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irnsmi . The Poor Lawaxd Agricultural DISTRESS . SLf J » S lUeir 1 B 1 uiries ^ Pecting the eflect of the poor law , in auTnentin * dinre ^ s Sd t ftf ~" ,. Lords P la < e antl Monte 1 gle at SL ^ $° ™ d "feting of the central Committee of inquiry upon the effects of poor law aad agricultural destitution , with closed doors , ou * £ uay yek , at the county grand jury room , -ine cient ot this union aticnded with statistical returns .
Another local journal states , that the object of inese meetings is '" to collect an accurate detailed account of the several burdens , of whatever character , now preying on the land ; " and that" a general public meeting is expected to cume off as soon as the statistical facts have been fully eliminated . " The southern and western journals devote much attention to the distressed condition of landowners and fanners , with a ^ iew of showing that their difficulties are insurmountable . It appears that a Scotch agriculturist , Mr . "William M'Uae , who had been for some time settled at Bonavarce , county of Clare , lr-ts Quitted the c-mntry . An address was presented to Mm by ilie local gentry and other residents in the district , esprcssiug deep regret at the loss of so
extensiTe an employer of the peasrntry , who tod imparted agricultural instruction by precept and example ; but whose departure had been caused by 'the continued misfortunes of this iH-fated country " ^ r . *\ i'it rte , mhisiepl . v , says- : "Had there been the least prospect of realising an honourable competence in your country from my exertions , the necessity for quitting it would not haro existed , but circumstances equall y well known to yourselves rendered the success of this aspiration improbable , and whue 1 have to seek this ia a distant clime , the ac-Knowled ^ meut on your part , that I have done my duty while with you , will ever be highly priz d by me , and likewise be a poweiful incentive to continue the same line of conduct iu a distant land . " "
Generally the new boards of guardians are striking lauch luwer rates than those required by the liabilities of tho unions , on account of the cri ppled resources of the rate-payers , and the absolute inabi ' . ity of many of them to pay auy rate at all , in the pauperised unions of the west and south . But in some instances heavy rates are still struck . In the electoral aivisioaof Kilgobbin , union of Tralee . a rate of 7 s 6 d . in the poud , on the valuation made before the famine , has been declared , bat extreme difficulty is experienced iathe collection .
t-SCCMBERED ESTATHS COMMISSION . —The Mercanlik Advertiser has the following resume of the important proceedings of « he commission : — "The business of the commission is now assuming a very formidable aspect , and , so far as the number and territorial extent of the estates which creditors have taken the initiatory s cp 3 to bring to the hammer are concarned , the act has already produced fully the effect which its authors and the legislature contemplated . However , after the absolute orders for sales , a far mo / e important ttage has to be passed-the actual sales ; and it will then be seen whether a market can be had , and buyers will be ready at such rates of purchase a 3 the commissioners shall deem it expedient to sanction . We have seen it stated that
bidders will not be wanted , on a scale of purchase commensurate with , the present reduced value of produce and the augmented amount of poor rate . There can be no doubt Jhat the perfect security , without expense , of a parliamentary title , will afford a very material inducement to capitalists desirous of making such investments ; and the obvious interest of encumbrancers to secure theain-unt of their own mortgages will a ! so lead to a keeu competition amongst this class of bidders at tha sales . It is , however rather premature to enter upon this branch of the sui-ject . One of the largest estates for- the sale of which a petition has been presented , is that of Lord Audley . in the county of Cork . A few years since the sum of £ 93 , 0 u 0 was offered f » r it , but in all
probability not more than £ 60 , 000 can now be obtained ; and as the encumbrances are about £ 100 , 000 , of course some of the tail creditors have but a poor prospect of payment . As the estate is an extensive and valuable one , and likely to improve in condition and circumstances , the pri- r mortgagees , and indeed most ofthe creditors are quite secure . The great bulk of the property , we understand , is now without tenants , and several of the occupiers who are upon it are unable to pay rents : but in a short time , on the termination of existing leases , 6 , 000 acres will pa > sinto the hands of the owners in fee , which can be readily let to solvent and improving tenants , who would work the land at a moderate reut , varying from 10 s \ to Ids . an acre . The Audlcy estate will , iu all likelihood , be One of the first offei ed for sale under the commission
The Portarlington es ' atesare by far . the most extensive yet brought under the notice of the commissioners . They are situate in the counties of Limerick , Tippcrary Queen ' s County , Kilkenny , and Mcnth , The rental is upwa'ds of £ 32 000 per annum ; and the encumbrances on the entire amount to about . £ 509 , 000 . The number of tenants on the estate is about 500 . The name of the petitioner in this case is James Delany , and the solicitors to the petition are David and Thomas Fitzgerald , of this city . During the life-time of the late Earl of Portarlington , loans to the amountcf between £ 30 » , 000 and £ 400 , 000 had been raised by mortgage , with a view to the payment of existing liabilities , and trustees were appointed . The present Earl of Portarlington , who is known as a good landlord , found the estate thus deeply encumbered , but , fortunately for him . he possesses estates in England entirely free from these liabilities . "
The Max fob Gaway , —The Evening Mitt . which started the idea , a few weeks since , of Prince Albert purchasing the Connemara property , as a family estate—a ptoject not deemed so chimerical as some might suppose , and certainly one which wouldbemost popular in Ireland—now throws out a hint that the town of Galway may become the property ofthe City of London , and be converted into the western outport of tue great metropolis . Rumours are , it is stated , afloat of some va ? t enterprise of this sort , and the establishment of an American packet station at Galw . iv is said to be
awaited as the preliminary step . —The plan ( says the Ih . il , ) if it exist anywhere , except in the imagination of the Slock Exchange schemers—is a magnificent plan , and in everyway worthy of such a city as London . London wants an tutuort upon the ocean ; and Galway , placed as it is at the head of a safe and noble bay , with secure anchorage for vessels of any burden , affording an easy and rapid communication as well with America as with the western shores of the whole world , and presenting facilities for internal traffic , which money only is wanted to make perfect—Galway is of all other places the best adapted to become the entrepot of London trade and
commerce . " Ax Old Dodge , "—An address "to the people of Ireland" ha 3 been issued by Sir . J . O'Connell , in the name of the Repeal Association . After summing up the usual lists of objects for which they are to agitate , he says , "And we will struggle on for this in the good old way , by moral , by peaceful , by bloodless and strictly and entirely legal and constitutional agitation , and in no other . For no otherwise can , or cu"ht , our rights to be struggled for or achieved . " The Nekagh Chapel Case . —This unfortunate affiur remains still unsettled . On last Tuesday a jiublie meeting was held at the Nenngli Independence Hall for the purpose of preparing an address to be presented to the Catholic clergy attending the
month ' s mind of the Very Rev , Dr . O'Connor , P . P ., V-G . The object of the address was to get those clergymen to interfere with the bishops for the Temoval of the Rev . Mr- Kenny . We subjoin the replv which the clercymen returned to theadttrCis .-— « Gentlemen—The very disrespectful and unwarrantable language app lied to Rev . Mr . Kenny , your parish priest , in the address read to us to-day , wooli preventus in any circumstances from taking it into consideration . And while you continue in a state of insubordination to the authority of your bishop it will be utterly impossible for us to interfere in themannerrequested . —Tipperary Free frets . Desperate Fight . —One of the most desperate
liota that happened in this part ofthe country for a Ion" period , occurred in a place callad the lew Tree , a short distant from the village of Kilcorauon , aud within ons mile and a half of Sharone , on Tues dav evening . The contending parties numbered about 50 , and there were nearly equal numbers on both sides . Some of the combatants fought with billhooks and other dangerous weapons , and stones were thrtwa in alldirections , which told fearfully oa the heads and faces of the unfortunate sufferers , man y of whom were cut , bruised , and mutilated in a frightful manner . The battle raged for nearly an hour , as the re were no police nearer than the bhiuroiie station to quell the riot The original cause of the ™ t . was the stealing of a Quantity of apples from a
man of the name of Lewis , who heldan orc hard from Mr Fleetwood , who resides near the old castle of Bebamore -Bngs : County Chronicle . Evictions in . Ulster . —The tovry Telegraph has an account of the eviction of fifteen families in Jfflltown , in the vicinity of Lough Neagh . It is stated that the evicted parties were very poor , utterlv unable to pay rent , or tiU the land ; and that the estate from which they were ejected ism ^ Poob ^ aw Valuations . — Thegnardians of seve « mI unions are turning their attention to the reduction of the valuations , in proportion to the decline in prices . The guardians of Alacroom union have ^ solved upon a reduction of one-third generally , JrSus to I&e striking of another rate .
