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      eesare hU return whenever a vacancy »»»» occnr i " from hi , deep study , great research , hfch «* ComnaHOing tekuts , unsurp ' aisable snd ' un ^ orned _ elequence , * e conceive him to be m most fit , and exceedingly proper person to represent tie many and T 6 ried interests ct tnis borough in the Commons Hou . e of PsrUamens . «Mr Morgan said : He rose with very great pleasure tomovethe adoption "fto'f'f rfS W » d * ell . dJserved piaudi . s "ithwhicb the meet , ™ BSH forensurine that gentlemsn's return at the next Section , come when it may . ( Loud cheers . ) When Sir Kydd issued Jiis address on becomin g a candi-Ite -it «« uked , why addre > B the non-electors ? lv teainge if they had not votes they

      hadinflueunp cace '( loud cheer . ) and he called on them to use that Influence on behalf of Mr Kydd , who , in return , -wnuld use his best exertions to procure that for them of which tfwy never ought to have been deprivedthe elective franchise . ( Loud cheers . ) To his brother elector ? , he would say , if you desire the aristocracy to be represented return a lordlmg ; if you wish tbe army to ba represented return a general ; if you wiBh the government and navy to have a mo sopoJy of par representation , why continue to return Admiral Dnndas ; if you wish th ^ church to be represented find a Sir Robert Inghs ; if you wish tbe law to bs represented return a lawyer ; but it you wish the people to be represented you must do what ie ( Mr Morgan ) had resolved to do—use every eff rt , straii every nerve , to secure the return of our excellent frimd and advocate , Mr Kydd . ( Tremendous

      eheenne . ) McFrybr seconded the resolution . Mr Howes , a tradesman of Deptford , and an elector of the boreugh , said he had great pleasure in supporting the resolution . He believed theirgreatest enemies were tbe parsons , who told them at their baptism that they were the' children of G « d , and inheritors of the kingdom of heaien . ' and yet did alt in their power ta prevent the working people from possessing the elective franchise here en earth , lie was no enemy to monarchy ' fir aristocracy , but be was a foe to the sbam kings , and sham aristocrats , daily arising around them , and he was delighted to fiod that Mr Kydd was not of that [ class . ( Loud

      eneers . ) He possessed the franchise , and he thought it a lasting diggrace to this country that men of far greater calibre than himself should be dewed that privilege . ( Great applause . ) To his latest breath be would sdrocatethe right of all to be placed within the pale of the constitution . ( Renewed cheering . ; We live in momentous times , and sure he was that governments must put down the liberty of the press and freedom of speech , ( which was impossible , ) or it vouldsoon put down corrupt governments . ( Great cheerinr . ) He had the more pleasure in supporting that resolution , because Mr Kydd had avowed himeelf the advocate of that great and just measure , the People ' s Charter . ( Lood cheere . ) amidst

      The resolution waB then put , and carried , the loudest acclamation . Mr Ktdd responded , and moved a vote of thanks to the chairman , for his courteous and impartial eondu / 4 in presiding 6 verthat meeting ; which was seconded by Mr Robiksos , and carried by acclamation . Mr Erkist Jones having acknowledged , in Buitable and eloquent terms , the honour done him , the meeting was disselved . We sre delighted to find that steps are in progress for foe-organisation of election committees in the three townshipg of Deptford , Greenwich , and JFoolvieh : and that an election fund is also to be immediately established .

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      GREAT MEETING AT HALIFAX On Monday . Jan . 24 th , a public meeting was held in the Odd Fellows' Hall , for the purpose of hearing * n address from Ernest Jones . Long before the 8 ppoiBted hour the hall was filled ; and so great was the crowd thatmany hundreds were unable to obtain admission , numbers having come a distance of ten mile-s and more to attend the gathering . Mr . TnviTiu * Gapkrodger was unammouslv called

      to the chair , and opened the proceedings in a speech replete with eloquence and argument , alluding to the monstrous sums ingulfed by placemen , and others , like the Duke of Wellington , the necessity for Mgb | taxation to meet these caH ? , and the heavy burden of the National Debt . These , he contended , the people would not nave to suffer were they represented in Parliament , and he hoped they wosld yet eee Mr Jones taeir member , as he certainly was how their representative . ( Loud cheers . ) He now ittrodneed

      Mr Eeseet Jones , who was greeted with deafening cheers , and said ; I have the honour of doing that to-night which your members ought to have doce-appearing before the constituency after the close of last session . They should be here to render an account of tkeir stewardship , but , seeing that the one has done nothing , and the other done mischief , they would have found that an irksome matter . ( Hear , hear . ) Some may have come here imbued with prejudice . Oh ! prejudice is a very childish thing ! It is hearing with the ears of another , seeing with the eyes of another , and speaking

      with the tonene of another . I wapt them to use their own . What do they know against Chartism ? Oh ! but they have heard that nobody told somebody , ^ ho told anybody , who told everybody , who told them , that & Chs ' rtist was a destructive , and an infidel . Weil , I . for one , will , in one sense , admit the eharge . I wish to destroy the bayonet and the sword , b ) raakiBg all men brethren . I wish to destroy the bastile , by developing the resources of our country . I wish to destroy the gaol , by teaching jonth the path of virtue , instead of sending it to the castle of crime . ( Immense applause . ) I am

      somevhst of sn infidel , too . I have no faith m the promises of Lord John Rassell . I have no faith in elass legislation legislating for the general good . I Isave no faith in teR thousand per annum making a Mihop holy . I have no faith in tithes paying the fare to heaven . I have no faith in the Chancellor Gf the Exchequer . { Cheers and laughter . ) Now , gentlemen , if you are still prejudiced , you are prejudiced against that which you are yourselves . Are jon against war ? Then you most be a ; ainst slaughter . Are you opposed to the easy death by the cannon ball ? Then , surely , you must be opposed to thetorturirg death by the bastilo . Are you opposed to the quick pang of the scaffold ? Surely , yea mast be opposed to the hng racking of

      starvation . There are more ways of murdering than by the ball and the bayonet . Is there a man here who sill say he has & right deliberately te murder his ferother by foul air , over-work , and hunger ? Who says he has s right to wastejwhile hiB brother wants , or to sleep in a palace while his brother lies with a Ftono for a pillow , and the snow for a cover-Bd ? Ob ! if you are respecters of vested rights , respect the oldest of them all—the right to live . If yon respect that , you are Chartists ; for a man cannot live without the means , and experience proves the only means to be—representation for the people . That is the Charter . ( Continued cheers . ) i defy you to traca the misery , the ruin of the rich , End the wreck among the poor , to any other cause

      than class legislation . Show us another causet ? e're open to conviction . Let us hear how your minister-Baemoer , Sir Charles Wood , accounts for it : ' deficiency of capital . ' How so ?—when he eaid , almost in the same breath : ' He could meet the drain for foreign food with thirty millions . ' If he finds deficiency there , how he must keep his accounts ! But he " has another excuse—the railwsye sunk capital . Why , they just spread it . The tram-rails are not made ) of sovereigns , but iron ; and that must be paid for—the laboarer must be paid—the land must be bought—the officials must be salaried ; they distribute capital initead of sinking it . I'll grant you that the labourer don ' t get the lion ' s share , bat still the money circulate ? .

