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A LiMEHT FOR ERIN BY THOHAS X-OBS . rj {§ gone and for sver , the light we saw brisking , lake heaven ' * first dawn o ' er the sleep of tha dead , JTaeB man fram the slumber ef ages awaking , Look'd upward and blessed the pure ray ere it flad J Til gone , and the glctmi it hai left of its burning Sot deepen the long night of bondage and mourning , Itat dark o ' er the kingdom * of earth is returning , And , darkest of all , hapless Erin , o ' er thee ! Jor high was thy hope , when thow glories were darting Around thee , through , all the greis clouds of th world ; . "When Tratb . from her fetter * , indignantly startiBg , At once like a rou burst her banner unfurl'd . fin , never stall earth sea a moment so splendid ! Shea , then , bad oae hymn of delwera ' noe Mended The tongues of all nation * ,-how sweet had ascended The first note of Liberty , Erin ! from thee . * # * * * « * * » # * Then vanish'd for erer the fair sunn ; vision , Which , spite of the slaTisb , the cold heart's derision . Shall long be remembered , pure , bright , and elysian , As first It arose , my lost Erin ! on thee .
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A Hand Book to the Royal Stables at Windsor Castle . By the Author of ' Sketches of Her Majesty's Household . ' London : "W . Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row . Many a time it has been our lot to Lear of the celebrated Whig -rote of £ 70 , 000 for the building of Dew stables at Windsor Castle , but until we read this little book we were not full ; informed of the parti-Calars of that generous vote of the ' . collective Wisdom . ' It -was on the 5 th . of June , 1339 , that the notorieus Spring Rice , since elevated to 'the style and title * of Lord Straddlegoose , moved in the
Bouse of Commons a vote of * 70 , Q ( J 0 for the purpose of building stables at Windsor . Mr Wakley denounced the proposition as ' extravagant , ' and Moved that the sum be rednced to £ 50 , 000 , bat could not find a seconder . Lord Dungannon * thought it unbecoming a nation like the English to earn at such a sum . ' There was no confuting this unanswerable argument , so of course the sum was Toted . The money secured , the ' silver trowel which had been used by his late Majesty King George the Fourth upon similar occasions , ' was put into requisition , and the foundation stone laid on the 19 th of August , The buildings were completed in October , 1842 .
There has been a terrible hubbub of late about ' sanatory reform , 'but the whole question lies in a autshell—whether the Queen ' s subjects shall be half as healthily situated in their dwellings as are the Queen's horses . We say' half as healthily , ' for sure we are that whilst the present system lasts , the arrangements for the drainage and ventilation of the habitations of the poor , wUl by no means approach those in constant operation to insure the comfort and health of the animals whom the Queen delighteth
to honour . Thus to read that 'in the centre of each stall there are iron gratings , communicating with cross drains tinder the flooring of Dutch conkers ; and through these ( by merely turning a tap at the upper end of the stable ) a strong current of water is forced , which clears away every accumulation from the under drains , into the common sewer , to the river . ' The whole of the arrangements are equally perfect . Happy horses ! Unhappy jnenj Loot on this picture : —
Twelve months ago the Marylebone Vestry published a statement setting forth that there were then tUxty thousand destitute persons in the metropolis , who chiefly supported themselves by begging or thieving . The destitution of the approaching winter Is likely to be still more appalling . It is notorious that in the very bitterest weather crowds of human beings were completely shelterless , the workhouses being overcrowded . Within the workhouses the best accommodated were sleeping . three in a bed , but hundreds had no beds at aU . ' In the East London Union , ' says a visitor , 'the sleeping accom . aodation consisted of a sloping shelf for the men to lie on . They were closely huddled together with
{ heir clothes on . They complained generally of the cold , as the space for the window was occupied by iron Ian only , without any panes of glass whatever . They urgently requested that some rugs might be furnished them . ' So recent as June last evidence was obtained that in the Strand , Kensington , and West London Unions , and the parishes of Whitechapel , St Pancras , Chelsea , St Luke ' s , &c , the in . mates of the casual wards are allowed neither soap nor towels with which to cleanse themselves . They are half-devoured by vermin ; sleep on the floor generally without rugs , and suffer every possible abomination of filth and wretchedness . Any night within the last two years there might be seen
miserable beings , huddled together on the bare pavement in front of St Martin ' s Workhouse , and immediately opposite St George's Barracks—filled with soldiers ready with musket and bayonet to defend our ' glorious institutions . ' We are wrong in saying that' any night might be seen , &c , ' for on many occasions the poor , houseless creatures have been prevented sitting down , the pavement having been saturated with water under the pretence of cleaning it , but , in reality , to punish the poor creatures for their poverty by leaving them , like Noah ' s dove , no dry resting-place . But enough of this picture of Happy England . ' Now hoi on this : —•
We quote from the book under notice : — ' On the right of the entrance to the Royal mews , in St Alban's-street , just within the gateway , there are ten loose boxes for sick and lame horses ; their dimensions being fifteen feet by ten , and of a prop 3 rtionate height . They are each fitted up with two small mangers in either of the further corners , one for com , and the other for mashes . The doors open in two divisions , the upper portions of which have glased windows over the doors , which open for the
purpose of ventilation . * * * Each horse throughout the stable department has two sets of clothing—one for day , and one for night . Each stable is lighted by means oi gas ! * ? * Between the two last named carriage-houses are a large boiler and furnace , for the purpose of heating water , and also air , which is conveyed by means of flues , throughout the coach-houses , in order to keep the royal carbiages well aired during the cold end damp weather in winter . '
There are many curious matters contained m this little bosk , including descriptive sketches of Carriages , Horses , &c , presented to the Royal Family . It seems that all animals cannot be taught that loyalty , which is so characteristic of men in generaland Englishmen in particular—for a pair of milkwhite goats , a present from the Shah of Persia to her Majesty . haveturned out perfectlyincorrigible . They wereintendedto draw the royal juveniles , a ' petite carriage- having been built for the purpose ; but their the
goatsbips were found as untameable as were waves of the sea , despite the commands of Canute and the lashings of Xerxes . The ' Persians' , were , therefore , turned loose into the Great Park , where now between two and three hundred splendid milk . white goats sport and play , originating from the parent stock ; and this increase has taken place in less than five years . Such is the amazing fecundity ef Royal Goats ! This little boek is an interesting supplement to the ' Sketches of Her Majesty ' s Household . '
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Court Jobbery : or , the Black Book of the Palace . London : W . Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row . In this work the reader is supplied with an analytical list . of all the pensions granted , by the Queen ( from the period of her Majesty ' s accession to the present time ) oat of the £ 1 , 200 placed / annually , at the disposal of the Sovereign . Pointing out the ' deserving' and fte * undeserving ^ State- pensioners , with notes and comments , and historical references to their' claims' upon the 'Royal Beneficence . ' It appears that there are persons who are living in the greatest splendour—keeping horses , carnages ,
and servants—giving dinners and evening partiesentertaining 1 , 200 visitors at a time at % fite chantpetre—with a box at the Opera , who are shamelessly drawing hundreds a-yearfroma sum of money voted by Parliament for * such persons emr as have / mi claims on the royal beneficence , or who , by their personal services to the Crown , by the performance of duties to the public , or by their useful discoveries in sciences and attainments in literature * nd the arts , have merited the gracious consideration of the Sovereign , and the gratitude of the counfrw . '
. In this list of pensioners figure the celebrated *« en teachers of her Majesty—French , German , ftipng , drawing , music , and dancing masters and
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mistresses . They are respectively the Rev . Henry . Barez , the Qneen ' s German master , £ 100 a year-J . B . Sale , Esq , teacher of singing , £ 100 a-year ' T . Steward , writing-master , £ 100 a-year Francois Grandineare , French-master , £ 100 a-year ; Mrs Lucy Anderson , music-mistress , £ 100 a-year ; Sarah Matilda Bourdin , danting-mistress , £ 100 a-year ; and Guiseppe Guazzaroni , Italian-master £ 50 a-year . ' The seven champions of Christendom were never so well provided for , wives and all . ' 4 What a thing , ' says the author of the Black Book , 4 for the Irish peasant , or the equally distressed mistresses . They are respectively the Rev . Henrv Barez . the OnMn ' fimnm m .. t « * in . T : _ " ?