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Mil , COBDE . N AXD THE AUSTRIAXS . Mr . Cobden has addressed the followin" letter to Dr . Alexander Bach , theAastrian Minister of Home Affairs : — "Sir , - ]; address you , not as a member of the Austrian Government , but as . a man whose enlu-htencd and liberal sentiments made a lasting impression upon me when I had the pleasure of vour acquaintance at Vienna . You will find an excuse for this step in the fact of my inking it in the interest of those principles of humanity and civilisation which in those days were cherished by you as well as by me . Mindful of the views which in Isl 7 recommended me to your kind notice , I cannot induce myself to believe that these views will find in you a less energetic advocate at present than vou ath . nnwnBV A \ n rnv u-Mnr , vn
were in the days to wjiich I allude . " Sir , the public opinion of my country is shocked by the cold-blooded cruelties which arc being prac tised against the fallen chiefs of the Hungarians . This feeling is not confined to one class or to one party ; no ! there is not a single man in England who by word or letter would defend the conduct of the Austrian Government in Hungary . The sense of the civilised nations ofthe continent of Europe On this question must already have reached you , nor will the judgment , of America fail to make itself known at "Vienna . You are too enlightened to be i gnorant of the fact that the unanimom verdict of our contemporaries is likewise that of posterity . But did it ever strike you that history will not
accuse the brutal soldier , the tool of cruelty , but the Ministers who are responsible for that soldier ' s crimes ? I scorn to appeal to lower motives than those of an honourable ambition ; but I must ask you , did it ever strike you what dangers surround your present career ? You , who are so well read in English history , ought to remember that four years after Jeifreys'' bloody assizes , ' both he and his Royal master were compelled most wretchedly to fly from the avenging hand of justice . Or do you think our time allows the public conscience to he scorned with impunity ? Is is not , on the contrary , the peculiar feature of our time that reaction follows at the heels of any violence , no matter whether it proceeds from tho nations or from the Governments ?
" But I fear I take too great a liberty by offering to speak in the interest of your reputation or safety ! I appeal to you in the name of humanity , entreating you to put a stop to this new reign of terror , which , not satisfied with the butchery of its victims , puts all better and noWer feelings of mankind on the rack ; for truly the world is too far advanced in civilisation to suffer your Albas and llaynaus . I adjure you to make a public protest against the butchery of prisoners , the still more disgraceful whipping of women , and the abduction and incarceration of children ; and thus to rid yourself of all responsibility for actions and imprint upon their author the stigma of everlasting infamy . " I am , Sir , your most obedient servant , "Richard Cobdex . "
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SYMPATHY TVITH HUNGARY . On Friday week a public meeting of tho Welsh residents of ^ Liverpool was held in the Music-hall , to memorialise Lord Palmerston to interpose the influence of the British government to obtain for the remnant ofthe patriotic Magyars who have not yet been executed by Austria , a restitution of their ancient constitutional liberties , and of their liberty and property confiscated . The meeting was thronged and much enthusiasm manifested . Amonsrst the gentlemen on the platform were the following : — The Eevds . D . James , W . Rees , M . Lewis , T Aubrey , S . Pierce , J . Hughes , J . Williams , and J . Jones ; and D . Lewis , Owen Elias , J . Evans , Matthew Jones , D . Davies , J . Griffiths , and G . Owen , Esqrs ., &c . &c . Mr . Town Councillor Thomas Lloyd was called upon to preaide . The Cuairmax opened the proceedings by addressing the audience in Welsh ; and after giving a
geographical description of Hungary , and the number and character of her population , < fcc , read a lengthy letter from Arthur James Johnnes , Esq ., in . which the writer stated that , although his public eHgagements prevented his attendance at the meeting , he begged to convey his entire concurrence in the views of those by whom the meeting had been promoted , and his heartfelt hope for their success . The meeting was subsequently addressed by various rev . speakers , both m English and "Welsh . Among other resolutions forcarrryingout the object of the meeting , the following was unanimously agreed to : — " That this meeting , while regretting that a portion ofthe English press , but more especially the Times and Morning Chronicle , prostituted themselves to the infamous service of defending the cruel oppressors of Hungary , by misrepresenting the noble Hungarian nation , at the same time tenders its warmest thanks to the conductors of the Dailu
acws aud other metropolitan journals , to the local press of Liverpool generally , and particularly to our own Welsh paper , the Amserau , for their consistent and continued advocacy ofthe cause of Hungarian independence . " The memorial to Lord Palmerston , referred to at the commencement ofthe proceedings , was adopted by acclamation , and thanks having been voted to the chairman , tho meeting separated .
