic pressure , and then convert thorn into charcoal ; thus affording employment to multitudes , preparing the hm \ for useful purposes , and affording - Ihe means of smelting British iron into material tquivalent to that of Sweden . Turf , too , at 5 s . a ton . will produce as much steam ao Scotch coal at 10 s . a ton .
Strange I-ioure op Speech . —The lion , Mr . Eicklin of Illinois , in allusion to division on tne war question in the Whig party , said , " they gobbled with the Turkeys and roo-ted with the chickens . " A Quekr Chick . —Tho lady of a respectable citizen in Philadelphia gave birth to a fino&nn in one of the public sleighs on Wednesday , —Aw York American . A Subscription for tho relief of the distressed Irish : has been commenced at Geneva , and has already pro * duccd more than £ 110 .
Lamentable . —Two boys , one of whom i * nine and the other eleven years old , have been committed ior trial at Loughborough , on a charge of burglnry . Property Tax . —The grand council of the Swiss canton of Berne has resolved to impose a property tax , which will not exceed one thaler for every thousand thalers of capital . Musical Mice . —It would appear that musical raicfl are becoming common ; for the Ipswich Journal say * that a bootmaker of that town has trapped a sinking mouse , which that paper describes as " a most inierestiug and , at the same time , a moat wonderful performer . "
Auld Reekie . —In 1846 , among 4 . 5 R 8 prisoner * connned in the prison at Edinburgh , 2 . 1 H 0 wcie convicted drunkards . Hydrophobia . —Very serious mischief has lately been committed by dogs in a rabid state in the neighbourhood ot Penrith , and in different parts of Westmoreland . A Good Example . —Messrs . Chubb and Son , the eminent lock and fireproof safe makers have , iu consequence of the rise in the price of provisions , wised the wages of their workmen for three months certain . This is the more creditable , as it wa : unso * licited .
A Challenge . —Mr . R . Ncwal ! , of London , has challenged to row the best four men at Newc ;^ tleupon-Tjne , for £ 300 a side . The match to be rowed on the London river ; if not , ho was ready to meet them half way , each party paying their own expenses . Austrian Tyranny . —It is , according to the Austrian code , a grave offence to smoke a cigar whilst passing before a sentinel . If the unwary passmiger , on the iirst summons , does not remove the ofJemiing pipe or cigar from his mouth , he is admonished by a stab from a bayonet , and several inhabitants of Cracow have been thus wounded since the occupation of the city by the Austrians .
Deserters prom ins United States Army . — Tho Slates Police Gazette advertises the names of 718 deserters , for each of whom a reward of thirty dollars is offered . Of this number , 162 deserted the 16 th of October last . The names comprise only tha men belonging to the standing army , and does not includo the volunteers , who amount to 16 , 511 men , very nearly double the number of the regular troops , as stated in the Adjutant-General ' s report up to tne 5 th of December last . It appears from this statement that more men desert from the United States army of 8 , 473 men than from the French army of 300 , 000 ; *
HoMiEOPATinc—Tho Aulic Chancery at Vienna has published a decree which subjects the liomojopathic doctors to a more severe control . Formerly they were allowed to prepare their own medicines ; thoy are in future obliged to procure their ingredients and medicaments from the apothecaries . Gaol Perquisites . —It came out in the course of proceedings at Lambeth Police-court , that flic Governor of Ilorsemonger-lane Gaol makes a perquisite by giving copies of the commitments of the prisoners to their frienda , for which lialf-a-crown is cliar-Pii . An Immense Speculation . —In the United States Senate Mr . Morehead presented a memorial I « tely from the editor of a daily Cincinnati paper , asking Congress to invest him with power to form a company to extend tho magnetic telegraph " across the Atlantic Ocean ! " Referred to the Poat-ofKco committce .
Herrixgs . —The Norwegian herring fishery has been very plentiful , and the fish have been ot excellent quality . Tom TmiMB . —Mr . Atkins , of the Liverpool Zoological Gardens , has purchased the miniature cquinase of General Tom Thumb . ' Prooress . —The sultan has ordered the abolition of the Constantinople slave mavkets . Cod Fishery . —The deep sea cod-fisliery has commenced at the Isle of Man , and many prime fi \ h uave been anight . Slavery . —The last census of the United States gave 420 , 000 as tho number of female slaves under ten years of age , and 390 , 000 as the number between ten and twenty . Thr Peels . —Commander William Peel , son of Sir Robert Peel , has been appointed to command the "Daring , " twelve gun sloop , on tho West Iudia station .
