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( Fnm ear # us » Ctrrttpenitzi ) Dpblik , 27 th Dee . A ? ttOSDTO THE READERS 0 ? THE NORTHERS 8 TA 3—IB C 8 EECI 0 K ACT—THE CASILS PEASE—THE XKKBN 5 T ELECTION *—UORK OETfiAGiS . In closing my labours for the expiring year , I , in my capacity as' Dublin Correspondent' of the Nobthsbk Star , bag to make a Tfew observations to the readers , and particularly to tha Irish readers , of that excellent journal . I will net occupy their attention Very long , nor would I presume to obtrude myself at all upon their notice were it not that I learn with same degree of paia that my communications to the Stab have been mada a subject for
misrepresentation , and Hnjuit censure with certain parties , in this city . New , I wish it to be distinctly understood , that with regard to those individuals , I am -quite indiffereat 83 to what they say of my correspondence . But , lest others might be misled by their anfair animadversions , I think it due to myself to ( . Set a , few remarks on my past career , and , at the same iime , to point out the leading features by which my fature correspondence with that popular public organ ^ iil be distinguished . It is very painful to my feellegs tkat I mast bring myself bsfora the public , or ¦ occupy the time or attention of my readers , even for an instant , yet when ^ a necessity has arisen , lam willing to sacrifioe my inclinations to the vindication of my character , and ia so deing , I fondly hope for the approval and sympathy of my many thousands of waders . ¦
In she first place , I am maligned as a traducer of the Irish peasantry , and aa a proof theteof . those people point to the great avidity with which I report to the Stab , the numerous murders and outrages which have unhappily been perpetrated in Ireland within the last three months . Now . a more silly accasation could not ba made against a man ' s character tkan this . These murders and outrages were no fabrication . They did oceur , I never reported a case of marder to the $ riB of the actual perpetration of which I was not poaitively certain , and I made it arsle not to allude to any marder on hearsay or -verbal rumour , though several instances of esch came within my hearing—some of which were afterwards ¦ found to be only too Itrne . With respect to minor outrages ; I seldom remarked on them at all . They
• were too numerous , and , unfortunately , any person reared in Ireland ^ must be too familiar with offences against law aad mortality , to look on their perpetration with surprise , or oonsid-r them in any other View , tkaa aa at raos . a' nine days' wonder ! ' Be . sides , those crimes and murdera constitute , and will ever co 3 Stitate , a prominent ^ eshion in the history of Ireland at tha present period . Tiers is not a newspaper or public print in the united kingdom—from the iron ciiSs o * Kerry to the rnndJasaed shores of Caithness—whieh does notj re-echo tbe death-cry of those ill-fated victims of the Irish' assassin . Why , should I then shrink from reporting them to that journal with which I was" caanected , and the proprietor of whieh was paying me for my communications ?
Hsavea knows it w&a in no unfriendly spirit I commented ontkose heart-rending occurrences , for I love my countrymen too well to wish to realign -them . 1 knew tos well the crying injustices perpetrated sgain 3 fc them , and the reckless cruelty with ¦ which they were treated , and though my soul might sieken , iay heart woald fain pardoa iae infuriated peasant for his misdeed—even , though I heard the explosion of his mnrderoas carbine , or saw hisrou ^ h hand crimsoned with his victim ' s blood . Hence , when I reported these tragedies , it was merely as a Blatter of course , or , if aay other feeling predominated , it wa 3 to show that the tranquillity of Ireland could not bo effected by eoercisn , or tyrannical
enactments ; and that the greater portion of Irish insubordination was solely attributable to the rapacity , aad injustice , and heartlessness of those from whom ¦ we onsht naturally to expect sympathy and protection . It k well-known , toa , that the Northern Stab is a . warm advocate for the rights of Ireland , and that the Irish peasantry hare not on earth a mere faithful friend than the pioprietor of that journal-Mr Feargus O'Connor . Away , then , with the ridiculous assumption that the ' Dublin Correspondent ' of the Stab is , by reporting , or the gentlemen presiding at that paper by publishing , the' Black List ' of Irish erime . acting directly , or Indirectly , in any manner hostile or unfriendly to tks interests of Ireland .
In the next place , ifris said that my feelings are teo cruek in favour of the' Old Ireland , ' and that I am , aS ; far as in eib lies , iEisical to the ' Young Ireland ' party , and the principles which they advocate . These are mistakes also . In 1843 , when Ireland was awake , and her sons fina and united in the cause of their country , I became a member of the Repeal Association-and I gloried in being eHrelled in that mighty band , whieh , I fondly hoped , was to achieve the salvatim of my native isle , and who might have done so , had they remained faithful totheirvdw—nnoorrupted by the temptation of Whig patronage , and uueonteminated by the glare of British gold . Subsequently , I fell away from tbe Repeal Association , for I discovered that Irishmen must sooner or later look elsewhere for the means of rescuing
themselves from the trammels of misrule , aad the evils under which they writhed . The Irish Confederation , ' alias ' Yeunglreland , ' * praug up , ondtbe principles whieh they professed to adopt , and the system which they eked oat as their line of policy , in a great measure ! seemed good and creditable . But the parly soon began to make Itself ridiculous . Wise and respectacle men kept aloof from ths new organisation . The Catholic clerfiy denounced their doctrines as calculated to excite hopes whieh could not be realized , and disseminate the seeds of sedition and revolution amongst the pef pie . No man possessing influence on the public mind , or having the wisd » m , or experience , or weight of character necessary for a nation ' s chief , appeared at the councils of' leung Ireland . ' People did hot choose to commit tbeir hopes and chances to
the keeping of a few raw , inexperienced , hair-brained yapns men ; and the re'ult is that , up to this , the this ? , so far as having effected any practical good , er as likely to effect any , has been a oomplate failure . Ip my letters te t ' ae Nobthehs Stab , I have sometimes spoken in terms not perhaps so explicit , bnt somethin- similar to those which I now use . Hence , gome have takm umbrage , and would fais have it that I am an * Old Icelander , ' and hostile td the pro ^ Kss of tbe principles of ' Young IrelandisHi . Well , I am neither » n' Old' or 'Toang Irelauder ; ' I love my country , and would wish her happy , and prosperous , and free ; but I am fully convinced that neither the ' place-beggars' of Conciliatien-hall . er
thespoutera of tha Rotundo , can restore our fallen land , or raise her to her proper praitioa amongst the natlens of the earth . Other ha * ds must do tbe work . Jealousies , bickering , aad party squabbles racst be laid aside . Irishmen must unite , not only with each ether , but als « with their English fellow-subjects . They must make common cause with each other , and fargei all rivalry ef piceaaJ ereed . When they tlu < co-operate , and say with one voice , ' We must bb Fees , ' their ckains will drop asunder ; empty bravado wiil bo more be heard in the Dublin Rotunds , and Conciliation-hall traitors and beggars will no longer have a' barter' to give in exchange for the gold of the once-hated , 'base , bloody , and brutal' Sassaaaea !