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COLLISION OX A XE"W YORK RAILWAY . The 2 few York papers received by the Europa contained detail accounts of an alarming railway collision that happened on the 5 th insfc . We extract the notice in the A ' ew York Herald as at once the most concise and the most distinct . "A dreadful accident occurred yesterday forenoon , on the Xew Haven Railroad , by the collision of two trains . The up-train , conveying the Boston mail , and leaving Jfew York at ei ght o clock , had on board in the hindmost car , the members of the Marion Hose Company , So . 4 , Captain Joseph Buckmnn , who wore going on their annual target excursion to Xcw Rochelle . There were nearly sixty in the car , including invited guests . When the train was between Fordham and Morrisiania , a drove of about
thirty cows , belonging to Mr . Bathgate , were being driven across the track , by the herdsmen , from watering . The train coming in collision with them , the baggage car was thrown off the ti' . iek , and across the track of the down train . At the same moment , the New Haven down train was passing to Xew York , and the locomotive coming in . contact with the baggage car of the up-train , was driven oft ' its track , end being dotached from its tram it shot off at an angle and went right into the corner of the hindmost car , containing the Hoso Company . It went through it in a diagonal direction , wounding and bruising the passengers in a dreadful manner , and filling the car with the steam . Fortunately tho safety pipe was broken in the collision , and the
steam escaping , the force was necessarily diminished . The engine was shattered , and buried itself in the sand , by which its progress was arrested . The sand was thrown up into the air , like so much smoke . There were thirteen ofthe cows killed , and some of them were thrown twenty feet by the force of the shock ; but it is almost miraculous that no human life was sacrificed—at least , we have heard of none . Thoro was a little boy sitting quite close to the spot where the locomotive entered it , who was thrown to the other side and was not injured in the least ; and a fireman named James P . Sowerley , of Stauton-street , was thrown out of the window , without being hurt . The other cars were considerably damaged , but none ofthe passengers in them received the slightest iniurv . Some
of the cars had the wheels knocked off . The following is a list of the wounded of Hose Company So . 4 : —George Bailey , 75 , Sorfolk-street—both his legs broken , one of them in two places , and the other at the ancle ; William Palmer , 161 , Stanton-street—leg greatly injured ; William Swinerton , Broome-street—leg badly bruised ; William Wilmotr , 240 , Delancy-street—hurt in the side and feet ; George Hobbs , Clinton-street—both legs and hip injured ; William Daley—injured in the breast and hack ; John Morgan , Clinton-street—head and breast injured ; llobert Mackaj ^—hurt in the stomach , by being thrown on a chair ; Thomas Baker , —hand injured ; George W . Brady—face bruised ; Charles Dumonlin , Clinton-street—both legs injured .
" Here we have a list often , besides others whose name we could not learn , more or less injured . " The up-train "vras delayed for about an hour , and then proceeded on its way . The down-train was taken to Xew York by the Harlem train , and Hose Company So . 4 , after consulting together , resolved to return by it , instead of pursuing their trip , and to apply the money they intended to expend upon the excursion for medical aid to the suffering members of their body , as the accident occurred when they were on duty . " The down-train havingbeenxilaced on the track by the assistance of Irish labourers , who were working in the neighbourhood , it was attached to tho Harlem train , and arrived in the city at twelve o ' clock . "
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PARLIAMENTARY AND . FINANCIAL REFORM . GREAT MEETING IX EDINBURGH . In compliance with a requisition signed by upwards of five hundred of the most influential of tho inhabitants of Edinburgh , a meeting was hold in the Music Hall , Edinburgh , on Monday ni g ht , to receive Lord Dudley Stunrfc , M . P . , Sir ' joshua Walmsley , M . P ., Joseph Hume , Esq ., M . P ., and George Thompson , Esq ., M . P ., who are at present in Scotland as adeputation from the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association . The admission was by tickets , and notwithstanding the unfavourable state ofthe weather , ( a drizzling rain falling during the evening , ) the laraeliall was crowded to . ^ » .. .. . ..
overflowing . The meeting , in fact , was equal to any ever held in Edinburgh . Among those Ott the platform were—The Lord Provost , Kailie Gulland , Dean of Guild Wilson , Councillors Fyffe , Redpath , Drummond , Gray , Miller , Hay , and Anderson ; Rev . Drs . Ritchie , Peddie , and Kidston ; Rev . J . It . Campbell , Rev . Mr . Muir ( Leith ) , Rev . Mr . Crawford , and Rev . Mr . Somerville ; Duncan M'Larcn , Esq ., William Tait , Esq ., Thomas Ireland , Esq ., j . n . Stott , Esq ., Thomas Russell , Esq ., J . w . Mnckie , Esq ., F . G . Mitchell , Esq ., J . Musket , Esq ., Peter Wilson , Esq ., &c ., &c . On the motion of Councillor Gkat , tho Lord Provost was called to the chair
1 ho Lord Provost , after taking the chair , said that the meeting was aware that when he accepted the honour of presiding on this occasion he qualified that acceptance by stating that he should be allowed to give his own opinion upon the questions to be dlSeUSSOd . Ho had , however , since thought that , in the first place , it would be very inexpedient that he should do so ; and , in the second place , that it would not be courteous if he were in any way to attempt to discuss these matters with the * honourable gentlemen who were to address them , and therefore he would confine himself simply to this statement , that he was in no wav identified with the
association which these gentlemen represented . ( Disapprobation , and slightcheering . ) lie did not mind a little of that work , as it was very wholesome . ( Laughter . ) Baillib Stott read a letter of apology " from Mr . Joseph Hume for not attending tho meeting , pleading the necessity of attending to his private affairs . After stating that nothing was to be expected from the Whigs , Mr . Hume concludes as follows : - It is painful to all those who laboureu to place tlie TTlligS m power to find them now against tliose very reforms which they in . other days , when out of power , asserted were necessary to the prosperity of this country , and I expect the people will have to look to Sir Uobevt l ' eel awl other men for the improvement that is now wanted in this country . Uut we shall not have reform from any class ol political men , whether Whig or Tory , until the middleclass electors ( who have the power , if they would honestly exercise it , of forcing on the timely reforms I have pointed out , ) siiaii join cordially . I can only wish you success aud unanimity in your proceedings .