Lamb Mortality . —An unaccountable mortality appears to prevail in Worcestershire among tho young lambs , which are said to be dying in great numbers , without any apparent cause . Wonderful . —The Arbroath Guide mentions that a tumour ncara cow's udder was lately openni by a veterinary surgeon , at Forfar , and a dinner fork complete , except a part of one prong , was taken out . Fiction . —The editor of the Burlington Free Preit informs his readers , that having published " D-jmbey and Son" and the President ' s Message , ho on « Ut to be excused giving any more fiotion for tho present . The Potato Disease . —The loss caused l > v the ravages of the potato diseas , within the counties of Anglesey and Carnarvon , is estimated , by parties who avecompetent to judge , at 10 s . in thVpound upon the annual reatal of tho land , as assessed to the poor rates .
Extraordinary . —A few days since , a poliwman stationed at Oakh&m caught a robin with' a cinnamon-coloured back , and other parts of a cinnamon colour . Its breast is red , and the same as others , and its wings , tail , and legs , and each side of its head , are of a hue approaching to whiteness . Provisions from the United Status . —The Oxford and Orphan , from New York , Richard Anderson from Baltimore , Defence and Radius from Charleston , and Lame from Now Orleans , which were reported at Liverpool on the 22 nd inst ., bring 8 , 001 barrels of flour , 8 , 608 bags and 30 , 474 bushels of Indian corn , 2 , 108 barrels of Indian corn-meal . 657 tierces of rice , and 200 boxes of biscuit .
buET akd Dripping .- Tho late Mr . Suet , the actor , going onco to dine about twenty miles from London , and being ouly abloto get an ' outside place on the conch , arrived in such a bedraggled state , from theincessantrain . andso muffled up in groat coats and handkerchiefs , that his friend inquired , tlnubtinriy , "Areyou Suet ! " "No , " replied the wag , " I ' m dripping . " _ Good Character . —The late Lord Eldon had occasion to discharge v coachman whom he suspected of purloining his corn . In a few days after , he received a letter from a merchant , inquiring into the man ' s character , and his lordship ' s reply was , that ho was sober , and a good coachman , but he entertained suspicions that ho had cheated him . Tho man came next day to return thanks to his lordship for pvocuringhim so excellent a place . — ' My master , " said he , " was contented to find I was sober and n goed coachman ; butas to ' cheating' your lordship , ho thought the ' devil himself could not do it . "—Life
if Lord FAdon . Suicidk . —Oil Tuesday , before Mr . Payne , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body ; of James Hirchall , aged 48 . Tho deceased was a watohmnkor , and during the last month he had been in a dejected state through pecuniary difficulties . He left home on Wednesday last , and on tho following day he entered the Uluo-coat Boy ale-house , at Islington . Soonofter ho was found on the premises bleeding from a Bovero wound in the neck . He was very much exhausted , and by his side lay a large carviBgknifc covered with blood . Ho was subsequently conveyed to the above hospital , where he died on Sunday last . The jury returned a verdict of" Temporary insanity .
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— THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE FOR POLAND'S REGENERATION TO THE DEMOCRATIC POLES . IN REPLY TO THEIR ADDRESS TO EUROPE . Poles ! Brothers ! We congratulate the friends of Poland and the democracy of Europe on the glorious evidence in behalf of liberty you have once more given to the world . You have established the eternal truth that the cause of justice cannot bo quelled on the field of battle , nor buried under the ruins of stormed capitals !; jou have proved the superiority of democracy over monarchy ; since monarchical Poland has fallen before her enemies , but democratic Poland is gaining additional strength with every struggle . mnn < r \ T * mms «« x * m « s * m ^ % « ... *___ .. __« . * . * .
lbanks / . brave soldiers ! Thanks . gallant brothers ! You have sounded the note of hope and the tocsin of revolution to every stave , —and though your measure ot suffering surpasses that of most , those , even the least oppressed , behold in thereckless violation of all treaties by your tyrants—the omen of laws to be in . fringed , and constitutions to be disregarded by their u ? la ed in the Tai « g « ard of European liberty , Poland has received in her breast the blows aimed at the heart of western democracy . Across her prostrate . forra advances tho Cossack charge of despotism , even self-interest therefore calls on the people of Lutope to drive the foe from the houso of their neighbour , before they are forced to struggle at their own nreside .