To recapitulate , I do not emblazon tha crimes of my countrymen with any treacherous or basemotivr . J do S 9 merely for the reasons I have stated . I am not an ' Old Irelander , ' for I loek on tbe greater number of toe Coneiliation-hall' stars , ' aa cheats and liars , and craven cowards , unwilling , as they are in * competent , to serve their betrayed country . I eechew Young Ireland' because they do not ho sensibly , and wisely , and prudently , and siienti ) to work . They spout and talk too much , and ' show tbeir teeth when they know well they dare not bite . ' Hence , no practical , sound ^ minded man can rely on them , or involve himself in iha responsibilities of their organisation . I have no personal ill-will to any individual in either party , and would be sorry to give pain to tbe meanest of them all . but I say again , I have no confidence in them , and shall not shrink from expressing my opinions cancerning them as public men , when ever opportunity may offer , or occasion require . Truth may be blamed , bnt never can be shamed . Another word and I am done . Since I became
contacted with tka Jibsthshn Stab , it has been my study to maka my communications 83 impartial and truthful as possible . It was By object to ' extenuate nothing' nor ' aught set dewn in malice . ' I flattered none . I gave merit where I considered it deserved , and if I have . occasionally laid stripe 3 en othere , tkey never were administered where they were net richly earned . By these principles I purpose to be governed in my future ss well as in my past career . I never will flatter any man . TkeugQ I was often in Munster I naver wag at Blarney 1 nor administered a kiss to the far-famed Blarney stone ; 'justice to all—favour to none' ever was and ever will be ray ' shibboleth . ' I will never shrink from telling ths trnth , and though I may incur censure for so doing , I will feel strengthened by the reflection that 'truth is powerful and must prevail . ' My feture letters to the Star shall be more accurately compiled—richer in matter and more interesting-in manner than those already published . 1 know * Ireland and the IrieS * intimately , and that knowledge shall be made subservient to tha imparting of agreeable and useful information to my readers . It will be my pleasure—a labour of love , indeedfcoamuse as well a 3 impart ' news , and whilst faithfully ehronicJiDg the events of the day , to make tayselfa weloome weekly guest to the lovers of the duke ss well as to the lovers of the uUU . \ I prophesied , many a day ago , that the Coeroion "w would become the panacea for Irish destitution , * ime has proved that I did not err in my conjeo-T well knew the animus of our Saxon rulers T and I knew , even better , the'metal ' ** o were to resist these measures , and " " ontheflsorofthe House of Com-¦< " « uit a Martial Law for Ireland . ' 'do 5 e | of our tranquillising f ewer than ten of the '• proclaimed as in and . of course .
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entitled to tho bene&te ef Ceernoa . Oa tee 23 rd ul the ukssa was issued frem ear viea-regal council chamber , and ths whole ef the mantles of Limerick and Tipperary , tkree boreaies ia the eounty Longford , four baronies In the King ' s connfcy , two in Waterford , three in Cavan , twa ia Cork , three iu Leitrim , six in Roscommon , and area in Clare are enjoying the blessings of Coercion , in addition to the luxuries of huDgry stomach ? , naked backs , and gutted oabins . Verily , the new year , 1 S 48 , finds Ireland mi s erable , beyond conception—where will Ireland be in twelve months more ? Fallen beyond re * demptioa or ' up and stirring !'
On Saturday , the 18 th ult ., Mr Michael Sullivan , a native of Kilkenny , wasolected without a contest , to represent his native city in Parliament , vice John O'Conueli , " who sits fer 'the eiij of the broken treaty , ' in preference to the ' smokeless' Queen of the ' mudless'Nere . What a pity { so it was ) Mr Sullivan was not present at the division oa thelrish Coercion Bill . I era Bure if he did not' die on the floor' eut and out , he would , at all events , po within the prod of a battle' of the satea of death ! Indeed , faith ! he wjuld , so he would ! It is rumoured that Mr Fagan , M . P . for Cork , U already sick of St Stephen ? , and resigns his seat in favour of hia brother-in-law , Mr M'Csrthy . Very like , indeed , and St Stephens would be a mucl honester place than it is if a good many other Irish members would ' die on the floor' there , or abandon it for ever .
So the Jews are te be' what they like hencefor ward in the' home of the brave and the free ' y-old England . The Jew !•—he who denies Christianitythe descendant of those who shed the blood of Jesua •—Is cared for . and cherished , and respected , and recognised in England , while the unfortunate Irishman is trampled on , and crushed , and bnffetted in the land of his nativity . Good God ! But we do grudge the Jew 3 to be emancipated . We envy them Hot their good fortune . They are from the same Creative , Almighty hand with ourselves , and should not be persecuted tor their conscientious opinions ; but if Paddy had as much of the ' brass' as the Jews he would never hear tell of Coercion . 'Poverty makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows , ' and if we were as ' rich as Jews' we would be long ago made partakers of the benefits and bleesings of great and glorious and happy English connexion !
The murderer still plies his frightful trade in Ireland . On Sunday , the 19 th ult ., a man named Henly was shot dead near his own residenco in the connty ef Maya , and on the sarae night Major M'Lane was fired at , near Shannon Harbour , in the county of Galway . On tno same day , Mr William Talbot , of Mount Talbot , in the county Roscommon , was fired at by an armed party , who way-laid him in his own demense , on his return from chureh . So maeh for coercive measures in restoring tranquillity and so much ( for the ' gratification' of , the sapient duader-head of the Glaeqow Exahixeb , and others of his'kidney . '
Wishing the Noktbebh Stab a brilliant ran through the forthcoming year , and praying that this time twelvemonths may find us all better and wiser men , I conclude my labours until this day week !
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An extraordinary Gazette was issued on Friday , containing notifications from the Lord Lieutenant , signed by the Chief Seoretary , appointing offioers to grant licences for the possession of carrying of arm 3 in the proclaimed districts . CoUSTT OF Le ' -TBIM . —Tbe LoX 6 P 0 RD _ JetJBHAIi Of Saturday states , that en Wednesday night last , an armed party attacked the house of a pensioner from the band of the Longford Militia , named Leary , residing about five miles from that town , in tha eounty sfLeitrira , near Drumlish , and shot him dead , sitin ? at his own fire . On receiving the shot , feis body fell upen the fire , where it was found much burned . Newport , TiPFBBAur . —On Sunday , a miller , named M'Mahon . in the employment of Mr O'Neill , merchant , of Limerick , on his way heme from mass , was knocked down by a blow from a loaded stick , administered by a scoundrel from wh 03 ep « ckets protruded the butts of pistols . The assassin , seeing his victim senseless and weltering in his blood , made off .
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A VOICE FROM TIPPERARY . Cotraty Tipperary , December 24 th , 1847 . IBUTH VOX TBEASOS—' ARMS AND THE HEH '— ' THE CATTLE OS A TH 0 US 4 HD HILLS ' ARS THE P 3 CPLE ' s'ISBLA 5 B iSiriS , '—A » D ISISH ' PATRIOTS AS IHBT ARS . ' Dcqi . —For what , then , do thay pause f I . Beb . — ....... An hour te strike . Dogs ( aside ) . —Saint Mark ' s shall strike th&t hour J . Era . — . I now bare placed My lift , ray honour , my all earthlj hopes With in ttiy power , but in th » firm belief That injuries like ours , Bprnng from one cause , Will gtnerata one vengeance : should it be so , Be our chief now—our sovereign hereafter .