Dorsetshire labourer to read , that , whilst he is starving , a French dancing-mistress receives a hundred pounds a-year for having done the country the immense service of teaching her Majesty Queen Victoria ts waltz and polk ! If such abominable pensions are tolerated , we may expect to hear of some of the respectable' darkies' being put upon the list for teaching the Queen to sing . ' Ban Tucker' and 4 Lucy Neal , ' or for giving lessons to the Prince of Wales upon the banjo , or initiating the Princess Royal in the mysteries of 'Sich a git ting up stairs V
Passing by ' the Newportjob , ' andahost of tempting specimens of aristocratical pauperism and plunder , we single out three illustrations of ' how the money goes . ' MADEMOISELLE AUGUSTA EMMA d ' eSTE . Two pensions , of Five Hundred Pounds each , yearly . Some few facts connected with this lady and her family may he of interest : The Dake of Sussex was married to tidy Aagusta Hurray , the daughter of the late Earl of Danmore , at Rome , and again In LondoB , In 1793 . The issue of thli
union were Sir Augustus D'Este , who was born In January , 179 ^; and Mademoise lle Augusta Emma D'Este , who was born in the following year . The martiage was dissolved , as contrary to the Bojal Marriage Act , in 1791 ; thus , unfortunately for them , bastardising both the children , la Jane , 18 M , Sir Auwstus D'Este , wto claimed the title of Dote of Su « sexatthe decease of his father brought his ctse before a Committee for Fri . ri ' eges of the House of Lord ? ; Sir Thomas Wilde being his leading counsel . T&e committee decided , ( July 9 , 1814 , ) after lengthened sittings and examinations of wit' nesses that the claim was not made out .
Mademoiselle Augusta-Emma D'Este obtained one pension of £ 500 on the 5 th of March , 1845 , and another pension of £ 500 on the following 28 th of July . About a fortnight later , the lady was married to Sir Thomas Wilde ; whose impartial administration of justice at the Old Bailey , in the case of the Chartist prisoners , will' be fresh in the memory of the reader . This union gate rise to the following witticism . [ We must premise ¦ that D'Eite is a word of two syllables , the final V being
pronoaacedl'Sir Thomas Wilde , considering the kgal wear and tearrhe has had , looks hale and hearty ; for her ladyship , however to torn WUie at her years , ctn only bo accounted for by the foflience of a . /)* & (« . ny thatwasasBnexpectedasitwasunreslstiBg ! ' . Towards the end of the year it was reported that Sir Thomas Wilde would be raised to the peerage ,. This honour hai not , however been conferred upon the learned Chief Jos ttceof the Court of Common Pleas yef ! All . In geod time . We shaald then hope her ladyship would not have 'he face to draw her £ 350 every quarter day at the Treasury .
Sir Tbomis Wilde entered upon his new duties , as Lord Chief Jasttoe of the Court of Common Fleas , at tar Staffordshire Assfces in Auguit , 1846 . ' His lordship , ' said the SriFFOBDSHrai Mucusy , 'isaocempanied by Ltdy Wilde , who has attracted considerable attention in consequence of her relationship to the royal family . ' She would have attracted a good deal mote attention in the Potteries , we will venture to say , If the poor drudges in those districts had been aware that they were then sweating and toiling to contribute towards raising her ladyship ' s £ 1 , 000 a year ! ' Brilliant dinner parties ' are frequently announced in tae fashionable columns of the Hobsiho Poet , as being given by Sir Thomas and Lady Wilde ; but , then , as the Lord Clief Justice's salary is £ 8 , 000 a-year , besides his possessing an immense
fortune realised by a long and successful course of professional exertions while at the bar , her ladyship ' s £ 1 . 000 a year may fairly be laid by , as we have hinted before , for the rent and taxes of their ' splendid mansion . ' As this lady pensioner is' living in all the splendour and afflaence befitting her husband's high rank and station , it was foolishly supposed by many ( honest creatures !) that , ugon her marriage , her ladyship would have resigned her two pensions ! Lady Wilde has not done so yet , for she receives them as ' regularly as clock-work , ' on the return , ( and this is the only ' return' we shall ever hear about them ) of every quarter day . ' Douglas Jerroid , in his newspaper of July 15 h , 1848 , ! ¦ an article on the subject of Mr Hume ' s motion for a reform la Par liament ,
says' The issue of the debate en Mr Hume ' s motion may be counted as no such great victory . Mr Oiborae—in a most damaging speech—showed the selfishness that rules ana reigns over the people in the Howe of Com . mooc . There if , as the house Is at present constitute * , a moral majority against retrenchment ; a majority knitted together cloiely as the rings of a highwayman's steel purse ; and for the same purpose , to secure stolen meney . Sow , grant Mr Hume ' s paints of the Charterand they will be as surtly granted as the rays of te-rnor row ' a sun—and we obtain cheap government andequality of taxation . Why , Sir Thomas Wilde , himself—the
awful judge who tried the Old Bailey Chartists—is interested against the Charter . With its essential points carriei , thescople would no longer pay such pensions as that enjoyed by Lidy Wilde—the late Hademoisslle D'Este—for no other reason than that , legally , she is tae illegitimate daughter of the late Bake of Sussex . At the very time that Sir Thomas Wilde passed sentence upon the prisoners , it is not impossible the judga might have had in h ! s pockets a s' . iay csln or two , part and parcel of the pension of bis wife . We would not consider the matter too curiaualy , but , candid reader , Char , tist or non-Chartist , might this not be so !'