Sir Joshua Walmsley , M . P ., after passing a warm eulogium on Mr . Hume , whoso absence he regretted , said it would be his ( Sir J . Walmsley ' s ) duty , on the present occasion , to submit , as simply and as plainly as he could , the objects and propositions which the Parliamentary and Financial lleform Association endeavoured to carry out ; and ho should leave it to his fellow labourer in this good cause to explain and to support them . ( Applause . ) The hon . member then went on to explain that the object ot the deputation was to promote the cause of parliamentary reform , with a view to the attainment of such amendments in their financial , fiical , colonial , and ecclesiastical affairs as should be in accordance with the wishes and feelings of the groat majority of the people , and should enable thorn to
redace and equalise the unequal burdens of taxation . Every one who took an interest in the parliamentary debates , and especially in those of last session , could not but have remarked the extraordinary difference in the numbers of those who voted for and against every measure in which tho people had taken an interest . In every measure in which the people felt a deep interest—such as a large reduction in the expenditure , the question of arbitration , the question ofthe Irish Church nnd its- anomalies , and the very question now before tho meeting , which was brought forward by Mr . Hume—they must all have remarked the paucity of the numbers of those who voted on the side of the people , and have seen that the representatives who voted with and for the people in all these great questions were
tne members ot large constituencies . ( Hear , hear . ) Indeed , the effects ofthe inequality in their representative system were felt and appreciated by " every member of the community , in the heavy and unequal burthen of taxation , in the unequal distribution ofthe funds ofthe state , and in their injurious cftects upon the commerce , aud trade , and manufactures of the country . They would sustain the crown and its government with becoming splendour ; they would gladly reward all who had done anything to advance ti : cir country ' s welfare ; but they would draw a wide line of distinction between the dignity of the crown and the safety ofthe state , and that useless pageanty which was kept up not for the benefit of the people , but for the benefit and pecuniary advantage of a small branch of the
commuiuty . lhoy uesirod to see such a ehouk placed upon their rulers as would ensure the strictest economy in every department of the state consistent with the national faith and the national honour . They would apply state funds to properly state purposes . They _ would ask the government to look upon the national treasury as a sacred trust placed m their hands for the benefit of all , and not for the the particular advantage of a privileged few . They would endeavour to d p away with that feeling which existed between their misrepresentatives and the people , and have them strive to rule by affection rather than by coercion . Tho association which ho hud the honour to represent appealed with earnestness to all parties in the community , to put aside for a tiiM their individual objects of agitation , and to
unite in that which was not only the most important , but that on which all others should be basedthe will of the great majority of the people . Their present system , he thought it would be agreed by all , w . i 3 _ most disastrous . Ii had involved the country in an enormous national debt , in endless extravagance , in discontent and disaffection at home and ^ abroad , and had rendered their position as a nation one of doubt and disquietude . ( Hear , hear . ) The changes that the National Reform Association sought could scarcely be worse than the present state of things . They , however , believed that they would be infinitely better , and they were , at least , based on justice and equity . They were based on this principle—that they should rule b y the will and for the benefit of the many , rather than
for the few ; and if they did not result in good , cheap , and efficient government , they would , at least , remove every just cause of discontent . The association sought to obtain these things by loyal , peaceful , and constitutional means ; ' and , strong in the justice of their cause , they called with confidence for the support of the good of every class , creed , and party . ( Great cheering . ) Sir Joshua resumed his seat amid loud and enthusiastic checrins . Mr . G . Thompson , M . P ., who was most " enthusiastically received , said , —My lord Provost : Had I npt taken up the cause of parliamentary and financial reform , as I have taken up evvsry other , from the deepest conviction had I not believed that I was competent ( competent , however , only in so far as the cause was good in itself ) to demonstrate that it
had claims to the support of this meeting , I would have been led to hesitate by the announcement , on the part ofthe chief magistrate of one of the most enlightened cities in the world , that he was to be considered as in no way identified with such a movement . ( Hear , hear . ) I did not think that in regard to a society which has published on tho win « s of the press its principles , its objects , its measuresthat has challenged the most searching proof that there is ought in its scope or design that is injurious to the stability of the throne , or the maintenance of our present form of government—I say that I did not think it was necessary to have announced to a meeting like this that tile chief magistrate of such a city was in no way to be identified with such a movement . ( Laughter nnd great
cheering . ) lam identified in every way with that association . It seeks to extend the liberties of my fellow-subjects , therefore I am identified with it . It seeks to stem the demoralising torrent that floods this country whenever a general elecion takes place , aud when , from two to two and a half millions of the wealth of this country are spent to debase the intellect , corrupt the consciences , and buy tlie votes of the people . ( Cheers . ) I am with it because I do not believe that virtue , intelligence , patriotism , and piety—loyalty to our Queen and reverence to our God—are " confined in this country , within so narrow a , compass as 850 , 000 voters of the whole population of the United Kingdom . ( Cheers . ) I am with this association because I believe that the hour is come when true conservatism consists in doing justice , not in denying it : because I believe that the people , in the midst of surrounding convulsions—with poverty amongst themselves , and a dull and cold , and insulting
denial of any , even the smallest , right at the hands of the government—have shown ( when thrones wore tumbling , and our shores were crowded with exiles to-day that were monarchs and ministers yesterday ) by their observance ofthe law , by their respect for property , by their concessions to their fellow-subjects , all that can be shown to demonstrate their fitness to be at once admitted within the elective franchise . ( Cheers . ) I am with this association because whoever the degenerate sons of noble sires be that may be absent from this platform to-nightand I do not regret their absence—I am here to advocate a cause advocated by their fathers three quarters of a century ago , and bequeathed to them to be accomplished , but which they have treacherously betrayed , and are not here to-ni ght becauso they hare not obeyed the voice of their fathers . ( Applause . ) To-morrow and its revelations , however , will , I trust , read these men a lesson ; for the hour is come for the breaking up of the domination of cliques , and clubs , and parties . ( Great an-
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5 ?; i ' ) - - know that there are many who were asked to-aay , and yesterday , and the day before , to JniS r . ho havc r ° I > liod ' ' - ' Have any of our rulers believed m Mm ? - ( a lau ^ h)—is the cause fashionable ? or » tho Lord Provost with it ?" ( Kcnewed laughter , and much applause . ) They nmu now learn to-morrow that ho is not with it . v llibSes - ) I hope the cause will go on notwithstandr " T nV ;« lltor nnd applause . ) I do not think that l snail icel it necessary to pack up my portmanteau , and return across the Tweed , while , from the Lord irOVOsfc IU the chair . I o . in unnn . il in the ont . lnisi .
ast-ic thousands before no with a full conviction tn . it , ore I sit down , I shall demonstrate that every man here ought to have the franchise . ( Cheers . ' ) Let me guard the association—for the association " as been put upon its trial to-night—from the misrepresentation of those who lie in wait to deceive . ip \? w ° clmn S ° in tlic existing form of governin -i ? avo for no revolution save by peaceable moans Ue do not seek to destroy the peeraee of ' £ ? . M ? y > Tlie hcadand front > of 0 lu > offimdnis is « f V r wo wish t 0 have in thc Commons House , ¦ U 1 i llament a j « st and constitutional counter-V ' , ¦ t 0 - the influence and power of the other two states of the realm , Tll ! lt ig a oonst j tution ! li ob _ W' / lavo not tlu ' CD st ! ltcs of tlie "aim at the ™ f moment . We have but one . My honourable friend has said truly that we do not live under a government of Queen , Lords , and Commons .