Doge ov Venice , Act 1 , scene 2 nd , p , 90 , I write not treason . I speak sot seditios , but I simply declare the truth , A natien , like an individual , bears and suffers , but thinks and waits also . So it was from the beginning , so it is , and so it ever shall be . A man who writes thus may ba called ' a Bentimentaliet , ' better suited to act the part of chaperoa to a small tea party of ladies , than- to debate on hfe country ' s wrongs , —bnt is it bo . ? I think not . To be a man is to be a patriot ; to be the latter is to be one ef the noblest specimens of created generoaity- A patriot thinks of his fellow-men , and acts but lor their welfare . ^ Singular enough ! To be a lover of ene ' s country in these venal times is to be a ' rara avis in terra . ' People think so ; Irishmen are
but toe well convinced on the subject . The Irish are suffering what no other people ever suffered . They are the victims of a double cruelty , persecution and famine : they are the objects of a double robbery , landlord eviction £ sd government taxes . The Russian ukase , begetten of despotism , and forged by tyranny , is mild and tolerant when compared to our code of glorious laws . Absolute monarchy , even though vested in the beastly despDt , Nicholas , is bub a toy td play with when compared to the Coercion Bill of base , brutal , and bloody Whig creation . Bah ! Whig and Liberal are buf . synonimous with tyrant and despot . Whig vacillation is despieable , —Repeal treachery is nauseous , —Conserva'ive consistency' is honest . Give me Sir Robert Peel before Russell , —Lord George Bentinck before John
O'Connell . Morgan O'Connell is the boy he is the spa gregis , the flower of ths nobility of Irish traitors ; the charioteer of the five-pound patriots ; the edification of the Whigs and the admired one of Dillon Browne and Grattan . ' Pro \ curia inversiqut mores ' Yon see I am claaaical on subjectei They affcrd one such a feast . They are pregnant with so much pure patriotism . Well now , Mr Browne , poor whellow , but I am super surprised at your unpurchaseable purity , we never will find its like until the Greek Kalends . Oh ! then , sure after that we ought never stop nor stay until we decree a statue % you in Conciliation Hall , and a civic crown to your brow ; unless , indeed , you assert your patriotism is too lofty to admit of even sueh trifling recompenses . Bah ! Mr Browne , yen are a traitor . Irelaad knows you now . Take an advice eo home to Mayo , get a place and
pension , and thank God you had a country to Bell . Grattao , too , be went to parliament ; for whatoh ! of course to support tenant-right , repeal , and all the ether et ceteras . No more , Henry , will you have cause to say , as you said at the National Council , ' that the enemies ef Ireland hate the name ef GrattaB . No , faith ! they need do so no more . Grattan ' s remains are dishoHBured in the tomb . His son has defiled the hero ' s grave . The son dug another sod to press on the grave where Irish independence was buried , o'er which the father ' s tears were abundantly poured out . John O'Connell , too , though he did not exactly go &d far as the others in the game of deception , yet he afso forgot his country , and voted for Ireland's degradation . He went for food , foodand he helped to give us coercion in lieu ef it . He went , and they sang of him as follows : —
Obi oh ! beisgono , Oar bends are knocked about . Oh ! he ' sgoae , Does bis mother knaw he ' s out . It seems he ' s gone to Lord Jofen Rassel ! , We have reasen to bewail , For he left u * in a puzz ' . o for the soup and yellow meal , Sap it up ! sup it up ! '{ will blow your belly out ; Twill cure you of the gravel , the ehin-cough , and the gout . Bat I bspe he is reformed . I truat experience ha 8 chjinged his notions of Whig benignity , and that in future he will not be dazzled with the trappings of government favour . Let him come back and work for his country , not as a leader , not as a dabbler in polemic ? , bnt as an honest Irishman who loves his country . Let him return and re-eonaocrate ' Conciliation Hall . ' Let him erect within an altarwhere
, all may worship , an altar for politics , not for polemics ; the latter must be eschewed . To succeed , it iB necessary to forget in the hall of liberty , that religion exists . Lei manleuve to churchmen the regulation of such matters ; it is their province , not his . He can support their views in parliament , but not in a hall sacred to national liberty , —consecrated alike by the libatioB 3 of Protsstant and Catholic Irishmen , — poured out on the altar of national love ! But , Irishmen , do not forget the O'Gorman Mahon . He . ioo , forgot old times , and veied for his country's ehamc . 'Twere pityful to look upon such a man doing such an act . He was true to Ireland once , what eame o ' er him lately ? Perhaps old woands opened , and he thought of bitter things . But he should think of nought but his country . lJeshouldnot trust too much to popular forbearance , . Ie 3 t he should be constrained to say with honest Don Juan :
Like Lucifer hurl d from Heaven for sinning , Oar sin the same , and hard a 9 his to mend , Being prida whica leads the mind to soar too far , 'Till oar own weakness shows us what we ara . But I must return to Ireland . I write on the eve of a great and joyous festival—a glorious one—one always celebi-at ; ed with great eclat among all people who bave received and adopted Christian revelation . It was a season of mirth , and used to be a time of
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fea 3 tia g in Ireland . Will it be so this season ? Alas no . The annivsrsary ef a Saviour ' s birth must pass away , among the greater aumber of Irishmen , unmarked by anything save mourning and deaolation . How happens this ? It is singular . Yea , indeed it U , bufc vet it must be . Turnip tops and herbs can not make a dainty dish to hoHOar Christmss-day with . A mud hovel , a fireless hearth , a cbairless floor , a fffltid atmoapbwe , cannot permit merriment to pass over the thresbhold of a once-happy homestead . An emaciated b-ing—a half-starred skeleton—a mass of living pestilence—a coerced slave—a memory ot bygone happine * s-ofjoyoua daya . spent araongliappy and dear companions : cannot—won't admit of pleasure .
It would be unnatural . No , rather let sueh as tbeae go to the site of the home where they were born—lot them > jnz 3 upon the blackened and roofless walls—let thtm think of tho wife who was doomed to detraction , and sent forth on the dunghill or by the hedge side to die ; and all that to gratify a landlord ' s avarice . Let them go to the corner of that pulled dowa dwelling , let them kneel on the spot where their parents died , and were waked in plenty—where tbeir children were born . Let them offer up prayera for all , let them weep o ' er the dead , and if they be men , let them pant for vengeance . Let them swear by the heavens above them , that but if asked why they paused—let them answer for an hour to strike . The Co-ercion Bill shall toll it .
Persecution generates Tengeance , So it ever eboll . Christmas will pass over thus ; the old year will end thus and a new one open thus ; and before its termination God knows what may happen ; surely it is not possible for people to be quiet for ever under grievancesiuch as oars . The worm trodden upon turns and bites , so do enslaved nations , It ia only natural . But I prediot not . ' Our ftrte here is gone , hope exists no longer ; and the following fact will prove that some at least are resolved not to starve while there's food to be had . A man named Flannery got himself relieved of the
burden of seven » hecp and a heifer , and several farmers have , within the last few days , found themselves minifs sheep , heifers , and cows . The special commission for Limerick , it is said , is to take plaee iramediately after Christmas ; surely tha first week in January . The Lord-Lieutenant is behaving genteel towards the police in these parts . His Excellency is every ether day . awarding sum 3 of money to these worthies , as premiums fer their activity . Lord bless him ! it would be much better to Bend these sums to the Keamare poornouse , against which there are nn 1 pm than seven writs for the sum of £ 2 , 500 .