' Her Msjesty , ' as we are informed by & newspaper o ! January 11 , 1845 , ' with her accustomed generosity , has given out of her Privy Puree the sum ef £ 1 , 000 a year to Sir Augustus D'Este , which is equal to the sum Sir Augustas last by the death of the Buke of Sussex . ' It ie a great pity , for the sake of all parties interested ( and we include the tax payers ; for they are wry deeply interested in the matter ) , that the Qaeen had net also exercised ' her accustomed generosity' in the case of the sister of Sir Augustus . This would have been exceedingly creditable on the part of her Majesty—creditable so far as liberality went . But what in the name of all the judges ' wigs in Christendom does Lady Wilde want with a thousand a-year out of anybody ' s purse , unless it be her husband's *
We have nest to introduce to our readers a celebrated ' political economist , ' one of the gang who write to prove that there are too many of us , and that for the ' surplus' there is no room at Nature ' s festive board . This fellow has the assurance to take from the miserable people of this country a sum of £ 1 , 100 a-year , to say nothing of the money he has made by his ponderous volumes of truthless statistics , written to show that the present infernal system is natural and inevitable . Here he is : — JOHN RAMSAY U ' CULLOCH , ESQ , J pension of £ 200 a-year .
Another author ! But we have a word or tws > to say about this grant of £ 200 , because we think that this pension to Mr M'Calloch ought net , In common justice , ever to have been conferred . This gentleman is the author ef many useful works to the public , and highly profitable to hiauelf . But what will our readers think of the justice (!) of her Mtjesty permitting this Indefatigable writer on finance and commerce to drag £ 200 per annum out of our pockets , when they are informed that he is the Comptroller of the Statlonary . office , at a salary of £ 900 a year ! Sir Robert Peel rts ' gned office , to make way for Lord John Bissell and the Whig ' s , on the 1 st o ! July . 1846 . Thegrantcf Mr H'Colloch ' i diigracefol pen sion ( disgraceful under the circumstances ) is dated only the very day before ! Sir Robert is to blame in this matter , and not the Qaeen . HrH'Calioeh was amply provided for by a most lucrative Government appointment . Shame , Sir Sobert ! to throw away the public moaev in this way
The last we shall notice is the precious Poet-Laureate Wordsworth . How true his portrait is sketched by the master-hand of glorious Byron : — ' Wordworth ' s place may be in the Customs—it is , I think , in that or the Excise—besides another at Lord Lonsdale ' s table , where this poetical charlatan and political parasite licks up the crumbs with a hardened alacrity ; the converted Jacobin having long subsided into the clownish sycophant of the worst prejudices of the aristocracy . ' WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ESQ . J pension of £ 300 a-year .
, This pension Is all very well , as far as its befog in consideration of the 'distinguished literary attainments ' of the Poet Laureate ; for whloh appointment he gets a salary of £ 100 a year—littie ' enongb , in all consdenoe , as it has bees remarked , 'if he is liable to be called upon to write an edogUUo ode upen tuch an occasion as the late installation of Field Marshal the Prince Csntortas Prince Chancellor of Cambridge I' It was , however , poor wishy-washy , namby-pamby stuff , after all . Bat Mr Wordsworth Is not Ia want of tbls . £ S 08 a-year—he doea
not require it . TMere are hundreds of literary manand authors of some eminence , too—to whom a tithe of this £ 300 a year would be a god-tend , indeed ! We find that , at the time this pension was granted , Mr Wordsworth was ' Distributor of Stamps for the Counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland , with emoluments amounting to £ 2 , 000 a year—which office and emoluments he afterwards resigned to his son . Where is the man , we would ask , who will attempt to justify the ' payment of this £ 800 a year upon the ground of the ne > eetsitiu of Mr Wordsworth requiring it « The quotations we have given constitute this little book ' s best recommendation .
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The Jfenm of Reformer * , London : W . Strange , 1 ^ Pateraoster-row . Manchester : A . Hey wood . Huddersfield : R . Brook , Buxton-roan . rerp ^ erth f . h / of < Clitics for Workers / we rS A i i tract » in wWch was explained the Sm , ohn D J obs 6 n ' the weaver , having to send J * f , Jd .. *«» kd without a supper . The present misrion y n ? n f ameatlthor ' ™* ttent 0 showthe S whic ? l Omer 8 ™ these critical times - and thc «™™ - » T ? are Particularly called upon to ! hE . M T b"D * » bout 8 uch a state of things as supper for his children . - J ^ L fLC ^ tains furtb er and unquestionable evidence of the deterioration of the condition of the working classes ; and shows up the evils of the present crushing system of taxation , and the falsehoods of the Malthusian theory . From the author ' s discussion of _ a question which has of late much ta- jw , ... ; - ^ f / www flf Reformers . London t W . Stranw . )
occupied public attention , we extract the following sensible observations on
^ f ™ Iook W'ly « t our present po . ltlon , a » d see nH 2 * We U Of wcceedlng In any attempt to ? he ™ ° , S 0 ?""*;?* ? fltfoU ferce . There are at the wry but a million and ahalf , who are directly in erested in the taxes .-whoreoeive them ond lire upon teem ; and who , bear in mind , vfB ffit for tMr conHnu . am . There are another- million of soldiers , parsons , bickers policemen , and lawyers lacluding their depend , antt . This systemglves f Md and clothing to thousands
opm thousands of brokers , excisemen , grooms , footmen . Pimps toadeaters and parasites . It also add ,, as we have already seen , very largely to the profits of the tradesmen who pay the taies , in the first instance . And observe forevery one who lives out ofthesystem-for ereiy Individual who is in the actual enj yment of a fat living out of the tsxes ; there are at the least tvoomre HXF * H ? ?* ' The " « P «<*«» ts , orally ¦ peaking , will struggle harder to keep up « m prcieat ord « of things , an * will be found more bltteragainst reformer , than those In actual posse . slob . * *"
mak-ff ?" ^ K ' Oi ™ «• 8 W « numbers of SSSaVSn f ^* 'Vtt ° « d « l « l « n dispositions , fiLKi ^ 'TT T h 6 WW "'<* <»• » titled man chooses to lead . It ha . been truly said , if a lord or a duke were known to be In favour of Cannibalism that in order to be like lords and dukes ; The . emen never in . qato Into the truth- of a doctrine , , political or otherwise : but inqulrendio is the mfkw ; and excepting Itcomes from some gmtman ( whioh recolleotmeans rich monh although it oay exhlblt ' the wisdom of Solomon or So : crates , it does not produce the slightest effect upon their minds . , . It lii always the best to look all our difficulties fairly 5 S 5 ?!?* ** » te 4 o * **«»« A » W > wflioiC Besides the hundreds of thousands direeSg living upon the taws ; there are immense numbers living upiri them In an indirect manner . See the vast numbers of tradesmen , who Uve by sappljing the tat . eaters with