Brothers . lwe hail with delight thUj fresh proof of yoiirnndauuted energy , and in its acknowledgment intend not only to convey the expression of our heartfelt sympathy , but the assurance of all that support which English democrats are authorized to give . Ernest Jokes , President . ! T , _ , G . Julian Haunet , Secretary . London , Feb . 22 , 184 ? .
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THE NEW POOR LAW . BROUGHAM «^ T « BROUGHAM . * tMr- J ? stler has recently addressed the following to the Editor of the Morning Post . \ If the elevation of thesocial condition of thepeople of England be , indeed , the object of Lord John Russell s Government , his first act will be to restore the Christian and constitutional rights of the poor . lne social edifice can never b e safely reared on injustice . Our legislators may strive to give peace and secure order am ong the different ranks ef society , but their efforts will be vain until they have filled up that wide gulf which the New Poor Law has caused between the rich asd the poor . The friendly sympathy of the payers to the receivers of the poors' rates is destroyed by that law ; it must be re-established ere their union can be honed for . *
Parochial government , the distinguishing feature of the ancient Constitution of this kingdom , has interwoven itself into the very nature of Englishmen ; its absence festers and irritates the national mind , and will lor ever prevent a willing obedience to the laws : it has destroyed that veneration for our laws and institutions which distinguished the loyalty of this people from that of all other nations . Ihese thoughts have suggested themselves from the perusal of the observations made by Lord Brougham , on tbe 23 rd ultimo , in the House of Lords .
It is painful to hear one who h « been ftrd High Chancellor of England , who should hi a constitutional lawyer , whenspenking ol the meditated alterations of the New Poor Law , say— "I do hape that no one part of thecorncr stone of thesystem , namely . centralsupermtendence— tha * no one inch or atom of that corner stone of the whole important fabric will be touched : " for , Sir , itismanifestthatcentralisationistheraaster grievance of the whole system . It is that which entirely separates the ratepayers and the receivei . iit destroys all sympathy between the
parties—eradicates those local ties that were the strongest bulwarks of the nation—removing from the breasts of the wealthy the fostering care of the poor , and from the latter their nttachment to the dispensers of the national bounty . It destroys the influence of the clergy and the aristocracy , and makes them the mere tools of commissioners . England owes more of its greatness and glory to the sympathy of the different classes in society than to her science and wealth . When that link is weakened her nower and nlorv wanes .
Lord Brougham may have become enamoured of centralisation by bis residence in France : it is the duty of every Englishman to resist the establishment fi . j ? ' ? y 8 tem here « wl l ere Parochial government is the distinguishing and life-preserving principle that pervades all our institutions . That Lord Brougham is possessed of great and varied talents , none can deny ; that his lordship ' s judgment is sound—that he understands the English character—I have yet to learn . The settled conviction of the neonlo of England
expressed in their manly denunciation of the New Poor Law , ho calls " clamour . " Their meeting in peaceful assemblies to petition for its repeal he styles ' violent , unscrupulous agitation . " The strong constitutional arguments ( backed by the opinion of the late Lord Chancellor Eldon ) that are used to persuade the Legislature to repeal that law , Lord Brougham calls "the most senseless theories , "the most injurious for the people of this country that can be entertained , "— " the pressure from with out . "
Lord Brougham should remember that it was " clamour , and violent , unscrupulous agitation" th » t raised him to the woolsack—it was " the nressure from without" tha obtained the Reform Bill . May be . Lord Eldon indulged in " the most senseless theories . "—perhaps that venerable and constitutional lawyer was not so deeply read in the principle of our laws as his eccentric successor . The learned in Westminster Hall judge otherwise . One point , however , is " capable of proof . Lord Brougham now says , "That Bill ( the New Poor Law ) was for the benefit of the poor , and not of the proprietors ; that I shall ever maintain . " Lord Broudiam , on the second reading of the New Poor Law Bill in the House of Lords , said— " All property is shaken to pieces , and the times aro fast approaching when it shall ba no more . " It is , then , impossible that his Lordship can speak correctly now . Again , Lord Broucham told their lordahins that
the rental was crumbling down daily and hourly into the poors' box . " Was not this to alariv ; his hearers in respect of their property ? His Lordship also said— " Thus stands the case ; suppose I am a Westmoreland pauper—as I certainly very soon may be , if the present system continues ! " How , then , can this same orator , with truth , assert that " the New Poor Law was not for the benefit ol the pro . prietors ? ' ' Lord Brougham is , forsooth , very anxious that the consideration of tho New Poor Law shall be first had in the House of Lords , in order to secure "the greatest circumspection , deliberation , and the most mature reflection . " The following quotation from his lordship ' s speech already quoted will at once exhibit Lord Brougham ' s peculiar qualification for " circumspection , deliberation , and reflection , " and convince him that he greatly mistakes when he assures their lnrdBhips that the Npw Poor Law " was for the benefit of the poor , and not of the proprietors : "—