On Monday last , a ehot was fired into the house of a land-bailiff named McCarthy .- on the estate of W . N Lee , Esq . i Killonshaw , by a fellow called Hinchy . He was captured by the bailiff and his children , who pursued him and handed him over to the authorfties . In the . King ' a County , the office of Captain Bernard one of his Excellency ' s staff , was broken into by an armed party , who robbed tbe steward , and tore all the books . The gallant captain is determined to close up his castle and retire to England . Edward Fiiaserald , one of the carriers between Limerick and Cautletown Conyers , was stopped by three countrymen , who deprived him of some deal , stating they only wanted a little to eat , and not to injure him or his property . I am happy to inform yon that the murderers of the Rev . Mr Lloyd bave been corae at , and ten of the conspirators . I trust the law will deal with them as thoy deserve . . lastanother barbarouB
On Saturday night week , and revolting murder was committed near Lisnararock , in the colliery district , The unfortunate victim , a man named St John , went to a neighbour ' s house , and was dragged out by four armed ruffians , who murdered him outside the door . The particulars or C 6 US 83 of the murder are not known as yet . Several persons charged with murder have been arrested , and the government officers have returned to Dublin . It is expected we will have tho commission at once for the trial of the persoBS ia prison for murder . The calendar is very weighty in thia county . On Saturday last , the resident magistrate of this district , W . Regan , Esq ., accompanied by sub-inspector Fosberry , proceeded to Rathroman , and , with the police , gave chase to a party of eight fellows , who fired shots into tbe house of Mr P . Murphy , and deprived carriers of four Backs of flour . The ruffians escaped , but lost the dour .
The Master of the Mint has generously seut £ 800 to Dangarvan , for tho relief of the poor . The times are getting good . The wealth of the rich is seldom 3 » employed . Tho weather for the last week has been terriSc . The Suit has overflowed its banks , and inundated the Iand 3 all round . Such floods have not been remembered since the year 1825 . A fine young fellow , named Pat Kirwin , was shot by the discharge of & pistol which he had in his poeket , and which exploded , wounding him ia the hish and abdomen . He died in the evening .
The ruffian , Hojjan , whom I mentioned before is one of an armed party who attacked the house of a man named Haeketfc , and who was charged with the murder of Mr- Waller , and other abominable deeds has turned Queen ' s evidence iu the eounty gaol , at Nenagh , where I announced to you he was located for his part in the melee at Hackett ' s of Denamo . Bill . The spy and informer have a fine field . t ' or their traffic now , and they seem determined to make a golden harvest , A vote of censure was passed , on Thursday evening last . onthe committee of the Clonmel Mechanics ' Institute , by . the members assembled at a general
meeting , for the uncourteous and uncivil way the committee refused to meet the members' wishes on some matters , connected with the future government of the institute . I never witnessed such a signal triumph of democracy . It was worthy men who desire to think and act as men would , and not as tyrants would dictate . They , the mechanics of the town , showed arbitrary dictation in committee wft 9 not a bolus to physic them , however skil'ul at compounding the hand which dared administer it . I would dwell longer upon this subject , but I wish to keep space for any fresh intelligence that may reach before post hour .
,. . „ , , There was a general illumination at Nenagh , at the convalercence of N . U . Bayly , Esq ., who , a few weeks since , was shot at , and narrowly escaped assassination . The demonstration gave great offence to Protestant and Catholic , who looked upon it as unuwial and uncalled for . On Friday the poor broke into the Cashel Workhouse , and the relievlcg officer , Mr Wayland , ran up stairs lo the board-room , and called out , addressing the Rev . Mr Ryan , C . C .: 'Father John , for God's sake , ef me down , the poor Deopie have broken into the honse ;
if you do not interfere and keep them quiet , there will bstnuvder . ' Mr Ryan refused to interfere—he said : ' There was & time whfirt I or any priest would interfere , but the lying and scoundrel members of the Saxon legislature have said that the priests only interfere to denounce and mark out a victim tor slaughter . Lord _ Farnham might have roe tried f « r roy life for speaking of murder at all ; and as long as I live I will never take the trouble I did heretofore , to save the lives of oppressive landlords and agents , and unfeeling poor law guardians . '
Mr Ralph B . Osborne is accased of the most scoundrel cruejty towards the tenants of his amiable and ! goad lady . His accuser ia the Rev . Michael O'Connor , P . P ., Kigobinet , | county of Waterford ; the reverend gentleman makes out and substantiates a case which is clear enough , if uncontradicted . Certain it i 3 his ( Mr Osborne ' s ) agent is greatly disliked . Whether these charges against Mr Osborno be true er noti it is quite certain there was no . thing like complaint previous to his coming over as landlord . He should take care , English though be be . He might ba taught a little civility here , as I believe he is not bullet proof . Mr O'Connor brings forward
the card of a poor man named Lonergan , whom Mr Osborne evicted and turned out of hia house and lands , when tho man was after reclaiming a large tract of mountain , and was quite able to pay his rent . Speaking of tha mountain tract ha reclaimed , Mr O'Connor says . g' Little ' poor Lonergaa thought , whilst he was exhausting the blood from his veinswhilst labouring under tho . scorching heat of a summer ' s sun , with a crow-bar , spade , and pickaxe , the only implements , that could be available to create a mould upon such barren wnste , tbal he was rankinjr an enduring property for the Osborne family , and bo transitory in its benefioial results to himself , '
Another dreacful and atrocious murder has just been committed in the county of Limerick , at Lodge , within a mile of Hospital , on Thursday last . A respectable farmer , named Murphy , was the victim . He was atBrnff , the early part of Thursday , where he disposed of a large quantity of butter . , in order to be able to meet his rent next day , due to Lord Kenmard . Some time previous he received notice to prepare his coffin , if he dared pay rent to his landlord . Shortly after he retired to bed on Thursday night last , be was awakened by an armed band of ruffians , who got in secretly and possessed themselves qf £ 37 in notes . They then were about ^ decamping , when Murphy , struggling to retain hii property , received two shots , and wa 3 immediately killed , Mr-Fagan , Al . P . for Cork , ia going to retire , when hia ' brotherin-law , Mr M'Carthy , is to seek the sepresentation .
Richard Per . efather . Esq ., Darling-hill , Clonrael , is to be High Sheriff for Tipperary thisyear ; John Maher , Esq ., Tullemain Castle , having declined the office . Captain Baldwin , M . P ., ia to be High Sheriff for the King ' s County . There are one hundred and twenty prisoners to be tried in Limerick , at the Special Commission , and the ? e are four hundred and twenty in gaol there . The Court site on the 3 rd of January The Judgea are to be Chief Justice Blackbuine and Baron Pigbt . On Saturday , Mr Sullivan , of Inch , was returned for Kilkenny , without opposition . He is a Repealer .