luxuries and other commodities . The national debt alone gives employment to Fomt Thousutd Bioxebi all of whom Uve like fighting cocks , by merely buying and felling shares In this debt for others . G : od God what a systems These- mnremploy at the very Isast an equal aumber ef clerks , fooimen , and other servants * ^ ° ? ^ § tlck to ^ ' * 8 tem llke le «* es ; « nd as the 10 th of last April fall , proved , are read y to come forward with arms In their haads to fight In Us defence . There are about a million of families engaged in the cultivation of the soilof England / Scotland , , nd Wales " the average of whose wages ts £ 16 a year to each family ; : hls makes up a sum of sixteen millions a year whloh is paid for the cultivation of the sell . Now the money paid to the men who collect the taxes , is above eiiht ^ iffL * " ! * ! ' * «• "' it
- " . " * nay to the men whose business is to collect thetax-s-the bare gathering up of these taxes costs a greater suai than the cost of cultivating one half of the soil of E » e 1 MB , Scotlam ) . and Wales ! If we add to this the extra soldiers and ; police necessary for enforcing the payment ; the legal expemes ; the distraints upon the < oods , and selllog up of those who cannot pay in aay other way ; tha expenses of brokers , aoctioneers and bums : the time lest In appeals , and danobg attendance uponcommlsiioners ; we shall Inevitabl y be led to this most astounding conoluilon , that the bare ceit of collectmg the taxes . Is greater taan the cest of cultivating the land ; that there is more money expen led in raising the taxes , than is expended in ratslog the foed for seventeen millions of people ! Never since the creation f the world was thereanyihlng equal to this
We have much pleasure in recommending this tract as a trustworthy enunciator of ' Politics for Workers . '
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Cholera . How to treat in all its stages . London E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street , and J . Cleave , Shoe-lane . This tract investigates the qaestion of 'contagion , ' and asserts the non-contagious character of the cholera . It explains the premonitory symptoms ; gives advice as to diet ; and contains directions by a medical gentleman , who practised in one of the most affected metropolitan districts iu 1832 . There
is added the directions recently issued by the Russian government . ; Now , that this frightful scourge is fast approaching our shores , if indeed it be not already here , it behoves every man to make preparations to repel the destroyer . Every one anxious for his own safety , or that of his family , should , therefore , purchase this cheap and useful publication , to which to ' turn for advice in any emergency . "We hope this tract will obtain a wide circu . lation .
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Publications Received . —An Explanation of the Embossed Systems for educating the Blind . By 6 . A . Hughes . London : Wilkinson and Co ., Tysoe-street , Wilmington-square . The Vegetarian Advocate , No . 1 . The Odd-Fellows' Chronicle , August .
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1 eull the ehoieat . ' . „ . , , . * CHEAT FAtT , For tta foundation ' s lost . of common good ; Th X ! I *™' M wel 1 as M » ri . ««» fc- « i a&e laws ( corrupted to their ends that make them ) aerve but for instruments of some new tyranny , That every day starts up to enslave us deeper . ' Otwat ' , .. UAOHANIMITT . 11
™?? SJ ? ^ P ™ . Vespasian commanded a Roman senator to ,-gm fau voioe againstthe interest of SSLiWfc ' a ? d thre » tened him-with immediate death if hei spoke on the other side ; the Roman , consoiouathatthe attempt to serve a peopb was in in his power , though the event was eyer so uncertain , answered wi'h a smile- ' Did I ever tell yon that I ™ 7 i £ m 0 rt 8 l ? My virtue hln . my ' oirii ' dbpMil-SbW ™ ft JW" wbat y ° *'" ' * Bha 11 do tov I shall hU andlf If ? U inthe 8 « vice of my conn-S our to " triumpbiu m . *« Mi » J »
SPBAKIKO FOR TIME . rfiStw M n " ' ' Vntt - the moat eloquent , $££$ p \ ° t 3 ? oade at thB bar - wa 8 ' n the ?™ . ™ ;» te * TF lDney « wh 0 ^ tried fw M l * treason in 1798 . It was . also , the moBt important i ^ T&n ^ ? - ° * peHon 8 gelded on it . The principal witnession this trial was the info ™ r , James O'Brien , who 3 e subsequent crimes t " . ! 5 ? T fi 0 ndtorion 8 ^ Ireland . ^ "SuISS I&Smr * rov . « WMwmtag . - the charaoterof a revenue officer , and Mr Curran ,, with great skill onhnnedto make him develope his-own oharao '
er to the jury , in . the course of a very curious cross ' examination . < Bat this was not sufficient ; a witness neoessary to prove O'Brien ' a perjury , lived a few miles from Dublin ; and in order ^ to , afford time for hw . being broughtritwaatoeedby ' M ^ Curran , that hw colleague , - Mr M'Nally , should commence the prisoners defence ,. and , continuo apeaking as'lorie as he eould find a Bjllable to Bay , This he did with' Heat ability until he was exhausted , and the evening . so far advanced , that the court , consented to a tempo , raty adjournment ; and before it leaumed itstittine the material witness arrived : . ¦ . ¦
AjiooBAPH MSSior Lord Btron . —Afew interesting , autographs oi Lord Byron occurred inaBale which took . place on Saturday , at the room of Messn Puttick and Simpson ,. audtioneen . of Piccadilly . We extract from the catalogue the' following lotfl •—Lot 863 . 'Tha Curaeof Minerva . ' 13 pages , 4 ' to entirely . atttograpb , sold , for 410 . , Lot 864 .. The welh known ' Maid of Athens , ' the original MSS ,, itwo paees , 4 to ... entirely autograph , Bold for £ 1 iu Lot 865 . The poem , Waterloo , ' from the'French , four pages , ^ entirely' autograph , sold for £ i 15 s ; ¦ Lot 866 . ' Lines written oh a Cup formed ol a Skull ' two pages , 4 to , sold for £ 1 .. Lot 867 . ' Lines on the Elgin Marbles , ? two pages , folio , Bold for £ 3 . . Lot 869 . Three leaves , being the openinglines of ' . Engi j ish Bards and Scotch Reviewers , '&o ., gold for £ 5 . THE TOILERS' H 0 ME 8 ; , 0 F ENGLAND . BI THE LUC IDWAID POLIN .
¦ fTo prevent misoonceptlob , the author of the following stansu may state , that no oire can more admire the poetry of the late Mrs Hemans than he does , and particularly that beautiful poetloal burst , the Homes of England ; ' but with all its rtquislte beauty it is only one side of a picture , the darker side of which , is unfortunately , the most correct : and to shew which Is the purpose of the foils ning humble attempt . ] The toilers'homes of England 1 AM know yo how they stand 'Midst all this abow of wealth aad pride Of England ' s boosted land ! For bread their children wildly cry , Where waat alone appears : Too oft , alas ! the sad reply—A wretched mother ' s tears .