      Why , Sir Charles don't know the difference between S fixed aad floating capital . If I build a house for . £ 1 . 000 . the capital is not fixed—it is the labour that fa realised , and the capital goes on reproducing . "Well , they say , like to like ; and Wood ! you have tun your head against a pott . ( Cheers and laughter . ) * Another excuse , however ! The cotton crop has failed—therefore , cotton is short . Cotton is short ; but not because the crop has failed—because other countries are using it that Hever used it before . Other cauntries are manufacturing , and ¦ want some of that cotton . America now uses onefourth of her growth . Sir ! you will find the cotton shorter every year . ( Hear , hear . ) Then there was tbe potato blight—the visitation frem God ! If

      every misfortune is a visitation from God , what a visitation . church , and aristecracy are ! But the Eecret of the visitation is this : Lord Jehn , like most other men , has two legs ; bat with this difference , that one leg is a Tory leg , and the other a Whig las .. Now , the Tory leg is the shorter of the two , nDd he just shoved a rotten potato under the short leg ,, to make himtelf stand straight , in his policy- ( Cheers , and laughter . ) Ah , sir I Jones Lloyd , the banker , has summed up our financial policy in a few words , when he said : ' Periodical panics were necessary to keep our commercial system going . * What a system that must be th ft requires periodical ruin to . make it live . What a clock , of which you must break the

      mainspring every time you wind it up . ( Cheers . ) That ij the system of your minister-member . ' Are there any of Sir Charles Wood ' s supporters here . What None ! Oh ! you are ashamed to own it . Now then , timber merchants ! how do yoa like your Wood * CProtracted applause and laughter . ) Sir , the real causes of the evil are that the seoondary capital , money anil manufacture , has been placed above the pr imary capital , labour and land . Our manufacturer aas locked" up capital in raw material , and that ca pita } has not been reproduced at borne , because foreign competition is undermining borne employa » Dt . ( Hear hear . ) Gold has left the country for fore ; gn , o » J , becaaS 9 yon have neglected home rewarns . Wealth has been absorbed by a few , and Eon-emploi-metit hu intercepted the returnrag chan-Ee . s of wages and local trade . The pressure has

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      been , because the greatest and most wholesome distributive organ , the working-clasjes , have had no wealth to distribute . ( Hear . " hear . ) The remedies areebvioiis . Unlock the land monopoly . With a land-holding people there will always be a steady circulation , safe from panic ) . Sweep away Customs and Excise . Establish a property-tax upon a sliding scale , making the rich pay so much more in the pound thaa the poor , —and , above all , give Universal Suffrage . Jones Lloyd says , under the present system , panics are nece&gary in the monied world . Well—who govern the country ? The monied world—which is inhabited by very few men . Then , they are not fit to govern , if they are subject to panic- - . A frightened general is not the man to lead

      an army . ( Hear , hear . ) Then place the people beyond the reach of panics , by giviog them the land . You will find it d ffiou ! t to frighten a man with his corn on his fields , his flitch in his cupboard , and bis musket over his fireplace . The dignity of England requires n » panic-stricken men sheuld govern her , — let the people govern , and you need not fear Nicholas throwing his paper on the English market , and seeing the British lion tremble at the fluttering of a bank note . ( Loud cheers . ) With reference to our foreign lisbities , to which I have just alluded , a word as to the National Debt . I don't say repudiate it—but I say : let those pay who contracted . ( Hear , hear . ) The working classes were no contacting parties—so they are not legally liable . Wo f ot no

      benefit from it—so we are not morally reapoHsible . They may say , ' we are defended againBt invasion . ' Invasion , say they ? Why , since then , have we not been invaded by the tax collector and poor rate ? Talk of invasion—the French soldiers would be a trifle compared to the tax collector ! But they prevented slaughter at home . Ay ! in Ireland—where ' n the slaughter now ? Ay ! in the Highlands—ask the cotters . Ay ! in England—look at your own doors . Then , I say , let those who get value for it pay the bill ; we will not be taxed to meet your Ha . bilities . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , my friends , why do not your representatives say something of this ? Your representatives ! Sir Charles Wosd represents you not . He represents the fundholdere ; he

      represents the poor rate ; he represents the window tax ; he represents the pension list ; he represents the National Debt—but never let him say he represents the men of Halifax . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) One point of the Charter is , however , the law in Halifaxpayine members : you pay Sir Charles your share of £ 5 , 000 per annnm . And , then , there is the gallant Captain , whom his proposer called your generous young merchant prince , and advised you to reject me and elect him , because he was so intimately acquainted with our commercial interests . What has the generous young princa b | en about ? He has not opened his month once . Why did he not give his advice , and set the blundering Chancellor right Why , sir , I shall almost think I know aa much of

      our financial sjstem , _ even as the generous young prince himself . ( Continued applause . ) I have now alluded to the causes erroneously assigned as productive of the national misery . I have endearonred to trace these miseries to their real Bource , and to propound the remedy , and I now oall on you to prepare yourselves for aotion . Rely on none , but on yourselves ; welcome every frjend , but Iist 8 n to no compromise . You are either right or you are wrong ; if you are right , you become accomplices ia your own oppression , if you swerve one hair ' s breadth from the path of duty and consistency . ( Hear , hear . ) Do not

      either mistake your enemies—they are aristocracy and middle-class . Aristocracy was your greatext enemy , and would be now had it the power the middle-classes are your greatest enemies having the power . By middle-class , I do not mean the small retail shopkeeper ; "his enemy is our enemy—tbe great moneyocracy . That middle class I designate as the author of all recent oppression . Who shut the people up in rattle boxes ? Who murdered the little children ? Who established the human fleshshops ? Who contracted with the parishes at so much per hundred and one idiot in nineteen ? Who enacted the new Poor Law ? Who built the bastiles 1

      Who parted man from wife ? Who propounded the hellish doctrire of competition ? Who pulled wages down ? Who opposed the Tea Hours Bill ? Who " are trying to subvert it ? Who passed Coercion ? Who deluged India , China , Africa , and the Pacific with blood , to get markets for the sweat and marrow of thgir English slaves ? Who—but tha middle class—the scouree of the people and the curse of humanity ? ( Immense applause . ) Rally against it , working men . Rally against it , shopkeepers of Halifax ! But in doing so do not re-establish aristocracy . To the dnst with aristocracy , since it has trodden the people to the dust . Perish the privilege of title ! God never pave a title , save the noblestman ! Deck his heart with honour , his face with

      honesty . and his tongue with truth , and there you have God ' s nobleman at once . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) To the werk , then , men of Halifax . Be tree to your causa . Stand by the Charter—name and all . The name is the password , by which yoa know a friend from a foe ! ( Loud cheers ) Those who advocate the six pointB under a different name , are forming a party within a party , to split your ranks asunder . ( Hear , hear . ) It is a pirated edition of the Charter ( Great applause ) . Organise your ranks , then—you have the moral right—do not neglect the physical power . If you wish to preserve peace at home , be so strong that none can break it . ( Hear , hear . ) The government are increasing the army snd artillery . Is it frora fear of French invasion ? Not they . There