c iuo under a government that is an aristocracy-K ^ V ™ 4001 ™* ' as tIle democratic clement has no influence whatever in this country . What is thoconsututionof the house at this momont-the &ZI h ° use ~ the Commons House of parliament ? fffl" ™^ r ™ *> twenty-one viscounts , fi ?« Sl t : venty-five yi fflit honourable / , fo y-seven honourablcs , fifty-six baronets , eight lord-lieutenants , seventy-four deputy-lieutenants . HnrW ° T 8 tnU » , sixty-three placemen , 108 fn o n ' V-1 ™ ° P ; ltr 0 Ils of livings in the church , 1 m llla \ ' ° Pole ' s hoiise at this mo-W ,: fi f aushl ) , Do y ° a Mk nnytuing in thnt Tm 1 C . rt ' ifc is deilicd - ^ consists of » w -ft J } * tiie - ballot > nnd thcre iire only ci s hfcv that will vote lor It . Ask for an inquiry into the appropriation and application of the temnoralitios
oi tne cmiron in Ireland , and 100 only will vote for it . Ask for any measure of financial reform , and only seventy-eight , seventy-nine , and eig hty , will vote for it . Ask for the extension of the suffrage and Only eighty-four will vote for it . Ask fov the People ' s Charter , and onl y fifteen will YOtO for it . i \ o \ r , my loni , with regard to financial reform , there is no difference of opinion . The universal cry is that taxation has reached its limit , and the universal admission is , that it is injurious to the interests of the people ; that it interferes with industry ; that it paralyses traue and commerce ; that it is unequally imposed ; and that the mode of its collection is vexatious . Well , doubtless we are heavily taxed . I think , my Lord Provost , that vou will admit this , that taxation is not a luxury , that it is not something that is done to give us pleasure ; and that if any corporation , having the power , exercises it to take money to tlie extent of ten millions out of the pockets of the people , they oim-ht
at least , to bo able to show a good account of what they have done with it , and prove themselves faithful andjust in regard to it . I will Cilll Oil tlllS audience , to-night , to look at this question through certain high moral aspects . Sow what do we pay for government in comparison with other nations ? On the other side of the Atlantic they have a <* overnment , and they are proud of it . ' They support their king in respectability , and they call him a president . ( A laugh . ) lie reiijns for four years , mid there every man is heir-apparent to the throne . ( Laughter and applause . ) Well , they have a government , and they have a standing army which thoy deem sufficient to guard that immense frontier of theirs , stretching from the Frozen Ocean to tho
liicifio , andto the distant portions of Mexico . And what do they pay per head ? Just 9 s . Yd . Well , if we go from America to Russia , we find that there they rejoice in a government called an autocracybecause , I suppose , an autocracy is a word superior toarepublio- ( a laugh ) -and they have to piiy 2 d more than in America , for they have to . pay 9 s . 9 d . a nead . They have a remarkable government , to be sure ; and very conducive to order , whether it be in Warsaw , St . Petorsburgh , or the banks of the Danube . ( Laughter . ) Then , in Austria , the people pay ll < s . 0 . a head ; in Prusiia , 12 s . 4 d . ; while our mercurial neighbours on the other side of the channel pay 24 s . a head , for—I was going to designate this government , but I do not know well
wnat it is , and I will , therefore , refrain from doing so . ( Laughter . ) They have got a government , however aud , for such as it is , they pay 24 s . a head . And , my Lord Provost , we have a government ; apil if the worth of a thing is to bo estimated according to what it costs the country , why we should have ; v tiling of superlative excellency—of faultless croaticfo , or without a blemish in its beauty , or a flaw in its construction . ; for instead of paying 9 s . 7 d . and 9 s . 9 d . a head , as in America and iu Russia ; 11 s . 0 d ., as in Austria ; 12 s . 4 d ., as in Prussia ; and 21 s ., as in France—we pay 45 s . a head all round . ( Hear , hear . ) In addition to this , there is nn unmcifie amount of taxation for local purposes , - which would , perhaps , swell the amount ol
the taxes paid by the people of this country to the extent of more than £ 100 , 000 , 000 annually . What : s this paid for ? For government . For any thing else ? No man can say that it is paid for " ought but government . Whac is the object of government ? To defend the rights and liberties , and to protect the properly of all . Umlor a wise and and just government , laws should be no respecter of persons . Justice should be cheap , easy , certain , impartial . Industry , so far from being sneered at or plundered , should bo , not in Mr . Disraeli ' s sense of the word , by just laws and taxation , protected , so that it might have free scope . No just government should make any religious distinctions a matter of disqualification in tilings that are purely secular , temporal , and oolitical . There should he nn
more tuxes miscd under a iust government than were absolutely needed . They should be justly imposed—not levied lightest on the strongest , anil heaviest on the weakest . They should not seek from him that has scarcel y anything almost as much as that which he hath ; and that would not seek to give him who has abundance , ten times more out of the taxes than he pays into them . Will any man for a moment contend that such is the constitution of the people of this country that they cannot bo governed for less than 21 s . a head more than French , 32 s . 8 d . more than the Prussians , 33 s . Gd . more than the Austrians , 35 s . 3 d . more than the Russians , and 35 s . 5 d . more than the people of thc United States ? You in Scotland will
surel y seek to clear yourselves from the imputation of being such an unruly , turbulent , and immoral set of people as to require an expense ten times greater than that of the people ofthe Unituil States to govern you . It strikes mo that instead of being it country which should have to appeal to the civilised world for bread to save it from famishing , as we have lately been , it ought to be a country which , as it possesses all the elements of wealth , should possess a contented , a happy , and a prosperous population . ( Cheers . ) Will any man rise and say that tiie evils of which we have to complain are chargeable to the Divine Being ? Jfo . What could lie have done for us more than He hath done ? We have a boundless territory . Wo can command