Th « mournful homes of England ! Around the cheerless hearth—Where erat were looks of household love , And sounds of household mirth—There childhood ' s tale or woman ' s soog No more is gladly heard : Victims of law—protected wrong—Eich heart with grief Is stirred . The Virtidhed homes of Eogland ! How sad their dingy walls—Whereon the toilers'heart no more BlesB'd Sabbath qolet falls ; Thera mirth , with drunken riot fraught , Salutes the peaceful morn—And short-lived joy , of want begat , And crime « f bondage born .
The hovel homes of England ! In crowded city lanes ; They are darkling in each dirty nook Where rudest clamour reigns . Where dark disease and death embrace , Where want and filth abound-Where health hath left each eare-worn faoe ; "There labour ' s homes are found , The poor tlavehomes of England ! May never hut or hall Have peace while England ' s millions pine In such unholy thrall ; Till they shall ( read their fatherland As once their fathers tred—Fearing no power but heaven ' s command , No master but their God !
DEFINITION OF NOTHING . At the Donegal assizes , the fallowing humorous oross examination of a witness occasioned suehmerri . mentin the court , ' Mr Doherty—* What business do you follow V 'I am a schoolmaster . '' Did you turn efi your scholnrs , or did they turn you off ! ' 'I do not wish to answer irrelevant questions . ' ( Laughter . ) ' Are you a great favourite with your pupils ? '' Ay ! troth am I ; a much greater favourite than you are with the public' ' Where were you , air , this night ?' ¦ This night !' said the witness ; ' there is a learned man for you— this night is not come yet ; 'I suppose
you mean that night . ' ( Here the witness looked at the judge and winked his eye , as if in triumph . ) ' I presume the ' schoolmaster was abroad' that night , doing nothing ? ' inquired the attorney , 'Define ' nothing , ' said witness . Mr Doherty did not comply . ' Well , ' said the / earned sohoolmaster , ¦ I will define it — it is a footless stooking without a leg . ' ( Roars of laughter , in whioh the judge joined . ) 'Youmay co down , sir . ' 'Faith , I well believe you ' re tired enough of me ; but it i ' b my profession to enlighten the public , and if you have any more questions to ask , I will answer them . '
PIBBMONI , THE DOMINIONS OF CHABLEB ALBERT . The Italian dominions of the King of Sardinia are thoroughly priest-ridden ; the priests , the monks , and their processions , conventB , and monasteries , coyer the whole kingdom . And the government , however it may latterly affeot liberality in trade , and even in politics , ia thoroughly bigoted , and its { practice moBt intolerant . I recollect meeting an English family in Geneva , who men * tioned that they had spent a Sunday with several other English people in a village in Savoy ( which belongs to Sardinia . ) Wishing to read the church service together on the Sabbath day , they assembled in the saloon of the hotel for that purpose ; the landlord quiokly appeared , and inquired what they had
collected to do ; hearing it was to worship , he inquired—was it according to the Protestant religion ? and beiBg answered in the affirmative , he , with many apologies , required of the company to desist ; declaring he should be heavily fined , nay , punished , should he permit Buch an impropriety in his house . No native , I apprehend , dares to ohange his religion . It it one of the curious facts to be remembered respecting Italy , that the sovereign who now professes the utmost liberality of feeling , the desire to encourage learning and learned men , and even to enlarge the municipal privileges and political freedom of his people , is outwardly a bigot , and his government and dominions as much apparently , and I believe in reality , under the control of priestly influences as those of Rome itself .
A CoNsciENCESiniCKENSiNNEB—MrThorne , the proprietor of a perambulating theatre now at Huntslet , whilst visiting Dewabury a few days ago , received a penny postage stamp enoloaed in a letter , of which the following ia a copy : — ' AugUBt 5 h , 1848 . —Dear Sir . —Many years ago I came to your theatre when you was in Dewsbury , and on the occasion when you was quite busy I gave you 2 § d instead of 3 d for admission . Since that time , however , I believe the Lord has wrought a ohange in my heart , and I enclose you the admission due , with interest . —From your Wbllwishke —To Mr Thorne , Olympic Theatre , at present in Dewsbury . '—Leeds Intelligencer .
HMTORT . History and the writere of historic narrative are thus 8 poken of by William Godwin : — 'We put together Beemingg , and we draw our inferences as well u we may . Contemporaries , who employ themselves in preserving facts , are sure to omit some of the most material , upon the presumption of their notoriety , and . that they are what everybody knows . History , in some of its most essential members , dies , even as generations of men pass off the stage , and the men who were oeonpied in the busy scene become Tiotims of mortality . If we could call up Cromwell
from the dead—nay , if we conld call up some of the comparatively insignfieant actors in the time of whioh we are treating , and were allowed the oppor . tunity of proposing to him the proper questions , how many doubts wonld be cleared up , how many perplexing ma tters would be unravelled , and what a multitude of interesting anecdotes would be revealed to the eyes of posterity . But history cornea , like a beggarly gleaner in the field , after Death , the great lord of the domain , has gathered the crop with his mighty-hand , and lodged it in his gamer , whloh no man can open . '
A SOLVENT BANK . The best bank ever yet known is a bank of earth ; it never refuses to discount to honest labour ; and the best Bhare is the plough share , on whioh dividends are always liberal .
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Irciatffl . ( From the " j ftr ^ -Arf ) ^ SSfswssss iSlsiii ASSS ^ iT *^ ^ . " ^ - " * "ttWKN « . JOHH . KAMlK . T ft hn W T - ad u 0 h 8 lleD « P ^ In by the prisoner John Martin , m this ca « e , to William Duff onei of the SiMJT !'"" J ° hn MflrHn W 8 ' W ^ QC u ylo ed , and the demurrer to such challenge puti n by her pasty ' s Attornej-Gemral-and we ore of opinion that here are naiomUe grounds for holding such challenge to be good in point of law , and therefore for issuing a tT ° , ror to reveMO toJuagmwt agtliirt the nld John Martin in this case .
D » ted the 19 . h of Angus J , 1848 . Isaac Bctt , ROBEKT HoiHK ' . colhan m . o'loohlen . John O'Haqah . The g rounds on which the convict ' s counsel rely are The ancient charter creating the corporation of Dublin gives to that bod y all the estate aad property of every person who shall be convloted of treason or felony within that municipality , and such ! right is recognised preserved , and confirmed In subsequent chartersand Acts of Parliament . When the number of the prisoner ' s ?! ' * *•""¦» n » me » twenty exhanted
SLT . y , was . , £ . « « f * T . W the nwt Joror who was about to be sworn Mr Duff , for oauss , ' that Ib , that he being a burgees of the city of Dublin , subject to the pajSoJ Mall J T ° l ^ Pr ° petty of » 1 * " " wMbted of maLJ fFSS lntWMted l » uoh ' conviction . ' did not stand indifferent as a Juror In the cause . To this cnallengocounsdfor the orown demurred , and theiuror was sworn subject to the ' objeotlon , which applies alike to all the others Impannelled . Consequently ; bsfore hlssentenoB will be carried out , this Snejtleh will be submitted to tie-highest-judicial tribunal of-. the Hng « om , and ; if they , should decide In its favour , the conviction must be held bad ; arid theT prisoner dlscharged .