Tipperary is rather qniet just now . There were never more arms purchased than \ sitlun these few days past , God knows for what . The public mind is rather agitated at the approach < tf tho' commission . ' I fear it will but badly secure the peace of the county . Coercion and commiPsion aro sorry remedies for starvation , however v , e will see . Limerick ia iaa fermeati- » U seems ftat the good people there
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THE MIRFIELD MURDERS . Last week M'Cabe and Reid were tried and found guilty of the murder of Caroline Ellis , and sentenced to death . Reid has since acknowledged his guilt , and the following is his confession : — That on the day the murders were committed ha wen ) to Mr Wraith ' s hou « e about tnsnty . nve minutes to one o ' cloeli—that he coaversed with the servant girl , Caroline Ellin , about five minutsq—that he then took ont the sol . dering-iron he had that day borrowed from a parson named Ktlty , and had concealed in hia basket , and struck Carolina Ellis a severe blow on tha back of tbe boad . She shrieked oat aad staggered to the back door , when he struck ber again and felled her to tho ground , and Mr Wraith cominjy at that moment from the collar into the passage which connects the kitchen with the tyro front parlours , with a Bilvcr pint containing beer in his hand , he ( Reid ) struck him a violent blow on the head with the irnn . in doinz which tha Iron flcTT frsm the handle , and
Mr Wraith staggered into the parlour . Raid then returned and got the kitchen poker , ran to the parlour , and mat Mrs Wraith running out to tha front door . He then struck h » r two or three blows on the head , and felled her to the ground . He went into the parlour * trad Mr Wraith then lay bleeding on the floor ins « nslb& . He rifled bis pockets bdJ took hia ktja out , and opened the drawers with them . He then hoard a knock at the kitchen door , nbieh he thought was Caroline Bills gettlnff up ^ He w »»» % o » h& hitch w > ana foond her , perfectly still , and again returned . He then got aoma money out of tha drawer * , took the watch from Mr Wraith , and the ring frosn Mrs Wraith ' s finger , and then heard another knock at the door . He therefore went to the door and slightly opened It , when he saw the other prisoner , M'Oabo , who inquirod if they wan « 8 tJ anything in bis line , aBd he ( Reid ) replied No , sir ; ' » nd thinking M'Cabe was a stranger , and would not recognise him , he shut and bolted the door . He then returned and
ran-Backed the drawers , and found in them a raaor oase centaining Iwo razors , with one of which te eut the throats of the tb » e « parties . He afterwards-washod his hfthds and wiped them upon the towel , left the house , locked the kitchen door , threw the soldering iron and the k « y into the well near tho back door , and then hurried to . wards bis own home . This statement Reid C 9 woborated after he was removed to the condemned eell , and consequently a proper representation will be made to Sir George Grey for the liberation of M'Cabe . Ia consequence of a eemmunicatienrmade by Mr Justice Pattern , relative to the case f Michael M'Cab » , now tinder sentence of death ia Yark C * stle , for murder , the Seoretary of State has advised tbe Queen to respite the prisoner .
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SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRY OF A LABOURER . [ The following article appeared in the'Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England , ' and was transferred to the fifth number ( new series ) of ' Chambers ' s Edinburgh Journal , Saturday , February 3 rd , 1844 —D . Stewart , Manchester . ] The following interesting case of successful industry is furnished by a correspondent to the' Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England . ' In passing through Norfolk lately I met with such a remarkable and pleasing instance of successful industry that I think the particulars may interest the members of the Royal Agricultural Society . Edward Chaney , of Carlton Rode , eleven miles south-east of Norwich , aged id years , was brought home to his parish about twenty years ago , with a family of six children ; the overseers granted him an
allowance of half-a crown per week , and supplied him with a wheelbarrow , desiring him to "find employment in wheeling out marl from the pit to the land . He obtained work of this sort from a farmer in a neighbouring parish , who , finding him a sensible and industrious man , kindly lent him money to buy a donkey , and afterwards a pony , which he repaid from the produce of his labour . Some time afterwards , by the advice and assistance of the same kind friend , he engaged to rent four acres of land belonging to the parish in which he was settled . Thi 8 undertaking proving successful , he hired 24 acres more nine years ago last Michaelmas ; two years ago he engaged 23 acres more ( fourteen of arable and nine of fen land ) , with a dwelling-house and buildings ; the following year , 22 acres more—and he has
recently added another 24 acres to his occupation , making in all 93 aeres—the four acres belonging to tho parish having been taken from him when he hired the other land . In order to stock these different parcels of land , he was of course under the necessity of borrowing moaoy , but by industry and good management he has been enabled to pay it iff , and is inow free as tbe world (?) . To make his history still more remarkable , he hns brought up a fauiiiy of fourteen children , and buried two others . The circumstances of the case , as I heard them related , appeared te me so extraordinary , that I was indnced to go over to Carlton to see the land , and to inquire into the system pursued with such admirable results . I found that Chaney has two sons grown up and married , who work for him as day labourers , and three unmarried , who also work for him , in addition , he sometimes employs two or three other hands . lie
haa fire working horses , besides a brood mare and foal , nine breeding sows and a boar , five milch cows and nine young cattle of different ages : I did not 868 any Bheop . I could not find that he adopts any regular system of cropping , but the appearance of his crops bore testimony to the high condition of the land , though originally , I was informed , of inferior quality . The great secret of his good management and extraordinary Buccesa seems to be in a very liberal application of manure , and of labour in improving the soil . He told roe that he never sells any barley , beans , or peas , but devotes his whole growth of these to the feeding of stock , chiefly hogs , of which he fattens a great number . The particulars of tki 3 case are so txtraerdinary , that I should scarcely have given credit to them , had I not verified them on the spot . They appear to me to furnish a proof , as delightful as it is remarkable , of the benefit of high (?) farming .
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. ...-,. ^ -1 j t . .... ^ — -M ____^ . | ~ j—tvmsr— . J-. J- ¦¦! ' II THE ASIATIC CHOLERA . -. . 10 THE EDSC »» OP THIS HOBTHEBK « MI . SIB , —A * this period , when that dreadful secures tha Asiatic ebotera is so ' rapidly and so surely opproachiag us bo aurely th : U we ninyjbe said to be already under the jhadove aast by ltd coming , it behoves every man , how . ever limited his esperknee or humble his pretensions , to contribute the mile which that experience may havo taught him towards the alleviation of the suffijriBga which mast neeessari ! / be entailed on its arrival . Having witneased this dreadful malady in it « worst forms atthe hospital * ofWarnff in the year J 85 I ; hav . ing oombated with it whila it devastated tho ranks of tbe Polish army in the same year ; having mat with it in Gallicla , and subsequently in Champagne , in France , in 1832 ; I trust that I may , without presumption , be allowad to address you en this eurject , even if my reraarkB should be but ta 8 recapitulation of what others have already observed .