, even on our own soil , the fruits of all climes and of all seasons . Wo have bread enough and to spare in the imperial granary . We are exalted in arts , and invincible in arms . We have a commerce commensurate with the globe , with mineral riches unsurpassed , wioh mechanical ingenuity unequalled , with a perscverauco amongst our mariners and our merchants that leads them to compass the earth , so that wherever a human being can be found tiny will be ready to change commodities with him . ( Cheers . ) And yet , notwithstanding all this , we are a discontented and wretched people , bavin " more poverty amongst us than can bo found among the same number in any part of the world , Howdoes that come to pass ? We think that niisgovernment
has a great deal to do with it . Thoro are £ 00 , 000 , 000 of taxes raised every year for state purposes . From whom , then , are the taxes derived ? The aristocracy pay nothing . They pay , in fact , infinitely less than nothing when you compute how much they tiilie out of the taxes . Who pays the £ 37 , 000 , 030 of indirect taxes ? Tho consuming and hard-working people of this country . Not your men in ermine robes . Ko . That pale-faced ^ Yeaver pays them—that man that is coming with sooty ace from the mine , where he has been labouring hard in the bowels of the earth , pays themyon ingenious mechanic pays tbem-yonsemptress in the garret pays them—yon porter labourin ? under his burthen thom- engineer that
pays yon iiio \ ethe locomotive that brought us to this city pays thorn . Where he spends 2 ft 8 . in ten , lie pays ios . m taxes ; where he spends 20 s . in coffee , he pays bs . in taxes ; where he spends 20 s . in sw « ar » e pays 6 s . in taxes ; where he spends 20 s . in soap ' f ; S ° cs pay taxes ; and when he spends 20 s . in tobacco , 10 s . he pays for taxes . Who , then , pavs the taxes ? It is the hardworking people . Our taxes come from the poor ; from the men who rise oai'ly and who sit up late , and who eat the bread of carelulness . and whoso bosom is wrung by a thousand anxieties to provide for those whom ho has Jo lt at home . These arc the men whom we seek to have a share in soeine that tho frovernmnnt is
nro-Perly administered ; it is the fathers and the husbands—the men who work hard , and are willing to do so , from Monday morning till Saturday evening , to gain an honest livelihood . ( Applause . ) It is the man who , if he has 20 s . a week , pays 10 s . of it in taxes to tho Chancellor of the Exchequer , as he can scarcely do anything for which he is not taxed . If not , would his lordship give it a name ? Was it not something like robbery ? ( Applause . ) Now this association was established for the protection of the masses who were thus robbpd . If not with the Lord Provost , at least with many of this audience thoy would find sympathy for the object they had in view . ( Hear , hear . ) lie would now take
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an illustration or two . Mr . Thompson then referred to the . sixty millions sterlinar which was annually raised by this country , anil said that were this money- properly spent , what immense -rood coi > id bo effected with it . Every cottage mi ght be flooital witli tight , every deformed creature housed and comtortol , and every wretched am ! povertv-striuken victim might bo saved fro , n fi ,, ni ,, c . ( Applause . ) But how did thc money go ? Twemy-emht ! millions ot it went to pay tho interest on tlie national debt , which was nothing more nor loss than a stupendous momnentot their practical atheism . Then , besides S ««?* V ^ tw « .-ntj--eiglit millions to pay tho increst of the debt contracted by war there was hS " , 1 llll " ! M 8 teriill S 111 O ' ° wpewled for tlio puiposo of keeping up war-like cstablbhnii'nts .
ZnT , . ¦ to tho sm : iU s " wllU ; " ™ set down for education ( £ 30 , 000 ) denounced the lame If ™ < ° the church of England and to tlio church of Ireland for the maintenance of their religious ordinances , and after referring to tho splendour and wealth in which many of tho prelates of these churches lived , and to tlie largo sums which they often bequeathed at their deaths , ho asked ii tins was a consistent imitation of him who had not whore to lay his head . . Mr . Thoinpspn then stated that last session an earnest appeal was made to the prune minister of this country to grant some measure of reform . Lord John lUissoll , however , replied m substance that tlio system worked welllaughter ) -and let well alone . Kow to that , he ( Mr . Thompson ) would say that it doubtless worked
well for Lord John ; for he had a salary of £ 5 , 000 a year , the amount which the President of tlie United States received who governed nineteen millions of the human race—ami a house called Pembroke Lodge , in Richmond Park , all the repairs of which were done at the public expense ; ho had besides the patronag e of 103 livings in the church , and the appointment of all the bishops . Lord John had two brothers in the army taking the pay of the people ; one who was a canon iu the church ; two on the quarter deck of tho navy ; ono sergeant at-arics of tho House of Commons . Ho had . also an uncle in thc navy , a" cousin governor of a ills-Untcolony , ; v father-in-law Lord Privy Seal , with £ 2
, 000 a yeivr , antl a brother-in-law one of tlie secretaries of the Board of Control . Verily , Lord John ltussell might say that tho system worked well . ( Loud applause . ) There were also many others for whom thc system worked well . ( Hear , hoar . ) It worked well fur admirals and no ships ; for generals and no command ; for pensioners and no merit ; for office-holders ami no duties ; for grand falconers and no falcons ; and many others . It did not , howover , work well for trade aiul commerce ; for the rights and claims of British industry ; for the cause of peace and for thc rights of the poor ; for tho rights of conscience ; for tho contentment of the colonies ; for the peace of Ireland ; or for the independence ol election . In none of these
respects did it work well . ( Loud cheers . ) I am making no allusion to men for the purpose of bringing them into prominence for their disadvantage or disparagement ; but is it just or right to thc people of this country to charge them £ 120 , 000 a year for the continuance of the regal mockery in Dublin ? Can no man bo found , whose sympathy for Ireland would lead him to ' go there , and do his best to tranquilise that unhappy country for less than £ 120 , 000 a year ? ( Hear , and apphuise . ) No American ambassador has more than £ 2 , 000 a year ; neither Mr . Bancroft , at tho Court of St . James ' s , nor Washington Irving at any other court . Surely we have something else to do with our money thn . ii to p : iy our ambassadors or attaches for sporting aloiiff the streets of Naples with Lola Montes .