      is no danger of that The first French bayonet that bristled on the coast of Hants or Sussex , the first gun fired in tha English Channel , would be the signal for revolution in Paris—and the difcomfited army returning home , would find a republic where it had left a kingdom . ( Tremendous cheers . ) No ; those guns are rointed inwards—monopoly is arming against English liberty . Prepare , then , mea of peace ! there are two ways ef using physical force : the one is to be strong enough to strike—that is but a poor way and a wrong one . The other is : to be so strong , that none dare strike you I Become so ! ( Protracted cheering . ) And renumber ! we will transgress no law—it is we who will prevent bloodshed ! Be true ti yoHr wordB , ' No vote , no musket ! ' and they

      cannot make foreign war . Ba united among yourselves , and they cainot make home dissension . ( Hear , hear . ) It is we who spread the glorious principles of Christian love , ' All ueh abb brethren ! ' And , sir , the peoples of the earth are beginning to learn this fc-afch ! From Germany , Belgium , France , and Swi ^» ze ' and , the delegates of freedom have teen sent hither—and an echo comes over tbe western waves , from the mighty stores and inlands of a vast republic , —crying : Peace on earth , and unto men goodwill !' These delegates have been sent to ascertain whether English Chartists are for themselves alone , or for the great cause of humanity . In September next a congress of nations is to be held at Brussels , at the same time as the conspiracy of cotton-lords—the free trade congress . They ask us to join the

      fraternity of nations , and to have the Chartist body represented by Chartist delegates . Men of Halifax ! the . Chartists are responding nobly to the call—and I ask you now , are you willing to be so represented , and to send your ambassadors ? If bo—hold op your hands . ( Every hand in the meeting was raised amid deafening cheers , ) There ringsthe knell of tyrants When the people unite , the despots sink ! Yes ; the cycles of change are running out . The grub , royalty , was transformed into the feudal oligarch ; then the middle class spun its cotton web around the torpid noble ; and now the people are breaking their flimsy chains , and from the perishing frames of decaying systems , bright-winged Liberty shall sear above the garden of its own creation ! Rally , then , for civil and religious liberty—no compromise—the Charter and no surrender ! [ Mr Eraest Jones resumed his seat amid rapturous cheering , long and often renewed . ]

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      The Wife and the Mak-bbryakt—Last week , an inquest was held on the exhumed remains of William Howells , a farmer , residing in . the parish of Llanellen , terminating in a verdiet of ' Wilful murder against Mary Howells , widow of the deceased , and James Price , his servant . ' Jane Morgan said that she was a servant to tbe deceased , His family consisted of himself , his wife , a male-servant named James Price , and witness . The deceased , who was very deaf , enjoyed good health up to the 9 th of November last . A little after nine that night he had some apple dumplings for his supper , which were made by witness . The deceased helped himself to the first dumpling he ate , but her mistress gave him the last one , which she split through the middle .

      and put sugar and milk upon it . About ten o ' clock the deceased was seized with violent purging and vomiting , and he died at twelve o ' clock the following night . Before be died the man servant used to deep in an adjoining room , but afterwards her mistress and witness slept in one bed in Price ' s room , and Price occupied a bed in the same apartment . That arrangement was made , because none of them liked to sleep in the room where the master died . She had several times got up before her mistress and Price , leaving them in their separate beds . She had heard her mistress call to Price on more than one occasion , ' Come here , Jem , and warm my back . ' They had remained together in their room frequently

      a couple of hours after she had left . About a fortnight after deceased ' s death , Price and witness mistress went off together , and were away sometime . After the body was taken up she heard ' her mistress say , It will be better for me to stand my ground , and then I shall not ba suspected bo much . ' She further added , If they shall find anything in him it is you that shall be hanged , as you made the duraplings , ' Mr Richard Steele , who had made the post mortem examination of the body , deposed that deceased had died from arsenic . Edward Evans , draggist , of Abergavenny , stated that he knew Mary Howells , the widow of deceased . He remembered telling her a pennyworth of white arsenic , whioh is about half an ounce .

      A woman died last week in the Bristol Infirmary from lockjaw , superinduced by a compound dislocation of the thumb , the result of a fall caused by a pieee of orange peel that was accidentally lying on the pavement .

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      JS * 'JSiifc 3 £ MT / S'TI *^ J ^ CJ » tJW " * - * '''^^ iwjiiw ! i 4 Hfta « BiMLwwiwiiii . MijML THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . On Monday evening last the monthly meeting of qhia society took place , a week earlier than usual , to accommodate tho members of the German Sooiety , who hold their anniversary festival on Monday next . Johs HtjrcHiBBOH was called to the chair . The following new members were elected , and subscriptions received : — Daniel Paul . Glasgow , 5 s . ; a Friend , Anchterardcr , 5 s . ; T . M . Wheeler , O'Connorville , Is . ; Rowland Lacey , Wm . Burnett , and John White , Wooton-under-Edge , 1 ? . each ; Louis Rodanet , //* , Rochefortsur-Mer , France , ls . _ 6 d . ; Mark Murray ; Henry Baitramp , and — Heinberg . : The following subacriptionR werealao received from old members : —Joan Shaw , Ie . ; H . Baner , la . ; and H . Merrick . Worcester , 2 a . ; RogerB , Bristol , la . The chairman then iatroduoed ^^^ ^^^ ff ^^^^ SZ ^ BB ^^ j ^^^^^ l ^ S ^^^^^ P ^^* ' *^ ' *** mi . ™ nnincnniT nininnn i mo

      Ernest Johbs , who said : In the union of Fraternal Democrats leee the germ of better times , and I consider this society aa a groat and powerful adjunct to the cause of democracy in England . There was , at its formation , & slight mistrust on the part of my Chartist brethren against the Fraternal Democrats —they feared it was an attempt to supersede the nioveny ! nfo-to create a party within a party—they have " ufwrearned that every member of this society is a thorough Chartist , and that Chartism is a test of admission for its members . ( Cheers . ) The Charter is the first stage on a long journey—be it the province of this society to point to the second . IU immediate duty ia to gather tke scattered elements ef democracy throughout the world ,

      and raise the union of peoples against tho conspiracy of kings—to bridge the channel with the arch of fratersity , and to gather tbe human race in one temple of true Christianity , on whoso entablature ie written , 'All Men . irb Brethren . ' ( Applause . ) In this eeuEe we are indeed a peace society , and of peace the resolution I hold speaks . But , sir , because we are the advocates of peace , we are not those of slavish submission . I tell the Societies for the Preservation of Peace , let them give us peace to preserve , and Wll preserve it ; but where is peace in England now ? There ia no auch thing . Peace ! while industry is robbed by idleness ? Pence ! while the palaces thrive and the cottages decay f Peace : while unwilling idlers starve in the heart of plenty ?