And first , with respect to prevention , I witness with the greatest satisfaction the efforts which thofrimloof lanitary reform are making towards the improvement of our densely populated cities . Hy experience entirely eoincidQB with their observation , that the peculiar haunt * of cholera on its arrival are those districts where the scavenger corn's not , and where consequently poverty and crimo bave their dwelling . The poor , dirty , ill-fed , and consequently diseased , and frequently criminal inhabitants of oar cities are those who are the sspeclal proy of this fatal malady . The richer classes of the bolter , districts escape not , it is true , but the wretched dwellings of their poorer brethren constitute the foti from whieh the devastating influence radiates . To cleanse thesa localities , and to ralaa the physical condition of their inhabitants by a better supply of food , is thepreventlre flfninsl this disease ; and I earnestly recommend this duty atone * to all for all ean contribute , but particularly to the rich ; ana In this their duty—the duty of common
charitythey will find their owu best protection . With respect to the treatment of cholera ( for we hare too much to do , and tbe enemy is too near our frORturs to hope antirely to avert his attacks ) I wish to be allowed to say a few words . While practising ob Burgeon . major in tbe military hospitals of Warsaw , I had much perBorul experience , and followad attentively the treatment pursuedby the hig hest medical authorities of the time ; I must confess , however , that our efforts , which consisted chiefly in the administration of large doses ef calomel and opium were almost entirely unsuccessful ; the mortality was frightful , and few , but very few , recovered tbe attacks . Our practice , while ia attendance upon the stxtaj , was scarcely more succ « s $ ful ; the disease bnfflecl all eur attempts under tho treatment then ndopted , even to alleviate materially the Buffering of the poor soldier ; death seemed to be his only hope .
After the disasters of the army in 1831 , and while a refugee on the frontiers of Austria , a pamphlet by Dr Ba 8 tler , ofTjenna # , fell accidentally in my way . Amongst much matter of doubtful character is much that is mo 3 t valuable . His observations on the disease are accurate and well digested . He particularly commeats upon the intense depressing influence which accompanies and cv < n precedes the first attack of Cholera , The vital force seems entirely suspended . The functions of the risin , lungs , kiduejB , and other organs are almost annihilated , and in a short time , in some cases in a few hours , the patient dies , a 9 it were , asphyxiod .
Dr Bastler insists , and the correctness of the treat , meat has since been recognised by the highest authorities , that to be successful we mnat instintaneeu 9 ly address ourselves to this symptom . He recommends the immediate application of heat , friction , &e ., and the administration of the strongest stimulants . Of these he found the essential oils most efficacious , and the formula he finally fixed upon is the follcmlng;—Itp . oleiani « l , * oki juniperi , olei eajoputij ainglorum fcrupulum unum ; spiritus aethtr , sul p b . eotnp . erach * mam unam , tincturso cinnamomi drachmas duas , liquoris acidi Hallerilf minima quinque—U . He gives this every half-hour in dOBes of from eight to ten drops ia two table-spooafols of warm peppermint tea , alternately with an effervescing draught , increasing the frequency of tbe doses , in proportion to the violence of the attack , nntil the body resumes its functions . If perspiration can be induced , with ordinary care in the subsequent treatment tbe patient ia saved .
Oa my way to Paris , after leaving Austria , I was detained by the authorities at Cbalons-sur-Marne , end earnestly requested to remain in attendance upoa the sick ; my papers showing that I was of the medical profeseion , and leaving a country over which ths pestilence had paused . I was first sent to Arize , where the cholera was then raging fearfully . Having been impressed with the eonviction of the soundness of Dr Bustler ' s views / 'and struck with the success which had attended hit practice , my first step
was to havo prepared a quantity of Mb stimulant with directions for its use , and I caused these to bo freely distributed , recommending its administration imisediately on the symptoms appearing , and while the medical man was being sent for . My recommendation was very generally adopted , and with tho greatest possible benefit . In many cases , on arrival , I found that tbe remedy had already produced the moat beneficial effects , and even in those cases where the patient had not procured the medicament , oi used tbe external application of heat and friction , the prompt adoption of this treatment generally succeeded ,
Out of about 408 patients whom I attended in the De . partmentde la Marne , in all stages of the disease , only seventeen died . My success was beyond my most sanguine hopes , and I was honoured by the warmest approbation of tbe au . thorilfes , and rewarded by permission , through special Royal wdoaHauca , ( of the 6 th of February , 1833 , ) to practice medicine in France . I attribute my success entirely to the treatment of Dr Bastler , viz ., tbe prompt administration of external and internal stimulants , with a view to restore the depressed vital functions . I confidently reeommend thia treatment , not to medical men , for the majority of these I believe ara now advocates of this system , but to the unprofessional persons who may have the misfortune to be attacked with the disease : I earnestly entreat them , if they value tbeir safety , to have tecourse instantly to it on the first symptoms showing thenisulves ; for In this disease , if the arrival of the physician be waited for without remedies being adopted , his assistance may frequently be unavailing .
I would recommend that all families should beep by them a phial of the above medicioc , or of gome similar cne obtained from their medical attendant , and use it in the manner indicated . By these means I doubt not that many valuable lives may be saved , by arresting the progress of this rapidly fatal disease until medical assistance can be procured . Trusting that these remarks will be received in the spirit lin which they ara cffired , that of a Bineero desire to prevent er to alleviate the sufferings which hang over the inhabitants of this country . I have the honour to be , Sir , Tour very obedient servant , I , A , RltTERBANDT , if . D ,, Of the University of Berlin , Surgeon-Mojor in tbe Polish army of 1831 . 1 , Jtnnyn . street , St James ' s .
t . S . —While writing the above , I hava received the Wabsaw Cooeibe of the 20 th and 21 st of November last , in which I nod official directions to tbe non-medical inhabitants of that city . The treatment there insisted upon is precisely that recommended above , the stimulant being eight drops of oil of pctrolium instead of the above prescription .
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* 'Die Cholera in Wien , 18 < S 2 . J- Threi parts of alcohol , one ef sulphuric acid . P . B . [ Forcibly impressed with the value of tbe above letter we have copied it from the Times , and would strongl y urge upon our readers to be prepared with the medicine prescribed by Dr Ritterbandt , for immediate use , if necessary . We must add the expression of our strong C 6 nvi 4 tian of the &v&&i importance of ealeroal heat applied to a person attacked by cholera . Hot briclts applied to the body and lower extremities will be found of the greatest utility as conductors of beat to the suf . ferer . —Ed . N . 8 . ]
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Dkath op a Man . op- War ' s Man . — Reminiscences of nis Marbiags . —Mr Alexander Brown , Mariner , a native oi Scotland , died at Hartley , near Tynemouth , on Sunday , aged Y 3 . He served his apprenticeship ou _ board the Maxwell , of Seaton Sluice , and at the expiration of his indenture found himself in the midst of the revolutionary war . A full share of the hardships and hczirds of that great conflict fell to his lot . Man of-war ( floating prison ) and French prison kept him from Seaton Sluice until tbe peaee , whep , having escaped the perife of tho sea , he fell a victim to the perils of the land . He was one day taking a walk from Shields to Hartley , and fell in with a group of merry damsel near the stile at Whitley Park Corner . Some jokes were exchanged , until at length one of the girls , going beyond a joke , asked him if he did not want a wife ? ' To be sure I do , '
was his reply . Following up her advantage she popped the question , Then which of us will you have V This was a poser . The English tar wa 3 no Turk , or he would have had them all . He muBt make his choice , and really they were so equally attractive that he knew not which to prefer . In this extremity he did what man is so fond of doing—he threw hia fate on chance . ' I'll mar ? y the girl , ' said ho , « w ) ' unips tho furthest . ' The humour of the tbjug tickled the faney of tte laaideno / and the next , - n , 0 toent they were jumpisg ibr a husband . Nan < -j yNes bitt was the viotor , and Alick bought a licer ^ e forth , with . They were married on the following morning and lived long and happily together , and bcoucht up a large family . For the last twenty-r ^ yeara tb * deceaaed had sailed m the Grating , of Seaton Sluice . — 'GaKshead Observe .