( Laughter and applause . ) If £ 2 , 000 will feed , house , and provide a carriage , what need havc they of £ S , 000 or £ 10 , 000 , when that is taken from the hard earnings of the poor weaver or blacksmith ? ( Applause , ) What can that be called ? ( A voice , "Robbery . " ) Now , I say without hesitation , that the application ofthe money taken from tbe people of this country is a scandal to our religion ; and the parties that do so arc a government who do not sympathise with meritorious industry . Well , then , the question was , how is this system to bo remedied . Thanks to the men of Liverpool , and to the men of Edinburgh , who have taken up the question of financial reform , the evils of the present system have been to a considerable extent exposed . Mr . Thompson then alluded to the votes on various measures
of reform during the last session , and asked what then is the remedy ? Wo say representative reform . We say that all these evils have grown up under our representative system . We say that every argument employed in favour of tho Itcform Bill iu 1 S 31 and 1 S 32 is applicable at the present time . Did Lord John ltussell , at that time , denounce nomination seats ? Why , they exist still . It will be found that , in more than tlie half of the small boroughs , at tho last general election , there was no contest . And why ? Because there was no men desirous of incurring cxpon . se . No ; but becauso no man has any earthly chance unless Lord So-amlso , and the Honourable So-and-so nominated him . Then is there no interference ofthe peers with the freedom of election ? Why look to those two
ornaments of thc opposition benches—tho -v-outhful Gi'iinuy and tho venerable Homes , lhoy eiW into parliament to represent tho most noble the Marquis of Exeter . They sit for the Marquis of Exeter ; and tho honest voters of Exeter say , that rather than things should remain in that state , they would prefer that the borough was altogether disfranchised . Is there no bribery now ? Yes ; I spoke of two millions having been spent at every election in bribery . In some boroughs it requires £ 70 or £ 80 , in Others £ 200 or £ 500 , and in the case of Liverpool , it reaches to thousands ; for men are utterly intractable until you have employed the oil of palms . ( Applause and laughter . ) Mr . Thompson then asked what chance have the popular constituencies ? Tho borough of the Tower Hamlets , which ho
represented , sent two members to thc House of Commons , and had a population of noaaly half a million of souls ; but there were oighty-thrce men in tho House of Commons , tho population of whose ei « htythree boroughs did not equal that of the Tower Hamlets , and eighty of these were in thc opposite lobby of the house to which he went . He then directed their attention to the return obtained by Sir W . Clay , from which it would be seen that fourteen boroughs , at the top of one of the lists , with a constituency in the aggregate of 3 , 440 , returned twenty members ; whereas nine boroughs at the bottom of the list , who also returned twenty member ? , had an aggregate constituency of 141 , 403 . Mr . Thompson then showed how thc elections in the small boroughs were managed , through the instrumentality of
London parliamentary agents , and unknown and untried men got in to represent them , entirely according to the amount they are willing to spend on tho bribery and corruption of the voters . These , he said , were facts which could not be denied , and although largo constituencies , like that of Edinburgh , might froni their numbers be saved from such a state of things , yet what he had stated was the condition of half the boroughs in thc United Kingdom , ( Hear . ) It was to put an end to things like these that they asked for such a measure of parliamentary reform as was lately brought forward by Mr . Hume ; and nothing less than that would answer . Apart , however , from this measure , as n means to an end , thcre were sufficient grounds upon which to espouse it . It was ri ght in itself ; and
that was enough for him ( Mr . Thompson ) . Why should ono man have a vote and not another ? ( Cheers . ) lie then adverted to the irresponsible character of the House of Commons , as at present constituted . No doubt there wore a few members returned by largo constituencies ; and he would liko to ask if the giving of the franchise to those large constituencies was an error ? Had Manchester cause to be ashamed of her representatives ; or the metropolitan boroughs , of course with one exception ? ( A laugh . ) Their ministers were not , however , responsible at this moment to their constituencies . Was Lord Palmerston responsible to Tivcrton ? Sir J . Ilobhouse to Harwich ; or Mr . Iiawcs to Kinsale ? When Mr . Hawcs was responsible to Lambeth , he was turned out . When Sir J . Ilobhouse was
rcsponsibla to Xottinglmm he was also turned out . lie could allude to other turns out , but ho would not ( Laughter , applause , and some hisses . ) Thev could take the liberty of ^ putting their own construclion on this . ( Hisses , applause , and a voice — ' Three cheers for Mr . Macaulay . " ) There was a very interesting difference of opinion on that subject , and ho would not attempt to decidc the question . Hut this ho meant to sav that the doctors had the right to choose the man that they liked best . This was not tho case , however with three-fourths of tho burghs in this country . Then , in reference to the counties , the £ 50 tcnant-at-will electors could not act in opposition to the behests of their landlords , unless they -were willing to make sacrifices which few mon were
propared to m .-iko for political honesty . lie had to tell thorn , finally , that he and those who co-operated with him , sought the measure at which they aimed as a measure of honesty . They sought to " accomplish it by honourable means . By appealing to tho understanding- , tho reasoning , and the virtues of the people of this country , they honed to obtain for the untranchised classes that which thoy had a right to . ( Applause . ) If the middle classes did no unite with their disfranchised fellow-subjects of tho working-elasses in this movement , it was his deliberate opinion that matters could not go on long as they had been dointr . Of this , however , he was
sure , that if thc middle class would rccogniso the rights of their unenfranchised fellow-subjects , no ministry would much longer delay granting such a measure of reform as they claimed . It was not univors . il suffrage that they sought , but the enfranchisement of every man who was rated in England to the poor—who had a local habitation and a name . This would exclude the vagrant , the lunatic , and the soldier . He granted that this would bring within the franchise a great many vicious persons ; but he doubted if there would be more vice than existed under the present system , nc was convinced that there were many who would go from that meeting into
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obscurity that were as much entitled to the Iranciiise as any who at present held it ; and who would besides , exercise it as well ami as faithfully . He he'd that there wi > ro many such as deserving of the tVanchi-c as the chief magistrate who presided over their meoting . ( Applause . ) It hail been said that the working-classes hiul been turbulent ; but men were gciicrliliy disposed to bo turbulent when they wore sensible of being wronged ; and they met to judge what the conduct of men would be when ' righted , by what it had been when they were acting under a senso of injury . ( Hear , hear . ) It did not follow , however , that a bad man would elect a bad representative . They know too much of the evils of their own class to do so . At all events they
knew too much of themselves and their tendencies to put a man exactly like themselves in a situation where ho could do so much injury . ( Applause . ) lie was disposed to think that society was not just so vicious that they could noc got abundance of materials to control or leaven , in a matter of this kind , what was bad . In his humble judgment there was far too much importance attached to tho giving of tho right to vote to tho unenfranchised classes . Ic was : t trust which no doubt required to bo exorcised wisely ; but a man almost every day in his life discharged duties which wore calculated to havens great an influence on his fellow-men as this . The working classes were already morally and intellectually enfranchised , and why might they not be politically enfranchised ? They had the
franchise of speech ; they exercised the duties of fathers and husbands , of masters and foremen , an-1 other importantduties in life ; and why should they not have a , ri ght to vote for tllOSD W ) lO repTSCIlted them in parliament ? ( Applause . ) They were surely ns ^ vell qualified to exercise ic as the people of America' or of Franco . It was , therefore , no longer a matter of doubt or experiment . It had been tried and proved beyond all cavil or dispute ( Applause . ) They had an infinitely better population bore then existed in America where the suffrage was universal ; and what was to hinder thc sull ' iage being extended to them ? The honourable gentleman then stated that the assoeiution stopped a little short of the demands ofthe chartist , and wont a little beyond those ofthe moderate reformer
, and said that having done this they bad happily obtained , the co-operation of both . Mr . Thompson concluded by calling upon men to cast aside party , said by urging reformers to unite and to trust to themselves . Those who were ready to go their length , nnd yet did not declare for it , merely because the word had not yet come from Lord John Russell and Lord Grey , should at once make up their minds , irrespective of these parties , for thev might depend upon it that they would place them in a false position for when once tho whigs found that they must either move on , or move out i . f office , they would adopt tho former instead of Uio latter alternative Mr . Thompson then read n letter from Lord Dudley Stuart , expressing his regret that severe domestic affliction prevented him from bein « r able to come to Edinburgh . ° Mr . W . Tait ( the former publisher of Tail ' s Mapastne ) , then moved the following resolution : — 1 hat the
• inhabitants of Edinburgh here assembled , believing as they do , that good ami economical government will onl y he secured by a largo extension of franchise ; a shortening of ' the duration of Parliament ; protection to every man in the exercise of the franchise , anil a more equal distribution of political power , through the means of equalised electoral districts , heartily sympathises in the ob-] oct aimed at by tho National Financial and Parliamentary lleform Association , and of the means used to eftect those objects ; and this meeting tenders its warmest thanks to the gentlemen of thc deputation for their able exposition of tho princi ples of that association upon tho present occasion . "—He said he did not approve out-and-out of tho Parliamentary Financial lleform Association . His objection however , was not that it went too far — luit that it did not co far enough—be being of opinion with Jeremy ltanthain , that the suffrage should be universal . ( Applause . )
Mr . I ' m :, S . S . C ., seconded the motion , which was carried amidst the most enthusiastic applause . Sir Joshua W . usislky and Mr . Thompson- then severally returned thanks ; and , after a vote of thanks to the Lord Provost for his conduct in the chai r the meeting broke up .