      I believe peace to be a state in which tho Jaws of God , nature , and humanity , harmonise with our social condition . Whence this horror at invading the temple of life , and opening a pathway for its ' redrobed essence ? for you have broken the peace i p that magnificent fane , when you fa ' rat chained . its indignant spirit , wounded ita noble heart , or tamed its manly strength ; and the thrust of the bayonet is but the last act of tho long tragedy penned by our ruler ? , and aoted by our poor ! ( Loudcheers , } Preserve peace indeed ! See your peace in your bastiles—see it in your gaols—see it in your streetsand consecrate it in yottr churchyards ! Go to tbe starving father , as he buries his lastborn in a shroudless erave-go to the Irish mother , who , with a fond

      weakness of love gave the breast to her dead baby , and thus died—go—and if you can , then call it peace ! No ! men ! you are treading through a battle-field , strewed with the dead corses of labourploughed by the crushing chariot-wheels of capitalround which the sullen phalanxes of the oppressed still gather , and the war-cry of immortal liberty still swells against the march of the conqueror . . ( Immense applause . ) Ah ! air ! whenever a monopoly is in dancer , then hoary-headed treason preaches oetce . When the rogues in grain fear the claim of the famishing , be sure they play the Christian , and cry , peace ! When the fundhelder fears that those who got no value will refuse to recognise the national debt—he cries peace ! When the placeman dreado

      for pension and smecuro , and the churchman for his tithe pic , and the landlord for hip game , and the lawyer for his foe—be sure they all cry , peace —which means—we , the rich , will make war on you , the poor ; but yoa , the poor , Bhall keep peace to us , the rich . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . 1 Yes whea humanity is roused at lsst , then the vile trucklers who trade in God , come with their pennyworth of Christianity , for which you pay tea ., millions a year , and cry , ' peace ! ' The ' peaee' that we want is , a ' piece' of bread—for rest assured , if you want peace , give men food—since peace and hunger are unruly neighbours . If you want peace , mako men free—for peace and slavery go not hand in hand . ( Rapturouscheere . )

      Government are driving the people fast to bloodshed and . insurrection ; for , hunger is the father of murder ; and in the same degree in which a people grow hungry , they beoome turbulent . Let two devout Christians be wrecked at sea , and escape npon a foodless raft ; let them have Christianity in their gouls , faint at the sight of blood , and start in horror at the bare idea of hurting a fellow being . But let them , too , fbat on with the waste ocean , like monopoly , around them , and the burning skies , Hke | golden oppression , above—and mark how they will look lees warmly on each other , and as the son 6 infss , each will oreep to the opposite end of ^ his raft , and watch the otherBmotions—and their friendship will subside into mere acquaintance , and their converse into silence ,

      and their silence change to a curse—and ere s third sun eets , the lean one will look longingly on the fat one—and ere a few short hours have passed , the cannibal will glare in their eyes—they will oloae in their death struggle—and the devout Christian will be eating the heart of bisbrother . ;( Sensatien . ) Thus it is with peoples—misgovern them , you have starvation —starve them , and vou have insurrection . ( Loud cheers . ) Then , I say , if you want peace , be prepared for war . Not sgainBt foreign kings—their people will find work enough for them—but war against the aggressor at home ; to , that if he break through the barriers of the constitution , you can drive him back from the barrier he has broken . Peace we shall have , aa far as the wars of kings are concerned ; we will

      not fight for them—and without soldiers , they can ma ke no war . We will not pay war taxes for themand without money there can be no soldiers . We will not let them hold ) our purse-strings—and without freedom there ehall be no money . ( Continued cheers . ) Remember , that never have so many recruits offered for tha army as in this year of otarvation ; and Skibbereen has produced more than any other place in proportion . Therefore monopoly gets strong on the evil it creates , and here again hunger proves itself tbe father of murder . Remember that the symptoms of coercion are spreading to England ; they are talking of amounted and armed police here , and our artillery , line and militia , are to be placed on a . war footing . Let them sot get too strong , before you get

      strong yourselves . Remember , too , that we are gaining something worth defending—our cottages and cho Land . Ours is no longer the position of despair , but the stand of hope . Do not let government nip the Land movement in the bud by restrictive laws , by poor rates and taxes , by lowering wages , non . employment and emigration , as tbe ? wiil do ; oh I mark my words , they will do it , if you do not organise your millions—your militia of freedom in itsdefence . Take an example fromTgovernmeHts that say they cannot put tbeir forces on a peace establishment ; while other countries have theirs on a war footing- . So belt ; by the same rule , an oppressed people cannot neglect their . strength , < vhile a clasn government are increasing their army . ( Hear , hear . ) Let all England

      become a National Guard , every man a soldier , and every cottage a fortress , not to make war , but lo save peace . ( Loud cheers . ) And before you swell the phalanx of the pencemonpers , look abroad and see what peace has done for Europe . ( Hear . ) Peace ? Peace did not win America her freedom . ? eacedid not drive the Dutchman from the Netherlands . Peace did not plant the standard of reformation on the plains of Germany . Peace did not lift the cross of the Puritan on thehill-topa of Auvergne . Peace did not keep the French fer eighteen years from the heritage of Islam and Abd-el-Kader . Peace did not hurl the despot Bourbons from their rotten throne . Peace did not drive the Inquisition from the vineyards of Spain . Peace did not scourge the

      foul Jesuit from the valliesj of Switzerland . Peace will not beat back the Austrian hound from Italy . Italy , that has lain forages like a Pariaa statue as beautiful , but . alas ! as cold ! Pence will not drive the counting-house tyrant from the throne of France . Peace will not write the name of Poland on tho scroll of nations . Peace will not lift Freedom , the unpedestalled God , to its place in the great temple of the earth . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) Then , who joins the sickly cry of the peaceraongera ? I , too am for peace . I am for the nations of the earth using every peaceable endeavour to obtain their rights-but when these all fait—be men . ( Renewed cheers . ) Even nature sanctions it . What clears the air of its close fever , and purifies the aurchareed

      atmosphere of summer ? Tke thunder , with its war of elements ! ( Cheers . ) Go , aak your churchmen . Why . God himself , the Lord God of hosts , haa set you the example . When the Israelites were oppressed by the Assyrian , did he bid them ran awaydid he bid them become slaves-did he preach peace ? No ; but he mvided th ? camp of the spoiler , and slew 190 , 000 in one night with his own angel ! There is a pBace doctrine for you ! ( Immense chee'S . ) Why sir , when Joshua was fighting his enemies . Gsd actually made the sun stand still on Gideon , and the moon in the valley of Ajalon . that they might have one hour ' s more daylight to cut each others throats . Why , sir , Christ himself did not stop to preach peace in the temple , but actually took a scourge to drive the money changers out ! Thereis a peace precept

      ( mmendous applause . ; me money changers have got into the temple of liberty . Use thv scourge great God of humanity , and expel them ! ' * ( Renewed ' cheers . ) There may yet be Waterloos-not the Waterloos of kings—but those of peoples . Peace Thou art too great a blessing for cowards ! Peace is in heaven eternal , but on earth we must pass through the storms and Bhowers to reach the sweet hiatus of the calm and sunshine . And shall we , sir , cry' stay ' to the great fiat of God ' s eternal law ? No- ! lot the wave break on life's tumultuous ocean ! ' D »» ye not hear the distant hurricane ? I hear it as a whisper—a 6 carce-heard-wbi 3 per-in the snowy Anpenines . I mark its low nigh , yet soft as a maiden'o breath , in the vineyards of Fiance . I note it—a taint echo , on the hills of Germany—and I start at its