An Luratum .-Miss Biddy Fu ^ her story of the Fudge family , recount ing t ^ miseries of authors , says , that though s A angel should write , ' tis devils must print , and j ^ yes ihe following instanco of tho havoc made by j ^ printer in one of ker effusions ;—Bat a week or two since > . n my ode upon Spring , Which 1 meaut to havo r , du a moat beautiful thing , Where I talked of . the ' dew-drops ' from freshly blown roBes , The nag ? j tbings rjaue it « from freshly tlown noses . '
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~ " DUMFRIES . - DISCOMFITURE OF ' THB SAINTS . ' , A Booioty has , it seems , teen fomed > EdinbnqA under the appcllau'oaof the Sabbath Alliance , Ita obiect being , as Sir A ^ rw hath it- The litter oh . servance of the Lord ' s W . Its members , wg no doubt , be of that class whom Byron apo 3 i& , pliises , as' Reforming saints , too delicately stoe J By whose decrees our sinful souls to pave No Sunday tankard foams , bo barbers shave , And beer undra wn and beards unshorn dUpltjr Their holy reverence for the Sabbath day . ' — - ^
This precious lot deputed two of tbo elect to Iaj tfce humbag before the sensible ishabitaKts of our ^ town ; and on Thursday evems-g ( 16 th alt ., ) p . , Buant to adverti sement , a meetog for this purp < , W 6 S held in one of the dissenting churches , aa . oretty well attended : the ' workfes' mustering n "reat force . The platform was crowded with tha parsonocraey-the apostle a of this newest new move were appropriately enough a Seribe and a Pharisee , the former an Edinburgh writer , ' named Lyon ( it ought to have been Liar ) , the otner a patsoa yclept M'Crie , __ _
' A little round , fat , oily roan of God . These worthies , and the object of their expedition , were eminently suggestive of tbe characters and the celebrated raid of iludibm and his faithful iq-niw , Ralpho , they being of thoee— - ' That with more care keep holiday , The wrong than others the right way , Compound for sins they are inclined to , By dafflniBU those they h » ve no mind to . Still so perverse and opposite , As if they worshipped God for spite . ' * Although one of them did not look as if he , like But ^ ler'd heroes , would « Quarrel with minced pies , and disparage His best and dearest friend p lum-porridge . Fat pig and goo » a itself oppo&o , And blaspheme eustard through the nose .
Bailie Nicholson . one of the burgh magistrates ;*^ called to the chair ; but , before he had assumed his seat , Mr Samuel Welsh , compositor , rose and asked whether discussion would be allowed . This quests *) was attempted to be shirked jbowearer , ltwaaaaid that the proper time had not come for the query ; and Mr W . was requested to leave the matter in the hands of the chairman . This he very properly and flatly refused to do , alleging that the clergy of Dam . friea had , on similar oocasionB , deceived tae people a
the way he was now anxious to guard against , and persevered in restricting the speakers to time , and in demanding discussion . Tho charge of deceit had an excellent effect—it was known to ba perfectly true by the majority present , although a Jesuitical Free Kirker , one of the aotual offender * , himself denied it , and blamed theBpeaker for thus libelling The servants of God , ' which title he arrogated to his class , and for which Mr Welsh took Mm nnartly to task ; for had it not been made , they would , there ia little doubt , have played a similar slippery triek
that night . . Lyon attempted several times to get a hearing ; but until a pledge that the deputation would restrict themselvts to au hour and allow debate had been given , he was stopped aa often aa he tried it by a complete torrout of hisses and other marks of di 33 t > . probation , At length the promise having been given , fee began his yarn .. After stating the basis and in . stitntion of the Alliance , which is chiefly aimed at Sunday travelling by railway , he gave the audience scripture , for evermore , contradictory and explanatory , from the Garden of Eden to that of Getbsemaue , in favour of the perpetual obligation of'tha Sabbath . ' Coming to modern times he said , God had blessed all who kept the Sunday , properly of
course , and gavo us an instance of the truth of thin , that Captain Scoresby caught more whales in 1822 by observing that day , than did the others who fished Sunday and Saturday . This was Cutting it nthet fut ; but his hearers did not by any means seem in . clined to swallow the story—the Dumfries public ara not , as the nigger hymn says of the prophet Jonah , ' Such dibbels for fish . ' Oae wag in the gallery song out ' Very like a whale . ' After more of Buchlike trasb , the orator declared that he was only anxious for the interests of the werking classes , so help him Gcd . which was responded to with such a derisive laugh from 8 thousand throats , that the speaker wag thoroughly staggered , and remained during the rest of the evening " what Hood describes as testaceon 3 and crustaeeous — he fairly lost his temper through
their unbelief . Parson M'Crie followed . He talked of the men of the world , whose care was only to wrin ^ gold from the sweat and the blood and the sinews of the working classes , and that God—meaning of course the black slugf > , hiB representative ? , was their only friend , and all that sort of gammon ; but all wouldn't do , and he sat down without making any impression on hia wide awake audience any more than his chum . Mr Welsh then rose for the purpose of replying to the statements of the preceding speakers . Alludisg to the question ot the Sunday trains , he held that these bad a tendency rather for the preservation of the Sabbath than it 3 desscration , as on a railway four or five men and an eneine , which was not a beast
© f burden , eould ' convey 1000 people to church ; whua at present hundreds of private carriages were used for this purpose , involving the deprivation of ordinances to as many coachmen , footmen , and the employment of horse " ? . If these gentlemen were snob friends to the working classes , why did they not assist them in their endeavours by trades unions to shorten the presenttexcessive feoura of labour ; and how cama it that theministe-a of the gospel , instead of supporting , petitioned against Lord Ashley ' s bill for suppressing the employment of women and children in the noisome mine . " , under circumstances the mot repulaive to every well-constituted mind ? The speaker then broached the theory , that no proof could be adduced from the New Testament for the
transference of the obligations of the fourth command , jnent to the first or Lord ' s-day , but without entering at any length into t he argument , and concluded by calling upon the gentlemen on the platform to drop the Alliance , and adopt Borne other means better fitted to advance the moral and physical condition of the people . An old parson'from theceuntry got up to reply to the charge about Ashley ' s bill ; bat the meeting wouldn't hear him . It was a curious scene . A perfect storm of whistling , hisses , and yells , and the old chap jumping like a mechanical figure on theplatform . There was as attempt on the part of the gettera-op of the meeting to reply to Mr Welsh , but they failed utterly . One of them declared thut the word Sabbath was never used in the N « w Testament , unless
in reference to th . 8 ' abrogated' Jewish institution ; and Lyon said they did not intend to interfere with tbe carriages of the aristocracy , because—' they were not hired conveyances' (!) . The parson of the church in which tbemeeting was held , sported some curious notions relative to the right of speaking in public meetings ; and Mr Andrew Wardrop delivered one of his best speeches in favour of Sunday trains . Tha saints bolted without proposing the resolutions they had brought with them , without even asking a vote of thanks for the chairman . ' Tho devil go with them and sixpence and then they'll want nei ther money nor company / They'll not come to Dumfries again in a hurry . This was the first meeting they had held ; and as they intend an expedition into England , we hope they'll be looked after , and sent back , as we say here , ' with a flea in their lug ;?