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Wreck oftiie SmrT / BuROPK . —The underwriters at Lloyd ' s received the following particulars , announcing tho deplorable loss of the barque L'Europe , of Havre , with tho whole of the crow ( except tho second mate ) and passengers , on the island of Guernsey . I / Europe was a vessel nearly 400 tons burden , and was bound to the above-mentioned port ( Havre , ) from Sague la Grande , Cuba . She sailed on the 4 th of October , and had a pr- sperous voyage till the morning of Thursday last , having safely passed thc Lizard on the previous day with a fair wind from N . W . At two o ' clock , when it was blowing a gale from tho northward , accompanied by heavy showers of rain and hail , the master , reckoning that he had passed the Caskets , shafted his course for Barfleur lighthousebutin an lioui "
, , nfterwanis , land was seen on tlic larboard bow , and nlmost immediately rocks were perceived close at hand . An attempt was made to put the vessel about , but she missed stays , and in wearing ship much ground was lost . Two tacks were made to avoid the clanger which seemed imminent , and the best bower-anchor was then let go very close to some rocks in proximity with tho shore The anchor , however , did not hold , and finally , about half-past five , the vessel was driven broadside on against a dangerous ridge of rocks , a short distance below Hornet d'Albec , to the eastward of Vazon Bay , and shortly afterwards went to pieces . The
second mate was the only one of the crew who gained the shore ; ail the rest perished ! and a lady passenger and her two children . Thc bodies of the latter Lave been washed ashore with two of the crew , and were decently buried . Not a particle of her carjjo was saved . The loss of the vessel and cargo is estimated at £ 8 , 500 . The Guernsey Comet states that the name of the lady " passenger was Mmo . Dujiirdin , from Ghent , in Belgium , and the names oilier children Henry , aged about five and Henrietta , three years . ' l / Kuropc was commanded by Captain Meheut , and she had a crew of nine men and a boy .
Death from Chloroform . — Another death from chloroform has lately occurred in Paris , and has l > een reported by M . tie Gonfevron . Thc patient , a woman thirty-two years of age , who had been some time before etherised without ill-efl ' ucts , inhaled chloroform previous to the extraction of a tooth . The chloroform was given very carefully and slowly . When insensibility had been apparently produced the operator was about to commence , when the patient perceiving herself not sufficiently affected , repulsed his hand and made signs for more chloroform . She pressed the handkerchief to her mouth and made four or five deep inspirations , Almost immediately the lace became pale and contracted , tbe nuuila o ' f
the eye horribly diluted , the teeth clenched , and the head thrown back . Ammonia , galvanism , artificial respiration , and other means did not restore her . On pott mortem examination no stroctuval disease was discovered ; tho cerebral vessels were congested ; in all the larger vessels at the base o ? the cranium there were many bubbles of air . Tbe left auricle of the heart contained black fluid , in which also were air bubbles . The large veins contained black fluid blood . M Confevron refers the bubbles of air to tbe strong insufflations he practised . He considers the death to have resulted from tlic directly mixiouB influence of chloroform upon the nervous system . —Medical Oazeile .
Narrow Escape of a Ti ? ai . \ at Charuroi . —On Sunday last the train left Namur with four hundred passengers . When within sight of Charleroi , the driver seeing no signal hoisted , blew his whistle repeatedly , but meeting with no response , ami apprehending danger , got down and walked to the station , where fie found the waykeeper lyinsr on the "round , bleeding profusely from a dagwei 1 " wound and contusions about tho head . He found also that the rails had been removed by some miscreants , who effected it with hammers mufned in cloth , vritb . which they felled tho waykeeper , who states that he had , iust sufficient strength , as the engine-driver was on his way , to raise his hand and give the signal for the approaching train to stop . ' Had it proceeded , the consequence , it is stated , would have been , that it would with tlie passengers have been precipitated into tho canal . Two men arc in cus tody on suspicion .
^ A Vessel deserted bt her Crew . —Kii , kf . e , Nov . 17 . —A vessel , timber-laden , was discovered on the morning of tlie 17 th inst ., off Loophead Lighthouse , deserted by her crew and drifting before the wind . She was boarded by the men of a pilot-boat , who succeeded in getting some of her sails into working order . Sho wind soon after having come to tho south-west , the ship ' s head was turned towards Galwaj ' i She passed this place about three o ' clock in tow of two pilot-boats , and seemed to be getting on well . Tho coast-guards stationed here attempted to board her , but failed , bo the poor pilot men were left to enjoy their prize undisturbed . There is no account of thc crew ; it is supposed thoy deserted her during the late stormy weather , acd that thev landed on the Kerry shore .
With a view to collect their webs for silk , 4 , 000 spiders were once obtained , but they soon killed each other . Manufactures and war never tlim © together . Adeunktuy ' sPile Powders were specially pvenared as an adjunct to the external application of " Ahernclliy ' a . Hfe Ointment" for ovbvy variety of the piles . The use of these powerful aperients tends greatly to destroy thc beneficial cftects of the outward application and to increase rather tlina aiinitusli tho disorder . It is too much the custom with ttis ultlictedtohave recourse to strong purgative medicine in cases of this complaint , and in almost every such instance the patient is materially injured and the disease greaSy aggravated . AVhere thc bowels are confined , the Aber netluau Powders have the clfect of removing the obstruction , and of allaying any inflammation that exists ^ TJiey cool and strengthen tbe body , and render thoroughly ftfi , cient the use of the Ointment .
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The 2 ? atigatiox Laws . —The following reply has been sent by the Board of Trade to an'application from some shipowners at Cork , on a point of importance to the shipping interest of the United Kingdom : — " Board of Trade , November 5 , 1849 : —Sir , I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter ofthe 24 th of October , addressed to the president of this board , inquiring ^ -whether American and other foreign-built ships will be admitted to the priviliges of British registry , after the Act for the Amendment ofthe Navigation Law shall have come into operation ; and I am to acquaint you , that from the 1 st of January next all ships duly owned by British subjects will be admitted to registry without inquiry as to tho place of their build . —I have , &c , D . Le Marcuasi . —H . b , Carroll , Esq ., Cwk , "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 24, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1549/page/7/
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