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      low ruBtling-ay , even in the oaks of Britain—denoting that the hour of change is drawing near It may yet be but as a morning breeea in Englandherald of a bright day . But bethe oak uprooted , or untouched , I s " ee the calm beyond . Peace there will be when the last throne tumbles in the gulf o time-when tbe last coronet falls from a degenerate brow—when the last bayonet corrodes m the rust of years Peace there will be , when equality has taught man justice , and the inheritors of heaven have won their heritase of earth . ( Ernest Jones concluded by i 7 ... __ « .. nn ; n thi > nnlm nf . Britain—de

      moving the resolution , as follows , and reBumeanu 8 entamidst a perfeot storm of applause ) That in the opinion ef this meeting theeutcrj respecting the' Notional Defences / ia got up by those who have « vn intercut in perpetuating the present nnjtMt , plunder * ing , and murdering ejatcm 5 and that the object ot tin parties who have created tbe said outer / J«—1 st . To prolong the slavery of ( be'British people , by increasing the phy « Ical force of their rulers ; Bnd 2 nd . To prolong the reign ef tyranny generally , by reviling thoao national hntlpaihUs which were the dUgracoef eur father * , and which this meeting nolamoly repudiate '

      The resolution was seconded by Charlbb Keek , supported la an able speech by Car& Schappbk , and carried unanimously . Julian Harney then came forward , and after a few observations ridiculing the pietended alarm of n French invasion , moved the adoption of an addresBto the Proletarians of France . The Address ( which will be found below ) was received . with loud applause ; and having been aeconded by Josbph Moli , and uupportec by Henriech BAUfiRand CARiiScHiPi'EBWfcs adopted by acclamation . The meeting then adjourned till the first Monday in March .

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      THK FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS Assembling ik London , TO THE PROLETARIANS OF FRANCE , ¦ All Men are Brethren . ' Me * op France , — The signs of the times proolaim coming changes of vast magnitude and importance to your order . We have watched with profound emotion those manifestations of progress and harbingers of popular

      triumph—tho Reform Banquets—which have recently engaged tbe energies and talents of some of your most patriotic citizens . The ''system' which at present pr < uses like a vampire on the heart ef France , will in vain attempt by calumny and force to stay the progress of these manifestations . Any suoh attempts will but accelerate that cwbib , in which the omnipotenre of the popular sovereignty will prove tha nothingness of renegades and traitors ; It requires not the power of prophecy to foretell your speedy liberation from the degrading and disastrous yoke under which France has groaned for the last seventeen

      years . . Pelitical progress has won a great triumph in Switzerland . Ithasbeenwellsaid by an enemy . the oracle of Jesuitism in your (?) Chamber of Peers , that * the flag which ia now victorious on the other side of the Jura , ' is the Bymbol of those principles for which tho French Democrats of 1832-34 were proscribed and immolated . Triumphant in Switterlapd , the Democratic banner will progress , ' conquering snd to conauer . ' through Europe . The oppressed people of

      Germany have already significantly attested their accord with tho patriots of Switzerland ; and throughout Italy the struggle—morally or physically—ie at this moment successfully progresaing . In this country ( Great Britain ) the working millions , completely divided from the classes above them , are steadily advancing in politioal intelligence and political power ; and while perseveringly labouring tor their own emancipation , they are not indifferent spectators of the grand struggle of whioh continental Europe is the theatre .

      For centuries the people of this country have been oppressed by a territorial aristocracy , whioh though now somewhat shorn of its political power still retains the Iordnhip of the soil , and the monopoly of moneydraining places in the government—domestic and colonial . A Church establishment the wonder of the world for its enormous wealsh plundered from the people ; a system of taxation of boundless rapaoity ; with . other abuses inseparable from an uniformed political system derived from feudalism , have tended to reduce the working millions to a state of social as well as political slavery . We have yet to name a more potent cause ef the olavery of tho Proletarians . The manufacturing and commercial enterprise of the British people has been unexampled in the world ' s history , bnt the reward of that enterprise haa been reaped wholly by the masterclass . Tho utter prostration of Labour beneath the JuRcernaut wheels of Capital , dates from the time

      when England commenced to take the lead of other natiecs in manufactures find commeraa . The patient and untiring labour of this people , with all the wonderful inventions and improvements in machinery and chemistry , which have produced for the master-classes their enormouB masses of wealth , have brought for the working men only desolate homes , rags , hunger , and all the horrors of pauperism . As the manufacturers and merchants , and their allies , the usurers , have amas ? ed wealth , in tbe same proportion tbe millions have become more end more impoverished , until the spectacle is presented of this richest of nations containing millions of its most indusrious classes totally destitute of those serial possessions which ! give men an interest in tbe institutions of the country they inhabit . la it to ba wondered at that & wide gulf exists between those who possess all , and those who possess nothing ?

      That gulf exists between the working millions of Great Britain and all the classes above them . Political events have tendered th&l gulf impassable . As you , Proletarians of France , were deceived and sacrificed by the Bourgeoisie in 1830 , so were the worisiBg men of this country cheated aad betrayed by the middle class in the agitation for the ' Reform Bill . ' The late success of the Free Traders completed the iniquitous frauds of that clas ? , and has already opened the eyes of that minority of the working men who were previously unconvinced of tho treachery of their ' respectable' and'Liberal * deluders .

      The Democratic movement in this country is emphatically & Proletarian movement . Tbe result will be a social reformation which will render political equality no longer an illusion . This movement , therefore , menaces all classes of the enemies of Labour . The privileged orders , consequently , are alarmed . Their alarm is increased by the extraordinary attitude of late assumed by the working millions of this country towards the nations of the continent . Isolated from their continental brethren , the working classes of Great Britain have , until within a few year a past , been indifferent or hostile to other nations . But now , from the Seine to the Danube , from the Tagug to the Tiber , every movement for veritable liberty excites the attention and calls forth tha goed wishes of this people . The barbarous sentiment of nationality now hardly exists amongst the People of this country ; it haa giveu place to the sublime principle of fraternity .

      At this moment there is suddenly raised an outcry for the inorease of what are called the ' National DefenctB , ' under the Bpeoious pretext of guarding England frem a' French invasion !' Brethren , if you were to judge of the people of this country by the majority of the English journals , you would suppose that a blind passion of fear and hatred combined , directed against you , had taken possession of this people . Be not deceived . The people of Great Britain are perfectly calm ; they have no share in this pretended frenzy .