An application was made on Monday , on the part of Mr Gavan DufiV and others , confined in Newgate , to be removed to Richmond Bridewell / as Wine less unhealthy , and it is said . the authorities nave refused W travel out of the ordinary , course i » f proceeding * The prisoners must , therefore , remain in Newgate until after -trial , unless in , the meantime the goverBtnent deem it advisable to iemoie * hem , as . they did in the case of the fourteen persons gent to Belfast last tnday . . ,.-... . . Thei Pestonjee-Bomanjee transport Bhip arrived in Kingstown Harbsur this morning , for the purpose of taking away the male oonviots under transportation in the Irish gaols . > : ..:. T he following barbarous and abominable specimen of the inveterate
agrarian criminality of the country is reported from Kilkenny :-- < The lands of a farmer , named William Carroll , residing in the barony ot berk , were entered by night by a party of Rockites , who first shot his horse , then stabbed eight cows some of which have Bincedied from the injuries , and concluded their work by burning four stacks of oats The former owner of the farm , named Power , was ejected . . ^ The constabulary of Kilkenny were busily empbyed yesterday in a search- for aims . A great many houses were visited and examined , but the froits of the search were very disproportionate to the extent ef the operations—a brace of pistols and a portion of a gun barrel being the entire of the spoil obtained on the occasion .
Tbe Post-office authorities have offered a reward of £ 20 for discovery of the parties who rifled the mail bagsof Carlow , Callan , and Carricfe-lost EOme time since by the guard , near Kilkenny , and subsequently found concealed in a dike .
ANOTHER ABBEiT . A man named Cornelius Joseph O'Neal was arrested in Middleton ( oounty of Cork ) , on Saturday mgbt , ebarged with treason , lie had been an officer of a Confederate Club in Cove .
( From the Daily News . ) Dublin , August 24 . —The Btorm which has been so fatal in Scotland has visited our southern coast , and at Dungarvan stven lives have been lost .- The parties were fishermen , and have left large families . AU tha vessels of war have been withdrawn fro n Watetford , except the Rhadamanthus and Driver . Messrs O'Brien and Meagher continue in good health . It is said they are allowed to spend much time in each other's sooiety . Mr Duffy ia said to suffer in mind and body . The auotion of Mr Daffy'a furniture , books , &o , oommenced to-day . All Mr Dillon ' s movables were disposed of yesterday . I have heard to-day , on authority which I do not doubt that Mr Doheny wag in Dublin ior nearly two days in the early part of last week .
Government must have had agents tntfOh nearer the centre of the Confederate aotion than those who moved that party were aware . I am assured that certain letters from a . diBtfnguiahedjleader not engaged aotively in the late insurreotion , are in the hands of the authorities . These letters show that there were advised and deliberate advances made to America and France for the purpose of ensuring aid in a contemplated rebellion .
( From the Horning Post . ) Dublin , August 24 . —Sir George Grey has written to the Lord Primate of Ireland in acknowledgment of the address of thanks for the relief afforded to the poor of Ireland during the late famine . An application has been . ; made to the Undersecretary , on behalf of Mr Daffy , to have him removed from Newgate , on the ground of ill health . The result of ( he application is not yet known . . The sale of Mr ,. Charles G . Duffy's property was commenced on Wednesday by Mr Thomas Dillon , the auctioneer , of Henry-street . The sale , whioh had been advertised for some days previously , attracted very great attention , and an immense concourse of most respectable persons were present . ' . The property
sold at very high figures , in every instance realising more than the original cost . ; Yesterday , the Bale commerced with the greenhouse plants , dec . The grounds about the house presented a very novel appearance . Some hundreds of vehicles drove up at an early hour , and there could not have been less than 2 , 000 persons , all of the most respectable appearance , present . There was a decree of anxiety , Buoh as was scarcely ever witnessed at a public sale , manifested to possess Borne relic of Mr Duffy . When the greenhouse property had been disposed of , the parlour furniture was Bet up . The utmost interest was manifested when . some six or seven persons ( cabinet siz ») of : the writers of the Naiioh were held up for competition . These consisted of
JohnO'Connell , Banim , M'Manus , Barry , Heylett , and the late Thomas M'Nevin . There were several other portraits , all of which sold at enormously high prices , as thev were portable . : Some French engravings and pictures also brought double their original value . The wines ( principally port and sherry ) went off at hieh figures . Mrs Daffy ' s harp sold far £ 26 . Mr Daffy's costume , as T . C , and his bar wig and gown , brought between three , and four pounds each article . A parlour soreen , worked by . Mrs Duffy , brought £ 5 , and window curtains were knocked down at £ 17 a pair . The bronze and'bisque ' ornaments Bold at four times their coat . The pictures of' Reading the Nation' and ' Seizing for Rent' sold for £ 15 , and every other artiole went of at equally high prioes . The furniture used by the state prisoners , when confind in Richmond Bridewell , will be set up this day , aa the auotion had to be adjourned in cemequenoe of
the immense crowd oolleoted yesterday . On Wednesday evening a coroner ' s inquc 3 t wbb held by Mr M'Carthy , on the remains of Mrs Peck , authoress of ' Eraan ao Knuck' and other works , at her residence , Booterstewn , ifrom the proceedings of whioh it appeared that Mrs Peck had been for some time in a distressed'state of mind , arising from the pressure of circumstances connected with property , and although watched with great kindness by the lady in whose house she resided , during her absence on Tuesday morning , she swallowed the contents of an ounce phial of pruesio acid , which mnst have been for some time in her nossession , and died almost immediately from the effects o | the dose . The deceased wn considerably advanced in life , and had met with trials and great reverses . The verdict of the jury waB ' Temporaryinsanity . ' ( From the \ Moming Chronicle , )
THB STATE TRIALS FOR HIGH TBBA 80 K . Dublin , Thursday Evening . —No day has yet been fixed for the Speoial Commission in Tipperary ; but the briefs for the Crown counsel who are to conduct the prosecutions against M « ssrs Smith O'Brien , Meagher , and i the . other persons charged with high treason , are nearly oompleted . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ It has been stated that Mr Whiteside . Q . C , has returned the retainer received from Mr ' . Smith O'Brien , on the ground that he could not , oonsis ' tenUy if Hh his position as one of the Crown counsel in the prosecutions against Martin and ¦ OfDjherfcy , . undertake the defence of SmithO'Brien ., I have reason to believe that there is no foundation for this statement .
and that Mr Whiteside will appear as counsel for the prisoner at the Speoial Commission , It has also been stated that Mr Jonathan Henn . Q . C , has been re > tamed by Mr Smith O'Brien ; but that learned gentleman has not , like Mr Whiteaide , obtained his licence , and it appears that » me difficulty has arisen on the point . The crown claims the services of Mr Ilenn as a Queen ' s counsel , and the matter yet remains undeoided . Mr Henn , it is said ,, is connected by relationship with the family of Mr Smith O'Brien . The Speoial Commission cannot oommenee so Boon as has been stated ; I have ascertained that the counsel for the prisoners are to receive an official intimation on the subject a fortnight before the da ; fixed for the opening of the commission .