" I will not gay that as yet the [ old Poor Law ] system has to worked ns to loy waste any considerable portion of territory ; that it hat a direct and necessary tendency to do so ; thnt unless its progress be arrested it must go on till it gain that point ; that ere Ions we must roach tho brink of the precipice , towards which we ara hurrjing with accelerated rapidity ; that tbe circumstance of one parish being thrown out of cultivation inevitably ar > d immediately tends to lay three or four others waate , and that this devastation , gathering strength as it proceeds , must needs cover the land . On these facts no man who consults the body of evidence before your lordships enn entertain the shadow of a doubt . Stand where we are , we cannot . I might say with others , whose minds are filled with despair and tho dread of coming events , that I could be content never to have
things better , 60 I were assured thcy « trould nevwbe worse . But this—even this wretched compromise—Is impossible , with the frightful scourge that is ravaging our country . The question is , shall we retrace our steps , or shall we be pushed forward , and down the steep we stand on , by the momentum of this weight which we have laid upon ourselves ? That such is our position—that such is the course we are pursuing—that such , i * tho gulf towards which we are hastening , no man living , gifted with an ordinary measure of sagacity , can deny . This , then , is the picture of our situation ; harsh in its outline , dismal in its colouring , in every feature sad and awful to behold . This is tho aspect of affairs , menacing the peace of society , undermining the safety of dominion , and assailing the security of property , which the system , as now administered , exhibits to the eve . "
Such was the wild declamation of a Lord Chancellor , who now insinuates that the Members of the House of Commons may not safely be entrusted with the consideration of the measure , about which , in the liouse of Lords , he so wildly raved and raged—a measure which ho now says , and declares " he will ever maintain , " " was not for the benefit of the proprietors !" There can be no mistake about these extracts : they are from Lord Brougham ' s corrected speech , of which thousands of copies were sent to different and distant places , at the public cost ; among the rest , one was sent to me .
I think 1 have demonstrated—Lord Brougham being witness—that the New Poor Law was for the benefit of tho proprietors , and not for the poor . If I mistake not . I have shown , on the same authority , that , while Lord Brougham is present , the House of Lords is not the place where we may expect the New Poor Law to be treated with " the greatest circumspection , deliberation , and most mature reflection . " Really , Sir , it is high time that this momentous subject should be treated with its deserved attention . It is absolutely necessary that deceit should no longer be practised upon our Legislature . We have recently
had an awful exhibition of the want of truth in another place . I havo furnished ground in this letter for Lord Brougham to apologise to their Lordships and the country for the misrepresentation of a most important fact ; if his Loroship fails to correct his misrepresentation , the public cannot have great respect for the truthfulness of his character . If you will allow me space , I will , in another letter , prove ( Lord Brougham beins again my only witness ) that his anticipations of the benefits to be derived from the New Poor Law were vain and delusive . On his own authority I will , with your permission , establish the lact , that ims Nkw Poor Law is a Failure !
I remain , Sir , Your obedient servant , t j n , » ,. ' Richard Oastler . London . Feb ., 1847 . , ; * r % r ^ . t . Tery men who toId U 9 that the 43 d of Elizateth had caused the ruin of England , nowpropose the samo measure for the cure of Ireland ! Believe me , there is more in the question of the New Poor Law than many are willing to believe . The times are approaching when the poor must really receive the moat serious and benevolent attention of the Legislature . Let the Protectionists eschew centralisation , or cease to profess allegiance to the principles of the Constitution . R . O .
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ItLicix Distillery . — On Wednesday morning , Messrs . W . Bayford and J . Lewins , the active officers of Kxcise , proceeded to No . 5 , Triangle-place , Kennington-cross , where they knocked for a considerable time , but , no answer being returned , they got a ladder , and gained an entrance by a first-floor back window . In a lower room they found a large copper still , capable of containing nearly 200 gallons , and a quantity of fermented wash of malt and molasses . No person was found on the premises , but tho still h ad rffpwtiv bTn at work . ^^^
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Fkbmabt 27 , 1847 . THE N 0 RTHERN STAR y — O
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 27, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1407/page/3/
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