      The outcry against France haB been got up , and is wholly confined to persons interested in the perpetuation oJ the existing system . The journalists are generally very far from representing ' public opinion ;' on the contrary , they represent those who find them the wages of corruption . In Russia and Germany tho press is fettered by the censorship—in your country by the laws of September—and in England the money bag achieves by corruption the effects produced in other countries by coercion . With very few exceptions , the English journalists are the enemies of the English Proletarians . The objeot of those who raise an outcry for increasing the army , navy , and other ' defences' of this country is two-fold : — -

      1 st . —To increase the physical force of the ruling olasses—and , thereby , establish better guarantees than at present exist for keeping the working classes in subjection . Combined with this , it is intended to create places lor the surplus scions of the aristocracy and gentry , who at present have no means of Bucking the blood of the people . 2 nd . —To revive those national antipathies which formerly separated this people from every other , and caused tho most unnatural hatred between them and you , the people of France . By reming those national follies , tho enemieB of liberty hope to keep the nations divided , and thereby perpetuate the oppression of tho many , and the tyranny of the few , in this and every other land . The working mon of England are well aware of these schemes of their enemies . The conspirators will fail .

      The national prejudices whioh wero oncoso fruitful of disasters to the cnuso of freedom , now every whero disappearing before tho light of political knoffled o and tho interchange of frftterniU sentiments , are nearly oxtmot in tho rnnka of tho work , ing men ot Log trod . Wo onn ntiauro you , brethren , that there m nothing m tho shape of hostile feeline existing amonnat tho veriublo people of Great Britain towards l'rnnco or Frenohmon Tho contrary is the fact . French prinsiples , ' thut ia th § prjnoiplea of Equality , Liberty , and Fraternii-y , are now the adopted principles of the enlightoned nimiaea of thia country . Not assuming to directly represent the Proletarians of . Great Britain , we are , nevertheless , in a position to declare that their sentiments are those of oinoere fraternity towards you , the people of France , and the people of all other nation ? .

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      Men of France , the time has arrived when the Proletarians of every nation should frankly declare themselves to each other , and cordially unite as brethren . In all countries the working men are subjected to political proscription and social suffering ; their enemies are the same , and their interests are identioal . Let , then , the Proletarians of all lands forget and mutually forgive the wicked and bloody feuds ot the past , and work together for that happy future which shall witness their deliverance . '; National glory' is no compensation to the mil * lions for the Toss of their rights , and their subjection to social misery ; on the contrary , international wars but aggravate their calamities . What matters it to the working classes if the arms of England are victorious in Asia , or the arms of France triumphant in Africa t Men nf France , tha tinifl ' has arrived when th

      ' Te men who shed yonr blood tor klnga , like water , What fiare they given your children in return !' —the kings of gold as well aa the kings of courtstbey have rewarded you and youra with oppression and hunger , degradation and chains ! The ruling classes of England sometimes attempt to throw dust in the eyes of the British people by telling them that they are the possessors of an empire on which the sun never sate . ' They , the plundered people , who have not one foot of soil in their native land they can call their own ! This delusion is perfectly understood by the working men of Great Britain . , .,,,., You , men of France , are sometimes tola by the advocates of ' national glory' that tbe frontiers of France should be extended to the Rhine . Again , the Germans sre told by pretended patriots and venal balladmongera to fight for the Rhine' The / re « , the silver Rhine , '

      on the shores of which the people are thvei I Whal matters it to you if France has the Rhine , or what matters it to the German people if Germany haB not the Rhine ? What concerns you and the German people is to protect your labour and your rights from , he plunder snd tyranny of domestic spoilers and national' oppressors . While denouncing ; international wars , we do net share tbe sentiments of those who consider all war unjustifiable . We , on the contrary , assert that as one as tyranny reigns there neither can nor should be

      peace between the oppressed and the oppressors . Bat wars for the mere sake of victory er conquest we denounce as gigantic crimes against humanity . No nation has suffered so much as France from the folly and crime of war . The truly great men of your first revolution foresaw the evil consequences of the nation abandoning itself to the lust of military conquest . Those incorruptible patriots warned your fathers , but they warned them in vain . History has recorded the result : —the Republic was lost , the bri gandt triumphed , and the Revolution resulted in & military despotism .

      A few years ago your ennning rulers laboured to excite a war-feeling , not for the purpose of engaging you in a war with other nations , fer that was not their then policy , bnt that they themselves might covertly carry en a war against you . Unhappily they were aided by men who , if not traitors to the cause of progress , were deplorably infatuated . Raiaing the war-whoop against' perfidious Albion , ' they demanded the fortifying of Paris , just as the aristocrats and' perfidious' liberals of England arc

      now shouting for ' national defences . Peris was fortified , that is tmbastiiled . Your fathers levelled one Bastille , —men of Paris look around and behold the number of Bastilles now surrounding you , not for your defence , bat for your subjugation . Believe ua , men of Paris , all Europe can see that the modern Bastilles are intended not to protect you from ' perfidious Albion , ' but to protect the traitors who oppress and degrade you . The enemy against which your rulers guard ia not the forces of the' foreigner , ' mt the manses of St Antoine ,

      Bat history is * philosophy teaching by example . ' The errors of the past will be a warning to you for the future . There have been congresses of Kings , let this year witness a congress of Peoples . At that conerass let the union of nations be solemnized ; and let the ridiculous antipathies and barbarous enmities of the past be buried iu oblivion . Frenchmen , Englishmen , Germans , Scandinavians , Poles , Russians , Italians , and men of all other lands , we appeal to you to embrace as brethren , and march forward , shoulder to shoulder , in tho pursuit of Equaliit , Libbrit , and Fbatbrkitt . In tho inspired Ianeaa . ce of Glorious Beranger : —

      ' Rise ! farm yourselves the holiest alliance I Nations join heart and hand !' Signed by the secretaries and members of the committee in behalf of , and in the name of , the Association ,- — G . Julias Harhei , ' } & £ . 'S , H-m * . Thomas Clabk , J J . A . Michbloi , ? w ^ « H . Bernard , f France * Joseph Moix , f Germany H . Krbia . I Switzerland . Pbteb Holu Iq" j-GustavusLundbbrg , J" ScanduiOTia . Louis Oborski , Poland . Carl Pohsk , Russia . London , January 3 ist , 1848 .

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      Murder by a Young Lady . — -Last week , an it . quest was held at Widcombe-hill , Bath , upon the body of a newly . born female child , the offspring of Mis 3 Julia Stickland , the daughter of Mr Stiekland , formerly landlord of the New Ion , but now living retired , in Church-street , in the neighbourhood . Last Monday morning week the body of a child was found in the garden ef the bouse , No . 8 , Church-street , and from its position and the situation of the adjoining houses it appeared pretty evident that the child must have been thrown from the window of No . 9 . Subsequently it was discovered that one of the Miss Sticklands was ill in bed , and an inquest being called , tbe mother and one of tbe sisters of the suspected female were examined , and , theirevidence be .

      ing very contradictory , the inquest was adjourned for a pott mortem examination of the body of the infant . At the resumed inquest , medical evidence was given upon the appearance of tbe child , in the course of which the two surgeons who made the post mortem examination , Btated their belief that the ohild was born alive , and also said the appearances indicated a violent death , as though occasioned by concussion . The mother of Miss Stiekland aiao admitted that her evidence on the previous occasion was given under feelings of strong excitement , and with a desire to screen her child , and deposed that on her return from church on Sunday evening she found her daughter Julia in her bedroom , sitting on the

      bed-Bide very ill . Having no suspicion of her daughter being pregnant , she took no further notice of the circumstance . Next day , however , her suapioions were aroueed by the discovery of the body of the infant , and , upon questioning her daughter , she admitted that she had ' given birth to a female child , and also that she afterwards threw the body out ot the window , but said , ' the child never breathed or moved . ' A medical certificate was produced by the legal adviser of the prisoner , stating her inability to attend the inquest . The Coroner Bummed up the evidence , and the Jury , after nearly an hour ' s consultation , returned a verdict of ' WiUul murder' against the mother of the infant .