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What a Geniluman mat Do , and what hk mat mot Do—lie may carry a brace of partridges , bdt not n leg t > f mutton . lie may ba seen in the omnibus-box of the Opera , but not en the box of aa omnibus . He may be seen in a stall inside a theatre , but notat a stall outside one . lie may dust another person ' s jacket , but mustn'tbrush his own . He may kill a man in a duel , but he mustn't eat peas with % kaife . He may thrash a ooal-heaver , but he must ' nt ask twice for eoup . lie must pay his debts of honour , but he needn ' t trouble himself about his tradesmen ' s
bills . He may drive a slage coaoh , but he musu ' c take or carry coppers . He may ride a horse as a jockey , but he mustn't exert himself iu the least to get his living . He must never forget what he onres to himself as a gentleman , bufc he needn ' t mind what he owes as & gentleman to his tailor . He may do anything , or anybody , ia fact , within the range of a gentleman—go through , the Insolvent Debtors ' Court , or turn bilfiard-marker ; but he must never on any account earry a brown paper parcel , or aipear in the Btseeta without' a pair of gloves . —Cotbw Almanack / or 1848 . Thb Jesuits . —We tind the following in the CoxsTiTunoNsai , : — ' Among the papers seised at the College tiftha Jesuits , at Fribourg , was a catalogue Ot the members of the society of Jesus , pr inted at . Lyons in 1846 , by the society itself , perhaps with , the very pre * 9 * s which have been the cause ot a process stil » pending . This catalogue , which has been published
by a Swiss Journal , the Gazetib'DS Bernk , i * ? , ' nerefore , later by a year than the negotiation of M . Rossi , than the declarations of M . Guizot , and than the famous note published in tho Moniteur of the 6 th of July , 1845 , thas conceived : — ' The government has received intelligence from Rome . The negotia « tion with wbioh M . Rossi was charged has attained its object . Tho community ot the Jesuits will ceaas to exist in France ; it will dissolve itself ; its convents' will ba closed , and its novitiates dissolved . ' Now , the catalogue shows that the oommunity has not ceased to exis t , iu France , that it lias not dissolved itself , and has not closed its convents ; for it indicates the convent ' s , the members , and the missions of the Jesuits in the province of Lyons subsequent to this falPo declaration . Nay , more ; if we compare the personnel of tbe order in the province of Lyons at the beginning of the year 1846 , with , what it ' w » at the beginning of 1845 , , we find a censiderabla increase . " ^
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Liverpool . —A Black DRAUGHT . —The other day a respectable looking man walked into a druggist ' s shop in this town , ar . d , in a confused aud hurried manner , asked for an ounce of laudanum . The shopman did not like the appearance of his customer , and , fancying that he intended to make his own < pihtu 8 , refused to execute tho order . The man pressed his demand with much importunity , and at last said he would be content with only half the quantity . A lucky thought crossed the mind of the druggist , and he turned round to bis bottles , apparently with the intention of furnishing the laudanum . Instead , however , of taking hold of the bottle containing the soranorific poison , he handed down that containing black draught , which , in appearance , is not much nnlike a strong tincture of opium . Having transferred the desired quantity toa small phial , tbe tnan in the shop eagerly seized it as it lay on tbe
counter , and swallowed the contents . A policeofficer was immediately sent for , and to his tender mercies the would-besuioide was consigned ; but , as the statute law of England affords no punishment for drinking * black draught , ' the poor fellow was set at liberty , and id ' s hoped that , having repented of his felly , he has spent a ' merry Christmas , 'and will live to enjoy ' a happy new year . ' Flooding of thb Tat .- —The recent and repeated inundations in the Tay , particularly at Perth , have Jed to serious considerations as to remedial measures . The heavy rains have doubtless been the leading eauses , but their influenoe has been greatly augmented by the thorough draining of the ground . in tbe immediate neighbourhood of the river , and also , although to a leaa extent , by the erection of railway bridges . The alterations proposed for deepening ) etc ., will likely improve the navigable properties ol the Tay .
Lord William Paoet . —The list of persons lately outlawed contains the name of a neble lord , a captain in tbe royal navy , for whoss apprehension , on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences a reward is offered . It is rumoured in the naval circles that a letter from tbe Admiralty has been addressed to the noble Lord , requiring a satisfactory explanation ta the charges preferred , otherwise the name of tho noble Lord will not be suffered to remain on the Navy List . A Beggar's Saving 3 . —An old beggar woman , named Price , about ninety years of age , residing in Northgate-streer , Chester , wn 3 taken to the workbouse the othei day , in a state of destitution and imbecility . On searching her wrstched abode , the officers found stored away upwards of £ 200 in coin , and a bank-book for £ 100 ,
A French inventor has succeeded ia discovering a method of gilding _ silks , without injuring the material , and a most dazzling efieet is said to be produced by the gilding , especially upon satins . English attorneys are not considered an eminently bashful race—nor aretbu Irish . At tho Bruff petty sessions , Attorney O'Gradysaid to a witness , —' You scoundrel , getdown out o' that ! ' aad ^ Q £ ha vepovte ? , — Yqij ssed ' nt- take that fiowu , '
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shan't be fTigbteaed by ooejcioa .- Clare ia sot mush better ; and | Ti p perary ia breathing .. Poor-law houses are becoming bankrupt ; boards ef guardians are fearing for their lives ; -and the poor on the yn ? vive for some means to get food . It is hard to my what end comes foremost . Each new day presents more gleamy aspects . Irelandbetrayed is becoming more des-perato . It is a sore misfortune that she haa Hot the valuable assistance ef Mr O'Connor in her present trying difficulties ; if her evicted sons had him as a . refnge , —if they could take him aa their protector when turned out to starve , —ok ! if his Land
preperty system were but in force here , what misery would it sot prevent , —what horrors would it not aToid , —what benefits would it not confer on the evicted tenant . Alas I tor poor Irelaud that she lost his brilliant services ; she will cursa those who drove him from her . But I trust there in yet hope . He did her material service in the late Repeal debate , — he struck many a home blow in her favour on the Coercion debate , —he werked well for her , the people know that . Others may abuse him for doing what they should do , but their calumnies are lighi . Ireland appreciates hia services—she honours and reveres him . Z . T . O .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 1, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1451/page/6/
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