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CAHRTIKO AWAT IF CROPS , Tne Watbrp hd Ohroriclk contains the followint ennous statement : — * On Saturday nUht last ; In the parish of Barrjstonn In tho county of W . xf .. > rd . b number of psrsons oisem ! bl » d for the purpose of mowing , reaping , and carrying off all tbe standing crops then on the Unas , in amlcipa . tion of a poise of batons who were tipeoted . to arrive thsre on last Monday , -o tbke p ' ossesslon of tha stocks andoropaof the 'defaulters . In the early part of tha night numbers of persons were Induced ' to visit the land through curiosity ; but , to their great astonishment , thoy were secured by the deprtdators , and compelled to t&ke pert In the work , either In the capaoity ' of binders or reapers . It is saM that on Sunday morning ; atdaten o dock , at the time the hut of the corn was removed , there coo d not be ie . s than between 300 and 400 ptnorii engaged inrthe labour . On Mondav . wo nndHstand .
wnen we agent to tho pruperty went down todishalu SVnfh / ' / i ! V ° » "lhment " *•* hwe b 8 « " tbt groat 111 lll ? V ° , " flMd 8 and •» Pty cow-houses , where S ™ SS S ? T ^''^ condition buE two of the property befog recovered . The worst of . ush a . ZZZt ' thBt " , OnCOU " * 0 rtUhone » t «» n 7 wii pose . 8 the msaas ef paving theirrents , to net dhhonour . SVaHw' !^ " * ' P" 8 ht' » "ners will be made to b jffer for their misdeeds . from Dubfi * . l Epoam C 0 BtainB the Mowing letter
Within tbe last three days the authorities here have - received information , » n addition to what they were pre . vioualy in possession of , that several American vessel * were on thtir way to Ireland , conveying arms and men conneoted with an exptcted outbreik . Acliog npos this , the whole of the government steamers , cruiser * , & :, in K-ngstown harbour , have beea dsspstchod to crui .. ) alonjt the coast , and ordered t » keep d sharp look out for aU westward bound schooners , clippers , and other ' rakiah craft , in which it is believed « ome enthusiastic nvn are endeavouring to reach this country ; . littl 6 imsglnlog how many of thoss with whoso doctrines they sympathy are now endeavouring to escape ts that great eonttnttit which m' f / . tb badnot ' wl'wetoH y their heids . It I , most Ki . S u ° (? ° thM 9 v " sel 8 w 111 * « P « i «™ a , a » d that those who may be found In them will psy a heavy penalty for thoir rash devotion to what they may have bdieved to be the Interest ! of Ireland
. , THRBATBBWG HTTKH , ? fci . S « f WaB » ° 5 ! WedDesd 8 y "ftenioon recmei th « fi ? ' pi ]!? ' by Captain Whjte , of . whioh the following is a copy , . . This is theBecond letter of StLfc ? n e »? M - £ receiTed 8 inoe tne recen * WhS . 5 tW ' ? . ItwM directed * Capt . White , Esq ., J . P . , Patrick ' . Hill , Cork : ' - Cork , August 233 , 1648 . Whlte-You bloody rufii . nly Uackguard thief , I will shoot you , and by the blood el the men that you got banged In 1798 I will shoot you , and by my blood that stains this papsr , I will shoot you . like a crow . I am , your waiting assasiln . Rich&id Tdbpik . OppoBite . the - Bipjature is the outline of a coffin daubed over with Wood . Captain White was in com-Se ear » 98 Cape ° f Good H ° P edurin « ( From a correspondent of the -Morning Chronicle . ) FAttUHB OP THE MAIMW SAYINGS BAHK . d 8 The
th ? S wing :- ^ U ° E " « RO ' ontaiM What an appalling announcemsnt for tbe ftugal tradMBan , the telling servant , the laborious farmer , theproTident shopkeeper ! Another savings bank gone ! It is the Mallow Bank that has smashed . As yet all Is confusion and ^ unoertainty . The liability may be £ 900 , or It may be £ 9 , 000 . Tbe fear is tbat . the latter sum is nearer to the mark . Like the double smash in K rry , a ftw days may bring up the £ 9 , 000 to 20 , 00 ) , or more . We are told that an officer—or ( he officer—has thought ^ itneceisary . to retire for awhile' from the scene of his official labours and behtfiolal management . But it is said-toe same waB said In Tralee and Klllarnoj-tbafr there is quite sufficient prlvateproperty of this officer to make up any . deficiency that may he proved to exint after tho books of . the banks are compared with those of the depositor * . ( From the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . )
THK 8 TAIB PBI 80 HBBS IN KUMAISHAM . Dubun , Monday—The Frebman's Journal , al . ludmg to a rumour that Mr T . Fj Meagher has been seized witn tjphuB fever , says : — Mr Meagher felt a little indisposed some evening in the week In eonsequenoa of a cold . The surgion of th& priion , Dr Rooney , was as a matter of course , in tk « discharge of his duty , called to see him . He ordered Mr Meagher to bed , and in the morning he got up , ' u well as ever . ' He is at present ia the enjojinoat of exoellentheilth , as Is also Mr O'Brien and the other state prisoner .
_ _ „ W 0 BE AKBBSIS . TheTRAiBB Chronicle contains the following : — Abb « t of Ma Jostin Supple . —We are sorry tostatB that Mr Juitin Supple , solloltor , and one of theooroners for this county , was arrested yesterday morning at three o clook , by Sut-In » p « otor W yso , Head Constable Willis , and CjBStable Sheehan , and Immediately conveyed to par gaol . Mr Supple , who was taken ( ram the connubial bed , was treated with every kindness , and the arrest was mado in the moat delicate manaer . A search was made for arms , bnt none wsre found ; ' neither was there any . ' thing of a treasonable cbaraoter ' . ' diicbvered among his papers of which an active sorutlny took plaoc . The warrant sets forth , ' / or being oonoerned in treasonable praotico ) , and on lusploioa of being guilty of high trsa . sea against her Majesty the Qieea , ' and . rumour has it that those proceedings on the part of the authorities have been based upon a letter of Mr Sspplo ' e . found . , among Mr Smith O'Bdea ' s papers . Otber arrests in the town and neighbourhood are ipoken of . -
Regarding the state prisoners in Belfast , the Northbrh Whig says : — Though the fourteen gentlemen transmitted here from Newgate and Kllmalnham , and lodged in the New House of Oorreotlon , were at first obliged to submit to the prison regulations as regards food , we understand that the magistrates , after a consultation on Thursday , raiol . ved that the parties should get any food which they thought proper to pay for , and that their parents should be permitted to see them once a month . ' Dubiw , August 26 th . — A correspondent of the Daily NswsBtates , that Lord John Russell intends shortly to visit Ireland .