      Burial-places in Egtpi and in Ireland . —Can we wonder that the inhabitants of Egypt resemble in appearance the carcasses with whom they dwell ? Can we hesitate to account for the constant developement of a pestilence , when we reflect that by day aad by night , for twelve centuries , the soil on which Cairo stands , its crowded courts , and narrow streets , have been inundated by the filthy excretions of animals and of men ; that day and night , for centuries , the earth has been imbibing the putrid sanies from the bodies of thousands of animals , permitted to ro over ita surface : that day and night , for centuries it haa been imbibing the fluid contents of imperfect oloacse , and the " poisonous exhalations of its halfburied inhabitants , until the sub-soil has become one

      vast hot-bed of pestilential infection ? Now , the burialplaces in this kingdom have little to boast of over those of Egypt . There is this distinction , however to be drawn . In the latter country , the system employed is at once recognised and permitted . In England , men pay ' funeral dues , ' under the impression that their dead fulfil their destiny—return' ashes to ashes , dust to dust . ' Whether they gain more by their purchase than a solemn plausibility , those who have heard these lectures or perused what I have written , can determine for themselves . The condition of the . burial-places in Ireland seems to be even worse than those in other portions of the United Kingdom , although they are almost universally in a most disgusting and dangerous condition . In the

      neighbourhood of Castle Island and Bsllylonford , jin the above country , frora the imperfeot csvering thrown ovor the recent dead , troops of dogs prey from day to day on the bodies . Violent madness is the result , vbich has led these rabid animals , not only to attack ono another , but the cattle in tho fields . Methinks our boasted civilisation , expansive as it is , may clothe itself in sackcloth and ashesit should hide its head for very shame . That mari , the imnge of his God , the heir of immortality , trampled upon during life , hideous in death , should again be made the victim of well deserved punishment to his survivors , is a fearful reflection for those who see in the present the foreboding of a more terrible fuiurk . —From Mr G . A . Walker ' s Fourth Ltcture on the Metropolitan Grave-Yards .

      Cowry shells , the currency of West Africa , are such awkward money that it requires one man to carry two pounds' worth . The Bristol Journal apologises to its readers for having represented a Christmas party as dining off a ' fat poker , ' inBtead of a fat porktr . ' Prince John of Saxony , under the assumed name of Philalethes , has published German merioal translations of Dante ' s Inferno and Paradiso

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      Assembly Boohs , 83 , DeawweebT , Soho . — M ? Thomas Clark ' delivered an highly Instructive , excellent , and eloquent address , on ' Capltalaod labour , ' proving to demonstration the supremacy of the latter , on Sunday evening last , January 30 th ; He wa » listened to with breathless attention , and at the doss loudly applauded , Oldburt . —A district delegate meeting was held in the Christian Brethren ' s Chapel , Mr Weeks in the chair . The district was well represented , sixteen delegates being present , and a _ spirit evinced which _^ a m TT \ t ^ a Y ^ ^||| a mmA . ^ 3 # YWfV 1 IT absemb » t ,, _ ,-.., _ . ' , ,

      augurs well for t he cause in this district . After the opinions expressed by thedelegateg upon the propriety of engaging a permanent lecturer for tho district , the members unanimously abandoned the project , and passed the following resolution : — ' That a district committee be chosen from the Birmingham friends , to draw out a local leetupera' plan , and that Charles Goodwin b& appointed district secretary , address , 19 , Darwin-street , Birmingham , ; Messrs ffasnidge , Insull , Linney , Carvar , Fussell , and Mantle , were appointed localleeturers . The secretary was ingtructed to applj to the Executive for the services of Mr Kydd in the distriot .

      Mahchestbr . —People's Institute , January 30 . — Mr Grocott , the chairman , commeno d the proceedings by reading Mr O'Connor's speech at Birmingham , and alao hia latter in the Star , which was hailed with general applause . The chairman announced to the meeting that the members of the Land Company had this day voted the sum of £ 15 ., and subscribed £ 2 . 10 a . more- by mutual collection , in order to assist in defending Mr O'Connor's seat in parliament . Mr Jam » s I . each , who was received with vehement cheering , then commenced his discourse , by stating that tho

      last time he vras before them he was tried for what was considered by some , inconsistency ; he was now , ho suppessd , come to receive their verdict . HiB Bubject was the fallacy of Free Trade . He dissected tha speeohes of Gibson , Bright , and Company , delivered Jasfc week at Free Trade Hall , and it would be impossible to describe the sensation he produced . Hie address lasted nearly two hours , and concluded amidst loud and continued cheering . He said , he was satisfied with their verdict , and bygones , should ^ be by gones for the fu to re . A rote of thanks was given to Mr Leach and ibe chairman .

      Hebdkn Bridge . —The demecrats of thia place held a social meeting on Saturday evening , the 28 th nit ., in commemoration of the birth of that illustrious patriot , Thomas Paine . The meeting was well attended . Elina Hitoben was called on to preside , who opened the meeting by a few appropriate remarks . The followinga songs and sentiments , &c ., &c , were given : —• Song : ' Birth . of Paine '—by the whole company . Toast : 'ThePeople , the source of all power '—ably responded to by James Clayton of Midgley . Song . ' A man ' s a man for a' that '—J . Smith . Recitation : ' Gustavus to his followers '—F . Hartley . Toast : ' The People ' s Charter , and may it soon become ihe law of the land '—John Hartley . Song : 'Liberty ' s cause '—J . Smith . Recitation : ' The Voice of

      Freedom '—by the Chairman . Toast : 'Thomas Paine , the definer and defender of the rights of man—Hunt , Eramett , and all those who have struggled for tho rights of the people —respondent , John Smith . Recitation : ' The Patriot '—F . Hirtley . Song : The Wiltshire Boy '—J . Smith . Toast : "T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., F . O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., and all the Democratic ) members of tha House of Commons '—re spondent , Fielden Hartley . Song : 'We'll Rally around him '—by the whole company . Glee : ' Haii Noble O ' Connor '—by J . Smith and E . Hitchen . Toast : 'Frost , Williams , and Jones , and othereziled patriots * —T , Greenwood , Song ; ' Transportation of John Frost '—J . Smith . Recitation : ' The despair of hunger '—Thomas Greenwood . Toast : ' The De »

      mocrats of all nations '—by the Chairman . Recitation : ' The Standard of Truth '—F . Hartley . Toast ' The Nosthbbn Stab , the Edikboboh Weekly Espbkss , and all the Democratic Press '—A . Crowther . Song j ' Loud roartf the People ' s Thunder '— J . Smith . Toast : 'Our glorious Land Company , and Land and Labour Bank '—respondent , J . Marsland . Song : ' The Land—the Land lor me '—by JaaeB Smith . Song : 'Base Oppressors' —by the whole empany . SoTiogriH-AaHPiEiD . — A meeting of the Old Guards of this place was held on Monday . Mr Joseph Alway in the chairr . A committee of eleven was appointed , and the town divided into districts , to collect unds to assist in defraying the expenses of defending the seat of Mr O'Connor as member for Nettiugham

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      CORN EXCHANGE . Jfaek-lane , Jan 31 . —The market was tolerably well supplied with English wheat , by land carriage samples , from the near counties ; and although the trade cannot be called brisk , a good clearance of the stands was made , at priee 6 fully equal to those of Monday last . Foreign wheat was a more free sals than of late , at previouB rates . Selected eamples of barley realised rather more money , but cannot be quoted higher . The arrivals of oats daring the week bare been but moderate . The slight improvement in value eitablished towards the end of last week was not maintained . Beans and white peas without alteration in value . Maple and grey peas 1 b . dearer . _ „ , Arrivals into London from 2 < th Jan . to 29 th Jut . Wheat : English , 3 , 922 . Barley : English , 5 , 888 . Oats : English , 8 « 1 ; Scotch , Sli : Irish , 70 ; Foreign , 2 , 420 . Flour , 3 , 956 sacks Malt , 3 , 93 * qrs . London Averages . — "Wheat , 5 * 8 8 d ; barley , Sis ad ; oats . 24 s lOd : beans , 35 s 7 d ; peae , 45 s 7 d , CATTl-E .

      SmTBFiEtD , Jan . 31 . —There was a considerable increase in the supply of beaste , which caused a dull trade , and last Monday ' s quotations wera not supported . The average quality of the supply was improved , and most likely everything would be disposed of , or nearly 80 , at about 2 d per 81 bs . reduction . The number of sheep was also larger , but stiii the market was not over supplied With the choicest descriptions ; notwithstanding , owing to the state of the dead market and damp weather , trade was dull , at rather lower prices ; although there were very few caires { on ~ offer , the demand fell off very much , and , except for . the choicest ; a comiderablo reduction was lubmitted to . 3 tade for pigs was heavy . From Holland there were 174 beasts and 40 sheep ; from lrelrnd , 200 beasts ; aud about 1 , 800 from Norfolk and Suffolk .

      PerstOHe of 81 b » . s . d . Per stone of 81 bs . B . d . Best 8 cots , Herefords 4 fr Best Dns . and Half-Best Short-horns .. 4 G bredi Sh 0 0 Second quality beasts 3 6 Best Long-wools « 4 6 Calves 4 4 Do . do . Shorn .. 0 C Pies „ .. .. 3 8 Ewes & secondqlty ... 3 8 Beat Dns . and Half- Do do . Shorn .. -00 brcus 5 0 Lamb * .. .. .. 0 o Beasts at market , 3 , 053 ; sheep and Iambi , 19 , 399 ; cahes , 68 j pigs . 280 . Livebpool , Feb . 1 . —We have had small supplies from Ireland and coastwise since Friflay , but considerable of foreign , Indian' corn , and flour . At this day ' s market there was only a slow trade in wheat , but rather more firmness than at the end of last week , and fc'ridaj ' s pricee were well supported for both old and new . Oats were in very slow request , and might have been bought on rather easier ternu . In beans and grinding ^ barley the transactions were quite trifling , but for neither noi the currency altered . The demand for Indian corn and meal was languid , and , with more of each offered than of late , the previous prices were not fully supported .

      Niwcastle-upon-Tyns , Saturday , January 29 . —Tho weather still continues extremely seasonable ; intense frosts have prevailed , with a fall of snow . So severe indeed , was the frost last night , that the river is covered with masses of floating ice ; and should » change not occur between this and Monday , tho water communication between here and Shields will , in all probability , be stopped . Our arrivals of wheat and flour this week have been upon a moderate Rcale , but a considerable proportion of the previous week ' s . receipts being left over unsold , the trade has ruled excessively quiet , and the sales effected in either article since this day se'nnight , have been upon rather easier terms . .

      _ Hull , Tuesday , February l .-Business is very lnanimate , aud in the absence of speculation , to encourage , which no grounds are at prosent apparent . At present our own farmers amply supply the _ little local demand , and , in our opinion , they will continue to do so ; Oats continue much neglected . Beans have recovered tbsir late depression , and now foreign are Is . dearer . Peas of fine quality fully maintain their price .

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      ( From the Gazette of Tuesday , Feb . I . ) BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . George Holland , of Portway , licensed victualler—John Stringer , of Kingston-upon-llull , draper—John Hall , of Coventry , ribbon manufacturer .

      BANKRUPTS . William Wyatt , of Uunbury , coaclimaker—John Clayton , of Crown-court , Cheapside , Manchester , warehouseman—William Pike Barrett , of 6 , Palace-row , Ncw . road , iron-monger— John O'Dosmel ! , now or late of Sydneystreet , Chelsea , bricklayer—John Sheppard , of Shirley , common brewer—John Bezrell . of Deptford , builder-Thomas Luker , late of FaniHgdon , but now of great Coxwell , innkeeper-Alfred Kinp , of Oxford , timber merchant—John Bcutlett , of Eas , t Peekliam , grocer— Jona George Moore and Henry Bajliss , of Norwich , warehousemen—William Star , of Lynn , currier—J asou Pigg , of Fulbourngrocer—Kobert Rowell Frttwell , late of

      , Sta . plc-inn aud ' Liverpool , but now of St Martin , Jersey , and of Greenwich , sh . p owner—Henry Cross , of ttirton , furiner— Charles Midoleton Kernot , of West Cowes , chemist-John Thompson , of Sheffield , licensed victualler -Joseph Parker , of Mackbu . rn - John Buuiby , oi Man-Chester , cattle dealer-James Hand , ofl ' roston , provision dealer-Thomas i ' ox , George Kipnon , Christopher Alienhead Wawn , and William Lisham , ot West Corntortn ana ThrisliuRtou , Durhnm , iimeburners—George C nulocH , 01 Darlington , rupo maker-John Turner , of Tavistock and Plymouth , attornuj-Hobert Spencer , of St Sid well , Exeter , printer-Samuel Benny Serjeant , of Calhngton , attorney-at law— William Bagnall , of Burslem , grocer .

      SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . Thomas Burns , of Edinburgh , writer to the eignot—David Hall , of Howiiniius , merchant— William Moflatt , oi"Glasgow , merchant— John Blair , of Paisley , manufacturer—John Gibsuu l ' eebles , of Glasgow , commission agent—Albert C « y , of Edinburgh , stockbroker—James Ross , late of Edinburgh , commission agent— Alexander Couper , sen ., of St Andrews , shoemaker— John Inglis , oit Edinburgh , leather factor ,

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 5, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1456/page/8/