_ ESCAPE OF IHB INSDBOKHT CHHPS . It ib stated in well-informed quarters that the trials for treaBOs will take place about the 25 th of September . The government are now persuaded that Mr Dillon is in France , although at first the announcement was supposed to be a ruse . Mr O Gorman and Mr Doheny are alBO supposed to have escaped . Mr Magee is Baid to have pasted to the continent through Scotland / and Mr . Devin Reilly to have got away from Balbriggan , a little town on the coast , Bixteen milea north of Dublin , in a fishing boat , whence he got onboard the steamer from Drogheda to Liverpool . Another account , Btates that he embarked openly from Dublin for Liverpool , dressed as a groom , and having a led horae with him .
_ , IHB POOR BATE . The poor rate ia exhibiting some startling evidences ot our condition . At Moycullen , Galway , therate struck for maintenance is 16 s in the pound . I can tell you , from personal knowledge , that no manv would take any fifty acres in the barony on lease at 15 ii rental per aorc . In the town of Galway the rate is 9 iid . Upon three divieioss in Ennis . Union , the ' rate struck is 5 s lOd , 6 j 8 J , and 9 i Yd respectively . The lowest rate in any divieionia 2 s Id . The guardians have determined upon closing the outdoor relief lists , and discouraging the admission of able-bodied paupers to the house . The Dublw Evbhiko Hbbald , of last Mendsy ,, says . r ™
Information has been reoelved by the government that most of the offloers and non . commlssioned officers , with a considerable number of the private soldiers , of a dis . banded Amerioan reginwnt , recently employed iu the Mexloan war , sailed from a Texan port an the 18 th or Wthoflastmonth . to join the Irish insurgents , whom they expected tofiad iu arma on their arrival . Both officers and men are nearly all Irish ; they ate provided , It is Bald , with twelve pieces of cannon , and their object was to direct the military organisation of the Irish revolutionary army . Arrangements have been made calculated to ensure the capture of this band of pirates , and Sir C , Napier , we believe , haB raoelred Instruction ! to deal with them in the most summary manner Bhould they fall into his hands .
The Freeman of Tuesday says that the prisoners who were taken after the affair at Ballingarry , and wbowere subsequently transmitted to Newgate , were yesterday visited atthe prison by Sub-Inspector rrant , Major Brownrigg , and some other officials , rhe object ef the visit was understood to ba the identification of the parties , as having been oovi oemed in the affray , at Ballingarry . A police constable was brought from the country to Kilmainham , in order to identify Mr Smith O'Brien as the gentleman who shook . hands with him ( the constable ) atthehonae . ofMrs M'Cormack on the occasional , luded to . '
Abrbsis at Rathkkau . —Limeuick ; August 27 . This morning , Messrs MNamari , attorney P'Shaughnessy , grocer , and O'Neale , . were in 3 d into this city under a strong escort of mounted dragoons and a strong body of poliee , and lodged in the county gaolunder » warrantsighed by the Lord Lientenant , or under the Habeas Corpus Aot Clonubi--On Satnrday last , the ftltowing f « rsons were lodged , in the county gaol :-Edaiii 4 Maher , John Preston , Jeremiah Kealer , John Linaa « , Patrick Ormond , John Brennan . Stephen , MorriBf , James Butler , James Day , Edmond Kennedy , Michael Brien , and James Britain . ( Continued to tht Fifth Page . )
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Lord Palmerston —^ There never was a moment , perhaps , in the history of the world , when the state of European affairs called for greater stundness of principle and greater discretion of conduct in the administration of our foreign department than the present . In whichever * rection we cast pur eyes ; ' difficulties and embarrassments of the most formidable nature present themselves . And in this state of things Britain ' s character and Britain ' s interests are committed to the keeping oi a man whose rashness of action and insolence of tone , < when he thinks he has the game in his own bands , is only to lie equalled by the imbecility ol his measures when he finds his match , and by the total absence of all principle to regulate his conduct , either in a national or an international point of view ! —John Bull .
Dissolution of thb Mitchel' Irish Con . federate Club . —On Friday night a meeting of this club was held at the Chartist Assembly Rooms , Blackfriars-road , at which a resolution dissolving it forthwith was unanimously adopted . A collection was made for the defence of Dowling , charged with treason ; and a vote of censure was passed on the Times &ni Dispatch newspapers . About 50 policemen , armed with cutlasses , were on duty iu Webberstreet . i Powell the Informer—On Tuesday night the Chartists of Cripplegate ( from whence Powell was
returned as a delegate to the Convention ) assembled at Cartwright ' 8 coffeehouse , Redcross-street . The meeting was addressed by several speakers , the whole of whom declared emphatically that the delegate Powell had been returned to agitate peacefully and legitimately for the People ' s Charter , and for no other purpose . . The following resolution was carried unanimously : —• We , the Chartists of the Cripplegate locality , solemnly declare that the man Powell was elected as a delegate by us for none other than a legal purpose , but whilst we disavow all attempts at anarchy and confusion , we declare our determination to use our best efforts to advance the cause of the
People ' s Charter . ' Melancholy Accident . —On Friday week , Mr George Sinclair , a master baker , residing at Stroud , having spent the evening with a party of friends at Watermill Tavern , near the terminus of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway , left that house about eleven o ' clock on his return home , and about two o ' clock in the morning the body was found in the adjoining mill-pond , into which he had no doubt accidentally fallen , in consequence of the darkness of the night .
Suicide in a Cab—An inquest was held on Tuesday before Mr Mills , at the University College Hospital , on the body of William Everett Prothero , aged 27 , a surgeon . The week before last the deceased returned from Germany and embarked at Rotterdam for England . On the way he was very much depressed in spirits , and spoke to . his fellowtravellers of shooting himself or leaping overboard-On his arrival in London he formed an acquaintance with a soldier in the Grenadier Guards , to whom he stated that he was in great distress from the want of professional occupation , and who assisted him
with money and food . He endeavoured to enlist , but being below the standard height , was rejected . He lodged several nights at the King ' s Head , James-street , Pimlico , and leaving the house early on Saturday morning last hired a cab to take him to Gower-street , Bedford-square , and just as he had got into that street an explosion was heard in the cab , and it was found that he had shot himself in the mouth , the discharged pistol being found in his right hand . Verdict ; 'That thc deceased shot himself , but in what state of mind there was no evidence to show . '
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